February 21, 2024 • 56 mins
Welcome to the 90s!
Bestie sees in the New Year with an old friend, enjoys a visit from family, and spends the rest of her summer holidays engaging in a variety of pursuits.
Boys, fishing, swampies, and hair dye - this episode has something for everyone.
And remember, if you think you know us - no, you don't!
Bestie sees in the New Year with an old friend, enjoys a visit from family, and spends the rest of her summer holidays engaging in a variety of pursuits.
Boys, fishing, swampies, and hair dye - this episode has something for everyone.
And remember, if you think you know us - no, you don't!
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I've known my bestI fifteen years now, But what was she like before I
met her? Welcome to Diary ofmy Bestie, where she reads to me
her childhood diaries or Names and identifyingplaces have been changed to protect the innocent
and the guilty. We're also stayinganonymous, so if you think you know
us, no you don't. Welcomeback to Diary of My Bestie. Hello
Bestie, Hello Bestie. We haveleft the nineteen ninety or nineteen eighties heading
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into the nineteen nineties. Yes,we are in love with a boy called
Nigel. Yes, and you promiseto be good at school and like God.
So that's where're up to. Weare okay, okay, right,
so let's let's kick it into thenaughty nineties. Yes, on Monday,
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January, the first nineteen nice startingstarting in your decade on a Monday,
Thanks dear Diary. The first dayof January, first day of nineteen ninety
and the first day of the decade. And what a great start to the
new year. Last night, KellyReeves and I drank rum and coke get
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out of ten Okay. See KellyReeves, my old next door neighbor,
the one that I used to talkcrap about. Yeah. Yeah, so
we went over there for New Year'sEve party barbecue. Yep, they didn't
do the serer Le special. What'sthat? There's a movie with Brian Brown
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and it called The Sheer Smart.Yeah, did rumming, rum and milk
put the kid asleep while she wentout and had That's all right. I
always reference that because that's what stuckwith me because I only saw the start
of the film and it was likerum and rum and milk. Okay,
So I always referenced the The SheerSpecialists even and when my daughter was born,
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like do we give her a specialnights? Was rum and coke?
And it says we didn't ask,so you stole. I remember what we
did? Like all the adults wereoutside, yes, and we went in.
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I don't know what we went insidefor, but there was just the
bottle of coke and the bottle ofrum on the kitchen bench. We were
like, we should I have someof this, and so we mixed up
a glass, took it back outside, was pretending it was just straight coke
and we shared it. Okay,right, Okay. Then I said,
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I'm going to ask dad this afternoonif I can have some it tastes beautiful,
so I would have been asking mydad to make me one at home.
Okay, all right, except howdid you know what rum tastes like?
Last night? Who probably would havebeen Do you think I could have
a taste of rob and coke tosee what it's like? Yeah, you
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know your parents weren't that dumb?No, they would have known. Oh
yeah, why is bestie and thatgirl sharing a glass of coke? Yeah
we know why we know. Anyway, I was talking about this great start.
Nobody in the family has had anargument, even a little tiff.
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All day. Everything has been goingfine, and then in brackets almost everything.
Okay, what is it? Well, I don't know. I don't
go into detail. Just say,gee, there's not much to write about
except how great things have been.Yeah, I got absolutely smashed last night.
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Anyway, I have to go makemy bed and tidy my room,
et cetera. Not to be supertech, nicol, but wouldn't be wouldn't
stealing a glass of rum and coketechnically be a great end to the eighties
rather than a good start to thenineties because it happened in the eighties,
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unless it happened after midnight. True, Okay, I'll agree to that.
Yeah, my love to Nigel nowand forever, doctor Towers, Bachelor of
Vetory Science, and in brackets itsays in the future US that's you.
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Okay, yes, thanky, soobviously planning on marrying Nigel Towers and becoming
a vet, making me doctor Towers. Okay, yeah. Can we skip
forward awake week? Okay, yeapto Monday, the January January eighth,
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nineteen ninety because you were to getup early for school. Would that have
affected your consistency at diarizing? Possiblybecause I would have been out of routine.
Okay, Yeah, dear Diary,I've broken some of my resolutions already.
You got pissed well numbers one,which was riding in my diary every
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day, yes, and four,which was keeping God's commandments and same morning
and evening prayers. Yeah, andyou got drunk. Yeah. Anyway,
I don't know anybody who's ever keptall their resolutions. Okay, you're intended
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to keep three and are your budgetsalive? I think? So? Okay,
well there you go. You gottwo. I didn't go to doctor
Rob's today because I was too tired. Obviously still doing volunteer work there.
Yeah, I earned seven dollars fiftyover the weekend by helping Dad fix things
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and work in the garden and allof that stuff. Okay, Well,
considering you got forty bucks from someonewas buying a keita, that's not a
bad haul. Seven to fifty toobad. Mom said she's giving me about
ten dollars though, h so tendollars on top of the seven or rounding
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it up to ten, rounding itup okay, all right, And on
top of that, I also getfive dollars a week pocket money. That
is so good in exchange for choresor just spending money, just spending money,
okay. Oh well, we hadto keep our rooms clean, and
of course I had to look aftermy animals, but apart from that,
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we didn't really have any regular chores. Just had to do stuff if Mum
or Dad asked for a hand forsomething. Okay. Yeah. The Bradnams
are coming up this weekend. Sothat's my aunt and uncle and cousins.
We met them before, Yeah,when I stayed at Nana Gramps's place.
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That's right, yep, that wouldremember my big long daydream. Yes,
yes, they've featured heavily in thatI am taking Dannielle and Karina out skating
for a couple of hours. Ireckon Dannielle will be a big hit among
the guys, especially David Nick andPaul Lancefield. Uh. Why, she's
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very attractive. So you were pimpingout ye? No, I just just
think kind of knew what these boyslooked for in a girl. Knew that
Dannielle would probably tick all the boxes. And she was very very boy crazy
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as well. Okay, I understandit. Yeah, so you were facilitating
everyone, not just the boys.Yeah, pretty much. Ok. Yeah,
I can't wait until they are here. They are my favorite relatives on
dad's side. Wendy Raymond wrote mea letter. She's one of my friends
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from Cambridge and guess what what she'snot a virgin anymore. Well, she's
beaten you the number before. Yes, she was a year older than me.
So yeah, I got a letterfor Daniel from Paula. Okay,
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so you're becoming the post office now. Yeah. Well this came in the
actual mail, so you send itto you rather than poor No, it
was sent to Daniel. So Iremember my mum bringing me this letter?
Is who's Daniel? Because I hadour surname on it. Okay, so
she sent it to you, addressedto Daniel. Yeah, yeah, so
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you'd pass it on to Daniel.Yeah, okay, she is at North
Daniel, sorry, fake brother Daniel. Yeah, okay, yep, it's
hard to keep up with all itsfake things. She's at North Beach.
She never writes me letters, justDaniel. Oh well, it's funny to
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read what she has to write.Okay, any details on what? No,
and I can't remember either. Anyway, I'd better go now I've got
to clean my room and blues cage. Question. How long does this Daniel
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thing go on for some more timeafter this? I'm not sure. Actually
I don't think for very long,but it could still be a month or
two. Just wanted to point outcatfishing. This is catfishing. It is,
isn't it? It is one hundredIt is the definition of catfishing.
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It's like, yeah, just inreal life catfishing, not online. Yeah,
like through the well technically, whenyou do it online, it's still
committing wire fraud. And you're committingmail fraud, mail fraud and catfishing.
Oh no, yeah, that's terrible. It is very much so. Yeah.
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So if to be to be frank, you've already broken number four.
Yeah, I have you got pissedand you're catfishing a girl catfishing and you
and your brother are conspirating. Weare, yes. Now did he ever
fancy her my brother? Yes?Okay, so it wasn't. He wasn't
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sort of a sideways push to getin there, like hey I'm I'm Daniel.
No, and he was still withKimberly at this stage. Anyway,
he was very much into Kimberly.All right, Well, you're also doing
a joint conspiracy to catfisher person,so being into Kimberly isn't necessarily a good
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moniker of morality to go, Iwouldn't have a crack. But no,
that was pretty serious. Well,this is the interesting part. Would have
Kimberly known about the catfishing plot?Oh? Probably because if bark Haden told
her, like I hung out withher a fair big letters and stuff,
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So yeah, I would have toldher. Okay. Was there ever a
discussion about the manliness of the handwriting. I don't know, don't think so.
How deep did this conspira conspiratorial rabbithole? Go? I probably would
have disguised my handwriting, okay,because you were still writing terrors yourself,
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weren't you. Yeah, we usedto swap letters. Okay, Well,
I wonder what the form of handwritingwas. I could have typed the marp.
True, because we had an oldmanual typewriter. Plus we had a
computer with you know, the printerpaper with the holes in the sides,
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dot matrix printer. Yeah, verywell. I printed out an assignment that
I did for school in programming whenI didn't tell her Pascal, and I
almost used half a rim of thatpaper because I decided to write an animated
interaction screen. When you couldn't doanimation. You had to draw each page
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as its own thing, So everyframe I had to write the page so
and we had to print it out. And I printed all out, and
my teacher said, you just couldhave printed out the last page. You
didn't have because the code was onlyone page deep, but the rest of
the page as well the animation.You could have just seen me the last
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page. It would have been fine. Overachiever. Yeah, yeah, I
wrote it very quickly. So I'mjust like Mommy's getting me some dove soap
today. Fancy, yeah dove soapat that time, the fanciest of fancy.
