Comments on: When You Wake Up Feeling Old

By: Kristabella

Kristabella — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 23:17:09 +0000

OMG, I was so in band AND went on band trips! But I have to say, saxaphones do not drool!

I too got made fun of for not “doing” my hair and I always said “look, I washed and combed it. I DID it.”

By: Maggy

Maggy — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 08:07:42 +0000

Band, band, band! I don’t believe any photos of me survive from that time. I, too, did the reading. And the French horn practicing. And the reading. And the Latin club. I may have you out-geeked.

By: patty

patty — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 00:22:11 +0000

You were ten kinds of adorable in high school. If I weren’t brand new to your blog, I am certain I’d be able to name the fifty kinds of adorable you exude as a grown-up. INCLUDING THOSE SHOES.

By: the new girl

the new girl — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 21:54:20 +0000

I know, KNOW that in retrospect, you have to be feeling a little smug. Because the present cute cuteness of your then-perhaps-not-super-coolness, bears out the theory that many, many very cool teens are, turn into, well, kind of fucked-up adults.

And you? You are still cute and probably way, waaaay cooler than those who curled. Or at least those who judged for NOT curling.

By: ie

ie — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 19:43:20 +0000

Then you would probably snicker if I told that I yell at all the idiots (from the safety of my rolled-up-window car) to hike their damn pants up. I feel like such a Grandma waving her cane but I can’t help it. If they only realized how incredibly stupid they look…

I’m glad you’re enjoying the Outlander series, implausible and stinky as it might be.

By: jonniker

jonniker — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 19:28:30 +0000

Uh, thank you all for the compliments, but I’d like to remind everyone that my free time was spent playing Legend of Zelda and helping my friend Charlie re-enact scenes from Indiana Jones with leather whips we ordered from a movie catalog, and while that sounds kinky, I assure you it was anything but. Oh, and hanging out while my more motivated friends played Dungeons and Dragons, along with plenty of oboe and clarinet practicing and CRYING when it didn’t go well. And reading. Yes, there was LOTS OF READING.

And my hair may be acceptable now, but it was IN NO WAY acceptable in 1991. No way.

And H, HA HA HA, oh homecoming court. No no. I wasn’t remotely nominated and never would be. That was for girls who curled their bangs.

By: Danell

Danell — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 19:23:50 +0000

Ok, so I will now let you know HOW BIG of a loser I was and still am:

1) What’s VMA?
2) What’s Lars and the Real girl?
3) You are WAAAAY PRETTY in that picture, and I would have been WAAAAAY too shy and dorky to be friends with you. Seriously, you wouldn’t even have known I existed.

Also, the zits? MY OBGYN SENT ME TO THE DERMATOLOGIST.

By: Rebecca (Bearca)

Rebecca (Bearca) — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 18:23:30 +0000

Wow, I am impressed with that photo and your non-lacquered bangs! You are absolutely having the last laugh.

In other news, I also just posted something about how I tried to watch the VMAs, but totally didn’t understand anything. Apparently I am 68 years old. (in real life, I’m 34.)

By: Elizabeth

Elizabeth — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 17:04:02 +0000

I think I’m too old for the VMA’s, since everything I hear about them kind of freaks me out. Also I had to watch that creepy show on TLC about the little girls in pageants.
However, what is really frightening is that your hair back then? Pretty much identical to my hair right now. Which is fitting somehow, since I really do have the maturity/fashion sense/taste in music and books/wardrobe of a ninth grader anyway.

By: mar

mar — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 16:47:12 +0000

oh wait, just you wait for the ‘wizardry’ in outlander. ha! and i distinctly remember reading at 18 & thinking ‘ew! everyone’s all dirty! how could i possibly survive in the past?’ (i admit; i read, via my mom’s trashy regency romance taste, quite a few time travel romances-dozens even! i think it’s a genre of its own.) i’ve contemplated reading the lord john (is that right?) books started to turn me sour because brianna is kindof a bitch in the last one (snow? ashes? something?)
that dress is cute! i’m hoping to find out that no maternity clothes will be needed in my near future tonight.
i also watched the vmas & was wondering aloud about li’l wayne & his low-riding pants. such as, why would you wear a belt if your pants are already below your ass?
and you’re so cutely earnest! i had no horrific bangs, but i certainly wasn’t any kinds of cute in jr high. or hs. or elementary past the point when my mother made me start getting perms. ugh!