lately i have been super-obsessed with writing things for mine and beth's book. i have started several different pieces and i will probably post fragments or finished parts, but i may do it in the locked diary because i feel like some of them are kinda personal. not that the subject matter is, but the fact that i am so candid and honest about my feelings and how i describe other people or events...i don't know, it just seems safer at this point. well, there's nothing posted yet, but i'll make note of it in here when something is.

in the meantime, here are some quotes from old notebook journals of mine that i was going through today, circa 1997-1998:

"kristen was flirting with all these guys at lunch. rich was telling her to leave his table. i threw pizza crust down her shirt as we left."

"got school pics back and they are so terrible! i look like a pooping frog!"

"when we were making lasagna, she [mom] stuck noodles on our faces and said 'look! biore! look at all the blackheads!'"

"beth shadows at a daycare for school and one of the girls called her 'cricket juicy juice' or something."

"kenny and joey were supposed to go to bed. kenny came down and said joey thought he was a mermaid. later joey came down and said kenny thought he was a dinosaur."

"mom took me to st. leos to set up for the boy scout party. mr. prokop was telling me how he just cut his nails."

"sat around till it was time to leave for the jacks game. there were funny old men who sang the national anthem. a fat african american man rolled around with syrup on to get $. he got $30."

"had to go driving today with kathy the instructor. she showed me pictures of her cat and told me how her and her daughter are going to get the hair above their lips removed."

"i pinned him [kevin] and rubbed a sponge in his face. he said it was for the toilet (a lie), so i called him toiletface."

"i tried to take a nap but chris was downstairs ramming mike into the fridge and giving him a bloody lip and they were keeping me up."

life seems like it used to be a lot funnier. when i was at my family's house today, my mom admitted this to me: "i have a fear that i'm going to cough and poop my pants at the same time. that's a big fear! that's the fear of my LIFE!" i think she was just trying to make me laugh...but i worry about her sometimes. hehehe. <3