Tuesday, December 2, 2008

That was weird...

I was looking for my wedding video to show the 3 5/6th year old and instead found my high school video compilation. The compilation included my junior year gymnastics routines (she freaked out seeing mommy do such fantastic tricks--"Mommy! You should do that at gymnastics practice!"), christmas of '94 complete with showing my xmas gifts including pj's that i still wear today and an art kit that my daughter recognized from the cabin, the video of me and some friends sneaking a swim in our principle's pool at midnight before graduation, and graduation itself. Before going down the isle in my white graduation gown ("No, dear, that's not a wedding dress."), there was a shot of my band teacher and high school counselor giving me a pat on the back and some words of advice that i have since forgotten. It was sad because both these guys have died prematurely since then.

After graduation, there was a clip of my closest friends and relatives duct taping me to a tree and stuffing ice down the back of my shirt. My daughter was especially concerned to see this snuff video. Questions and comments included, "It's not nice to tape people to a tree." "Why is uncle scott laughing?" "Doesn't that hurt?" "I'm not supposed to tape my sister to the tree."

4 comments:

Deby said...

You were in band? What did you play? I'm trying to guess, but I just don't know...

I love that you have video of you being taped to a tree. It's a nice object lesson :)

Scooter said...

You should show Eryn the part where you're getting taped to the tree. I'm not sure she believes it happened.

LissyJo said...

I'll bring it to xmas so eryn can see it. Yes, band. I'm curious what your guesses are. Was i a flute-flirt? Tromboner? Maybe you'll never know....

Deby said...

I am not very confident about this at all, but I'm going to guess... french horn. All the overachiever types played the french horn.