3/16/05

reading: The Second Assistant. This book is seeming really familiar to me. Either I’ve already read it, or I skimmed the first chapter before I bought it. Since it’s not in my reading list for 2004 or 2003 and the book came out in 2004, I’m going to guess that it’s the latter.

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Pet store kitty pics from last Monday are up. I didn’t get any pictures this Monday, but that’s okay – there were no new kitties this week, either. Good news: Wolfgang and Mrs. Landingham have been adopted! Yay! I was starting to worry about those two, because no one seemed to realize what awesome kitties they are. Well, apparently someone (a couple of someones, I guess) did. Now all I really want is for Penda and Makenna to be adopted.
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Okay, okay! I know y’all want to see what the bumper stickers on the back of my first car said, so I found the picture and scanned it. Here’s a bigger shot: And to see the full-sized version (which I’ll take down at the end of the month) go here. If you’re visiting after I took down the full-sized picture, here’s what the bumper stickers say: I’m in no hurry, I’m on my way to work. I’m stubborn only when I don’t get my way! Don’t tell me what kind of day to have. (Ironic, considering that I sign all my emails “Have a great day!”, isn’t it?) Party Animal! I owe, I owe, it’s off to work I go. If you get any closer introduce yourself! As a matter of fact I DO own the road! I’m the one your mother warned you about. Just visiting this planet. If you don’t like the way I drive, STAY OFF THE SIDEWALK. Don’t follow me, I’m lost too! So many pedestrians, so little time. Beam me up Scotty! Here’s to all the Verns in the world! And the banner across the back window? That’s a picture of Oliver North and “OLLIE FOR PRESIDENT.” I didn’t particularly want Oliver North to be President; I hardly knew who he WAS. I just wanted to get a reaction. I never did, though. Lucky for y’all I spent a LONG FREAKIN’ TIME going through old pictures while I was looking for that picture of my car, and thus I have many embarrassing pictures of yours truly. In no particular order. > I’m not in this picture, actually. Here we see John and Denise, ready for the Marine Ball. John, as you might have guessed, was a Marine. He asked Denise to go to the Ball with him, and she agreed, just because she wanted to go. He had SUCH a crush on her and she was SO mean to him because she was not interested at all. Now, look at that adorable face. How could she possibly resist it? He was one of the sweetest guys I knew. If I hadn’t been pregnant and married, I would have had SUCH a crush on him. Oh, hell – I DID. So cute! I think that Patrick resembles John a bit. Throughout my life, I have never quite perfected the lovely picture-taking smile that other people have. I seem to have two picture-taking smiles: the first, as seen above, is more of a grimace, and I am clearly thinking “Take the goddamn picture, before I grab that camera and shove it down your throat, bitch.” (December of 87) The second kind of smile is illustrated above: “If I bare all my teeth, it will pass as a natural smile.” This is from Halloween of 86. That’s not my real hair – I was wearing a black and white wig to which I’d added red paint. Someone pointed out at the party that I looked like I had a bleeding skunk on my head. The sultry look. Same party. Halloween of 87. I put on a pink and white striped nightgown, a lot of makeup, and glitter in my hair. I’m not sure what I thought I was going as. My god, I had big hair. Why didn’t anyone stop me from perming? I’m 15 (I think) here. June of ’83, and my brother Randy was graduating from high school. I ask you – what the holy hell was up with my hair? My bangs are hanging down, yet brushed sideways. I look like I have a combover! I was 16 in this picture. My friend Tammie and I were on our way to the Rick Springfield/ Corey Hart (shaddup) concert and she took my picture in the girl’s bathroom at school. Such a dork. Look! I had the big ’80s glasses! I went through a phase where I wore rolled-up bandannas around my neck; somehow I felt as though it hid my HUGE GUT. I would like to travel back in time and slap the shit out of me for feeling so hugely, grossly fat. My Dad and I. This had to be in 86. He looks so YOUNG and my hair is so BIG. He would have been… around 44, I think. So young! (Note the “Take the goddamn picture!” smile) Me, in my SASSY McDonald’s uniform. At McDonald’s, even. Note that the front of my uniform was gapping like a motherfucker. This would have been sometime in ’85. Liz and I on the crappy couch of my extremely crappy first apartment in Brunswick. 220 Main Street, if you live in the area. Make sure, if you’re driving by in the middle of the night, you honk really loudly so that my asshole of an ex-landlady is awakened. In fact, if you do it every night at 3 am, I’ll give you a dollar. (Not really) Note the huge hair. STILL. This was in May of 87. I’m sure I’ve shared this picture before – it’s one of my favorite pictures of myself from back then. This was Christmas night of ’84, and I was hanging out with my friends. It’s one of the few naturally-smiling pictures of me that exists in the entire world.
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For dinner last night, we had little pizzas from a recipe Fred found in Men’s Health. My GOD were they good – I think we’re going to have them again as soon as humanly possible. I don’t know why they’re called Red Auerbach Pizzas – I’m sure there was an explanation on the page, but I didn’t read it. Anyway, the recipe is here if you want to try it for yourself. It was a big hit with all three of us. Also, I’ve discovered a balsamic vinaigrette recipe; I tried it out and liked it a lot. It’s excellent for those days when I’m not in the mood for honey-mustard salad dressing. That recipe is here. We’re trying another Men’s Health recipe tonight; if it’s good, I’ll share.
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With a name like that, you know it’s going to be an interesting blog! Heh.
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By the way, I have truly not been ignoring those of you who wanted to know how Fred was doing after his vasectomy last week. I wasn’t ALLOWED to write about it until after His Majesty had. But now you can go read all about it.
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Not the best picture, but the LOOK Mister Boogers is giving Miz Poo absolutely cracks me up.]]>

