My name is Jenn, and I'm a 27 year old married and babied chick. In addition to a husband, a seven year old daughter, and a five year old autistic son, I also have four cats, three hermit crabs, two frogs, a few fish, and one snorty little Pug. I work from home doing a variety of writing and even some web design. I love blogging, digital photography and web design.
When I was twelve-thirteen and in sixth-seventh grade, I had the brilliant idea of wearing plastic hair clips (such as the one above – AN ORIGINAL THAT MY MOM UNCOVERED LAST WEEK, DEAR GOD THE MEMORIES!) in my hair. Only I didn’t wear them stylishly, as I half-ass attempted to do above.
Instead, I would put my hair in the middle, pull the hair tightly down my head and behind my ear, and use a clip on each side to keep it in place.
To add to the dork effect, I would often use hair gel or spray to tame and prevent any stray hair.
At the time, I thought it was cool and cute. What didn’t help was the SO HOT OMG IF I COULD FIND HIM TODAY I’D DO HIM IN AN INSTANT teacher down the hall, who was best buds with my teacher, and would often come around and tease and flirt with us girls (looking back on it, a teacher in his mid-twenties flirting with pre-teens and just-turned-teens? EW), took to calling me Sister Clips and Clippy.
To this day I am mortified that I did my hair like that. I’m also annoyed with my mother who let me out of the house looking like that. I asked her recently why she did. Her response? "Well, I told you that you looked like a smacked ass, but you wouldn’t listen!"
*blush*
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