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(retro)photo Friday #4: Layers. Lots and lots of layers.

This is my first grade photo. I know. The hair.

The level of layering going on here is just…

staggering.

First grade is the first year of my life that I can remember very well. Fortunately I have no recollection of anyone at Bayville Elementary School taunting me unmercifully for the haphazard, home-cut hair. Actually, I was very popular in first and second grades, a point of fact documented at the end of my second grade journal when I wrote, "I was very popular this year and last year too." ...

(retro)photo Friday #3: Pink foam rollers

This is my third grade class photo. The blouse was silk, the vest was velvet, and though you obviously can't see them in this photo, the culottes were tweed and brown.

That's right. Culottes. 1880s newspaper delivery boy knickers updated for the 1980s. Modern pantaloons.

The three elements of this outfit–blouse-vest-culottes–were never separated from one another. Never did I wear the blouse sans vest under my baby blue monogrammed sweater*. Never did I wear the vest over my Cheryl Tiegs brand p...

(retro)photo Friday #2: Too much make-up

When I was in 5th grade I auditioned for a variety show called RAZZLE DAZZLE 'EM at a local community theater. For the try-out, I sang the trenchant, big vibrato ballad "Don't Cry Out Loud" made famous by a singer named Melissa Manchester that I don't expect any of you kids to know about. The sheet music was totally not in my key and it was kind of an inappropriate song to be sung by an eleven-year-old. Not inappropriate as in like, porny, but lyrically speaking it's not a song an...

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This is supposed to be (retro)photo Friday #1

But as you can see* the picture didn't upload properly. The World's Greatest Webmaster has been trying to fix it all week. (Apparently it's a WordPress problem, not a MegMessedUp problem, as is often the case when it comes to things technological.) So the general idea is that I'll upload random pictures from my youth and write a little about them. I think I'll do this on Fridays because I like the alliterative flow of the words (retro)photo Fridays and also because I hope I'll get enough...

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Goodbye 00s, Hello…

This was supposed to be a picture of me taken on New Year's Eve 1999. After much too much time wasted, it turns out that I don't have any pictures from that night. I'd like to brag all like, oh yeah, that was a EPIC evening of HEDONISTIC EXCESS but the truth is that my husband and I went out to dinner with my parents and my in laws that night and they must have all the pictures because we don't.

So I'm using this one instead, taken on Toms River around New Year's Day 1980. I'm six years old...

Giving Season Begins!

And I want to celebrate by giving stuff away.

If you follow me on Twitter or have friended me on Facebook, then you know that I've already given away six copies of various books in the Jessica Darling series just because I felt like it.

I'll be running more spontaneous contests soon…

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Megan Does Barry-oke. Again. That sounds vaguely naughty.

This is me being ridiculous.

New Barry-oke Video