New Secrets

  We went to the bike path sold lemonade. Here are the secrets:

NEW SECRETS (July 27,2010)

1. I feel somewhat responsible for my little brother's problems :(
2. We've had a dog for 17 years and I hate dogs!
3. I like limp day-old ceasar salad.
4. Lately I've had a hard time with maintaining a positive attitude and self confidence.  This is something I'm working on everyday.
5. I want to quit my job - which should be perfect for me
6. Bruce's secrets (bruce is a dog): He has a secret door.  His favorite thing to eat - everything!
7. I broke sixteen eggs of my neaulyers (?) house!
8. I'm truelly asian but no body knows it.
9. When I went to Paris I kissed a fat asian dude
10. I'm missing my two front teeth.
11. My secrets are too sad to share.
12. I have wanted to marry peter since we first started dating.
13. I'm scared of moving to sacramento in august.
14. I like a dude name Denrick.  Jealous!
15. I do not like my bruthrs
16. My friend hates grass and I do too.
17. I stole my brothers allowance
18. When no one is here I turn up the music all the way and have my own dance party
19. I have one thousand dorlare in my back yard.
20. I only rode today for the lemonade
21. When I clean my room I really just throw it all under the bed
22. Just between you and me, I love lemon bars so much that i want tot marry one
23. I don't really like lemonade
24. I'm very lonely.  I think my 12 year old daughter and I are drifting apart.

Unheralded Success July 26, 2010

Today was an unheralded success! 

1. We tried out a new recipe:  Lemon Bars! which received rave reviews and
2. We overcame a huge obstacle: No lemonade pitchers! by using up all our  Santa Cruz Organic Lemonade.  I know, we cheated a bit.  Thankfully, the pitchers made it home this evening and tomorrow we'll be back to old schoolin' it with frozen lemonade, just like Mrs. Brady made.

One interaction we had yesterday was with a woman who related the story of her friend in college who collected secrets from prison inmates and sorority girls and then combined them on a bulletin board.  People couldn't identify which secret came from what source.   Are people surprised that sorority girls and prison inmates share some of the same darkest thoughts and fleeting compromised behaviors?  I think it was a brilliant project and the question I'm left with is how is it that some of us can make epic mistakes and turn around to lead productive lives and others never have that chance?  What stops them, who stops them?  The obvious culprits are socioeconomics and luck...but there's so much more to think about, to question.  I think we don't talk about the nature of secrets within the dominant paradigm because we are threatened by admitting to the fallacy of the lines that define us that shame and stigma reinforce.

I have much, MUCH more to say, but I deleted it from this post because we were losing people in less than 2 minutes to my verbosity.  If you want to read what chased other people away, look in the DAILY COMMENTARY DIGEST.

UNHERALDED SUCCESS JULY 26, 2010

1. I pretend to have a conversation with people (after I already have) changing what I should have said.
2. I cheated on a college paper
3. I am secretly in love with Alana De La Garza on "Law and Order" (I am also in love with my wife)
4. I am an anarchist from Massachusetts.  My secret is that may or not be true.
5. I have a secret hidden desire to kiss my boss.
6. I actually like my job!
7. I borrowed my sister's shirt and never gave it back!
8. I judge other people too much, and I care too much about how others judge me. 
9. I WANT A REALLY EXPENSIVE BIKE 
10. I like to have 7 children.
11. You can understand what the birds are saying if you listen long enough 
12. I SECRETLY WANT TO QUIT MY JOB, LEAVE MY BILLS, AND take my family to Spain.
13. As a young teen, I pinched 2 girls' bottoms in a water theme park.
14. I am in love with lady gaga
15. I skip school occasionally and fake sickness.
16. I'm still in love with my two most recent ex-girlfriends and fear that the hurt of those losses will forever scar me.
17. Sometimes I "borrow" my sister's clothes and never give them back!
18. The name of the guy on the Alaska Airlines Airplane is Chester.
19. I used to be in love with my highschool teacher!

