Showing posts with label Al Gore. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Al Gore. Show all posts

Wednesday, December 23, 2009

There's some really weird shit in my old bedroom closet

I was having dinner at my parent's house, and my mom asked me to clean out my closet once and for all.  I took a look in there and to my horror, found a bunch of totally freaky/embarrassing shit that I absolutely do not want in my home, but that for some reason, I cannot bring myself to get rid of.  For example:

• George Michael pin (acid-wash jean jacket nowhere to be found)

• Great America photo key chain from 1990 with picture of me and my brother and two of our friends striking "white-kids-trying-to-appear-urban" pose that makes me sort of uncomfortable, but not as uncomfortable as the fact that I am wearing cut off jean shorts and a strapless bikini top (why am I at Great America in this get up?  shouldn't I be driving a Jeep?)

• three grocery bags of "irregular" bras and nylons that my mom bought me while shopping at outlet malls over the years, all wrong size (but maybe I'll be a size 32A someday, or some tragedy will befall me and my left leg will be four inches shorter than my right leg?)

• blue, construction-paper Saturn that says "Julie and Jason" written in silver puffy paint from the "Redwings in Space" dance that I went to with a closeted gay guy (this commemorates only the first of multiple high school dances and college date parties that I attended with closeted gay guys)

• My first pair of Birks, which my mom begged me to stop wearing, worn down so much that there is no shoe left behind the arches

• folder filled with pictures from Elle and Glamour exclusively of Claudia Schiffer, my eating disorder role model

• posters of Madonna and Depeche Mode (is it more embarrassing that I had these posters in the first place, or that I still like them and don't want to throw them away?)

• folder of secretive material that was never supposed to leave the Kappa Kappa Gamma chapter room that I lifted from the Kappa Kappa Gamma chapter room while high and in possession of chapter room key when I was president (all material in Latin, thus, secretive nature of materials continues to remain safe in my possession)

• my Berkeley (plaid uniform skirt, which is indestructible and looks exactly the way it did the first time I wore it even though I wore it every day for four years in high school, and which, even if I were to double in size, would still somehow miraculously fit)

• little gold ring with diamond chip in it, which was a birthday gift from my first [non-gay] boyfriend (sitting on top of a shoebox full of love letters from this guy, who should wish (1) that Al Gore never invented the internet, and (2) that he didn't cheat on me, because now that I have a blog, the next stop for these love letters seems inevitable)

• 8 prom/homecoming-type dresses, some very puffy/some very pretty, but also very unlikely I will attend any more proms

• shoebox full of mix tapes from ex-boyfriends (I don't feel right tossing out what may be the only existing hard copy of "More Than Words")

• white pumps, scuffed

• a caboodle containing my fake IDs underneath a one-hitter and a baggie of assorted brands and colors of free condoms, exp. 1993 (NOTE: one of the fake IDs, and I'm not joking about this, is an Asian girl named Ann, age 28) (ALSO NOTE: interesting moral dilemma must have preceded decision to hide fake IDs under excessive amount of condoms)

• David Gotmer English Award

• one million pairs of slippers