You. Back in the day.

My grandma has been really good about giving me tons of old pictures, which I really appreciate.

Her home is actually filled with pictures of our ancestors going back as far as photography, as her hobby is Genealogy, she has come across so many pictures in old genealogy libraries plus had many given to her by distant relatives she has been able to find out about and contact through her research.

This summer she gave me a giant lamented family tree, handwritten by her, going back to the early 1600's. I need to have it framed.

Way too awesome pepper. Beautiful.

Here's me when I had hair! A wee 6 months ago, looking like a lobster. I think this is from after I came back from Mexico.
Dressed like a douche.

You are pretty with and without hair. You're NOT dressed like a douche. Your outfit is rather cute. Now, you stop being so hard on yourself, right this minute.

Where did you post a pic with no hair? How much did you cut off?

I like the no hair look. But you're pretty either way.

I like you new girl who isn't newgirl.

It's all gone, Pete. ALL GONE!

I like the hair. I'm a hair guy. But hey, if you're happy without it, that's what counts.

Took that in the bathroom at the pottery place on Wednesday.
I shaved it all about a month and a half agoish maybe. The day after Black Friday.

Thank you everyone, I really appreciate it. I like you too.

I don't really know how I feel about it. I miss my hair but I really don't want to go through the awkward-grow-in phase. Oh well. You gotta do what you gotta do.

You look like you could rock the in-between short hair, too. Major like for that phone case

Maybe. We'll see. Thank you!

Oh, I don't go in the Pointless Announcements threads because it's hard to check new posts for a mod in that one. Especially when it has so many new posts every time.

I like short hair on girls.

I think you look better with the short hair. Really draws the attention to your amazing eyes

Wow, thank you so much Kit!

Being asked how Auschwitz was or how chemotherapy is going gets a little tiresome after awhile though. People are mean.

I mean I'm getting total 'Nothing Compares 2 U' vibes, but I think you're prettier than Sinead O'Connor

I like the fuck'em part if they don't like or know the reasons for your haircut Jaz. This is how I feel when I go for something new in my outward appearance. When I do it, I do it to please me and because I like. Fuck them Haters!

I've always wished I had the guts to shave my head. That isn't a backhanded compliment, I think you are tough for going for it and wear it well.

I plan on shaving my head one day. I don't know when but it's kind of a bucket list thing I guess. I also want dreads and I'll most likely shave my head after that.

I always thought dreds would be fun too.

I had sort of half dreds for a while as a teenager. I would only brush my hair once every week or two, when it was threatening to actually dread up, the rest of the time I would just comb it out into nice thin (clean) messy locks with my fingers everyday.

I actually got a lot of compliments on my hair back then.

I had a dread while I was in Hawaii. It was awful. I never comb my hair but the humidity made my hair unmanageable to the extreme. I have fine to thick hair and my finer hair is wavy/curly where my thicker hair is straight so when you add humidity,wind, and salt water it tangles amongst itself in a war of curly vs straight. It sucks.

Joking aside, I know what you mean. Fourteen years ago, when I first started shaving my head, the style wasn't as popular as it is today--when meeting new people, many told me that they thought I was a skinhead. That, and random strangers wanting to touch my head, was a bit unnerving.

And, Roseate, you look great with or without hair.

When James and I were first married he shaved his head and left his sideburns and had the same problem of people thinking he was a skin head.

Also, the problem of a very burnt head because his Irish skin burns even in the shade.

When I used to shave my head (once yearly from '81 to '85), I looked like this.

There's no image showing there Tuff.

I imagine you went invisible for four years, you were like a ninja in the dark, like the west wind on a chilly day, like, um, I got nothing else.

I copied/pasted the properties...

EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK scary.

Ah gosh you guys are so nice. Thank you.

It's nice that hair grows back because then you can do a lot of experimenting and if it looks stupid it only will for a little bit

I do recommend it though. It's very nice to not have to spend 20 minutes+ washing your hair or worrying about whether it's greasy or not and all of that crap. Short hair is easy.

You are so beautiful. Really stunning. Timeless, classic beauty.

