Beaverton High School Class of 1981

Hi Philip! Great to hear from you, and also hear that you're doing so well. I'm also in the deep South (Louisiana) and loving it. Also, I did get my eyes checked recently, and I now have to wear reading glasses! Ugh! I've had perfect eyesight my whole life, and now this! Oh well, it's all normal and it's all good! I'd rather be able to see than be vain.

Hope you keep in touch! We're planning another reunion in 2011, and it should be great if it's anything like the last one. Paula is the queen of reunion planning!

Hi Philip! I am also happy to hear that you are doing good. You need to keep in touch on this page and keep reading...some of it is pretty funny. Keeps us all sane I think.

Anyway, thanks for the caring words for all of your classmates. You may remember my husband (Mike Stroman) from school. He is 46 and has already had catarac surgery in one eye. Most people don't get them until they are in their 60's or so. So you are very right in saying that we can't take our eyesight for granted.

I hope to see you at our next class reunion. And yes, Paula is the queen of reunion planning!

Welcome Phil,

Its been a long time, I too started wearing reading glasses when I hit 40. I now have full time glasses, with a bifocal. I would rather be able to see than not. I think this is a karma thing from my childhood. When my older brother and I got into a fight, I would break his glasses, and then I would get beat by my mother. Now he wears contacts.

Geez, you guys are all old farts! I don't have to wear no stinkin' reading glasses ... well, I guess that is only because I have been wearing glasses since 6th grade. Actually, I never would wear them in school and finally after I graduated I got contacts. I remember walking out of that doctor's office and realizing that trees actually had individual leaves -- I was astounded. I know that reading glasses are coming next, but I think when you have glasses already, it comes a little later for us. My husband never needed glasses and he is now finding himself in need of something for reading. Hey Phil. Glad to hear you are doing well. Sounds like you have your hands full with kids and grandkids. Adam and Laurie lie because they actually did a heck of a lot more than I did on the reunion planning (as well as many, many others), but ... someone has to take the credit (Ha)! Hey, how did you happen to stumble across the BHS-1981 site?

You wear glasses? After all these years, I never knew that. You hid it well.

I do. I just refused to wear them through my school years and got used to not being able to see very well. So, Adam I was never ignoring you at school, I just couldn't see you. If I would have seen you with your hand out to receive a Sr. pix, you would have gotten one for sure.

Had I known you couldn't see, I would've put my hand out for a picture and asked for one in a high-pitched voice. Any luck and you would've thought it was Rhonda asking for one. Anyway, now that I know you were visually impared, my heart is no longer broken. Finally, after 27 years! hee hee hee...

I still can't imagine you as shy and withdrawn...

I have been working at this firm for 10 years and JUST got to be friendly with a couple women that have been here working with me the whole time. Its not a large firm, but the way our office was laid out, I didn't have a lot of contact with them, until I was moved next to one of them, and that is how they describe me. Shy. Well... they did. They don't now (ha)!

Ha! Reading glasses! That's why I had kids. My arms aren't long enough to hold books. Now my kids hold them for me. I don't need no stinking glasses.

Hey, Phil remember me?

Hey, Paula, in your last entry you say something I never would have imagined ever hearing a woman say. Something along the lines of, "It's not a large firm butt." Just struck me as odd.

DeWayne!!! You are out there....So why haven't you been on here lately??

I see you haven't lost your sense of humor yet. It's a good thing. :)

yea and judging from some of the emails I get from Mike, neither have you two. Of course to be married to him a good sense of humor has to help.

Hey DeWayne! Great to hear from you again! I was beginning to wonder if you had gone into the witness protection program or something! I hope you stay on here because we do miss that sense of humor...not a big firm butt...heh heh heh...

Not the witness protection program, but I do have 2 boys that everyone says I "deserve" and I keep them safe. So I guess I am in the nitwits protection program.

OMG -- Too funny!! Of course, only a guy would pick up on THAT one...

heh heh heh...

Of course a guy would. As at 45 years old, I've picked up on my share of Large not firm butts. Sometimes the 80s weren't as good to me as I remember them being. Butt I digress, I'm sure all of the female readers of these blogs have not large firm butts. Hey Adam can you hand me a shovel so I can dig myself out of this hole?

Umm. . .let me amend my last comment. There should be an emphasis on the words "not" and "large." I'm sure they're every bit as firm as they have ever been. Uh, ok I'll shut up now. (yeah, right)

I'm leaving this blog behind and joining the next one about mid-life crisises/crises(?) I didn't think I was going to have to handle one, until DeWayne's blogs about huge flabby asses... now, I think I am going to have one (a big fat one). I gave my hubby your number DeWayne so that when I start acting all crazy and needing lipo, etc., he will know who to thank.

That wasn't supposed to be a PSA

Paula,

Having some "Junk in your Trunk" is a good thing in today's culture, it has changed from 25 years ago where thin was in.