Comments on: A Retrospective

By: Denise

Denise — Sat, 28 Aug 2010 20:22:00 +0000

I’ve started your blog from the beginning, so if you see stats from today and they’re all crazy looking, I apologize. I also apolgogize for commenting on blogs that are super old.

I’m not yet to my 10 year high school reunion. I have four more years to go. As far as whether I go or not, I haven’t decided. A big part of whether or not I attend will have to do with how much I weigh. That’s kind of sad.

By: tashalee

tashalee — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 06:31:33 +0000

I know this is an old post, but I just discovered it. I'll be out of high school 5 years on May 26. Currently, I have not heard of any plan to have a reunion. I have kept in touch with those that I wanted to keep in touch with and have mended fences with an ex-best friend with whom I had a falling out my freshman year of college. However, if we do something, anything I think I'll go. Because by that point I hope that I'm a bit thinner than I am now. I was the same weight throughout high school. I want to be able to show them the new person that I have become: confident, outspoken. I was not those things in high school. So, I definitely want to show off the new me.

By: heather

heather — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 03:26:32 +0000

No, no, no. A thousand times no.

I didn’t go to my tenth. Or my fifteenth. And, in four more years, I won’t go to my twentieth. Not because I didn’t live up to my “Most Likely to Succeed” award, even though it kills me that I didn’t. And not because of how I look now vs. then. Simply because high school is mercifully far behind me.

By: heather

heather — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 03:26:00 +0000

No, no, no. A thousand times no.

By: Lizz B

Lizz B — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 04:49:16 +0000

I went! I looked forward to it. I was a “clique ho” meaning I didn’t belong to just one circle but was prett much friends with everyone. The popular group, the nerds, the drama peeps, the journalism peeps, etc.

I was skeletal in high school and when I went I weighed about 150 pounds and didn’t care much about the 50 pounds I had gained. I was a voluptuous hourglass. I just killed them with cleavage But now, at 180….I know I would care. I would still go because I refuse to be held hostage by my body image. But I would be probably be uncomfy….very much so.
.-= Lizz B´s last blog ..Wordess Wednesday!!! Beach Babes! =-.

By: Lizz B

Lizz B — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 04:49:00 +0000

By: Alison

Alison — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 14:39:54 +0000

My 20th high school reunion was two years ago. I said I didn’t want to pay $65 (per person, so $130) to see people I wasn’t even sure I wanted to see. The deeper truth is that I’m ashamed of the 50-60 pounds I gained during my divorce four years ago. I haven’t really made an effort to lose the weight, though, even though I hate looking this way. What kills me is that from the age of 9 or so on, I thought I was fat. Now I know that I wasn’t at all.

By: Alison

Alison — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 14:39:00 +0000

By: anne

anne — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 14:21:56 +0000

I didnt get an invite, so didnt go

By: anne

anne — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 14:21:00 +0000

I didnt get an invite, so didnt go

By: catrinkas

catrinkas — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 12:41:48 +0000

Ten year is a lot of striving and posing and posturing. You have accomplished more than enough to ‘keep up.’

Twenty year is a lot more relaxed. People are where they are and prove less, posture less, apologize less, and drink more. I say hold out another ten years! (They’ll go by in a jiff!)
.-= catrinkas´s last blog ..Monday =-.

By: catrinkas

catrinkas — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 12:41:00 +0000

Ten year is a lot of striving and posing and posturing. You have accomplished more than enough to ‘keep up.’

By: Liz Brooks

Liz Brooks — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 12:19:34 +0000

I didn’t go to mine.
I was painfully shy and for a lot of people that transformed into me being a snob. Which is far off the mark. I was hungry for friends. I had a close group that bailed on me, mid-junior year and pretty much ruined my last couple years of school. Needless to say I was thrilled to head off to college and start fresh.
When I joined FB semi-recently, tons of old classmates ‘friend-ed’ me. I’ve accepted them all, and I am interested (mildly) in what they are up to. But I have new sets of friends now, and I really don’t want to go back to that. It would mean sliding back into that insecure teenager, and I am trying to leave that behind.

By: Liz Brooks

Liz Brooks — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 12:19:00 +0000

By: yee-lynn

yee-lynn — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 02:58:55 +0000

Well you saw my pictures from the 10 year…. i had a decent time considering i had incredibly LOW expectations. I KNOW I had gained weight throughout college etc.. but that happens. I did feel pretty successful though. Considering the majority of my classmates are 1) teachers 2) stay at home moms or 3) sell insurance… not that there is anything wrong with the 3 occupations. It’s just a completely different lifestyle than my own.

By: yee-lynn

yee-lynn — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 02:58:00 +0000

By: Krissie

Krissie — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 01:56:03 +0000

I totally went to my 10 year! I weighed considerably more than when in high school, but I think most people could say the same. The reunion itself was very lame, but it was good to see our friends in one place instead of the random friend here or there. And it was several years ago- before facebook really took off (remember when you had to have an email that ended in .edu to join?) so there was still the suspense.

When I graduated, I really had no clue what I wanted to do, so I really didn’t have a ton of expectations. I never thought I’d marry one of my best guy friends from high school. But things are funny like that.
.-= Krissie´s last blog ..i felt so symbolic yesterday =-.

By: Krissie

Krissie — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 01:56:00 +0000

By: The Mother Tongue

The Mother Tongue — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 00:50:12 +0000

lol, isn’t that always the way? I thought I was horribly unattractive in high school, and now I’d give my eye-teeth to be that size-10 girl.

I didn’t go to my 10-year reunion because whoever was handling it screwed up royally and forgot to invite most of the class of 97. But I went to the first annual SCAPA reunion (for graduates from all years) and it was terrifying. But it turned out okay–I wasn’t the only one who had gained some weight, and I had a great time.
.-= The Mother Tongue´s last blog ..Puzzle pieces at BlogHer =-.

By: The Mother Tongue

The Mother Tongue — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 00:50:00 +0000

lol, isn’t that always the way? I thought I was horribly unattractive in high school, and now I’d give my eye-teeth to be that size-10 girl.

By: Curvy Jones

Curvy Jones — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 00:21:35 +0000

I didn’t go. I was an outcast in high school, not popular at all and was bullied. The only place I wanted to see those people was from heaven, looking down on them in hell. I would never, ever relive high school.

I also wasn’t all that big but my dad used to call me ThunderThighs and so I learned at a young age that I wasn’t at an ideal weight. All I really wanted was to get away from him. Won’t go to my 20 yr either… I don’t remember any of their names and I wasn’t particularly active.

By: Curvy Jones

Curvy Jones — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 00:21:00 +0000