More Diary Entries

Here are some hand-picked highlights from my childhood diaries:

March 26, 1995
Dear Diary,
Jonathon  Taylor Thomas is so cute.  He is in a new movie called “man of the house” and I saw it.  Stephanie got a poster of him and Jessica got a magazine about him.  I wan’t to get the new magazine about him.  I got a “Boys 2 men” c.d. and last night I got a “Mariah Carey” c.d.

July 8, 1995
Jonathon Taylor Thomas grew his hair really long and not cute anymore.




January 15, 1996
I like everything we are studying in school now except for math because I hate Mrs. ______ , our math A.L.P. teacher.  She is teaching us things I learned in 5th grade. (I’m in 6th grade and ALP stands for Axelerated Learning Program)


Side note: Now that I work in the district I grew up in, I have taken classes from this same lady as an adult. I still don't enjoy her teaching.


2-15-96
I like the pen my mom gave me. It is a really nice pen and it was $4.00.  Can you believe one pen that is not gold or anything.


2-22-96 (The dramatic entry)
What I write from now on shall be written into a book: It is 5:00 AM on Thursday morning.  My stomach is in knots and its turning in every direction that is possible.  I am sicker than a child who has been in the rain without food for several months.  It is almost impossible to describe how much pain I am in.  It hurts so bad that I am crying.  My father enters wondering why I am groaning, moaning, and crying.  I am in desperate pain. ”What’s the matter,” he asks as if I had only had a bad dream.  I tried to answer clearly, but all that will come out was “It hurts.  It hurts bad. It hurts.”  “What hurts,” he asked, not knowing anything.  “My stomach! It hurts! It hurts! oww!”  “Do you have to throw up?” he asked.  That’s it. My father had solved my problem. I needed to barf! I think! Well I know what I have to do and I better go do it.  I raced toward the bathroom.  My only challenger was what was going to come out of my mouth in a couple of seconds.


My 23, 1998 (Junior High Graduation)
On graduation day my friend Laura Lameroux took me and my friends to the lake on her boat.  We had a fun time, but it was too late for me to get a tan-dang it!  That night we spent the night at her house and partied.  Her mom gave us a bottle of sparkling cider that looks like champagne and we drank it in fancy glasses and each made toasts.  We also burned Tawna’s PRIDE CARD (a card that keeps track if we did our homework), put the ashes in a box and buried them.

Goals

At the end of each day in my classroom, we get together in a circle and share about different topics.  The topic on Thursday was goals.  They could either share a long or short-term goal. We had everything from making their reading goal to being in the Olympics.  My favorite was when one little girl stated, " I want to get married in the temple, have six kids, and when they start to cry, I will play Johnny Cash because that makes babies stop crying."

Bethany's Diary 1991-1995

Tus. June 18th 1991 Weather: Hot

last week I wen't to oshinside. I played in the water and sand. I love it Three.


6-19-91

Dear Kristen
Thank you I rilly like my Direy


Dear Diary
I have a sore throt and it feels like it worser then my moms.


Wed Aug 4 8:45-8:55

Today we meet one of our new nabors. Me, Jessica, and Rob played against Brother Greer in a basket ball game we won. It was 15 to 8. We only played till one game got 15 points. This summer I still havent got my new bike bike, We haven't gone to Sunsplash and so far I only have 5 pairs of school cloths. School starts in 2 weeks and 5 days. I am going in to 4th grade. I am 9 years old. I have 5 favorite T.V. Shows and they are: Full House, Saved by the bell, Step by Step, Familly mattars and The Simpsons.

Aug. 9, 95

Today I watched my baby cousin Colton. About a week ago I saw the Movie Apollo 13. I was really good. Stephanie is spending the night. We are really tired. On Sunday we got back from our vacation. We went to the reunion. I had a lot of fun. Me, Andrea and Danielle rebuilt a fort that our 2nd cousins built a long time ago. Then it got wrecked. Then some teenagers took ropes and we were pretend cows and they roped us. We also rode on the “buckin bronco” Bye, Bye

Aug. 10, 1995 Thur.

This morning I woke up at 7:30 and went with Stephanie to watch her little sister Shelby. We watched a movie called “Beaches.” Bette Midler is in it. It was really good. Tomorrow I'm going to a stake Merrie Miss Activity. Andrea and her friend Jessica Endress are spending the night at Laura McClouds house. Cami Hakes is going to babysit Kyle tomorrow. I am going into 6th grade. My teacher's name is Mrs. Smith. So far I know that Carrie Hakes, Gwen Smith (Andrea's age), Vicky, Britney Walker, and Chalyce are going to be in my class.

General Conference Highlight

We don't have the BYU channel at our casa, so we always watch conference via my laptop hooked up to the tv.  This sometime leads to technical difficulties.  Nothing beats what we experienced this year.  

During one talk, I closed my eyes (I was still listening).  When I opened them again, this is what I saw: 

The audio was still working fine, but the visual got stuck like this on several talks.  I don't know that this brings enjoyment to anyone besides my roommate and me, but we could just watch this video over and over without it getting old.

Long Lines and Gooey Gum

Last night, I was on some sort of ward activity during my dream.  We all drove out of town to some fancy big cabin out of town.  Since we had been driving for a while, we all had to go to the bathroom as soon as we got there (bathrooms are in my dreams more than 50% of the time if you haven't caught on yet).  I rushed to the restroom and found the line to be too long for my liking so I went in search of another one. The next bathroom I found was more like a public restroom.  It had a sign for women and a long line (naturally).  I decided to wait in this line, but when I got in there, I discovered there were men in the restroom as well.  This made me extremely uncomfortable as we didn't have stall walls for privacy (another common occurrence in my dreams).

After making it through that horrible ordeal, I went to spit out my gum. This proved to be easier said than done. I had to keep grabbing more and more chunks of gum out of my mouth with my hands. Very unladylike. Plus, there seemed to be a never-ending supply of it. It didn't really even have the consistency of gum.  It was more like I had been chewing wheat.  Have you ever chewed wheat before?  They say it's like chewing gum, but it's totally not.  It's gross and I definitely wouldn't recommend having large chunks of it stuck in your mouth.

There was a class being held at a nearby meeting.  I hopped in my car and drove over there.  I parked on a steep street and put my emergency brake on for added safety.  It didn't make a difference.  My car started rolling down the hill backwards! I was doing everything I could to keep my car on the road and not hit any bicyclists or pedestrians.  I decided the only thing to do was flip my car around and right before attempting to do so, I woke up.

SD and SLC

I took a quick trip to San Diego over Spring Break to see Lydia and her little fam.  While I was there...

...we hung out with some cool statues,

I had an "adopted" son for a day, 

and Hallie proclaimed me to be the mommy of her doll.

I'm now known as "Baby Iris' Mama."

A week later, I took an even quicker trip to Salt Lake for Irene's wedding.  While I was there...

...I hung out with some more cool statues (and Mika),

 I enjoyed a J-Dawg at the reception (best idea ever),

 and I hung out on Temple Square. 

Back in Business

For way too long, everyone would get a red malware warning sign when they tried to view my blog. I had no idea what could have been causing malware on my site or how to fix it.  So, I just restricted everyone's access.

Today I decided that fixing the problem would be a great Good Friday activity.  Thanks to some guy named RedLeg, I was able to find the suspicious link and get rid of it.

The culprit was...

a picture of Men's Health magazine with Mark Wahlberg on the cover. :(

Hopefully things will be safe from here on out.  Now I don't have an excuse to not blog anymore.