ammogirl

Recently, the flattire boys posted some old school pics, and upon viewing them, I immediately said, “hey! I want to copy them and do it too!”

So then I promptly forgot about it, because I do that. Until this evening, when I remembered the whole copying thing, and went to search out my yearbooks.

Well, I couldn’t find them, because looking for them would have entailed getting in the crawlspace where all of our crap is, and crawlspaces = spiders, so. However! I did find Bag o’ Really Great Pictures, chock-full of old and unflattering shots of me. I pulled out, let’s see…29 that I felt I HAVE to share, eventually, but just not right now. No, first I want to post my 1st - 9th grade school pictures, grades 10-12 having mysteriously vanished. They are a treat.

Sorry about the GINORMOUS images. I couldn’t resize them without the text getting all wonky. So, extra-bigness! Yay!

1st - 5th (I started the first grade in 1977, btw):

Unfortunately, the cutest of the lot (2nd grade) has an unfortunate spot right on my nostril that looks sort of boogerish. Which it is not. The flannel in 4th grade was fairly representative of how my mom shopped for me that year–as if I was a boy. I have never been fashion-forward, by any means.

I don’t know why, after three years of taking them off for pictures, I started leaving them on, but…nice glasses, 5th grade me. I might as well have been wearing a windshield on my head. Also, if you look close enough, you might see that I had…bifocals.

6th - 9th:

Hot damn, 6th grade me was a BABE. It’s unfortunate I started wearing contacts that year, I think the glasses really added to my allure.

I’m pretty sure my 7th grade hair qualifies as a mullet.

My 8th grade picture has always been my favorite. My earrings exactly matched my shirt. I was so proud of that fact, and of the homemade earring (singular) in my freshman picture. Yeah, I took a whole bunch of random pendants, and threaded them on a paperclip, and that was my earring! I was so hardcore!

Okay that’s it for now.

Tschuss!!