Throwback Thursday on a Monday

[nanila]

One of the fun things about visiting the parental abode is going through and labelling old photographs. Here I share a selection of those featuring me at various stages of my childhood.


Here I am sitting in the frame of what would become my aunt and uncle's house. I have no idea what image I was actually trying to achieve here, but I can't look at this without thinking of Heathers.


I am six. I am eating a chocolate ice lolly in 35 C heat. It appears not to have been the tidiest experience.


I think this was at Knotts Berry Farm on a trip to California? My dad and me were some pretty cool dudes, let me tell you.


Me with my viola before a high school Christmas concert. SO MUCH HAIR.

AND FINALLY. The crowning glory.

My Halloween costume in 1991. Hashtag dyinggg.

Comments

[angelofthenorth]

Those are great. Thanks for sharing

[nanila]

Thank you! We went through another batch yesterday. It's been fun hearing my parents reminisce.

[wohali]

omg these are FANTASIC! Thank you for sharing the ermahgerd!

[nanila]

Heh, thank you! I loved my nineties hair. It was HUGE. And so curly. Bwaha.

[meepettemu]

oh lovely. :)

[nanila]

Aw, thanks! :)

[davidgillon]

6yo you is so cute (the chocolate smears help), and I think there's a hint of Keiki in that expression.

[nanila]

Definitely. He's very much my child, while Humuhumu is the bloke's (apart from her nose, which is mine).

[ironed_orchid]

Adorable in every incarnation.

[nanila]

Aw, thank you! I find it fascinating that I went from having stick-straight East Asian child hair to having that explosion of curls as a teenager (I never had a perm).

[azurelunatic]

My hair did a similar thing, and so did my sister's and father's. I very much wanted curls from 1986-1991, and then I got some. Dad told me that might happen.

[wordweaverlynn]

These are so much fun -- you look like you were having a good time.

[nanila]

I'm pretty sure I was. :D

[mysterysquid]

Amazing. :D

[nanila]

Heh, thanks.

[cmcmck]

You playing the viola puts you way up in my estimation at once! :o)

[nanila]

Hah, thanks! It's been a very long time since I played. I stopped playing both piano and viola after high school.

I remember piano a lot better even though I practised less, which is always a little weird to me.

[yvi]

Oh my, that's great! And your dad does look like a pretty cool guy.

[nanila]

Heh, thank you! Yes, he rocked the seventies and eighties looks pretty hard, I have to say.

[silveradept]

That's quite a selection of pictures! Is it ever weird looking at yourself from the past?

[nanila]

It's always weird looking at myself from the past.

Sadly one of the questions I find myself asking is, "...I thought I needed to lose weight? Really, self? *sigh*"

[silveradept]

Regrettably, that's a pretty common message even for people who don't need it at all. Especially at those times in history, where very stick-shaped free are all the rage.

[fred_mouse]

That cat costume is adorable!

I have a certain fondness for viola - I played it in school orchestra, although all my lessons were for violin, and my exams were for violin. I have one that I pick up now and then, but I can't bring myself to do the hours of practice that would bring me back up to the level I want to be.

[nanila]

Ha, thanks!

I enjoyed the viola. It was a lot lower pressure playing it in the orchestra. There were only two of us and I was the second. I had so much other stuff going on to be competitive about that it was nice to have something to be chilled out about doing.

I don't actually own one any more. I admire your commitment to at least occasional practice.

[fred_mouse]

I've only had one in recent years - the one I played in orchestra belonged to the school, because they kept tempting the violin players across with loan instruments. I think we had 6 viola players, but only some of those had been trained at the local primary school as viola players. Our year group were the experimental year at the feeder primary school that was the main supplier of string players to the high school, so there were only violin students that year, taught by the in house music specialist. She managed to get a full string program up and running a year or two after that.

And right now, I've allowed myself to not cut my fingernails to playing length for the first time in a decade, and I'm kind of enjoying the length! But I'll get back to it.

[st_aurafina]

That first photo is definitely channeling an early nineties Winona Ryder look. Very Heathers! And very adorbs.

Pretty sure I have the cello version of that viola pic. Long hair and all - I remember trying lots of products for curly hair, when really, it curled just fine by itself.

[nanila]

I loved that film and it frustrates me that I can't remember if I was imitating it deliberately. I must have been, surely?

*high-fives* for curly-haired orchestral instrument players all around. :D

[azurelunatic]

What a delightful selection of photos! That last is just amazing and adorable.

[nanila]

Heh, thank you! I'd be willing to bet that I'd've found that photo excruciatingly embarrassing ten or fifteen years ago, but now it's just hilarious.

[askygoneonfire]

Oh my god, that costume! Amazing. I love that you were owning it. Go hard or go home. Wonderful! Thanks for sharing.

[nanila]

Was there any other way to wear that costume? I think not. :P

[lark_ascends]

*massive grins*

So much hair!!!

And the last one!

[nanila]

HAIR EVERYWHERE. My hairdresser never fails to comment on how much hair I have. :P

[brainwane]

Oh these are awesome.

I think you might enjoy a sampling of my spouse's family's postcards from a similar era!

[nanila]

Thank you.

And yes, yes I did enjoy those, very much. Thanks for sharing them. I especially loved the dinosaur-tagged ones.

[omnipotent]

Yous so purty!

I really like the viola and costume pics. Do you still play?

[nanila]

Aw, thank you! No, I haven't played since I left high school. I'd like to start playing an instrument again, but viola would definitely come second to piano.

[ayebydan]

Omg girl! So glamorous in the first!

[nanila]

Bwaha. Thank you!