Close Encounters of the Nostalgic Kind
Mar 12th 2008
Karen RoseOn Writing!
In the last month I’ve reconnected with 3 old friends, out of the blue. Be prepared to be amazed, if for no other reason than my 11th grade yearbook photo. HA!
Close Encounter of the First Kind: Okay, I’m 43 years old, so we’ll just get that fact out of the way. You math whizzes would have figured this out on your own anyway. My high school class was to have their 25th reunion in 2007. Nobody actually put it together, so we didn’t, which is sad. But we do, thanks to the miracle of technology, have a Yahoo! Group Loop. So I put in my maiden name and my website, wondering if anybody will check it out. Last month I get an email from my very good old friend ”R” who asked, “Are you the same person whose parents wouldn’t let her read Faulker in AP English? 
My jaw is still on the floor.” (I was very … conservative in those days.) I was DELIGHTED to hear from her. ”R” and I and a third girl named “A” were very good friends, hanging out in English and chem lab as we techies were wont to do. So “R” and I chat and I ask if she’s heard from “A.” She hasn’t, but ”R” and I make plans to reconnect the next time I’m in Maryland. (Yes, that’s me at 16. Don’t you love the glasses and the sausage roll curl?)
Close Encounter of the Second Kind: I google “A” and find she is a marathon runner. I mention this via email to “R” who is ALSO a marathon runner. (I am feeling very plump by this point.) Two weeks ago, “R” emails me that she’s organizing the next marathon and 
who is on her entrant list but “A”!! So the three of us email and on April 24 we will have a mini-reunion in Maryland! How fun! (BTW, I love this movie. I do promise not to claim I invented post-it-notes.)
Close Encounter of the Third Kind: Now this is the most amazing one. I had a very good friend who lives in Germany -”AF.” She and I used to travel the world together when I worked global systems for P&G. When I left P&G in 2000, she and I lost touch. I moved, she 
changed jobs, etc. So Friday night I get this email, “Remember me?” It’s “AF”! She’s found a few of my German translations in the library in her village outside Frankfurt, Germany and got my email address. We emailed back and forth, then I told her I live near Sarasota, FL.
Now this is the amazing part - she and her family are coming to Sarasota this week! They’d been planning this vacation for some time. They’ll do the Everglades, etc, but after 8 years, she’s flying into an airport 20 minutes from my house! I can’t wait to see her again.
Oh, but ”AF” is a runner, too. I’m feeling like I need to buy a Nordic-trak or something so I can keep up with all my old friends, LOL.
So have you met up with anyone unexpectedly? Who? Did you attend your reunion? Do you have any close encounters of the nostalgic kind? Tell me all!
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65 Responses to “Close Encounters of the Nostalgic Kind”
cail on 12 Mar 2008 at 7:03 am #
thats so cool!!!
my generation has had a hard time losing touch with the internet, facebook and text messaging that doesn’t allow us to lose touch even if we want to.
That being said, I do make the effort every year to host a party where I invite everyone I liked in HS, College and after. My friends treat it as a yearly reunion.
Lisa H on 12 Mar 2008 at 7:04 am #
Karen- I can’t think of any close encounters I have had recently, but I love your story and hope you and your dear friends have a wonderful time together. Your 16 year old picture looks exactly like my 14 year old one! Same hair, same glasses!
Karen Rose on 12 Mar 2008 at 7:13 am #
Lisa H - weren’t those the days! I wish I had the same size 7 clothes, LOL.
That’s a nice idea, Cail - hosting a party. Do most of your former classmates and friends live in NYC?
I grew up in the MD, Wash DC area. The area is so transitory, or at least it was. A lot of people I know moved away. Google is great, though!
Ka Ha Ha Ha on 12 Mar 2008 at 7:22 am #
Aw, Karen, that’s so cool! It’s so neat to catch up with good friends.
Cail, I LOVE your get together idea! I wish I could do that, but I don’t know where anyone is to send an invitation.
Just a few months ago, I received an email from my bestest friend from college though I hadn’t seen or heard from her in 20 years. She’s a VP at a huge cable company and she found my website and sent me an email. What’s cool is that she’s just as funny and bubbly as she was in college. I’m looking forward to meeting her face to face and catching up!