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It was. Yeah, it waspretty new. Do you know how
I know that to be true?How do you know? Because to this
day when I go, when I'msent to the shops to get soap,
I buy the Dove packs rather thanthe other packs, and I go fancy
soap. I still use Dove occasionally. I buy it because it's because it's
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fancy. Because it's fancy, itmakes you feel fancy. And I come
home, my wife gone. Youcould have just bought the normal normal like
Dove soap. Fancy won't dry yourskin like soap? Can I remember?
My grandparents had Dove soap in theirshower and it was I thought it was
the fanciest thing in the world.My grandparents used Imperial leather. That's the
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other brand that I do buy whenwhen I when I when I'm sent to
the shop to get soap, andI can't buy Dove, as in barred
from it the golden red Imperial level. Yes, yeah, not a problem.
Do you remember that so do you? In the plane? Yes?
Yes, but it's just Dove likeImperial leave at my grandparents house, fancy
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Dove soap all that was fancy,super cost a bit, and it was.
It was kept in its in itsown dish in the in the in
the cupboard, not for general usein the shower. I think I think
the grandparents took it out of theshower and put it in the dish when
we used to come to stay,so we wouldn't use the dove soap.
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Don't want to waste good stuff.It is fancy, and every time I
use it, I go, oh, fancy boy, fancy. So I
was finally getting some dove soap,and I'm going to get a tan today
too, fake tan. No,that would have been lying out in the
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sun. Okay, yeah, gettingyou know, sun damage and increasing my
risk of melanoma as we did backthen. Goodbye later. Okay, life
is really boring at the moment.Nothing has been happening. Okay, you're
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getting dove soap. That's pretty Iwould have been excited. Kelly Reeves invited
me to go see The Delinquents tonight, but I had to decline her offer.
Why. I don't know. I'vejust said life's boring and nothing's been
happening, and then I've turned downan invitation to the movies. That's what
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I was about to say. It'slike, it's not like you had much
going on, big plans to ten. I'm so tired. Now, imagine
what I would be like tomorrow morningfor Doctor Robbs if I'd gone to the
movies. Ah okay, so there'sa little bit of method to your madness.
Yes, okay. Mom can't getme the Dove soap until Wednesday.
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Probably she's probably not planning on goingshopping till Wednesday, and she's not going
to make a special trip to theshops just for my soap. You know,
she's a busy woman. She didn'tmake a special trip to the shop.
So you die. Ay. You'sworking like eight till five or whatever
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it is, so doesn't leave alot of time for soap shopping. M
h I'll be going to Doctor Rob'sonly for a while on Wednesday. Then
Mum is picking me up to goshopping and buy school stuff and have lunch,
and then she's dropping me back atDoctor Robs. Okay, all right,
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anyway, I have nothing else towrite about. I'm going to go
watch Growing Pains and the Wonder isbye. Okay getting into the cultural touchdoones
of the early ninety yeah mm hmm, Okay, now got Tuesday, and
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I've got January eighth here, butI thought Monday was the eighth, so
it's possibly the ninth, nineteen ninetyDear Diary. It's seven fifty six am,
and I am already ready for DoctorRobs. I like working at doctor
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Rob's and I especially like doing receptionistwork. On my work experience form,
I will write down the following preferencesone veterinary assistant, two receptionist, and
three National parks and wildlife. Okay, okay, I'm planning ahead here because
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work experience this is work experience throughschool. It wasn't two grade eleven,
but you'd already done work experience withhim, hadn't you. Yeah, that
was just my dad organized that.It wasn't like yeah, okay, so
grade eleven we did two four weeksof work experience and it was part of
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the curriculum. Okay, so I'mplanning ahead. I'm reading a book called
as mad As Rabbits at the moment. It's about a girl growing up on
a farm in Victoria in the earlynineteen hundreds. She has eleven brothers and
sisters. Wasn't that basically every bookin the nineties. Possibly this was a
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memoir. Okay, so it wasthe So every other book written in the
nineties was about this person, andthis is the memoir of the person those
books are written about. Must be. Was there a magical horse involved or
some distant love affair, not thatI can remember. Okay, I might
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have to give it a reread.It's about I'm going to read now by
later. There was a mouse inthe trap this morning. I named it
Henrietta. So if you remember theAvery mouse skeletons, yes, because we
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did. Because I had a dirtfloor, we did have mice. So
my dad had set up like alive trap in the shand it's to the
next to the Avery. So oneof the boxes where they got caught inside.
Yeah, and then we could gorelease it somewhere. Yeah. And
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at doctor Robb's mousa caught a mouseand dropped it. Mausa was the surgery
cap A bit reductive in the name, but okay, I caught it and
named it Lady Valentina the fourth.Okay, so you you you're actually the
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veterinary cat foxibly and this would addthat to you, add that to your
resume. Resume mouse SketchUp Wanita isreally nice. So the usual vet nurse
was on leave and Wanita was thelady who was filling in. Okay,
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she brought her dog in today.If you could call it a dog,
it's an Irish wolfhound, weighing inat sixty eight kilos. You're not body
shaming a dog, are you.No, It's just like he's not the
size of a dog. He's thesize of a pony. Could it be
size of a wolf? Like heis? Literally, it's in the name.
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He was huge. His name isGuinness. He hasn't been castraight,
Yeah, he hasn't been cast traded. Can you imagine that big thing on
the surgery table, the dog,the dog, because he would not have
fit on the surgery table, hislegs and head would have been hanging over
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the edges, so big. Oneof the big, chunky dogs, just
very very tall and long long.Yep. I remember this dog actually stood
on my foot ow and it wasreally painful, and I'm like trying to
push him off, and he wasjust so placid. I'm pushing and pushing
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and he just thinks, Oh,this girl's giving me love. Yeah,
looking up at me, what what'swrong? He is lovely? Nice?
Kathleen might be able to get holdof a baby love bird for me.
Kathleen was another girl who was doingwork experience there. See you've got your
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bird network still happening, I do. It's a peach face, so it
only costs five dollars. There wereother color varieties of lovebirds that cost more.
This was a peach face. Ihave eleven dollars forty at the moment.
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I need to buy the bird andalso some mix and a syringe and
stuff, so obviously for feeding thebirds. Yeah, it shouldn't cost too
much. I hope Mum will helpme make up the difference. Anyway,
I must go goodbye. Okay,okay, Now we're skipping forward a little
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bit to Sunday, January fourteenth,nineteen ninety. That is, it's a
bit of a jump. Actually.It is so not doing well on the
no writing every day front, DearDiary. Sorry this is messy, but
I've just painted my nails. Anyway. The Bradnams are up and here is
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Dannielle to say a few words.Okay, gooday, how have you been
since Easter? How's your love lifebeen? When I leave, tell Jeremy
Bruce that I think he's really cute, and I'm sorry that I missed him.
God, I would have loved tohave met him. He looks so
beautiful in your yearbook. He'd surelyget you through the night, no doubt.
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Okay, my love life has beentotally up the ship since I saw
you last. I can't wait untilwe get to the beach. I'm going
to put on my mirrored sonnies andperv on all the guys. Unreal.
I don't think I'll ever want togo home. I think I'll come and
live here with you. Told youshe was liking the area. Okay,
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Yeah, and after they visited us, they were going to the beach to
stay like a week or so.And have you taken them skating yet?
Uh, let's find out. Somuch for the few words I was going
to write, Oh, well,it's not my fault if I get a
little bit carried away? Is ittomorrow? You have to promise to show
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me the guys around here or I'llkill you. I definitely have to find
someone before I go, or I'lljust die. On New Year's Eve,
I found Dave and I'm keeping intouch with him. Now I'll have to
find someone here and someone at thebeach. So she's just okay, collecting
boys at each stop. I suppose, no shame, Okay, I hope
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there are some really good looking guysat the beach. I'm going to spend
my days on the beach if we'renot going on day trips. The night
that Mum and Dad go out fordinner, I'm going to write to everyone.
And I'll even write to you andtell you about the guys here.
Oh, sorry about the guys there. Don't forget. We have to ring
Ryan tomorrow. Who's Ryan? Yeah, we're going to find out. Okay,
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excellent. So remember that she's justDave on New Year's just looking for
someone here, and she's going tobe looking for someone at the beach.
About how shopping around? Yeah?About how much will it cost me to
ring from a public phone? Std? I hope not too much. I
don't know who I love better,Dustin who I'm going out with, or
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Ryan, who I really care about. This is all very torrid. You
thought I was bad. At leastI've got usually one boy at a time,
usually. Well, to be fair, she didn't set a New Year's
revolution of being great and writing adiary that you're okay, Yeah, she's
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been true to herself. Yeah,I don't think Ryan knows I'm going out
with anyone. I don't know ifI should tell him. We'll wait and
see what eventuates between me and Dustin. Oh well, whatever happens, I
hope that it will all be forthe best. Anyway, i'd better go
before I take up too much space. Well, and at this time,
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did you know any of the boysthat she was writing about? No,
because they were all down into statewhere she lived. So okay, so
this was her just filling in theblanks and all that type of stuff.