Remember to vote for your favorite secret of the day

Camp (July 25, 2010)

It's my first day back from camp and I'm so excited that I got more secrets.  We now have 204 secrets, 54 of them from today, the most we have gotten the whole time.  In the middle of the day some boys set up a lemonade stand right down the path. But really, how can they compete with  "Free!"?  They left soon after they started, but we did elicit one secret from them before they packed it up.  We don't know which one, of course, but we have our suspicions! 

When we yell, "free lemonade" some people yell back, "sorry, no money!" but we are very happy to have so many people stop for free lemonade.  

Thank you for reading our blog.  Don't forget to vote for your favorite secret.  

By Luna

Sunday

(July 25, 2010)

1. I hate riding bikes.
2. I AM IN LOVE WITH MY DOG AND I SKIPPED A GRADE
3. I went snorkeling in the altantic ocean (with life jacket) & told no one I cant swim : )  .
4. I tend to get to sensitive when people on the bike trail call out to the left.  It makes me feel that they rule the road and I am in their way.
5. I LOVE lemonade
6. God loves You  John 3:16
7. I'm from Lithuania, I'm actually a man
8. I am sometimes afraid of the dark! and I am part Irish
9. I am a precious, loving, perfect woman!  And, sometimes I don't recognize it!
10. Wonder what it would be like if Los Angelos was our home?
11. I like monsters and star wars
12. I have an alter ego :O
13. I had pee in my pants when I was 11 years old.  we went to picnic with my friends.  I did pee and I felt ashamed so I accidentally dropped water on my pants :>)
14. I sometimes act nice to people when I'm not feeling so nice.
15. I am 27 and read all of the Bella and Edward books.
16. THE BEST THINGS IN LIFE ARE FREE.  TELL EVERYONE YOUR SECRET!
17. I'm thinking about a new trajectory in which I learn that we are spiritual and become transparent and can move through walls and space.  I believe that it's true and I want to manifest.
18. I used to eat Dog Food when I was a kid.
19. I secretly want to live in NYC. I <3 Seattle, but it's just not New York!
20. Free lemonade is fabulous on the xxx bike path.
21. Sometimes I surf the web @ work
22. May you be blessed for the wonderful gift you've given me!!  CDbaby.com/artist/CindyAkana
23. I ONCE VOTED FOR A DEMOCRAT
24. I'm not sure I calculate my business taxes correctly
25. I have a blister on my toe :(
26. I live on a sailboat and hope to one day sail around the world!
27. I read my sister's Diary once and never tolled her what I found out
28. i don't have a secret.  wink wink - a five year old
29. I used to pick and chew previously chewed gum, under tables, as a child!  Yuck - can't imagine as an adult
30. I enjoy LMN sometimes
31. I farted in the classroom.  and. I was the I was the teacher !!!
32. For the first time in months I think life might actually be okay!
33. I accidentally took a gallon of milk from the store without paying for it.
34. I am a mass murderer. (I have killed untold gnats on evening rides on the xxx bike path.  All gnats must die.)
35. I LOVE singing in the Shower!
36. I buried a time capsule in Idylwild, CA.
37. I sometimes feed my cat an extra meal (He is on a diet)
38. I sucked my thumb until I was 35 yrs old!  Thanks
39. MY SECRET IS THAT I AM UNSURE OF WHETHER OR NOT TO TRY A NEW JOB
40. I'M PART ROBOT
41. I want to marry the guy i'm biking with! <3
42. I hate my girlfriend but I tell her I love her.
43. I would like to leave my boyfriend but am afraid of being alone.
44. I want to go skinny dipping
45. I <3 my family.  Thanks for the lemonade!
46. I should have called my mom this morning.
47. I cheat at board games.
48. I miss my Grandparents :(
49. I have 30 cars!
50. My grandmother's brother was a Nazi (she hated him)F
51. Flora's favorite flower - Brightly colored one
52. Missing 2nd toe
53. We've bought my husband a surprise birthday balloon ride but he might be scared of heights...
54. Fear of Heights.

Making Lemonade ... POLLS!

