I am off soon to Atlanta for the weekend

When you were a kid what did you do ?

When I was around 6 I was a model for pure-pak co
They made the machines that made the little milk cartons



see

Oh wow... i remember those Milk cartons, Holy shit

IAintTheOne said:

Mach said:

fun stuff

Before school ( around 5 yrs old ) I was a model for hair fashion

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Mach said:

Dead ringers!

retina said:

WOW thats amazing and beautiful

Mach said:

Seriously, that's the most extreme likeness between mother and child that I've ever seen. Even the expression is the same.

retina said:

I never spent much time seriously look at it til your post ...

most say ahhh she looks like you and it's yeah yeah thanx

I never could see it much ( i think she is like her dad )

OMG i would have never in a million yrs thought i was as beautiful and Jess is



thank you for showing me

Mach said:

Well you obviously were.

i used to spend my time playing with my matchbox and hot wheels cars.

every time my folks and i would go grocery shopping, i'd ride in the space under the shopping cart (you know, that little shelf thing on the underside where you'd put stuff that wouldn't fit in the cart).

i played over at drake park, swinging on the swings or riding around on the metal merry-go-round (yes, even when it was hot n'sunny out). i remember being scared of the huge slide that was there.

my nieces and i would get food stamps from our grandma and head over to candy kitchen on forest and get a ton of candy to share amongst each other.

having damn near everybody wanting to do my hair on the weekends, since everyone thought that i had "good hair". it didn't matter that they'd always complain that my hair was so long and thick, they still did it anyway.

playing over in the king elementary schoolyard, back before they fenced it all in.

being put in an art instruction class when i was about 9, and hating the art teacher for her saying what i should and shouldn't put in the still-life pic i drew (i had drawn a mounted bird of some sort, and added a few squiggly lines in the background to fill the empty space...she kinda admonished me for that, saying "why put the spaghetti there? that shouldn't be there." i was like "fuck you, man").

hating it when my mom made me wear dresses and girly, frilly things. i was much happier in a t-shirt and pants (still am).

the floppy show on saturday mornings.

watching teenage girls walk down university in groups, eating doritos, and little 6-year old me wishing that i were that damned cool.

my mom always waking me and my nieces up after a weekend sleepover, yelling "RISE AND SHIIIIINE!!!!!"

wow mach, those pics are amazing!

I was our school's spelling bee champion.

I was also a tomboy that played tag with the fellas and flipped off monkey bars and swings. Later I was a cheerleader and joined the gymnastics team.

Mach said:

simply stunning

and you as a little girl...


i, however, thought i was going to be quite famous when our small town newspaper photographer captured me watching some outdoor event i couldn't wait till i saw myself in print lol

retina said:

That is exactly what I saw too. Cloning has existed since way before the dinosaurs, for sure.

Excellent/beautiful example Mach.

Mach, I never knew you were a model, that's awesome! When I was a teenager, I dreamed of being a model. Never came true, but I thought about it.

Mach said:

Awwwww Mach.

I used to spend a lot of time with my dad...he would come home from work, after being in a truck for 12 hours, and he always had time to go swimming with me...or play cards...or listen to music...or watch a hockey game...or tell me silly stories or serious lessons about life...

I used to be allowed to read out the IKEA assembly instructions

Stymie said:

i was the school district spelling champion.

Mach said:

Been sayin it for ages sweetheart! She got Moms looks!

mdiver said:

both TOTALLY GORGEOUS!!!!

Believe it or not, but I wasn't yet working like the rest of you seem to have been.

applekisses said:

I grew up on a farm and used to wish I was a "town kid" so I could walk to friends' houses after school. Instead I only had my brother, cats, and cows to hang out with.

In the winter everyone in the 'hood would go to a neighbor's, who had a bigger pond than ours, and ice skate while the older kids played hockey, or we would go tobogganing (sledding) and snow-mobiling in the timber.

I was in 4H, so summers were spent preparing for the county fair in August. I had to 'show pigs' at the county fair (my grandfather's family were noted hog farmers) and hated it. I grew up in the house were my grandfather lived as a boy; my grandparents lived in town but would still maintain the garden on our farm: sweet peas, tomatoes, strawberries, sweet corn, string beans. Also went swimming at the pool, and lifeguarded in high school.

I was the first girl in my junior high to go to the Math Bee three years in a row. I wanted to play football, my uncle bought me a football for my birthday and I practiced punting. In junior high I went to the football meeting and the coach told my friend & me that the "volleyball meeting was down the hall." So I played volleyball, basketball, softball, and ran track all through high school (and was in spring play, drama, etc.) I was really bored in school and got in a lot of trouble because of it.

It's very funny to me that I grew up that way because it is so not me. I don't like the slow pace of the country or the lack of cultural options (e.g. art, theater, music). In the back of my mind I always knew it wasn't the right place for me...I went to college in the largest city in my state and ended up in New York, studied contemporary art, and work in a museum. About as opposite as one could get from my childhood.

I would ride my bike to the park, swim at either a nearby pool or my friend's house and go to Saturday afternoon matinees, but mostly I spent much of my time reading.

Over summer vacation I wasted vast amounts of money at video arcades. On weekends my father often would take me fishing.

In junior high and high school I was enrolled in a summer arts and theater program.

I spent more time outside then inside as a kid

in the pool at the lake digging for crayfish in the creek bike ridding ice skating building igloos and ice fishing

I had 4 older brothers an we always hads a yard full of teens/kids playing

My friends had horses and we rode almost every weekend ... we walked everywhere else that we didnt ride our bikes to.

boating sking ( and snow ) snomobiling we always had pets

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