PJ on 12 Mar 2008 at 7:26 am #
Karen, I knew you lived in Florida but had no idea it was in my old stomping grounds! I love where I live now but do miss being close to the beach and those glorious Sarasota sunsets over the bay (and Gulf).
I’ve only made it back to Michigan for one high school reunion but it was wonderful. After more than 30 years, I walked into the reunion and was immediately catapulted back in time when I saw three of my best HS friends. We picked right back up as if it had only been a couple weeks since we’d last seen one another. It was so cool.
Hope you enjoy your reunion in April and the one with your German friend this week. What wonderful surprises!
Karen Rose on 12 Mar 2008 at 7:59 am #
KarenH - so do you get a break on your cable bill now? (Just kidding.) Curious - how did she find you - were you a Hawkins in college?
PJ - the Gulf side is the best side. I hope our school has a reunion at 30 years! I’ve heard you just fall back into the old relationships - so far that’s been true for me!
DebMarlowe on 12 Mar 2008 at 8:01 am #
Isn’t it funny, PJ, how those connections to school friends never seem to fade? That’s a very cool thing.
Karen–I hope you have a fabulous time! That will be a fun night, I’ll bet!
KariE on 12 Mar 2008 at 8:04 am #
The only reunion I went to (so far) was my 5 year. Yes, we had a 5 year. I flew to Illinois. to meet Sniky (when she lived there) and we drove to Michigan. It felt like we were living the whole Romy and Michelle reunion thing. It was pretty nice to chatch up with everyone that was there and even better to see that the “snobby” girls weren’t so snobby. I can’t say there was anyone that I still talk to from there though.
Since I live so far away from where I grew up, I haven’t had the meeting unexpectedly moment. Although, there was this one time when I was at a large flea market in Fort Myers and I ran into a step-aunt from Michigan. It was kinda crazy. I was walking down the aisle and she was walking the opposite way. I looked at her and she looked at me and both got the look of-I know you. It was neat.
PJ on 12 Mar 2008 at 8:16 am #
“PJ - the Gulf side is the best side. ”
I agree, Karen, though I have a very warm spot in my heart for the bay side as well. I was married in a gazebo on Sarasota Bay during a glorious sunset.
Karen Hawkins on 12 Mar 2008 at 8:20 am #
Karen R, my college group had a reunion. Most of the members live in my hometown — four of them were my next door neighbors. So when they got together, they got my contact information from my dad, who - back in the day - used to yell at them about not riding their bikes through his new grass.
I went to the reunion, though my friend didn’t but she had my email and website from the invite. So . . . she wrote and then we talked on the phone for over an hour — she’s hysterically funny, bright, and a super classy lady.
Oh! Just remembered another: I went to an elementary school through second grade, then moved to TN. I never saw those people again. But when I was in college, I moved to Myrtle Beach for the summer and worked in a t-shirt shop on the strip. One day, I turned around, and a girl was standing there and — like Kari said — we got the I know you look. She was one of my classmates from my kindergarten class! I can’t believe we recognized each other after so many years!
Karen Hawkins on 12 Mar 2008 at 8:23 am #
And yes, KarenR, I was a Hawkins in college. Got married the beginning of my Junior year and everyone said, “WHAT are you thinking?” to which I now reply, “WHAT was I thinking?” Sheesh!
PJ on 12 Mar 2008 at 8:43 am #
Wow, Karen H, I’m pretty darn sure I never would have recognized someone from kindergarten. That’s amazing!
doglady on 12 Mar 2008 at 8:52 am #
What a great story KarenR! As an Air Force brat I had to love and leave many friends along the way. I have managed to keep in touch with the “kids” I met in England although we have not seen each other in 35 years. Now there is a reunion I would love to have. I am a chronic letter writer so many of my friends hear from me whether they want to or not! After Katrina I managed to connect with several of the shrinks who went to school with my DH in an effort to find a family of their number who lived in New Orleans. In addition to finding them safe and sound in a shelter I managed to reconnect with several old friends. After 9/11 all of my opera singing pals in Europe tracked me down through the internet to make sure I was okay. Their concept of the size of America is a bit off. My HS buddies can always find me. My Mom lives in the house we moved into when I was 12 and has had the same phone number for 37 years.
cail on 12 Mar 2008 at 9:09 am #
K-Ro, most of my friends live in the North East if not in the NYC area, however I get emails starting in Jan/Feb from the out of towners asking which weekend I’m planning the party for the year. Party is usually end of June or early July. Got my first email for the year already from two friends in Manchester England trying to plan their summer vacations to be able to include both the party and a wedding.
