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Photo Story Friday

Photo Story Friday: Three Blind Mice

Karen

Oh look! Another wonderful excuse to scan old pictures and bore you to tears!! Yay!

I’m the mouse in the middle. WHY I felt compelled to wear funky shorty-shorts with multi-colored geometric shapes on them AND black tights, is beyond me. I’m sure we had some sort of plan in mind when we decided to go that route.

Three Blind Mice - circa 1988

This was back when I worked at the bank … 1988 maybe? I remember the gal’s name on my right, Diane, but I can’t for the life of me remember the gal on my left.

We all three worked the lobby windows so we became fast friends. Since we all worked together, we thought it would be cute to dress up as a threesome: the customers loved it! We were three blind mice behind bars so it was quite a sight when people walked into the lobby.

Kevin worked the drive-thru and he dressed up as an older gentleman. He was so convincing, our older lady customers hit on him!!! We all gave him such a hard time about that for weeks afterward! It was truly hilarious.

The rest of the bank dressed up as: Raggedy Ann and Andy, Charlie Chaplin, clown, wicked witch of the west, the bride of Frankenstein, joker, catwoman, and a spider (complete with eight creepy arms!)

We had so much fun working together – I miss those days.

Photo Story Friday

Photo Story Friday: Driving a Stick Shift

Karen

Oh look! Another wonderful excuse to scan old pictures and bore you to tears!! Yay!

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Good lord, look at my poofy hair. And just think, I spent hours wanting to look like that. Pfft. I do believe, though, this was the one and only time I was a size eight. *sigh* To be that skinny again …

Driving a Stick

This was the first, and only, stick-shift car I ever owned: a Nissan Sentra. I believe this picture was taken in 1991 and we were at a park in the spring, judging by the trees.

Kevin was teaching me to drive a stick shift and I must say, I caught on fairly quick.

I ended up driving that car for seven years and it never gave me any trouble. I still love Nissans to this day.

We had to finally trade it in for a van when MK came along. I could handle getting one baby in and out of the back seat, but not two babies.

Kevin asked me to pose like that. I think he was thinking I could look like one of those gorgeous models who drape themselves over a car to try and make it look sexier – as you can see, I FAILED.

Photo Story Friday

Photo Story Friday: Ho Ho

Karen

What a wonderful excuse to scan old pictures and bore you to tears!!

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I have a TON of old pictures that I need to scan, so hang onto your hats, Fridays are going to get nostalgic.

Let’s start at the beginning, shall we?

First Christmas - circa 87 or 88

Me and Kevin in front of our pitiful Christmas tree in the apartment that we shared. I was around 22 25 and Kevin was 26 29. This was before we were married (*gasp* yes, we lived together before tying the knot) and I’m thinking it was either 1987 or 1988. I’m not exactly sure which, but I’d guess ’87 This would have been 1990 judging by the empty tree branches, and the fact that we’re wearing wedding rings (thanks Heidi!). Yeah, we were THAT poor. We couldn’t even afford decorations for our tree.

Look at how CUTE my husband is!! Wow. What a babe. RAWR.

And yes, *sigh* I was one THOSE women who wore dorky holiday sweaters/sweatshirts. And I think I’m wearing Christmas earrings too, though it’s hard to see. (Okay fine, I still wear dorky holiday sweaters, hush).

My hair? I used to hot roll my hair every day and I swear, I spent an hour each day JUST on my hair. I was never so glad to see straight hair come back into fashion in my life.

So was Kevin. 😛

I also want to know what color lipstick I’m wearing because I like it! (This is probably one of six photos with me wearing lipstick – I simply don’t do it very often).

Kevin wouldn’t be caught dead in sweaters now.

And it’s good to know I had THUNDER thighs even back then.

That’s strangely comforting.

Project 365

Project 365: March 5th

Karen

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Here is another week of random photos. I have to admit, I’m starting to get burned out on taking pictures every day. Grr. If you want to keep track of my photos, you can subscribe to the Project 365 RSS feed.

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1. Kevin, sitting at his work desk with his Fonzie jacket on. RAWR.

