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Okay! Let’s move on from that foamy-mouthed business I posted yesterday, clearly I had a giant organic-tofu-stick crammed up my ass. If you’re still kind of pissed at me, please enjoy this proof that I have basically always been a total fucking goober. I was looking through some old photo albums today, and decided to capture a few of the more memorable images:
Here I am as a wee kidlet, and while I don’t think I was quite as consistently suspicious as Riley was/is, apparently I had my moments.
Not a bad looking kid overall, though, if I do say so myself. Look at that precocious 3-year-old, lording over her . . . uh, cake. Her cake festooned with — are those cat turds? Is that a cat turd cake? Or . . Vienna sausages? Okay, I’m pretty sure my mom wouldn’t have . . . MOM WHAT ARE THOSE BROWN THINGS OH MY GOD.
A little bit older here, and still fairly cute, if you forgive the insipid head tilt and . . . wow, rainbow heart necklace. Groovy.
Aw, look at the little ballerina! It’s adorable and nauseating, all at the same time.
HA HA HA HA HAAAAAAAAAA. Oh god. Sorry, Cat of My Youth. Sorry. Jesus.
And — oh. Oh dear. Well, we’ve really started to slide off the rails here, haven’t we? The glasses, the hair, the blouse, the . . . the TEETH.
Yes. Yes indeedy. Socks, shoes, shorts, shirt, visor. VISOR. SOCKS. VISOR. Yes. Ahem.
Say, why don’t we really take a GOOD look at those glasses. What are they, five, six inches thick?
Well thank god, we’ve moved on to the Era of Contacts, but sadly this is still preceding the In-Depth Headgear/Braces/Palatal Spreading Device/Tooth Extraction/Retainer Years. What a grill. Also, Eugene Levy called, he wants his eyebrows back.
Ah, the dorkily earnest gymnastics-themed photo. Xaaaaanaaduuuuuuuu…
Big hair, big earrings, denim jacket . . . ladies and gentlemen, the 80’s! I’m sure my ESPRIT bag was nearby.
Fast-forward a few years to my freshman year in high school, where apparently I strived for sort of a . . what, Flock of Seagulls vibe? I bet that hairdo took about a can of Aqua Net every day.
Please also enjoy the yearbook message written by the boy I had the WORST crush on. I remember I about peed my acid-wash pants when I saw the “hint, hint” part of his note. He was totally into the Punisher, CAN YOU TELL.
More years down the road, I think I was maybe 20 here. I was coming out of my goth phase in bits and pieces: still surly, still addicted to unflattering red lipstick, still dyeing my (ohmygodLONG) hair, but obviously was willing to forgo the standard black uniform for a frumpy flowered dress. I’m vaguely thrilled to see that I looked far more matronly 15 years ago than I do now.
Check it out: lame trying-too-hard Flickr self-portrait, before Flickr! Or digital cameras!
And then . . . hmm, not much documentation of my early 20s. I had, like, a LOT of hangovers.
Last one, I promise. This was taken eight years ago or so: JB and I before the children
All RIGHTY then, I think that’s more than enough. Thanks for coming with me on this humiliating stroll down memory lane! Now if you’ll excuse me, I’m off to start an orthodontia fund for the kids — I have a bad feeling they’ll need it.
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Refreshing. :)
wow, that was crazy to see all those photos. I don’t think I’d have the balls to post the photos of me growing up. I was such an ugly ass kid. :)
You are officially the bravest woman I (don’t really) know.
Aside: I think we had the same hairdresser in 3rd grade.
Ditto the Little House on the Prairie style guru.
Also, thank God for orthodontics.
Phew! Suddenly I feel an eensy bit reassured about my own gorky formative years.
Just be thankful you weren’t a teen in the era of elephant pants in pink pastel plaid with cuffs no less. (I’m stunned I even found that link.)
That last pic of JB is what Dylan’s going to look like I bet.
