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bethk wrote:That would be a plan but I'm leaving for the weekend to go to Dane's 50th High School Class Reunion tomorrow morning.
Cool, Beth. I remember you said you two got married really young so I wondered if you went to the same high school? Just wondering if you knew any of the people you would be seeing there. Have you and Dane been regular attendees at prior reunions when you lived in OH, or is this the first one he's gone to in many years? I think it's nice when people had a nice high school experience and really want to go back and see the people they knew back then but I just didn't have that good of an experience nor did I really like the school I went to. I got a good education there, which I appreciated -- still do -- but I went to school with a lot of wealthy kids (and my family wasn't wealthy) and you could definitely see the way the nuns kissed up to the wealthier ones. And of course, not all but some of the kids bragged about their father paying the monthly bill for the nuns at the neighborhood drug store, or the dry cleaner or Daddy bought them a van or something like that. One of the reasons my mom worked is so she could afford for us to go to Catholic schools for 12 years, as they weren't cheap and they hit you up for extra bucks ALL the time. I used to feel so bad when I had to go home and tell my poor mom I needed $10 for this, that or the other thing the school decided to take us to or required that we buy.
I think I mentioned before I only went to my 10th reunion after a girl I was still friends with conned me into going. I think I mentioned it here before. It was funny as I enjoyed seeing some of the people who I'd liked but the ones who were really witches in high school and who I disliked turned out to still be witches but were just 10 years older. So I never went to another one.
The school only sanctions the big ones (like 10, 25 and 50) and then someone volunteers to handle the details and the school is the location, usually the same time as the other reunions being held (the 10, 25 and 50th are all held at the same time each year). A couple of chicks (I went to an all girls Catholic school) arranged a 15-year reunion at a large restaurant not far from the school and I still regretted going to the 10-year reunion so I passed on that one as well. Turns out I really wish I would've gone as some of the women performed a little skit of some type on a makeshift stage and one girl in the audience hollered some crack out at one girl up on stage in the skit. I knew both of these women back then, as I was in the same homeroom and most classes with one of them and worked in the bookstore with another for an entire semester in my senior year; the former was from a very wealthy family and a bit of a snobby snot and the one I worked with was really funny and nice -- both of them were pretty girls, too, who had dated the same guy back in high school! I was told there were a couple of words exchanged back and forth between the two of them and I'm sure I would have enjoyed seeing that little mini-brawl!
Some things never change when large groups of women gather, I guess. Not really something I look forward to for any reason!
That's really would have happened at my house if I could've kept baking anything a secret, that is. 
) but obviously not stupid, since it's been a happy marriage! What a jerk the other guy was but I'm sure Dane was tickled pink when he backed out of taking you to your prom. So did Dane enlist or was he drafted, Beth? Just wondered how long he served and knew he'd be in longer if he enlisted. 