Yeah, okay, Yeah, Well, see you in the morning. Love
always, your cousin Daniel. Ps. Don't forget to tell Jeremy about what
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I wrote earlier. I'll really killyou. He looks so cute. Well
bye, bye, okay, crazy, See told you very much. So
yeah, Monday, January fifteenth,nineteen ninety Well, sorry I didn't finish
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writing yesterday, but I was sotired after Dannielle had written. But I
could hardly even read what she hadwritten, let alone write more. Well,
have they would have there been muchto add? No, I don't
think so. Anyway, Everything isreally fine. Everybody's good especially Tully my
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baby, peach face love bird.This is the this is the new one.
Yes, I did get it excellent, so you would. Your mum
would have chiped in the cash,yep. And she also helped, well,
both my parents did, because whenI first got it, it was
still being fed by its mother.The idea was take it out of the
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nest box early, in hand rearit so it would be really, really
tame. Okay. It had tobe fed every four hours around the clock
for the first little while. That'sa lot of work, it is.
So my dad I would do afeed before I went to bed, and
then my dad would stay up lateand do a feed. Yeah, and
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then my mom would get up superearly and do a feed, and then
I'd do all the daytime feeds.That was a that's a real team effort.
But they were happy to do it. So Okay, Yeah, we
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me and Dannielle were going to sneakout last night, but we both slept
right through. Okay, this isa new this is a new development.
Yeah, I've never talked about doingthat. I don't know where we were
planning on going, probably not fromthe boys. I didn't really live near
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anybody who I could have visited inthe middle of the night, though,
Did that matter to your cousin?Probably not? Okay, Today we're going
to Ring Dustin and Ryan, Dannielle'spresent boyfriend and future boyfriend, and Nigel
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go to Doctor Rob's to get somegranivor mix that's the bird's food, and
ride around on the scooter. Ilove that scooter. It is so cool,
so electric scooter or just a Itwas actually a motor scooter like a
little vespa. And I don't evenknow how we ended up getting it,
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but next to our house was avacant block and we used to ride this
little oating around, just round aroundin circles. Ye on the vacant book
with helmets. Were safe, Yeahat the time, always that that road
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safety thing. Yep. Would youbelieve the Karna hasn't been a pain?
Is the other cousin, the youngercousin. Actually I envy the girl.
She is so well organized. Ifwe're doing nothing, or Dannielle and I
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are busy doing something like writing inour diaries or reading, Karina gets out
a posted a color a book toread, or her calendar which she uses
for her diary. Sometimes she's areal so much younger than you obviously.
Yeah, she was I think aboutnine or ten and hang on, let
me think she would have been ten. Okay, she's a real good kid.
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I doubt Danny l would think that, though, would you, Danny?
They fought like cat and dog sisters. They do that. Oh and
before I forget, guess what,guess what? Guess what? Mm hmmm.
The Christmas from the Bradnams. Igot a pair of yellow, red
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and blue socks. Okay, sonow polish. Yeah, a romance book
called Flip Side, a fancy onelike an adult one or just a yeah,
a potpourri bag, a coffee markand a Batman bandit nice? Love
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it my first ever band anna,Yes, my first ever piece of Batman
stuff? Nice? Yeah, lovingit. So that was when that movie,
the one you know that Prince didthe soundtrack on, Yeah, Batman
nineteen eighty nine. Yeah, sothat would have been there would have been
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Batman everything in the shops then.Oh it was one of the biggest things.
Yeah. Yeah. Anyway, it'ssix forty four am. Why do
I get up so early? Yes? I agree, Danny. Ellie's half
awake and Karna is totally flaked out. Anyway, I must go now reading
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flip side and Anne of Green Gablesbest friend. That's tricky, ha ha,
Well I think that would have tobe Deborah Cole, wouldn't it.
She's in Kolana still lucky thing.I was supposed to be with her on
that holiday. Do you remember?Yeah? Yeah, my mom said that
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I could go with her on holiday. It was like for two or three
weeks or something, but I'm notthere might have been because my family was
coming to visit. Potentially, wasn'tthere wasn't there an issue with uh something?
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Didn't something happen where you couldn't orshe said you couldn't all? No?
No, oh, well boyfriend Nigel'stowers. Yeah, I'm ringing him
today? Why all right? Sohow often would you call him? Do
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you think? Oh? Sometimes herang me. We wouldn't have been every
day though, maybe a couple oftimes a week. Okay, But we
still hadn't seen each other since schoolbroke up. Okay? Is my heart
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going to get broken? I don'tthink so. Okay? Excellent Tuesday,
January sixteenth, nineteen ninety Dear Diary, Well, today I saw Billy for
the first time in months. He'sa skating person. Okay. Anyway,
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he's not going with Sonia anymore.I don't think so anyway. But anyway,
I've been having second thoughts. Ihate second thoughts about Nigel. Okay,
why I really like Billy. Iliked him before I liked Aaron and
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anyway, you know how I likedhim for a million years? Try six
months before Aaron and anyway, youknow how nice he is and everything.
Okay, I don't. I nevermentioned him. I've never talked about him
before. It could have been inthe Garfield diary to say Garfield Diaries.
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Yeah, it's just just pinging allover the place, it is. Anyway,
Paul Lancefield is coming around tomorrow andwe're going to have a big talk.
Okay. Why are we talking toPaul about Billy? Probably? Okay,
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we used to be each other's advisors. He'd give me advice about my
love life. I'd give him adviceabout his. Okay, So yeah,
he was a really good sounding board. Okay, all right, anyway,
I don't have anything else to say, so I'll sign off. I'll pray
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tonight to get God to help memake my decisions. See you later,
Nigel, poor Nigel. Oh Michael, You've worked so hard for it,
now you throw it away. Wednesday, January seventeen, nineteen ninety, Dear
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Diary, Well it is confirmed.I really do like Billy. Okay.
One of my favorite songs of alltime has just come on the radio,
Currie by mister mister Solid. Stilllike that song. I'd give more credence
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to that statement. If we're nottalking about this. Billy's on the scene
and Nigel's still around and stuff like. That's a sidebar. Yeah, I
want to know what's happening. MDoctor Rob's baby is due tomorrow. Okay,
I'm getting my hair cut just likeMartika is tomorrow. Bold choice,
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but I can anyway, I'd bettergo. It's past eleven PM and my
appointment is for eight thirty am.See ya. I love Billy. Does
Nigel know this yet? I don'tthink so. Oh God, Okay,
moving on thought. I thought Nigelwas going to break my heart. It's
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you maybe. Thursday, January eighteen, at nineteen ninety, Dear Diary,
Doctor Rob's wife, Cherie had herbaby on Chuesday. They called her Claire
Solid. Anyway, onto other things. The word is out the following people
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know or will know soon that Ilike Billy, Deborah Cole, Meaghan Henderson,
the Kendalls. That's my friends.Who are the sisters Paul, Ancefield,
Melinda and Tessa Reid member Tessa fromprimary school. She went to a
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different high school. But I don'teven know how we got back in touch.
It's possible we just bumped into eachother at the shops because we kind
of lived like the shops were inbetween our two gauss Yep, Kirsty Oldbrey
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and Billy himself. Megan is goingto tell her sister Carrie. Carrie will
tell all the people who work atskating, the Kendles will tell, Mike
will tell all his friends, andPaul will tell Kent, who will tell
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everyone. I hope so word shouldget back to Billy. Didn't you say
Billy knew? I said the followingpeople know or will know soon. Ah
okay, yeah, So that's theplan, not just telling him directly,
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but telling everyone around him and hopingthat he finds out on the grapevine and
for anyone listening at home, alsopointing out that Billy goes skating. Correct,
yes, so does Nigel. Onlyno, no, not, this
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is not Perry Mason me. It'sbasically you're saying, I'll let everyone know
that like Billy, so I don'thave to stump up and break up with
Nigel because if I tell everyone,and everyone knows, everyone includes our man
Nige probably. Okay, yeah,I want Alien mac of Vail again.
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Yes, I want the world toknow that I love Billy. I think
the world. What did Nige do? Nothing? I just didn't see him.
Oh it not to cut to tastsuspeessions on your good name, but
it's been like four weeks and youmade a commitment to bang the poor Bella.
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He's like, I didn't commit tobanging him. I said I would
commit to doing whatever he wanted,including that I don't know if he wanted
her though. One he was afourteen year old boy, and two you
wrote it in capital letters. Yes, yes, yeah, I don't know.
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I think I now know why Ididn't go away with Deborah Cole though.
Okay. Saturday, January twenty,nineteen ninety Dear Diary, Well,
here I am at the maths andScience summer school. Okay, so this
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wasn't summer school in the sense ofyou did really bad and now you have
to catch up. This was theopposite the nerd camp. Yeah. It
was at the local UNI and itwas girls from all over the state who'd
done Really, it was just forgirls. It was kind of like getting
girls into STEM type thing before itwas called STEM. I can't really cast
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dispersions because in nineteen ninety I didin January a cartooning course. There you
go. We were both doing nerdythings in January nineteen ninety exceptional. Yes,
that's cool. Even though I livedquite near this university, I chose
to. Oh, my parents encouragedme to live in for the week so
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I could get the full university experience. Okay, which is what I did.
