Sarcomical: When I Was In First Grade...

March 20, 2008

When I Was In First Grade...

I looked like this:
Mefirst
Feathered hair is Hottt.

My principal was especially excited that year to be in the Business of Education:

"Look! I'm pointing to where we are RIGHT NOW! Right here! Doesn't that just BLOW. YOUR. MIND?!?"

Apparently, the Little House on the Prairie Look was sweeping the school:

Neck ruffles are the new black.

I began to nurture a blossoming love of expressing myself via LOTS OF WORDS. I may not have been able to write them all yet, but I could definitely say so many of them that I often drove my parents crazy:

Aaand, a future member of the blogging generation rears its chatty, TMI head.

This was my class:
Class
Mrs. Bricker was sweet and pretty, and she wanted to move me up a grade or two because I was a smarty-pants extraordinaire. My parents decided to keep me with my age group, which was probably good. Funny to think I would not have met The Husband if this had changed, and my entire life would probably be different. That's creepy...

Another trend among many of the ladies was the classic "metal barrette with ribbons braided into it", with long ends trailing down to complete the effect:

I myself had several of these lovely accessories in various shades, so as to be able to coordinate them with any color palette. AWESOME.

I was super-cute. I'm just saying:

Three of the top songs this year I was in school were "Bette Davis Eyes", "Physical" and "Eye of the Tiger". Wow.

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This is me.

I'm an animal snuggler, Lover of Words and raging introvert who others often confuse for an extrovert. I'm typically caffeinated as a rule, BE IT BY BEAN OR BY LEAF.

This is the year I'll be talking a lot about my journey to grow further as a photographer, artist, music addict, YOGISTA, writer, volunteer, life adventurer, ALMOST-VEGETARIAN, runner, book devourer, knee sock connoisseur and procreator (yes, after 13 years we're finally working on that one, and it may be a more twisty path than we anticipated).

I embrace my inner geek (see: obsession with finding the perfect pen, affection for NERD GLASSES) and accept my irrational fears (see: FEET, rug bugs, outer space). I figure they balance out my super cool musical tastes, good luck in parking lots and long legs.

*Wife to 1, fur mother to 4.
Future parent to severely over-photographed children.