What did living my best life look like in second grade? Apparently it involved roller skates. And working toward that elusive two block adventure..
Can we also pause for the cause a moment though and appreciate how good I was at cursive at age 7 and a half?
Y’all. Seven-year-old me was pretty great to have in a crisis.
Just when you thought the well might be running dry… I found my second grade journals. I had the same teacher in second and third grade so we had the same kind of daily writing prompt thing both years and I’m real glad I kept them all because there are some real gems in there, so this feature on the ol’ blog can go on for quite a while longer.
The story below omits several key details that don’t make me look like the bad guy I actually was in this story. (Meaning the part where we wouldn’t help her into the truck so she stood on the bike in gravel and it slipped out from under her and she had to get stitches).
*BONUS – I wrote about it again in third grade. Still only half the story. Still not taking responsibility for her hospital trip.. still obviously working through some shit.
Only the coolest 8-year-olds had Walkmans. And spoiled toddlers, apparently.
I don’t know how I thought I was going to pay for one for her on her sixth birthday (two months away at this point). That was obviously a lie to make me look good in front of Mrs. Kleinhans.
Third-grade Laura is a damn liar. This does, however, document my first attempt at bullshitting an assignment – a trend that continued well through college.
I cannot believe it’s been a year. I cannot believe how much has changed in that year.
365 days ago, I walked away from a steady paycheck, health insurance and a chance to go to the Derby for free every year (ha), because none of those things were worth me staying in a job I hated.
363 days ago, I became partially employed at what is now my awesome, wonderful, fun full-time job.
You all have heard me talk about that day and that job and what it was doing to me psychologically. For those that haven’t – here’s the post I wrote not long after I left: On hold.
Today, I went to lunch with five close girl friends, none of whom I would have met (possibly, who really knows though?) were it not for that job I hated. Only one of the six of us still works there, and even she’s a week away from leaving.
As we caught up on our lives and jobs and everything that’s happened since we previously got together, I just kind of sat there and took it all in.
I’ve been bitter about my previous job. Obviously. And, I believe, rightfully so, because of some of the things I went through. But it was never and will never be a total loss of those four years of my life. I got some of the best friends I could ever want from that place (partially because of shared trauma) and all of them are worth every bit of the shit I endured. I cannot imagine my life without them.
One year later. And where am I?
In a much better place. If you’d have told me on this day last year how good things would be a year away? I’d have been skeptical. Because I am was a pessimist.
Not anymore.
A lot can happen in a year. I can’t wait to see what’s to come in the next 365 days.
I was a Democrat from way back – obvs.
And thought this fitting to share since H-dogg just won Kentucky in the primary this week..
Favorite part? “I went crazy!”
#nerd
More from my third-grade school journal….
At 8, I was already telling it like it is. #nonewfriends
Today, we visit the subject of being a parent. And what it apparently meant to me, at age 8.
First, to be a mom:
You only get school clothes and trolls. Oh and school supplies.
To be a dad:
I am so glad I didn’t end up a father because I do not want to be a band director, however I would be a better one than the guy currently doing the job my dad was doing when I was 8. Also can we note that when you’re 8, $40-$50 a month is BANK.
So this is a new thing we’re doing here on the blog because I found some of my third-grade writings and they’re GOLDEN.
I did not like a couple of the kids across the street so I don’t know which one this is referring to.
And I still wish that Spray-Can Silence was real. It would have come in handy in my adult life many a time.
