two halfhearted tries. . .

OK, I found a Swearengin in Olathe, KS--(913) 782-4653 but it's Nathan and Rachel. Since I can't clearly recall Shera's sibling situation, I don't know if they're related, but they sound young on the answering machine (i.e., not her parents) and I chickened out and didn't leave a message.

Also, tried (913) 768-0771 for Julia Francis, but got a machine (woman's voice) saying you've reached the Francis family. Also chickened out and didn't leave message. Sooooo, if anyone wants to 1) take a stab at reaching these people for more info yourselves or 2) having another party where we get drunk enough to not care about drunk-dialing high school friends so I feel a bit more comfortable leaving a message like "hi, uh, you may not know me but I'm trying to reach _____. We went to high school together?"

Anyway, it's hard with girls because names can change. We don't even know if they're still Francis or Swearengin. I don't know about Shera's personal feelings on the matter, but I'd ditch "Swearengin" for just about anything except maybe "Butts" or "Dyche" or something like that;) I'm totally jettisoning Schmidt in favor of Arnold--people can pronounce it and I get to be at the front of the alphabet for once in my life!

Eastburn?

So, is someone going to try that number for Dave? I sacked up and call the Lisa number...someone else's turn this time...

:)

Update on the hang-spot

I talked to my dad today. I mentioned something about using his house as a Group get together spot when all this goes down. He is WAY excited about it. Like, "catering and hiring staff to work the party" excited.

I don't know if we have a definite date for the reunion week/weekend, but Becki is getting married on 6/10/06. Let's hope it's not right around then. And preferably after.

While there's little room in the basement anymore, the rest of the house is going to be awesome for this kind of thing.

Rawk.

Found: Lisa (Logan) Anderson

As the confirmation shows below, we found Lisa. I called the number that was posted, and sure enough, it was correct!

From her e-mail:

I'm still in JoCo if anyone else is close or might be visiting for the holidays. I'd love to meet any spouses and/or kids as well! I have been married almost 5 yrs now, have a 3 yr old son and one more on the way (june 06). Life is good, but flying by. Hope to hear from you soon.

Okay, I'll Bite.

So, who do we think Anoni Mis is? See comments for post "Turn the camera off, Lindsey," and link to their helpful blog, "Who Am I Can You Guess?"

So, either it's someone who knows us or. . .

(duh- dun DUN!!!!)

a very creepy individual with waaay too much time to surf other people's blogs, randomly looking up strangers on the internet, with a Wes Craven-ish plot to murder us all at the reunion.

Whoever it is, they got mad skillz at the art of the internet people search, yo.

Who do YOU think it is? I guess there's no reason someone couldn't set up an extra blogger identity using a throwaway email address. It could be any one of us. It could even be me.

Ok, it's not me. But you know what I'm saying. If I had a goatee, I would stroke it thoughtfully right now.

pics

oh I am planning on uploading more--I am the queen of digital pictures so beware my friends. . .

Found: Matt Heil

I'm calling you out Matt!

After minutes of exhaustive internet research, I was able to locate Matt Heil. Aiding in my search was the fact that Matt is an accomplished little busy beaver in Arizona, serving as a reporter for a newspaper, and now an aide to a Pheonix Councilman. That's right, one of our own is in politics--you knew it had to happen someday. He's at matthew.heil@phoenix.gov. That ".gov" at the end means he can't play on blogger with us during the daytime hours, but maybe we'll hear from him some evening.

EBeth0000=Elizabeth Schmidt