I was a weird kid

Exciting news! My grandparents gave my mom some stuff from when I was a kid! (They were apparently storing it for her…? I really don’t know why they had it.) It includes such things as some books I had, a baseball glove, some little shoes and some things from school. The important thing here is the things from school. You see, among these things are my first grade journals.

I don’t really remember a whole lot from when I was that young, so I decided to look through my journals a bit and see what I was like. Well, I made a few discoveries. One, I was a very bad speller. (This really gives me a new perspective on my 7 year old sister. See, I thought I was a good speller when I was her age, so I expected the same. Turns out I sucked, so now I know I shouldn’t expect so much from a little kid.)

Two, I had horrible handwriting. This hasn’t changed, really, although my handwriting has improved. A bit.

But, best of all, three, I was a really weird (awesome) kid. As in, my thoughts and thought processes must have been absolutely ridiculous. My journal is like a gold mine of lols. I don’t know if I should periodically just throw up pages from my journal (’cause there’s a lot) or if I should just put a couple up now. If you guys like this, I’ll keep showing you my awesome journal entries.

Without further ado, two of my journal entries from the first grade:

“My amazing machine is a time machine and an apple maker.” For some reason, I thought it would be a great idea to have a machine that not only transports you through time, BUT also makes apples. Although I seem to have drawn an apple tree that is dropping apples onto a conveyor belt, so I don’t see where the apple making comes in? I can only theorize that it was actually a machine that made things from apples. Like apple sauce, apple pie, apple strudel, apple laser guns to fight off danger when I travel back in time, etc.

“Inside a deep dark cave a t-rex lives with a dragon and he lives with a pterodactyl.” In this illustration, I demonstrate my knowledge of animals that live in caves. And I think I was on to something as a kid. See, dinosaurs (and dragons I guess) didn’t die out. They just moved. To caves. Deep, dark caves. And no one knows about it, because the t-rex eats everyone that comes in the cave, as you can see in the picture.

Let me know if you all want to see more of these.

Posted on: July 22, 2010

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