So…
That’s me and my high school boyfriend (who was a year behind me in school, by the way) headed out for MY Senior Prom.
Get a load of this.
Standing on my parents’ green shag carpet.
Wearing my gold “dyed-to-match” shoes and my hair had just come out of HOT rollers for like an HOUR.
My hair looked DAMN good though, Y’all!
Well, despite the bangs…
Anyway, I wanted to post this picture for a few reasons.
1) To give you all a good laugh. I mean COME. ON. Just feast your eyes on that awesome dress!!!! (found at a re-sale shop in Austin for less than HALF of what other girls were paying for their dresses. Ahem.)
2) So you could see my awesome hair.
3) To tell you all that I thought I was fat in this picture. Can you believe that crap?
Baby K was playing on a bookshelf yesterday and out fell my old photo album, and this picture.
And I looked at it thought, “OMG, look at me – I look great and I thought I was fat back then!!”
Um, who else can see my collar bone? (show of internet hands please…)
That’s what I thought.
Anyway, I obviously was not fat. Just goes to show how askew our own image of ourselves can be.
And in relation to my post yesterday about weight/body/etc., let’s be good to ourselves too. And let’s teach our girls that they are beautiful no matter what (my parent’s always did but sometimes I didn’t see it…)
Anyway, Happy Friday all! We’re gearing up for a trip to TX next week for the holiday and I am SO EXCITED!
Now scroll on back up and have yourself another laugh. It’s on me. 🙂
The carpet is scary, but it’s the blank white look in your date’s face that would worry me. 😉
ha! this was great…you were cute!!!!!!!!!
love it! 🙂
Good hair,
awesome dress,
fabulous shoes
and the green shag….priceless!
You were beautiful. And still are 🙂 Maybe more so because knowledge and maturity is so HOT.
xoxoxo
That is AWESOME!
One of my really good friends lives by this motto:
“I wish I was as fat as I thought I was in high school!!!”
How incredibly true is that!!!
Be safe coming to Texas!! How long will you be here??
I have a green sequined dress in the same style…:)…I’m pretty sure my mom still has it at her house…and the hair…AWESOME…loving the bangs! I cannot tell you how many times I have done exactly what you did….Looked back at a picture and thought….Wow I looked great…and I thought I was a huge fatty at the time….
You looked great then and look even better now!!!
BTW…you date is white hot! 🙂
I love it Elaine! So great. I love your positive words at the end too.
I LOVE old school photos. You are adorable. 🙂
Is it wrong that some days I miss hot rollers?
Love the shoes! I look at pictures of myself from just three years ago and can’t believe I thought I was fat then. Amazing what having kids does to you, right?
You and I totally would’ve been BFF’s. I totally rocked that hair style too. And dye to match shoes??? Wow that seems so long ago. Except it’s not cause I’m 20, don’t ya know? 😉
I so had the dyed to match shoes! lol Mine were a blueish purple. You have inspired me to go hunting for photos! I have a feeling no matter how much we tell our daughters that it’s not about image they will still struggle with the same things we did. The media tells you subliminally and blatantly that it is about image. I only hope we can instill enough esteem in them that they don’t struggle as badly as we did!