I guess if he says yes, I'll go out with him

I know rarely (if ever) fill you in on what the people in my entries are doing today... I suppose it's because I don't want to spoil any surprises... but this one I just can't keep to myself. I mentioned in the entry above that Dawn (the same Dawn who used to do radio shows with me) dumped Doug M. Well holy shit, would you believe that now, over thirteen years later, they're married?!? How often does that happen? It's not like they've been together for thirteen years, they had both seen other people in the meantime, but really, how cute is that? Middle school sweethearts ended up back together. Awww.

Hope that doesn't make you any less interested in the intriguing new storyline of Jaime trying to convince me to go out with Doug M... and sort-of half-succeeding... maybe? I mean, I *guess* I'd go out with him, if he'd go out with me. But I only like him when I'm thinking about him. lol...

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“12-5-96. Dear Yraid, Today is my B-Day! Today in Math, the student teacher wanted the class to sing Happy Birthday to me, Sarah, & Narayan (today is all our bday). No one really wanted to sing but Craig stood up & Said, “I’ll lead!” And he did! He sung so loud it made me feel really special even though he didn’t’ do it only for me. Also during the middle of our test in Math, we both were thinking & looking out into space. Only we were looking at each other! We stayed like that for like a minute & then at the same time we figured out the problem we were stuck on. Dawn dumped Doug M. Now Jaime wants me to go out with him. I don’t know! I kinda want to go out with him but I’m not sure. I guess if he says yes I will. When I’m thinking about him, I like him more. But when I’m thinking about Craig, I like Craig more. Maybe I’ll tell Jaime maybe I’ll go out with him. See ya! Tell ya what happened with Doug M tomorrow. –Krista”

Radio Show Clip #7

Join us while I play Super Mario Bros. on NES and Dawn provides color commentary...

Man, how bad did I suck? This must have been before I got my own Nintendo and went from friend's house to friend's house monopolizing their NES controller instead. I don't know why I was struggling so badly. I remember playing Mario so much that eventually it got so easy and boring that we used to challenge ourselves by lying on our backs, tilting our heads back, and playing the game upside-down.

Playing Nintendo reminds me of many things... but one of those things was the time my sister Kasey got a new puppy.

We got the little black lab mix at the Humane Society one night and my sister named him Jellybean. I thought this was an awful name because: #1- Jelly beans weren't even Kasey's favorite candy and #2- I have always hated black jelly beans. Ugh. But it was her dog and I didn't really have room to talk considering I named my cat Easy. Actually, I named my cat Daisy... but had to think quick when the vet informed me that my stray tabby was not a girl cat, but actually an already-neutered male. Whoops.

So anyhow, we got Jellybean home and that little terror ran crazy around our house, peed everywhere, and barked all night. I know, that's what puppies do... but my parents already had three young kids and my little brother was probably just out of diapers himself... this puppy put them in over their heads. And what was the straw that broke the camel's back? Jellybean chewed through the wire of one of my Nintendo controllers. Aw hells no.

So my parents "returned" Jellybean to the Humane Society the next day and bought me a new controller. Poor Kasey. How heartbreaking. It seems like stuff like that was always happening to her. Like the time my parents returned her Pow-Pow-PowerWheels when they realized it lost its charge in 15 minutes.

But when I think of NES, I still remember how my Nintendo was awesomer than a puppy.

Radio Show Clips #6

In the most boring interview in fake radio history, Maxie asks Dawn about her pets...

Ahh gotcha with the ol' "pet sister" joke!

You thought that was bad? Remember, these clips are the highlights. Be glad I'm sparing you the majority of my hours and hours of preserved unamusing mid-90's elementary school humor. Actually, most of it isn't even humor... it's just kids sitting around doing kid things with kid imaginations. Which, hearing it now as an adult-- is pretty damn boring.

Radio Show Clips #4 and #5

On this day, my fictitious Jet-FM 102 radio DJ persona Maxie took some medicine without knowing what the side effect "drowsy" meant. Some really obnoxious fake snoring ensues.


Then, a few days later, I recruited my friend Dawn to play the person who called in to the radio station to tell me the meaning of "drowsy" and in doing so, apparently won co-host for the day.


Just as I didn't always talk in the Maxie voice, Dawn didn't always giggle that much either. I think it's really cute though and infectious even. It makes me wish I would have picked a cuter and less annoying radio voice myself.

Check it out Diary

Two things:
1. I don't remember if I liked Jazz (dance) class or not. I must not have liked it that much because I quit after the recital. However, I do remember that we danced to the theme from the Mortal Kombat movie for the recital... and that's pretty funny.

2. Regarding the radio shows I used to do... In 4th grade, my parents bought me a Sony boombox that was so awesome you could plug TWO microphones into it at once. One of my favorite hobbies became making radio shows, often by myself... but when friends came over, they were routinely recruited as sidekicks. Sometimes the recordings followed a typical radio show format (complete with commercials)... but more often than not they involved stupid segments that no one would ever want to listen to voluntarily. Such as... walking around the house and recording a distinct sound from each room (my sister's gerbils squeaking in her bedroom, the microwave buttons in the kitchen, obviously the toilet flushing in the bathroom, etc.).

I don't remember much else specific about those radio shows, but when I go home this weekend, I'm going to see if I can dig up those old cassette tapes...

10th Birthday

Rock collection, silk shirt, NES game, Mariah Carey and Janet Jackson cassette tapes, Love's Baby Soft perfume... what more could someone want for their birthday in 1993?!