Catching your attention

I’m still on vacation from work but I went in today – I figured I’d work til 3 and get stuff done. Nope, I was there until 6! And going in tomorrow too *crossing fingers that I can make decent looking superhero nametags for my students’ desks!* I’m really hoping I can get what I need done tomorrow so I can relax Wednesday (and do some shopping with Irene for our classroom!).

Ugh it was so muggy and hot today that my glasses steamed up! Can I have Spring back please?

So I was browsing through memes (I like the daily meme website) and there’s a Manic Monday meme that had a question that caught my eye:

Imagine you could go back to the age of five and relive the rest of your life, knowing everything that you know now. You will reexperience your entire adolescence with both the cognitive ability of an adult and the memories of everything you’ve learned from having lived your life previously.

Would you lose your virginity earlier or later than you did the first time around (and by how many years)?

I recently had this conversation actually with Eva and Lina (at different times too haha). I sometimes wish when I think back to middle school, I knew what an straightening iron was and I had the nerve to wear cute clothes because all I wore were huge baggy t-shirts with the front tucked in and the back hanging out (these shirts are still absolutely huge on me!). Had I worn the cute clothes and my hair wasn’t so frizzy, I wonder if I would have been more popular and thus attract the attention of the guys I had a crush on (hey, maybe Teddy would have danced with me at the 8th grade dance rather than telling me he didn’t dance only to be seen 5 minutes later slow dancing with Marissa! Jerk!). I had no prospects in middle school and that’s perfectly okay because well what the hell did I know about sex beyond the notebook that Eva and I kept with all our stories and my love of romance novels!

But then I didn’t really have that many prospects in high school that I would have considered sleeping with. Maybe had I been hanging with that popular crowd, I would of had more prospects *ponders about certain classmates naked back then*. Then again, I remember my senior year Ian came over and I was paranoid that Mommy was going to find a hickey on me after we made out. I could have easily lost my virginity then – Mommy was at work and we were in my bed (and on the floor!). I was too paranoid not to! I don’t think I would of! Plus I remember being way too shocked when Mary lost hers when we were 16 and thinking WTF, that’s way too young! I still think 16 is too young!

Come to think of it, there’s only really one guy I really wanted to lose my virginity to in high school. Maybe had the timing been right and we actually dated, sure, I would of. Either way, we did end up having our one night…when I was 19 and after I lost my virginity! Timing has never been our friend! So after all that’s said and done…all I really wish was that I waited 5 more months from the time I lost my virginity and then I would have lost it to the guy I wanted to! I would have been then 19 rather than 18. That’s all I really would change after I really think about it.