32 Flavours...and then Some!

Since it's that graduation type time of year, I reckon I'll share a picture of me doing the graduation thing for Throwback Thursday!

Here I am on 18 May 2003, matriculating from University of Wisconsin-Parkside, with BAs in Sociology and Criminal Justice! During my 12 1/2 year part-and-full-time college career my academics ranged from starting in the bowels of academic probation in the beginning to being on the Dean's List several times and winning the 2003 Academic Achievement Award from the criminal justice department in my final semester. I was mere .10s of points away from earning my Cum Laude honor cord at the bloody end, too. Frustrating, yes, but I was still so very proud of how very far I'd come since first starting down the Uni academic road back in the fall of 1990...



This was the last Special Event that I had my whole family at--Dad died a mere 9 days later. He'd started falling ill about a week before I graduated and I'd made him promise me that he'd make it to see me graduate from college--he kept his end of the bargain and even a bit longer, bless his poor, atrophied heart. It meant a lot to have my whole immediate family (and my best friend and her man, who was my second bestie) at the ceremony, cheering me on. We celebrated afterward with a very tasty Italian dinner at Villa 'd Carlo. It was a magical day...

It's baaaack! I've been holding back on posting stuff for Throwback Thursday because I have a limited number of old pictures of myself downloaded either on my phone or my PC/lappy, but I've decided to post one today because...well, just because!! :)



This is a picture of me taken on 9 September 2006 at the Dunn's wedding, which took place in Maine. It was a beautiful locale for a wedding, and it was also a fabulous wedding! J was best man, and I was his lucky date for the event; our first trip away together. We all had a most wonderful time.

After the wedding I tucked this outfit away in the closet, and over the course of the years since that outfit was purchased, I gained about 30ish pounds. I thought I would never wear that outfit again and almost gave up and donated it to Good Will a couple of years ago, but then started to lose the weight. I've successfully lost those 30ish pounds over the course of the last year and a half, and am pretty sure that outfit will fit me again. Plan on trying it on soon, and hope that I can wear it for the spring/summer fancy dress occasions season again! :) Got one wedding in particular coming up in August I'm hoping to wear it to... ;)

...at least here on dreamwidth and LJ. I tried to re-post the picture of me drunkenly playing air bass at a party from October of 1991, but, alas, it did not work. :( So I decided to delete the post. I will try again next week...hopefully we'll have better luck!! :)

Sorry about that...