Thanks to everyone who helped

Thanks to everyone who helped Zoe out on that last Ultimate Blogger challenge. Unfortunately, she didn’t win immunity and was given the boot this morning, much to all our dismay. The upside being that she now has free time again to do things like eat and sleep and work, so there’s that. And of course, she brought us the wonderful collection of hideous clothes. When I was going through old photos to scan in, I came across this great one I took of Heather sometime in 5th grade.

We’ve been emailing back and forth trying to remember the back story to this photo and finally decided it was this: there was a cute guy named Jared in my Hebrew class that I decided to fix up with Heather. Because they had never met, we decided the best thing to do was get Heather all gussied up, take a picture, and present said picture to Jared, who would…what? Fall in love instantly? I’m not sure we got that far. We DID get as far as affixing a gigantic CU Buffalos pin to her purple belt, tying a bandana around her neck, and making sure her bow was properly askew.

Let me tell you a little about that bow. We, and especially Heather, were fairly crafty girls. She was the type to enjoy something store bought, then work very hard at creating a suitable homemade version. She did this with Lunchables, fried rice and sweet and sour sauce, hair scrunchies, hammer pants (as in MC). She had a little jelly bow that contained some sort of liquid inside, as many 80s and 90s Claire’s Boutique paraphernalia was wont to do. She figured she could pretty much duplicate the effect by pouring puffy paint into a plastic baggie, securing the opening, folding it appropriately, cinching it into a bow and attaching it to a stretchy headband. Voila! Instant fashion.

Anyway, despite the fact that I never gave the picture to Jared, (I believe I did something inexcusably dorky with it, like put it in a blue index card holder, filed under F for “friend.” Okay, that’s exactly what I did with it.) Heather and he ended up in an almost-dating situation years later in high school. So while my matchmaking skills may not be accurate, they are at least very persistant.

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