It is six forty one pm fortea. We had lamb baked potatoes,
gravy coleslaugh lettuce and orange juice.Nice. Nice. Melinda Kanneely is
in my room at the moment.So she was girl from my school,
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also from my primary school, andshe wasn't living in but she was just
hanging out in my room until shewaited for her mum to come in.
An individuals Yeah, it was likethe on site dorms. Yeah, so
two single rooms joined by a bathroom. Eat like little pods. Yeah,
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I think I know the ones youtalk about. You. Yep, I
dyed my hair red brown, soI would have done this before I came
to the summer school. And thisis after you got the hair cut.
Like, yeah, so I dyedit to look like her color as well.
Okay, yeah, because I wasvery much into her. I do
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have a photo somewhere of this,so I'll make sure I show you.
Yes, I demand, like,yep, the girl who shares the bathroom
with me is Dulie somebody or other? Did you write somebody or other?
I did ten points to you.It is so cool here. I have
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my own room with a key andeverything. So this to me was just
like, oh, this must bewhat it feels like to be grown up
and live on your own. Yeah, because you your bedroom wouldn't have had
a key, so exactly. Thereis a Bible here in my room,
so I will probably read some tonight. And I'm going to the church service
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tomorrow. It is an into denominationalchurch, which means all religions. Anyway,
i'd better go. Not that there'ssomething to do, I've just got
nothing to write about. I loveBilly. So that was Saturday. Now
We're on Monday, January twenty second, nineteen ninety. Dear Diary, Sorry
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I haven't written for a long time, but it's really busy here that like
a day or so. Yeah,okay, a long time. But I
still love Billy a real lot.So what did we do? We had,
like, we didn't really have lectures, but we did stuff like look
at the different labs and stuff aroundthe UNI, and then we basically orientation
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week for people who would come thereeventually. Yeah, we had to do
nerdy things like build a suspension bridgemade of I don't know, newspaper and
yep, straws or something or other. And I've got a vague memory of
going on an excursion to a watertreatment plant. Yep. Stuff like that.
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Yeahs engineering, chemistry, science,all that, Yeah, all that
kind of stuff. I've been talkingto Steph a lot. She was a
girl that I got pretty friendly withwho came from I don't know, somewhere
about three hours away. Okay,Yep, she's really nice. She's a
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bit of a swampy. Remember thatterm, Uh yes, but potentially not
the same meaning as what you mean, So tell me what you think it
means. Probably the best way todescribe. It is kind of in the
gothic kind of sense. Yeah,into a particular kind of music. We're
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a lot of black okay, yeah, excellent. A bit of an Aussie.
Ye, it was more an aussything, wasn't it what you're thinking
of? No, in in let'sjust say out knew where I lived there
was a swamp. Uh had apark area yep. And people would go
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to that swamped area for recreation.Yeah, and some some people profited off
that area and they were swampies.Yeah, as an alternative name. Okay,
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Yeah, this was more like asubculture type oh yeah thing. Yeah,
so goth bogan kind of yeah.Oh she wasn't very bogan ish.
Yeah. So she's a bit ofa swampya. Her stomach makes slurpy noises
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when she does sit ups. Soshe was in my room doing sit ups
while I was writing, miss andI just wrote that to make her laugh,
Yeah, because I was. Iwas just about to ask, we're
at this stem cam full of birds, would you start doing sit ups close
enough and approximate enough to hear herbound movements? Was just I was saying
out loud what I was writing,Okay, And I wrote that just to
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be silly, right, I reallymiss Cleo. I saw a cat today
for the first time since Saturday.It's like that, many days without a
cat, two days without a cat. Meanwhile, Paul Niger's sitting there going,
okay, what about me? Wesaw some of the most gorgeous guys
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from another college. We were aboutto throw ourselves at their feet when we
saw them mucking around with some othergirls. Anyway, I like Billy better.
I'd better go now, it's gettinglate. I'll write some more when
I have time. See you later. I love Billy and god ps I
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miss Rocky Horror Picture Show solid closing, Yeah, I want to know.
No communication with Nigel adult, isthat right? None? Okay? Apart
from the odd phone call and sincefalling in love with Billy, I don't
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know. Probably none, okay,So all right, well just i'm I'm
there's going to be a nexus pointwhere this all comes to a Yes.
So I had been watching Rocky HorryPicture Show pretty much every day that school
holidays, so I missed it bynow. But I do remember before I
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went, I put a tape recorderright next to the television speaker and I
recorded every single song onto a tapeso I could have my own version of
the soundtrack to take to summer school. So was it recorded off the TV?
Yep? Was it SBS? No, it had been on It was
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when we lived in Cambridge. Ithad been on I think it was Chad
seven. Now that's a that's ascandalous thing. It had bits cut out,
okay, but all the songs weren'tit because I remember watching it on
SBS. So yeah, it's alwaysinteresting stuff to watch on SPS. Hmmm.
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And that's it for this episode.Okay. So you're deep in the
middle of stem camp yeap, andyou're in love with the man and the
other man doesn't know not Billy,and I've left Nigel hangen. Yeah,
you're missing a cat and you've gota friend doing Google's sit ups. Yeah,
okay, Well a lot of unansweredquestions or loose ends here. Are
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you still catfishing a girl? It'sreally just super complex, it is,
And there's probably not long children newschool year starts. So if it's the
twentieth, all that week twenty January, next weeks week of the holidays.
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Mm, well it would end withAustralia Day, so it would yeah,
yeah, more than likely interesting.Okay, Well, it's a little bit
of drama set up to come becauseyou're going to go back to school and
you're in love with a man whodoesn't go to your Billy doesn't go to
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your school. No, he doesn'tgo he's left. He left school in
grade ten, so he had goneto my school but before I went there.
Okay, but Nigel still goes inyour grade. No, he's in
the grade above me. Okay,ye, sorry, And just for clarity,
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skating is still happening. Yep.Billy has gone skating and people would
have told him yes, and there'sa chance Nigel has also gone skating slim
but yeah. Still, so it'sit's it's it's there's conflict coming. There
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is possibly, oh, there definitelyis conflict. There is. And the
worst thing is that Nigel didn't doanything and you fell in love with someone
else. So this can only reflectpoorly on you. We'll see, Okay,
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all right, Well there's a littlesomething to look forward to. It.
I mean, it's just, oh, I can I can feel the
anxiety building of the something's coming andI don't know what it is, and
yeah, just you get that thehand crampy type of like conflict. Not
that serious. Well, I thinkit's not, sitting way back in my
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comfy chair some thirty years later.No, it's not serious. But in
the world I'm invested in, whichis you at this age, and every
page is a defining moment in yourlife. It's like I've bought. I'm
now, I've bought into the conceitof the whole thing. I'm like,
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what's going to happen? Because Iknow if it doesn't go well, you're
going to collapse after that, andthen it's to be pages and pages and
pages of woe and an angeren Gables. And I am betting. I will
bet now listeners, there will besome heartache this year of the nineteen ninety
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and there will be an epic emoslash swampy style poem written in the style
of End in green Gables or quotedsong lyrics about something to do with this.
It's coming and I know it's coming. I'm going to write that down.
These are your predictions. I'm predictinga significant quotation of an emotional song
(54:32):
yep or some prose written in aclassic and a Green Gables style about the
woe that is your love life Okay. I mean that's not a very difficult
bet to make, considering this bookis completely about your love life and the
Mackia elevations of how you move throughit all. But okay, so that's
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your predictions for the year. Atsome point before nineteen ninety ends, there
will be heart break and emo fueledpros. Okay, I've written that down
so you can see if it comestrue. I know it's coming true.
Is it not even it's not evena bet. It's like it's like walking
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into the casino, reaching over thecashier's counter, taking two hundred bucks and
walking out. That's how confident Iam. What Okay, email lyrics warning
there will be emo lyrics coming,I bet you. Okay, all right,
well, let us let everyone knowabout the Instagram and we can get
everyone home to to ponder them tocoming here ahead at Diary of My Bestie,
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and I promise if there are somekind of woe is Me angsty emo
lyrics or prose, I will putit up on the Instagram if if it
happens, here's a competition. Goto at bestI and nominate what month you
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think this happens in. Are wegoing to go January? February. You
you pick, dear listener, whenyou think this world is going to collapse
in on itself, and we willget some very prototypical my chemical romance.
Woe were they even born by then? Yeh oh, well okay the cure
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that's more like it. Yeah,is it even really Morrissy Morrissey? There
we go. Will we get somepre pub pre problematic Morrissey action before he
went okay, all right, cool, all right, well, thank you
best, love you very much,and yeah, let's let's get into the
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nineties or later. Bye bye,
I've known my bestI fifteen years now, But what was she like before I
met her? Welcome to Diary ofmy Bestie, where she reads to me
her childhood diaries or Names and identifyingplaces have been changed to protect the innocent
and the guilty. We're also stayinganonymous, so if you think you know
us, no you don't. Welcomeback to Diary of My Bestie. Hello
Bestie, Hello Bestie. We haveleft the nineteen ninety or nineteen eighties heading
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into the nineteen nineties. Yes,we are in love with a boy called
Nigel. Yes, and you promiseto be good at school and like God.
