It Used To Be Official

[Bonochick]

I'm bored tonight. I went through a box of old pictures and grabbed some to scan. Why? Meh. I figured I might as well share them though...since we are a picture happy bunch here...

This is the backyard we had at our house back in Menominee...well, part of it...it was a huge yard. I had wanted to get married in that backyard someday:

Here it is in the wintertime:

My old bedroom had been decorated with lots of U2 stuff, much of it made by myself. It broke my heart to tear it all down when we had to move :

 

[Bonochick]

Me trying to decide between AB and Zooropa:

My sister's cat Allie:

Our dog Eddie:

 

[Bonochick]

Me in 6th grade:

My big sister Julie on the night of prom her senior year:

Julie and me sledding:

I've always liked to blow bubbles:

Okay. That's all.

I'm bored again.

 

[*BOOMCHAA!*]

I was entertained for a few minutes

 

[cell]

wow, looking at your pics sure brought back some memories of my own house, how i had posters of U2 on my wall, but not as much as yours, i wasn't allowed to have that many, so i put them in my closet wall for my own entertainment. i have been inspired to look for those pics i took of my room....

*goes to look for pics to post*

 

[ABEL]

cool pics BC!

I wish I had more pics to post, but all my pics from when I was yonger are at my parents house in my mom's photo albums...the few that I did have I've already posted here at one time or another

I should have her scan some in for me

 

[Sicy]

Cool pics! Your old room reminds me a little of my old room at my parents house My dad made me take everything down when he painted the room.

 

[Sicy]

 

[ABEL]

 

[Angel]

Great pictures! That snowy one of your old backyard is beautiful. Wow.
I never used to have that many things on my walls, (I had wallpaper), but I did have as much as I could get away with. It was all George Michael stuff back then.
My bathroom, (was just a sink and toilet) was covered in black and white pics from Vogue magazine of all the super models back when. There was no drywall showing it was very cool. I gotta get hold of a scanner. I have some great pics of me and my friends right before our very first U2 concert! Fun times.

 

[Angel]

I must admit, I still have U2 stuff on my walls now, and I am 28. Maps (incl. Ireland)... real U2 photographs (some even in frames) and calendars of them etc... Once a teenager I guess, always a bit of one.

 

[Sicy]

I'm 30 and I still have U2 stuff on my walls.

 

[Lemon Meringue]

Eddie

Our dog Eddie:

 

[Bonochick]

Okay...I just wanted to post this somewhere, so I figured I'd do it in this thread. My sis just sent this to me, and I cracked up laughin'.

 

[daisybean]

lmao at the evil bunny

BC I love your gazebo....I always wanted one growing up

 

[Bonochick]

Re: lmao at the evil bunny

BC I love your gazebo....I always wanted one growing up

Dad built it...and our porches...and our fences...and our barn...and our garage...Dad can do anything....

That property was so much of my father's doing...I know it was extra painful for him when we had to move. He made that yard beautiful.

It is sad to see our place now. See, my aunt and uncle live right next door to our old property (we shared part of our fence with them). My grandmother's house was right in front of theirs (she passed away in September). When I go back home to visit my aunt and uncle...I can see into our yard...the people there don't take care of it like Dad did. It always makes me cry.

 

[daisybean]

Re: Re: lmao at the evil bunny

the people there don't take care of it like Dad did. It always makes me cry.

I know that feeling....a couple of years ago, I drove by the house I grew up in and granted it wasn't the best place in the world...it was a barn that my dad and uncle had converted into a house. We sold it to this guy who rented it out to college students and the outside was completely trashed

 

[Bonochick]

Know something really cool though, daisy??

My dad's sister just bought their childhood home! Grandma and Grandpa had moved out and sold it. Those people ended up selling it, so my aunt bought it back...so it's back in their family again! He was so happy to hear that.

 

[cell]

this was my old house back in 1988, thats when my obsession with u2 was really strong. i had so many posters in my closet wall it was unbelievable. i tried finding my pics, but no luck. i think they got lost in the move

this pic of me was when i was in high school, i was being photographed for a promotion of the play i was directing. not sure if they used it or not, but i have always liked this pic. notice im trying to dress like bono JT style...vest and jeans look...lol

 

[Ali Rose]

whats up with this new quick reply?? Pretty neat!!!

and you guys are psychotic btw...

thos walls are scary

 

[meegannie]

I'm replying quickly!!!!! I miss the smilies though.

 

[Sicy]

 

[cell]

i just remembered what happened to my pics


some months ago, i was looking at them, and i was having some bad memory flashes, and in my anger, sadness and stupidity, i threw them out. i couldnt stand to look at them and remember how bad some times were.

im hoping i find some others...

 

[Sicy]

 

[cell]

me with short hair, if you can see thru the dark how short my hair was. i believe it was during my junior year. my hair grew fast!

my mom and i at my high school graduation. i went thru hell for three weeks to graduate. the picture's red from overexposure i guess...

my pet rabbit Stu

 

[Bonochick]

Stu

 

[Sicy]

Yay!

 

[cell]

me again with short hair. i must have been 15 or 16 there

 

[ABEL]

awww

 

[meegannie]

Stu is so !

Here are some random pictures of me over the past four years. You can see how my hair has changed constantly. Having no scanner, I had to be ghetto and take pictures of pictures:

One of my senior pictures from high school in 1997:

Me as a hooker ( )for Halloween four years ago:

A dark point in my history. But we got to meet Cheney and were supposed to be in a parade with him, but he was too tired and decided to take a nap, so we hung out all day with the secret service and his family then went to the rally thing after the VP debate.

Eating cheesecake :

With Arthur at the 2001 National Book Festival:

Me as a pregnant woman in the '70s for Halloween three years ago:

Me right after I moved to DC in May 2001: