Jooooooooooan

Blast from the past

So I decided it was finally time to unpack the boxes of all my stuff from ND. Yes, my parents moved almost a year ago, and yes, these boxes have been sitting in my apartment for almost a year as well. I've unpacked a few things, like CDs and pictures and some of my old Calvin and Hobbes books (they are still hilarious, btw, and I was obsessed with them for years), but it was time to dig in. And since I hadn't seen anything in said boxes probably since I left for college, I had no idea what was in them.

• More Calvin and Hobbes books that I forgot I had
• Canadian money, all in coins
• The pillow I put my teeth in for the tooth fairy
• Pogs
• Those troll dolls with all the hair that everyone and their mother used to collect
• A laser tag scoresheet - I don't remember if I won, but I must have, because why else would I have kept it?
• Proof that I was tall once - I was a full head and shoulders taller than my sister (now 3-4 inches taller than me), my cousins (ditto), and just as tall as a guy who would end up being one of the biggest guys in my class.
• Golf tournament trophies - hah!
• Ties and a pocket square from proms (my date sophomore year was too good for a tie), and apparently my junior year, we made the official prom theme "Doin' it Hawaiian Style" - yep, nothin but class from the NRHS Class of 2001.
• Photo albums - good Lord, I can't believe how I used to look.
• The "prophesies" and songs we gave each other senior year of high school. Still funny.
• A giant foam finger

And of course, the yearbooks. For some reason, I have one from my freshman year at USD (don't remember getting that). That was probably the weirdest thing I found, seeing all the people I hang out with now how we all looked when we were little underclassmen at USD. The high school ones were great fun to see who got skinny, who used to be skinny, who's disappeared, who's married, who's changed, who looks the same. Of course, I haven't seen anyone in over a year and a half, so I guess I'll just have to wait a few years til the reunion to really decide.

Now I just need a basement or an attic to store all this stuff.

posted by Jooooooooooan @ 8:12 PM