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A Walk Down a Trippy Memory Lane written @ 9:59 PM on January 27, 2003 The following is the e-mail Lisa, my newly rediscovered best friend from the second grade who still resides in Pittsburgh to this very day, sent to me last night. Look for my commentary via *COMMENT*: Wow i didnt expect to actually get an email from you so soon! Its really weird how i actually found you. Me and my best friend since 6th grade - Amanda Dryden *HEY, I WENT TO PRESCHOOL WITH HER!* - were lookin through old pictures and we found one of me, you, and her at our communion *I VAGUELY REMEMBER THAT PICTURE BEING TAKEN* and we started talkin about you because she said you two went to preschool together (This was last year). *AH HA!* I really wanted to talk to you so started lookin for you online. I could never find you - I assumed you still lived in NJ. Well a few weeks ago i was going through an old box and foung a gold unicorn charm my cousin gave me when me and you were friends, and i remembered how you had always wanted it *I STILL DO*, and again wanted to reallly talk to you. So i tried everything again, and as a last resort put your name in a search engine. I found an article about you collecting unicorns and got really excited, but i wrote the writer of it and she told me she no longer had your contact information. *THANK YOU, CINCINNATI ENQUIRER* The article had your high school name on it so i looked up it's website and wrote to the counselor, but she told me she could only pass my info to you, not yours to mine. so I did, and I guess it actually worked! but enough about that... I am going to school at the community college around here (Comm. College of Allegheny College) because when it came around to graduation last year, I still had no idea what I wanted to do. I was reallly into art, but also got into engineering in high school, so i knew my major was mainly between Art Education, Graphic Design, and Engineering, *THAT IS ONE FUCKED UP COMBINATION, BUT MORE POWER TO HER, I GUESS.* but I really didnt know. So thats why I ended up at CCAC - somewhere to start so i didnt waste a year. But I picked a major now and Im going to California Univ. Of Pennsylvania for Technical Education. I'll basicly teach engineering, and i have the option of double majoring in art/art ed. after my junior year (because Tech. Ed. Is a really elaborate major, they dont allow you to double major until your junior year) So how exactly did you end up going to school in Kentucky? Thats really awesome that you have a full scholarship... and a double major. impressive! I hafta say you were one of the lucky ones to get out of Moon (Moon Township, PA, guys, the West Chester of Pittsburgh). Not that it was bad... it was probably just like any other high school - but we had the stereotypical cheerleaders and football players. I was cool with the cheerleaders - seeing that most of them came from Pleasant View *THAT WAS MY FIRST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, FOR YOUR OWN REFERENCE.* - but the fb players made sure everyone knew they were pigs. I still live in the same house... but i live in Slippery Rock in the summer - its about 45 minutes from me. My family has a camp there (in a campground) - I have about 15-20 really close friends there... that place has basicly made me who i am. They did close down Pleasant View, and moved the elementary school to the building below the playground and called it Brooks. PV became a christian school. *GASP* I have a boyfriend, Dan, now. About 2-3 months ago, I got out of an almost 4-year relationship. His name was sean. I actually broke up with him 3 times, this being the third - but it was always that stupid 'im single, i might as well go back' mentality that sent me back to him. in the middle of one of those break ups i met dan and we dated, but we broke up because he was going to college and i was gonna be a senior. but sean turned up some issues and basicly became a typical movie psycho-boyfriend. i was hopin to stay single for a while, but dan caught me and i fell all over again... so who knows. *NOT AT ALL THE SWEET, SHY, QUIET LISA I REMEMBER, BUT SHE'S A LOT MORE ENTERTAINING THIS WAY.