the pros and cons to High School flashbacks...

I will start with a confession... I have become addicted to Facebook. Not that I have a ton of spare time to peruse the site looking for people to be my friend (I do have a lot of my own friends... honestly!) but one night a few months ago I was at dinner with some friends (see... friends!) that I use to work with, and the topic of Facebook had come up. I had "dabbled" in MySpace, but never really got into it. So, the next night I logged on and set up my page and found some people I know to be "my friend".

(One thing I would like to say here is that I probably would have gotten right on Facebook that night after I got home from the dinner, but I have learned that many drinks and the Internet do not mix for me. I am not a "drunk dialer" but a "drunk emailer". I have sent many an email to people that make no sense when read sober...)

Besides family and some people I work(ed) with, most of my friends on Facebook are people I knew from High School. I don't remember the names of many people I went to college with (it was a short period of time... and again, there's the drinking thing...)

A couple of these friends have been posting old pics from many, many years ago... parties, school functions, graduation, more parties... it's fun to remember some of those times (some more than others) but also bittersweet as these flashbacks start to make me feel old... really old...

and very scared that my kids may do even half the stuff I did back then!

In the end, I think I am going to drag out the old photo albums and see what incriminating photos I can dig up... this should be fun!

xoxo

-P-