I love this picture

I have been scanning more pictures lately. I raided my mom's closet and found some great shots...

This is my all time favorite from the collection:

While this picture says a lot... Who thought satin was a good choice for a cheerleading costume? How did I get my hair to be so perfectly flipped in Singapore's 100% humidity? The team was called the Packers, which I didn't even realize at the time was an NFL football team, I just thought it was a really stupid name for a team. And who thought Yellow and Green was a good combination?

But that's not my favorite part...it's on the back.

This picture must have been at my Grandma Swanson's originally. In her handwriting is written:











She has written my brother's name and then scratched it out and put mine... as if there was some question at to which GENDER this grandchild was.

Sharing Photos

My recent foray into digitizing my photos has led to yet another happy occurrence.

I went out last night with an old friend from college for a few drinks. We had a really great time catching up (she lives here in Austin, but we don't see each other nearly enough) and I was telling her about my recent obsession with digitizing my photos. I even told her about a few pictures I had found from back in the day when we hung out at a certain ZBT house too much.

So today I went through the photos and uploaded the offending proof into a Picasa Web Album and sent her an invitation to view it. These photos are mostly out of focus and document past boyfriends (and in one case, an ex-husband), but it was fun to pass them on to her.

I also went through and found almost 100 pictures of some friends and their kids I have assembled over the years. These friends have been at more birthday parties than not in the "history as recounted by kid birthdays" and it was fun to see their kids as well as my own grow. There were too many to upload to Picasa Web Albums, so this time I have burned them to a CD and I'll give it to her the next time I see her.

Sharing these photos was not even a tangential goal when I started this project, but it's a great side-effect!