Throwback Thursday, miraculously, actually on a Thursday.

[nanila]

Are you ready for this? I'm not sure I am, tbh.


Me in front of the Christmas tree I'd decorated all on my own, ca 1980-something. Was I an unusually cool tweenie with rather liberally minded parents, you ask, with my NWA t-shirt? No, no, I wasn't. That t-shirt was for my gymnastics club (Northwest Athletics).


Me reading the comics page (Remember those? Feel old now? Yes, me too.) from the Sunday newspaper with my legs balanced over a chair. I remember this being one of my favourite reading positions. I also enjoyed sitting upside down in chairs (head resting on the floor, feet up the back).


Me and my cousins, waiting for a plane. I think this was in Oakland airport. I have my Cabbage Patch doll clutched in my arms. One of my cousins is throwing shaka brah, because he is much cooler than me.

The crowning glory for this set:

Me cuddled up under a flowery duvet with a much-too-big terrible old grey knitted hat on and our cat in my arms. I had a cold and was in bed feeling sorry for myself.

Comments

[cactus_rs]

These are amazing! So much nostalgia~~

[nanila]

Oh yeah. I mean, look at that television. Massive!

[slemslempike]

I was struck by how "now" the high high waisted trousers look in the first photo, along with the NWA t shirt.

[nanila]

Yes! I do like that high-waisted trousers are back in, I must say. I didn't mind the low-slung look so much before I had two children, but now... :P

[miss_s_b]

Ahhhhhh so cute!

[nanila]

Heh, thanks!

[cmcmck]

Such great pics!

[nanila]

I'm very grateful I have them, and that they were so well organised by my mum.

[silveradept]

Pictures of ourselves in the past remind us just how weird things were and that we were willing to accept it as fashionable.

[nanila]

Oh yeah. I do not feel that the late 80s/early 90s were a good time for fashion, at all.

[silveradept]

They were not, at least not in any manner that I could appreciate, not being find of punk aesthetic nor of parachute pants and other ill-fitting garb.

[kotturinn]

That was an, um, unusual reading position!!!

[nanila]

It was. I still don't really understand why I liked being upside down so much.

[jb_slasher]

Adorable! <3 :D

[nanila]

Heh, thanks! :D

[chickenfeet]

Cute cat!

[nanila]

He was a handsome lad! Tabby plus Siamese, I think.

[wohali]

I immediately was wondering why you were such a big fan of NWA... :D

I used to read upside down too, hanging off of the couch. Especially the funny papers. Strange, that...I don't really like reading in that position anymore.

[nanila]

Bwaha.

I'm glad to hear it wasn't just me! Maybe it was something physical to do with growing? I remember it feeling good to be stretched out as well as upside down.

[mysterysquid]

Aww!

My favorite place to read as a kid was next to the clothes dryer. Something about the hum and the vibration...

[nanila]

Yes! I would have sat on top of it, except the cat was always there. :P

[omnipotent]

Awww, yous so cute <3

I love the cozy cat picture best. You really must not have been feeling well since you have on a hat in bed.

Ah, braces. Fun.

[nanila]

Heh. Yes, if I remember right, I was sick, and I'd also just had my braces adjusted, which was always painful.