They Got Tested To See If They Was Pregnant - May 24, 1993

Day: Monday  Date: 5/24/93

Today we had our track meet. I came in first in my heat. I don't know how I did overall. Matt and I kicked ass. On the first turn both of us got the lead and kept it! I think they're gonna tell us the results at lunch tomorrow. Oh yea, I saw Greg (whatever his last name is) and [a girl who used to go to our school a couple years ago] at the track meet today. I can't beleive that [girl a] and [girl b] got tested to see if they was pregnant. Well I'm stopping!

See ya!
Audra S
age 11

It was between the track meet and the pregnancy tests for the title of this post. Sorry, track meet, but pregnancy tests will win every time. However, I'll speak to the track meet first.

I loved pretty much all sports as a kid, but I especially enjoyed running. Running as fast as you could and leaving everybody in your dust was such a great feeling. It's an individual effort, and that had great appeal to me. Most kids hated having to run the mile in gym class, but I loved it. We had to drop poker chips in a bucket to keep track of how many laps we did around the playground. This track meet was held at an actual track, so, no poker chips. Real lanes!

Ok, pregnancy test time. It's really hard to believe that this was actually happening in SIXTH GRADE! The thought of little kids having sex is...frightening and sad. I'm so thankful I didn't do that.  I am, however, disappointed in my poor grammar.

You shouldn't be worrying about this in 6th grade.

Let's try for a personal best today!

I Shaved My Legs Tonight - May 23, 1993

Day: Sunday  Date: 5/23/93

We launched rockets on Friday. It was fun. My Tornado was the first successful Tornado launch that day. ****, [a boy], [girl 1], and [girl 2] all skipped school. They got caught though. They stayed at [girl 2]'s creek behind her house and her mom saw them. I bet they'll get in alot of trouble. Tomorrow is the track meet. I hope it don't get canceled cauce if it does we won't have it re scheduled. Guess what I shaved my legs tonight. It felt so good to get all that hair off!! Oh yeah I got a new watch. That's pretty much all I have to say.
BYE!

Audra S
age 11
I ♥ ****

Launching rockets was fun. We launched rockets when I was in 4th grade, too. It was a joint effort with the 6th grade. The launch made the paper that year. My brother is in this picture. He's next to the kid pointing to the sky. Most of the girls in the front row were in my grade. In fact, one of those girls is girl 2! OMG!

1991

In retrospect, it's a good thing that I didn't get too involved with ****. I was better off obsessing from afar. I liked school. Why would I want to skip it?

I remember the drama surrounding the first time I shaved my legs. I had to beg and plead and cry for my mom to give in. She told me once I started, I couldn't stop, and that I would be annoyed by it. Boy, was she right. But in the end, my argument about being more aerodynamic for the track meet prevailed over a mother's wisdom. I was very self conscious about the amount of hair on my arms and legs. Still am, though to a lesser degree. I could not WAIT to shave my legs. My mom forbade me to shave my arms. (Thank you for that.) She bought me a Gillette Sensor Excel razor for women--the kind with the big grip--so my inexperienced hands could guide the razor without cutting myself too badly. Guess who saved her first razor blade cartridge? Clearly it was a significant milestone in my short life.

Front and back.

I ♥ **** - May 20, 1993

That's all I had to say that day.

The Presidental Accedemic Fittnes Award Was Stupid - May 20, 1993

Day: Thursday  Date: 5/20/93

Damn! I haven't wrote in a long time alot has happened. We are launching rockets tomorrow. I wish **** would go with me! We went to Chrisman for the Presidental accedemic Fittnes award. It was stupid! I got new shoes. 3 pairs. A pair of Nike Air Air Raids, a pair of Nike Air Cross Trainers to grow into, and a pair of stupid looking Reeboks to play in the mud. Today we went to Bridger and ate lunch. When we got back to Benton, we stayed in the other 6th grade classes. We played Science Trivia. 3 people had to give up their chairs for Kari, Tiffani, and me. I wanted ****'s chair but Kari got his, Tiffani got Jenny B's, and I got Robbie's. Cool. I'm gonna stop.

BYE!!

Audra S
age 11
6th grade

You might notice that I included some names. This was such an innocuous entry, so why not?

