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[Van Buren Supernova]

On 3/3/2021 at 1:56 AM, Fantasy Lover said:

Maybe it's just a sign of you getting older.

I start to feel that now, it seems like the body starts to turn against me. Maybe I take it a bit harder because I used to do strenuous and demanding activities and I don't want to give up on those. And now if I know I have to start taking things easy it doesn't sit well with me. I don't like the idea of suggested replacement exercises or sports, or reducing the intensity, even for temporary but most likely things will never be the same.

I never abuse my body; I don't smoke, drink, drugs and exercise regularly, yet maybe I could take better care of it not to push many limits? But no, I would do the same, in fact I think I should do more while I can. Sigh, what am I blabbering.

On the other hand I had grown more respect to older people who had gone through it. Just like I have more respect the more I experience life. Things suck, but you guys (for older than me people) are still fine. All the emotional craps, sadness, lost, sorrow, life lessons, I have very little experience with those and already feel overwhelmed and terrified of the inevitable every single day. Not sure if I would get through those milestones and maintain my sanity.

Oh, to brain thingy. I don't have good short term memory since much younger, although my long term memory seems better. And mentioned, mental math seems deteriorate a bit. Others still okay, but it's getting 'funny' now. Like I won some difficult brain games this morning with my online opponents but then I pulled a muscle trying to open fridge's door. %@%#

@vaccine 

My parents and other relatives had their first and second shots, they are all fine, but my dad's friends who are much younger than him had to stay in bed for two days (for both shots) because they got headache and fever. Others, the most is stinging sensation or numbness just for a short while (less than an hour).

 

[Van Buren Supernova]

On 4/2/2021 at 8:50 AM, Pamela said:

 

Also decided to change my avatar - yep, that's me, first grade. I was adorable, then went downhill from there. Oh well.

I lost all of my childhood picture, so I don't even remember how I looked like. Pretty sure it's not only downhill, it's avalanche for me.

Now I have to get used to you not looking like Jeremy Brett. Reality still hits me now and then that some of you are not your avatar.

 

on vaccine again, I hope there is no serious problem with antivaxx. No NO!  All this should be teamwork, we are on second year now, that is embarrassing. It shouldn't be this hard to defeat.

 

[Artemis]

I have a few of my childhood pictures.  Here's one of me and my brother.  I was around 8. 

I had very sticky-out ears as a kid, but I grew into them, lol.

 

[Van Buren Supernova]

How nice! You guys are good looking, nothing wrong with the ears!

My good friend doesn't grow into them, I make fun of him all the time but I know he doesn't mind. 

[Carol the Dabbler]

11 hours ago, Van Buren Supernova said:

on vaccine again, I hope there is no serious problem with antivaxx.

Of the people that I know, most are choosing to be vaccinated.  A few are not, but I doubt that'll make much difference in the "herd immunity" effect.  The main delay will be with people who aren't in any of the groups being vaccinated just yet.

8 hours ago, Artemis said:

I have a few of my childhood pictures.  Here's one of me and my brother.  I was around 8. 

That is a really cute picture of you!  I'll have to see what old photos I have around here.  I think there were one or two that weren't too bad!

 

[Artemis]

5 hours ago, Carol the Dabbler said:

I'll have to see what old photos I have around here.  I think there were one or two that weren't too bad!

Please share if you can find one!   

 

[Carol the Dabbler]

This is one of my favorite "little kid" pictures.  I was around ten, give or take a year.

 

[besleybean]

Fabulous hair, darling!

[Pamela]

Cutie pie!

[Carol the Dabbler]

13 hours ago, besleybean said:

Fabulous hair, darling!

That was my humid-weather look.    It wasn't my hair-DO, it was simply what my hair DID!  It's not as curly and frizzy now, but it still has a mind of its own.  My current hair gal is terrific -- she doesn't even try to style it, she just treats it as a topiary.

8 hours ago, Pamela said:

Cutie pie!

Right back atcha!

 

[Arcadia]

All of my childhood photos are currently in storage. So you'll just have to take my word for it that I was adorable.  

[Fantasy Lover]

I don't like my childhood photo's, I had bowl cut hair and looked like a boy.

[Carol the Dabbler]

11 hours ago, Fantasy Lover said:

I don't like my childhood photo's, I have bowl cut hait and look like a boy.

I don't like most of mine -- but I did have one good year.  (Please don't ask what I looked like in my teens!)

 

[J.P.]

Hmmm… actually I might like my  childhood photos better than the recent ones.

[Artemis]

20 hours ago, J.P. said:

Hmmm… actually I might like my  childhood photos better than the recent ones.

^ Same here.

 

[Van Buren Supernova]

I lost them too, but my teens is probably the best, before life actually happens and turns me into grumpy human that probably looks like expired shower curtain.

 

On 4/11/2021 at 11:37 AM, Carol the Dabbler said:

This is one of my favorite "little kid" pictures.  I was around ten, give or take a year.

WHa.. what about those furry yellow pictures you refer to yourself in that other thread?????

 

 

[Carol the Dabbler]

11 hours ago, Van Buren Supernova said:

WHa.. what about those furry yellow pictures you refer to yourself in that other thread?????

You mean I wasn't fuzzy enough in that recent post?  

But if you're referring to my online identity, I was never yellow.  Please note that I'm a female mallard, not a common barnyard duck.  Here's one of my baby pictures:

 

[Arcadia]

On 4/15/2021 at 1:49 PM, Fantasy Lover said:

I don't like my childhood photo's, I have bowl cut hair and look like a boy.

Actually, that's what I looked like too. But a cute boy, of course.

