Again?!?!?!

I was pretty popular in high school – and I’m not being sarcastic here…. Seriously, I was.

Sure there were only 22 in my graduating class… but all of them knew who I was. In fact, almost the whole high school knew me.

Random girls and guys (who I had no idea what their names were) would come up to me and say, ‘Hi Rebekah!’ then they’d try hard to start a conversation and befriend me.

Naturally I assumed the girls liked me because I was sweet, friendly, and fun - and I assumed the guys loved my… ravishing good looks.



I discovered (about half way through my sophomore year) that the girls (yup all of them) had killer crushes on the ‘hottest boys in high school’… who happened to be my twin brothers.

The boys attempted to befriend me because the ‘coolest boys in high school’ owned guns and were allowed to invite others up to skeet shoot on their property… those ‘cool boys’ were my brothers too.

Sure, my feelings could have been hurt, but they weren’t. I was too busy loving popularity.

I LOVED high school.



Well things haven’t changed much… in my wine class I was chatting it up with the girl who sits in front of me and she started talking about firefighters and the fire. I mentioned that I have two brothers who are firefighters… twin firefighters… twin 25 year old firefighters.

To which she responded… ‘Do you have pictures?!?! Is it getting hot in here?!?!?’

There was a collective screech of chairs.

Suddenly four girls joined our conversation.

Sooooo high school all over again.

‘Are your brothers single?’ a girl asked.

Ummm…..

‘Yes?’




Sorry Lindsey and Casey.

Popularity is just so darn addictive!

Those sunglasses? I’ll take two!

Over the weekend I purchased a VERY expensive pair of sunglasses. 10 whole dollars! Hey, when you live on a budget of thirty bucks, more than 33% is a lot to spend on such frivolous items! Especially when Kenney Chesney is releasing a new album… there goes another 33%!

The sunglasses are black and HUGE! I literally look like Nicole Richie when I put them on.

I put them on yesterday and debated whether or not to return them. Let’s be realistic, I could spend ten bucks on so many other cool things and I wasn’t sure if I REALLY liked them.

I was driving through Del Taco (goodbye another 9%) and carefully handed my cash to the drive through attendant (I treat money so very tenderly these days).

‘Hi there! Are you skipping school today?!?’ he asked as he took my bills.

‘School?’ I questioned.

‘I know when you Santana kids ditch!’ he laughed.

Santana… Santana?!? For those of you who don't know, Santana is the high school across the street from Del Taco.

*pause*

‘Actually…’ I started.

*LONG pause*

‘Yeah, you caught me. It’s senior ditch day! Come on! Just don’t tell my mom OK?!’ I smiled.




Sure the glasses cover half my face but in doing that, they cover the fine lines around my eyes, and the smile lines on my cheeks.




I’m buying 10 more pairs of these sunglasses.

Like. Totally.