Today was one of those days where you would wake up, hear the rain, hit snooze and never want to leave the bed. Unfortunately may day turned into something similar to that. Reagan came down with strep so I stayed home from work with her. However, we can't be in our house during the day because they are remodeling. So here I am, at my parents house, in my old room with Reagan. I'm trying to keep quiet as she is sleeping and so I decided to dig around and see what I could come up with.
Ah, my old collections. This is part my miniatures collection. I'd say it was strange but I used to have an eraser collection. Some were my mothers and grandmothers.
I begged and begged for a porcelain doll as a child. I got this doll and loved her. But I quickly realized she watched me while I slept. She had to be put face down every night after that. Also, here is about the only trophy I've won. It was for twirling. What do you do for stuff like that when you're older? They need to make an old trophy heaven.
I guess I could have muted the volume on the TV and played this guy. Yes, it still works. But only after blowing in it a million time, of course.
Or I could have read a World Book Encyclopedia. I used to love to look at the pictures in these things. I love the internet, but its still sad my kids won't know what these are, or how to make a research paper using them.
After reminiscing about these items, I came upon an old box of pictures.
Here is me in my dorm room. I tell my student tales of my roommate and I waiting forever to get online with the dial up. Also, going to the library and printing information on a dot matrix printer. Can't you hear those two sound even to this day?
Speaking of the dorm, here is one of my favorite pictures that I thought of the other day of my roommate and I. This is a pretty good selfie long before the term selfie came about.
Her and I each had a web page we would post pictures to, to keep up with our other friends. Kind of an early Facebook, I guess.
Some of those friends were part of this crazy group of people. I don't think many of us are still actually good friends anymore, but MAN it was fun while it lasted! And guess what, none of it involved anything illegal but many of the antics would have made great YouTube videos.
Growing up, we only had beagle breed dogs. In fact, we ended up having 2 litters of puppies of these adorable creatures. I waiting patiently as our dog gave birth in our garage. We hated giving them away, though. That was a sad day!
I also found many great pictures of my friends that always let me tag along to the lake. Tubing, water skiing, and jet skiing. Those were fun Saturday afternoons.
This picture is in true 90s fashion. This is my 18th birthday party where we were all doing the Macarena. I rented a dance hall, with my own money, and made my brother dj the event and do karaoke. I practiced for weeks and sang the new song that came out by Kenny Chesney, "She Thinks My Tractor's Sexy" and sang it for my guests.
Then I wore this crown the entire night. In fact, I found it the other day.
