Friday, March 07, 2008

During My Current Super Stressful Days, Picture Me Like This…

This is a scan of me and my mom posing on our front lawn, in our dirndls.  They weren’t even costumes, coming by them legitimately because my mom is from Germany.  As most of you who know me in real life know, you’re not going to see me in a dress these days.  Consider it a courtesy to your eyes.  However, I think we looked pretty cute back then…and my mom would still look cute in her dirndl.  Heck, it probably still fits just fine, forty or so years later.

Also, you can be pretty sure that that little kid wouldn’t be the slightest bit worried about foreclosure stress (the 30 day postponement is a done deal and I think the paperwork looks fine in order to get the loan modification done - the email I got from the mortgage company today had a HUGE salary error on it, so with that clarified, it looks okay to me…although “me” doesn’t get to make the decisions these days, sadly), and she’d go inside and change into her Toughskins and play a pickup football or baseball game in the street with her brothers and the next-door neighbor boys.  Or, play some hoops in the driveway.  I can’t believe it, the guy my parents sold our childhood house to, took down our basket that wasn’t attached to the roof about the garage, but a post CEMENTED into a little outcropping off the edge of the driveway.  Damn, that guy destroyed my childhood basketball court.  Creep!  So what if it’s his house now?  It’s always going to be OUR house.

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1. I love the photo.  It’s too bad we can’t (usually?) appreciate the carefree-ness of childhood at the time.  I hope everything goes well with the mortgage.

   Nancy  on  03/08  at  12:21 PM

2. I love the photo! And I am even happier that you seem to be sorting things out, Keeping my fingers and toes crossed that the rest goes smoothly.

   laurie  on  03/11  at  08:25 PM

3. OMG, I would have never recognized you.  Lori has pictures of when she was in friend’s weddings about 25 years ago.  She looks amazing….just not at all like her.  I think my exact words were, “you look lovely….just don’t ever let me catch you looking like that again!”

   Kate  on  03/13  at  08:03 AM

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