Flashback - for Anne

The other day, Anne said she wasn't photogenic. I disagreed and said I would get out the old photos to prove it. She called my bluff, so here they are - a little walk down memory lane, if you will.

A little history first:

Anne wrote to me when my family still lived in Iowa before our move to the big city of Sheboygan. She had started the year before at the school I would be attending and very nicely corresponded with me for about a semester. I don't know if she knew how much her letters meant to me - I saved them for many years in my box of "special" things.

We were pretty much instant friends - there weren't many kids in our class (26) and the girls were pretty catty. I idolized Anne, though. Probably because of her fashion sense and beautiful hair - I always struggled with my looks and trying to feel like I fit in. I never felt like I knew how to "do" my hair and Anne's was always perfect. We had a lot of fun, though, and passed many a note in code making fun of the rest of the class. Remember Chip & Dale, Fifi/Crayola Woman, LUCY, and ACDC?

Anyway, it was only 2 years and then we went to college. We had a little fight our second year - I was sure Anne didn't like me anymore and I wasn't sure I liked her, either. I did something stupid and she said some nasty things to me, but in retrospect I think she was under the influences of a certain co-ed. Am I right? Then my family moved to Florida and I moved to Maryland and we kind of lost touch.

Anne got in touch with me again when she/I got married (I don't remember which it was) and we e-mailed a few times, but things were busy for us both. Then last year I e-mailed her when Luke was born and now we both spend way too much time on the computer, but at least we're friends again.

I found a few old pictures and a graduation card from her. At the end, the card says "Let's always be friends." Something cheesy lots of people put in grad cards, but I think Anne meant it and I'm glad we've "met" again.

Here we are at our Junior/Senior Banquet (no prom at a Christian school) in our junior year. See what I mean about the hair?


And just for fun - here's Anne's mom. She was the art teacher at our school.


Here we are on "Twin Day." Oh, to be so young looking again! I was trying to be taller and Anne was trying to be shorter.


Our yearbook staff in 93/94. Anne was the editor and I was her right-hand lackey - we put in lots of pictures of ourselves and our friends.


OK, now you can vote on who's more photogenic. Me with my killer flute or Anne doing a half time routine (ha! we were so NOT cool!).


Here we are at Jr/Sr Banquet 94 with our friend Jackie. Again, this is why I thought Anne was the bomb. I was short and compact; Anne was tall and leggy.


Here we three are again, modeling our end-of-the-year, out-on-a-limb hair dyes (the wash out kind - we weren't THAT crazy). Jackie did some sort of red tint, I did a dark brown, and Anne was so daring - I think she dyed her hair the same color it already was. Somehow we all ended up looking the same, though.


Well, that's it for my little flashback. I couldn't find my good pictures of our class trip, but I did find one of Anne and her high school boyfriend. Whoever thought it was a good idea to get your senior pictures taken with your high school boy/girlfriend? Like those ever last (well, one in our class did, but.... wouldn't want to be them).