Happy Friday! Oh, boy, am I excited for the upcoming weekend. I am taking myself on a date Saturday night to eat ice cream on the beach and watch the sunset, and I also want to take Dutch to a dog park to stretch his legs and run around in a new environment. I’m also planning on writing, baking, and napping. Sounds like a quality weekend, yeah? I’m excited!
Today, I thought I’d switch up my “Five For Friday” series and instead of writing about five facts about my week, I’m listing five confessions about my childhood. Here we go!
1) In fifth grade, I once completed a spelling test using the handwriting of each babysitter from The Baby-Sitter’s Club. So, each word of the test was written in a different babysitter’s handwriting. My teacher was really confused by this, and it’s kinda embarrassing to admit! But yeah… I was a strange kid.
2) I was bitten by a dog when I was 11. I was walking home from the bus with a friend and she pressured me to pet this dog with her. I knew the dog was a little vicious (all he ever did was bark ferociously whenever he was chained up outside), but I still went to pet him. The next thing I knew, he had his paws on my chest and had bitten me in the stomach. I ran home crying and my mom took me to the ER to get a tetanus shot. (The bite wasn’t anything major. It just needed to get cleaned up and bandaged.) That experience was so traumatizing, though! I still have a scar from that bite (and it still stings from time to time, which is strange).
3) Growing up, my least favorite class was art class. God, I hated art class. I think I have some perfectionist tendencies and it really reared its head in art class. I just knew anything I was given, I would be bad at. And I’m not trying to be cute here – I was really awful at art. I can’t draw, I’m not really creative in the artsy sense, and it just frustrates me to no end. After elementary school, I made sure not to do any kind of art class again.
4) When I was younger (middle school), I would always check out 12 books from the library every Saturday morning. Then, I would spend my Saturday afternoons reading the first chapter of each book. (I don’t know my logic in why I did this. I just did? Like I said, I was a weird kid.) After that, I would stack the books in alphabetical order (by author’s last name) and read through the entire stack by the following Saturday. I miss those days!
5) When I was in third grade, I was cast in the school play. There were only 10 roles available, and I snagged the role of the goldfish. I even remember my first line: “We almost had a sale last week until he found out Bill here was afraid of the deep end.” I had to sing a solo which, surprisingly, was something I was really excited about. (I think I would be terrified nowadays!)
Tell me one of your childhood confessions!
We must be a lot alike! I loooooved the Babysitter’s Club books (and movie)! and I hated art class too!! Never set foot in one again after elementary school!
When I was a kid I thought it woulf be a good idea to tie my dog’s leaah around my waist and have her pull me along the old (potholed) track behind the high school. Except she saw a butterfly, took off after it, and I majorly wiped out. I still have a scat on my knee as a nice reminder.
This is fun!
when I was a kid, I was a stage manager for the play that our 5th grade class did. I wasn’t interested *at all* in being in the play itself, but I decided that I wanted to help with the sets, the props, everything. It was so much fun that i did it in 6th-8th grade, too! Hanging out with the theater kids was some of the best times of my middle school years.
Love your reading habits; I was a huge fan of checking out lots of books from the library myself. One of my favorite things to this day.
I got grounded for a month once because I prank called a bunch of random numbers and when they called back I answered “Hello, Babysitter’s Club.” My mom was not impressed! I had a huge box filled with all my old BSC books – I hope she still has them somewhere in the attic. Dawn was always my favorite. I also loved the Sweet Valley High books. Art class was always one of my favorites! I am not artistic now, but as a kid I really loved it. As I got older it became apparent that my brother clearly held the artistic talent so I kind of dropped off (perfectionist in me).
I love this post!
I started a “spy club” in 4th grade. Alongside my classroom crush, David Garcia. We spied on teachers and made up codes and wrote each other notes with the codes.
I am right there with you on hating art class. I am terrible at art or anything that requires creativity so I really disliked that class. Give me math over art any day! 😉
This was a fun post idea! Love the library one!! I did not have access to a library when I was young as we lived in such a tiny town. I wish we had had access to one as I would have loved having access to free books!
My childhood confession is that I changed my name to Stephanie, after the Full House character, in the 3rd grade. I put Stephanie on all of my papers and would only answer to Stephanie. I eventually grew out of it but obv I was obsessed with that show.
I absolutely love love loved reading this post. So much fun to read about your childhood!
First off, I’m even more convinced now that we are best friends.
The library one cracked me up! I used to take out a dozen books from the library too, but I don’t think I had your process down 🙂
The Babysitter’s Club thing cracked me up. I loved those books!
Okay, and I LOVE that you are taking yourself on a date. I hope it went well! I want to do the same. That sounds lovely!
xox
OMG. #1 just made my life complete.
When I was little (maybe five?) there was some a kid at the babysitter’s who set a bush on fire – I told on him and he got in trouble. Later he came up to me and said, “if you tell on me again, I’m going to punch you in the face.” I replied calmly, “if you punch me in the face I’m going to kick you in the penis.”
Yup. Actually happened.