Chrisman, aka William Chrisman, was my future high school. I spelled three of the four words wrong in Presidential Academic Fitness Award. Then again, I thought it was stupid, so why shouldn't I be stupid?

Keep your stupid eyes on the stupid prize.

Shoes, shoes, shoes. I was into shoes. But only athletic shoes. None of those girly shoes. I still prefer a sneaker to a heel any day.

Bridger was my future junior high school. I remember the lunch trip. I was so excited to learn I'd be able to buy nachos and frozen snickers bars every day for lunch. Junior high was going to be soooo awesome! Or so I thought...

I think this was the day that I got into a heated argument with $$$$ about Beavis and Butthead. He didn't believe I had ever watched the show. But I had. And we argued about it. This might have happened on some other day, but reading about science trivia and sitting in Robbie's chair makes me think this was it. Oh, the things we remember.

Hey I'm Actually Sleepy! - May 7, 1993

Day: Friday  Date: 5/7/93

Man! It's already 11:17 PM! Well, I think I'm going to ask **** if he likes me. If he says no then I won't ask him to go with me. If he says yes, well I need to ask him to go with me. I wish I could take him to World's of Fun. But he'll probably say he likes me as a friend. Hey I'm actually sleepy!

Audra S
6th grade
age 11

Man! I took one semester of computer programming in college so I thought I'd translate my thought process in pseudocode:

Ask **** if he likes me
   IF **** says no THEN
      don't ask him to go with me
   ELSE
      ask him to go with me


This flowchart is mildly amusing.

I Used My Super Soaker Today - May 6, 1993

Day: Thurs  Date: 5/6/93

I used my super soaker today. [A boy who lived up the hill], ____, ____, ____ & ____ (or [her twin]?) used it today. I think **** is coming over here to [the boy who lived up the hill]'s house or [the boy who lived up the hill]'s going to ****'s house. I'm going to stop. Bye!

Audra S
age 11 6th grade

An entry about 1) playing with a water gun and 2) trying to keep track of who's going to whose house. Wake me up when this diary gets interesting again.

All those blanks represent kids of various ages that lived in my neighborhood. We played a lot of games together. Hide and seek, baseball, water gun fights, wall ball, etc. Do you remember a game called ScramBall? I loved that game. My mom threw it away after I left for college. I was sad when I found out, but it was in pretty bad shape, so I harbor no ill will. If anyone comes across a ScramBall set at a thrift store or yard sale, please buy it for me. I will pay you back.

There used to be a commercial for the game on YouTube, but I couldn't find it in the three minutes I was willing to spend looking today. Instead, please take a few moments to familiarize yourself with the instructions I retrieved from the Hasbro website.

Arm It!

Win It!

I Got A Super Soaker M.D.S. Tonight - May 5, 1993

Day: Wednesday  Date: 5/5/93

Hi! [That girl I wrote a horrible letter to] seems to really want to be my friend. Last night we went to the 90 years of Pride Celebration for T.H. Benton. I ♥ ****. Tomorrow morning I have to run the 400 meter. My leg hurts. Mom says I've pulled a muscle. I got a Super Soaker M.D.S. tonight. I don't know what I'm going to do for Mother's day. I might ask [a girl in my class] to ask **** if he would go with me. I can't wait till we go to Worlds of Fun! It's 10:30! I better go to bed! Bye!! 

Audra S

age 11

6th grade

Oh yeah! I loved that Super Soaker Multidirectional Spray (mds). You could twist a thing on the front so that it would spray to the side. The idea was you could trick your enemies into thinking you were going to shoot somebody in front of you when really you were going to shoot them as they tried to sneak up on the side. We had a lot of water gun wars in my neighborhood. My brother and I amassed quite an arsenal in our basement. One of our friends had that giant Super Soaker with the backpack water canisters. The spray felt like a fire hose. It was so heavy and awkward to use, though. I much preferred the smaller, lighter super soakers even if it meant I needed to refill more often. And of course we had buckets filled with those water balloons that looked like grenades. I was never effective with those. Inevitably, somebody would just start dumping buckets of water on people or spraying a garden hose.

My new weapon.

My favorite. Had a couple.

The most ridiculous water gun of my generation.

Water balloon grenades.

Cheater.