So that's where're up to. Weare okay, okay, right,
so let's let's kick it into thenaughty nineties. Yes, on Monday,
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January, the first nineteen nice startingstarting in your decade on a Monday,
Thanks dear Diary. The first dayof January, first day of nineteen ninety
and the first day of the decade. And what a great start to the
new year. Last night, KellyReeves and I drank rum and coke get
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out of ten Okay. See KellyReeves, my old next door neighbor,
the one that I used to talkcrap about. Yeah. Yeah, so
we went over there for New Year'sEve party barbecue. Yep, they didn't
do the serer Le special. What'sthat? There's a movie with Brian Brown
(01:38):
and it called The Sheer Smart.Yeah, did rumming, rum and milk
put the kid asleep while she wentout and had That's all right. I
always reference that because that's what stuckwith me because I only saw the start
of the film and it was likerum and rum and milk. Okay,
So I always referenced the The SheerSpecialists even and when my daughter was born,
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like do we give her a specialnights? Was rum and coke?
And it says we didn't ask,so you stole. I remember what we
did? Like all the adults wereoutside, yes, and we went in.
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I don't know what we went insidefor, but there was just the
bottle of coke and the bottle ofrum on the kitchen bench. We were
like, we should I have someof this, and so we mixed up
a glass, took it back outside, was pretending it was just straight coke
and we shared it. Okay,right, Okay. Then I said,
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I'm going to ask dad this afternoonif I can have some it tastes beautiful,
so I would have been asking mydad to make me one at home.
Okay, all right, except howdid you know what rum tastes like?
Last night? Who probably would havebeen Do you think I could have
a taste of rob and coke tosee what it's like? Yeah, you
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know your parents weren't that dumb?No, they would have known. Oh
yeah, why is bestie and thatgirl sharing a glass of coke? Yeah
we know why we know. Anyway, I was talking about this great start.
Nobody in the family has had anargument, even a little tiff.
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All day. Everything has been goingfine, and then in brackets almost everything.
Okay, what is it? Well, I don't know. I don't
go into detail. Just say,gee, there's not much to write about
except how great things have been.Yeah, I got absolutely smashed last night.
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Anyway, I have to go makemy bed and tidy my room,
et cetera. Not to be supertech, nicol, but wouldn't be wouldn't
stealing a glass of rum and coketechnically be a great end to the eighties
rather than a good start to thenineties because it happened in the eighties,
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unless it happened after midnight. True, Okay, I'll agree to that.
Yeah, my love to Nigel nowand forever, doctor Towers, Bachelor of
Vetory Science, and in brackets itsays in the future US that's you.
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Okay, yes, thanky, soobviously planning on marrying Nigel Towers and becoming
a vet, making me doctor Towers. Okay, yeah. Can we skip
forward awake week? Okay, yeapto Monday, the January January eighth,
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nineteen ninety because you were to getup early for school. Would that have
affected your consistency at diarizing? Possiblybecause I would have been out of routine.
Okay, Yeah, dear Diary,I've broken some of my resolutions already.
You got pissed well numbers one,which was riding in my diary every
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day, yes, and four,which was keeping God's commandments and same morning
and evening prayers. Yeah, andyou got drunk. Yeah. Anyway,
I don't know anybody who's ever keptall their resolutions. Okay, you're intended
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to keep three and are your budgetsalive? I think? So? Okay,
well there you go. You gottwo. I didn't go to doctor
Rob's today because I was too tired. Obviously still doing volunteer work there.
Yeah, I earned seven dollars fiftyover the weekend by helping Dad fix things
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and work in the garden and allof that stuff. Okay, Well,
considering you got forty bucks from someonewas buying a keita, that's not a
bad haul. Seven to fifty toobad. Mom said she's giving me about
ten dollars though, h so tendollars on top of the seven or rounding
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it up to ten, rounding itup okay, all right, And on
top of that, I also getfive dollars a week pocket money. That
is so good in exchange for choresor just spending money, just spending money,
okay. Oh well, we hadto keep our rooms clean, and
of course I had to look aftermy animals, but apart from that,
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we didn't really have any regular chores. Just had to do stuff if Mum
or Dad asked for a hand forsomething. Okay. Yeah. The Bradnams
are coming up this weekend. Sothat's my aunt and uncle and cousins.
We met them before, Yeah,when I stayed at Nana Gramps's place.
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That's right, yep, that wouldremember my big long daydream. Yes,
yes, they've featured heavily in thatI am taking Dannielle and Karina out skating
for a couple of hours. Ireckon Dannielle will be a big hit among
the guys, especially David Nick andPaul Lancefield. Uh. Why, she's
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very attractive. So you were pimpingout ye? No, I just just
think kind of knew what these boyslooked for in a girl. Knew that
Dannielle would probably tick all the boxes. And she was very very boy crazy
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as well. Okay, I understandit. Yeah, so you were facilitating
everyone, not just the boys.Yeah, pretty much. Ok. Yeah,
I can't wait until they are here. They are my favorite relatives on
dad's side. Wendy Raymond wrote mea letter. She's one of my friends
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from Cambridge and guess what what she'snot a virgin anymore. Well, she's
beaten you the number before. Yes, she was a year older than me.
So yeah, I got a letterfor Daniel from Paula. Okay,
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so you're becoming the post office now. Yeah. Well this came in the
actual mail, so you send itto you rather than poor No, it
was sent to Daniel. So Iremember my mum bringing me this letter?
Is who's Daniel? Because I hadour surname on it. Okay, so
she sent it to you, addressedto Daniel. Yeah, yeah, so
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you'd pass it on to Daniel.Yeah, okay, she is at North
Daniel, sorry, fake brother Daniel. Yeah, okay, yep, it's
hard to keep up with all itsfake things. She's at North Beach.
She never writes me letters, justDaniel. Oh well, it's funny to
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read what she has to write.Okay, any details on what? No,
and I can't remember either. Anyway, I'd better go now I've got
to clean my room and blues cage. Question. How long does this Daniel
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thing go on for some more timeafter this? I'm not sure. Actually
I don't think for very long,but it could still be a month or
two. Just wanted to point outcatfishing. This is catfishing. It is,
isn't it? It is one hundredIt is the definition of catfishing.
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It's like, yeah, just inreal life catfishing, not online. Yeah,
like through the well technically, whenyou do it online, it's still
committing wire fraud. And you're committingmail fraud, mail fraud and catfishing.
Oh no, yeah, that's terrible. It is very much so. Yeah.
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So if to be to be frank, you've already broken number four.
Yeah, I have you got pissedand you're catfishing a girl catfishing and you
and your brother are conspirating. Weare, yes. Now did he ever
fancy her my brother? Yes?Okay, so it wasn't. He wasn't
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sort of a sideways push to getin there, like hey I'm I'm Daniel.
No, and he was still withKimberly at this stage. Anyway,
he was very much into Kimberly.All right, Well, you're also doing
a joint conspiracy to catfisher person,so being into Kimberly isn't necessarily a good
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moniker of morality to go, Iwouldn't have a crack. But no,
that was pretty serious. Well,this is the interesting part. Would have
Kimberly known about the catfishing plot?Oh? Probably because if bark Haden told
her, like I hung out withher a fair big letters and stuff,
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So yeah, I would have toldher. Okay. Was there ever a
discussion about the manliness of the handwriting. I don't know, don't think so.
How deep did this conspira conspiratorial rabbithole? Go? I probably would
have disguised my handwriting, okay,because you were still writing terrors yourself,
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weren't you. Yeah, we usedto swap letters. Okay, Well,
I wonder what the form of handwritingwas. I could have typed the marp.
True, because we had an oldmanual typewriter. Plus we had a
computer with you know, the printerpaper with the holes in the sides,
(12:39):
dot matrix printer. Yeah, verywell. I printed out an assignment that
I did for school in programming whenI didn't tell her Pascal, and I
almost used half a rim of thatpaper because I decided to write an animated
interaction screen. When you couldn't doanimation. You had to draw each page
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as its own thing, So everyframe I had to write the page so
and we had to print it out. And I printed all out, and
my teacher said, you just couldhave printed out the last page. You
didn't have because the code was onlyone page deep, but the rest of
the page as well the animation.You could have just seen me the last
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page. It would have been fine. Overachiever. Yeah, yeah, I
wrote it very quickly. So I'mjust like Mommy's getting me some dove soap
today. Fancy, yeah dove soapat that time, the fanciest of fancy.
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It was. Yeah, it waspretty new. Do you know how
I know that to be true?How do you know? Because to this
day when I go, when I'msent to the shops to get soap,
I buy the Dove packs rather thanthe other packs, and I go fancy
soap. I still use Dove occasionally. I buy it because it's because it's
(14:13):
fancy. Because it's fancy, itmakes you feel fancy. And I come
home, my wife gone. Youcould have just bought the normal normal like
Dove soap. Fancy won't dry yourskin like soap? Can I remember?
