I can't believe I've had this little online diary for 20 years! When I started this diary in 2003, I was only 14 years old and in the 8th grade. Fun fact: I met Nick at school that year and we had 2 classes together - homeroom and math. Another fun fact: I also met my best friend, Brittany, at school that year and we had 1 class together, art.
I'm now a 34-year-old woman who is married to the boy I met in 8th-grade homeroom and math and I'm best friends with the girl I met in 8th-grade art. I've had a career as a school psychologist for the past 9 years and I own a house and a car. I have student loans, but those will hopefully be forgiven next year. I have a little orange cat named Ollie that I love dearly. My younger sister, Amber, is married with a baby boy of her own, Max. Seeing my mom finally become a grandmother has been so special to see as all the love she gives to Max I know she also gave us when we were growing up. Life is good!
I’ve literally grown up writing in this diary. My early entries are so silly and random, but I was only a kid! My entries eventually became more serious as I experienced life’s ups and downs and tried to figure out who I am. I hate how negative and down on myself I was for so long. So much time wasted hating myself for stupid reasons! There were years I wrote a LOT and then there were years I only wrote a handful of entries, but I’ve kept coming back, year after year, and here I still am, 20 years later. I wonder if this website will still be around in another 20 years? I sure hope so as it basically contains my life lol. I had started to copy and paste each entry into a Word document to have a back up, but copying and pasting 20 years of diary entries was too much work, so I gave up lol.
I’ve enjoyed writing in here all these years. Diaryland has literally not changed one bit since 2003, but that’s okay as I did plenty of growing and changing on my end.
Cheers to 20 years and 498 entries!
12:03 p.m. - Monday, May. 29, 2023