Jean Seberg of Truffaut's new wave french flick "Breathless"

^ That's my cut if I decide to! Love it!

That's exactly how my grandmother's hair was for as. It must have been that way forever. Even when I watch old movies of when they were young.

Newgirl, I am actually blushing thank you so much.

totally Seberg, good call

Roseate, you should totally rock the Emma Watson pixie cut. It would look awesome on you.

I'll probably get it cut like that when it grows out and needs... er... shaping...
Thank you

Thanks for making me feel old now.

roseate: I vote for the long hair. You look good either way but the pic with the long hair is just, I dunno cuter to me. I think you could rock any length of hair.

Wow, it's about to be my sixth cultiversary! And you'll be sweet sixteen! Do you get to drive at sixteen wherever you live?

Zack - Thank you. Whatever length I have, I'll be wishing it was the other way.

I found this old picture of James and me, and realised I rarely post pictures of him here.

I am looking rather plain jane and weird in it,,, but I am quite lucky aren't I? (him in a dirty shirt and everything)

ever since I lost it on here about him being such a damn jerk he has been trying so hard. Even insisting that it is not okay for me to leave here or stop being friends with anyone here. I told him I am honestly perfect 50/50 at this point on wanting him to leave or stay. he has made it clear he is 100% on stay and figure out how to be happy. I don't know why he loves me so much. I seriously don't understand it at all. He needs to keep being nice though, if it will work.

Sorry. I guess all that private info isn't necessary, except that I've lost it here a couple times so it is sort of necessary.

Everything else aside, I do have a very handsome man anyway, don't I?

Nice. That guy's cute. You two should go steady.

You do have a handsome husband Amber. It is probably not my place to say, but if he's in 100% to stay , I think you should be in 100% too, even if you have to make yourself right now. You know he loves you so much and you two have grown up together. I can relate and understand, since Bob and I have grown up together. There was a point in our marriage where I actually thought I hated him and we almost did divorce, but we both decided to give it our all ( even though I thought there was no way in hell I would ever love him again) we roughed it out and going strong. I had to make myself for a while to actually put forth the effort. At the time I didn't want us to stay together. I don't know your full situation and don't claim to, but I think with just your history together and you beautiful children you have together is enough to try and make things work and the way you want them. This is a really good time for you both to lay it all on the table and really make the relationship what you both want. Where you both get fulfillment out of it and are happy and make each other happy.
This is all my two cents and know it is just that.

Jess, you make me smile with nearly every post you write.

Winnie, the amount I have to forgive in order to be 100% is frightening and possibly insurmountable. I suppose that is my own inner flaw if I m no longer able to forgive. Either way your advice is better than my mom's that is for sure.

Her's consists of reminding me how when I was young I was the one that always insisted to everyone else he was a good person, reminding me how unappealing a woman with kids would be to anyone else and suggesting that I bring another woman to our bed in order to keep him interested.

Anyway. Talking about my relationship isn't why I posted it. It is just a nice picture of him and I rarely post pictures of him.

It's a nice picture of you both, not just of him. Is any of your children not blue-eyed?

F

See me.

I know blue eyes are recessive, but with both parents blue-eyed the odds are higher. Dad's blue-eyed, mum's brown-eyed (I think), and us the kids are a strange combination: my sister has clear blue eyes, clearer than Dads, my brother's are a dark bluish-green and mine are green with a bit of light brown around the pupil.

Liliauna has deep sea blue eyes, like a dark storm.

Zachariah's are a dark green/brown that at times look black, when he was a baby they were nearly all the way black, you had to really gaze into them and search to see the difference from the iris and pupil.

Trevor has honey brown eyes, when he was tiny his eyes and hair were the exact same shade of caramel.

Gabriel's eyes are an intense hazel brown with flecks of green.

I do not understand this post?

I love the way you described that.

I don't know, you tell me.

He's grading her grammar. It should have said, "are any of your children not blue-eyed"

I sounded like a comment on why my children are not all blue eyed like their father.

Snarky exhibit A.