Rokket, that is an adorable picture. And so funny with the identical expressions...
I don't really share photos of myself, either. It's simply not my comfort zone; I'm hard to even get photos of offline; I tend to duck cameras very quickly. LOL
I do, however, have exactly two photos... these are pretty much all I have. A few others are on our wall, and I didn't have much choice. Yanno, things like wedding photos.
LOL
Anyway. This first picture was taken back in 2005, about a week after we had moved into our second apartment, so that's why there seems to be boxes and such floating around. I would have been 26 in that photo. No, the boots were not for show; by the time I wore them out, they were riddled with pieces of steel and other shaven metal shards, and had some pockmarks from shop chemicals hitting them. I was attending college in the machining program and had an apprenticeship with one of the local machine shops in the area at the time. I ended up leaving that field of study when it became apparent that not only did they flat out not want ANY female working
(I put up with a LOT of harassment, and a few of the guys figured out that I had a sniper's aim with thrown objects if they pushed just too far), but that the field was rapidly being taken over by machines and computers anyway, and the jobs were starting to disappear. I went and got my certification as a Nurse Aide instead (CNA), and then got my EMT certification while working as a CNA.
The three kitties here were Mocha (almost out of view of the camera on the right side), Rasha (the cream and white calico/tiger mix), and Keiko (the other calico). We had them for years. We actually still have one of Rasha's kittens, who we named Copilot and he looks a LOT like his poppa.
And no, I'm not a biker girl; the wristbands are there to act as a form of brace; my wrists routinely pop/slip/slide out of joint, and the hefty leather of these types of bands help prevent that from happening.
And this second photo was taken around 2012... I would have been 32 here. It's not a good picture, but it's the most recent one we have. The jewelry is all my own making. I don't usually buy it. If I want something different, I just make it. And yes my hair is really that long; it actually goes down to almost my hips these days... I do not cut it, ever.
Okay, there's my obligatory part of the thread. You won't likely ever see any other pictures of me besides these two. I really
hate having my photo taken, for
any reason. LOL