My co-workers have nearly finished off the two dozen extremely sprinkle covered cupcakes I brought in this morning.

I miss getting to dress up or do anything for Halloween so much. I’m such a costume person.

In the continuing series of scanning old photos, I give you me from Halloween 1977 as Casper the Friendly Ghost. The first year I would’ve dressed up and toddled around anywhere since I was all of two weeks old my real first Halloween in 1976. I like this picture because you can see things in my house in Bussey in the background. I’m in the hallway and the dining room is behind me.

and I’ll shamelessly post pictures of the day I was born and childhood birthday parties if I want to.

Click on the photo for more pictures of my first few years of birthdays.

Also, Happy Birthday to my favorite musician who was privileged enough to be born a year after me, John Mayer.

Geeks are the hot thing these days, so says every entertainment magazine and blog I read but that I’m too lazy to link to right now. Trust me, geeks are cool.

I set up my scanner the other night to scan pictures for Mac’s birthday and now I can’t stop scanning! Be forewarned: if you’ve ever been in an embarrassing or amusing photo of mine that wasn’t previously digital, its only a matter of time before you’re all over Flickr!

Had to share this geeky gem that I discovered in a box at my mom’s house a few weeks back. Of course it was a framed 8×10.

This is me with Terry Farrell, of Lt. Jadzia Dax fame from Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. The actress is also originally from Cedar Rapids, Iowa. [I loved that character's name, it was my handle on various bulletin boards for several years in college.] This was at my first Star Trek convention. My mom made my uniform top. It was (and still is) a spectacular piece of sewing. I got a pattern that was a copy of the actual patterns for the uniforms on the show. I remember how unamused my mom was when saw all the pieces and vague directions. She put in countless hours on it and it was really rather perfect. So much better than all the other crappy “I ordered this from some costume shop” crap the rest of the people were wearing. I wish that still fit.
I don’t remember where this convention was other than it being in Iowa sometime in 1994 or 1993.