Why Do I Look at Pictures of Myself?
It’s Wednesday. I wasn’t sure what day it was when I woke up this morning, so I thought I’d do you a favor and tell you before you got all, “I wonder what day it is, maybe it’s Saturday and I can do nothing.”
I’ve been going through the pictures from my Dallas trip and I have made a discovery. Here it is….I’m weird and I make weird faces when I talk.
I think you will agree.
My friend Sara had the job of taking the pictures. I would fire her for making me look so bad, but something tells me that it wasn’t completely her fault. Plus I don’t think I can find anyone else to work for the very low pay that I offer.
Maybe I should practice in the mirror. Like I did when I was a little girl with my hair brush microphone and Elton John blasting through my record player. A record player, boys and girls, is a machine that played songs. Like an ipod, but bigger with scratch sounds in the music and pennies taped to an arm with a needle.
In other Wednesday news, we are staying home this week because of spring break. I prefer to have the stores all to myself and not push through a crowd of unsupervised teenagers. I’ve never liked a crowd. I don’t go to Six Flags on a Saturday, I don’t go to the movies on Friday nights and I don’t shop the malls at Christmas. And I do NOT go to the big city during spring break. Sam’s and Costco will have to survive without me.
I guess I’ll use the time at home to practice smiling more when I talk. I’m not a smiley person, but I could try.
Or I could just pull out the old LPs, listen to some John Denver and think about sunshine on my shoulders…….
Thank you very much! My sons are always telling me I made weird faces when I become “excited” about something… or when I sing (apparently I chew on my lip in choir on Sunday mornings… any way whose bright idea was it to put the altos on the front row? hmmm)
You could come to Indiana… we don’t have spring break until April 4-8. So as you can imagine it is VERY quiet around here! And today is our first day in FOREVER where it is both SUNNY and in the mid 50’s with only a LITTLE wind!!! YIPPEE! Yessirree, windows open, pollen flying, sneezy red nose, clothes on the line, and granola in the oven!! A BEAUTIFUUUUUUULLLLLLLL DAY!!! 🙂
I don’t know, some of those are quite nice! Maybe I’m jaded by the many weird face pictures of myself that I have seen…..
Have fun whatever you do today!
Love me some John Denver!
And I’m with you on the picture thing; there were a whole bunch of pictures taken during my birthday dinner last week and I insisted on putting them on my computer and viewing them before anyone else could see them. I deleted about 25 pictures of myself making the most amazingly awful faces. Who knew my face could go in such non-lovely directions?
The pictures you posted were quite fabulous by comparison.
Becky
Oh I can’t even imagine if someone took pictures of me while I was having a conversation. LOL!
But aren’t we always our worse critic?
Have a great day.
I have a tape of John Denver somewhere- I used to play it over and over as a teen, actually I think my big boys might have it, they listen to all that old stuff that their parents used to!
I hate photos of myself too- I think it’s just cause you don’t see yourself like the camera reveals, a bit like hearing your voice taped!
Ha! I was once told that I swallow funny when I speak in public. Hmmmm… Although I think that my greatest public speaking problem is my tendency to cry. Try looking beautiful when you are crying.
My third child is graduating from homeschool this spring. Our local homeschool organization hosts a graduation service at which each of the parents gives a speech as they present their graduate with his/her diploma…and for two years I have thought about how I KNOW I am going to cry when I do this.
I was just discussing this with my friend today. I hate looking at pictures of myself. So, I have very few with my children and myself and that’s sad. I also hate crowds which is another great reason to love homeschooling. We can do EVERYTHING from shopping to going to the Zoo when everyone else is in school. By the way I was there on this night and your face was just fine in person!!!
You are all so comforting….at least we all have the same problem.
Peggy, chewing on your lip?! I love it! Please, please send me a video of that. I’m so glad you’re having good weather. Granola in the oven makes the house smell so good!
Cheryl, I am now desperate to see you speak and find out what that bad swallow looks like. You do not want to know how much I cried at Jacob’s graduation last year. I will pray for you!
Angela, whew! At least I wasn’t such a dork in real life. Thanks for telling me. And you are so right…I do love taking a vacation during the year when everyone else is in school.
Lisa~
We are all so funny! No one has ever taken photos of me when I speak – thank goodness! It would be scary I am sure!
Not having to go places on Spring Break is reason alone to home educate! 🙂
Please tell me you didn’t just say John Denver.
Your pictures look nice, by the way. I’m somewhat animated when I talk so I take some real hum-dinger pictures.
☺ Celeste
The pictures look fine! But I don’t blame you for staying home. I never go anywhere anytime there are likely to be hoards of people. Too much stress and also those people all have germs . Do I sound paranoid? 🙂
When I was training to be a Weight Watcher Leader, my supervisor videoed me. As a public speaker, today I can truthfully say that she who studies her own actions is wise. This video impacted me positively in many ways.
We would all be wise to study photos or videos of ourselves, listen to audio recordings of our tone of voices, and then take an anonymous survey of how we’re perceived. After every event where I speak, I do just that– I request everyone to fill out the comment cards I prepared for this purpose. Gives me much food for thought.
In that same vein, I wonder what a camera might reveal when it captures how we speak to Hubby? The kids? About our neighbor while on the phone with another neighbor? The looks on our faces and the tone in our voices.
. . . makes me happy. Yes, I do love those John Denver songs!
I am surprised that you think you aren’t a smiling kind of person, I usually smile the whole time I’m reading your posts. They make me happy!!
What a blessing you are for me,
Sheri O.
p.s. I’m still working my way through my new magazines – the notes are fantastic!
I cannot even imagine what I would look like if someone took my picture while I was talking. They would probably have a very hard time seeing my face because I use my hands so much when I talk. They would only see the blurry hands.
I make weird faces, too.
I should make a collage of me, for you. Then you can see that we are, in fact, indubitably related.
Crowds-yucko to me, too!
Kelley (above me in the comments) is wise.
Love, me
P.S. I will, before hell freezes over, post about my lovely crown thingies you made me!
Promise.
LOVE, me