journal entry 51, 1984-This was a group entry written by me, Jenni and Amy.
Indiana Jones, Mel Gibson, Billy Idol, Steve, the guy on the Blistex commercial, the soloflex guy, Huey Lewis, Robert Plant, Roger Daltery, the black guy on the cover of our math book, dude, dude’s bro Mike, Bryan Adams, The Chippendale’s guys, [...]

One more. They’re just so good.
?-?-84
Poor, poor Spunky the reindeer. He started out as one of Santa’s reindeer and ended up in the bottom of a river because he was carrying drugs illegally into Miami and was murdered by the mafia.

My mom just sent me an eleven pound box with memorbilia. Most of it I threw away, but there were two journals with embarassing hilarity. Here the first of many installments that will make me laugh and be mortified all at once.
11-30-84 (this would make me 13)
If I could be anyone in the world, I [...]

I just heard on the radio that there are record temperatures in Chicago. City workers are going door to door to bring the elerdery and infirm to “cooling centers”.
It’s been a hundred and twenty degrees here for the last month. Where are the city workers? I want to go to a cooling center.

If anyone reading this sent us a antique looking wooden plaque for our anniversary that says “Happily Ever After. Grow old along with me, the best is yet to be”. Thank you. There was no name or card.
That is all to report….except…..
did you guys all hear that I bought a wet suit.

I just bought a wet suit off of ebay.
You know what that means…….

Unfortunately, we’re home. Murphy the dog has an appointment with the vet to see about removing her glaucoma swollen tumor eye. I wish I had a clever, funny, interesting entry in my grasp, but I don’t. I have a load of clothes to put in the drier and a Eurovan to clean. Naturally, I’m sitting [...]

The surfing lesson went great. We even rented boards and surfed the next day. I’m much better than I thought I would be. My paranoia of murky water is much diminished with a full wet suit and reef shoes. We’re leaving for Vegas sometime tonight. Yahoo weather forcast still has the Vegas thermometer icons as [...]

My hair is dirty with salt water and sand. It’s sticking up and sticking out. People pay big money to have their hair look like this.
I really don’t have anything to say, but I feel like I have a a wireless connection and a electrical outlet so I should try hard to come up [...]

Surfing lesson delayed until Monday. The waves were just too “gnarly” for the beginner likes of me. Sam our guru wave guide who looks like Brad Pitt in his grizzly adams phase, or for all of you baseball fans, a blond Johnny Daemon in the same said phase, said so. He said Monday would be [...]

Surfing lesson….today.
I tried to get Andy to postpone it until tomorrow. He said in a wise and sagely voice, “You are ready”. When I told him I was afraid, he said, “Is it the kind of afraid that your scared but really excited, or just scared”. I said, “Does not compute”. Afraid to me, is [...]

We are in Malibu. I was ever so brave to confront my irrational fear of water that I can’t see the bottom of and go into the ocean past my butt. I even crashed through a few breaking waves. Today was supposed to be my surfing lesson, but it has been postponed until tomorrow. Yesterday [...]

We’re out.
Actually we still have to drive across town to get Jason the cat’s special cat food but then…..
We’re out.
Into the Southern Cali wildfires we go.

We are leaving for Malibu tomorrow.
Andy played poker all day yesterday. When he was done and I asked him if he could do anything in the world right now what would it be, he said “play pinball”. This is one skill I have heard about, and have never witnessed. We went to Gameworks next [...]

I’ve been doing stuff, some of it interesting, and some of it not so interesting.
But right now, intstead of writing about it all, I’m going upstairs with my cute husband. We are decadently going to watch illegally downloaded episodes of Six Feet Under and The 4400 in the middle of a weekday.