I love your glasses. What a sweetheart you are!

I had the same glasses:-)

I guess the groovy glasses were foreshadowing to becoming a Hippie Chick. Who's the Foreclosure Lawyer?

I love that you loved your glasses. They look like they had a slight rose tint - tres chick.

I keep wishing the big glasses like yours would make a comeback. I hate those little slivers.

OMG, no wonder we feel like kindred spirits, you're not gonna believe this. Not LINCOLN! Pioneer Park. Myron's Pizza : probably gone by your time, I think they built a mall there up around O Street and 14th (I believe).

That gorgeous, open Cornhusker look, smile and complexion to die for ... and I KNOW those glasses (but from the 70s), and wait for it....W.A.I.T...F.O.R....I.T.... Lincoln's where I met Mrs.C, who went to high school in York, NE!!!!

WOOF WOOF WOOF

Btw, still know the Husker fight song without looking it up:

Where the girls are the fairest (absolutely true),
The guys are the squarest (!!!)
Of any old place I knew.....

WOOF WOOF WOOF

Corn fed beauty, corny glasses or not.

Thanks y'all for your nice comments about my glasses! I really did like them. They were funky--besides the huge lenses (which were the thing back then), they were cool 'cause the earpieces came from the bottom of the lens vs the top. I thought that was awesome. The DH, though, gives me shit about it every time he looks at my portrait. :D

Rich, YOU are the sweetheart for always saying such nice things to me. Thanks. :)

M B --really? You had the same glasses?! I've never met anybody who'd had those glasses! Awesome!

Grif, that's probably true. I've pretty much always been a hippie-chick: I was taught by hippies at a school attached to a progressive teacher's college, starting in kindergarten in 1969. I also seem to have just been born with that bent. But senior year is when I started to let the "funky" side of myself out, instead of trying to be like everybody else.

"Foreclosure lawyer" is the hit-counter sponsor. I'm sure s/he's doing a bang-up business these days. :P

Dorelvis, believe it or not, that pink is just my cheeks. It was hot. I pink up when I'm warm. The photog tried to normalize it but that was as close to my regular skin-tone as he could get. I don't know what possessed me, getting outdoor pictures in Nebraska in August.

Ardee, I have some of those little slivers now. But not the teeny tiny ones--I have bifocals and they just don't fit in those tiny frames. Before the big-lens trend faded away, I had big black owl-frames, and also big clear frames (the closest I could come to looking like I wasn't wearing glasses). If I could afford it, I've have 10 different pairs of glasses at all time. :)

Woof Man, now it's MY turn to say--Get out! Lincoln? what the hell were you doing in Lincoln? Did you go to UNL? or did you just learn the fight song from the inescapable game-day radio coverage? This is going to take awhile to wrap my brain around!

Myron's was gone by the time I was there. Cliff's was still there, and Valentino's--I miss Valentino's! :)

Mrs. C is from YORK? Good gawd, if her family is from around there, we're probably related, since my Mom's family is all from the Utica/Waco/York area. There's so much intermarriage that I'm related to one family 3 different ways!

And where have you been? I haven't seen you in forever! Did the election wear you out so much that you had to stop writing?!

(And thanks for the sweet compliments--I'm blushing here. %-)

Stellaa--are you kidding? Oh, I hope you're not kidding! 'Course, I'm not sure those big glasses would so good on me now. I don't have the pointy little face I had in high school. :P

Sally, you say the nicest things. Thank you. :)

Oh my goodness, girl. I'd have latched onto you as the COOLEST Senior in school when I was a Freshman. :-)

What a great sport you are.

Good grief, thank goodness it's Nebraska and not W. Virginia (hope there aren't too many people from there on OS :-)) or you might be related! In fact, I did a double take when I first saw the pic, because you look just like a cousin of hers who still lives in Seward, which is literally up the road from where your mom's family's from! Damn, I dare not show her your photo for she probably thinks we're "carrying on" -- do folks still say that? -- as it is and she'd bite my (no, those have already been taken care of) nose off, and that would hurt.

WOOF. This is quite weird. No, I didn't study at UNL. Mrs. C went there for a couple of years, and then finished at Minnesota. But those memorable lines of the Husker fight song live with one forever!

