Willy Wonka

During the Sunday afternoon session of conference, I decided to listen while scanning some old photos onto my hard drive. It really helped me to stay awake; I slept through all the other sessions, and I feel bad about it. I try so hard to stay awake, but the apostles' voices are so soooooooooothing. And any time I sit down, I fall asleep, really, so it's to be expected.

Anywho, I was scanning photos from fall of 2004, when Dylan was Micah's age. I scanned this one, of Dylan and I in Bryce Canyon:

Dylan saw the image on my computer screen and said, "Mom, you had Willy Wonka hair back then."

I guess he has a point:

In my mind's eye, my hair looked like this:

Really cute. But in reality, not so cute. My hair back then reminds me of Ramona Quimby, Age 8 (minus the bangs):

I think the cut also made my face look fatter. Of course, I was like 30 pounds fatter then than I am now, so that makes a difference. Want to see how fat I was?:

Yep. Chubba wubba. This is why I jog six days a week, folks. I really don't want to go back to that. I must be delusional. I thought my hair looked cute, like the picture above. And at the time, I thought my body looked like this size:

But it was really this size:

Of course, my body then also had a lot to do with the fact that I had thyroid disease and didn't know it. I really need to get my thyroid checked again. It's been a year, and I think my thyroid has a lot to do with the fact that I fall asleep whenever I sit down. :)