I got my Mac back as I mentioned in the comments of the last post. Sigh. I don’t even want to think about restoring everything, though I suppose I’ll have to get to it sometime this week.
Anyhow, apparently my daughter thought I was getting short on inspiration so she handed me this list of topics to write about:
Puppies (do dumb dogs count?)
Tigers
Your body (um, I don’t think so)
Disneyland (did that)
Legos
Field Trips
Arizona Science Center
Schnepf Farms (real working farm that does tours)
Family (I do that a lot)
Seeing the whole country
Car accident (does the flat tire/tire iron one count?)
Don’t eat too much junk food (could I do a whole post on that?)
My dog (different than puppies?)
The zoo
My two loose teeth (I better not have any loose teeth)
The sink (already did that too)
Moving (not anytime soon if I can help it)
Cinderella
Well, that’s quite a list. Anyone feel inspired by any of the topics?
On an only tangentially related topic, my mom has been transferring all the old family slides and photos to her computer and sending me some copies. Since most of the pictures we took when I was young were on slides, I haven’t seen these things in nearly thirty years. What I found most striking was that my memory of how looked back then is different than how I really looked. And I always expected my kids to look something like me when I was their age. 
But this is a picture of me when I was the same age my daughter is now. And we looking nothing alike. That really shocked me. Curse those dominant Asian genes.
This is me and my brothers, Jeremy and Jason. People often thought Jeremy and I were twins. We’re 18 months apart but were nearly always the same height. Of course now he’s 6′ 6″. And yes, my parents intentionally named us with all Js.
The other thing I noticed going through all these pictures? I pretty much hated my hair growing up. Farrah Fawcett feathers were in, and my hair was stick straight. I’d spend hours trying to put curls into my hair only to have them fall out a short time later. So I find it pretty funny to look through these pictures and see my hair looking similar to how I wear it now. After spending a lot of money on perms in the 80s to get big hair, I’ve finally embraced my straight hair. Doesn’t hurt that that’s the style now. Of course if feathers come back in, I’ll have to resist the urge to jump on that bandwagon.