I actually have the party at my parents house since they love to see all the kids from my childhood and so many of my friends parents live around there still.
K-Ho/Ha/the Hawk, addresses smeshes… i use evite!
Claudia Dain on 12 Mar 2008 at 9:16 am #
What fun, K-Ro! The web really has made it easy to find long lost people, hasn’t it?
I’ve been to two high school reunions and at the last one, I literally didn’t recognize 3/4 of the people there. I’d look at their name tags…nothing. I could have been dropped into an airport lounge and had a similar bonding experience! It had been too long, even the names were gone from my memory.
Isn’t that weird? Walking the halls in high school, when those people ruled my world, I never could have imagined that I’d have wiped them from my mind so completely.
Julia London on 12 Mar 2008 at 9:17 am #
Oh that’s right…So I am 5.75 on the day :-).
Last night, a friend of mine came over carrying a Vera Bradley. I am definitely going to check it out for that fun, springy look
Julia London on 12 Mar 2008 at 9:18 am #
Ooops….I posted on the wrong blog entry.
K-Ro, love the glasses and the hair! You look exactly like the chick on the banner ads — “looking for a classmate?” and they show someone who looks just like you! Maybe that’s how some of these people are finding you, LOL
Karen Rose on 12 Mar 2008 at 9:19 am #
So Kari - did you and Sniky claim to have invented post-it notes?
To all of you: What’s your greatest fantasy about returning to your reunion? Meeting old friends? Old boyfriends? Wowing the guy who broke up with you because you’re now a hot mama?
amy1242 on 12 Mar 2008 at 9:22 am #
Karen R, I just had my 25th reunion this past summer. It was the smallest turnout so far, but there were classmates there that have never attended a reunion before. Some of the kids that went into the military right out of HS were there as first timers. Many of my HS friends didn’t show up, but there were a few key ones that did. It’s always fun catching up with people from our pasts. Like my mother always said as she was planning her reunions…”Age, it’s the big equalizer.” And I have to agree. The playing field evens out at around 40. I haven’t made all of my class reunions for one reason or another (this was my third), but I’m looking forward to the next one. Heck, we’ll all be nearing 50! Holy Crap!! I never thought I would get this old! No wonder I’m so dang wise!
Karen Rose on 12 Mar 2008 at 9:24 am #
Um, Thanks Julia — I think. It was 1981 and sausage rolls ruled. I’ve seen worse looks!
Another person on this blog (who hasn’t chimed in yet today) used to call me BugEyes because of the glasses. I used to be annoyed with her. But in hindsight, it’s a fair cop.
Karen Rose on 12 Mar 2008 at 9:29 am #
Doglady - you are right about folks outside the US not having a feel for the size. After Katrina I got a few emails asking if we were okay.
Amy - how right you are! I remember being in HS thinking that in the year 2000, I’d b 36. OMG. That was OLD. Would I like to be 36 again? Nope, not on your life.
I like being 40ish - your mom was right - age is the great equalizer. Except for a few people who have made pacts with Satan. THey must have - how else could they look so young? Maybe the diet, exercise? Nope, pact with Satan works better for me, LOL.
Claudia Dain on 12 Mar 2008 at 9:30 am #
K-Ro (just love that name!), I always *stay* with my senior year boyfriend when I go to reunions. Remember my Oct trip to New England? DH and I stayed in his son’s bedroom.
In the spirit of Brain Dead, my old boyfriend and I spent an hour arguing about where we’d gone parking. He remembered one place vividly. I didn’t remember it at all. Boy, was he insulted! My DH just laughed and laughed.
It was a fun trip, even though I can’t remember ANYTHING anymore.
Karen Rose on 12 Mar 2008 at 9:33 am #
Karen H - I don’t think I would have recognized someone from elementary school either! That’s pretty amazing.
