I was a weird kid
Exciting news! My grandparents gave my mom some stuff from when I was a kid! (They were apparently storing it for her…? I really don’t know why they had it.) It includes such things as some books I had, a baseball glove, some little shoes and some things from school. The important thing here is the things from school. You see, among these things are my first grade journals.
I don’t really remember a whole lot from when I was that young, so I decided to look through my journals a bit and see what I was like. Well, I made a few discoveries. One, I was a very bad speller. (This really gives me a new perspective on my 7 year old sister. See, I thought I was a good speller when I was her age, so I expected the same. Turns out I sucked, so now I know I shouldn’t expect so much from a little kid.)
Two, I had horrible handwriting. This hasn’t changed, really, although my handwriting has improved. A bit.
But, best of all, three, I was a really weird (awesome) kid. As in, my thoughts and thought processes must have been absolutely ridiculous. My journal is like a gold mine of lols. I don’t know if I should periodically just throw up pages from my journal (’cause there’s a lot) or if I should just put a couple up now. If you guys like this, I’ll keep showing you my awesome journal entries.
Without further ado, two of my journal entries from the first grade:
“My amazing machine is a time machine and an apple maker.” For some reason, I thought it would be a great idea to have a machine that not only transports you through time, BUT also makes apples. Although I seem to have drawn an apple tree that is dropping apples onto a conveyor belt, so I don’t see where the apple making comes in? I can only theorize that it was actually a machine that made things from apples. Like apple sauce, apple pie, apple strudel, apple laser guns to fight off danger when I travel back in time, etc.
“Inside a deep dark cave a t-rex lives with a dragon and he lives with a pterodactyl.” In this illustration, I demonstrate my knowledge of animals that live in caves. And I think I was on to something as a kid. See, dinosaurs (and dragons I guess) didn’t die out. They just moved. To caves. Deep, dark caves. And no one knows about it, because the t-rex eats everyone that comes in the cave, as you can see in the picture.
Let me know if you all want to see more of these.
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Hello, my name's Josh and I might be a hipster (you decide!). I've been blogging and designing in some form for the past eight or so years and I think I'm starting to get the hang of it (once again, you decide!). I love indie music, coming of age stories, sarcasm, video games, and aesthetics. At the moment I'm working part-time and going to college with hopes of being a web designer. 
Posted by Rybacki — Thursday, July 22nd 2010
Good stuff dude
Posted by Clem — Thursday, July 22nd 2010
Although the t-Rex is totally inaccurate and it is worth noting that pterosaurs were not dinosaurs (I had to say it, compulsion SORRY), I enjoy your prehistoric reptile theory. It actually makes perfect sense if you don’t think about it for more than like 5 seconds, and it makes me happy and fills me with hope for the future of humanity.
Moar plz.
Posted by Manda — Friday, July 23rd 2010
Your journals are way smarter than mine were at age 7! At age 7, I wrote about… uh, boys. Not much has changed since then…
Posted by Clem — Friday, July 23rd 2010
OH ALSO jragen = best thing ever.
Posted by Trisha — Saturday, July 24th 2010
I think I always wrote about how stupid my parents were, animals, and Cheerios. I think it really explains a lot about myself.
Posted by Nayely — Saturday, July 24th 2010
More. Definitely, PLEASE, more. Maybe it’s just that I like old, discarded stuff, but these were such great drawings to stumble upon.
That was some pretty awesome coloring-in, by the way. That butterfly just adds the finishing touch.
Posted by Aisling — Sunday, July 25th 2010
these are definitely awesome. I have some good ones as well. But I will not scan them because I was soooo quirky and strange it’s embarrassing. :D
I LOVE DINOSAURS AND STUFF. AND YOU WERE ADORABLE.
APPLE TIME MACHINE.
Posted by Veronica — Tuesday, July 27th 2010
Aw little Josh has cute drawings :D! I love looking at the stuff I made as a kid, there’s one thing from preschool for mother’s day and my mother loves the line that I told my teacher to write. She asked our mother’s favorite food and I told her “she likes hamburgers with salad on them”. You have inspired me :D Next time I am home I am going to scan some of my journals as a child too :P
Please post more as well. An apple time machine would be awesome.