   I spent yesterday researching other hosting sites(big shout out "Thank you" to Elisa for sending me links and boosting my morale!) and talking to web developers - or atleast sending the few I know emails.  And that wasn't any fun.  I'm open to making a change, but that is not where I want to put my energy.  If anyone out there wants to help me relocate, I'll buy the pizza and beer, but otherwise, we're staying put for now.  Luna will be back this evening and maybe we'll venture back to our shady spot on the trail and we'll have more secrets to post tonight. 


In the interim, I've created Favorite Secret Polls for each day!!! If people vote, I'll periodically aggregate the polls and do a "Best of Fav Secrets".

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Temporary Hiatus while CEO goes to camp

Sadly, the lemonade stand is going to be be out of commission through July 23rd while the owner takes a much needed vacation at sleep away camp.  As much as I want to, I think setting up a lemonade stand without a kid to legitimize the enterprise would be a tad unseemly.  Try as  I may, I can't bribe my 4 year old into taking over temporary proprietorship.

While Luna is away, I may be reorganizing the blog so check back for updates including:

• FAQs, 
• Ethics of THE STAND*,  
• a CONTEST to win a punk rock SeattleSCOLL t-shirt, 
• and possibly a new poll feature.

*Ethics of THE STAND will include  details behind our new policies:

1. What happens on the bike path stays on the bike path and no one gets hurt.  
2. The no-peeky rule:  A lemonade stand has got to have a code.

Commentary and Secrets : Friday Evening Mojo Happenin' (July 16)

Each day I am increasingly astonished by both

1. the degree of insight and honesty pervading the secrets people share and
2. that they chose to share them with us.  

Accordingly, today was a banner day for the freeing of secrets.

I think the synergy of  

• Luna prompting "write a good secret;  the juicier the better"
• fostered by that ole collective unconscious rollerblading down the bike path in a gold lamay suit trailing gold, silver  and hot pink stars and dosing the airwaves with a high end concoction of the good stuff
• all set on the evening stage, on a Friday evening stage, no less,

led to the pervasion of good stuff: insight and honesty.

Thanks to everyone for participating!  So many of these secrets have resonated with us in ways we can't quite articulate (yet) ...  and we wish things we can't quite imagine (yet) ...

SECRETS AND CONFESSIONS

1. I have to fart.  But I'm riding with a girl I'm trying to impress.  Painful.
2. Most people like me but I don't like myself.
3. I look in the mirror and see Ryan Reynolds
4. I like being with 1 person at a time, rather than big groups and I tend to try to avoid hanging out with lots of friends.  I think too much with too many people.
5. I like listening to hip hop music even though I deny it.
6. I have secret money hidden away!
7. I stole a candy bar when i was in 5th grade.
8. I had 3 donuts this morning. :)
9. I purposely push myself too hard at work so when I come home, i don't have to do any chores because I am "too tired"
10. I am 55 years old
11. I like to make cookie dough just to eat & not even make into cookies
12. I copied my answers in exam from my friend.
13. I'm really nice
14. I'm in love with a singer from Oregon but I have a bf.
15. My secret is that I'm 1000 yrs. old.  signed Big Liar
16. I'm sometimes scared that I may never get married
17. I live in Hawaii but to me, Seattle is true paradise.
18. I am 29 years old and its only the 10th time I have ever ridden a bike.
19. I secretly wish that we would decide to get married right now instead of having a big party and inviting a lot of people.  Just a small ceremony would be perfect!
20. Sometimes I like when our cats come and wake us up, even though my girlfriend hates when that happens. :)
21. Confession:  I confess that I love banana bread and nice people who give out free lemonade
22. I have no secrets
23. I have guilt regarding my brother.  We have no relationship, & it makes me incredibly sad.
24. I can't blow up balloons!

Commentary and Secrets: Two-Fer July 15th and July 14th

We've fallen behind in our posting. Yikes!  Well, I'll be brief because I have A LOT of secrets to post and they are FANTASTIC!  Maybe I feel that way because I'm really taken with all the people who've stopped at our stand.  Their/your enthusiasm is contagious!

