Sigh...

As you can guess, I've had one hell of a busy week. I've been doing 15 hour days for the past week and I'm near the breaking point. And I'm still working, and will be up late again tonight. But after that, I should be somewhat caught up, so am hoping to post something of interest during the weekend.

So as a way of apologizing, I thought I'd give you all a good chuckle by sharing some beautiful photos of me when I was a kid. Funny thing is, just recently I was thinking of asking my dad if he had any old slides of me as a kid reading the comics, but I didn't bother because I figured the answer would be no. And so in one of those delightful serendipitous moments, my dad sent my mom some scanned slides for a completely unrelated reason, and looky looky!

Yup – it don't get much geekier than this. Not only was I chubby, sporting this horrendous contraption and blessed with bushy eyebrows, but I also had asthma at that time, and was allergic to almost every living thing in sight. Good times.

Comments

[Kerry]

Oh but so very cute, though you might not have known it at the time. Thanks for sharing. And it's good to hear from you!

[Isabella]

Hang in there, Patricia!

The photos are great! The gear, and even the comics pages, speak of another era, but cute kid!

[kimbofo]

I wonder what you're thinking in the first picture?? You should run a caption contest!!

I sympathise with both the workload and the fact you used to wear a head brace, as I had one of those too!

[bookfraud]

"it doesn't get much geekier than this." oh, my dear, you have no idea. this is why i don't put current pictures of myself on my blog, much less those when i was a total geek.

i think you were kinda cute.

[Ellen]

Thanks for bringing back the 70's. I think I had the exact same shirt,'Biway'? or Robinsons at the Burlington Mall? And the Sunday comics, from the Hamilton Spectator? Oy, I have to stop typing, too much sensory memory overload. Those braces must have been tough, but hey, you did have the sunkissed hair and tan like Malibu Stacy.

[Patricia]

Yes, Ellen, I remember Robinsons! More than likely one of the stores at the Burlington Mall, but thankfully not BiWay – my mom drew the line at shopping there!

And yup – Sunday comics from the Hamilton Spec. Who could forget?

Malibu Stacy? Mmmmmmm...no. Maybe Malibu Stacy's geekier cousin!

[Beth]

Never mind the dental contraption, the chubbiness - you are so cute! And I love your expression in the first picture.

[R J Keefe]

Youth may be wasted on the young, but childhood certainly isn't.

We shall have overcome!

[hadas]

Oy. this looks rather uncomfortable. How clever of you you to get rid of it :)

[Heather]

I had to wear that style of headgear too! LOL I'm sure there are no pictures of me in it because it frankly horrified my mother! LOL

[Katherine]

Argh! This reminds me too much of when I was that age. I too had the horrible headgear. I also had glasses. Fun times.