Hey DebbieH, check out this avatar!

[TarHeelMom]

Now we're cookin' with gas here!

At your request I tracked down that year-old snapshot of me and my beautimous babies, and just for fun I've posted it as my avatar (temporarily -- I'm on a roll here and this just might have to change regularly!) To see the picture larger, click on the icon for my profile.

Thanks for showing us how to do this, girlfriend!

How's about a picture link to you and Dave from your canyon trip???

http://e4u.deltait.com.au/sport/sport23.gif Kathy S.

 

[DebbieH]

Hey Kath! It is fun, isn't it? GREAT pix of you three. Thanks for sharing. I'm not real happy with our Grand Canyon, pix but then again, I am not happy with most pix of me! I did post a few new pix over at Cathe Addicts site a couple weeks ago. A few are of the Grand Canyon and a couple of AndreaL & I. Might want to take a peek.
Your-Friend-In-Fitness, DebbieH http://www.handykult.de/plaudersmilies.de/wavey.gif[/img] If You Get The Choice To Sit It Out Or Dance...I Hope You DANCE!!!

 

[TarHeelMom]

Hey DebbieH -- Women and their own photos

Hi cutie! I just surfed over to look at your pictures and I think they're wonderful! You are so pretty and photogenic and it looks like you had SUCH a great time!

That's funny that you say you aren't happy with most pix of you -- I feel that way and I find most women do, too. May I vent here for a second? What is it about seeing ourselves photographed??? I just cringe when I look at photos of myself -- picking out photos for something like my sons' bar mitzvah albums was just torturous. I think everyone else looks great (or close to great) except me. I'm looking at my own avatar picture and thinking "Ohmigosh do I really look like THAT???" and "I look so thick through the middle" and "Why wasn't I standing up straight" and "Wow did my hair need a trim" etc. etc. etc.

Guys as a gender just don't react this way at all. I know I have never once heard either one of my sons or my DH say "Oooh, I look awful in this picture, throw it away."

There's a picture of me with my girlfriend at the soccer field posted in my album at PictureTrail. When I posted it I really debated about putting it up -- I was looking at it and fretting that my arms look chubby and don't even get me going about my lily-white legs. My DH looked at it and said "Wow, honey, look at you -- you can really see how hard you've been working out, you look buff!" Now, maybe he was being a tad exaggerated in order to compliment me, but I really think he meant the gist of what he was saying. And I can NOT look at my own photo and see it.

What is it that makes women respond this way to their own images? It just irks the dickens out of me, especially because I've been on a personal campaign for several years now to teach myself to age gracefully, to focus on wellness and fitness and not wrinkles and scale numbers, to feel good about the things that matter (my children, my accomplishments) and not to fret about stuff that doesn't matter at all in the long run.

SIGH!!!!!!x( x( x(

http://e4u.deltait.com.au/sport/sport23.gif Kathy S.