I Hope I Become Famous - May 3, 1993

Day: Tuesday  Date: 5/3/93 

Hi we got a new seating arrangement in Social Studies. I sit by [a boy in my class]. [That girl I wrote a horrible letter to] still likes me after what I wrote. Kevin is so adorable! I just want to hug him! You know how [a girl in my class] kept saiing that me and **** should go back out, well I was thinking mabey that if she said that again I'd say "why don't you ask him out for me!" Whatever I'm doing for my birthday, [that girl I wrote a horrible letter to] ain't invited! [The coauthor of the horrible letter] is though. I'm going to be a greeter for the 90 years of pride celebration. We got this invitation to the 6th grade achievment awards. I asked [a different girl in my class] & [yet another girl in my class] if they got one. They can't no I hope I become famous. I'll give all my belongings to my kids & grand kids. Gotta go! Bye! 

Audra S age = 11 6th grade

Hahaha...I'm laughing really hard right now. They can't know I hope I become famous? I guess I thought this 6th grade awards thing was the first stop on my road to fame and fortune.

Not given to me at the 6th grade achievement awards.

A Bunch Of People Got Sick - May 2, 1993

Day: Sunday  Date: 5/2/93 

Hi! I have alot to write about. For one thing we went to St. Louis for a field trip. It was fun. The bad part was coming home. A bunch of people got sick. Sick as in puke sick. **** didn't get to go. I was kind of sad. ****, [****'s friend], and [another of ****'s friends] came over to beat up $$$$. I would have been real happy if they beat him up. They didn't because he wasn't home. They played basketball and I watched them. I wish **** could have been in my class instead of $$$$. Maybe next year I'll have him in some of my classes. Me and [a neighbor girl] wrote a horrible letter to [another neighbor girl]. It was helarious! She got real pissed. What I can't understand is that she still likes me for a friend. Kevin didn't like me for a day but he got over it. Today we saw The Body Guard. It was good. Well I got to go. Bye! 

I ♥ **** 

Audra S age 11 6th grade

I wonder why **** didn't get to go. Perhaps because he got in trouble? Anyway, we had to sell a lot of M&Ms to go to St. Louis. We went to the science museum. I remember that bus ride home. They quarantined all the sick kids in the front of the bus. There were maybe eight of us in the back who weren't sick. We looked at Garbage Pail Kids stickers for a long time and talked about religion, politics and our ambitions. Okay, only the Garbage Pail Kids thing is true.

It looks like I'm back to hating $$$$ if I would have been happy if they beat him up. This entry is eerily similar to a previous one. Poor $$$$. He was the one in the headlock. Twice.

I feel bad for writing that mean letter to that girl. I honestly don't remember why I did it. The only thing I can think of is maybe I was mad at her for treating me differently since she was in junior high and I was still at the elementary. Not sure, though.

I've been randomly singing this song since May 2, 1993. My husband pretends to be irritated when I belt it out at the top of my lungs on the way to the grocery store. I know deep down he loves it.

Ten Things I Like About Him - April 11, 1993

Day: April 11, 1993.  Date: Sunday 

Today is Easter. We went to church today. It was boring. I wish that **** would ask me out. I could ask [one of ****'s friends who allegedly wanted to go with me in 4th grade] to ask him. Kevin is cute. Cute like adorable. I'm hungry 

I really really really like ****. He's gorgeous! I Love him. I want to go on a date or go to a movie. I'll name ten things I like about him. 1. hes a heart throb. 2. He's sweet 3. he's considerate 4. he's clean 5. he makes my heart beat super fast. 6. he's athletic 7. He smells good. 8. He wears good clothes 9. He's not sexis 10. we have things in common. Well I wrote all this about ****! SEE YA! 

Audra S age 11 6th grade

This is by far the most amusing list of things I like about ****. If you'd like to compare previous lists, here they are for easy access:

• 15 good things about him
• The day he asked me out

A clean, considerate heart throb who smells good and isn't sexist. Who could ask for anything more?

I hope somebody makes this movie.

