archiving and archiving and archiving

So I used LJ for probably....6ish years? 2006 to probably around 2012, around the time I did a study abroad in college and got way too busy to update often. Plus by then twitter was the big thing, and I was on tumblr too, LJ was uninteresting in comparison.

The site is just sitting there though, my journals are sitting there. I got nervous about it, not about being found, but about just disappearing one day. My live thoughts and feelings and reactions during my most formative years just getting deleted bc the site can disappear at any time? Idk!! I didn't like it, so I'm out here archiving my posts from the whole time. It's not the cleanest style of saving, but it'll get the job done I guess.

The posts export as an xml file and I fully like, don't know how to view them where they're displayed properly? I have to go back through manually to save the images shared to the posts because they're all soooo old now and definitely are not saved elsewhere. Which is rough, they were on photobucket and some of them have been deleted, so RIP to those I guess.

It's been funny and distressing to see how much i have and haven't changed since then. I was 15 when I started that journal and I'll be 33 next week... Crazy is all I can think to say.

memory lane a bit

Finished archiving my FIRST livejournal (2006-2009) that concluded right after I graduated high school.... Looking at old pictures of myself is crazy. I'm gonna post some here just to share.

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I actually just last weekend bleached the ends of my hair & got a nice light pink. I think I'm liking it! I cut my hair toooooo short but I think once it grows in some I'll like it more. I had to go natural last december (before then I had bleached ends dyed dark green) for a friend's wedding, and it took this long for me to go back to something fun. See mom, it's not a phase after all

My friend Shannon who I met like, literally day 1 of college & has been a constant ever since then messaged me last week about meeting up. It's been a while since I've seen her with school being busy & her being busy planning a wedding and stuff, so of course I wanted to meet up! She wanted to try this new conveyor belt sushi place that recently moved into the city & I was so on board! I'd tried to go with my sister & her bf Tony and our other friends Ryan & Tibbe a few months ago, but it was so crowded we gave up on it entirely.

Only... a couple of hours after I said yes to Shannon, Ryan and Tibbe reached out to us about trying to go again this weekend too. So I went Friday and I'm going again tomorrow.... I'm not that mad, cause it was really good food, but I'm a little mad cause it was expensive.

Looking back over my LJ I'm realizing I don't take as many pictures as I used to all the time, and part of it is because I usually am just doing boring things, but so what! Boring things are nice too! There were pictures I just took of the inside of our old house & even those were nice to see since we all moved out in 2014 (thank god). I'll make it an aim to get into taking pictures again. I just wish cameras weren't se HD these days lol at least when the digital camera was a little crappy you couldn't see every single little flaw