The other day I was wending my way through Friends’ LiveJournals, and Friends of Friends’ LiveJournals, when I read a post by someone on behalf of a photographer friend. He was doing a project in which he was looking for photos of a person in basically the same pose from childhood to age 18. While I didn’t want to send him my photos, I was interested in seeing how that would look.
So I challenge you to humiliate yourself much like this…
Grades 1, 3, 4, 5
Grades 6, 7, 8, 9
Grades 10, 11, 12, 12
Those who took the challege: ebandit, margharris, monkjoel, smoness. Thanks for playing along!
Fortunately I don’t have all those pictures. And I really don’t think it would add to “beauty in the world” to post them anyway.
doncha just LOVE your hair in your 5th grade picture. –evil grin–
No! I don’t love my hair in ANY of these photos. They actually are grades 1,2,4,5 in the first row,
6, 7, 8, 9 in the second row, and I THINK the third row is 10, 11, 12 and my senior portrait, which is also 12, as is the cap and gown user pic.
I can also say that in that 10th grade photo? I’m about the most miserable person on the planet there. I think that DESERVES some Gene Humiliation Photos, dammit!
Okay, then I meant 6th Grade (bless your little heart)
You are very pretty in your 10th grade photo. I will see what I can find and humiliate myself.
Dammit, Gene Humiliation photos are posted.
I know! My eyes were mesmerized and I kept hearing this deep voice saying, “You don’t know the power of the bow tie…”
Oh…this avatar is me–as a child. It was black and white (yes I was born in the dark ages) so I hand tinted it. This must have been 2nd or 3rd grade…as I don’t have glasses in it. How is that for a bad haircut?
and OH MY GOD those Dumbo ears.
This makes me SO HAPPY. Poor little boys and their ears that they must grow into. Of course, you could have had the standard little boy “bowl haircut” to hide your ear-shame from the world, but I like this better.
Sweet Cheese Sandwich, I LOVE these!! I totally would have tried to make out with you your senior year.
I eagerly await YOURS.
I think I need to find Tom’s now. I have most of Lynne’s, but she’s got even more hideous ones of me, so she’s safe…
(I suspect Rhonda is already checking to make sure the lock on the vault wherein lie her childhood photos is still in place. One day, however, I WILL see them…)
There are none. Hopping into Mr. Peabody’s Wayback Machine, I remember how unfortunate my hair was. My parents did not purchase many of my school photos.
My mom cut my hair for a while. My first grade photos revealed my Flock of Seagulls hairstyle, at least 10 years before the group hit MTV. Then there was my fifth grade photo, which isn’t TOO bad. I believe the only other school photos were the junior and senior years of high school. The vaults are safe. 🙂
You provide the scanner and I’ll provide the photos…
My scanner awaits you…
Aww! How cute! I think there’s a tendency to be rather self-conscious about one’s own looks. I don’t see anything here to be embarrassed about. Quite the contrary. I see a pretty young girl gradually turning into a beautiful young woman.
When it comes to my own school photos, I absolutely cringe! And probably justifiably so!
But see, yours, too, are no doubt MUCH cooler than you realize. Mostly, I think our childhood pictures are proof that our parents shouldn’t have been allowed to pick our wardrobes.
I destroyed every picture of myself taken before 1995, other than my prom picture. If I had a scanner, I would post it.
he lies… I saw a picture of him at a high school this week —
This is why old friends are dangerous. And why I won’t be posting any of Lynne’s photos…
Hair by Sunbeam®.
It was the Lilt perm! And I swear, that was NOT my cigarette…
What’s on the record player?
Honey that ain’t no record player, it is an old hair dryer.
(He knows. He’s being a smartass. Although I swear we saw them using this same hair dryer as a ventilator on The Young and the Restless.)
(I know. I was teasin’!)
It was probably not safe for you to smoke while using that contraption…
Haaaaaa!
OMG! My mother had one of those!
This is your way of telling me I’m old enough to be your mother, isn’t it? Don’t even try it. I’m not paying off your college loans.
“But Maaaaaa…”
Kidding!
Besides, you’re only 35; that makes me 2 years older than you!
Ah, you make math fun.
Love the long hair. So much prettier than this userpic!
No, your user pic is just stunning. (You don’t have my actual physical address, right?)
lol
That gives me an idea though, about how I might be able to face down my fear of clowns. Maybe next Halloween I should dress up as a cl…
Oh, sorry. (*rubbing head, dizzy*) I think I fainted. What were we talking about?
good lord you haven’t changed a bit! so cute! how is it that you always have the greatest pics?
Can you just come and live next door to me and say nice things to me all the time? Thank you.
ha! yes, as long as you let me look at all your pictures.
the hair dryer one? so great.
When I turned 30, I had prepared something like that for ages 0 through 29. Then the keyboard desk collapsed, and landed on top of the hard drive in my computer, which did not have its cover on at that time.
I might try it again when I’m 40.
I look forward to it!
What a great thing to stumble into! You look a little like a silver screen flapper in 2nd grade. But from 8th grade on… Baby Diana Rigg.
Um… right. And Tom is Mr. Steed.
I’m only just remembering your “being driven around on your boyfriend’s motorcycle without a helmet” story. That’s a lot of hair to have get tangled. Were you afraid you would just have to cut it all off?
Nooooooooo. That was never an option! What I find sad is that in all of those photos, you can see the natural waves in my hair. It means those long sessions with my sister and me at the ironing board ironing each other’s hair were for nothing.
I’ve heard of girls saying they used to iron their hair. I guess I never put it together that they actually used a clothes iron and an ironing board. Wouldn’t that burn your hair? I feel stupid!
We would spread our hair over the ironing board, put a dishtowel or pillowcase on top of it, and then the iron touched only the fabric. It wasn’t comfortable, but we didn’t scorch our hair.
When I went to college, I would take a large, washed out frozen orange juice can or a very large rolled up washcloth, roll my hair around it on top of my head, pin it to my scalp with bobby pins, and sleep with that. It helped straighten our waist-length hair.
you slept with an orange juice can pinned to your head???? And people complain about standard rollers… ha!!–Gary
I love all of these photos, but have to admit my favorite is the Big Bow photo — daisies and a flippy-do. You are so adorable!!
I think I should be wearing my daisy dress with you in your hippy do(n’t) photo…with a water pipe in front of us.
1) You remind me of Scout in the movie To Kill A Mockingbird in your first grade pic.
2) While I don’t know if I have all those pics of myself, I do have this page on my geocities webpage…it needs an update, since the most recent pic is like 3 yrs old. Enjoy!! –Gary
http://www.geocities.com/gebster66ky/past_pics.html
Tom says that same thing about Scout.
I loved your page–looked at all the other pages, too. It’s so nice to have a face to go with your name. And I loved all the photos of your friends and family–and you at booksignings. Thanks for the link!
Glad you like… maybe some day I’ll add Becky Cochrane and Timothy Lambert to my people I’ve met page AND my friends page. =0) I STILL need to do a “Reading is HOT” pic, too.
BTW I LOVE the new pic on your header!!! It’s absolutely gorgeous!!
Thank you, sir.