May 12, 2009
Yesterday I posted my opinion that my immediate family members look nothing alike.
The comments left were varied — from Ben and I looking alike but nothing like my Mother and Grandmother, to Ben looking like Scott but not me — and from the left eye/right eye similarity comment, to another that I look like my Grandmother and Ben looks like his.
I’ve been told for as long as I can remember that I look like the McKain side of the family. Scott’s looks were claimed by the Garriott side (from our Grandfather on Mom’s side of the family). I’ve been called “Bessie” (my Dad’s mother that was deceased before I was born) more times than I care to count. I’m wondering if that had more to do with actions than looks, because they say she was a ‘spitfire’, and I’ve been know to be slightly sharp-tongued at times as well. Seriously! I have! I am probably 2 foot taller than she was and have a chin. Maybe I look like Grandpa McKain minus the unibrow…
So I pulled out a few more photos for comparison…
Here’s what I see — Ben has my Dad’s eyes …and mine are similar. Scott’s eyes do not resemble ours whatsoever. Agree with me so far? Good. So for more fun (and to get even with my older brother for a few of the evil things he did to me as a kid), I put photos side by side of him, my son, Ben, and me when we were all about the same age. I’m thinking the face shape is pretty close, but still – nothing that would make you automatically say we were so closely related. But check out the signatures. I KNOW that neither Scott nor I were adopted because we write almost just alike.
So do you look like your siblings? Your parents? Do your children look like you? A little? A lot?
I’m still looking for a few photos of the Garriott clan for photo comparisons. If I find them, I’ll share…
May 11, 2009
I started to write a big ole’ long post explaining why I have been a bad blogger and why I have been slow to respond to emails and phone calls, but it just sounded all whiny. I’ve been really busy is the best short answer that I can come up with, so I’ll leave it at that and get on to my rant for the day…
First I want to tell you that I had a wonderful Mother’s Day — I hope if you’re a Mom, you enjoyed your special day as well. My son, Ben, came to visit me, his Grandmother and his Great Grandmother. I’m sitting here looking at the photos from yesterday, and wondering if we are really all related. We don’t look anything alike!!
Ben’s wife, Amber, says Ben looks exactly like me, but I personally don’t see it. Our skin tone is totally opposite. He doesn’t have my nose. Both of us have brown eyes, but his aren’t shaped like mine. If he wasn’t wearing the goofy old-man hat, you could see his hair is dark, a tad darker than mine was back in the days before I started throwing color upon color on it. I mean seriously!! Does anyone out there think Ben looks like me?
The moment a child is born, the mother is also born. She never existed before. The woman existed, but the mother, never. A mother is something absolutely new. -Rajneesh
I’ll take it a step further. Do I (or does Ben) look remotely like my Mom or Nanny?
If your answer is yes, back it up! Convince me already, coz I’m not seeing a resemblance.
May 1, 2009
We’ve started a new thing around here that happens once a week. We’ve decided to call it Fearless Friday. Wanna know why?
We’ve noticed that so many things pass us by because we’re afraid. Afraid to take more than 2 steps away from the phone because it might ring; and especially afraid to plan anything for a Friday night because we might not complete our week’s projects on time. From now on, we are going to be fearless every Friday — we are going to start breaking the rules.
For me, Friday is notorious for crap work. I spend the biggest part of every Friday working on all the last minute requests for something that someone else has put off all week, but wants off of THEIR desk before the weekend. What do I do? I trudge through them one by one and don’t stop until MY desk is clear for the weekend. Not anymore!
And so long as my voice message for clients is up to date, they understand when they may not immediately get to speak with me personally. Seriously, if I’m on the phone and can’t take the call — they understand. Right?
C’mon and get fearless with us! At least one day a week – how about next Friday?
The comments left were varied — from Ben and I looking alike but nothing like my Mother and Grandmother, to Ben looking like Scott but not me — and from the left eye/right eye similarity comment, to another that I look like my Grandmother and Ben looks like his.