I did have an interesting experience a few years ago - we’d gone up to MD for vacation to see DH’s brother and his wife. We’d gone to the grocery store near where I grew up. I was sitting in the car with one of the kids who’d fallen asleep and this couple walks up to their car from the store. There was something about the way he tilted his head - I knew them! They lived across the street from the house in which I grew up.
She was an English teacher and typed my first ever short story so that I could enter it in a contest - I was 13. I bartered babysitting hours for her typing skills - I think I made the better deal, because the “short story” ended up being like 40 or 50 pages! This was before word processors, my dears, and she had to type the old-fashioned way.
Karen Rose on 12 Mar 2008 at 9:35 am #
See, Claudia, I’m loving your DH more every time. What confidence that he could be friends with your old beau. Not a lot of men could do that.
DH was my first real beau, so he’d only have to be peeved with himself, LOL.
Karen Rose on 12 Mar 2008 at 9:36 am #
Sigh. K-Ro still sounds like Ronco to me.
Claudia Dain on 12 Mar 2008 at 9:40 am #
No, K-Ro, sounds like a rapper. The white, mid-life, suburban rapper. Yo.
DH has every reason to be at peace with the world; I picked him, didn’t I? Why be jealous of the guys I threw back? Plus, my senior year beau is a doll, just a great guy, great husband and father. His wife is wonderful and his kids are lovely. We see them as often as we can.
That’s how I roll. LOL
KariE on 12 Mar 2008 at 9:56 am #
No, Karen R., we didn’t claim the post-its. Nor did we wear pastels. I think we both had a good time though. It was our first meeting after the whole “great lawn debacle”.
Side Note: My mental nickname for Claudia is now Cla Da. Has a cute ring to it like Ta da!
Sabrina Jeffries on 12 Mar 2008 at 10:05 am #
Well, there’s a ton of old HS friends I’ve tried to look up, but it’s really hard. I went to an international school, and half my friends were foreign. Because of the nature of the school, not that many people keep up with the alumni organization, though I’ve looked for them there.
And my college has become SO conservative that they want to pretend I never existed. I can’t even get them to put my news in the alumni magazine!
Meanwhile, my snooty grad school said they wanted to feature the book that hit the Times print list in the alumni mag. But it looks like they have conveniently “forgotten” that. The whole thing began when I asked them to put the usual alumni notice in the mag. They said they wanted to do a feature. Not only have I not gotten THAT, but I can’t even get the plain notice in there! Sheesh! You’d think romance writer was synonymous with child-killer.
Do I sound bitter? Oh, sorry.
Sabrina Jeffries on 12 Mar 2008 at 10:07 am #
It’s hard for people to look me up because of the full pseudonym, although occasionally someone does. It’s usually someone I don’t remember or want to remember, however. Sigh. I have four old boyfriends and three old girlfriends I’d really love to reconnect with, but haven’t had any luck finding them. Not that I’ve tried beyond googling, but still ….
Kim on 12 Mar 2008 at 10:18 am #
K-Ro–what cool close encounters! Have a wonderful time reconnecting.
Sabrina–that’s just awful! They should be proud of you for what you’ve accomplished.
Amazingly enough, since I live in the town where I went to school, I don’t run into old friends too often. About once every year or two I run into my old bff at the store and we catch up but that’s about it.
I do still remember my Kindergarten teacher AND everything she taught me:D We reconnected when Anthony was in grade school and she volunteered at his school.
No reunions for me. I dropped out my junior year and got my GED the day before graduation but since I did drop out I’m not eligible to attend.
SnikyWhite on 12 Mar 2008 at 10:35 am #
Back in the day, I dated this bouncer who worked at a gay bar. Anyway, I work for the family pest control company and one of my appointment setters was scheduling inspections and his name was on the list and I’m like WHAT? So I send my inspector and I grill him for information. Too much of a chicken to actually talk to him, but I am secretly stalking him. I still haven’t worked up the nerve to approach him, but I do know he’s still single and that he’s taking care of his parents which I find to be unbelievably sweet.
SnikyWhite on 12 Mar 2008 at 10:37 am #
Kari- wasn’t there a discussion in the car on the trip up about post its? It would have been between the Cher and Little Mermaid song. HAHA! That was a good time though. We need a road trip sometime soon.
