O frabjous day!

10 Jul 2010 1 Comment

It’s a picture post! YEAH!

I know what you’re thinking, “NR, it’s your fourth entry and you’re already resorting to picture posts? Don’t you have anything left to say?” I’ve got plenty left to say, dear readers. (It’s come to my attention that my readers aren’t non-existent, just lurking. I’m on to you.) However, I simply cannot resist doing a picture post today.

Why? Because literally thousands of my digital pictures, that I thought were lost forever, have been pulled back from the edge of obscurity. I have a few external hard drives floating around, one of which was corrupt and had the entirety of my digital picture collection from 2004-2007 on it. I hadn’t gotten rid of it, in part because some of the files on it are still accessible and because I hoped one day I could recover those corrupted files. Today is that day. O frabjous day! I don’t even know how I did it. It was magic. But they’re all back!

What would my life have been, without gems like this one of my best friend?

Aww, look at all the love in his face. That’s the kind of love only Best Friends can give. Or how about this one, of my adorable cousin, which I can one day use to blackmail him?

Or check out this super stoic picture of my Dad–

I frickin’ love my Dad. I can take as good as I give, though. How about this not at all awkward picture of me?

That doesn’t even look like it’s my arm. Are elbows supposed to bend that far? Let’s follow it up with an embarrassing picture of me at the Happiest Place on Earth– and no, I don’t mean Disney World.

Awwww, yeah. Let’s hear it for college! Ok, in all seriousness though, there are some great pictures I almost lost. Such as the following:

These next two are actually scans, so the original prints still exist somewhere, but it’s unlikely I’ll ever get my hands on them again. It’s my Grandmother on her Wedding Day. Is there a family resemblance?

Last, but not least, is this picture of me standing in a field–

Technically speaking, it’s a mediocre picture at best. So what’s special about me standing in a field? Well, this particular field is (or I should say “was”) located in Malaga, New Jersey. It’s behind my great grandmother’s house, a house she was born in and lived in for literally 100 years. I love this field, I spent a lot of time wandering around in it, daydreaming. But after my great grandmother died, they tore down the house and this field is now a dollar store and megaplex. Good ol’ progress.