"Dreams are today's answer to tomorrow's questions."
- Edgar Case
This quote showed up in my inbox the other day from Real Simple online magazine. My first reaction was, "If this is true, then why do I keep having the same dream where I get a phone call from 'someone' telling me that I never graduated from high school and that I have to go back and what does it really mean?" In this recurring nightmare dream, I tell whomever will listen that I did in fact graduate from high school that I have not one, but two college degrees and that all of this must be a terrible mistake!
I did not love high school and would not love going back under any circumstances. I briefly entertained the idea of teaching a couple of high school business classes several years ago but realized that it would cost me much more to get my certification here than I would probably make in one year as a teacher in a little high school in Warren county.
After reading this quote, the only thing that makes sense is that the next time I have a dream about high school or going back to high school, I will wake up and have to ask myself, "What was I thinking with that hair?!" When I look back at my senior yearbook, I realize I was not the only one with this style. Was 1988 a bad year for hair stylists? Mine at that time was named Lavina Primlani (No, I did not make that name up. How could I ever make up a name like that?)
So, if in fact, dreams are today's answer to tomorrow's questions, I will always know the answer to the rhetorical question, "What should I do with my hair?" I don't even know how I got it to do that on the day this picture was taken - let alone trying to replicate it now. I'm not sure if it was a perm or if it was natural or the work of some serious hot rollers. All I know is that it would take an obscene amount of hair products to get that kind of lift today in the heat and humidity of Missouri.
This style is best left in the far distant past, along with the memory of high school.
I did not love high school and would not love going back under any circumstances. I briefly entertained the idea of teaching a couple of high school business classes several years ago but realized that it would cost me much more to get my certification here than I would probably make in one year as a teacher in a little high school in Warren county.
After reading this quote, the only thing that makes sense is that the next time I have a dream about high school or going back to high school, I will wake up and have to ask myself, "What was I thinking with that hair?!" When I look back at my senior yearbook, I realize I was not the only one with this style. Was 1988 a bad year for hair stylists? Mine at that time was named Lavina Primlani (No, I did not make that name up. How could I ever make up a name like that?)
So, if in fact, dreams are today's answer to tomorrow's questions, I will always know the answer to the rhetorical question, "What should I do with my hair?" I don't even know how I got it to do that on the day this picture was taken - let alone trying to replicate it now. I'm not sure if it was a perm or if it was natural or the work of some serious hot rollers. All I know is that it would take an obscene amount of hair products to get that kind of lift today in the heat and humidity of Missouri.
This style is best left in the far distant past, along with the memory of high school.
5 comments:
Shaboom Shaboom...I think that's how the song went! The Faharha Fawcett look was THE rage for young and old...feathering with a razor and thinning shears! Those were the days my friend...but then that's another song!
LOVE the hair! Why not try to bring it back?
I thought for sure you got this picture off some high school yearbook website. So when you told me at church it really is you I had to come back and check it out again. I tried my hardest to get this look but my hair just wouldn't cooperate. You were (and still are) a hot, stylish babe!!!
It was like a girl mullett! Business up front, party in the back! I actually wished my hair would do that too, but I wore a boyish short haircut for years.
I love that picture of you. You're so cute! However, that phrase? What the freak does that mean? "Dreams are today's answer to tomorrow's questions." really.. what does that really mean? Sounds like a bunch of words just put together, trying to sound intellectual. But, really, it's just confusing... I'm glad you got something out of it - my brain still hurts from trying to get it :) love you!
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