And now for the ultimate self indulgence ( I did say I would TRY..only try...sometimes I fail..sorry). A picture of me! I had to include this picture somewhere in this page because it is, I must say, one of the few good pictures of my self I have ever seen. When I saw I was like "WOW! I look good!" Yep, I know pretty egotistical, but if you would see years and years of REALLY bad pictures of yourself you would understand. There is a good reason why I designated myself family historian, because if I'm always taking the pictures I cant be in the pictures. On the rare occasions when I feel like I look decent enough to have a picture taken of me, like in a group photo, or when I was the focus of the photo occasion like graduations and stuff and lots of pictures of me had to be taken, I would always hope that I would look okay. But each time they would come back and I would have like this double chin action going (I don't have a double chin really! It shows up for pictures only) or I would look really tired or I would have only slits for eyes or I would just look plain weird. I really dread it when someone says to me "Okay now let me take a picture of you next to the castle" or anything like that, because I know when I get the picture I might as well just had the castle. I simply bring the whole photo down. This photo was taken at a birthday party for Dr. Pette (the guy who's lab I work in now). I'm standing next to Ted, the Canadian (he doesn't know much German either) in the background Dr. Pette is showing some collectibles in his study. I couldn't decide whether to include all of this, because I really like the whole scene, or just focus on me, so for TOTAL egotism I have included both. Just click on the photo to get a close up of me!
Oh how did the picture get taken? Well I was taking pictures of everyone else (trying get everyone in the lab) when Frau Kugler said "Okay let's get a picture of you- get next to Ted!" "Okay" I said reluctantly. After this picture was taken I think Ted turned around and took a picture of me and Frau Kugler sitting. And just to keep my ego in check, in that picture my hips look like a mile long and I have slits for eyes. Oh well.
Okay I'm done with Stef fest now, at least for this link.....