On 4/17/2021 at 7:35 AM, J.P. said:

Hmmm… actually I might like my  childhood photos better than the recent ones.

Oy. I think I might, too.

[Van Buren Supernova]

Ow now you guys make me miss my childhood photos!

I remember there is one that I used to be ashamed of, because I was laying on the floor belly down with bare bottom. It was infant picture and there was pretty much nothing I could do yet. My annoying siblings like to make fun of that. Now sometimes I see my dog on the same position I would remember that picture and thinking, like mother, like son.

[Carol the Dabbler]

1 hour ago, Van Buren Supernova said:

I was laying on the floor belly down with bare bottom. It was infant picture and there was pretty much nothing I could do yet.

Mercifully my parents weren't into that sort of thing.

The closest I can think of was when my father wanted to film me climbing a tree.  I was a pretty good tree climber, so that was fine, but I happened to be wearing a dress at the time, so I said OK, I'll just go change my clothes first, because I can't climb properly while wearing a skirt.  He said that wasn't necessary, he could just film me standing at the bottom of the tree ready to climb, then he'd turn the camera off while I climbed, and then he'd start it up again once I was in the tree.  I would rather have had a movie of me really climbing the tree, but I agreed.  And then when the movie came back from the lab, I found out he had filmed the whole thing -- me clumsily climbing the tree while dealing with the skirt.  I was pretty ticked off, lemme tell you.

 

[Van Buren Supernova]

On 4/23/2021 at 1:29 PM, Carol the Dabbler said:

Mercifully my parents weren't into that sort of thing.

 What sort of thing you think my parents were into?

I think it was just an unfortunate candid situation that made it into a photo. Maybe it was my first time crawling or something and there was no time for pants!

We barely had pictures to be honest, even now. Somehow my core family treats cameras pointing on us like kryptonite. I probably can't speak for them because I am the worst.

In statistic , I think I have a good 40% of success to hide behind big guys in group photos, or purposely moved so that  unclear half of my face was recorded. For outings that matter with real friends, I couldn't escape, as it's too obvious and they have known me. I am talking about those useless group photo 'I barely know you we just happen to be here or do this thing together' that I don't condone.

 I only had one childhood birthday picture, as in, me in front of birthday cake. It looks like a normal birthday, but in reality, we happened to have one cake (not sure where it's form) and every kids, including me, my siblings, my cousins, even my neighbor's kids took turn to take picture with the cake, as if it was our own birthday cake. I don't even remember if I ate the cake, I believe it was then kept 'in case we need something nice' for guest maybe? But it wasn't a bad memory, we had fun that day.

On 4/23/2021 at 1:29 PM, Carol the Dabbler said:

And then when the movie came back from the lab, I found out he had filmed the whole thing -- me clumsily climbing the tree while dealing with the skirt.  I was pretty ticked off, lemme tell you.

Actually it's amazing that as kids, we remember some specific things in very detailed memory, including the resentment that comes with it, that somehow imprinted in our mind. I believe that incident more or less affecting your certain level of  trust about your father in similar situation?

[Carol the Dabbler]

10 hours ago, Van Buren Supernova said:

I think it was just an unfortunate candid situation that made it into a photo. Maybe it was my first time crawling or something and there was no time for pants!

Ah.  I assumed it was the stereotypical photo of a naked baby, traditionally on a bearskin rug, though I never knew anyone who owned such a rug.  (Such a photo is supposedly used later to embarrass the kid as a teenager, by showing it to their first sweetheart.)  If yours just sort of happened, I won't hold it against your parents.  But I'm still glad that my parents didn't take any naked pictures of me.  

10 hours ago, Van Buren Supernova said:

I believe that incident more or less affecting your certain level of  trust about your father in similar situation?

I won't say that I never trusted him again -- but yeah, I was a bit more wary after that.

Even though he told us some stories about his own childhood, where someone had embarrassed him, he never seemed to take our feelings seriously, more like "Oh, you'll feel different when you're older."

I never did understand my father and I don't think he ever understood me.  Don't get me wrong, he was a good person and a good father, but whenever I disagreed with him, he'd say "When you're older, you'll understand what I mean."  One day recently my brother mentioned that, and asked me "Well, do you understand now?"  And I said "No, of course not."  It never seemed to occur to Daddy that he and I were two different people, with different ways of looking at things.

Speaking of my father and his movie camera, he had a very peculiar way of using it.  If we kids were playing and he wanted to make a movie of us, he wouldn't film us playing, he would call us over and line us up and have us wave at the camera.  So (other than my awkward tree climbing incident) we don't have any movies of us behaving normally, just standing in a row waving like idiots.

 

[J.P.]

Weren't the bear rug photos made in professional studios?

[Carol the Dabbler]

48 minutes ago, J.P. said:

Weren't the bear rug photos made in professional studios?

That *would* explain the ubiquitous bearskin rugs that nobody had at home, wouldn't it?  In which case I'm even more appalled!

For those who aren't familiar with that tradition (cliche?), here are some examples (amongst some other photos).

[Carol the Dabbler]

Is this our Covid vaccination thread?  Hubby Alex has had both of his (Moderna) and had absolutely no side effect other than a bit of a sore arm for a couple of days.  He said the actual injections didn't really hurt either, just "a little pinprick."  I was a bit under the weather back then, but now feeling OK, so I got my first shot (also Moderna) just today (two hours ago, in fact).  It felt like she hit a nerve going in, and it still stings just a little if I move that arm a certain way, but that's all so far.

Alex read somewhere that over half of the adult US population have now had at least one injection -- so I am now just about average.