Bess and I were sharing our childhood career dreams at lunch today. I wanted to be a cashier at Meijer because I thought you got to keep the money that was handed to you. Nice gig, I thought, at age four. Bess wanted to be a tightrope walker. This was based on her obsession with [...]
There’s Your Karma.
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Tag Archives: elementary school
More from Memory Lane…
… Or Embarrassment Boulevard. (Depends on which direction you’re coming from.)
This was me circa 5th grade, with my dog, Samson.
My hair is naturally straight, but I was set on getting a perm. When my hairdresser asked me what kind of curls I wanted, I said I wanted to look like Mariah Carey, a la [...]
Three Wee Kings
I was in a great Christmas pageant when I was eight called Three Wee Kings: A Christmas Music Fantasy.
The synopsis: In this imaginative children’s Christmas musical, talking stars, lions, lambs and shepherds all think that the King of Kings will be one of their own kind, since the Bible calls Him ‘the Bright and Morning [...]
Complete with a Lifetime of Guilt!
I just discovered my elementary school has a webpage.
Um, first thing? They completely changed the uniforms. I know what you’re thinking - you public school kids — aren’t all private school plaids the same? You, with your splatter-painted jeans and No Fear t-shirts! NO! I can easily recognize my catholic school tartan out of a [...]
This post is campy.
When my friend Erika tagged a picture of me on Facebook, who would have known it would have been this?!
This is from summer camp back in…’90? ‘91? . I can’t remember which camp this was, but it was either
a) Girl Scout Camp
or
b) Camp Optimist
…neither of which are racking up the cool points. I can’t believe [...]
I Refuse to Talk about Sanjaya.
Re: Last night’s American Idol…“Music Gwen Stefani Likes” does not a theme make!
…Still bitter about Gwen Stefani after that bitch stole Gavin Rossdale right out from under me… when I was thirteen.
I brought my very first diary back from Grand Rapids, and the last third is about my Bush/Gavin obsession:
November 12, 1996: “7 days until [...]
Church of the Latter Day Blog
I heard a “shave-and-a-haircut” knocking at my door and sprang up to answer it, thinking it was the mailman with certified mail from Chicago! (aka, The Job Offer That Will Never Come!)
Instead, I found two Mormons.
In case you are playing the home game of Jenn’s Spirituality, let me remind you of a few [...]
Hot. Hot. Hot.
If I was actually a good Catholic and celebrated this season of Lent, I should have given up cursing in my blog. Holy Moly, am I a pottymouth on here.
In Catholic School (the teachings of Cathol*), we always had to kind of publicly announce what we were giving up for Lent. This was probably so if [...]
its me emily
I went to a Catholic school for eight years. Shocking, I know.
Anyway, the social scene around Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary circa 1995 revolved heavily around roller skating parties. This involved life out-of-plaid-uniforms and all the resulting drama. And by “drama” I mean who asked whom to skate to Boyz II Men during partner skate and oh [...]
Underneath the velvet skies, love is all that matters
“So…I hate to pry, but…” (don’t say it don’t say it don’t say it) “do you have a boyfriend?”
He asked this as his rickety low-rider crept up the hill to the empty church parking lot so he could “turn his car around.” I panicked. If worse came to worse — and by “worse” [...]