I have a theory about what is giving people such a kick about our "Free your soul with Free Lemonade" stand and  it isn't that is free and it is only kind of because it's about secrets...well, it's a lot that it's about secrets, but I think it's much more than that.  

My theory is that our stand gives people an excuse to give something of themselves.  I think they are tickled because we are asking them for something and they are able to give it.  And what makes it even better is that what we are asking for is a piece of themselves.  A piece of themselves that just maybe they don't feel safe sharing with most people.  And we will take it, hold it and not hurt them with it...ever.   

On one hand what is being played out is the very essence of community:   an excuse to give something, to share something, to be a part of something larger than oneself.  But what is being shared is anonymous and potentially shameful and secret.  Our stand provides a communal interaction from which everyone can walk away completely unscathed but a little less unknown,  forever. ... and then revisit through the grille of the internet...

Couple noteworthy events:  

• Yesterday, 5 minutes after setting up  and surrounded by our first crowd, we spilled two gallons of lemonade to appease the gods of sugar and technology 
• We're franchising!  In business  a mere 7 days and already murmurings of "AlaskaSCOLL" are in the air.  Can you believe it??  Woot!

SECRETS AND CONFESSIONS (july 15th)

1. I'm thinking about moving to New Zealand in a month and I'm not telling anyone.
2. I cheated on all my lovers.  (I don't do it anymore, got married)
3. I am a hardcore Republican
4. I cheated on spelling test in 2nd grade
5. My secret is my first time on a bicycle, my shoe strings got caught in my pedals and I cried.
6. When I was 10 I stole candybars from my neighbor while she was cooking my lunches!  I feel bad she was wonderful!  (20 years later - she told me she knew the whole time)
7. Secret:  My tushy hurts!
8. I'm pregnant!
9. I have pee stains on my underwear
10. I have Hemeroids
11. I <3 DJ
12. I worked illegelly in France for 4 years and loved it! :)
13. I once had a spit war with my grade school crush and got in BIG trouble
14. I have not shaved in a long time!
15. I got sent to the princaple's office throwing a snowball.
16. I feel broken...  Thanks you for the lemonade. ---------this guy.
17. I got sent to the princibles offece because a girl atacked me and I deffended my self
18. I am terrible at basketball & I dont tan, its only the refraction of light, through my red leg hair :)  Thank you for the lemonade
19. I've Loved more THAN ONE of the girls I've Broken Up with
20. I am very affraid of Marriage
21. I watch bad reality shows like The Real World.
22. Well - I sometimes lose my temper + yell @ my kidz.  Later I'm sorry.
23. I'd like to circumnavigate the globe.  This year.
24. I'm going to do the stp in one day on saturday for the first time, but i am going to have my brother follow me in my car to drive me to portland if I get too tired or to the nearest hotel and ride the rest of the way on sunday.
25. I am a straight guy and love romantic movies

SECRETS AND CONFESSIONS (july 14th)

1. My past 100 lives I have been a man in this lifetime I am here to write many books and change the unsustainable path that humanity is currently on.
2. I'm Happy But not Everyone Knows it.
3. Pie is not suposed to be alive
4. Michael Jackson lives!!!
5. The secret is that you will always have a lucky star within every constellation in the sky, learn them and they will be your friends forever with you: day and night.
6. I wish that I could be a kid again.  It gets so busy as an adult that I have almost forgotten how to relax.
7. I'm a pre op Boy
8. I'be been in school for 4 years and I don't even think I like what I'm doing!
9. I'm skipping work this afternoon to play in the sun :)
10. I was 5 years old when I received my first gold fish and I was so excited i named it Erin.  My name is Erin.
11. I like Brittney Spears  -Anon-
12. I sneak in my brothers room.
13. one time i peed in a bush ...
14. One time I peed in my backyard when I was locked out.
15. Dragons are real (and danger us)  

Commentary and Secrets: The Case of the Would Be Brownie Thief July 13, 2010

Wow, it's funny how business comes and goes, packs of people hover and then disperse and only the sound of an empty lemonade cup blowing across the bike path can be heard for miles. Only to be jolted back into reality by a brownie seeking 4 year old exploring different shock and awe tactics to overcome the righteous templars of the brownie, aka me and mom.