OH btw, our third muskateer cancelled. Did she tell you?
hvitveis on 12 Mar 2008 at 10:58 am #
K-roo reminds me of the little winnie the poh baby-kangaroo. (wassshissname in english??)
Have just discovered FAcebook and have located my best friend from 1st, 2d and 3d grade primary school. (I moved to another part of the country.) pluss other people from secondary and highschool. it is so funny!
PJ on 12 Mar 2008 at 11:31 am #
Kim, that’s outrageous! They won’t let you attend because you didn’t graduate with the class? Want me to come beat them up for you?
Claudia Dain on 12 Mar 2008 at 12:05 pm #
Kim, you’re not missing anything. If I’m anything to go by, you wouldn’t recognize any of them anyway!
Sniky, go get him! What have you got to lose?
Karen Rose on 12 Mar 2008 at 12:28 pm #
Bummer, Kim! But kudos to you for getting the GED. My mom did that. She never even had to preach the value of “stay in school.” I saw it first hand as she fretted over “new math” and grammar to pass that test when I was about 11. She passed, and went on to get her associate’s degree while I was in HS/College. Good for her! Her education means that much more to all of us.
You all have seen the Romy and Michelle movie, haven’t you? They’re BFF’s who want to look important when they go back for their reunion so one of them decides she will claim to have invented post-its. Nobody knows who invented them, anyway, right? It doesn’t exactly follow their plan, though.
What else could you claim to have done that nobody would question, I wonder? Most things are too darn easy to check these days with a click of google.
Suzanne Enoch on 12 Mar 2008 at 12:33 pm #
I did a talk last week for a local library fundraiser, and found myself surrounded by former teachers, parents of classmates, classmates, etc. It was crazy! But they all laughed at the right places, so I love them all. Again. *g*
Kim on 12 Mar 2008 at 12:53 pm #
Oh you are all so sweet! No worries though. I know I’m not missing out!
KarenR–kudos to your mom!! It was easy for me just out of school, I can’t imagine being out for years and then trying.
PJ–YES! If it means you’ll be up here again *g*
Sniky–Listen to Claudia! Call him for a follow up, quality assurance call. Then just mention, “Oh btw, are you THAT…” Open the door to re-connect!
Anyone watch The Italian Job (the newer one) Where Seth Green insist that he created Napster? LOL
LauraR on 12 Mar 2008 at 1:10 pm #
Oddly enough, last weel I googled a friend from college I haven’t seen for 25 years. Found a potential email address and sent a ‘Is it you?’ message and scored! It’s been great trading info on what we’ve been doing since I moved out of the area. So Sniky go for it! You can’t win if you don’t play…
LauraR on 12 Mar 2008 at 1:11 pm #
Kim, YES that is sooooo funny in The Italian Job.
KariE on 12 Mar 2008 at 1:15 pm #
Sniky-I have been racking my brain to try to remember who it is. What is his first name? Did I meet him? Even so, GO FOR IT!! We can do a drive by this weekend and see if we can sneak a peek. teehee
J Perry Stone on 12 Mar 2008 at 1:22 pm #
Karen said: I grew up in the MD, Wash DC area. The area is so transitory, or at least it was.”
And I’m one of them, Karen!! I grew up in Takoma Park and Silver Spring. My husband went to Springbrook HS. We went to his reunion not long ago and I got to me his ex-girlfriend (who informed him then that she still loved him!).
My 20th is coming up soon. As my folks still live in MD, I pretty much know a lot about my old classmates and still keep in touch with my closest friends.
What’s unusual for me, however, is to run into my old students. They always seem to creep up on my when I’m at my worst–screaching at the kids to stop playing on the mall escalator, no makeup, bad hair day–but oh well.
Karen Rose on 12 Mar 2008 at 1:25 pm #
J Perry - oh dear. And what did you have to say to this girlfriend? I know Takoma Park and Silver Spring!
I run into old students in the McD’s drivethrough. Always when I’ve ordered a chocolate shake, wouldn’t you know. Uh, it’s for the kid, yeah, right, that’s the ticket.
