blast from the past

I was cleaning out my old PC recently so I could sell it and I found a bunch of old(relatively) pictures on the hard drive, pictures I took when I used to live with my parents back in 2004. This first picture here is in my bedroom with my then girlfriend trying to hide from the camera. Can somebody explain to me the phenomena where people try to hide from the camera by hiding their face? The camera will still see the rest of them so the hiding face thing makes no sense, especially if your face is your best feature. Sorry if my room was messy, this is actually one of the better states one can find it in.

This next picture is of a stuffed animal a previous girl gave me on our 1 year anniversary. We like her, she holds the record of longest relationship in my books with a record breaking 1 year and 3 days together! I have gotten a bit of stuffed animals from girls but this is the only one I still keep around due to the strong sentimental value. Funny enough though girls who come around always run and pick up this bear and hug him and walk around with him until they ask and hear that it was from an x-girlfriend. One woman, 28, who I would assume is beyond such behaviours actually used to hit the bear every time she saw it to openly show me her hatred for it. Of course she was also one of them who ran and hugged it up as soon as she saw it too, go figure.

Life was simple back then, no bills to pay, my only responsibility was to get good grades at school and of course I went to school and wasted most of the time. Simple isn't always good though.. I had no money, mind you my parents had money but they ensured I didn't see a cent unless necessary. In fact I was looking at this month's pay slip and it covers completely all the money my parents gave me for the two years prior to me working, ie. 2002 to 2004. In fact this is exactly why I am tight with releasing funds, my pauper history doesn't allow it. They would give me money every 6 months and not a cent between. If I needed more money it was available through a loan and would be deducted out of the next payment. The budget was so tight that if I wanted to buy myself something such as a watch meant that I wouldn't be able to eat lunch cause the money couldn't do both... the bad ole' days