She employed footwear and currency among her many weapons in her deceptive practices but she was denied access to the brownie repeatedly. "Accidently", she lost her shoe and came hobbling to mom complaining it hurt too much too walk reasoning that therefore mom would have to get it ... giving Shea the opportuity too steal a forbidden brownie. Unfortunately for her, somebody else took care of bringing
it back. Then she had the crazy idea of stealing money and pretending to be a customer, luckily my sharp eyes recognized the guilty girl. Then there was the pick pocketing event involving visa and a flabbergasted biker and the tattooing of mom's legs while mom's attention was diverted, but you get the point...the templar retained control, but it was an ardous task, believe me!

I really do wonder (please answer me)if anybody is reading this. You better be because writing this is boring and hard,I mean the lemonade stand's fun but this, this is a pain. So please,please comment or just become a follower!

who me?

~Luna

SECRETS AND CONFESSIONS

1. I secretly pretend I'm from england or france - je parle francais
2. We are beautiful molecular machines
3. I ate all the choclets
4. Elvis lives
5. We LOVE Brownies!! :)
6. I love Carol
7. I love free lemonade and free beaches
8. I like to dance naked
9. I have never had Ben and Jerry's ... EVER
10. I want to marry Kerry (or movry Kelly or Keily)
11. Owen likes Tron and light cycles
12. I once killed a porcupine
13. What kind of hats do they wear in the artic?   Ice caps
14. I think this is the best lemonaid ever!
15. I wish I knew how to tell people that my dad is sick.  I feel too awkward about it
16. I once ate all my friend's pie.
17. Left 4, Right 10, left 20
18. I can eat an entire bag (1 lb) of candy in one sitting.
19. When you turn 13 I'm going to make a bedroom for you downsairs and you no longer have to share a bedroom with your 4 yr. old brother.
20. My parents had face lifts in the 60's and would have died if anyone found out.  My mom never knew that I even knew.
21. Sometimes I wish my daughter would just stop talking!
22. My parents own a candy store and in the middle of the night i would sneak down and grab a snack.  Technically this is not much of a secret because everyone assumed we did that. :)
23. I wear my cycling jersey at least 5 times before washing it.

Commentary and Secrets SOB SAVE OUR BLOG July 12, 2010

We made it out to the bike path with 2 gallons of lemonade and lots of baked goods still warm from the oven just as the sun was coming out - around 5 this afternoon. It started off as a bit of a dreary day here in Seattle, much to most people's relief. Several people making the trek back from Redmond, 24 miles away, lauded the weather and cringed like vampires* upon remembering last week, when the thermometer dabbled viciously in the 90's.

Pretty quickly we had people stopping, tickled by the premise of free lemonade and enthused to take part in the divulging of secrets. Plenty of people have said they don't have ANY secrets or ANYTHING to confess. LIARS, the lot of them (except you ...you know who you are, I'm talking to the rest of 'em)! We're not talking mortal sin confessions, but an untoward thought or a little white lie or leaving work early on Thursdays to beat the hordes on the bike path home? Never? Really? Not buying it.


Perhaps for those people, the innocence of the lemonade stand hosted by the sweetest of all children (cough, couch) makes it difficult to access and divulge their more nefarious selves. Perhaps we need to counter this reflex, prime the "I used my roommate's toothbrush to clean the toilet" pump a little. We need to direct the thought process away from the eyes of my sweet innocent girls and inward, toward their more desperate and craven - or at least toward their occasionally slovenly and self absorbed - selves. Or just maybe some people are running around this planet completely actualized. Wow, we could be closer than I thought ...




All that said, every single person who stopped at our lemonade stand was lovely, charming and kind hearted... well, as best can be assessed in 5 or less minutes. And to the people who stayed and chatted, we loved talking with you! And I guess it’s true, some of you are just too darn nice. We are so glad you enjoyed our lemonade and we hope you come back for more. I'd like to thank all of you, especially the liars, cheaters and orange juice drinkers, for playing along!! We so appreciate everyone taking part in this experience.


