Anyway, Mom was so worn out from my fifth birthday party (friend party) that I didn't get a second one until I was ten. Actually this is something I plan to carry on with my own kids. Too many friend parties can get chaotic, not to mention expensive. So anyway, here was my second party...for my tenth birthday.
I cut most of the guests out of this one...they'll thank me. :) I chose it to post because I was so proud of these glasses. I loved them. They were attitude glasses...does anyone remember those? They were the thing to have in the late 80's. My sister had a red (I think) pair and she got me these blue ones and I was as excited over that as I would have been over a million bucks. I wore them everywhere until I got in trouble for wearing them to school. One of the employees made me take them off, telling me they would ruin my eyes. (I would so love to go track her down and tell her that at thirty, I still don't need glasses or contacts...but that would be vindictive, so I simply post about it here.)
Wonder what she would have thought of the much smaller version (yet every bit as fake) that I bought early on in the work world to make people think I was older?
One of the games at the party was a dress up game. Mom packed a suitcase with a collection of mismatched clothes and accessories and each person had to unzip the suitcase, put everything on, run back around that building in the background (my playhouse) and then back to the suitcase, take off the stuff that had been in the suitcase, repack it, zip it...and then whoever completed it in the fastest time won. Fairly sure I didn't win, but I can see I was having an extremely uninhibited day!
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I'd like to laugh at you in those glasses...and I will...and did, but only because I had REAL glasses that I absolutely needed that looked uncomfortably similar that I picked out myself and wore almost to junior high.
Those pictures will never be posted on my blog.
But I'm glad you posted yours and that you don't still wear those!
awww, come on Christina!! Be humiliated alongside me! ;) lol.
and just to clarify...are you saying we can't be friends if i unearth the attitude glasses and wear them again??? or is it the whole running in an apron, gloves, and heels thing that gets you? If I'd approached you that way at freshman registration, think we'd have still been friends? ;)
I had a similar pair of specs circa 1992...
My mom got red frames and I desperately wanted the same ones. When they ordered them for me they wrote the same serial number, style, color... AND SIZE! My glasses were even bigger than yours, I believe! They would not reorder a different pair that fit my little face because I was on Medicaid and poor kids don't get second chances when it comes to that sort of thing. I had to wait for 18 months until my next government issued pair! I was mortified to wear them to school and constantly "forgot them" at home!
I had a similar pair that were prescription, but light pink while at college. They were the coolest. A friend in college also had a pair of dark blue ones. They were so huge. I don't think I have a picture with me wearing them though. I might in my year book.
Tina - ooh I think you should find the yearbook and post the picture!
those glasses are awesome. do you still have them?
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