Time Travel Tuesday ~ Sweet 16 Edition!

I was 16 in 1985.
Record of the year was "We are the world"
Careless Whisper (Wham) and Like a Virgin (Madonna) were #1 and #2 on the pop charts...
The movie Out of Africa won the academy award and The Color Purple was a nominee... I remember seeing Back to the Future!
I watched the Cosby Show, Family Ties & Who's the Boss on TV.

This is me at 16 sitting at the guest book of my cousin's wedding (I always sat at the guest book at weddings???)

The first memory I have is what a brat I was (thank goodness my daughter is not like me ;o). My dad bought me a 1981 Datsun b210. I hated it. So, he bought me a 1965 Mustang to which I said, "it's old!"... (I warned you! and I will also add my parents were not rich but I didn't acknowledge this fact). So finally I got this 1979 Monte Carlo and I liked it okay. My best friend had a straight off the showroom floor brand new car (1986 cutlass calais) and so we took hers everywhere.
This pic is the summer I turned 16 on vacation with mom and dad...

I met Matt a few weeks before turning 16. So many memories of 16 include him. He was a freshman at St. Gregory's College in Shawnee.

This is me at 16 in my bedroom...

My friend Rachael had a portable sun lamp. I borrowed it and got the directions sorta transposed... so I sat under it too long, too close. I woke up to find my face with bad burns. I had to have shots and medicine and then had the worst peeling you've ever seen. For a while I looked like a cat, because my smile lines in the skin showed. I remember Matt didn't make fun of me when he saw me, he just felt sorry for me. I never sat under a sun lamp again.

I worked at the mall part time and spent every spare minute with Matt on the weekends. I took a modeling course and did some runway modeling this year. It was so much fun!

I hope you join in TTT this week, I am excited to read about you at 16!