Challenge

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!

52 thoughts on “Challenge”

  1. 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–

    1. 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!

      1. 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.

        1. I know! My eyes were mesmerized and I kept hearing this deep voice saying, “You don’t know the power of the bow tie…”

  2. 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?

      1. 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.

    1. 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…)

      1. 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. 🙂

  3. 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!

    1. 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.

          1. (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.)

        1. 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.

      1. 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?

  4. 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.

      1. 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?

        1. 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.

          1. 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!

            1. 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.

              1. you slept with an orange juice can pinned to your head???? And people complain about standard rollers… ha!!–Gary

    1. 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!

      1. 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.

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