Karen Hawkins on 12 Mar 2008 at 1:28 pm #
Kim, I loooove The Italian Job! And yup, that was so funny! He said he was asleep in his dorm at his desk and his college roommate stole the disk, right? I think that’s how he told it. Too funny!
Snik, com’n! We know you have a great sense of adventure! Get out there and see what happens. You never know!
Btw, those of you who use Facebook, is it easy to use? Any tricks us newbies should know???
Karen Rose on 12 Mar 2008 at 1:30 pm #
What is the Italian Job?
Like job, a job you do? Or Job, the guy in the Bible whose life was so horrid? Or do both apply to this show? Is it on cable?
J Perry Stone on 12 Mar 2008 at 1:34 pm #
Karen,
Well, I was actually the dumb one who suggested they go have a little chat–thereby making me the secure, superior one, right? *snort*
The thing is, she behaved in so self-consciously, I actually felt sorry for her (even though she’s now a damn doctor).
But I would be lying if I said I was the epitome of confidence. I’m not, but I do have a husband who is pretty fabulous at reassuring me.
It also didn’t hurt that he came running back to the table to tell me everything she said.
I once ran into a student who worked for airport security … and was there to watch my bag get rifled through …. full of tampons and such.
Oy.
cail on 12 Mar 2008 at 1:35 pm #
K-Rose, it’s a movie
K-Hawk… are you on facebook??? it’s super easy.
SnikyWhite on 12 Mar 2008 at 2:06 pm #
Kari - his name was Nestor and he worked at TBL. He was the one straight guy that worked there haha. He was tall and had football shoulders, brown hair and goatee and REALLY pretty blue eyes. It might have been post lawn debacle cause I know that I was living with mom while we were dating.
Freshechelle on 12 Mar 2008 at 2:10 pm #
Kari & Snik, did you stop for a “business woman’s lunch”? At my 20th, I was dying to say “would you excuse me ? I cut my foot earlier and my shoe is filling up with blood.”
My 20th was fun ‘coz I live for smug superiority. Wait, I should be humble & kind. Oh forget, I’m letting it fly. The guys were bald, the girls looked like they hadn’t dressed up since their wedding (which several seemed to regret), too many seemed disappointed with their lives. My single friend (w/ whom I had a KRo close encounter a few years earlier) was the prettiest girl there (she wasn’t in HS) & was a hit w/ the single-again guys, my married friend who has a great husband who has a full head of hair was hit on by the star football player (she was wallflower in school) & I got a mock proposal from the guy w/ 5 kids, paying 2 alimonies. We were high as kites for weeks from the attention.
We had a 21 1/2 year reunion recently that was anti-climactic. I can’t be fabulous when it’s humid outside.
KariE on 12 Mar 2008 at 2:24 pm #
Ahhh yes, TBL. I have forgotten those days, fondly. I know the name but I can’t picture him. It’s has been 9 years. WOW 9 years.
I think I need to check out the Italian Job.
Fresh-21.5 year reunion? I thougth our 5 year was odd. How often do you have reunions?
Freshechelle on 12 Mar 2008 at 2:32 pm #
Kari - I think the 20th was such a rush for the housebound that the 21 1/2 reunion was way to keep the fun going. Normally it’s every 10 years. We had a small class, less than 120 and are from a small town that many folks still live in (despite being right outside NYC, few of them take a chance on the “big city”) so there is a core group that stays close.
Karen Rose on 12 Mar 2008 at 2:42 pm #
Fresh, hooray!!! I was a wallflower, too, and didn’t go to my 10th reunion partly because I’d gained some weight. I regret that!
Now, fifteen years after the 10th, I’ve gained more weight and so freaking what? I bet most of them have too, except for “R” and “A” of course. They’re marathon runners, dang it. “A” sent me a picture of her and her DH at a Christmas party last year and she’s wearing this fire engine red dress that fits like a second skin and I could only say YOWZA. She looked dang good. I’m feeling a little more plump by the moment, but what the hey!
Time is the great equalizer. I’m going to use that as my mantra, LOL. Plus, I have a great life. Smart, beautiful kids, a fabulous husband and a career I didn’t even have the courage to dream about back then. So a few pounds… so not important. I’m looking forward to going back on Mr. R’s arm.
