It's An 80's Flashback...

Well, the theme of people from my past popping in is still in full force...I checked my email yesterday and got a letter from a really special person I knew in Junior High/beginning of high school. She was one of those people who influenced me to no end...all my friends think I'm super funny (yeah, well you have to meet me in person I guess) but this gal really took the cake. She used to make us crack up to the point of tears all the time! My mom and I have fondly reminisced about her for years, always wondering what happened to her...and here she is, in my email. Well, not literally, but you know what I mean.

And sending pictures from that time period...

Which have been making me giggle hysterically since yesterday. That's me in the fabulous lavender quilted down jacket. I now wonder, as I have before, what my life would have been like if she would have been able to stay in it instead of moving away. But, you'd never believe how parallel our lives have been since...we are interested in the same things, and both even color our hair red (as you can see, by these pictures, I am indeed a natural blond...I started dying my hair in college, and people started taking me more seriously...because I got super smart after I died it you know!)

I think I will try to dig up some of my pictures from that time too, since I am totally inspired, and the universe seems to be smacking me upside the head with my past as of late...

...I keep thinking, wow, I wonder what I'm supposed to be learning or cleaning up or remembering from then? My mom says it makes her wonder if I'm gonna' die. Thanks mom.

I can not get over how skinny I was...I mean, yes I only weighed 100 lbs. all the way through high school (with a severe dip due to health problems, down to about 89 if you can believe that) but still!

And, I leave you with the last picture...me in a pair of 2-tone Flashdance PJ's standing in my childhood kitchen. I think my ass looks fabulous in these by the way...

...pantie lines and all!