Favorite bumper sticker:

Favorite t-shirt of the day was a tie:  One was on a sweat drenched biker & read "B.P Bike Powered" on the front and "No More Spills" with a circled car crossed out on the back and the second is shown below with the bumpersticker of the day.  All in all, banner day!

 

*token simile for the au current movie I'm sure sucks

SECRETS AND CONFESSIONS

1. I'm riding the STP without paying/ registering with Cascade Bike Club (I'd pay but it's sold out!)
2. I rode the STP but on the 2nd day I cheated and drove 70 miles and then biked to the finish line to get a ribbon.
3. I'm a grown up but my favorite book is still Pinkalicious
4. I want to hold my new granddaughter
5. I love biking and it is even better when I get lemonade
6. The secret to a happy relationship is communication and verbal affirmation
7. Sometimes, when nobody else is home, I drink my roommate's orange juice out of the carton
8. When I was in college I tried to sneak into a Billy Joel concert and got thrown out by the NewYork City Police.
9. I want to fall in love with a good man and settle down! 0~~~~~~~~0
10. Isaac is an only child!
11. I really like bread pudding but I think I like banana bread best :)
12. I am a cancer survivor
13. I'm moving to Argentina in December.
14. I wore blue cords in the living room of my sorority on a Saturday evening.  Not allowed!  I was put on probation.
15. We have our 31st wedding anniversary this week.
16. I love Jesus a lot!
17. I love Twilight. <3
18. Confession I like my dog more than my cat
19. I am in love with my best friend
20. When I was eleven I ran away from home and caused my mom and dad to worry a lot.
21. My favorite swimmer is Peter Chong!
22. I really don't weigh what my drivers license says - in fact my hair color isn't brown either!
23. I have not had my original hair color since I was 22.  What is my original hair color?
24. I imagined telling someone off with a bad word or two.

Modifications, demographics and biases (July 11, 2010)

We took the day off to regroup, do some cost benefit analysis, plot future courses and engage in other forms of lemonade stand related strategery. In short, we went swimming. I am sorry to report that we have no secrets to report - I don't think being a slacker is a secret. However, in keeping with the blog ethos (post daily until we realize no one is reading this and then find some other schtick to entertain us), I'm here and I'm blogging important updates.

First off, we have a very important modification to which to alert you. We are not selling the URL, we're givin' it away. You read that right, we're givin' it away. I know I know. It's like when we yell out, "Lemonade, it's free!" and the bikers do the "whaaaaa?" double take and slow down...that's when we throw out the, "there's no shame in turning around. Faster bikers than you have done it. Come back here and check out these tire skid marks." We discussed the skid mark element of this statement and concluded that given we are SELLING brownies, skid mark should be prefaced with "tire" to minimize any possible negative association the phrase "skid marks" could have on a potential buyer. After all, 14 year old boys comprise a significant faction of our consumer base.

Other modifications you may or may not have noticed: Pages now consist of Secrets from the Internet (You!) and a complete restructuring of our daily posts, separating our Commentary from the actual Secrets so that all Lemonade Stand garnered secrets will be catalogued in one easy to access location...no need to read our witty, albeit, verbose and occasionally obscure observations.

You can look forward to more about demographics and biases another day... my slacker gene is expressing it's dominance...

*well, actually, no we didn't say we'd protect people's secrets. We actually said we'd post them.  I got caught up in the drama.  That said, I don't think anyone has shared any tightly held, psyche defining secrets, either...yet. YOU COULD BE THE FIRST ONE! Visit Secrets from the Internet (You!) and try your hand at some honesty...

FYI to the young semi retired guy who stood around the lemonade stand for sooooooo long "confessing" you didn't have any secrets or confessions, thanks for buying the brownies...but we're not buying your story. And it kind of makes you seem creepy.

