What I miss about 2005

As you can all see I am a very nostalgic person. It is hard to believe that 2005 was 7 years ago O_O. Makes me feel really old! Anyways Let's see 2005... what was I doing? Oh yeah, I was in 10th grade and It was prolly the most rebellious time of my teenage life. I remember constantly getting in trouble at school for just about everything under the sun, weather it was breaking dress code or getting into fist fights with bullies, you could guarantee that I was going through some sort of drama at that time in my life. I also remember for the first time boys were starting to notice me around that age.. idk why either I looked so awkward!

The Following picture is of me and the one underneath was one of my boyfriends that I had that year.. I dated two but yeah.. I don't have a picture of  the other one.

Yeah I know I was a total barney huh?

AND THIS WAS MY BOYFRIEND AT THE TIME. HIS NAME IS DAVID. HE WAS PUNK ROCK AND I LIKED HIM CUZ OF THAT.

Anyways moving along... There were a lot of things I was into back then that were a little weird. For one I remember being obsessed with Marilyn Manson and Nine Inch Nails. I don't like NIN anymore (and you guys all know why) but yeah.. I still do listen to Manson and enjoy his music. I remember going into Hot Topic and buying all the cool manson and nin shirts that they used to sell. I used to own this one...

I thought it was the coolest thing on the planet at the time and then lord and behold my mom threw it to the goodwill I think after she had enough of my spooky kid phase. I used to wear the stripped leggings and all. I mean When I look back at how I dress I start to see why I was bullied so much. Going to school in small town usa did not help out at all. Prolly should have dressed more like this..

YELL YEAH YALL!

Another garment I had grown very fond of was the tartan mini skirt

NOW THESE WERE THE REASON WHY I GOT SENT TO IN SCHOOL SUSPENSION EVERY OTHER WEEK. Second fucking day at Powhatan High I got thrown into ISS by MRS. GWALTNEY because I was wearing one of these. The one I had on was not even that short and it totally met the fingertip length requirements. After that day that woman was constantly on my ass about what I would wear to school. I remember the first time I got in trouble I had a note sent home with me and OH BOY was my mom mad. I never really got that either because she used to buy my clothes so.. yeah anways Ima shut up now. 

I could not be a proper spooky kid without a metal lunchbox. Manson had one during his early days and I had to be a copy cat. I even taped up pictures of him on the inside of it. I used to bring lunch to school just for the sake of using my lunchbox. 

ok enough of that.. So yeah Let's see what kind of music I was really into back then..

A.F.I was in heavy rotation on my ipod. I specifically remember jamming out to them in Bio class during the middle of a lecture. The teacher had no clue either. I guess cuz I sat in the the back and used to hide my headphones really well underneath my hoodie that i was not supposed to wear in class but did anyways. I think she eventually gave up on making me take the damn thing off after a while. In my school not many people listen to Nirvana or Alice In Chains and I wanted to blend in with the emo kids because they were the only ones who accepted me. So i had to adapt to some of their ways. A.F.I was the only "emo" band that I found tolerable so I just stuck with them. I actually do like them though.. 

JACK OFF JILL

I discovered them on someone's Xanga page (omg remember Zanga? it was one of the first blogging sites haha). Anyway I fell in love with them! I was into the whole riot grrl thing in 9th grade and when I found out that there were all girl goth bands out there as well I flipped my gord because I was always searching for female role models. 

EVERY MORNING before i got on the school bus I would wait inside my house for a little while and watch music videos in the morning, back when mtv still somewhat aired them. I loved this video so much even though I hated Gwen at the time because I thought she was too mainstream. When I was in 10th grade I used to dress in Harjuku style clothes so I thought this was so cool because other people were finding out about Japanese Fashion and making it more mainstream and more acceptable to wear. 

THIS is embarrassing.. but I loved this song -__-

Finally something I am not ashamed of! A Perfect Circle had just let out a new album the year before and this video came out the next year. When I saw it on Fuse Tv I was so confused, I was like um.. this video does not match this song at all? "WHAT AM I WATCHING?!?! IS THIS A PORNO?!?!" Yeah back then I thought this was enough to be considered porn haha. Anyways After I saw this video I used to have stupid daydreams in class that me and my friends were gonna rip our clothes off and beat people up in our bikinis. I don't know.. I was WEIRD! 

Now let's more on to the TV shows I was into at the time. 

I don't even know why I was so into this show but I was. To the point of embarrassment actually. I even used to draw the Charmed symbol thingy on my hand in class with an ink pen. I also tried to be a witch and started to go to barnes and noble's new age section and often found myself jotting down spells on a piece of papers since my mother would have ripped me a new one if I brought home a spell book. It was actually thanks to this show that I soon after discovered who The Smiths were. 

GHOST IN THE SHELL: STAND ALONE COMPLEX

When I grew up I thought I was gonna have a prosthetic body and be a bad ass cop just like the major. She was the coolest anime character ever and still is!  I even cut my hair to look like hers! THAT my friends is dedication. I actually cut it myself too haha. 

Well there ya have it. All of the things that I miss about 2005! Oh I almost forgot something...

A PLACE FOR FRIENDS!

I would kill to have left my profile the way it was back then. I got a new one after high school ended but I took everything of of my original one. even deleted all my friends. Anyways this website got me into so much trouble at home. My mom did not want me using it, as a matter of fact, i do not think anyones parents wanted them using it. I think everyone was afraid that kids were talking to perverts and what not on there. I used to sneak on at school until they started to block the site. Then I thought I would get smart! I stared to use a proxy, but then sadly those were blocked as well. I used to spend so much time making my profile pretty and talking to people on there. I think 2005 could actually mark the year that I stopped socializing in real life (besides going to school that is) Since Powhatan County sucks I had to meet people from other schools and have a way to keep in contact with my friends from my old schools that I had gone to in the past. None of us had cell phones back then because they were still relatively a new thing. Kids these days are so lucky that they have cell phones btw. I remember when we used to have to pass notes in class -_- and that was super risky cuz if the teacher or someone else read them you were usually done for. It often ended up in a trip to the guidance counselors office or a detention of some kind. 

So what things do you miss about 2005? Do you wish you could go back and change who you were back then? Did you listen to shitty music? Did you watch lame tv shows? Who were your favorite bands at the time? FEEDBACK PEOPLE!