24 Dec 2009 home for christmas

I was with a friend at Goodwill when he held up this furry green coat as a joke, paired with an appalling Christmas-embellished mom-vest. I pretended to laugh at first, but I knew instantly that it must be mine. Call it Paris meets Sesame Street, call it Mr. Grinch meets Hollywood, call it AWESOME for $6.49! The sad truth: I haven’t had the nerve to wear it out of the house yet.

The sparkly thing in my hair is one of my mom’s spiral Christmas ornaments, which she fashioned out of that star wire everyone had in their arts + crafts kit when they were little. The background is the closet door of my childhood/teenage bedroom, which deserves a post of its own. It’s covered in angsty lyrics circa age 12, Sharpie doodles from the various characters that hung out with me as a teenager, and evidence of having the best parents ever who didn’t care what I did as long as I didn’t talk back or come home pregnant.