2. Me. Being stupid. I feel like such an AMERICAN! Having a passport and all!

3. I know. Weird, right? Have you guessed what this is? It looks like a big, hairy spider, doesn’t it. Okay, it looks like a big, hairy spider to me. As a matter of fact, MK put this thing on top of our light above our kitchen table and I actually jumped when I saw it, thinking it was a spider. I have a spider phobia, apparently. But no. This is a funky, bendable tripod that Kevin put in my stocking this past Christmas. It’s lightweight and pretty cool to use in a pinch. It’s hanging off the side of our cabinet door. (Look at the window in the background for perspective).

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4. GD. It looks like he’s praying, doesn’t it. Wrong. He’s actually playing his DS. WHY the boy plays his DS half on, half off his bed is a mystery. Boys. You can’t live without them, you can’t get them to talk about their feelings. And look at that bubble butt – too funny!

5. Kevin. Trying to sing. Keyword here: trying. HAHA!

6. MK. This WAS his algebra folder. As you can see, he’s gotten quite a bit of use out of it. He really takes pleasure in annihilating these things when they wear out. A little TOO much, IMO.

7. Me. *gag*

Project 365

Project 365: February 26th

Karen

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And here we go, another week of random photos. If you want to keep track of my photos, you can subscribe to the Project 365 RSS feed.

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1. GD’s new hat. In case you missed it, he made a high B on his last Geometry test and the deal was, if he made a B or better, I would buy him this hat. As you can see, I keep my word. 🙂

2. MK is taking Algebra this year. And since GD had Algebra last year, he felt it was his big brother’s duty to help his little bro out. It really warms my heart when the boys bond like this. They are such great friends. I pray that relationship only strengthens as the year’s go by.

3. Kevin is an artist. And not just in music, but he dabbles in drawing as well. Here he is, teaching himself to draw anime. He gets in these “moods” once in a while to just draw. This desire usually only lasts a short while – this bout only lasted a day. *grin*

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4. – 7. These pictures really don’t require an explanation. There’s really no way to justify our stupidity. Somehow (and I really couldn’t tell you because I have no clue), we had these coke bottle glasses lying around our house and first Kevin put them on, then the kids, and of course, I had to give it a go. We look like idiots – no, it’s okay, we do. What can I say? We’re a weird family. 😀

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Project 365: February 19th

Karen

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And here we go, another week of random photos. If you want to keep track of my photos, you can subscribe to the Project 365 RSS feed.

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1. This is another wood project GD had to do for shop class. I can’t even watch him when he works on these things – deadly saw, 16-year old unsteady, unsure hands … *shudder* Moving on …

2. The arrow? Is pointing to MK’s little blonde head. This is his pep band performing at a fundraiser one night at the school. I Twittered about this – I was all alone and not one person talked to me. It was a loooong hour and a half. *sigh* It’s my fault. I’m just too stand-offish. I wouldn’t approach me, either.

3. Me and my husband, Kevin. We’re doing our weekly lunch date thing and I made Kevin pause and take this picture with me before he could leave the car and go back to work. Hence his slightly irritated expression. hehe

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4. Kevin and his Rasterbator picture. I know. WORST name ever, right? BUT, we were really excited to stumble onto this site because this is exactly the sort of thing we want to do with our own photos and then hang on our wall. In essence, the Rasterbator (geez, I really hate that name) program creates huge, rasterized images from any picture. It divides it up into quadrants, then prints it out in ink dots so that you can put it back together again and make it look all funky on your wall. Here, Kevin experimented with one of his pictures and pasted it back together again onto the side of the file cabinet in his office. Anyway, I thought it was cool. 🙂

5. GD, wearing MK’s hat and looking pretty freaking cool, if I say so myself. He looks good in hats.

6. Me. Bleh. I had just gotten my roots touched up and my stylist styled it on the wrong side (I wear my hair swept to the left – not that you really wanted to know that info, but whatever) and I had to redo it. But I was in a hurry to meet Kevin for lunch so yeah, a la crap do.

7. Guess who taught himself to juggle? And guess who wants to take those balls and throw them down the garbage disposal because the *thumpthumpthump* of them being dropped every 2.5 seconds is slowly driving me batsh*t crazy? But hey, he’s happy. I’ll deal. 🙂