35 Years? Really?

.My high school class's 35th reunion was held this weekend. I was asked to join the organizing committee to help with the website, originally a Wiki page. It was surprisingly not very user friendly. It was about that time I got into Facebook so I suggested we set up a group page there. So I handled that, invited all the classmates we had email addresses for - and it was a rousing success. Some people were already using Facebook, bunches joined for the express purpose of reconnecting with classmates. Some are power-users, some barely use it at all.

Mostly, I consider it a great ice-breaker for this weekend's reunion. The last reunion was only 5 years ago and before I got involved, I wasn't really planning on going to the next one, whenever it might be. But then Facebook happened. So I did go to the Ice Cream Social Friday night at Shadow Lake. It was very casual and relaxing. The weather was so perfect we sat outside for most of the night, eventually heading indoors to eat our ice cream. We felt like we knew each other in our present selves even better because of Facebook. We'd seen photos of each others' families. "Hey Stef - when's your next craft show?" Lots of fun, it was. I really had a good time. For me, it was so much better than last time which was held in an art gallery and it was loud and hard to hear - and kinda weird, in that I had a lot of reunion-jitters heading into that one.

I did have a moment Friday morning, driving to work, trying to figure out how much weight I could lose in 12 hours. Then I thought, "Screw it. They've seen my picture on Facebook. I like me. I like my life. It will all be just fine." I let it all go - and had a lot of fun as a result.

There was a dinner dance Saturday which I did not attend, just not my thing. I hope someone posts some pictures on Facebook. We had a relatively low turnout for both events. In retrospect we think it was too soon to have another reunion, since we just had our 30th five years ago. Now what do we do - wait 15 until our 50th? Dunno. The people organizing it are a little burned out on the subject, I think. I bet they'd be happy to let someone else take a turn. I'm good at the virtual reunion stuff but haven't a clue about a real reunion.

I just know that I say the words 35th reunion because I know that's what it is but I cannot begin to imagine any of us who were there, are old enough to be out of high school 35 years. Blow my mind.

This is what a bunch of 53 year olds look like sitting around chatting. That's the thing I love best about being with any of these high school "kids" is that we have the same memories, culture-wise. That's pretty cool.

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