I think the "Erik and Eric" is the funniest part of this picture.

The funny thing is, my best friend of the last 15 or so years is also named Eric, and is not the same one (who was a friend in school, but not one I kept in contact with).

I honestly think that's a cool phase.

Ah, and cultivating a taste for Shire bitter.

Ha!
That is the greatest kid-pic ever.

exactly . i relate to this very much .
i usually am reminded of it when ive spent too much time downtown around people my age , or when once in a blue moon i want to be confident in my looks and just look good for a change and the option isnt even there for me to .

i DONT want to become one of those weird old grannies in purple velvet track suits with the word "BRAT" or "SASSY" embroidered with sequints on the back *shudder


awkward younger phases - took turns being Goth Whore and Grunge Boy . it was fun .

i so have that flannel shirt, i still wear but might be as old as this picture.

corey haim? is that you?

There's no need to be hurtful with your hurtful words.

hahahahahaha

at least you didn't grow up to be a tub of lard who can't speak two words in a row.

(poor poor real corey).

Indeed. I'm finally managing to lose a few pounds even. Being employed does wonders for that, I've found.

you can donate a few to me because apparently i need them
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It got taller than that before I changed it.

AND I RAAAAN
I RAN SO FAR AWAAAAAAY


but i couldn't get away...
from drone's flock of seagulls hair

What, you mean this?

yeah.

I am now several years older than my mom was when that picture was taken!
Oh god.

was she like 12 when she had you?

20, but only just.

my mom was 18

ps nice mullet there schizo

nice, i had a denim jacket and i covered it patches, every concert i went to, i get a patch, i went to see bon jovi and the bon jovi patch got to the jacket; as the years went by, that jacket wouldn't fit anymore so i had to leave it behind, i still have with almost all the patches still there, except the sepultura one which i took off and put it in the backpack i currently use.

awkward phases: zits when i was 13 to 15, i had a goatee when i was in high school and again when i started college, wore a lot of black, i still wear black shirts mostly but i have started to mix it up a bit more, spiky hair...i had long hair (down to the shoulders) ten years ago and now i have pretty much the same lenght hair now.

this picture spells f-l-o-r-i-d-a.

I had hair down to the middle of my back before I had the dreads. It looked hideous.

Edit:
Like the case and can of Bud in the pic with young schizo there. Adds to the Mullet Effect.

ah! i was doing the math from your grandparents anniversary, thanks for answering my prying questions before i actually make them.

hahaha i forgot about the dreads. brilliant.

yeah i just now noticed the bud in the background. it really completes the whole scene.
that was my dad's parents anyway. he's 39.

oooh, some 4 years ago i had a pretty cool rattail, then i started growing my hair completely.

one other time, i cut my hair kinda spiky and, to punk it up a bit more, i kinda shaved the right side of my hair except for the top. i looked like vanilla ice; bad choices.

Sophomore year, I was just a dumb-ass little kid. The arm to my left belongs to the crazy, wonderful, little weird cool I was obsessed with at the time, but I didn't make a move because of our age gap. (2 years, she was graduating in a few days)

true, all the 6th grade kids had either the shirt or the patch or had them drawn on their notebooks/bags, etc.

when i was nine or so i wore the same denim jacket every day despite living in f-l-o-r-i-da it was from jc penney and REAL cheesy but i loved it.

owwwww!!!!! so cute!!!!!!

the craziest thing i ever pulled in regards to my hair was when i was like 13 or 14 i got pissed about something or other and i cut it off almost like mick jagger in the mid 60s but it was crazier and stuck out all over and i dyed it black or something. but basically my hair has been every color under the sun and i only like it black (but not that super shiny fake looking blue black) or blonde. i guess brown is okay but a bit more boring.

Awww. :]

that was the only pic of me at that age where i'm not wearing that jacket. forgot to put that in there.

the only documented awkward period for me is the long hair phase part 1 and i think i have one goatee pic; but i haven't fixed my scanner.

i was completely against being photgraphed, i'm still not fond of it.

It's not so taboo for girls to be pedophiles, is it?

I empathize with luxy's plight; I don't think there is an end to my awkward phase. If I can surreptitiously dig up some childhood photos from my mother's stock, I shall post.

circa sixth grade

do you have that fairy necklace too? or do my peepers decieve me?

yes, it is indeed a fairy necklace.