February 26, 2007...11:04 pm
Turning back time
That’s me, above. Way before I got any gray hair.
Way before I married Paul.
In what seems like another universe - before I got “old.”
I felt so fat in those stupid green overalls. God, if only I could be that “fat” again! I was never “thin” exactly, but oh to be only that “fat” again!
Obviously, it was Christmastime.
This photo was taken in my apartment, on Christmas Eve, probably in the late 1970s or early 1980s. After I was divorced from husband number 1, and before I’d started dating husband number 2.
My family would all gather at my place and we would eat yummy food and open stockings.
Each Christmas Eve we would have one of these soirees. And we would pick names and do a stocking for the person we’d picked.
Every year the stockings got crazier and crazier.
I can remember one year I found a stocking that was about 7 feet long and I filled it with presents for whomever I picked - I think it was my brother.
I guess I chose to wear those gawd-awful greenjeans because it was Christmastime and I hadn’t anything else that was red and green like that.
Those days are gone. Only memories now.
~ ~
It’s almost March, and then April will be here, and spring.
I can’t wait for spring.
I’m sick to death of winter.
Cheerio,
Bex
7 Comments
February 27, 2007 at 1:40 am
The last dregs of winter seem to be dragging a lot of us down, Bex. I don’t think it’s the weather so much as the darkness. It’ll not be long now…
February 27, 2007 at 11:09 am
This might seem like a strange comment, but I really like the wrapping paper on the box on the table.
February 27, 2007 at 11:50 am
Mais ou sont les neiges d’antan?
February 27, 2007 at 11:56 am
Oh god, Jim, now I’m going to have to dig out my French/English dictionary - luckily i have one here!
February 27, 2007 at 11:59 am
“BUT WHERE IS THE SNOW OF OLD/YESTERYEAR” Jim?
I don’t get it. (but then I’m naturally thick).
February 27, 2007 at 5:06 pm
You know, it doesn’t seem real when we look back at pictures, especially those from the 70s or 80s–simply because we usually say, “I can’t believe people wore clothes like that!” or “How did we survive without mp3 players?”
I have to agree with you on the whole “fat” thing. I look at pictures of myself and wonder how the hell did I ever think I was fat–I’d give anything to be that “fat” now–at least I was healthy.
February 28, 2007 at 2:27 pm
You look cute! What family fun.
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