Oct 26

Random Photo Sunday

Category: nostalgia,random picture Sunday

My mom has always abhorred the idea of being immortalized in a photo. Most of the pictures I have of her from my childhood feature an arm splayed across her cheek, or her face obscured by her drape-like hair. But occasionally, a photo will surface of my mom actually smiling. Maybe the camera-holder caught her after she downed an extra glass of Sangria, who knows.

I could never understand my mom’s camera-shyness, because I always thought she was so pretty. Maybe if I looked even half as good as she did at my age, the act of having my photo taken wouldn’t give me indigestion and cold sweats. I hate having my picture taken so much, that I don’t even have the obligatory mother-holding-slimey-baby shot after I gave birth. If I ever get married, I suppose a stand-in will be in need.

P.S. That’s my step-dad with her. Back then, he wore shirts tighter than my mom’s and shorts shorter than Freddy Mercury’s, and also he was really into his Soloflex.

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  1. Nicole October 26th, 2008 8:39 pm

    You look a lot like your mom! :)

  2. kat October 27th, 2008 2:45 pm

    You and your mom look an awful lot alike. At first I thought that was a photo of YOU made to look 70’s.

  3. Tuna Tar-Tart October 31st, 2008 1:35 pm

    HEY! Could you make a gourd bowl with razorblades and music notes on it?

  4. kat October 31st, 2008 2:55 pm

    Small or large? Black ink? Silver? Whatchoo got in mind?

  5. buenomexicana October 28th, 2008 8:18 am

    aw, i love this picture.

    you’re SO pretty. just so you know.

  6. Tuna Tar-Tart October 31st, 2008 1:29 pm

    I wish my mom was still like that. Now she’s just a close-minded racist.

  7. Alyson Hell October 31st, 2008 9:43 am

    Oh my god! What a pretty lady she was!! And I do see some of you in her.

  8. Tuna Tar-Tart October 31st, 2008 1:28 pm

    Aw, thank you!

  9. scintillated November 1st, 2008 6:01 pm

    Awwwwwww, you look so much like your mum!!!!! =D

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