A story in two photos …
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What a great capture — I love how you can still see his little white paws on the chair! Photos by Andrea Zastrow, from her Flickr photoset, Thanksgiving 2007. As if these photos alone aren’t funny enough, Andrea’s captions are hilarious! A cat owner after my own heart.
Happy Thanksgiving Eve, my lovelies!
As promised, here are my then-and-now photos. The photo on the left was taken in February 2008, the one on the right just today. And YES, I can finally see the difference! Obviously, I still have a long way to go, but it’s great to feel so much healthier and happier already. I climbed all the stairs by the Oceanside Pier today without even getting short of breath — while having a conversation! Click on the photo to see it larger on Flickr, along with a few of my favorites from today.
When I first downloaded the photos from the Nikon, I started crying. I honestly could not see any difference in myself at all. It took an hour of looking at photo after photo with Bret pointing out the differences before my mind began to accept it. When it began to sink in, I was shocked. I don’t look repulsive! I’m not even embarrassed to show people these photos! Usually I’d rather get a root canal than share pictures of myself. Because, you know, people don’t look at me when they’re standing right in front of me or anything. Ahem.
Bret tends to go a bit apeshit with the shutter release when he’s got the Nikon, and he actually took 375 pictures during our two hours at the beach today (seriously), but only about 100 of them are of me. Still, that’s a lot of images to sort through, even considering the many, many near-duplicates taken milliseconds apart. I’m not happy with the technical quality of today’s pics — most of them are hazy and my face is too shadowed. I did some adjusting, but couldn’t get much improvement. But they served their purpose, and that’s what counts.
Incidentally, these photos today and the few I uploaded a week ago are the first ones I’ve put on Flickr without digitally “touching myself up.” They are the true, unedited me, and that alone is a huge, huge step in my journey toward self-acceptance. I am proud of myself for taking it.
I don’t know who this little girl is. I bought this photo simply because I can’t stop looking at it. I don’t know why.
What’s your reaction to it?
Hey everyone, don’t forget my 5th Anniversary of Blogging Celebration (aka The 5th) kicks off tomorrow! It’s going to be a fun week for me, and hope you’ll all help me celebrate. My new self-therapy is working well, and the Dark Dearth Of Joy mood has passed. If you guys enjoy reading this week half as much as I’m enjoying putting the posts together, my time will be well-spent! In the meantime, here’s a meme thing I’ve been working on in between 5th projects.
If you only look at the questions for this meme, it’s pretty blah. What makes it delightful is the way it’s getting “twisted” as it circumnavigates the blogiverse. Clever and talented bloggers are taking this barebones meme and fleshing it out with their imagination and creativity. Take a look at kat!’s, Vahid’s and Hilly’s, and you’ll see what I mean (and if you’ve also done this one, be sure to leave a link in the comments!).
Being the lover of memege that I am, I couldn’t let this pass by without taking it for a spin. And me being me, the spin I gave it was inevitable. Here are the mundane questions (edited by me because they changed person for no good reason):
1. What were you doing 10 years ago?
2. What five things are on your to-do list for today?
3. What snacks do you especially enjoy?
4. If you suddenly became a billionaire, what would you do with your fortune?
5. Where have you been all your life?
And my answers are (click images to view larger):
1. Ten years ago …
2. To do today …
4. Billionaire dreams…
See you all tomorrow for the festivities kick-off!
Previously done by Adena, Penelope, Kevin, Karl, Hilly, Bec, Suze and apparently, most of the blogiverse …
I love memes. I love photos. I love Flickr. Therefore, this may be my dream meme. If not, it’ll do for now.
The concept:
1. Type your answer to each of the questions below into Flickr Search.
2. Using only the first page of results, pick one image.
3. Copy and paste each of the URLs for the images into Big Huge Lab?s Mosaic Maker to create a mosaic of the picture answers.
The questions:
1. What is your first name?
2. What is your favorite food right now?
3. What high school did you go to?
4. What is your favorite color?
5. Who is your celebrity crush?
6. What is your favorite drink?
7. What is your dream vacation?
8. What is your favorite dessert?
9. What do you want to be when you grow up?
10. What do you love most in life?
11. What is one word that describes you?
12. What is your Flickr name?
The result:
1. suzi-tattoo-love, 2. tuna melt innards, 3. Poway High School - Witch Creek Fire, 4. Do I have enough pink electronics?, 5. Alex O?Loughlin 3, 6. Mojito Power, 7. View From Our Room, 8. two pumpkin pies, 9. I am Wise, Wealthy, Healthy and Strong, 10. May 28, 2008, 11. v2.196: September 12th (Insecure), 12. Mother’s Day 1956 AFTER
Yes, I cheated on #10. No matter how I entered her name, I couldn’t get a picture of Juli to come up. I refuse to have a photo of a total stranger illustrate what I love most in life. Feel free to report me to the Meme Police. And #7? That’s my sister’s timeshare complex in Las Vegas. Yeah, I get to have my dream vacation at least once a year.
Fun, fun meme! But definitely not a quickie.
