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March 01* 2005, 10:57 pm
for some reason yeserday is marked as "feb. 31" on my stats page. if you say so. for some reason today i was thinking about the boys i thought were cute when i was a kid. talk about bad taste. what was cute when i was a kid were the new kids, those bowl haircuts with the sides shaved, and like nike tshirts. ugh. i remember one boy in my elementary school who was older than me- a wild sixth grader when i was in fourth or fifth. he was severly pigeon toed. SEVERLY. yet he was really popular and really good at sports so people started affecting pigeon toe. like it was cool. i totally remember trying it out one day because he just looked so cool doing it. yes, i am talking about being pigeon toed as a trend. i lived it and i don't get it either. (it just hit me, i started thinking about this because i took a yoga class today and we were told to stand pigeon toed at one point. then i guess the rest of the class was me free associating other moronic things about boys) another thing i remember is the "hot" guy when i was in 6th grade. his name was mark- bowl hair cut, check, nike tshirt, check, lines shaved into the side of his head, you know it, check! the thing that struck me as odd today though, is that he had a long-term girlfriend. stephanie. they were inseparable. they spent all recess holding hands and laying in the grass together and they spent the whole weekend together. they were in SIXTH GRADE. that means they were like 12 years old. kids. but they were living out what they thought a totally adult relationship was. at the end of the year they broke up. it was awful. the whole class was shocked. and i overheard both of them talking about how hard it would be to move on and how they'd never find anyone better. THEY WERE TWELVE! i can barely take that kind of commitment as an adult. i wonder who they were emulating. i wonder if they ever got over it. i don't remember them past the seventh grade so i guess i moved on to bigger and better breakups to hear about. there was another couple. they were together from like 7th to 9th or 10th grade. so at 15 they had been together for 3 or 4 years. i never saw them apart. once i had a gym class (then later was on the soccer team) with the girl half of the couple and it was weird seeing her by herself. it was like she wasn't a person in her own right. when she dumped him i was kind of happy for her. and everyone talked about the boy, wade, like he was soooo dreamy. well, my sister knows him now. he's a drop out who lives by the college and pretends to have a job while he mooches on his college age girlfriends. what a dreammmmboat. it must be weird going through those formative years totally commited to someone else. all of those growing up memories would be laced up with some boy. i just don't get it i guess. i like having my memories. knowing i was practically married by 13 would freak me out. i hope my kids don't go that route. i'd be all "date around" like my dad was. however, here i am, 25 and practically married, which seems really young still. (he does not have a bowl hair cut... or nike tshirts... but i wish he had those lines shaved in the side of his head) |