girly stuff: December 2005 Archives
I took a break this afternoon from studying to clean up the toxic waste site that my bedroom becomes during finals. I was digging through a drawer when I came across an old looking manila envelope that I didn't remember being there. I opened it up and found a treasure chest of old memories. It was stuff that was on my bulletin board in the house I grew up in in Florida. When we moved to the midwest when I was a senior in high school, I packed it all up into an envelope and apparently forgot about it. Here's some of the more interesting contents:
*a birthday card made for me by my high school boyfriend's little sister - complete with glitter and construction paper hearts
*postcards from one of my best friends from when he left to join the Coast Guard. The postcards are pictures of the boat he was on and you could tell by the writing on the back how excited he was.
*pictures from my junior prom
*photo booth pictures of me and my swimming pals, circa sophomore year of h.s.
*pictures from my first trip to YMCA Nationals - I was 12.
*ticket stubs from the FL High School state meets
*one of those little cards that comes on flowers from my club swim coach wishing me luck at H.S. State's and reminding me to bend my knees when I swim fly
*a picture of my high school friends and I all gussied up - about to go to the fancy shmancy graduation party for the class ahead of us
*a ticket stub from my first open water race - this one is really interesting to me. I was sort of forced into doing this 4k open water swim race in the ski lagoon at Sea World. I initially wasn't too enthused about it but then I fell in LOVE with open water swimming. I first got into triathlons as a way to do more open water swimming. That ticket stub, and the event that it represents, may have played a big part in getting me where I am now.
One of the last things I came across was a picture from my new high school (that I was only at for senior year) in Kansas City. I couldn't figure out how it made it in with all this stuff from my life in Florida. And then I realized that it was there from the visit that we had taken to Kansas before actually moving, when I visited my new school. I love how that one picture indicates the change that was to come ... which eventually led me to where I am now.
