my secret predictions – from 12 year old me!
by kellebelle
Piss your pants. I kid you not.
I was tidying out some old boxes at home before I move back to Dublin and found a little
envelope entitled ‘my secret predictions – my millennial message to the ‘me’ of the future’. HA.
Waaaay back when we were all excited bout the ol’ millennium (will all the computers crash and planes fall out of the sky?!) I was given a present of some sort of millennium time capsule thing to be opened on my 21st birthday – eh well that didn’t happen! They gave you a few headings to write on and off you go.
I was 12 when I wrote it. Hilarious. What a weird child I was!…Went off on a bit of a tangent about my cat at one stage. No change there so!
Safe to say I think 12-year-old me would be disappointed that I didn’t have a $3 million dollar home and a novel written by 21… oh and an Oscar!!!!!!
Anyway here it goes, spelling mistakes included!:
Dear Me! At the moment it is 6:06 pm on Friday the 31st of December 1999. I’m feeling both happy and sad for the new Millennium. I had some great times in the 20th century. I probably won’t read this ‘coz I’ll probably forget.
I am 12yrs old and about 4 foot 7. I weigh 5 and a half stone. I am a strict vegetarian and hope I stay that way! I love fashion, make-up and animals. I hate cruelty to animals.
I like Britney Spears. I like Sarah Michelle Geller. I like David Bornaz. I really love Pokemon. I collect stickers and trading cards, limited edition stuff, Beanie Babies and lots more. I love music, swimming, rounders, reading and writing stories. I like Friends… the sitcom. (Ahem… then I drew a massive ‘peace sign’, oh dear.)
When I’m 21 I hope to be 5 foot five (sorry didn’t happen!!!). I’d like to
weigh 7 or 8 stone. I hope I am still a vegetarian. I’d love to be rich and have lots of cool clothes. I would love to be an actress and write a best selling novel. I’d like to be living in America. I’d like to be world wide famous. I’d like to have a $3 million (or more) house with a jack-u-say (inventive spelling for jacuzzi!) and a swimming pool. I’d like to have an Oscar and an Emmy.
As I’m writing Socks (my cat!) is washing herself. She is now on my bed smelling the top of my pen. I bet you think I’m really immature. I’m
not! (oh, oh… eh…ok)
I went to see Steps at the point. I would like to be involved in a protection league for animals. (Yes, I see how that is clearly related to Steps!)
I really admire Britney Spears and Sarah Michelle Gellar. I also like Reese Withspoon (with-spoon?!). She is married to hunk Ryan Phillippe. (yes I actually wrote hunk!) She is an actress. She had a baby.
I really don’t know what to write anymore. I meant to write all this on 5 pages, ha ha. I might write more later. Bye for now.
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HA! Wahey bet 12-year-old me would be embarrassed I decided to publish this for all to read.
Gas tho’. I remember reading about Cringe Parties in Company magazine a few months back… they’re parties where people read entries from their old teenage diaries! Great idea! I may have a root around for some of my old ones. No doubt I talk about cats too much in them.


Love it! David ‘Bornaz’!! haha
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Haha! Gas. Yes I was FULLY obsessed… like actually OBSESSED with Angel and Buffy at the time!!!
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hahaha thats hilarious! I did a similar thing when I was about 14 and everything was about boys I fancied and that I wanted to have a baby by the time I was 18 so I’d be a cool young mum.
Ha! Think most of my diary entries were about boys! I was in love with a different one every week… I remember writing lots about all the ‘eye contact’ we had… I kid you not, bloody eye contact! Ha – thought that meant everything!
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what a great read. you lucky thing seeing steps at the point!
Awh thanks Dave!
Steps – ha… highlight of my little life!
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Haha, I am loving this post! Whenever I catch sight of my old diary, I just cringe. The things I used to come out with!!
Thanks for your comment on my blog.
SarahD
Haha – I’m going up to the attic later to try find my old diaries! Will post a few entries if I do!
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Amazing! I wish I had something like this to look back on!
Funny to see how I thought things would be!
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Ahh beanie babies! LOVED THEM!! Still do..
I used to have a whole room dedicated to them… filled with shelves… I was such a nerd. I used to have tag protectors on the and everything… was convinced that was how I’d make my millions!
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Ha hello nerd buddy … I too had tag protectors on all of them! I literally had about a hundred, and I kept them in a special cupboard with a glass door … they’re still around somewhere, except its more likely they’re in a black bag in the attic somewhere…
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That’s hilarious!! I love the part about Steps and the animal protection league
Haha! I know like what even is an ‘animal protection league’?! The way kids word stuff… gas!
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Oh my days! I did one of these too! I wonder where it is!
Mine will be far worse but this is pretty cringetastic! Least you were ambitious! Oscar and an Emmy! No bother!
Go find it! I was so surprised I still had mine… after all those years!
Ha – such an ambitious child… not just one award… two!… and by 21!!!
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Haha Love it! Sure you’ve hardly changed Kel! And one thing is for sure…you do have lots of lovely clothes now so that worked out!!
I made a bat with my best friend when I was 15…100 euro to the person who was famous in Ireland by the age of 25! I have only 4 months left…!
Haha – still kinda me isn’t it?! Gas!
4 months left – time to get into gear Jan! You’ll be famous in no time
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ah this is fab, so cute!
Thanks