90s Flashback: Actress Posts Real Diary Online and It's, Like, Hilarious

While some of us would like to burn our 'tween diaries and cast the ashes into a bottomless pit, actress and comedian Dawn Luebbe did the just the opposite to hers. On January 1, the 33-year-old started posting actual pages from journals she wrote between 1990 and 1992 on Tumblr for anyone with a love (or loathing) of scrunchies, New Kids on the Block, and "Melrose Place" to peruse and squirm over. And thousands have-My1992Diary has become an Internet hit over the last few days. "I'm incredibly surprised by the response this has received," she told Yahoo Shine. "I honestly thought it would be my mom and three or four friends reading it."

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Luebbe's blog embraces a #throwbackthursday type of nostalgia that's not about being the hippest kid hanging around behind the school. She writes in the intro, "If you are thinking this will be the diary of a popular girl who talks about all her cool friends, hot dates, and exciting parties…well…then PLEASE continue thinking that and do not read on." It's about recalling a decade that now seems simpler and sweeter-when people could afford move out their parent's houses after college and making mix cassette tapes was the apex of technological know-how. "It's the only time when you have such passionate feelings for Brandon Walsh from '90210' or your Popple," she said. "I think people like to remember things that were a huge deal to them once."

Growing up in Lincoln Nebraska, she describes her childhood as, "totally normal and middle class." One girlhood challenge was being a skinny 6'2" by her early teens. She writes in the blog, "I entered the awkward phase earlier than most and stayed there for well over a decade."

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Another ongoing struggle she relates in her first diary posts (she's planning on putting up a few a week for the next six month) is what we will refer to as "The Bangs Saga." In one entry, she describes confronting her mother after watching an episode of "Beverly Hills, 90210":

I asked her a question I had been [dying] to ask her for about 2 years. She said, "Well, you would have to cut your hair so short to match your bangs." NOT!!! No one else [does]!

Dawn

P.S.= Sometimes I want to die!

In a later entry, she has been allowed to get her coveted bangs, but is now engaged in a daily hairspray war them. After discovering the journals in her parent's house, she said, "I was surprised by the extreme emotions that came up. Whether or not my crush spoke to me or if my mom let me get a pair of Guess jeans were cause for sheer delight or passionate angst. You don't have a lot of perspective at that age-or at least someone as sheltered as I was did not."

Despite her glasses, braces, and height, Luebbe reveals that she was something of a baby player wit some advanced moves when it came to her main crush, Dan. One entry reads:

Today I thought Dan looked cuter than ever. He wore black shorts and a very big sweater. The other day Dan sat in front of me while our teacher was reading. I slowly touched my hand to his [gentle] back and [scratched] it softly. He looked back and smiled at me and I smiled at him. He is a HUNK!!!

Dawn

Luebbe, who performs at the Upright Citizen's Brigade Theater in New York City, said she hopes to turn the blog into a web series or monologue. Meanwhile, we'll keep checking back for updates to see how her Paula Abdul-inspired choreography is coming along and whether Saturday afternoon meant TCBY or The Cheesecake Factory.

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