I was a teenage monster...

So the other night, my little sister and I laughed for quite some time over one of her journal entries from 2003. That means I was 16 yrs old and Abby was 11 3/4 (she specified in a journal entry that she was 11 3/4...not 11, or 12, or even 11 1/2). I guess we laughed about more than one entry...but I will just share the funniest/saddest. I think our relationship at the time was a problem because I was a teenage monster (which I, to this day, will admit) and Abby was a dramatic pre-teen. So we get the following:

June 23, 2003
Why Does Dad and Maren hate me? Maren treats me like a baby and pushes me around. She thinks I can't do nothing! Dad is always on her side so when we fight, I always am the one getting in trouble. Tonight we were planting sod and she kept saying I wasn't working hard enough. I got mad and I had to go to bed, right away! All I was doing was trying to be extra good and work really hard, but Maren found a way to get me in trouble, she always does! Why does Maren hate me? She always points out the smallest flaws, just to get me in trouble!
If that's the way she wants to play, then watch out Maren, I'm coming back to get ya!
Bye,
Abby the Hated, Picked on, etc.

hahaha. "I'm coming back to get ya!"...? Coming back from where?! Oh Abby...

Another entry ended with this:

I know what you're thinking...and yes, this does make me kinda sad and makes me feel kinda bad. Buuuutttt...only kinda. BECAUSE that's life when it comes to sisters. And I have many identical journal entries from my own journal at that age. Everyone was always against me, everyone hated me, I was always the one getting in trouble when it was really a sister's fault, my parents favored my sisters, I was alone and unloved, etc etc. Any one who has ever been 10-16 yrs old with 3 sisters will understand.

The best part of these entries: how hard we laugh about them now. Now that we're older, we often pull out our old, embarrassing journals/diaries and share different things with each other. I have been so near to peeing my pants from laughter SO many times when it comes to reading through these. We can look back on it now and just laugh. I love it. See?...hating each other turned out to be a great thing! Right?!