I’m not gonna lie, I absolutely LOVE this picture!
Isn’t it deliciously WRETCHED?? It’s me, shortly after celebrating my tenth birthday.
For fun, let’s enumerate how I could love it so:
1) I could sooo be John Lennon’s sister…or daughter (how old would he be if he were alive??).
2) I wasn’t ashamed to smile with a matchstick-wide gap-between-my-front-teeth grin.
3) Bushy, un-yet-tweezed adolescent eyebrows.
4) Groovy plaid HIP HUGGERS (waaay before low-rise even thought about showing up on the scene!).
5) Wire-rimmed glasses.
6) Fashionable paper-clip handmade necklace (I think).
7) Uber-cool Mickey Mouse watch with a wide white faux leather band.
8) Wide leather belt (was that even in style then?).
9) That look of smug satisfaction on my face…like I’m proud of the fact I’M WEARING A SNAKE AROUND MY NECK!!!
WTHeck is up with THAT??? I’m sorry, EVERY.TIME. I look at this picture, I end up in convulsions on the floor!! Oh sweet mercy, let me wipe the tears from my cheeks!!
This photograph goes to show you two things:
a) I was a late bloomer.
b) It was only a matter of time before I went on to BIGGER and BETTER creatures!
What a terrific picture! You are just so frickin’ proud of yourself.
I don’t know if I have the guts to dig out my old pictures. LOL
The teeth… yes, I had the same wide gap. Aren’t braces wonderful for girls? A paperclip necklace. Wow!
Awwwwwwwwwwwwww…..I love it!!! This is soooooooooooooooooooo stinking CUTE!!!! I think we should all do a post like this…an old picture that you love and you hate!!!
I love your blog and I’m so glad we crossed paths!!! =)
You’ve come a long way baby! But you still part your hair on the side.
well, hon, you DID clean up good….
Hey, don’t be hatin’ on your 10 yr old self, lol.
I’m diggin’ the groovy plaid hip huggers. And the leather belt is a classic!
It’s a good think you discovered tweezers, though;). *snicker*
I think you were a cute 10yr old and brave ~there is no way I would ever have put a snake around my neck!
Love the pants!
I have to say, I would not be able to identify that that was you in the picture. I’m really impressed that you knew how to hold the snake…very cool. (oh, and yes, those big leather belts were so in style!!)
I *love* this picture! You were in style then AND now! The kids around here dig those plaid shorts 🙂
And, hey, was this out at Sandy Creek Nature Center?!
The paperclip necklace totally makes this for me.
Even at your worst you were still damn adorable.
You have good cheek bones…. And the snake… girl… I just can’t do the snake thing.
I will not post my worst picture… I’m not that brave, because mine is much, much, miles worse than this not-so-bad pix of you.
Over time, I’m noticing that I am not looking as bad as I thought at the time, though. Age does that, I guess.
I love it! Oh, the bushy eyebrows…I remember those all too well!
Oh, I could dig up a few beauties of myself, no snakes around the neck though. In fact I may just do that for a post.
oh I love it you are so cute. I would never ever hold a snake or dig out my childhood photos both are too scary!
Ok I just clicked the link and I’m going to play that clip a million times. Them I’m going to show my kids. Then I’m going to send it to my husband. Them I’m going…well you get the picture. Unfreakin-amazing that alligator is! And look at you and your new BFF getting all close and everything. What I wouldn’t have given to hear the squeal if that alligator would have come out of the water as you were walking towards it LOL Oh. Ahem. Side-tracked. You were incredibly cute as a 10 year old, even with that snake and the gap in your teeth :o)
Sandy, I WAS, wasn’t I?? lol
Michelle, it’ll be funner than you think…go for it!!!
E-mom, PRAISE GOD for orthodontia!!!!
Jeannie, Hmmm, it WOULD be a fun Fun Monday theme…who’s hosting next??
WT, you got a problem with that?
TLG, hatin’???? I’m LOVIN’!!! But, yes ma’am, thank God for tweezers, too!
Chris, believe it or not, snakes IN CAPTIVITY don’t bother me a bit (nonpoisonous, of course). But now, I wouldn’t just pick one up. Surely, there was someone around (when this shot was taken) who assured me it wasn’t venomous!
Claudia, I remember learning early how to hold a snake correctly; I’ve never forgotten.
Suz, it was actually at a friend’s house VERY near the UGA golf course (the house is still there).
Jenny, do kids even make those necklaces anymore???
Susie, how ’bout posting your second worst piccha then? I’m sure there was a time when I was embarrassed by this picture, now, I just adore it!
Karina, the term uni-brow hadn’t been coined yet…thank goodness!
Janeywan, it WOULD make a GREAT post (imho;) ).
Alix (et all), y’all are crazy–these things are GREAT to post!
Joy, I LOVE THAT ALLIGATOR VIDEO!!! I hope to see that monster again this summer!!! If I do…I’M GETTING CLOSER!!!!
What a GREAT picture, and thanks for sharing and making us all feel a little better about our own 10-year-old pictures. 🙂
Oh yeah, I’m pretty sure the wide belt was in style back then and thank the lord for Brooke Shields we didn’t need to pluck our eyebrows. 🙂
Great shot! I was a snake handler at that age as well. In the town I grew up in in north Florida the only sort of theme park-esque attraction was Ross Allen’s Alligator Farm – from which I am a proud Snake Handling graduate!