P.S. I believe the brown things on your cake are farm animals. The kind that need to be corralled, apparently.
I’m pretty sure I have similar photos of me from the same time periods. For sure the hairstyles match, including the supershort feathered ‘do and the superlong shapeless hair of my 20s. And that ruffled blouse–I had a turquoise one that I loved so much, though ironing those ruffles was such a bitch!
excellent. so, so excellent.
Wooow.
I don’t think I would let the photos of my awkward years out for just ANYONE to see.
I mean, I make people sign confidentiality agreements before seeing my glasses-and-sweatpants floor hockey picture.
I’ve had a really rough evening and this was just what I needed. Thanks!
You are Soooo cute, in every picture, my goodness, so sweet. I grinned all the way through, thank you for sharing this with us! I do, however, wonder what the heck those brown “things” are on your cake. And I would kinda like to know! The self-portrait you took seems the most like the on-line you we know. And the rest is all history! Thanks for sharing.
God, that was so awesomely awesome. I had those same glasses. My husband calls them Tootsie glasses. Also, that red outfit with the kneesocks? I think I saw it in the window of American Apparel the other day. Oh, and your mom totally gave you a cat shit cake! What is up with that??
you and jb. omg LOVE IT!
Hooo boy those are quite something. My photos look quite similar - same haircut, same dorky smile, glasses, etc. But I had a rainbow shirt in my photo, rather than a rainbow necklace. Just picture that! Ahhhh, the children of the 70s, and the teens of the 80s…it’s so crazy to look back. Thanks for sharing.
Oh my god, that ruled. I especially liked the socks and visor look.
Your son always looks SO MUCH like JB, but you in that flowered dress picture - something about you in that picture is pure Riley.
Hah! Oh Linda! You are so funny.
Please don’t hate me if I say that in your 20something-coming-off-of-goth picture you totally look like you are about to become wife number 6 of some fanatic religious sect leader.
And, I am so loving the visor! and socks! Stripes! You sooo could have been on Kids Incorporated and been BFF with Stacey-Fergie-licious.
OH MY GOD. I had the SAME holly hobbie ruffle shirt/round/square glasses/bad haircut picture.
IT IS A PARENTAL CONSPIRACY FROM THE 70′S.
(I also had an ESPRIT bag in the 80’s, and when mine would die, I would save them, and when I had 3, I cut them up and sewed the logos to the back of my acid wash jean jacket. I was even crafty back then. ha!)
And even with all that in your past, JB still married you! ;)
I think we all get better with age….
It’s usually only entertaining to see your own family photos, but those cracked me up. Wow, Jr. High was a great time for all of us.
Those are some cute photos.
That was the best post ever!!
I am so happy to see that I wasn’t the only one with many awkward phases. I was actually going through pictures at my parents house the other day and was like, “God, what was I thinking?”
I too went through the short hair phase, I looked like a boy. I had glasses that looked just like yours, they were Pink Panther (WTF????), I like them for a little while then never wore them again and just continued to become blind. Thank God for LASIK.
Thanks for the walk down memory lane.
ZOMG TEH CUTE. I was going to make little jokey remarks here and there, but…well, you and I are the same age. And so I have very similar photos in my past.
Although—nothing quite like the striped kneesocks outfit, I don’t think.
Hey, I think we had the same glasses! And haircut.
How could anybody be pissed at you after such a display of the past? :)
Pigs? I think they were pigs. Nothing says birthday like pigs.
…it’s like an online support group. But where’s the shot of you with the Dorothy Hamill haircut? You had to have had one of those, right? I wasn’t the only one whose mom thought it would be a good idea…?
I totally have a photo with the same gym shorts/socks/visor getup, except that I ALSO have my face made up like one of the members of KISS, and I have my bangs put into a unicorn horn. Good times.
heh, ah this is awesome. Also, I liked the post yesterday. I mean I agree the whole world should be aware of changing bad habits but get off your high horses people. Just because I am not a hard core vegan localivore dumpster diving reuse everything fool does not make me a bad person and don’t all those green sites/magazines (which isn’t that like a double negative - I mean a GREEN magazine???)/people say if we all do small things we can make a difference?
