This and That

I am still not at all sure what to do with the whole Facebook thing, but I was just friended by my childhood next door neighbor/playmate. I would certainly have passed her on the street and not recognized her -- she doesn't even look like her mother -- but once I looked more at her pictures, I saw her there.

It made me consider putting my own picture on my page, but I haven't been happy with a picture of myself in years and years, and I don't expect to get a good one now because I am fat, or, as the Wii Fit tells me every morning in its soft voice, "oh ... that's obese." The pounds are not moving, although I'm eating well and lo-cal, and I'm doing about a half hour of aerobic exercise in the morning. What the hell, I'll see if I can get a decent picture taken in Disney World. My two cousins, as it happens, are incredibly photogenic, and always have been; I've never seen a bad picture of either of them. My sister and I tend to get caught blinking or talking or something.

Speaking of pictures, I scanned a bunch yesterday that I recently found and which had never been scanned before, so I'll share one or two with you. These are oldies, as you'll see.


This is the last time I sat on daddy's lap. I think I was about 17. Someone said something about him missing his little girls who would sit on his lap, so I sat.


This would be the winter of 1981, a month or two before R was born. And yes, I weigh more than this now. (My mother must have taken this picture; that's her purse on the table.)


I'm guessing about 1980 on this one, although it could be later in the eighties. In my head, this is kind of what I think I look like; that is, this is pretty much what my self-image tells me I look like. Mirrors, however, disagree. (But I still have that cowlick in the front.)

(BTW, I don't so much mind what I look like when I look in a mirror, because my face is moving. It's photographs that capture my face still that I don't like. It has to do with my eye and my facial paralysis. I look weird in pictures, but I look fine in person.)

No idea how this turned into the self-image/old photographs entry. I'm going tomorrow to do a market research thing (for $90!) on using technology at home. I think I can manage to answer their questions, eh?




watching THE FAMILY GUY :: ENTRY #2087
READING: The Housekeeper and the Professor by Yoko Ogawa