I'm Going To List All My Favorites - April 8, 1993

Day: April 8, 1993  Date: Thurs. 

Hi! I wish **** would ask me out. I would ask him if I had the chance. Well yesterday the fifth grade went down to the Boys and Girls Club for half a day and we had fun in P.E. and our classroom. We're at grandma's tonight, tomorrow and then Monday. We brought our eggs over and we're going to play "Find the Easter Eggs." I'm going to list all my favorites. My fav. group: Arrested Development. Fav food: McDonalds french fries. Fave boy (I'd like to go with) ****. Fave teacher: Mr. Ruskey. Fave brand of shoe: Nike Air. Fave T.V. show: (tie) Home Improvement, Martin, Simpsons, In Living Color, Rosanne, Saturday Night Live. Fave shoe store: Foot Locker. Fave toy: Sega Genises. Fave article of clothing: Levis 550 loose fitting jeans or all my jean shorts. Fave possession: pillow. Best friends: ____, ____, ____. Fave. Little people: Kevin, Shondee. Fave color: any shade of blue. fave color of socks: white. fave candy: hard gummy bears & skittles. Fave sport: track. Fave game (sega genisis) Sonic the Hedghog. Fave game (board game type) don't have a cow. Fave game (computer) Logo. Fave game (at boys club) pool and foose ball. Gotta go! I wish **** would ask me out! 

Audra S age 11 6th grade

I started and ended this entry with the same sentence? Impressive.

In case you don't remember, I was in a split class in 6th grade. About ten 6th graders and fourteen 5th graders. Sounds like the 6th graders had a blast without the 5th graders that day. Kind of like how you feel when your parent does something with just you--no siblings allowed.

Find the Easter Eggs was a favorite family pastime. Sometimes we hid them so well we could only find them days later when something started to smell.

Another list. How wonderful. Still love Saturday Night Live. Still love hard gummy bears. Still love jeans, though not Levis 550s. Haven't worn jean shorts in a long time, but you can see me wearing some in the summer of 1992 here.

Kevin and Shondee weren't Little People, but little people--as in little kids. Kevin was a kid who lived in my neighborhood and Shondee was, and still is, my cousin.

Do you remember Don't Have a Cow? It was a Simpsons dice game with a gambling element. In other words, my fave game (board game type).

I Want To Grow Old Together - March 24, 1993

Day: Wednesday  Date: 3/24/93 

Howdy Ho! I've noticed that since [a boy in ****'s class] has been friends with ****, **** hasn't been so popular. I don't care if he was popular or not I'd still go with him that is if he'd ask. I wish I had an i.d. bracelet that way if **** and me was going out we could give each other a bracelets. That'll probably never happen though. I hope he does ask me out this year. I wish I we had some project to do together at our homes. That way we could ask each other out and kiss. It'd be cool! I love him! I want to grow old together. Even if we didn't have a project to do I wish we were alone for about 15 minutes. I don't got enough courage to ask him. I don't want to be rejected. I want to hold his and touch his lips with mine.  

Audra S age 11 6th grade

Watch out. This one is borderline PG-13! Isn't it great that our growing old together starts with us having to do a homework assignment together? I hope I was trying to say that I wanted to hold his hand and not something else. But a lot can happen in 15 minutes...

Do you recall the earlier entry that mentioned those bracelets? **** had two! And I had none. What a shame.

I may be chicken shit (not enough courage to ask him out) but at least I can admit why (not wanting to be rejected).

And then we grew old together.

Guess What? Chicken Butt! - March 23, 1993

Day: 3/23/93  Date: Tuesday 

Hi! Guess what? Chicken Butt! Ha Ha! [a 6th grade girl in my class] got some new shoes. They're Nike Air Cross Trainers. I'm still hung up on ****. My heart just pounds when I'm around him! I wish he would ask me out this year. I love him! I know it's not just a crush either. I'll bet anything he's already going out with someone though. If we did go together, I would kiss him this time. I want to get married to him. I think he's more than cute. More than handsome. He's gorgeus! I won't get my hopes up too high. He probably won't ask me. I'll be heart broken though. The only girls I know he's gone out with is: [a girl in my 5th grade class] (too many times!) [the girl who got new shoes] (I don't know why!) and me (I wish I knew if he just used me to get [the girl in my 5th grade class] jealous?) We went to the Kansas City Museum today for the Nasa Exhibit. I hate [a girl in my grade, but not in my class]. She's a bitch to me now. She'll come up to me and say "shut up ugly!" I want to kick her in her ass! I love ***! I ♥ ****! [picture of an eye] ♥ ****! ** + A.S.= ♥! <--(i wish!) 