I rocked the Dorothy Hamill cut! I also had a plaid/peasant-like/ruffled shirt like that, only mine was red, white and blue. Children of the 70s & 80s unite! I’d be embarrassed but 1) I’ll NEVER post those pictuers and 2) I was blasting Duran Duran on my way to work this morning and singing at the top of my lungs. *ahem*
Makes me glad I destroyed all the pics of me with the Dorothy Hamill cut - especially because I’m too young to have rocked it when it was actually in style (thank you grandmother!!). To Kaire - Duran Duran is awesome. Also, I listen to Devo (unhealthy habit, but soo much fun!).
Other than the hair/glasses/teeth, you look remarkably the same. I know I don’t look a think like my childhood pictures, and neither does my husband.
I, personally, think it’s awesome to go back and look at your youth. I do it sometimes and am amazed at how embarrassed I *should* be but am surprisingly not. It makes me thankful how far I have come.
Thanks for sharing!
I totally have the SAME picture in my album - 4th grade, I think? - with the big glasses, plaid dress, and grossly overstated teeth OMG.
You were adorable. Ballerina?! Tee hee.
Having also had a mother who was kind of over-the-top where birthday cake decorating is concerned, I’m pretty sure those things in the cage are plastic pigs.
The things outside appear to be dogs and maybe a coupla sheep. Were you unusually interested in farm animals at that age?
That short, slightly goofy haircut? I had that. Why? Why did we have that haircut? It wasn’t flattering! For anyone! Did they just not care that we were wee? WHYYYY?
Your three-year-old picture looks so much like Riley! That’s awesome. My son has my eyes and my husband’s ears and seems to have cobbled the rest of his looks together from some magical land of cute. Cause my husband and I were both some awkward-ass kids.
I had the ruffled blouse in a red plain w/ heart-shaped buttons. I believe I also had red pedal-pushers to match. I think I got them from the Sears catalog.
Aww, thanks Linda…my morning needed this. And you now rock even more for sharing.
“Little” JB - awesome!
We need pictures of the grill, before and after, to complete this album.
Awesome…..
If you sub in jet black hair we are the same person…even had that awful palate spreading orthodontic device!
Enjoyed the photos and wanted to say, for the record, that I found your post yesterday funny, refreshing and more on the mark than off. Apparently folks were pissed (I rarely read comments so I’m just guessing based on your comment above). Not me. I was entertained.
Promise me you will never, ever, ever post any old pix of me, and I will bury a few old gems of you on the next truly dark night, never to be seen again. And remember: I know where you live.
Love it! I also went through some totally awkward phases. I blame the 80’s. We couldn’t help it!!
You’re pretty brave for posting those pictures but I enjoyed the walk down memory lane. If I ever get as brave as you & decide to post hair pics, I would win in a big hair competition. I think my bangs alone made me 3 inches taller! Makes me laugh just thinking about my high school hair & I thought I looked cool.
Dude. I was holding it together pretty well until the cat and the Xanadu reference. Then I lost it because that shit is CLASSIC.
Oh, and the brown caketop turds look like plastic pigs to me, fenced in with green icing. Adorable. And sort of disgusting.
But mostly just AWESOME.
Awesome awesome awesome awesome awesome. I cracked UP reading this post, loud and unapologetically. Loved the photos, loved the commentary. Brilliant.
I always wondered what you’d look like with long hair!
This really made me very poopy morning a lot better.
wow, this post makes me really glad that my mom has all of the old photo albums packed away. Out of sight, out of mind. Well, except when reading this post because there are several eerily similar incriminating photos of me somewhere. Giant colored-plastic glasses? Check. (Mine were blue, god knows why). Matronly early-90s dress? Check. 80s hair and fashion monstrosities? Double-check. Substitute ballet recital photo for tap recital, complete with sparkly costume, inappropriate makeup and random posing in the middle of the living room (Why was I even in a tap class? Seriously, I don’t know. It had to be my mom’s idea).
