A girl I work with loves the Website “I Used to Believe.” It’s actually pretty funny, if you take a look at it and allow yourself to get lost in the world of things people really believed when they were younger. So before I get busy editing a story that needs serious “creative” editing, I thought I’d list a few of my used-to-believes for you all. You know, so you could laugh at me. A bit more than usual.
• I used to believe that commercials on TV were live. Especially cereal commercials during Saturday morning cartoons. I thought that girl had to eat that bowl of cereal over and over and over. Seriously.
• I thought that I could grow to be 6 feet tall. OK, while this is theoretically true, it’s just not genetically possible. I come from a long line of average height to short people. My dad’s like 5 foot 8 and my mom is about my height. We aren’t tall people. My grandparents were average, so were my aunts and uncles. But I thought I was going to be tall and slender. Neither of those things happened! (Tangent: since I saw LeAnn Rimes at the Bon Jovi concert I’ve come to the conclusion that she has great legs. She doesn’t have short, little pistons like me.)
• I used to believe I wanted to be a nightly news anchor. Now I know I would HATE this job. I would like to meet Anderson Cooper, though. (Seriously, I’ve watched him since his early, early days on Channel 1 when I was in high school. And I bought and read and enjoyed his book! I’m a fan, Anderson!)
• I used to believe that I’d always live close enough to see my brother every day.
• I used to believe that leggings (or stirrup pants!) and oversized sweatshirts were an amazingly cool wardrobe combo. Oh, and socks you could scrunch down over the pants. Wow. I was so not cool. (BTW, I’m trying to keep pics from these days under wraps. So you’ll never see them here. Along with the big glasses and large bangs. I should just stop typing right now.)
OK, work awaits. I must accomplish something today! (You know, before I divulge all my embarrassing secrets from the past!)
You may think you weren’t cool now, but we were just keeping up with the likes of Debbie Gibson, Blossom, the 90210 kids, etc! And, I just realized I have each and every yearbook from all our glorious years of school…and a scanner. But I wouldn’t do that to you
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OH, no! You can’t scan in those pics of me! I’m trying to at least give off a veneer of coolness these days!
BTW, did you hear they’re making a revamp of 90210? And I heard that NKOTB were coming back. Wow.
Mandy, you know I’ll steal this idea at some point. It’s just too fun!
So you had the big bangs/glasses combo too huh? I feel your pain!
I can’t believe NKOTB are back together….sorry but they’re just too old.
I will borrow this idea soon.
Oh! The things I used to believe.