He is plum tickled to be called Mr. R, by the way. I don’t think he’d go for Mr. K-Ro.
Karen Rose on 12 Mar 2008 at 2:43 pm #
I know what’s bothering me about K-Ro. I keep thinking Karo syrup. Now that’s just nasty.
Freshechelle on 12 Mar 2008 at 2:51 pm #
K-Ro - you totally RULE!!! It’s life accomplishments that matter and you’ve got ‘em girl.
Incidentally, Fresh E Chelle is my “KRo” type name given by a friend in when rap started making is big. I used to just be plain ol’ Michelle but now I reluctantly answer to “Fresh E”. So to all you K Ro’s and K Ho’s and original J-Lo’s out there - peace out.
SnikyWhite on 12 Mar 2008 at 2:57 pm #
Yes Kari, I had forgotten about it too until he showed up on that list. Then it all came flooding back in a neon flashing, he-she dancing, karoke singing, ally mcbeal watching blur. It was terrifying and it was all to the song “It’s Raining Men” LOL (remember that first drag night? Those dudes looked better than I did!)
You guys are killing me with these nicknames. I say we put a whole bunch of random words into a hat, draw them out, and that’s what the names will be. I honestly hope I get Squeegee. True story.
cail on 12 Mar 2008 at 2:59 pm #
Fresh! What a great story! No one ever bothers to nickname me, since my name is strange enough. Cail is just the 2nd half of it, which is the pitiful nickname that my friends have come up with… sigh.
Freshechelle on 12 Mar 2008 at 3:04 pm #
Cail, but what’s your full name? I’ve got to know.
Kathy/Cookiedough on 12 Mar 2008 at 3:06 pm #
Facebook is how I got in touch with my old grade 10 friends. I moved away and went to a different school, so lost contact.
It is so easy to use!
Even my hunky Fros Michael is on my friends list..drool ladies, droollol!
My friend and I are planning a reunion of our party girlfriends this summer. should be really fun since none of us can hold our liquor anymore
KariE on 12 Mar 2008 at 3:10 pm #
Karen R.- YOU GO GIRL!!
I like to think that I am large(er) because my life is so rich, so full of what I love.
As far as nicknames, try Hari Karcus or Hari Karris. Peace!!
Karen Rose on 12 Mar 2008 at 3:14 pm #
My maiden name rhymed with Carrot, so I was always Karen Carrot. Kids are cruel and so void of imagination
Thanks, guys! I’ll print out your good wishes next time for when I go to my 30th reunion! But that’s 5 years from now - no worries. Peace out. Um, I never said that before in my life…
cail on 12 Mar 2008 at 3:27 pm #
Fresh. first half is Mar. It’s a scots-gaelic name meaning the pearl.
i’m avoiding writing it out since then it will be googleable and therefore this tread would show up if people EVER put in my name, since there are like 10 or 20 of us.
Snik "Squeegee" White on 12 Mar 2008 at 3:36 pm #
PJ - I saw your comment that you graduated in Michigan. What part? I have family all over up there and graduated from Fowlerville my own self.
Freshechelle on 12 Mar 2008 at 3:41 pm #
understood cail. cool name.
Kim on 12 Mar 2008 at 6:39 pm #
KarenR–its a great heist movie! There’s the original one from ‘69 and a remake a few years ago with Mark Wahlburg, Charlize Theron and my honeybunny Handsome Rob:D
For those who watch, did you see they’re making a sequel? The Brazilian Job!!
KarenH–I abhor Facebook! For me its hard to use and they always send you emails. Personally I prefer MySpace. Having said that, if you’re on Facebook friend me! LOL
Kay on 12 Mar 2008 at 9:52 pm #
KarenR, Sooooooo cool. I hope you enjoy your “reunions” w/ your HS buddies.
For reasons I don’t care to make public, I will NEVER attend one of my HS reunions–even if they’d invite me (which I doubt) so I make do with DH’s HS & college reunions. Fun without having to deal with the people I went to HS with.
I only keep up with ONE friend from my HS class—KarenR’s DH.
He makes up for all of the &^%#s that were in our class.
LOVE the picture.
I remember the glasses, and the HAIR. I was always so jealous of your thick hair.