{November 09, 2007}   flashback friday - family group photo

my family didn’t really do the “everyone get together for a family picture!” thing. i am not even sure if a full-immediate-family posed photo even exists. there are quite a few cousin group pictures, though.

today i dug up two gems.

from left to right, me, cousin tammy and cousin mark:
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my favorite thing about this picture is the lamp. it is so carefully taken into consideration in the composition of the photo. clearly someone decided it would be great to have the kids gather with their cousins near the snazzy nautical lamp!

and then there is this one, a few years later, with my sister added to the mix:
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from left to right, cousin tammy, cousin mark, me, and my sister kelly.
as this photo documents, i went through a brief phase of wearing ties when it was time to dress-up for events, such as family parties.



{November 02, 2007}   “i’ll handle this”

we saw paula poundstone perform tonight!
we sat close enough to have great seats with only a few people between us and the stage, but far enough that she could not notice us and draw us into the act. perfect.
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she is very very funny, and my face was tired from the laughing.

we also sat next to tom bodett! i didn’t get a picture since he scooted out of there so quickly after the show ended to talk to paula. but his laugh kept cracking me up. it is so recognizable.

how cool is it to go out for a fun night in town and end up in a room with two wait, wait, don’t tell me panelists?
(hmmm…was that a super nerdy statement?)

sorry for the break from flashback friday this week. i couldn’t get it together enough in time. normal flashbacking will resume next week.



{October 26, 2007}   flashback friday - favorite toys

this toy may not have been one of my best cuddle up comfort toys, but it was a pretty cool toy!
it is the cutting-edge gaming system, the intellivision:
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as you can see, my little sis instantly had her eyes on it!

however, it was for my birthday. see:
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so she had to keep her hands off, at least for that day.

being the little nerd that i was, i mostly played the electric company’s “math fun”
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although i was pretty good at lock n chase, too:



{October 19, 2007}   flashback friday - pop-pop

you’ve seen his special chair…now you get to meet the man himself!

here he is…my pop-pop:
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(i am the cutie he is holding on the right)
he is my paternal grandfather, and i adored him. he had a deep, gruff voice, but was gentle and funny and loved us kids.

such a handsome guy, too:
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he called oreo cookies, “huntzwhistles” so that we wouldn’t know that he was talking about those tasty treats. i suppose that only worked until we figured out that huntzwhistle = oreo, but he never stopped calling them that. and as a die-hard coke guy, he would probably be appalled that i now live in a die-hard pepsi household.



{October 12, 2007}   flashback friday - homemade

i took too long to find a photo for this week, and so missed my opportunity to scan. we’ll have to settle for a picture of a picture today.

this week’s theme was way harder than i expected it to be. i know that there was a whole lot of homemade happening in my life pre-1980…my grandmom crocheted, sewed, & spent whole afternoons cooking elaborate polish meals, my other grandmom (mom-mom) painted, and i made a bajillion projects and crafts in school and at home. but none of this is documented in the stack of photos i have!

all i could find was this picture of me on a couch covered by a crocheted blanket:
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we always had a pile of these in different shapes and colors floating around the house. my grandmom was always working on one and it didn’t matter if you already had 10, you were probably getting another soon.



{October 05, 2007}   flashback friday - dorks in love

clearly landry is peeved that i am running a little late with the flashback friday post today:
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jeez landry, it’s still technically friday.
(hopefully she won’t be mad that i am ignoring the theme this week, too.)

this week’s picture is of me and christina posing in my backyard. we were inseparable and were pretty sure we were the coolest things around. we were totally right, as you can see:
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we spent a whole lot of time posing and creating dance routines. we have many of these moments on film. sigh.

who would have imagined that these two weirdos would eventually find people to love and accept each of them?
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