Commentary and Secrets 14 year old boys wear girls' underwear (JULY 10)

Business was slow. I mean really slow. We (Stephanie and I ) got 4, maybe 5, secrets in the first 2 hours, but then came a group of 14 (±) year old boys (note all the confessions of liking girl music - come on, guys, we know you wear girl underwear, too admit it!) and it was like someone opened the flood gates; people started pouring in! Business was booming, and although we heard many " "No thank you's", "Haha, that's nice" and even one, "No hotdogs? No hamburgers? " between pouring cups of lemonade, within a few short hours our confessional box was busting at the seams.

We started with 3 gallons of lemonade and ended with half a gallon for a total of 29 secrets.

Post by Luna

SECRETS AND CONFESSIONS

1. This is my first dog walk in many days.
2. I'm supposed to be in a faculty meeting
3. I like lemonade
4. I cheated on my nutrition final.
5. A freyd uv miyn dad win ty wus in matheyous biyth no wun wus ther butattiy (best guess translation: a friend of mine's dad went with us in matthews beach.  no one was there but (?))
6. I can't wait to have kids :)
7. I once made a batch of cupcakes for my class.  On the way inside, I dropped half of them on the ground.  I picked them up and put them on the plate and served them to the class.  Nobody knew.
8. I'm balled.
9. I love Mathematics!  no one ever says this but some of us do love math! :)
10. XXXXX wants to be a ballerina
11. I am a big Justin Bieber fan
12. Taylor Swift is really hot, and is a good singer
13. I live girls music, (lady gaga, Fergie)
14. I have an awesome husband <3
15. I never learned the solo to Bodysnatchers for the Radiohead show
16. I still like the band Eiffel 65 and their album Europop
17. Always remember to tell your parents you love them- they disappear too quickly
18. I am Jewish
19. XXXXX is less cool than she thinks she is.  THANKYOU!
20. I haven't taken a shower in 3 days!  Ahhh!!!
21. I used to wet the bed - until I was 12.   :)
22. I want a new job!
23. I love my daughter so much!
24. I'm not wearing underwear
25. One time I stole $100.00 from my Brothers assadlant
26. I claim to hate all the poppy songs like Selena Gomez's "Naturally," but I know half the words.
27. I'm Just Plain Old!
28. I talk to myself in a British accent.
29. I want to be a star 

Commentary and Secrets July 9 One Gallon of berry punch = 15 secrets

We went through a gallon of berry punch in less than an hour. What with it being 84 degrees that was no surprise. It was a whirlwind, much like yesterday, not a minute between confessors and conversationalists, some stopping cuz it was a lemonade stand, others cuz it was free. Yet almost all lingered in the shade, bandying about the nature of confession and commerce and souls and chocolate and childhood over a cup of elixir or two.
 

Reading the secrets later we couldn't help but guess at the writers of each, some obvious (we know who you are smiley face lady and Z, you'd better step up or Luna is gonna show up on your doorstep and give you what for). Who had a finger burned off and is it important that we didn't notice? Was the stalker one of those boys? Who has one kidney? Would we have treated any of you differently if we'd read these confessions before you arrived? Surely we would have been impressed to know of the 65 year old riding his (I have my suspicions) bicycle across the country, but shouldn't we be impressed by everyone. always. anyway. (as the kids would punctuate) regardless of what we do or don't know...

SECRETS AND CONFESSIONS

1. I think one of my good friends is becoming very annoying. He seems to be stalking me...I feel like ignoring him but this is a secret

2. I think one of my friends is kind of creepy...I mean he is a good friend but he is like ... stalking my sister sort of .... hahaha oh, well, it's a secret.

3. I rode solo on my bicycle from San Diego to San Augustine when I was 65 years old.

4. We live in heaven yet don't behave like it yet! Welcome Home.

5. I got my finger burned off.

6. I like it when it rains.

7. I skateboard.

8. I get my spanish friend to do my spanish homework.

9. I hide my money from my parents when I get it.

10. When it is a cloudy day me and my friend play Zoo Tycoon 2

11. I have fallin off my bike

12. I have a dog.

13. I still use wipes

14. I hope Z wants to marry me someday.

15. I have one kidney