Wednesday, January 09, 2008

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Can't sleep. Perusing old photos/comments/etc online. Found this and laughed out loud, courtesy Facebook:
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The Photo:


Elise, Em, and Me
Summer 2007
Indiana
After-party pose from the mama's surprise 50th

The Comments:

1:16am on September 13th, 2007
Me: high-waisted drawers have never looked so hot... and can we talk about our poses? Em clearly has mastered the Urkel, but Elise and I are meandering somewhere down another path more commonly used in old films about the Gold Rush of '49 or the musical Oklahoma ... the off-off-off-off-off Broadway version... you know, very 'surrey with the fringe on top.'

1:27am on September 13th, 2007
Me: on second thought, perhaps Elise is attempting to lead us in jazzercise.

6:38am on September 13th, 2007
Elise: sick sick sick. but too priceless to untag. even though i did think about it.

7:07am on October 17th, 2007
Elise: In response to Allison's ever-so off-broadway Oklahoma Theory: I would consider this outfit a vast improvment since my former "Surrey With A Fringe On Top" days. Thats right. Kristie Wright School of Dance recital, circa 1994. White TIGHTS, Black Tap Shoes, NEON GREEN and white PLAID and LOTS OF TOILLE. And a matching, over-sized, head-bow of course. Think Good-Ship Lollipop, meets Appalachia, attacked by our favorite Ghostbusters character, Slimer. Every time I hear that damn song I end up in a corner somewhere clutching my knees and rocking back and forth. Shuffle, ball-change...shuffle, ball-change....

2:25pm on October 18th, 2007
Me: well at least YOUR mother doesn't choose that dance costume photograph to display in full glory in the sun room of your house. note: we are not a photo-display kind of household. you will not find gargantuan family portraits or snapshot collages. diana selects her display photos quite carefully, thus giving each one a certain significance...

and she totally has my fourth grade recital portrait (one of 2 framed shots of me in the entire house, I might add) in it's awkward splendor - it's Pre-Op Allison, don't you worry - with a SIDE PONYTAIL, white tulle skirt that makes me look like a floating cupcake, and large fake rose not-so-elegantly displayed in my little stick arms...

so basically I shall be joining you in the corner-hiding/twitching/rocking back and forth/crying on the inside/anxiety/remorse behavior. oh, and since that was a ballet costume, I suppose I shall be forced to conclude with an arabesque... twirl... arabesque... twirl...

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Ahhh... good times.

1 comment:

Brianinmpls said...

lol..thats awesome:) I have to curse facebook sometimes though when pictures you thought were long destroyed in a fire tend to re-appear out of no where.