it is definitely not bad living in a town where i can travel less than 4 miles on a saturday afternoon to see gloria steinem speak in a small room.

for this week’s theme i get to show everyone jason!

jason was my dad’s bachelor dog, and so was already quite a few years old when i came along. jason was a siberian husky and my grandparents were reportedly terrified that he would somehow “hurt the baby.” quite the opposite. i loved this dog and this dog loved me. i have been told that i would give jason a share of whatever food i was carrying around, and that he would let me remove the tasty treat from his mouth with my little bare hands if i changed my mind. he was so gentle. and he had one brown eye and one blue eye.

here we are in a typical late-70s scene:

note the brownish-orangeish carpet, the album in my hand covered in the plastic that was standard when borrowing an LP from the library, and edith bunker on tv.

on sunday night we went to brattleboro, vt to see the “mother of the MP3,” suzanne vega.

while walking around town, we headed into this little shop:

apparently suzanne vega had the same plan. she came in, wandered around looking at the goodies and nearly crashed fully into tom. he almost got run over by the person we were in town to see! we were very amused.

we headed out to walk to dinner and stopped to look at the water rushing by. the walk to the restaurant was better than the actual restaurant so i’ll show you the sites rather than talk about the meal:

i’m so infatuated with water rushing over rocks. i can’t help but try to capture it, but it is never as pretty and calming as it is in person.

the show was fantastic, the theater (an old movie house that still shows films) was deco and lovely, and we were able to grab front row center seats. the good thing about that was: we had a great view and plenty of leg room. the bad thing was: i didn’t feel like i could whip out my camera and snap any pics. i felt as though suzanne vega could see me and would be disappointed in my behavior. so instead, i attempted to “kinnear” some shots.

this is probably the best one i got:

but here are some of the other attempts (click for bigger):

notable concert moment: she is touring with a full band this time around (we have only ever seen her alone or with one bass player) and so was able to close the show with a very funny rendition of this DNA version of “tom’s diner”

wordpress is not playing nice.

i have a new post all ready to go today and i can’t get the photos uploaded.

i hope i can figure this out before flashback friday! eek!

stay tuned…

this week’s theme is, “what my mom did to my hair.” i know that this theme was probably supposed to lead to crazy pictures of bizarre hair-dos, but i always had pretty tame hair. (pre-1985 that is. after that my hair was all my doing. i know a few of you are remembering my “tail.” that was my fault, combined with some heavy BFF influence. mom remains off the hook for most of my bad hair decisions.)

there was a brief period of time when my mom would occasionally crimp my hair with a crimping iron (scroll down in the link for the pic of barbara) but i don’t have a picture where you can clearly see it. and even that wasn’t too bad, since i just wore it down, long and crimpy, nothing crazy.

however, a hair theme that does arise out of my photos is: pigtails. whether i had short hair, hair almost long enough to sit on, dress-up hair, or playing in the backyard hair, my head was most comfortable with those follicles split down the middle and pulled up in two rubber bands.

the picture at the top of this post is me in my school uniform and was taken, i think, around 1983.

this one:

must be in 1982, since i am holding my little sis. (kels, that is you, right?)

and i am guessing that this photo is from around 1977:

two funny things about this photo:
1. i just noticed that the doll i am holding is also sporting pigtails
2. my hair, as i sit here typing right now, looks almost exactly as it does in this pic

i got my ravelry invite today!

there are still 19,000+ people waiting in line for their beta invite. pretty impressive interest for a little idea of a site.

j & l & tom - why didn’t we think of this?!? sigh.