* So any guys in your life? *LOL!!!* Tell me more about you whenever you get a chance. Oh, and I dont usually use this screenname anymore. My email address is [email protected] and my AIM screename is the same name (BaByGiRLx1111) so just write me back at that email address Im guessing you got the rest of my information but just incase, my home address is *YADDA, YADDA, PROTECTING THE INNOCENT-- DELETING THE ADDRESS* ~Lisa So then I wrote back to her and asked her about certain people I used to know. Here is her latest e-mail: Hi! okay... ill start this letter over now.... since i lost the other email (yes... it was a novel lol) *YEAH, I KNOW HOW THAT GOES, AS FAR AS THE WHOLE DELETING A NOVEL THING GOES* so anyways... Yep Amanda Dryden is my best friend. As for what she ended up doing... well to put it nicely... working. Her parents moved to Atlanta Georgia last year and left her to live in their old house up here so she could graduate at moon. *JUDGING FROM HOW DOMINEERING AND INDEPENDENT AND, QUITE FRANKLY, DOWNRIGHT BITCHY AT TIMES SHE WAS IN PRESCHOOL, THIS DOES NOT SURPRISE ME.* Well... since she lived alone, she decided that sleeping was much more attractive than getting up at ungodly hours of the morning and going to school... and just didnt show up to school (missing 68 days to be exact... while showing up late or leaving early most of the other days) Needless to say, she didnt graduate. *SHE SHOULD TALK TO MY ROOMMATE* She had a chance to get her diploma by taking summer classes at community college, but she found better things to do in warm weather than attend class. So this semester shes taking the classes she needs for a diploma - which i am forcing her to go to - and wants to go to edinboro univ. of pa next year for elementary education. we have our doubts.... but we hope it works out for her - shes extremely intelligent, possibly smarter than the rest of us - but just lacks the effort. Other than that, shes an awesome person. Shes had more boyfriends since 6th than you probably have unicorns... no joke. *THAT'S PRETTY DAMNED SCARY.* Some names might even ring a bell - Danny Webber *I USED TO HAVE A CRUSH ON HIM*, David Knowlton *I USED TO HAVE A CRUSH ON HIM TOO*, Mike Calhoun *I WANTED TO MARRY HIM*... and the list goes on with people i lost count of and forgot. Lol she really is a great girl... i consider her my sister and we so much fun together. I could only laugh when you mentioned Mrs. Peterson... the evil elementary art teacher. *Let me stop right here and elaborate on Mrs. Peterson. A few years ago, I was reflecting on my early years with art in an effort to trace how I got to where I was today, and I realized that Mrs. Peterson, my first grade art teacher, positively resented me. I never knew why, but as a clue she played favorites in the class. For instance, she always chose Melanie Purseglove's work, George's work, or Karen's work over mine. All had more skills than me at that time period, but my teacher was negative and domineering and wanted work done "her way." In the last e-mail I sent Lisa, I mentioned how these thoughts had surfaced, and I guess this struck her personally. Read on... Oh, and by the way, did anyone else happen to catch how my hormones seemed to rage more back then than now? How odd...* I was in the same exact boat - i loved art and the work i did, but she always put me down. I really realized this last year when i had to work with her and her classes for my senior project that was on art education. watching her work with the young students was horrible - i realized how much of a conformist she was - it was more about doing it the way she would have done it, rather than letting the kids express themselves in the art. I dropped that part of my senior project simply because i couldnt take it... i didnt agree with a thing she did or said. Anyways, when i had her for class back then, she always put my work down. *AH HA, WHAT DID I SAY?