My friend Toby has the theory that all cute babies turn into ugly adults.
But seriously, look at this bumpkin!
(Some people say I am photogenic. I say that I was the subject of my dad’s portrait hobby from the day I could feasibly sit up on my own.)
Anyway. This photograph came from a mini-scrapbook of sorts that I took with me to college. I took a developmental psychology class my senior year in high school, and one of the projects was to create a “story of your life” kind of book and chronicle what developmental stage you were and and yada yada. We had material up until our high school years, of course, but the rest of our life we could make up as we see fit.
This is how I, at the tender age of seventeen, predicted Early Adulthood:
Age 17: Graduate High School and Attend Indiana University
Age 21: Graduate from IU with a degree in Advertising. Meet soon-to-be-hubby.
Age 23: GET MARRIED. JUNE 15, 2007. Honeymoon in Italy.
Age 27: Have first baby — a boy, Landon Scott, October 5, 2009
Age 29: Have another baby — Julia May, July 12, 2012
Age 31: Job makes for move to Chicago
Age 34: Start my own advertising firm
Holy shit. I’d better get a move-on if I am to be married by June!
However, I did go to Italy, so what’s up now, huh?!
Also, what’s up, blondie. Jesus.
February 5th, 2007 at 11:27 pm
my momma dragged out the baby pics pre-superbowl… i think i might scan some.
i had to do the scrapbook too, but our teacher didn’t make us do the whole developmental stage thing. he didn’t care what we did in that class cuz he was leaving. it was kinda nice.
i’m kinda impressed you know what date you lost your virginity. is it weird that I have no clue? I know what month and year, but otherwise i’m lost.
when i dating Jason i wanted to be married by now. have my first kid by 25 and second by 28 because i did not want to have kids after 30 (risk of Down’s). also i thought you should wait at least 2-3 years after getting married to have kids. so. at least you have the bf down. i still need to find one. maybe not. right now i’m sick of men and i’m holding out for prince charming, so good luck to me in my fantasy land.
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February 6th, 2007 at 4:57 pm
tmi: August 20th here, ironically enough, later that evening i set a record in swimming and everyone was asking me what i did differently than before…
hello awkward silence.
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February 7th, 2007 at 7:13 pm
Hahah! That’s hilarious.
Every once and a while someone will mention Oct.5, and I will say aloud, “Why does that date sound familiar?” and then “…Oh…Yeah.” and then I chuckle really creepily.
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February 7th, 2007 at 7:17 pm
I think the only reason I know the virginity date and time is that I journaled about it. (I just realized that I left that journal at home and my mom gutted my room last year so she probably came across it. Nice.)
Anyway, in some way I kind of feel bad for my seventeen year old self who wrote that prediction. I didn’t know that between 2001 and 2007, a lot of shit goes down that changes your views on how your life is going to go…relationships, new ideas in college, etc. ..Tis crazy.
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