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Mama Kat’s Writing Prompt … Dig out your high school yearbook and share a message a friend wrote that stands out to you.
I can’t, out of the 25 or so things people wrote to me only 2 or 3 even ring a bell … Really!
I was not a happy high schooler, I hated it, I had fun, but I hated it! Would not do it again for a million bucks! I was an angsty girl, I am still quite full of angst, still have an issue with authority, still like to party, and seem to still be memorable … not much has changed, except everything has changed!
My school was a very small, all girl, catholic High School, (insert joke here) … 92 girls, and we each got a full page … a baby picture, our formal graduation picture, and informal shot taken anywhere we chose on campus (I thought about behind the caf where I smoked, but then reconsidered), a couple of quotes, and a blurb … all in code and tons of exclamation points.
Here is my blurb …
Mom, Dad, & PJ-Thanks for the support! Genny-you’re a pal!Ann-LYLAS!Maria-“It’s magic, it’s tragic …”JM-The Advice Woman! Lizzy-The Taconic!F.L.-Thanx for listening!J.R.-you’re the best!A.F.&L.C.-my buds! A Toast In The Caf!Going for ice cream w/ John!”Hill Straddle”-I Never!Original KP SK8!6-17-89*4ever!?Fred’s Basement!B–R ME!R.P.&P.C.-the park concert! Blanchardman!ALL the guys-it was real!OPP at Fred’s!!Summer ’91 w/ Ria! We’ll see, We’llsee??DeadBeatClub!!Newport Lts … Jim Lives!!Keep climbing “THE STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN”!-“Summer of 69”-number 6 lives on!! REMEMBER-“It’s not the size of the boat, it’s the motion of the … “!!!!
That was the first time I had read that in decades! WOW! Mostly I don’t know what I was talking about … one would think the phrase “Hill Straddle” would ring a bell or two! I do know who most of the initials represent, don’t know why I felt the need to give a shout out to the douche bag boyfriends I had, probably why I had douche bag boyfriends … didn’t know any better. We’ll see, We’llsee?? was written to my then best friend, and now husband … SMILE! The school made me edit the last line, too dirty. Nuns!
What did you write in your yearbook? What were you voted? Who did you quote? I quoted a douche bag ex-boyfriend that wrote poetry and the cult classic Nick Cage film Wild At Heart … “This whole world is wild at heart and crazy on top of it.”
Sums it all up, no?
~ Peace
Simplify by Sara 
Yes but you gave a shout out or two to fun times!! Agreed it was fun at times but truly sucked! I need to look at mine and see what I said maybe we can decode the gibberish… At least we have wonderful people I’m our life because of it 😉 xoxo
Very nice post thanks. I really enjoyed reading it very much. Have a great day.
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Ha ha, that is classic. There should be a limit on exclamation points in these blurbs. I think the last line of mine was ‘See you all in LA,’ like I was Jim Morrison reborn and headed out there to make the scene. Good lord.
So glad you both got to see this … We were something else! Rich you ARE a little bit Jim …
Nice I will look again today at the yearbook…great idea. I also noticed that you and my son share the same birthday as a result. Gotta love us cancer babies.
“We’ll see” to your husband! Effin cute!
DARN NUNS RUIN ALL THE FUN.
Hahahaha.
A whole page – nice 🙂
They got a photo of me in the smoking area in my yearbook; two, even. Guh.
And you thought I was brave! This is great! (insert many exclamation points). To be honest, I think I was so over high school I didn’t even bother to get a yearbook. I wanted out. And, with about 800+ in my graduating class (public school), there was little room for quotes…which I probably would not have provided anyway. I was a bitter girl.
Your senior picture is gorgeous!
I probably could have used some nuns censoring me at 17!
Thanks for the compliment. They really just made me rebel more!!!!
great pics! wish mine were as good. and it is so funny how we seem to not remember what was SOOO important to us way back then, huh? crazy lives. glad you were able to get your yearbook out and share it with us. thanks!
How funny! That blurb looks like another language with all the secret initials.
Oh, good — I’m not the only one with amnesia! I don’t think I received any votes. You’re a friend for life now — until the next one comes along. 😉
(a little late to the Mama Kat party)
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That is awesome. Too funny thinking about all that stuff and my own personal shout out:) We had some great times