Audra S age 11 6th grade

Great opening line. As you can see, I've always thought I was a brilliant comedian.

Oh lord. It's happening again. I'm obsessing about ****. What happened to $$$$? Why can't I obsess about $$$$ for at least one entry?! By the way, "gorgeus" was double underlined.

It's good that I never tried to physically kick that bitch in her ass, because I'm sure she would have killed me. On second thought, I would have lived because it would have been a kick and run. I was fast. She wasn't. I think some of the other insults she threw at me were "Ape" (because of my long, hairy arms) and "E.T." (because of my long, skinny fingers). Not sure what I ever did to her. Probably just, you know, existed. Assholes are assholes.

Glad that bitch never did this to me:

I Haven't Written In You In A Long Time - March 2, 1993

Back to the diary entries. Take it away, little Audge:

Day: March 2, 1993  Date: Tues.

Man! I haven't written in you in a long time! God. I don't know where to begin. Well, I'm in 6th grade. We switch classes but not exactly like Jr. High. I haven't gone out with anyone yet. What else is new Huh!? I want to go with **** again. Or $$$$. This morning $$$$ rode our bus to school and on the way home **** rode our bus. I wish one of them would ask me out. I'm in a combonation class of 5th and 6th graders. Here are the names of them 6th grade - $$$$, ____, ____, ____, ____, ____, ____, ____, me, & ____. 5th grade - ____, ____, ____, ____, ____, ____, ____, ____, ____, ____, ____, ____, ____, ____. I think that's it. I have the feeling **** likes me again this year but I'm not sure. He smiles at me alot but he could be doing it at someone else. I hope not. [A boy who's not in my class but in my grade] told me he wanted to go out with me in 4th grade but I didn't get the note he said he put in my desk. It has snowed alot. But it's starting to melt now. I got Nike Air Cross Trainers shoes. They're pretty cool but I need a new pair soon. The 6th graders get to go to St. Louis for a field trip. It'll be fun but I need to get a new walkman. And a game boy or game gear. In Disney Adventures theirs a thing that your class could be picked to say what's in and what's out. We asked Mrs. Teacher she said she'd talk about it with us. But she forgot today. I hope she'll let us and hope we're picked. Well I can't think of anything left to say.  

Audra S age 11  

6th grade

When I wrote this originally, I never thought I'd slap it on the Internet. Otherwise, I would have skipped the part where I list every kid in my class by first and last name.

Okay, so I have two love targets this year: **** and $$$$. This could get interesting. For your information, I wrote some mean things about $$$$ last year. I guess love disguised as hate. Haha. I also like how I included the bit about some other boy who allegedly wanted to go with me in the 4th grade. See, world? I'm not totally unpopular. Oh yeah, for the remaining diary entries I'm going to try to be more descriptive with the other kids mentioned while still maintaining their anonymity.

I was a materialistic little twit, huh? Shoes, walkmans, handheld video game systems. I grew out of that eventually. By 'eventually' I mean when I went off to college. And probably, more accurately, when I moved to Colorado after graduating college. Hello, student loans. Time to pay you off...

Disney Adventures! One of my favorite magazines as a kid. Look closely and you can see an issue sitting on my desk in the third picture of this blog post. I'm sure it was nothing but marketing propaganda for the Walt Disney company and all its holdings. But who cares?! They put all my favorite TV and movie stars on the covers and had cool contests like the one I wished my class would win. I hate to say, we did not win. In fact, we did not enter.

I loved Star Trek: The Next Generation.