Class of 1990-A snapshot back in time

It's still hard for me to believe that I looked like this once. I was 17 in this picture & it was the start of my senior year in high school. When I went in for this picture, you had a choice of wraps to wear over your shirt so they were all uniform appearing for the year book. I had this one taken, which by the way was the one used for my year book. I also had one taken of me wearing a frothy/ feathery white top (which is at my folk's house) and another one done in frothy/feathery black. Most of my friends also got ones done in pale blue or pale pink, so the photographer incorrectly assumed I would want such colors for myself! Bleh. He brought the pink & blue wraps out with the velvet black one to be used for the year book & asked me which one I'd like or both. I eyed him quite surreptitiously and said these words: "You ARE kidding right?" I laughed at the look on his face & the sputtering noises he made & then he laughed too. He said to me.."wait a minute, aren't you that chick that hangs out with my niece, the one that drives the souped up car with the hair that looks like she just stepped out of some rock video?" I rolled my eyes (I was a teenager at the time,what can I say?) and said "Look, I get pics with my hair all teased up & sprayed in place all the time. This is for my yearbook & for my parents. I don't want to "date" my senior pic like all those wacked out hair-do's from the 70's and to be honest with you, I really didn't feel like spending 45 minutes on my hair. I want something my brothers won't rag on me for, k?" Of course after I got home that day, I did my hair up like an 80's rock video chick & was getting ready to go out for the night with my friends when my mom came home from work an asked me if I got my yearbook pics done that day. I said "yeah mom, & my hair was the bomb lady! All done up & my make-up was tight!" She just smiled & said "That's nice dear, you're brothers will laugh about it for years to come!" When I brought the photos home to her a few weeks later, she was more then pleased! Over the moon is a better description for it. And both of my brothers agreed with me: pale pink or pale blue would have been definately blah! Everyone liked the velvet black & the feathery white & black ones. My oldest brother Mike carried one around in his wallet & him & his wife Sherry had one of the feathery black top ones hanging up in their house for years. Rob was impressed & he too carried one around showing it off to his buddies. Of course I still punked my hair out many times during the senior year, but not too long after I graduated, I quit wasting my time doing my hair like that, and to this day, it looks a lot like this picture. It's easy, nice, & shows off my eyes & high cheeckbones (so says my mom). Hey, they're happy & during family dinners, we rag on my brother Mike for his '79 graduation picture with that funky blue suit and Rob's '84 grad pic with the funny wing flip to his hair. But mine, my mom just passes by it & smiles. You can hear her thinking "Thank God she was normal that day." My 20th reunion is coming up in 2 & a half years. I'm trying to figure out when & where all these years have gone by me without my realization that they were just slipping through my fingertips. It's weird too. My oldest Godson saw my graduation pic while he was flipping through his mom's yearbook & he caught site of one of me tucked into one of the pages, in a typical rock concert moment sitting on the trunk of then boyfriend Phil's mustang, wearing the poured on jeans, hair done out to the nines, strategic holes with laces all over the jeans & a DIO tank top on, smoking a cigarette drinking a bottle of beer before the concert in the parking lot of Lakeland Civic Center. He looked at both, comparing them & says to his mom,"And Taunty D gave me crap for trying a cigarette one day? Look at her! OMG!" His mama snatched that yearbook out of his eager hands & told him to watch it! That his taunty would knock him one if he wasn't careful! When I called over there later that day my godson says to me "Maaaaan Taunty, you wore some TIIIGHT jeans holy crap!" I laughed at him & told him that they cut the oxygen off to my brain & made me smoke." He laughed & laughed over that. He said he couldn't belive his Taunty was one hot chick once. Nice. Real nice. What the hell am I now ya little bugger? LOL. Ah well, we all gotta age sometime right?