* When i got to middle school, my art teacher LOVED me... she always used my work for conventions and for her college classes she taught. I ended up taking lessons with her. In high school, art was hard for me to do because i didnt get along with the teacher - a male version of mrs. peterson. I always wanted to take my projects out on a limb and do them with my own creativeness... but he wanted it his way. If it wasnt like he would have done it, it wasnt right. I did get into stained glass from taking that class - but of course because we were supposed to do glass mosaics. everyone else did them on wood sheets, and i wanted to make mine on a vase. He argued, saying i should do something simple. Nope, not me. Through that project... i started making stained glass things (lamps, suncatchers, windows...) not a typical teenager hobby but i love it. As for George, well he sure turned into something. (Something bisexual actually). *LOL. Let me pause here and tell you all a bit of what I remember from George. George was actually my inspiration, or something that was like inspiration but was actually the greenest of jealousy. George was amazingly talented for his age when it came to art. To give you all a picture, he was drawing breasts and other anatomically correct features on his people by the second grade... I wanted to be able to draw like him and thereby "draw" Mrs. Peterson's attention away from everyone else's work, so the second grade is when I had my first taste of who I would eventually become-- that is, being the power-driven, artistic workaholic that I am today. In a sense, my career in art began with jealousy.* After elementary school, his art went nowhere. Art teachers didnt really care... which caused quite a conflict between him and I. I was proud that my art was being recognized over his, so i stuck with it (like you, I also owe part of my art dedication to him) He did a few stage sets *AH HA, BUT HE'LL NEVER BE CERTIFIED IN IT LIKE MEEEE! SAM RENO HAS AT LAST TRIUMPHED OVER HER ANCIENT ARCH ENEMY!*... but nothing great. His reputation no longer included any knack for art. I really am not sure what he ended up doing after High school. And Brownies *OH GOD, HERE WE GO*... I stayed in it until 6th grade. *POOR LISA... I WOULD KNOW* It got taken over by cheerleaders... stuck up people that decided to turn it into a 'fad' more than a troop. i dropped out in 6th grade. *SMART KID. I TAUGHT HER WELL.* So what kind of car did your dad buy you for your full ride? The High School hasnt changed since you left... Still the same old asbestos-filled unhomely building with a pool... that i didnt swim in due to allergies. (A loss i can deal with lol) *THAT'S TOO BAD. I REALLY LIKED THAT POOL. THE PRESCHOOL USED TO TAKE MY CLASS UP TO SWIM IN IT IN THE SUMMERS.* So about the people you asked about... Suzanne Moyer... We know her as suzie but most of us would rather not know her at all. *LOL. YEAH, I SAW THAT COMING WHEN SHE, WHO CLAIMED TO BE MY BEST FRIEND, ALWAYS DITCHED ME FOR HER OTHER POSSE. SHE FUCKING LIVED NEXT DOOR TO ME AND WAS MY FIRST BEST FRIEND OF MY ENTIRE LIFE. IT WASN'T UNTIL YEARS LATER I REALIZED HOW POORLY SHE TREATED ME.* Yes, her mom taught 4th grade *MY MOM SAYS HER MOM WAS A BITCH*, which gave her the sense that she owned the school. *EVIDENCE OF THAT WAS SEEN IN MISS RAULSTON'S SECOND GRADE CLASS* That mentality stuck with her all the way up to 12th grade. *SOME THINGS NEVER CHANGE.* I work with her ex boyfriend (At CVS pharmacy) and oh the stories we could tell about her! basicly, she was one of the most stuck up people in the school... to be nice - a bitch. Melanie Purseglove *SHE WAS ANOTHER ONE OF MY BEST FRIENDS AND A UNICORN COHORT. WE BONDED OVER DR. MARIO FOR NINTENDO*... me and her stayed friends until around 5th grade... she found better friends - then lost them to a reason that later turned up to be ADD. *LOL!!! SO THEN SHE REALLY HAD NO RIGHT TO MAKE FUN OF MY BROTHER AFTER ALL* She can be nice when she wants to, but shes a definate drama queen - thats her legacy in moon. *THEN I LEARNED FROM THE BEST.* Its her way or no way. Amanda actually works with her at a restaurant. Melanie and George used to be bonded at the hip *THAT KIND OF CONCERNS ME IF HE TURNED BISEXUAL.