My grandparents had Dove soap in theirshower and it was I thought it was
the fanciest thing in the world.My grandparents used Imperial leather. That's the
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other brand that I do buy whenwhen I when I when I'm sent to
the shop to get soap, andI can't buy Dove, as in barred
from it the golden red Imperial level. Yes, yeah, not a problem.
Do you remember that so do you? In the plane? Yes?
Yes, but it's just Dove likeImperial leave at my grandparents house, fancy
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Dove soap all that was fancy,super cost a bit, and it was.
It was kept in its in itsown dish in the in the in
the cupboard, not for general usein the shower. I think I think
the grandparents took it out of theshower and put it in the dish when
we used to come to stay,so we wouldn't use the dove soap.
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Don't want to waste good stuff.It is fancy, and every time I
use it, I go, oh, fancy boy, fancy. So I
was finally getting some dove soap,and I'm going to get a tan today
too, fake tan. No,that would have been lying out in the
(15:43):
sun. Okay, yeah, gettingyou know, sun damage and increasing my
risk of melanoma as we did backthen. Goodbye later. Okay, life
is really boring at the moment.Nothing has been happening. Okay, you're
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getting dove soap. That's pretty Iwould have been excited. Kelly Reeves invited
me to go see The Delinquents tonight, but I had to decline her offer.
Why. I don't know. I'vejust said life's boring and nothing's been
happening, and then I've turned downan invitation to the movies. That's what
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I was about to say. It'slike, it's not like you had much
going on, big plans to ten. I'm so tired. Now, imagine
what I would be like tomorrow morningfor Doctor Robbs if I'd gone to the
movies. Ah okay, so there'sa little bit of method to your madness.
Yes, okay. Mom can't getme the Dove soap until Wednesday.
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Probably she's probably not planning on goingshopping till Wednesday, and she's not going
to make a special trip to theshops just for my soap. You know,
she's a busy woman. She didn'tmake a special trip to the shop.
So you die. Ay. You'sworking like eight till five or whatever
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it is, so doesn't leave alot of time for soap shopping. M
h I'll be going to Doctor Rob'sonly for a while on Wednesday. Then
Mum is picking me up to goshopping and buy school stuff and have lunch,
and then she's dropping me back atDoctor Robs. Okay, all right,
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anyway, I have nothing else towrite about. I'm going to go
watch Growing Pains and the Wonder isbye. Okay getting into the cultural touchdoones
of the early ninety yeah mm hmm, Okay, now got Tuesday, and
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I've got January eighth here, butI thought Monday was the eighth, so
it's possibly the ninth, nineteen ninetyDear Diary. It's seven fifty six am,
and I am already ready for DoctorRobs. I like working at doctor
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Rob's and I especially like doing receptionistwork. On my work experience form,
I will write down the following preferencesone veterinary assistant, two receptionist, and
three National parks and wildlife. Okay, okay, I'm planning ahead here because
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work experience this is work experience throughschool. It wasn't two grade eleven,
but you'd already done work experience withhim, hadn't you. Yeah, that
was just my dad organized that.It wasn't like yeah, okay, so
grade eleven we did two four weeksof work experience and it was part of
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the curriculum. Okay, so I'mplanning ahead. I'm reading a book called
as mad As Rabbits at the moment. It's about a girl growing up on
a farm in Victoria in the earlynineteen hundreds. She has eleven brothers and
sisters. Wasn't that basically every bookin the nineties. Possibly this was a
(19:33):
memoir. Okay, so it wasthe So every other book written in the
nineties was about this person, andthis is the memoir of the person those
books are written about. Must be. Was there a magical horse involved or
some distant love affair, not thatI can remember. Okay, I might
(19:56):
have to give it a reread.It's about I'm going to read now by
later. There was a mouse inthe trap this morning. I named it
Henrietta. So if you remember theAvery mouse skeletons, yes, because we
(20:21):
did. Because I had a dirtfloor, we did have mice. So
my dad had set up like alive trap in the shand it's to the
next to the Avery. So oneof the boxes where they got caught inside.
Yeah, and then we could gorelease it somewhere. Yeah. And
(20:41):
at doctor Robb's mousa caught a mouseand dropped it. Mausa was the surgery
cap A bit reductive in the name, but okay, I caught it and
named it Lady Valentina the fourth.Okay, so you you you're actually the
(21:04):
veterinary cat foxibly and this would addthat to you, add that to your
resume. Resume mouse SketchUp Wanita isreally nice. So the usual vet nurse
was on leave and Wanita was thelady who was filling in. Okay,
(21:30):
she brought her dog in today.If you could call it a dog,
it's an Irish wolfhound, weighing inat sixty eight kilos. You're not body
shaming a dog, are you.No, It's just like he's not the
size of a dog. He's thesize of a pony. Could it be
size of a wolf? Like heis? Literally, it's in the name.
(21:52):
He was huge. His name isGuinness. He hasn't been castraight,
Yeah, he hasn't been cast traded. Can you imagine that big thing on
the surgery table, the dog,the dog, because he would not have
fit on the surgery table, hislegs and head would have been hanging over
(22:18):
the edges, so big. Oneof the big, chunky dogs, just
very very tall and long long.Yep. I remember this dog actually stood
on my foot ow and it wasreally painful, and I'm like trying to
push him off, and he wasjust so placid. I'm pushing and pushing
(22:40):
and he just thinks, Oh,this girl's giving me love. Yeah,
looking up at me, what what'swrong? He is lovely? Nice?
Kathleen might be able to get holdof a baby love bird for me.
Kathleen was another girl who was doingwork experience there. See you've got your
(23:04):
bird network still happening, I do. It's a peach face, so it
only costs five dollars. There wereother color varieties of lovebirds that cost more.
This was a peach face. Ihave eleven dollars forty at the moment.
(23:26):
I need to buy the bird andalso some mix and a syringe and
stuff, so obviously for feeding thebirds. Yeah, it shouldn't cost too
much. I hope Mum will helpme make up the difference. Anyway,
I must go goodbye. Okay,okay, Now we're skipping forward a little
(23:52):
bit to Sunday, January fourteenth,nineteen ninety. That is, it's a
bit of a jump. Actually.It is so not doing well on the
no writing every day front, DearDiary. Sorry this is messy, but
I've just painted my nails. Anyway. The Bradnams are up and here is
(24:18):
Dannielle to say a few words.Okay, gooday, how have you been
since Easter? How's your love lifebeen? When I leave, tell Jeremy
Bruce that I think he's really cute, and I'm sorry that I missed him.
God, I would have loved tohave met him. He looks so
beautiful in your yearbook. He'd surelyget you through the night, no doubt.
(24:44):
Okay, my love life has beentotally up the ship since I saw
you last. I can't wait untilwe get to the beach. I'm going
to put on my mirrored sonnies andperv on all the guys. Unreal.
I don't think I'll ever want togo home. I think I'll come and
live here with you. Told youshe was liking the area. Okay,
(25:10):
Yeah, and after they visited us, they were going to the beach to
stay like a week or so.And have you taken them skating yet?
Uh, let's find out. Somuch for the few words I was going
to write, Oh, well,it's not my fault if I get a
little bit carried away? Is ittomorrow? You have to promise to show
(25:33):
me the guys around here or I'llkill you. I definitely have to find
someone before I go, or I'lljust die. On New Year's Eve,
I found Dave and I'm keeping intouch with him. Now I'll have to
find someone here and someone at thebeach. So she's just okay, collecting
boys at each stop. I suppose, no shame, Okay, I hope
(26:00):
there are some really good looking guysat the beach. I'm going to spend
my days on the beach if we'renot going on day trips. The night
that Mum and Dad go out fordinner, I'm going to write to everyone.
And I'll even write to you andtell you about the guys here.
Oh, sorry about the guys there. Don't forget. We have to ring
Ryan tomorrow. Who's Ryan? Yeah, we're going to find out. Okay,
(26:26):
excellent. So remember that she's justDave on New Year's just looking for
someone here, and she's going tobe looking for someone at the beach.
About how shopping around? Yeah?About how much will it cost me to
ring from a public phone? Std? I hope not too much. I
don't know who I love better,Dustin who I'm going out with, or
(26:49):
Ryan, who I really care about. This is all very torrid. You
thought I was bad. At leastI've got usually one boy at a time,
usually. Well, to be fair, she didn't set a New Year's
revolution of being great and writing adiary that you're okay, Yeah, she's
(27:15):
been true to herself. Yeah,I don't think Ryan knows I'm going out
with anyone. I don't know ifI should tell him. We'll wait and
see what eventuates between me and Dustin. Oh well, whatever happens, I
hope that it will all be forthe best. Anyway, i'd better go
before I take up too much space. Well, and at this time,
(27:37):
did you know any of the boysthat she was writing about? No,
because they were all down into statewhere she lived. So okay, so
this was her just filling in theblanks and all that type of stuff.
Yeah, okay, Yeah, Well, see you in the morning. Love
always, your cousin Daniel. Ps. Don't forget to tell Jeremy about what
(28:00):
I wrote earlier. I'll really killyou. He looks so cute. Well
bye, bye, okay, crazy, See told you very much. So
yeah, Monday, January fifteenth,nineteen ninety Well, sorry I didn't finish
(28:22):
writing yesterday, but I was sotired after Dannielle had written. But I
could hardly even read what she hadwritten, let alone write more. Well,
have they would have there been muchto add? No, I don't
think so. Anyway, Everything isreally fine. Everybody's good especially Tully my
(28:45):
baby, peach face love bird.This is the this is the new one.
