This is me in my bedroom in high school. I’d guess it’s 1990.
I had my own telephone line, on which I spent a lot of time. Do you see my answering machine? All my friends had a kids’ line in their house and an answering machine. Spoiled!
Other bits of awesome in this photo:
- The porcelain face/tissue dispenser on the bottom shelf. Kleenex came out through the mouth. My friends loved this.
- I slept on a futon. We’re weird in California. What can I say?
- Scrunchy in my hair. I probably made it with my friend Marika on her mom’s ancient sewing machine out of fabric we bought at Salvation Army. If there had been blogging back then, she and I would have had an awesome DIY one.
- Cassette tape on the floor. Probably a homemade mix.
- It looks to me like I’m studying for the SAT. On the phone, natch.
- Wrestling shoes by Asics. Weird trend, yes, but I rocked them.
- The poster on the wall of three toddlers, a boy kissing a girl as a jealous girl looks on. A nice gift from my high school boyfriend, that turned ironic when he turned 20 and left me for another girl. I hated the picture after that. Obviously.
What you can’t see: a list of “baby names” on my bulletin board, proclaiming all the first and middle names I would be bestowing on my future children. My best friend’s list was there, too. She’s got three kids and I’ve got two, and I don’t think we used a single one of our then-favorites.
Thoughts? Do you miss your answering machine? Did you use the baby names you came up with in high school?
hahaha. 1) we had a kids phone line too. which had this super long cord so we could bring he phone from room to room since the only phone jack was in the hallway. 2) I noticed your scrunchy right away! I tried making them to but mom’s sewing machine didn’t work so good. and 3) I rocked wrestling shoes as well. but I was a manager of our wretling team. was this a trend for others? I never knew. 4) And yes it was 1990 based on the cool date stamp on the photo. good guess
Didn’t we all have that poster? I think I was one of the only kids our age in California who didn’t sleep on a futon. I’m jealous just looking at it!
I was always so jealous of my friend who had her own phone line with her sister, I was lucky to get my own phone to keep in my room! My brother and I would always come up with crazy answering machine messages. One was me saying ‘hi, you’re reached the joneses, our parents can’t come to the phone right now, they’re a little TIED UP at the moment’ and my brother would cover his mouth and muffle yelling. I smile just remembering my dads reaction, he was so pissed
I did actually use the boy name I loved in high school: Gabriel. He’s a soccer player, Gabriel Omar Batistuta. Go look him up, I’ll wait….
I DID NOT, however, use the girl’s names I was in love with: Aranxta and Michelle. I was a big fan of Aranxta Sanchez Vicario and am still the world’s biggest Michelle Akers fan. I did insist that I would use Michelle until I heard the name Meike (MY-kah), which I immediately fell in love with. At the time I looked online (pre-Google) I was informed that it was the Dutch form of Michelle, so it was actually perfect. Turns out, it’s German for Mary but I still used it because I wanted to name my daughter after my grandmother Maria Teresa, but it turns Maria Sanchez into something a little more unique: Meike Sanchez!
I remember the poster, although I didn’t have it.
No phone line in my room. No phone in my room at all. but we had a cordless and it would go into my room.
My sister tells me I planned to name my kids Sodapop and Ponyboy.. and no, I did not.
Sodapop and Ponyboy? You should have!
Ha, this is amazing! It is the most perfect time capsule of 1990… it captures so much in one photograph! I’m jealous: never had my own “kids” line, nor my own answering machine. Guess it was made up for later when I got my own email address? (PS – the sneaks are awesome!!)