Nostalga pics!

[silverthorne]

rebl1969 Started this, so blame her. This was originally just going to be a picture of my Junior year mullet cut, but it mutated into a giant 'look at me!' fest. So you get the mullet, my first year in Tucson, both Significant Events of senior year (warning for old friends--There Is A Kon In These Pics), and what I looked like 2 years out of HS.

Enjoy?



Obligatory Baby Shot!
My family called this 'War and Peace'. I think you can see why.



Fresh Meat From New Jersey! Look Out! (1982. Dad and Me)



The Dreaded (But required at least once in the 80's) Mullet (1985-86)



Prom. I'm surprised Kon let me get this close to him with a sharp, pointy object. *g* (1986-87)



Prom 2. Yes, I think this was the guy I should have stuck with. Stupid me.



Graduation! Ah yes, the joy of trying to get dressed in the parking lot. XD (1987)



Graduation again. Still in the parking lot. :)



annnnd 1989 with Dad.

See? Not much with the makeup and hair when left to myself...

Comments

[cluegirl.livejournal.com]

Wow... You know, outside my yearbooks, I don't actually think I have any pictures of him. I have a couple of you, of course, but that's mainly because you were at my house more than once.

Thanks for posting these, lovey!

[silverthorne.livejournal.com]

Heh. Yeah. It's not like the lot of us were all that big on the shutterbug thing.

I do still have your senior pic with the goblet and you on your favorite (horse) girl looking all sweet and skirted and stuff. :)

I'm surprised I have as many pics of him as I do--most of them are from family get togethers either from his side or mine, but I do have them. Grandma saved a lot, I guess.

I'm also glad to have them. Last time I saw him was at his own funeral--and by then he'd gained a bit of weight, grown out his hair and beard and looked a little bloated and not like the Kon we knew at all. I don't know if I ever told you, but when we ran into each other in Phoenix? He was hanging with people doing weed and crystal meth and was into it himself.

One of the weirdest memories I had of him from that time was him and the resident 'alpha male' (pyscho) getting into a fight over who had 'stolen' the last vial of shit. Kon was being blamed for it (it was actually in the psycho's girlfriend's pruse, which she let know of after there had already been a fight...with her watching it happen). I mucn prefer seeing him when he wasn't screwed up with drugs.

I don't know if he'd gotten off the shit by the time he got killed in that robbery, but I'm hoping he did. I know he had a fiancee when it happened, so maybe he'd managed it--she looked pretty clean and with it at the funeral, all things considered.