01 October 2003 | 7:43 p.m.,

my childhood stalker?!

I had stuff I was going to write about when I came on here with the intention of doing an entry. One of my "reasons to smile" things to make me focus on the good stuff.

But I just checked email first and now I'm slightly freaked out! A while back I signed up on Friends Reunited and apart from hearing from my old school friend K, I hadn't had any emails from anyone else although I contacted a couple of people. Tonight thought I did have one. From someone from my old old primary school that I left when we moved here 21 years ago.

Now I like to think I have a fairly good memory for people, even from that far back but obviously I have more of a recollection of the people that I played with a lot or stayed in my street. This person I have no recollection of at all. And they didn't appear to expect me to. He said that he remembered me - I had brown curly hair [in those days it was short and very curly], told me what street I lived in and that I left the school in primary 2 or 3 [it was the beginning of primary 3]. Also that I lived next door to his friend Paul's granny & grandad. Now if I had lived next door to HIS grandparents and maybe played with him when he was visiting or something I could kind of understand it but to remember that I lived next to his FRIENDS grandparents??!?! Is it just me or is that weird?!

I asked my dad if he knew the name [his surname] as he worked in the towns only bank so obviously knew a lot of the people there and he said it kind of rang a bell but he wasn't sure. I tried my mum and her phenomenal memory but also to no avail. They can't even figure out who "pauls" grandparents might have been as out direct neighbours didn't have grandkids.

Did I have some kind of childhood stalker?!? This is so seriously weird!!! I'll have to email back but I'm milling over what to say first. He did say "you won't remember me" so he got that right!

Anyway back to the "reasons to smile"

- it was SUNNY AND WARM today

- I went a nice walk along the river

- P says I have a sexy smile

- and that I always make him feel better

- I managed to go into town and not buy anything random that I hadn't planned to buy

- i haven't had any caffeine at all [not even yeastvite] since last Thursday

- I hadn't even had anything fizzy until I had a mug of lemonade at lunchtime today

- good times with Mezie yesterday, lots of laughs, hot chocolate, christmas decorations, Burger King chunky fries [yum yum - sooo much better than their regular fries] and cheap CDs

- found Nickelback's "Curb" CD in the library

I'm not going to mention the negatives cos I'm all about being positive today. Or at least I was until I got all freaked out!!!