The first blast from the past!

(We are Chel and Dolly. We have been best friends since 7th grade. Chel is in town for the holidays and we are starting our blogging adventure tonight. This journal entry is from the 1986 Sacred Fuchsia Notebook. We will add our "updated" comments in parentheses.)

Date: 8-28-86
Time: 12:21 a.m.
Mood: Peppy and semi-happy

Well, this is the 1st page of our "sacred" fuchsia notebook. Kay (my sister) got some headphones for her stereo and they didn't fit, but they fit my clock/radio perfectly. So I'm listening to "Take My Breath Away"... Babe!! (yes, Chel and I have seen Top Gun more than a thousand times!!)

I don't understand the way Indigo acted towards Jag. Weird! Remind me to let you read what he wrote in my annual. Well, overall it was a fun day. My mother was saying with the money from our musical instruments we might buy bowling balls and shoes and go once a week. That would be so neat (we never did buy those balls)!

Subject Area: Indigo
He wanted something BAD today and I honestly think it was you! That look gave me the creepies. You should have bent down and kissed him. I hear he has gotten better since you had him! I think deep down inside a part of your heart still loves Indigo just as mine does Harry . It's really deep down and if you could reach it I think you and Indigo would be good. Remember you were very immature the first go around. This time could be it! I seriously believe you should go for it. Of course you could get pushed down but trying is best. Think about it! (It turns out he is gay.)

Then I think about you and me. How do you ever put up with me? Like tonight I was in a crabby, tired mood and you knew exactly how to handle it. Scratching my back (like you are doing right now..and no, we are not gay, but you will learn we sure like a lot of gay men!) always helps me. See we know these things about one another. I thought that was sweet! You know, it seemed so silly at the time when we got those Burger King crowns and became Burger King Sisters. Some people really think we're dumb but everyone has some marking. Then our best year of friendship had to be our sophomore one! We were best friends the whole year and going for 2 years. I think we should each listen to each other when it comes to guys (she still doesn't listen to me). I wish I was as pretty as you are (still do). I don't think you should lose any weight, that 10 pounds helped you not look so scrawny! I wish I was that skinny! I'm happy (yeah, now since I've been in therapy!), I do want to lose some weight for health reasons (and I still tell myself that same damn line!). I have become comfortable with my weight. If people can't accept me the way I am then they are not worth it. The personality is what counts.

Well I hope I win a lot of trophies next year. I also want a 92 overall yearly average. I hope I can handle P.E. I'm going to ask you something and you answer truthfully. Do you think I sing well enough to be in choir?

I still feel shaky about theatre arts and Harry being president. He's not going to push me around cause I'm going to put him in his place! Right? Wrong! I can't stand up for myself, I'm a coward.

Well it is 1:19 a.m. Thursday morning. Oh, Mom said I could take the truck to your house today. Fun, huh? Pray I don't die! Don't lose this notebook or we are destroyed.

BKSBFFBKBLALYLAS,
Dolly

P.S. Tom Cruise is FINE!

"Through the hour glass I saw you, in time you slipped away. When the mirror crashed I called you and turned to hear you say: I am unafraid if only for today... " Take My Breath Away - Berlin