Like I've said in a couple previous posts, I'm way behind in posting photos. Not 10 years behind, but in collecting all the pictures I still want to post from the last couple of years, I found a folder full of pictures from my old flip phone from 10 years ago! So, in the interest of archiving them for myself, and sharing them with whoever might be interested, I decided to make a blog post with them.
First up, apparently a rare selfie from me. Not sure why I took this, but here's a picture of 22-year-old me, from February 2009.
*Content warning* I am in a bathrobe doing a bathroom mirror selfie. Why? I literally have no idea. Just thought you should be warned, this is a shocking image.
I miss that phone. I mean, I wouldn't get rid of my smart phone for a flip phone again for anything, but I did love that phone. I loved the color, the snap of it closing was so satisfying... I wish there were a way to get the best of both worlds from today's smartphones. Is it too much to ask for a dark purple smartphone that can snap closed in a satisfying manner?
A bunch of these pictures were ones I had taken at my job. From early 2009 to mid 2010, I worked in the kitchen of Elm Crest Retirement Community. It wasn't the greatest job, (some days it was downright awful) but there aren't many options in Harlan. The worst part of the job was usually the dishes. Specifically the dishes used to cook and store the food. We could use a dishwasher for all the plates, cups, silverware, etc. (Thankfully) But everything else had to be done by hand. By me. And for some reason I decided to document that one night.
To this day I still hate doing dishes. ESPECIALLY in a commercial kitchen.
Another thing I took some pictures of at Elm Crest was a vault I found in the basement. I mean, it's not like they were hiding it and I discovered something they'd been keeping classified, but no one ever told me about it, so when I walked down this particular hallway, it felt like I had discovered a secret mausoleum, hidden away from the public's eyes.
When I was a little kid, my family was part of a homeschool choir, and one thing we would do was go to sing for the seniors at local nursing homes, usually at least twice a year. The choir disbanded years before I started working, but some of us, and even some who hadn't been part of the original group, would still try to at least get together around Christmas and go caroling. We did that in 2009, and we included Elm Crest as a stop, and I took a picture of the event schedule they had hanging in the assisted living wing where I usually served dinner.
The last picture on the phone was taken in January 2010, after a big snowstorm. There was a tree outside the Alzheimer's unit that had lost a huge limb in the night.
It's been so long, and we had so many cats, that I can't remember their names.
I think these were taken through a basement window.
We had one named Polar Bear. I think this was him.
Po for short.
**ACTED** like she didn't want them in the house.
Incidentally, there is currently, as of June 2019, a stray cat that my parents have named Mr. Friendly, who they now let into the house on a semi-regular basis. So...
One of these days I should get a picture of him up on this blog. Next time I go home I'll try to make it a point to get some pictures.
Anyway, these were all the pictures I had on my phone. Plus a bunch of blurry things, and pictures I couldn't figure out what they were supposed to be or where they were taken, but I decided against sharing those. So this was an interesting look back at a year in my life, through a cell phone camera that I barely used. Will this be interesting to anyone but me? If you're reading this, I guess it must have been. :p
