Keeping up with this blog is a real challenge for me. I want to write things that are interesting, engaging, and somewhat fun to read, but this is not an easy task! I was recently inspired by a friend to read some of my old livejournal entries (for those of you who aren't familiar with livejournal, it's basically like a blog that I kept on and off for a few years, starting in 2001). Apparently, I used to think that every boring detail of my life would be interesting for my friends to read. This clearly could not have been the case, but what is interesting is looking back at the old me with a more mature, less angsty set of eyes. My old musings range from being humorously obnoxious to painfully pathetic. Ironically, in one entry from 2002, I did what I'm doing now; I reminisced on the dork I once was. (Well, I'm still a dork and always will be, but you get the point.) In this instance, I posted an old diary entry I had written when I was 12, as well as a couple of journal assignments from my 1st grade composition book. Unfortunately, I no longer have the old diary I kept in 1996, nor my composition book circa 1991. All I have left are the following, spelling and grammatical mistakes left uncorrected:
January 6, 1996
It is 1:30 right now and I stayed home from school because I am sick. I also need to catch up on some homework and I am working on that right now. Yesterday I missed gym and I stayed at Missy's house untill about 8:30. Missy wasn't there, though, only Trampus. I played a really fun game on their web t.v. I'm pretty bored right now. I am the only one home. I am feeling much better. Right now I am just bloated. I took a bath this morning, but I slepped on my wet hair and when I woke up it was really messy, so I am going to go take another bath. I'm just going to soak and relaxe. Mom will be home at about 3:00. As soon as she is home, we (Mom, Meagan, Breezy, me & Ray) to the movies at Edwards 21 to see Titanic & go to Galaxy. The movie starts at 4:15. Bye!
April 1991
Dear Mrs. Serrano
I lik Rainbow's. Rainbow's are biutiful. eatch day it rains I lik. to look out my windo when it stops raining. and see the biutuful Rainbows.
Dear Tiffany,
Rainbows are really beautiful! I like seeing rainbows at the bottom of a waterfall, or in the sprinklers. Where do you like seeing rainbows?
I lik to see rainbows at the end of a stream.
April 24, 1991
Dear Tiffany,
That sounds very pretty! Speaking of streams, have you ever been on a picnic by a stream? Tell me about it!
Love, Mrs. Serrano
Yes I have Bin in a picnic by a stream ther bin some grass ther to and that was also beautiful!
April 26, 1991
Dear Tiffany,
I remember having a picnic by a huge waterfall in Yosimite. We had our bikes. The water was roaring and crashing nearby and we were getting wet from the spray and mist. Some little squirrels came by to beg but we didn't feed them. We also could see some little rainbows in the mist! Have you ever been camping? When, where and with whom?
no I havent been camping but ones I have campt under a tree!
Dear Mrs. Serrano
I wood like to own a big boat so a tub boat wood pul my! boat and that wood be fun!
Well, there you have it. I wish everything in the world was as beautiful and wondrous as it was when I was seven. On the other hand, I still tend to tell my friends when I'm feeling bloated. Some things never change!
Now I feel the urge to pull out my fifth grade diary, the longest journal I ever kept until I started my Alaska-turned-Writing blog. Except I mostly wrote when I was depressed and upset. Not sure I want to go there! :)
ReplyDeleteI love it! ones I have campt under a tree!
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