While I’m out at BLEND this weekend, I scheduled some pretty primo guest bloggers for your enjoyment. Today’s guest blogger is Kelly from [ insert clever title here ].

It’s been a while since I’ve done a flashback Friday. When I asked one of my best friends, Kelly, to guest post, she immediately [...]]]> #leftcontainerBox { float:left; position: fixed; top: 60%; left: 70px; } #leftcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; clear:both; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; padding-bottom:2px; } #bottomcontainerBox { height: 30px; width:50%; padding-top:1px; } #bottomcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; height: 30px; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; }

While I’m out at BLEND this weekend, I scheduled some pretty primo guest bloggers for your enjoyment. Today’s guest blogger is Kelly from [ insert clever title here ].

It’s been a while since I’ve done a flashback Friday. When I asked one of my best friends, Kelly, to guest post, she immediately decided to do a photo post. Of course. This girl takes a lot of pix. And she’s got some great ones from our younger years. Many more adventures to come, I’m sure.

Also, we are almost too much cute to handle. I selected my honorable mention from the photos she uploaded for this post (sneaky!) for the featured image. It was us at the I-80 truckstop on our way to our friend Meredith’s wedding in 2008. This was right before we both got a desperate call from her asking if either of us had a camera because her photographer sucked. Why yes. Of course. We both had a camera.

Sit back, and enjoy. She’s an excellent writer as well. If you like, head over to her blog. She also writes the Cook It Yourself (CIY) section on Twenties Hacker — the same website I write Fit Your Fancy (FYF) for — we like acronyms.

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I don’t quite remember when or how I first met Calee. I’m sure we had some freshman design classes together, but I don’t really REMEMBER meeting or knowing her until our sophomore year. At first, I only knew her as The Girl That Sat In The Front Near An Outlet In Art History And Took Meticulous Notes On Her Laptop (I can, to this day, remember the exact spot she sat in the design auditorium… and it wasn’t until a while later that I realized that bringing a laptop to art history was brilliant, for more than just taking notes. HELLO, INVENTION OF FACEBOOK.)

Then I think we did some time together on our residence hall student government council. Then we had more design classes together. Then we just hung out all of the freaking time and have been rather inseparable ever since. It drove our professors crazy because we always sat by each other and our names were so similar (not to mention that we both had long, curly blonde hair for most of our college careers), and they always got us confused.

For my post today, we decided it would be fun to do a retrospective of old pictures. Because nothing is more awesome than putting old (and frequently awkward) pictures of yourself out there for all to see.

This was really hard, guys. I have a LOT of pictures of myself and The Chimes. (I mean, I have a LOT of pictures, period.) I scrolled through as far back as Facebook would let me, and landed somewhere in 2005.

I decided to narrow it down to our Top 10 15 Moments in Photographic History. Which… roughly translates to My Top 15 Favorite Photos of Us, as of today.

#1 –  The time that we met Chip Kidd

Year: 2007

#2 – The time that Calee’s roommate taped us together

Year: 2005

#3 – The time we showed off our skillz at ISU Senior Portfolio Night

Year: 2007

#4 – The time we got photobombed by a small child 

Year: 2011

#5 – The time we had an 80′s themed New Year Eve party

Year: 2008

#6 – The time we dressed up for Halloween

 
Year: 2009 (left) – Robin Sparkles & Little Red Riding Hood
Year: 2010 (right) – Catwoman & Poison Ivy

#7 – The time we had the traveling birthday tiara (where the hell did that thing go?!)

Year: 2008

#8 – The time with the crash helmets and Kamikazes at Fong’s Pizza.

Year: 2010

#9 – The time our friend Steph got married

Year: 2011

#10 – The time we took an adorable picture at VEISHEA

Year: 2010

#11 - That time we made/ate homemade pizza for my birthday

Year: 2007

#12 – The time we were both a lot shorter than our friend Shelly

Year: 2010

#13 – The time we posed because we were adorable.

Year: 2005

#14 – The time we posed with a statue on Calee’s 25th birthday

Year: 2009

#15 – The time we went bowling and on a double-date.

Year: 2012

HONORABLE MENTION – The very first picture I have of us:

Year: 2005

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Do you have a friend, or friends, that no matter WHAT you’re doing or where you’re going (even if it’s to the bathroom), you have to get a group photo? 

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I love Halloween. Definitely my favorite holiday. It combines two of my favorite things: dressing up and candy.

This year I decided that I looked so fabulous in my black dress I got for my b-day that I would need to base my costume around that dress. So … cat or mouse or something else?  [...]]]> #leftcontainerBox { float:left; position: fixed; top: 60%; left: 70px; } #leftcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; clear:both; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; padding-bottom:2px; } #bottomcontainerBox { height: 30px; width:50%; padding-top:1px; } #bottomcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; height: 30px; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; }

I love Halloween. Definitely my favorite holiday. It combines two of my favorite things: dressing up and candy.

This year I decided that I looked so fabulous in my black dress I got for my b-day that I would need to base my costume around that dress. So … cat or mouse or something else?  Little Red Riding hood.  I actually came up with that idea because I was going to bring my dog, Barney, to the Halloween party with me as the Big Bad Wolf. But I ended up taking him to my parents house to stay for a while.

So I called my friend Matt to see if he wanted to go to the party with me (I didn’t bother to ask his roommate Mark if he wanted to go because he doesn’t care to dress up for Halloween).  Matt loves Halloween.  Anyway, Matt was going as the Big Bad Wolf since his friend Katie was going as Little Red Riding hood ON Halloween.  So my costume was decided.

My friend Kelly decided to go as Robin Sparkles. If you don’t know Robin Sparkles, you must watch this video ASAP.  I procured a robot from my coworker (don’t ask — he likes to go thrifting).

Anyway, we went to my friend Maria’s place for an awesome party.  I hadn’t drank much for a few months, so I had a little bit of wine. Apparently my few glasses of wine turned me into a pretty big riot.

Here are a few photos from the evening.

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