the 70's

this is me when i was ....oh....i guess maybe 4 - ish. straight up stylin' and profilin' in my butterfly collar and jacked up hair! (thank god for conditioner and flat irons!) i'm REALLY thankful olan mills didn't take a full body shot - you'd probably pee your pants if you could see the pants i had on - i bet they were the denim elastic-waist bell-bottoms with the quilted patchwork on the legs. and you can BANK on it that if i was goin' anywhere in 1977 i had on my buster browns. (WITH the burned orange shoe laces). - talk about super-fly! lol.

i tried to find a picture so you could REALLY see my personality as a kid. i totally remember the day this picture was made. we went to nashville - tho i'm not sure just why - but i DO however remember going to rivergate mall and getting my favorite ice cream "grape sherbert" SHUT UP SHUT UP! man that stuff was the BOMB!

my mom says i'm her "animated child". i guess that pretty much sums it up. even as a little girl i LOVED being the center of attention. if you said "ok everybody line up on this line right here..." - i'd be the first one to it. i had to be right slap in the middle of whatever was going on. what am i talking about - had to be - i'm that way still. lol.

i learned VERY early on that if i could just make my mom laugh - the whippin' wouldn't be NEARLY as bad. that's something i pretty much carried over into adulthood. if i can make you laugh - i feel like i've accomplished something.

music was also a big deal at our house. my dad worked at night so it was just me and my mom hanging out - we'd either have the radio going or my favorite thing was to get out the records and sometimes i would even get to put them on - "but be careful with the needle" - i musta heard that a million times. lol. i can remember sitting in the dining room floor - that hidious brown and gold pattern - looking at this one cher record - that had gypsies, tramps and thieves on it. it was like a tri-fold record cover and it had all these pictures of her out in the desert and stuff. one had her with her hair wet and it was combed straight down in front of her face and it was black and white - it was real close up and you could just see her eyes and nose and mouth. OH! OH OH!!! and mom had this barbara streisand record that we wore out - i think it was called superman or something. i remember i liked the cover because it had lots of pictures of her on it too. she had on all white - white short shorts, white t-shirt, white knee-socks and white shoes. i think she even had a 'fro! barbara, not my mom.

that's why i put the 70's music on here - so you can listen while you read about my fabulous life.