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10 Years Challenge - 40 years of then and now

merej99Posted for Everyone to comment on, 5 years ago3 min read

I couldn't resist joining the #tenyearschallenge on Whaleshares. Shout out to @udezee for sharing this fun initiative where he shared his Ten Years Challenge post... and made me feel kind of old.

Seriously! Did you visit his post? Ten years ago, he was an adorable little guy, which means he's probably no older than my children. LOL

Ten years ago...

Ten years ago I was still living in New York. My boys were still children instead of young adults.
I was married for one year to my second husband. As I scrolled through some old photos I feel like I haven't changed all that much in ten years.

Actually, it looks like I may have lost a little weight since then and my face has definitely cleared up (rosacea) since I've begun eating healthier food. You see my white hairs? I've earned every single one of them. No dye jobs for me!

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What does 30 years look like?

Let's have a little fun and go back to 1989. This is my senior class photo and I was rockin' a sweet mullet!

My head was shaved on the side and I probably should have invested in Aquanet because everyone, the guys and the gals, had big hair. If it wasn't Aquanet holding our hair up, it was Dippety Do hair gel - or a combination of the two.

It's kind of funny to think how much money I had spent on getting my hair permed to be curly and now I have natural frizz.

What does 40 years look like?

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This was Christmas time. My siblings and two cousins were decked in our finest Underoos. Of all the pictures in our family albums, this is probably the one I most want to recreate... except we're going to be old, fat, maybe bald, and most definitely drunk.

I'm cracking myself up right now because I never thought there was a connection of characters in my life, but 40 years ago I'm in Bat Girl Underoos and in present day I constantly tell my husband I AM BATMAN regardless of how many Wonder Woman things he buys me.

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What are your thoughts?

Do you think I've changed much over the decades?

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