*... but sooner or later she annoyed him too with her crying to get what she wanted. But i guess overall shes really nice. And Adam... Nicastro. oh boy! Hes one of the sweetest guys youll ever know... but hes really shy. *I HAD A CRUSH ON HIM TOO. I HAD BETTER CHANCES WITH HIM THAN THE OTHER GUYS, THOUGH, BECAUSE HE LIVED TWO DOORS DOWN FROM ME AND THEREFORE COULD NOT ESCAPE ME SO EASILY. evil laugh* He actually came up with severe Asthma... so bad that hes in make-a-wish. *GOOD GOD.* his last day could be any... he doesnt know. His dad says he could live till tomorrow or to be a hundred... its just up to the asthma attactks he gets. *THAT'S AWFUL.* His dad was actaully my engineering teacher... my mentor... my idol lol. He is the reason i am going to school for technical education. I would love to take over his job! He was so awesome to me - we were really close. I was always the only girl in my 4 years of engineering classes, so he took me under his wing and called me the daughter he never had. **WEEP* THAT COULD HAVE BEEN ME!* that might sound slightly disturbing, but it wasnt like that at all. He just always motivated me and believed in me more than I sometimes believed in myself. If it wasnt for him, I wouldnt be where I am with school today. Anyways, he would have done anything to see me and adam get together *SOOOOOB* - but since i was one of the really outgoing people when i had peopel to open up to *SHE WASN'T THAT WAY WHEN I KNEW HER*, and adam is extremely shy and keeps to himself *HE WASN'T THAT WAY WHEN I KNEW HIM*, it was hard for me to even talk to adam. He did ask me to prom, but i had a boyfreind at the time, and when we broke up, adam had another date. I actually ended up going to prom with Jason Ducarme - if that name sounds familiar. *IT DOES. IT FILLS ME WITH EVIL FORBODE.* He put me in the hospital in 4th grade with a concussion *YOU SEE WHY?!*... then we went to junior prom together lol (moon has a jr. prom... not a senior prom). Jason is going nowhere in life though... he turned into a pot head and alcoholic our senior year... along with a good handfull of others. *DOESN'T SURPRISE ME IN THE LEAST!* John Tarquinio... Well he turned out to be a highschool heart-throb. *JOHN TARQUINIO WAS TO MOON HIGH WHAT MATT MACINTIRE WAS TO LAKOTA WEST, GIRLS* Him and Julianne Jochmann *I REMEMBER BEING FRIENDS WITH HER BUT THINKING SHE WAS A BITCH* dated for a long time, and after that he never really dated any of the 5 million girls he could have easily had. I believe he went to Notre Dame... which is where he wanted to go since elem. school. *I REMEMBER THAT. GOOD FOR HIM* I do have a scanner... so later on, ill scan some before and after pics of some people, including myself and amanda! Anyways, I think what youre doing with school is great! It takes alot of will to get into that much work, but its awesome that your stickin to it! wellll i gotta go but ill send those pics later! bye! Wow, guys, wow!! None of you can have any idea what this means to me. I feel so enthralled that all my predictions for these people have pretty much come true! You know what that means? I don't regret moving in the least bit! I'm now officially glad I ended up in Cincinnati, because Lord knows if I had stuck around in Moon Township, my art career, and consequently me, would have gone no where. There is also a third e-mail in my in-box sitting pretty right now with the goods on all sorts of other people who were in my first and second grade classes. I tell you, guys, I am on the verge of tears. This has been like that one TV show many years ago when they took contestants and reunited them with lost friends/relatives/etc. I want my old yearbooks now. I am just about in tears. So many memories and names I have forgotten are coming back to me. "anyways... i was thinking back and i just remembered something really funny... a rather odd memory - but i remember us riding down the steps in your old house on sleeping bags and your mom calling us crazy... and us going to the movie store by PV (Pleasant View Elementary) with your mom, and i thought it was really strange that she wore her slippers there. wow... i remember weird things!" The stairs and the sleeping bags I remember. My mom walking into the movie store with her slippers I don't. I'll need to ask her about that one. I believe we rented "The Last Unicorn" that day in the movie rental store, though...
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