The Back Page - 1991
This is the back page of the Special Friendship Book I kept with 2 of my best friends in junior high. Yes, I still have this book and many other notes, love notes and strange embarrassing memorabilia. I moved a lot. I kept the memories of my friends. I dug this book out today because this afternoon Sophia and I picked out some fabulous new nail polish. Because we are SO high fashion, we picked a fabulous deep purple, a wonderful hunter green and a rockin’ navy blue. As soon as we got home we put Miles down for his nap and started our manicures with the blue polish. The last time I painted my nails blue was in junior high. It brought me right back to that time and this book. Looking at my 3 year old with her shiny blue nails I could almost see a 13 year old young woman learning about friendship and love. It was shock to me because I have never really pictured her this much older before. One of these days she is going to be a crazy girl like me. Watch out boys.
I can vividly remember junior high, in part because my friends and I kept these Special Friendship Books in which we recorded all of the angst that comes with being a 13 year old girl. We have laughter and tears and yells and whispers in these books. We debate who our friends and enemies are and even have friendship break ups and make ups on these pages. You remember – girls break up sometimes. We are emotional. We also have some really fickle hearts and change our loves monthly. I will completely embarrass myself and share some of these pages with your over time. You know…just for shits and giggles.
The back page is a pretty good summary of the book and Our Teenage Brains.
You can read our actual words in the picture above but here are some highlights. We all – at some point during the few months this books spans, are in love with Dave Fuentes. He is still all of our friend on facebook. Ha! Erin first, then me, then Kai. We go through a host of boys just on the back page but in the whole book….um – let’s just say you can’t count them on both hands. And a lot are shared loves. EW! (FYI – Dave was my first real hook up! We french kissed! We may have all kissed him. Again – EW!)
On one side of the back page we state our loves but clearly this was not a smooth ride on the romance train. I quote…
All guys are scumb to me right now – Kai
Guys are always scumb to me – Erin
Guys just totally suck, huh guys – Brit (Me)
GUYS REALLY SUCK!!! -Kai
Guys aren’t that bad anymore – Erin
I don’t even want to talk about guys 
– Kai
All guys are scumb to me also right now – Brittany
All guys are really odd head cases if you ask me! – Brittany
I don’t want to speak of them either – B (Me)
This kind of discussion took up a good percentage of my time in junior high. Conversations about love took up a good percentage of my time for a LONG time after this. A lot of my single friends still think this – albeit in slightly more mature colorful terms.
I thought you might enjoy a giggle for your weekend.
Speaking of love, in 7th grade we all said “Olive Juice” instead of I Love You. I told that to Sophia and she loved it! We agreed it can be our special thing. I will take all of the special things I can get.
Have a great weekend and remember to tell someone Olive Juice!
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It was great seeing that, I have a box with old notes my friends and I use to write each other in class…to read them now they seem so crazy ! haha
Ouch …your poor boy,that’s great they got you in and out so fast though.
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That is a blast from the past! WOW! To think my daugther is 11 and in a few years that is what I have to look forward too..lol. Geesh, at least you sparked a memory of how I was as a young teen. Teen minds are crazy, huh?
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November 8, 2009 at 12:21 pm
Love that you were having bonding time with your daughter when this you had the thought to find the book. If you keep reminding yourself of what you were like, perhaps that will ease the transition when Sophie goes through it. I am not looking forward to it. My daughter is 7 going on 13 right now!
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Hilarious!! So fun of you to share, and I so remember writing things very similar in my own diary.
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Brittany Reply:
November 10th, 2009 at 11:28 pm
Hi I am now following your blog but it won’t let me comment. I am following on twitter too. Are others able to comment?
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Jenn (MommyB) Reply:
November 11th, 2009 at 12:53 am
Hmmm won’t let you comment at all or just on the potty post? I had to take down the comments momentarily b/c of spam, should be working now (PS I’m due in March and live in CLT too!)
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Brittany Reply:
November 11th, 2009 at 8:46 am
Nope can’t comment. I can see the box and the top of the word verification but nowehere to type it in and hit submit. I will keep trying! Thoese handprints are SO cute!
Jenn (MommyB) Reply:
November 11th, 2009 at 9:47 am
Weird, I can comment when I’m signed out, what browser are you using?? PS I’m thinking of switching templates, and maybe even to word press, I have a lot of template glitches. What do you think of word press???
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Brittany Reply:
November 11th, 2009 at 4:00 pm
I love wordpress and my Thesis DIY theme. Really love it! Let me know if you want me to email you some info!
Jenn (MommyB) Reply:
November 11th, 2009 at 4:01 pm
That’d be great, and probably easier than conversing on here
I look forward to your notes. Thanks!!
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How fun that is! Thank you so much for sharing. We used to do olive juice, too, naive enough to think our parents didn’t know what we were saying that way.
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It’s so great that you saved this. What fun it must be to have these things to look through!
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We used to say “Greenish-brown Female Sheep”…..olive ewe! Crazy!
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I love this. It’s so cute and innocent and so embarrassing at the same time – because it reminds me on all the strange notes I kept that are hidden away in boxes on the loft.
I hope they’ll help me understand my daughter’s feelings one day.
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