Wow. Can I just say.. that one picture, the long hair matronly one? Doesn’t even resemble you now. You (and JB) are much better looking now.
Okay, I just have to de-lurk long enough to point out that after you went through the whole orthodontia nightmare, we don’t see your teeth in those pictures. So don’t be surprised (and I feel your pain) that after you spend a life savings on orthodontics for the bebes, you never see their teeth again anyway…..
omg. i love this post more than you can imagine! i think that’s partly because we’re the same age and i had many of those same outfits/hairstyles (SOCKS! VISOR!) i also had the fluffy farrah fawcett wannabe hair with big earrings, as well as the can-of-aquanet-a-day hairstyle. (oh, the cake? pretty sure that’s a FARM cake, with little turd-looking pigs in a pen, and horses). That pic of you with long reddish hair? holy crap. i would never have known that was you! and yes, JB looked about 12!
you are so adorable. this makes me kinda want to do a similar post, just to prove that i actually WAS cute at one point, dammit! but then it’d just show exactly how far i’ve come from cute since then…soooo, maybe not.
OMG — the one with The Shirt? That crazy, plaid, ruffled shirt? I had the exact same one (or nearly so). I think by then I had had braces and contacts, so I fixed a few of our shared flaws of those awkward years - but egad. I loved that shirt. Am. A. Dork.
I think you and JB have both improved with age — cute then, but hunky (JB) and lovely (you) now.
oh, and that very first adorable picture? reminds me of Sprout from teh Green Giant commercials. :D
The ruffled prairie shirt. OMG. Also the knee-high striped socks. I was also a huge fan of knee-high tube socks when I was in 4th and 5th grade. And of course I had plastic glasses.
We would SO have been friends.
http://www.lawyerish.com/lawyerish/2007/01/the_ugly_chroni.html
VISOR!!! SOCKS!!! That is awesome!!
I too had the short goofy haircut. My poor mother didn’t know how to style it well, and of course neither did I at that young. And I had the middle part. I have a whole series of school pictures that make me cringe.
And the ruffled shirt? My mom used to make my shirts way back then. And I do believe she made one almost exactly like this. Ha!
Dude. You are brave, and I love you. And give me back my glasses, betch, for I am blind without them.
Priceless
I’m too young, I guess, at 29 to know what a Dorothy Hamill haircut is (google makes it look like a wedge of parmesan cheese). But WTH is up with the BOY HAIRCUT? I had those brown glasses, too.
As for style, you know what they say about glass houses and whatnot. I rocked some MC Hammer pants in the early ’90s. That I made myself. (Guess I should rethink the boy haircut comment considering my curls were in an afro or pyramid shape until 7th grade).
Oops. That sounded snarkier than intended. You is adorable. You knows it.
The visor-socks picture is just….awesome! Add some roller skates and I have a picture just like it. The rest of the pics are just too cute, and such a montage of the horrible youth haircuts/fashion trends that were FORCED on us in the 70s/80s.
You & JB=too cute. At the risk of sounding like a bad pick-up line, you just get more beautiful with age.
Thanks for postin’.
OMG…please post MORE! I could seriously look at these all day long!!!!!!!!!
I had a polished rock necklace like that, too.
I had those glasses too. And some pre-orthodontia receding-chin-from-overbite. I didn’t have the short haircut, but I was rocking some awesome feathering that bordered on mullet and/or a really godawful perm along with my mom glasses, unfortunate pastels, and rainbow accessories.
Is it rude to say that you are so much hotter now, than you were in your 20’s? You didn’t look bad then, but compared to how you look now?
Also, JB is so cute in that picture!
