Monday Listicles / BITB Edition

Stasha over at The Good Life is letting us all link up for her Monday Listicles (ok, so it's Tuesday...stfu) for a cutesey little bloggy link-up called #BITB (Babes in the Bleachers) cause it's always fun to share photos and stories when we were in high school. The good news is, despite being the Listicle, it doesn't have to be a list, the only rule is it has to be highschool.

So way back when (too many years to openly admit to) I was a teenager with straight A's and an undeniably need to succeed. Or for those of you cool kids, I was a brown-noser. I was cool by association, as in I had some really popular friends that liked to copy off of me.

Thankfully, I also had the pathetic need to please so I didn't LOOK dorky... but I guess you can be the judge for yourselves. 

Sheeeeit I was white. Like I think I am glowing. 

 

 

 

I was a bit of an overachiever. And even that's an understatement. I HAD to be best at EVERYTHING. One of my closest friends, Rebecca (to my direct left above), used to call me "Super Student" because I could get away with just about everything. I really really could. It was strange actually. But I'll save those little stories in my back pocket for another day.

Here we are acting out MacBeth..."Double double toil and trouble, fire burn and cauldron bubble". I can't believe I remember that.

High school may be long gone, but we never truly grow out of it do we? I sometimes still long for those days in the hall ways. Things were simpler then. And now, because there is still part of me that longs to be accepted, as well as my need to please, here is a list of all things Carmen from high school:

Just to follow the true rules of a Listicle 'yo.

1. I wore braces in 9th grade for 12 months. Not because I needed them, but because they were free.
2. In 11th grade I was caught making out with a boy in the bathroom of the cafeteria. First time I ever made out with anyone. And I got caught. Awesome.
3. I got busted smoking pot in 9th grade because I decided that it was a good time to miss a French final exam. Strangely enough, I didn't get in trouble.
4. I went to prom with my girlfriends as Medieval princesses. I.AM.NOT.JOKING.
5. I took an acting class solely to hang out with the 'cool kids'. Also? Because it was rumored that one girl and one boy would get to kiss in one play. Sadly, I was not that girl.
6. I never played spin the bottle. Not once. *insert sad face*
7. I didn't get my driver's license till I was 17, and even then I was the only one of my friends with a car. So I drove. A lot.
8. Despite getting caught making out with a boy, I never had any boyfriends longer than 2 weeks.