If You Knew Me In High School...

I saw this fun post on Karli's blog and thought, "That's fun!" Then I tabbed over to Facebook, because who doesn't have 100 tabs open at once right, and low and behold! I had been tagged in an old high school cheerleading photo (you know, we didn't have digital stuff back then so it was a pic of a pic). "That's it!" I thought. I need to do one of these posts too. It's been a long time since there was a "get to know you" blog post so why not? Here's what would have gone down if y'all knew me in high school:

Hey braces

If you knew me in high school...
You'd know I made a quick transition from being "alternative" with pink hair in Jr High to preppy girl on the cheerleading team between grades 8-9. Literally overnight, I determined being alternative was super dumb, took a hard left turn and went as preppy and peppy as I could.

If you knew me in high school...
You'd know I never dated anyone from MY high school, and St. Louis Park boys never asked me out. Never. Not once. But the second I showed up at a party at a different high school, I was a hot commodity and was never single. Don't know what was wrong with those St. Louis Park boys but they were all short anyway so I wasn't interested. Seriously, I was taller than all of them but a certain Chris Johnson. But he had a {much shorter} girlfriend. Your loss, CJ!

If you knew me in high school...
You'd know I was the first one to learn how to drive a stick and taught my friends. I had a 1989 Honda Accord. Two of them actually. And a 1990 Honda Civic. And a 1998 Mazda Protege. And a 2002 Mazda Protege. I crashed a lot of cars y'all.

If you knew me in high school...
You'd know I was a three-season athlete - cheerleading (competitive, fall and winter seasons) and track & field. I was a sprinter but got slower every year. Or the other girls got faster, who can really be sure?

If you knew me in high school...
I was pretty active on the party scene. I don't know how I stayed out so late and my a$$ didn't get grounded on the reg, but I think my parents either let a lot slide with me BECAUSE I was so involved with school or because I was the youngest and they were tired of fighting that battle. Again, who can be sure?!

If you knew me in high school...
You'd know I rarely, if ever, studied. I was in honors and AP classes. I just didn't give a rip about academics. I remember briefly looking over some notes before the AP Psychology exam. I got college credit for that (whoohoo!), but I only scored a 23 on my ACT. Oops. Never even took the SAT because why test twice?

If you knew me in high school...
You'd know that I attempted to work at Abercromie & Fitch for exactly two weeks before the pounding music and horrific cologne drove me to call my manager with a fake injury from cheerleading. "Sorry can't come in, sprained my ankle!" I never went back and also never collected a paycheck from the four shifts I worked. They paid a measly $6.50/hr so I wasn't worried about it #notmissingmuch

It's funny to think back on my high school self! In many ways, I'm still the exact same person: I didn't give a hoot what anyone thought then and still don't. If I liked it I did it, and if I didn't like it I didn't do it. Adult life requires a bit more compromise than that, but my arm still needs a good twisting to do those mundane tasks! Have you ever thought back to your high school self?