WOOF

And indeed, I've been "resting", but if your Mom's family is Missouri Synod Lutheran, I'll have to leave this board forever! Otherwise, there's probably no chance you're related.

WOOF

Woof Man--

OK, the weirdness is getting weirder.

My Mom's family is/was Missouri Synod. She only recently switched to a different synod, because she was mad at all the drama going on in the church she'd been going to since 1969.

And, um....Seward? Cough. I grew up in Seward, from ages 4-1/2 to 20 (well, except that from 18 on I was actually living on my own).

Tri-C, I must know who the cousin is. Seward only has 6000 people, for gawd's sake.

Did you ever go to Seward? Do you remember a Red's 66 station next door to a restaurant called Johnson's? That was the evil step-father's station. I worked there from 12-15, despising every second of it. :P

And yes, I believe "carrying on" is still in common usage. :D

OMG. NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO. I QUIT THIS BOARD.

Now I'll have to show her your post and ask her. There probably are only a couple of degrees of separation here, if that.

Mrs. C. is also ex-Missouri Synod. Her folks couldn't care less that I was an avowed atheist and a DOG, for Chrissake, but couldn't reconcile themselves to the fact that I'd been "brought up Catholic" and had gone to a Jesuit school! No degrees of separation from the devil himself! So I've been to York only once -- to pick up her things. Mrs. C. goes back occasionally, parents are quite old now, but I'm still, if not anathema, definitely suspect!

WOOF

World smaller and smaller. My buddy from my Minnesota days, Charlie (Chuck) Hensen (I believe that's the spelling) was from Seward, I'm 98% sure.

WOOF

A familiar tale, CCC! My Dad was Catholic. My mom's dad's pastor, at a teeny tiny little wooden church south of Waco, told him that if he walked my mom down the aisle, he would be thrown out of the church. So my uncle walked my mom down the aisle instead. She converted prior to the wedding, and stayed Catholic until about a year after he died, then went back to Lutheran. Pastor McCluskey wouldn't even let her step foot in the church until she re-identified as Lutheran. And then he wanted to re-baptize me because, apparently, you can't trust Catholics to do a baptism right.

It all seems so very silly now.

I am anxious to hear what Mrs C says. If her cousin's Mo Synod too, then she probably goes to St John's, which is the church/school I was raised in, with all the hippie teachers from Concordia Teacher's College across the street.

Verbal--me, the coolest senior?! Oh, wow, nobody ever called me that! That's it, you're on my buddy list forever. :D

I love the glasses and I'm glad you love them too! Thanks for posting this.

i don't believe i've ever seen a picture of a senior in high school who looks so comfortable in her own skin. alluring. radiant. sweet.

This is a great shot! I hope big glasses come back before I officially go blind.

Ya look great! And confident as all get-out!

I really like the picture! And I was Class of '81 as well so we have something (else) in common.

And I do like the glasses, very individual.

You definitely belong in my cool club. I can just TELL.

Mary, thank you! I am feeling so vindicated with the glasses thing now. I think I'm going to make the DH read this comment thread. :D

Lonnie, you are too sweet. Radiant? Wow! :)

Linda--before you go blind? Heh, I'm already there--legally, at least. Thank gawd for super-light-weight lenses or I'd have to wear one of those straps to keep my glasses on my face!

Frank, you can be a real sweetie, you know that? (Shh, I won't tell anybody, I promise ;). I was starting to be confident in those days--first time in my life. It's been a long process.

PF, thank you! Us early-80s kids ROCK. :)

Monique, I would be happy to be in your cool kids' club. Although I never wear mis-matched socks. I wear weird socks, though, is that close enough? :)

Janie, ooh, you had the uptown glasses! :) And thank you for the lovely comment.

Mrs. C informs me that you are not related. But that you look gorgeous and make her feel kinda homesick. I informed her that this was her home now. And she said, yes, but you know what I mean. And then we cuddled a bit.... and all I can say is thank you, merwoman, thank you. WOOF WOOF WOOF.

You are too sweet, CCC, and so is Mrs. C. WOOF WOOF WOOF right back atcha. :)