31 thoughts on “3/16/05”

  1. Oh we discovered the pita pizzas the other night. We used a pita, little olive oil, crushed garlic, tomato slices, bit of oregano and little bit o’ cheese, man was it good!! Nice crunchy crust…mmmm…..

  2. OMG Fred just slays me! Leave it to HIM to show up at the doctor’s office on the wrong day for the bit snip snip! I’m still laughing.

  3. It’s a good thing I got Fred’s notify list and read his journal BEFORE I got yours, otherwise your warning that your entry today was full of photos would have an entirely new meaning!!
    I mean, heheh….I would’ve wondered if Fred was gonna allow pics to record the event…much like he loves to show us his gross toe pics!!
    Oh…….loved your walk down memory lane pics. I didn’t know you worked at Mickey D’s?? My stepdaughter worked at Booger King and I could not get the grease smell out of her uniforms!!

  4. Those pita pizzas sound good!
    In the picture where you were 15, were you maybe trying to grow your bangs out? I’m trying grow mine out and am suffering from a variation of the bangs combover (bangover–hee!) because they’re long enough to hang in my eyes and piss me off all day but too short to just push them back with the rest of my hair…

  5. Oh, got too happy with the post button. Also wanted to say–toasted pita is really good, too. Tastes just like english muffins…

  6. We use that same pizza recipe, except we use refridgerated biscut dough…or sometimes english muffins. So good.
    I LOVE the photos you posted. So fun. I too had big 80’s hair and glasses AND I saw Rick Springfield in concert as well! So hip are we.

  7. I went to the same Corey Hart/Rick Springfield concert/tour! I loved to sing “Summer of ’69” and substitute “85” for “69”–my senior year. I’m a dork!

  8. Love the memory lane photos. You are fearless Robyn. *bowing down* I would be so yikes about posting old photos of me! The boog looking at poo photo is priceless!!

  9. I have the exact same fake smiles when the cameras are trained on me. How do other people manage to smile so naturally? Freaks :>

  10. When you do take the time to smile, you have a very beautiful smile. 😉
    Hey–if you get all your entries put into MT, and you decide to try something php like pMachine, let me know and I can help. 🙂

  11. Wondering if you watched american idol last night?
    If so, did you notice that the blonde guy who sang “breakin up is hard to do?”
    He has a “neck-bellybutton”

  14. The “neck belly button” on the blond guy from American Idol is from a tracheotomy (sp) when he was a child. The docs didn’t know if he would be able to talk after much less sing!!

