Found the diary I kept age 12....fancy a giggle?

[Anniemousse]

Jan 1 1991

Today, after watching the film Space Camp, I have launched a new ambition....to be the first person to have baby in SPACE. Neat huh!

Okay! This is a great thread. Skill.

Who is next up to relay their diary to us?

Step up someone!

You best all be in your lofts searching, and I best not have killed a great thread...

highlandermam the floor is yours

I have got The 1992 Chronicles - again, only until April but would have to seriously edit them as I became…very strange.
It's in a scented, lockable page a day diary, opening brought back strong memories.

I don't have any diaries to read! they are all over 300 miles away in my parents house. (if they are even still in existence)

Sarahandfuck? GreyLady?

youvegottobekittenme?

Indulge us all please.

Anniemousse

Tell us your 1992 chronicles.

NO EDITING ALLOWED.

I really enjoyed this thread. I would not go back to being a teenager for anything. I must remember to be nice to dd when she gets to this age and at all costs stop her writing poetry

Managed to translate a few pages from 1992 (coded by this point through alternate use of anagrams, Tricolore textbooks and what appear to be some ancient phrasebooks my parents had knocking around the house.)

April 5th 1992.
oh non suqes ueq ej oids raife? D te oim ogt 1er ssecla wadras per il teatro... suip li aisdit euq li ghtout ej taite "molto bene" en am loer..
FRAGEN - suequeest li teresserin? ro sujt eingb einc?
Stilening ot Annie's (L's roesu) pyco fo Inspiral Carpets - deonm el outt sand am esslca refper NKOTB tub ej en xuep sap retppurors ces hommes! Deen ot ormf a ndba!

Code cracked:
"Oh no, what to do? D and I both got top of the class awards in drama - then he said he thought I was 'really good' in the play.. QUESTION - does he fancy me? Or was he just being nice?
Listening to Annie's (L's sister) copy of Inspiral Carpets - everyone in my class thinks NKOTB are better but I can't stand them! Need to form a band!

D was the class heartthrob on account of looking marginally like Balthazar Getty in a bad light. When my friends found out he'd said congratulations it was considered practically a marriage proposal. Nothing ever happened, of course. I never did form a band either though tried on various occasions through my teens. My French got better though...

That is one harsh code!

You all must absolutely buy this book.
My friend bought it for me a few years ago and we read bits out loud with tears streaming down our faces.

I have 4 diaries that have survived various house moves. They each cover a different set of months when I was 15, 16, 17 and 18. Awful tripe, but very entertaining.

Thanks MacBee, I've ordered a copy from ebay for £2.79 with free delivery!

You should relay some stuff from your diaries! I love reading this stuff.

I was 10 in 1991 too, and my diary was awful! I actually used to write like my diary was a person, and apologise to it for missing days. It was, obviously, about boys, for the most part, and me writing about how much I wanted to kiss them.

Terrible!

This thread is genius, so funny.

Ok, I know I'm posting about stuff several pages back, but Vlad's descent into code made me cry laughing, and Rhubarb, you are too cruel posting that just after Valentines day, I would have loved to steal that for my card to DH.

20th April 2001 (age 15)

"Had a riding lesson today. Problem was my back was hurting* so I was in pain. I don't know why I didn't stop. I guess I was determined not to quit cos I hate quitters. In the end I did quit."

23rd April 2001

"A phoned and was too happy. I got a headache afterwards which has not gone away so I probably have a brain tumour and will be dead before I turn 16."

(charming. A was and still is my best friend, but I was a little cloud of doom aged 15)

10th May 2003 (age 17)

"Wish shaving off eyebrows and drawing on fresh ones with eye liner weren't so outdated. With I could draw myself huge startled-like 'brows ala Kim Novak in Vertigo. Would save so much tweezing".

(I never plucked my eyebrows, but I had recently seen Vertigo so I presume I was putting this in the diary so my future self would be impressed at my sophistication and wit. Well, future self is not impressed and thinks 17 year old self is a bit of a tit.)

Start of university:

28th September 2003 (age 18)

"Lectures start tomorrow but my first is only at 1. Then my next is at 4. I think."

(good start)

30th September 2003

"Missed a lecture this morning--whoops! It WON'T be happening again."

(yes it did)

Can we nominate this for Classics? I am still crying over taking the dog to the kcrap..

Reading this has reminded me that I need to get rid of my teenage diaries in case I die suddenly! I don't want my family to read that!

future self is not impressed and thinks 17 year old self is a bit of a tit.

Ha!

Extracts from 1992 (I'm not doing the whole thing - it's very dull mostly)

Inside cover: Luncheon meat face! Get your grimy hands off my private and personal diary or I will add to your facial derangement!

(to dsis)

3.1.92
Mitchells Birthday bash. No lads = no Noel.
I don't know what I'd do if he asked me out, I feel really uncomfortable around him now.
Gotta go, getting a sore bum from sitting on the loo!

4.1.92
Tomorrow I'm gonna wear a short skirt to Youth Club and have Carl fancy me. I know he's a bit younger but I think he fancies Jane.
5.1.92
Didn't wear a short skirt, it was too cold.

10.1.92
2 of my bath pearls have gone missing - think it's Jane but not sure! I'll find out though! BELIEVE ME, I DON'T NEED THIS!!!
12.1.92
Missing bath pearl reappeared!

15.1.92
I ADORE ROBERT
IT'S NOT A PASSING FAD
I KNOW HE ACTS LIKE A BIT OF A LAD
BUT ON THE WHOLE, HE'S NOT BAD,
ALTHOUGH HIS DRESS SENSE IS PRETTY NAFF,
HE REALLY, REALLY MAKES ME LAUGH,
ROBERT I LOVE YOU
I HOPE, ONE DAY, YOU LOVE ME TOO

love it

I kept a diary from aged 14 to about 26 and no way would I ever be able to post any of it on here! I started again a few months ago but no clue where it is now!!

Ooh, bath pearls!

16.1.92
I have died. Last night my periods started. It's horrible and icky and gooey and disgusting. I am able to have children now! I'm going to use tampons no matter what mum thinks. I'm NOT spending 7 whole years of my life like this

Oh I feel your pain with that one Annie, I was in a Y8 Geography lesson when mine started and I was beyond mortified. I truly thought it was the grimmest most embarrassing thing ever.

I also love the fact that a missing bath pearl could've tipped you of the edge

19.2.92
Organisation

Organisation,
It's presentation,
Sophistication,
Mental Preparation