I think it’s best to embrace your embarrassments rather than hide them.  It happens in movies all the time, some lousy teenager (played by a 34 year old) tries to hid her 6th toe and then oh no! It’s a pool party! You might as well get all of your awful stories out in the open and then when they are revealed at least you can say “dude, I told you that last week.” I leave notes.  Yes, I leave notes saying where I’m going or when I’ll be home. No, not passive aggressive notes, just “went to the store.” I usually get home before anyone comes home to see these notes but for some reason it hasn’t stopped me. I am an avid text messenger and I understand how much more practical that sounds, but if it doesn’t make a difference of when the person sees the note, why not leave one? Let’s not all rush to the future at once, guys! Notes can be fun for a number of reasons. You get to use markers! Or pens! Or whatever you’d like. What I’m saying is, you get to w-r-i-t-e by hand! How fun is that? Just me? You can write in cursive or all capitals or just normal messy handwriting, it’s fun, how often do you get to do that? You also get to avoid the little red line telling you that you don’t know how to spell “restuaraunt”. Gain a little false self confidence, that never hurt anyone (but yourself, yay!) You can sign your name even though you are the only other person (besides like 20 cats) that live at your house. It’s obviously from you, but hey, you can even throw in your last name, too. When your brain fails you and you write “of of”, your mom will circle it, mock you, mock you some more, really laugh in your face, and then draw a smiley face. Your mom wont bring you kleenex when you’re crying and eating ice cream out of the carton. You can post your horrible handwritten typo on the internet and really shame your family. Your closest friends will abandon you and stop answering your phone calls. Everyone will point and laugh when you walk down the street. You know what, fuck notes.

I think it’s best to embrace your embarrassments rather than hide them.  It happens in movies all the time, some lousy teenager (played by a 34 year old) tries to hid her 6th toe and then oh no! It’s a pool party! You might as well get all of your awful stories out in the open and then when they are revealed at least you can say “dude, I told you that last week.”

I leave notes.  Yes, I leave notes saying where I’m going or when I’ll be home. No, not passive aggressive notes, just “went to the store.” I usually get home before anyone comes home to see these notes but for some reason it hasn’t stopped me. I am an avid text messenger and I understand how much more practical that sounds, but if it doesn’t make a difference of when the person sees the note, why not leave one? Let’s not all rush to the future at once, guys!

Notes can be fun for a number of reasons.

  1. You get to use markers! Or pens! Or whatever you’d like. What I’m saying is, you get to w-r-i-t-e by hand! How fun is that? Just me? You can write in cursive or all capitals or just normal messy handwriting, it’s fun, how often do you get to do that?
  2. You also get to avoid the little red line telling you that you don’t know how to spell “restuaraunt”. Gain a little false self confidence, that never hurt anyone (but yourself, yay!)
  3. You can sign your name even though you are the only other person (besides like 20 cats) that live at your house. It’s obviously from you, but hey, you can even throw in your last name, too.
  4. When your brain fails you and you write “of of”, your mom will circle it, mock you, mock you some more, really laugh in your face, and then draw a smiley face.
  5. Your mom wont bring you kleenex when you’re crying and eating ice cream out of the carton.
  6. You can post your horrible handwritten typo on the internet and really shame your family.
  7. Your closest friends will abandon you and stop answering your phone calls.
  8. Everyone will point and laugh when you walk down the street.
  9. You know what, fuck notes.
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