Ah, The Awkward Years. Did anyone notice the sandals with the striped socks and visor? Awesomeness! LOL I’ve been there, sister.
I must confess that I too had awful glasses, but I went for the boyish ones that darkened in the sun. Let me tell ya, THAT made for some great pictures.
Oh, and the 80s. Wow. I lived in So Cal, Land of the Big Hair, and hoo boy.
Thanks for sharing Linda. It was a lovely little trip down memory lane. :)
Oh, good lord. We must be the same age, as your pictures mirror my formative years in glaring hi-def detail. The huge plastic glasses? Check. The completely dorky hairstyle in mid-elementary school? Check. The horrible checkered, frilly blouses? Check. The costumed photos commemorating dance recitals? Check. The slow transfer to what passed for eighties cool in jr. high? Check. Gradually starting to look better in high school (after braces for 18 months)? Check. The LOOOOOOOOOONG, dyed hair in late teens? Check. Slight goth phase (although mine never really got past black eyeliner and purple lipstick)? Check.
Did you ever wear knickers when they were popular, circa 1983-84? I did, and they were PINK CORDOUROY!!!! Not sure how I survived my intense coolness back then, but I must’ve somehow.
Okay, I can totally live with the striped knee socks, but OMG you WORE THEM WITH SANDALS?!?!? Did you also have a pair of rollerskates with the little pom-poms tied to the laces, because I can totally see you in that outfit with rollerskates.
Love the pix. Why do we all get those horse teeth so soon?! We don’t grow into them until we’re 14 or 15.
Oh, and thanks for the ON-J Xanadu song that will be stuck in my head all. frigging. day.
Aaaahhhhh! I had those SAME coke-bottle glasses, the same short haircut, and the same wonky big teeth. Round about 3rd, 4th grade? I think the shirt I was wearing was argyle, though. Seriously, it’s weeeeird. I may have to dig through my own photo albums to prove it to you.
Thank you for this very charming post! Also, I think you look really pretty with dark auburn hair. It looks great with your skin and eyes. :-)
I loved this. Linda, you are so brave to post these photos. I am so horrified at the various awkward phases that I went through that I’m not sure I could do it. You are awesome!!
I think the cake had a basket of severed fingers on top?
Ruffled shirt? I had that too. Knee high socks? Check, but not as cute as yours.
At least you can see a progression of awkward to hot - mine went awkward, ok looking, downhill.
Best photos ever, though. More!
Another one with the same exact glasses in 3rd/4th-ish grade.
I cannot believe how DIFFERENT you look with the long, dark hair! Are you positive that’s you in that flowery dress? You look like your own Nazarene country cousin!
Oh wow, your awkward phase was bad. I almost feel better about my awkward phase completely with mother-made dresses, Dorothy Hamill hair and braces. I said almost.
And are those coraled plastic pigs on your cake?
Holy cow that shit was funny.
OMG I LOVE IT!!!! Thanks for sharing.
(And PS, it looks like a pigpen cake to me. Pigpen. Nice.)
wow, I’m like 3 years older than you, and I had so many of these same (awful) looks! The boy haircuts, the crazy shirts… but I was never brave enuf to wear socks like that. It’s awesome to see how far you have come.
Oh my God, I haven’t laughed that hard in a while. Not laughing at YOU, of course, but at hilarity of the fashions of the 80s. I also had those glasses, but mine said “Annie” on the side because they were in the “Little Orphan Annie” line. WTF? Also had that ruffled plaid shirt and short feathered hair. Dear lord, my mother took my brother and I to Sears for portraits when I had that haircut, and the photographer called me a boy. I’m not sure I’ve ever recovered. The matronly floral dresses - yup, been there, done that. I would never have known that one was you - I see no similarity at all!
I think my favorite was not only the striped knee socks, but also the fact that you were totally rocking the socks with those sandals - those HIGH heeled sandals. Had them too. Lord help us.