Yes, I did get it excellent, so you would. Your mum
would have chiped in the cash,yep. And she also helped, well,
both my parents did, because whenI first got it, it was
still being fed by its mother.The idea was take it out of the
(29:07):
nest box early, in hand rearit so it would be really, really
tame. Okay. It had tobe fed every four hours around the clock
for the first little while. That'sa lot of work, it is.
So my dad I would do afeed before I went to bed, and
then my dad would stay up lateand do a feed. Yeah, and
(29:32):
then my mom would get up superearly and do a feed, and then
I'd do all the daytime feeds.That was a that's a real team effort.
But they were happy to do it. So Okay, Yeah, we
(29:52):
me and Dannielle were going to sneakout last night, but we both slept
right through. Okay, this isa new this is a new development.
Yeah, I've never talked about doingthat. I don't know where we were
planning on going, probably not fromthe boys. I didn't really live near
(30:15):
anybody who I could have visited inthe middle of the night, though,
Did that matter to your cousin?Probably not? Okay, Today we're going
to Ring Dustin and Ryan, Dannielle'spresent boyfriend and future boyfriend, and Nigel
(30:38):
go to Doctor Rob's to get somegranivor mix that's the bird's food, and
ride around on the scooter. Ilove that scooter. It is so cool,
so electric scooter or just a Itwas actually a motor scooter like a
little vespa. And I don't evenknow how we ended up getting it,
(31:03):
but next to our house was avacant block and we used to ride this
little oating around, just round aroundin circles. Ye on the vacant book
with helmets. Were safe, Yeahat the time, always that that road
(31:25):
safety thing. Yep. Would youbelieve the Karna hasn't been a pain?
Is the other cousin, the youngercousin. Actually I envy the girl.
She is so well organized. Ifwe're doing nothing, or Dannielle and I
(31:47):
are busy doing something like writing inour diaries or reading, Karina gets out
a posted a color a book toread, or her calendar which she uses
for her diary. Sometimes she's areal so much younger than you obviously.
Yeah, she was I think aboutnine or ten and hang on, let
me think she would have been ten. Okay, she's a real good kid.
(32:08):
I doubt Danny l would think that, though, would you, Danny?
They fought like cat and dog sisters. They do that. Oh and
before I forget, guess what,guess what? Guess what? Mm hmmm.
The Christmas from the Bradnams. Igot a pair of yellow, red
(32:34):
and blue socks. Okay, sonow polish. Yeah, a romance book
called Flip Side, a fancy onelike an adult one or just a yeah,
a potpourri bag, a coffee markand a Batman bandit nice? Love
(33:00):
it my first ever band anna,Yes, my first ever piece of Batman
stuff? Nice? Yeah, lovingit. So that was when that movie,
the one you know that Prince didthe soundtrack on, Yeah, Batman
nineteen eighty nine. Yeah, sothat would have been there would have been
(33:23):
Batman everything in the shops then.Oh it was one of the biggest things.
Yeah. Yeah. Anyway, it'ssix forty four am. Why do
I get up so early? Yes? I agree, Danny. Ellie's half
awake and Karna is totally flaked out. Anyway, I must go now reading
(33:47):
flip side and Anne of Green Gablesbest friend. That's tricky, ha ha,
Well I think that would have tobe Deborah Cole, wouldn't it.
She's in Kolana still lucky thing.I was supposed to be with her on
that holiday. Do you remember?Yeah? Yeah, my mom said that
(34:09):
I could go with her on holiday. It was like for two or three
weeks or something, but I'm notthere might have been because my family was
coming to visit. Potentially, wasn'tthere wasn't there an issue with uh something?
(34:30):
Didn't something happen where you couldn't orshe said you couldn't all? No?
No, oh, well boyfriend Nigel'stowers. Yeah, I'm ringing him
today? Why all right? Sohow often would you call him? Do
(34:55):
you think? Oh? Sometimes herang me. We wouldn't have been every
day though, maybe a couple oftimes a week. Okay, But we
still hadn't seen each other since schoolbroke up. Okay? Is my heart
(35:15):
going to get broken? I don'tthink so. Okay? Excellent Tuesday,
January sixteenth, nineteen ninety Dear Diary, Well, today I saw Billy for
the first time in months. He'sa skating person. Okay. Anyway,
(35:37):
he's not going with Sonia anymore.I don't think so anyway. But anyway,
I've been having second thoughts. Ihate second thoughts about Nigel. Okay,
why I really like Billy. Iliked him before I liked Aaron and
(36:01):
anyway, you know how I likedhim for a million years? Try six
months before Aaron and anyway, youknow how nice he is and everything.
Okay, I don't. I nevermentioned him. I've never talked about him
before. It could have been inthe Garfield diary to say Garfield Diaries.
(36:23):
Yeah, it's just just pinging allover the place, it is. Anyway,
Paul Lancefield is coming around tomorrow andwe're going to have a big talk.
Okay. Why are we talking toPaul about Billy? Probably? Okay,
(36:45):
we used to be each other's advisors. He'd give me advice about my
love life. I'd give him adviceabout his. Okay, So yeah,
he was a really good sounding board. Okay, all right, anyway,
I don't have anything else to say, so I'll sign off. I'll pray
(37:06):
tonight to get God to help memake my decisions. See you later,
Nigel, poor Nigel. Oh Michael, You've worked so hard for it,
now you throw it away. Wednesday, January seventeen, nineteen ninety, Dear
(37:30):
Diary, Well it is confirmed.I really do like Billy. Okay.
One of my favorite songs of alltime has just come on the radio,
Currie by mister mister Solid. Stilllike that song. I'd give more credence
(37:52):
to that statement. If we're nottalking about this. Billy's on the scene
and Nigel's still around and stuff like. That's a sidebar. Yeah, I
want to know what's happening. MDoctor Rob's baby is due tomorrow. Okay,
I'm getting my hair cut just likeMartika is tomorrow. Bold choice,
(38:15):
but I can anyway, I'd bettergo. It's past eleven PM and my
appointment is for eight thirty am.See ya. I love Billy. Does
Nigel know this yet? I don'tthink so. Oh God, Okay,
moving on thought. I thought Nigelwas going to break my heart. It's
(38:37):
you maybe. Thursday, January eighteen, at nineteen ninety, Dear Diary,
Doctor Rob's wife, Cherie had herbaby on Chuesday. They called her Claire
Solid. Anyway, onto other things. The word is out the following people
(39:00):
know or will know soon that Ilike Billy, Deborah Cole, Meaghan Henderson,
the Kendalls. That's my friends.Who are the sisters Paul, Ancefield,
Melinda and Tessa Reid member Tessa fromprimary school. She went to a
(39:24):
different high school. But I don'teven know how we got back in touch.
It's possible we just bumped into eachother at the shops because we kind
of lived like the shops were inbetween our two gauss Yep, Kirsty Oldbrey
(39:44):
and Billy himself. Megan is goingto tell her sister Carrie. Carrie will
tell all the people who work atskating, the Kendles will tell, Mike
will tell all his friends, andPaul will tell Kent, who will tell
(40:06):
everyone. I hope so word shouldget back to Billy. Didn't you say
Billy knew? I said the followingpeople know or will know soon. Ah
okay, yeah, So that's theplan, not just telling him directly,
(40:27):
but telling everyone around him and hopingthat he finds out on the grapevine and
for anyone listening at home, alsopointing out that Billy goes skating. Correct,
yes, so does Nigel. Onlyno, no, not, this
(40:50):
is not Perry Mason me. It'sbasically you're saying, I'll let everyone know
that like Billy, so I don'thave to stump up and break up with
Nigel because if I tell everyone,and everyone knows, everyone includes our man
Nige probably. Okay, yeah,I want Alien mac of Vail again.
(41:14):
Yes, I want the world toknow that I love Billy. I think
the world. What did Nige do? Nothing? I just didn't see him.
Oh it not to cut to tastsuspeessions on your good name, but
it's been like four weeks and youmade a commitment to bang the poor Bella.
(41:37):
He's like, I didn't commit tobanging him. I said I would
commit to doing whatever he wanted,including that I don't know if he wanted
her though. One he was afourteen year old boy, and two you
wrote it in capital letters. Yes, yes, yeah, I don't know.
(42:02):
I think I now know why Ididn't go away with Deborah Cole though.
Okay. Saturday, January twenty,nineteen ninety Dear Diary, Well,
here I am at the maths andScience summer school. Okay, so this
(42:22):
wasn't summer school in the sense ofyou did really bad and now you have
to catch up. This was theopposite the nerd camp. Yeah. It
was at the local UNI and itwas girls from all over the state who'd
done Really, it was just forgirls. It was kind of like getting
girls into STEM type thing before itwas called STEM. I can't really cast
(42:47):
dispersions because in nineteen ninety I didin January a cartooning course. There you
go. We were both doing nerdythings in January nineteen ninety exceptional. Yes,
that's cool. Even though I livedquite near this university, I chose
to. Oh, my parents encouragedme to live in for the week so
(43:07):
I could get the full university experience. Okay, which is what I did.
