Ohhhh, i hope that the title has piqued your interest. In the chaos that is decluttering my house, i have found some exceedingly interesting items. My dad brought over a couple of large boxes of keepsakes that i had left at his house after i got married. Some of the stuff in there was downright captivating. I found a homemade contruction paper Valentine that my first high school boyfriend made me when i was fifteen. There were yearbooks from high school that had pages and pages of messages from my friends. Honestly, i think we were speaking in some sort of code because i don't get over half of the inside jokes in those pages. I came across a diary that i kept in the fourth grade. To which you ask yourself, what does a 10 year old have to write about? Plenty. I catalogued my list of crushes and the boys that i liked that didn't even know i was alive. (um, hello, i was ten, of course they didn't know i was alive) There was even an angst ridden entry about how Mom was so unfair for not letting me stay up till 8:30 (and i have to say, it probably wasn't fair, my now four year old's bedtime is 8:30).
But nothing was so interesting as the tapes i found. If perchance, you are less than 15 years old and reading this blog, you might not know what a tape is. It is what we had before we had CDs. In my collection of tapes were the first two i ever purchased: a Reba McEntire tape and Laurie Morgan. And i had several other Reba McEntire tapes too. Big Reba fan, i was. I found a very amusing tape that my sister Michelle and i made when she was probably about twelve and i was six. She was pretending that the tape was rewinding by saying things like "geez, why won't this thing just rewind" very pointedly at the recorder. She asked me who i had a crush on (Zach Bowles) and she told me who she had a crush on. She was mean to me a called me a name (ahhhh, it is a good thing we are best friend's now) and the finale was her singing "La Isle Bonita" by Madonna. Classic.
I also found some mixed tapes that i had made, by all good guesses, the summer after my freshman year in high school. It had "Unbreak my Heart" by Toni Braxton (which was me and homemade -Valentine's- giving -boyfriend's "song"), some Yanni and, surprisingly, a song by the Spice Girls. The Spice Girls? I don't remember liking the Spice Girls. Well, apparently i liked them enough to record one of their songs on the mixed tape. It was cool to disdain the Spice Girls so i spurned them and made even myself think that i didn't like them. Who knew?
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