Birthday Wishes from 18 Years Ago

Came home for Thanksgiving and found my old journal. Here is the entry from Dec 1, 1990. I was 9.

"Today is my birthday. This morning, my dad got me a muffin. We put a candle in it, and I blew it out. I wished for three wishes.

1. Peace in the middle east!
2. I won't get any more disaplenary slips
3. Green Reebok Pumps"

Things I Have Done Today While Trying to Work

I am supposed to be working today, and I have been. I promise.

But I am also watching the Longhorns.

I also

• Emailed my client to tell her I hate her company
• Did some catalog shopping
• Edited Austen's resume
• Sent Kevin a text message to wish the Gamecocks good luck
• Read up on the Secretary of State selection
• Checked up on the Prop 8 protests
• Ate a doughnut hole
• Made a pitch for Coca Cola Zero
• Added some new friends on Facebook
• Read the Survivor recap on Television Without Pity
• Took Candice's side against Derek's tomfoolery
• Went outside and thought of all the other things I could on a beautiful day
• Disappointed myself
• Started this list

I do not like working on Saturday.

Days this month on which I've had fewer than three desserts

(none)

Funniest Things I Have Seen on TV in a While

#1. Christy/Kelly (*The Divorcees*) getting pounded with paint and water in Delhi on *The Amazing Race*.

#2. The Saturday Night Live Lawrence Welk skit. (..."with my by myself"...)

#3. Terence and Sarah (aka Hamilton and Meg Swan, of *Best in Show*) on *The Amazing Race* doing absolutely anything, including but not limited to

• Yelling at each other
• Getting hit on the head by a taxi trunk
• Trying to get a clue from a soccer referee coincidentally holding a red & yellow flag
• Looking for a clue in a bird cage
• Complaining that they do not have friends

#4. The last fifteen minutes of *The Black Dahlia* starring Ms. Hilary Swank.

#5. Sarah Palin's "fungible commodities" speech

#6. Anderson Cooper professing his love for Nene of the Real Housewives of Atlanta.

#7. Bye bye Marcus, God of Kota.

#8. Little Jenny Humphrey walking the streets of Brooklyn carrying a SEWING MACHINE