in today’s entry, we learn the following about summer school pantser posh deluxe:
1. yes folks, she’s still obsessed with keanu and the movie “speed.”
2. her idea of teenage rebellion is sneaking into a movie (scandalous!).
3. she is trying to become a nicer person.
4. she is, apparently, never satisfied with what she has.
5. she enjoys greeting the month.
6. there are reasons why she and her friends are taking P.E. in summer school.
7. she and her friends have no psychic ability whatsoever.
8. she considers “seventeen” magazine to be a critical source of information.
9. she refers to handsome, older men in a way that i find deeply embarrassing.
10. her nose is stopped up.
6/29/94
Hello, new journal!! Welcome to my handwriting. The last time I wrote on the front page of a journal was in 8th grade! Weird. Well, not very.
Anyway, Se, Becky, Talena & I went to see “Speed” today. *Unfortunately*, the ticket lady wouldn’t let us in unless Mom bought a ticket and watched it with us!! So, we bought tickets for “I Love Trouble” instead. Heh heh heh– yes, that is my rebellious laugh coming out. Once inside the building, we made a plan in the bathroom. Se & I went first. Lucky for us, the “Speed” door was right next to the “I Love Trouble” door, so we *accidentally* walked in the wrong door.
Oh, and I asked this guy (he looked like the manager) about having any useless “Speed” posters lying around. He said that they didn’t give any of their stuff away. It seemed like a recording– I guess he has to say it a lot. Boo-hoo!!! Now I have to worry about that stupid poster until it comes out on video– even then I probably won’t get it. Dad suggested that I write to Twentieth Century Fox and ask them for one. It might just work…
The movie was awesome, again. It wasn’t as good as the first time because I knew what was going to happen. But, hey, with Keanu Reeves, I will never tire of watching it.
I’m trying a new personality, kind of. I’m just trying to be more careful about what I say (in other words, think before I open my big mouth). I hope to become a better, nicer person. I think I’m making progress.
P.S. I don’t have a “Speed” ticket! The first time I got a “City Slickers” one, and this time I got an “I Love Trouble” one. My collection is incomplete!!! Mom just says I’m never satisfied with what I’ve got.
7/1/94
Hello, July!! I love the #7.
Today was a very imaginative day in summer school. Rachel and I (and Becky & Se) played imaginary volleyball (the ball got stuck in the bleachers, then in the ceiling, we used Talena’s ball, Se got hit in the head, etc.), archery (band-aid) and the “gasp Rachel Tittle? Oh my gosh it’s been so long” reunion game: I was married to Keanu, best buds with Harrison Ford, famous actress/director; Rachel had made world peace, saved the blue whale, married Eddie Vedder and adopted 27 children from Vietnam & Somalia, and owned the deceased Barbara Streisand’s (lion accident) house; Talena was Ambassador to Spain; Becky a famous artist who worked with autistic children; Seth a knighed Notre Dame graduate neurologist who worked on Queen Diana [ed note: that reference makes me a little sad]; Christine Ambassador to France and soon to be President, and Melissa, past Miss America who lost her $ to alcohol and drugs.
I love doing that!! I don’t care if it’s fake– it’s fun to act out your dreams.
Andrew bought ice cream today.
I’m at Mama Helen’s. On the way I wrote a letter to “Seventeen” thanking them for the picture of K.R., asking for his address and more pictures and asking for more “oldies but goodies” [ed note: OMGGGG] as in Harrison and Andy. I wonder if they’ll read it.
It’s nice to be at Mama Helen’s. I love this sofa bed.
P.S. By dose is stobbed ub. I can’t bread.
[ed note: sorry i don't have a picture today. i've kind of run out. fellow cougars, help me out here!]
LINKS
when j. sent me the link to kittens i’ve killed, he wrote: “don’t stress out about it. it’s hilarious.” and he was right. cat ladies, fear not!
dude. best cake ever. han solo frozen in carbonite! you WILL see this on my 30th birthday, seriously (thanks, moody, for the link!).
if you consider the phone book to be a big waste of paper, sign up here to never see it on yr doorstep again!
Hey, at least it’s “oldies but goodies.” I had a co-worker who referred to a good looking older celebrity (such as, in her case, Sean Connery) as a “gilf.”
I remember sneaking into Speed. What I also remember was being shocked because it was SE’S idea!!! Yeah… we were rebels.
I loved how imaginative we were back in the day. Playing make believe was so much fun. Especially in posh hotels.
Am I completely forgetting or did you have a crush on Andrew b/c he’s mentioned A LOT in this diary?
I used to collect my movie tickets as well. Not sure if I still have all of them either. The only reason I stopped was because I became Assistant Manager and didn’t have to pay for movies anymore.
I love that all of the predictions for the future were primarily of success and do-goodery… and then there’s the fallen beauty queen. Haha- How “Behind the Music” of you! I love it.
Please explain this reunion game. And please tell me who this Melissa person is. Any young teenage girl who dreams of becoming Miss America and loosing all her $ to alcohol and drugs sounds like my kind of girl. The rest of your dreams are sooooo average. Oh, Melissa, where have you been all my life?
Although being best buds with Harrison Ford sounds pretty good.
Wait, did you mean Andy Garcia? I guess he counts as a goody…?
I love that your dad was trying to help you procure a Speed poster. You rock, Mr. Pitre!
I found my “diaries” from when i was seven and eight years old the other day. It’s mostly pictures and songs i wrote (three lines with repet at the end of them) but it was fun to look at them. I scanned some of them onto Facebook under Ann’s Jurnels 1984.
I too save movie stubs, but only as an adult. And I only snuck into a movie once as a pre-teen and was so plagued with guilt i never did it again.
thank god for therapy…
I would like to point out that I have artwork that was in a collection in Dubai and now will be traveling on to Singapore; and I do work with Autistic children. So take that!