I totally agree with the wife #6 of the religious sect leader. That so doesn’t look like you though!
Don’t forget to get the kids their diptet in addition to the orthodontia! Otherwise they develop lockjaw and nightvision.
i had those same glasses. and add 20 lbs consistently and give me good teeth (thank god) and we could have been twins. of a sort.
thanks for sharing, those photos made me wince and laugh in sympathy and rememberance at the same time.
OMG. The visor and socks! LMAO. You were so cute!! I can’t believe how different you look with long hair. Wow!
I had the thick glasses, and they were red, like sally jesse raphael. oh god. how embarrassing. And retainers. I was the PICTURE OF BEAUTY, i tell ya!
Yeah, JB looks about 12. That’s so funny!
Thanks for sharing!
These pictures are awesome. My favorite is the frumpy-dress one–it seems like a photo of a completely different person. A humorless, dowdy doppelgänger who is NOT AMUSED.
My mom has a ton of blackmail-quality photos of me stashed away somewhere. I should ask her to burn them. Or to give them to me so I can post them online.
P.S.: SO CUTE OMG is right. It’s still applicable now, from what I can see. You’re a cute couple then and now.
Wow. I just…wow. This is possibly the best/worst collection of ye olde photos ever. I’ve looked exactly the same since about fourteen on, so I’m sort of jealous of all you wild and crazy chameleon types.
Every time I read your blog, I fall in love a little bit more. Please consider moving east and becoming my new best friend. We can hang out at Target and buy fabric softener together. It will be AWESOME.
Eugene Levy called, he wants his eyebrows back
OMG!!! LOLOLOLOL!!!
I LOVE looking at old photos! So fun.
JB does look like he’s about 12 in that last picture, I’d guess you to be 13. Cradle robber, you.
I freakin’ love it. I just went on a similar walk down memory lane. I’m moving and cleaning out all my stuff, which means I’m uncovering pictures I haven’t looked through since my last move. My painfully awkward stage apparently lasted a LOT longer than I thought it did. I’m talkin’ early 20s. Sad, but true. How did I even have boyfriends in college?? Oh, and I’m not kidding. I had those SAME GLASSES. Hot.
You are awesome. Ditto what Leeann said up there, except you’d have to move to Texas. Come on… Cheap real estate!
I am older than you, so my trip down memory lane was a bit longer, but still funny. Actually just brought an old yearbook to work because a co-worker and I discovered we were in jr. high together.
Oh my god….thank you for sharing! It’s hysterical how dorky we were in our youth and yet we thought we were so cool!!!!
Well, THAT was fun!
And. . excuse me. . . but you and J.B. look like a TOTAL of 24 years on the last picture.
This just made my day. My husband makes fun of my “awkward years” photos ALL THE TIME (he tends to forget his pink-shirt-wearing, skaterboy, mullet years…), and it’s so nice to see that other people have similar pictures. In fact, those glasses in the 6th picture? (I think it was the 6th…) Yeah. Pretty sure I had the same ones. Is it just me, or is it mothereffing child abuse to make a kid wear those?
Oh, and the one of you at 20 doesn’t look like you at all. Till I read the caption, I was going, “Now, who is this person?”
That was fun! Thanks for letting us see!
I’ve been lurking here for years and it took these pics to make me comment…holy crap that was awesome. That’s really all I have to say. Besides the you’re awesome and talented and shit. You obviously are. But these pics rock. Thanks for sharing with the world.
I’m bad at comments. Will probably get back to lurking in the shadows. But your writing cheers me up all the time.
I find the FLDS compound wife one is the best. Is your tattoo lurking under those modesty sleeves?
This was so awesome. Thank you for sharing. I had that rainbow heart necklace, and also very similar teeth. The striped-socks outfit is definitely the winner if you ask me!
I laughed, I cried. I had that same denim jacket with the poofy sleeves in the 80s. So reassuring to know that on the other side of the country, dwelled a fellow dork, all this time. I was not alone.