It is six forty one pm fortea. We had lamb baked potatoes,
gravy coleslaugh lettuce and orange juice.Nice. Nice. Melinda Kanneely is
in my room at the moment.So she was girl from my school,
(43:31):
also from my primary school, andshe wasn't living in but she was just
hanging out in my room until shewaited for her mum to come in.
An individuals Yeah, it was likethe on site dorms. Yeah, so
two single rooms joined by a bathroom. Eat like little pods. Yeah,
(43:55):
I think I know the ones youtalk about. You. Yep, I
dyed my hair red brown, soI would have done this before I came
to the summer school. And thisis after you got the hair cut.
Like, yeah, so I dyedit to look like her color as well.
Okay, yeah, because I wasvery much into her. I do
(44:17):
have a photo somewhere of this,so I'll make sure I show you.
Yes, I demand, like,yep, the girl who shares the bathroom
with me is Dulie somebody or other? Did you write somebody or other?
I did ten points to you.It is so cool here. I have
(44:37):
my own room with a key andeverything. So this to me was just
like, oh, this must bewhat it feels like to be grown up
and live on your own. Yeah, because you your bedroom wouldn't have had
a key, so exactly. Thereis a Bible here in my room,
so I will probably read some tonight. And I'm going to the church service
(44:58):
tomorrow. It is an into denominationalchurch, which means all religions. Anyway,
i'd better go. Not that there'ssomething to do, I've just got
nothing to write about. I loveBilly. So that was Saturday. Now
We're on Monday, January twenty second, nineteen ninety. Dear Diary, Sorry
(45:21):
I haven't written for a long time, but it's really busy here that like
a day or so. Yeah,okay, a long time. But I
still love Billy a real lot.So what did we do? We had,
like, we didn't really have lectures, but we did stuff like look
at the different labs and stuff aroundthe UNI, and then we basically orientation
(45:45):
week for people who would come thereeventually. Yeah, we had to do
nerdy things like build a suspension bridgemade of I don't know, newspaper and
yep, straws or something or other. And I've got a vague memory of
going on an excursion to a watertreatment plant. Yep. Stuff like that.
(46:08):
Yeahs engineering, chemistry, science,all that, Yeah, all that
kind of stuff. I've been talkingto Steph a lot. She was a
girl that I got pretty friendly withwho came from I don't know, somewhere
about three hours away. Okay,Yep, she's really nice. She's a
(46:30):
bit of a swampy. Remember thatterm, Uh yes, but potentially not
the same meaning as what you mean, So tell me what you think it
means. Probably the best way todescribe. It is kind of in the
gothic kind of sense. Yeah,into a particular kind of music. We're
(46:54):
a lot of black okay, yeah, excellent. A bit of an Aussie.
Ye, it was more an aussything, wasn't it what you're thinking
of? No, in in let'sjust say out knew where I lived there
was a swamp. Uh had apark area yep. And people would go
(47:23):
to that swamped area for recreation.Yeah, and some some people profited off
that area and they were swampies.Yeah, as an alternative name. Okay,
(47:45):
Yeah, this was more like asubculture type oh yeah thing. Yeah,
so goth bogan kind of yeah.Oh she wasn't very bogan ish.
Yeah. So she's a bit ofa swampya. Her stomach makes slurpy noises
(48:05):
when she does sit ups. Soshe was in my room doing sit ups
while I was writing, miss andI just wrote that to make her laugh,
Yeah, because I was. Iwas just about to ask, we're
at this stem cam full of birds, would you start doing sit ups close
enough and approximate enough to hear herbound movements? Was just I was saying
out loud what I was writing,Okay, And I wrote that just to
(48:29):
be silly, right, I reallymiss Cleo. I saw a cat today
for the first time since Saturday.It's like that, many days without a
cat, two days without a cat. Meanwhile, Paul Niger's sitting there going,
okay, what about me? Wesaw some of the most gorgeous guys
(48:52):
from another college. We were aboutto throw ourselves at their feet when we
saw them mucking around with some othergirls. Anyway, I like Billy better.
I'd better go now, it's gettinglate. I'll write some more when
I have time. See you later. I love Billy and god ps I
(49:16):
miss Rocky Horror Picture Show solid closing, Yeah, I want to know.
No communication with Nigel adult, isthat right? None? Okay? Apart
from the odd phone call and sincefalling in love with Billy, I don't
(49:37):
know. Probably none, okay,So all right, well just i'm I'm
there's going to be a nexus pointwhere this all comes to a Yes.
So I had been watching Rocky HorryPicture Show pretty much every day that school
holidays, so I missed it bynow. But I do remember before I
(49:57):
went, I put a tape recorderright next to the television speaker and I
recorded every single song onto a tapeso I could have my own version of
the soundtrack to take to summer school. So was it recorded off the TV?
Yep? Was it SBS? No, it had been on It was
(50:21):
when we lived in Cambridge. Ithad been on I think it was Chad
seven. Now that's a that's ascandalous thing. It had bits cut out,
okay, but all the songs weren'tit because I remember watching it on
SBS. So yeah, it's alwaysinteresting stuff to watch on SPS. Hmmm.
(50:44):
And that's it for this episode.Okay. So you're deep in the
middle of stem camp yeap, andyou're in love with the man and the
other man doesn't know not Billy,and I've left Nigel hangen. Yeah,
you're missing a cat and you've gota friend doing Google's sit ups. Yeah,
okay, Well a lot of unansweredquestions or loose ends here. Are
(51:09):
you still catfishing a girl? It'sreally just super complex, it is,
And there's probably not long children newschool year starts. So if it's the
twentieth, all that week twenty January, next weeks week of the holidays.
(51:30):
Mm, well it would end withAustralia Day, so it would yeah,
yeah, more than likely interesting.Okay, Well, it's a little bit
of drama set up to come becauseyou're going to go back to school and
you're in love with a man whodoesn't go to your Billy doesn't go to
(51:51):
your school. No, he doesn'tgo he's left. He left school in
grade ten, so he had goneto my school but before I went there.
Okay, but Nigel still goes inyour grade. No, he's in
the grade above me. Okay,ye, sorry, And just for clarity,
(52:14):
skating is still happening. Yep.Billy has gone skating and people would
have told him yes, and there'sa chance Nigel has also gone skating slim
but yeah. Still, so it'sit's it's it's there's conflict coming. There
(52:38):
is possibly, oh, there definitelyis conflict. There is. And the
worst thing is that Nigel didn't doanything and you fell in love with someone
else. So this can only reflectpoorly on you. We'll see, Okay,
(53:00):
all right, Well there's a littlesomething to look forward to. It.
I mean, it's just, oh, I can I can feel the
anxiety building of the something's coming andI don't know what it is, and
yeah, just you get that thehand crampy type of like conflict. Not
that serious. Well, I thinkit's not, sitting way back in my
(53:24):
comfy chair some thirty years later.No, it's not serious. But in
the world I'm invested in, whichis you at this age, and every
page is a defining moment in yourlife. It's like I've bought. I'm
now, I've bought into the conceitof the whole thing. I'm like,
(53:45):
what's going to happen? Because Iknow if it doesn't go well, you're
going to collapse after that, andthen it's to be pages and pages and
pages of woe and an angeren Gables. And I am betting. I will
bet now listeners, there will besome heartache this year of the nineteen ninety
(54:07):
and there will be an epic emoslash swampy style poem written in the style
of End in green Gables or quotedsong lyrics about something to do with this.
It's coming and I know it's coming. I'm going to write that down.
These are your predictions. I'm predictinga significant quotation of an emotional song
(54:32):
yep or some prose written in aclassic and a Green Gables style about the
woe that is your love life Okay. I mean that's not a very difficult
bet to make, considering this bookis completely about your love life and the
Mackia elevations of how you move throughit all. But okay, so that's
(54:53):
your predictions for the year. Atsome point before nineteen ninety ends, there
will be heart break and emo fueledpros. Okay, I've written that down
so you can see if it comestrue. I know it's coming true.
Is it not even it's not evena bet. It's like it's like walking
(55:13):
into the casino, reaching over thecashier's counter, taking two hundred bucks and
walking out. That's how confident Iam. What Okay, email lyrics warning
there will be emo lyrics coming,I bet you. Okay, all right,
well, let us let everyone knowabout the Instagram and we can get
everyone home to to ponder them tocoming here ahead at Diary of My Bestie,
(55:39):
and I promise if there are somekind of woe is Me angsty emo
lyrics or prose, I will putit up on the Instagram if if it
happens, here's a competition. Goto at bestI and nominate what month you
(56:06):
think this happens in. Are wegoing to go January? February. You
you pick, dear listener, whenyou think this world is going to collapse
in on itself, and we willget some very prototypical my chemical romance.
Woe were they even born by then? Yeh oh, well okay the cure
(56:30):
that's more like it. Yeah,is it even really Morrissy Morrissey? There
we go. Will we get somepre pub pre problematic Morrissey action before he
went okay, all right, cool, all right, well, thank you
best, love you very much,and yeah, let's let's get into the
(56:51):
nineties or later. Bye bye,
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