Schoolhouse Rocks

Tuesdays Tunes is following our school theme this week... Who remembers "SchoolHouse Rock"?  If you haven't seen it, check out the videos on YouTube.  Love the 1970's-ish-ness of all of them.

Youthfulness

I will turn 33 on Friday. 33! That number sounds weird to me...

My sweet children have been telling *everyone* that I was turning 21. I think is actually making people think I am going to be much older than I am...

I’m not generally embarrassed about my age. I don’t feel old – well, actually I do feel rather advanced in age, but any who... It just surprises me that I’m in my 30s! Somedays, I feel 23. I don’t feel like I’m old enough to be a responsible homeowner, a wife, a mom to 4 (!) children, a person with a retirement plan.

Recently, while shopping, I stumbled upon a business competition for students. There were these groups of kids standing around wearing their new suits, looking young and nervous. And I could not tell whether it was a high school competition or college competition. That is how old I am!

I’m not old, right? I watch the occasional South Park episode, I’ve seen The Soup. I liked Knocked Up and The Hangover. I have a blog. I’m on Facebook. I’ve heard of the show Jersey Shore. I take my kid to the zoo and am in bed by 11 pm on weekends. I remember the days before everyone had cell phones.

Shoot! I am old!!!

June 6 1996

I graduated high school exactly 14 years ago today.
That is a frightening thought.

Am I really THAT OLD?!

(Freshman year. Senior prom with my boyfriend -- who was obviously the senior.)

Don't get me wrong!
I am NOT willing to go back to high school and
experience all of those good ol' glory days again, but...

14 years out of high school?

Holy Halibut!

Halloween party -- french maid & butler. Sophomore year. October 1993


Sadie Hawkins Dance. Junior year. November 1994.
L-R: Me, my sister, my sis-in-law (yep, my husband is brothers with my HS best friends husband), bestest friend ever

14 Years Ago! June 6, 1996
Senior All-Night Party after graduation ceremony



June 1996. Picture taken at my graduation party.

P.S. For those of you still working on the math, I graduated in 1996...

Before Blogs

Once upon a time, back before there were blogs, people kept diaries. They were the "old fashioned" with things like paper kind, where they wrote down what they did each day and what they ate and what they dreamed. And then we started this new fangled trend of blogging. Now everything is public, and if you’re like me, you sometimes long for those old paper diaries -- perhaps the kind with the leather covers and the silk bookmarks.

Any body with me on this? Just think... what are future generations missing if we don't leave behind some of our thoughts on paper? Technology is fabulous, but aren't we losing an important link to generations, past and future?

Crusters

On Friday evening, I went out with a few friends from high school. These great friends hang out all the time. I am usually so crazy busy with the kids and volunteering and working and just trying to stay sane that I am unable to catch up with them more than a couple times a year.

In high school, our little clique got stuck with the handle "Crusters". I am unsure how we officially got stuck our name, but I assume we were stuck with the name "Crusters" because we were probably perceived as acting overly exclusive. I don't like to think that we actively excluded others (which I don't actually remember doing). I prefer to think that we were a group of six teenage girls who had similar interests and were overly self-absorbed (as all teenagers are) and that it just didn't occur to us to hang out with others.

I'm sure I am wrong. I bet we had our moments of being terrible to others. Goodness gracious, teenagers can be such horribly mean little beings. Thank God that life continues to throw different experiences at us as we mature to help us put the rest of life into perspective so we can learn to be humble, sweet, compassionate adults!