Best. Post. EVER.
WHOA.
Looking at the crazy teeth, plaid prairie dress, androgynous hair and nuts glasses is like looking into a mirror. Shudder. What an awkward age! You turned out just fine though so at least you can look back on those times and laugh!
That. Was. Awesome.
The retro photos get me every time.
Loved this *SO MUCH*, and you are totally cool for posting those.
Is that a pig corral made from a plastic strawberry container on that cake? Go Linda’s Mom: mad skills from the pre-Martha Stewart days!
I totally had that dance costume as a kid, too. And the blue eyeshadow.
Now that is sad.
Ha, just kidding… isn’t it amazing the huge amount of difference in all the years. I need to find some old pics while I am at my mom’s. You have inspired me to find embarrassing pictures of myself. Thank you.
Linda, I don’t know how you do it but you always come up with the best posts. This was awesome, it made me laugh out loud (as do most of your posts).
Same glasses (think I had Sophia Lauren frames- oh so hip), same prairie shirt, same bad, short, feathered hair and same damn orthodontist’s wet-dream smile. In high school, I went with a similar hair style, more Modern English than Flock of Sea Gulls. Oh yeah, it was something!
That was awesome! Those are great posts. I love people’s old pictures, because we all have ones we are so embarassed about. Thanks for posting these; enjoyed the funny commentary too!
Ah yes, the “upside-down” glasses (the glasses that have the arm(?) attached at the bottom of the frame instead of the middle)… I know them well… And I knew them by the name of, uh… Battlestar Galatica branded upside-down glasses. Talk about awesome and self-confidence building for a 4th grader… ugh! When you come from a family of 7 kids I guess you have to make sacrifices, apparently I was it that year :)
LOVE. This was so frigging funny!!! You have great big brass balls, clearly. I’m not far enough away from my juvenile angst to poke fun of it yet. Despite that I’m turning 35 on Saturday, lol!
Please help me out. What arm is your tatoo on? Because in the Magic Garden self-portrait up there it looks like it’s on your right…and then in the hangover pic it appears to be creeping out from under your left sleeve. Is this right? Do you have two? Am I retarded?
I had those exact same glasses and that exact same hair in the 80s …as did my grandmother. Seriously, there’s a photo of me in the 5th grade where I look like one of the secretaries in a Kid in the Hall sketch.
You’re one brave woman to stroll down memory lane via pictures! Somewhere, buried deep in a box I’m hoping, is a picture of me sitting atop the pink paper mache’ pig I made in 7th grade art class. I’m also hoping the picture of me in the blue sequined suit holding a baton is buried as well.
Oh.My.God. I had the same 80s jean jacket-and boy, was I cool! (I eventually upgraded to a GUESS? one later…much, much better. HA!)
Thank god that awful parentdish link is gone. HATE.
Holy shitballs, it’s a grown-up Riley (last photo). That’s fucking FREAKY.
I had to come back and look again.
The Eugene Levy comment made me spit coffee all over my keyboard.
“Alternating between a happy muffin-baking morning with Riley, and sending him howling to his room. Mercurial, thy name is toddler.”
Save this quote, you’ll need it frequently over the next few years. Yesterday I could have used it, substituting “pre-teen” for “toddler.” Apparently, I was responsible for the death of my son’s Beta Fish.
I had the EXACT same dress (pink and white, with the cake pic)… and holy cow Riley looks like you!! I thought he did before, but after those pics, sooooooooo ALL YOU! and so cute!
apparently we both took the road from grunge/goth/punk to hippie-ville.
Dana, the self-portrait picture is the reflection from a mirror. So it just looks like her right arm in the picture.
I’m trying to hold in my laughter at work while not busting a blood vessel, but it doesn’t seem to be working. Instead, I’m shaking in my chair and not breathing because, yeah, those pigs do look like turds. On a cake. With a fence around them.
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