  16. DOH! Somehow managed to put the wrong address in the nifty little URL box and have managed to link to someone else’s blog… yeah, I’m still new at this. Try again, shall I?

  17. You are a braver woman than I, putting up old photos.
    I think you should bring back the bleeding skunk look…some 80’s stuff IS coming back in style, you know 😉

  18. on the crappy couch of my extremely crappy first apartment in Brunswick…
    We had a similar crappy apartment then too…and we covered our hand me down brown floral furniture with the same covers you had in the picture…did you get them at Bradlees? (Shh, Mrs. B is buying)
    I had the perms and glasses… what a hapening time!

  19. Ahh the 80’s hair…I think we were all guilty of that.
    And the first record I ever bought was a 45 of Jesse’s Girl.
    *sigh*

  20. That pic of you and dad…….heh. The picture hanging behind you is hanging over my couch right now:P You have always had the most beautiful eyes……..I used to hate you for that:P

  21. Stacey: I don’t think I was trying to grow my bangs out; at some point when I was young I was reading a woman’s magazine and somehow came to the conclusion that I had a high forehead that should always be covered, so I pretty much had bangs until I started perming when I was 16 or so.
    Sharon: Yeah, Mils is right – that “neck belly button” was from a tracheotomy when he was very small. It always catches my eye when he’s singing, and I canNOT look away. It’s like it’s staring at me…
    Kelley: Bwah! I think the Junior Prom picture is my favorite! Hee!
    Ellen B: If I recall correctly, the covers on the couch were already there (the apartment came furnished!), and they were in pretty bad shape. I wouldn’t be surprised if they came from Bradlee’s! 🙂
    Debbie: No way – you hated me because my hair always feathered sooooo perfectly, remember? 😛

  22. Nice pics!! hehe Denise looks LESS than impressed in the first one hehe
    My mother had that exact same uniform when she worked there, Lovely aren’t they? My dad was Store manager at one store and my mother was crew at another. We were a mickey-d’s family LOL. (I worked there, they worked there, my brothers worked there)

  25. “June of ’83…I ask you – what the holy hell was up with my hair? My bangs are hanging down, yet brushed sideways. I look like I have a combover!”
    Robynnnnn, it was the PRINCESS DI STYLE that was totally in back then!!! I had the SAME cut, why oh why did we all think it would make us look like Princess Dianna??!! I’m hysterical laughing right now, thanks for the laugh and the memory of my combover!

  26. Hi I’m the Sarah who’s mother lives near Debbie, I also live a couple streets away from your first crappy apartment in Brunswick, I have been meaning to email you and let you know they demolished 220 Maine Street about a month ago, to make room for a Bowdion College garden. Thought you might enjoy that one.

  27. When I first saw the bloody skunk wig pic I thought “Why is Kelly Osbourne’s pic on here!” (DON’T KILL ME!)
    You really haven’t aged, I mean that in all honesty not sucking up for the Kelly comment (ok maybe I am..hee!) Thanks for the trip down memory lane. I totally forgot about the bandannas around the neck. I did the same thing! And the bumper sticker that says You are ugly and your mother dresses you funny? I had that on a button, I remember we bought all kinds and we would stick it on our faux Gucci bags (wait, it wasn’t Gucci but it started with a G, or was it an R? Crap, what was that brand??)
    Anyway you have inspired me to get out my ol’ 80s photos and scan and post them on my site..after I have a few beers….HA!

  28. Ok can’t get it outta my head..was it Giovanni or something like that? I am positive now it started with a G, they were coach style bags with gaudy patterns and came in navy and red or brown and some other gaudy color etc…had short handles that were on top..even had a G or something on the fake ones..GAH!!! Help!!!

  29. Huh, Guess I’m a step-generation older than the other posters. My hair in the 60s, 70s and 80s was long, straight, parted in the middle. Curls were a no no. In high school I wore granny dresses, bell bottomed-hip hugging jeans with tight mini t-shirts. We also paired those t-shirts with micro mini skirts.

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