Friday, January 28, 2011

Vlog Friday: Eighth Grade, Awkward Pictures Included

Happy Friday everyone!  It felt like a short week over here, after working from home for a few days due to snow.  Definitely threw my schedule off, which sucks, but I always feel like a little kid when schools close.  Even now, when I still have to work!

So, this week's Vlog Friday topic is particularly mortifying.  I have to apologize for the awkwardness of the first few seconds of the video AND the silent photos.  I'm still figuring out how to mix the sound and images in iMovie. Also, if anyone has advice on how to NOT lose quality when uploading to youtube directly from iMovie, I'd LOVE you FOREVER.

What was I like in eighth grade? Press play to find out. Awkward pictures definitely included.


What'd you think?

Join us next week for an equally intriguing topic:

  • What is the best advice you've ever received?

Join us (co-creator Cole and everyone linked below) each Friday as we share a little bit our worlds with each other.  We'll always share the next week's question, and soon, we'll be answering February's Vlog of the Month question, from the VOTM Club! If you can't do every week, join us at least once a month!

I really hope you do join us in vlogging.  Comment below if you joined this week, and I'll add your link in this post!

We Vlog Friday. Do you?
Either way, happy Friday!  What were YOU like in eighth grade? Anyone feel me on the awkward white socks or being strange just for strange's sake?
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18 comments:

  1. steph cJanuary 28, 2011 at 5:59 AM

    I totallyyy had the wispy bangs too, which I posted an unfortunate picture of. Never doing that again, lol.

    The white socks thing is totally new to me.. but the Mudd jeans were pretty cool ;)

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  2. ColeJanuary 28, 2011 at 6:00 AM

    Um...8th grade Kate and 8th grade Cole would have been friends.

    I totally forgot about Mudd jeans, probably because my mom never bought me any and I had to wear Jordache in 6th grade.

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  3. LaurenJanuary 28, 2011 at 6:53 AM

    I always wanted Mudd jeans SO BADLY, but was always too tall. Had to stick to the Gap.

    P.S. I love watching y'alls vlogs, and sort of wish I had the courage to do them! (Though I tend to ramble. A lot. So that would be bad.)

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  4. lavenderpugJanuary 28, 2011 at 7:17 AM

    you're so cute! i love the tights and socks look. so adorable.

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  5. Folly BrideJanuary 28, 2011 at 8:05 AM

    It IS cool to say soda! :) I love your fashion forward 8th grade mind. I was in love with my JNCO khakis in middle school.

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  6. KelseyJanuary 28, 2011 at 9:49 AM

    I played along too!! wwww.mintedlife.com Only, I can't watch yours now because I'm at work, but I will when I get home!

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  7. KateJanuary 28, 2011 at 9:55 AM

    Everyone is so nice!

    @Kelsey: totally added you!

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  8. EricaJanuary 28, 2011 at 11:31 AM

    You are so adorable! I am totally going to do Vlog Fridays but I have a cold this weekend and that is an unfortunate combination! Next time :)

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  9. jennybusybeeJanuary 28, 2011 at 11:43 AM

    Haha - I think we must have been in 8th grade at the same time, because I think I did almost all of those things. Except the socks, we must have skipped that trend in MA :)

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  10. mllelibraryJanuary 28, 2011 at 2:11 PM

    Mudd Jeans never had my size! If I tried on a pair, they were always too tight and too short. I kind of looked like a sausage smuggler.

    If only we could go back and tell ourselves to drop all of that awful food we were stuffing into ourselves...

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  11. JessicaJanuary 28, 2011 at 3:29 PM

    After my tomboy stage, L.E.I. jeans were ALL I would wear! Haha! I'm with mllelibrary -- Mudd jeans never really fit me.

    Love your middle school bangs, I had them too only in high school I would curl them and spray them to death with hairspray. :)

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  12. fromscratchblogJanuary 28, 2011 at 4:24 PM

    Ohmygosh....I was totally the same way, right down to coloring my hair and having it turn out purple (although I was in 9th or 10th grade at that time)! I had to go and have mine stripped, too...but oddly enough I kept going to the salon to "keep up" my color. I just recently stopped coloring it out of laziness!

    Anyway, great vlog! :)

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  13. KateJanuary 28, 2011 at 7:31 PM

    @Lauren & Erica: you should join us! we're all awky as sin in these things :)

    @mlle: totally laughed so hard at "sausage smuggler"

    @Jessica: LEI all the way! Didn't it stand for "life, energy, intelligence?" what was the i again?

    @from scratch: You're hair is so gorgeous, I had no idea it wasn't natural!

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  14. notesfromthebenchJanuary 29, 2011 at 2:32 PM

    Hahah - in middle school I loved my Mudd purse! It was so utilitarian... And I definitely wore those super high slouchy socks, I think they were called Wigwams?! Loved those photos of you in 8th grade :) I didn't get to the dyeing-my-hair-crazy-colors phase until college. Which meant I had no one to blame but myself!

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  15. Breathe GentlyJanuary 29, 2011 at 3:00 PM

    What are you talking about, you were oh so fashionable. I loved this week's prompt!

    My year 8 self was... well, just .. gorgeous. (I know, that sound smug but really - looking back, I want to punch myself in the face for ever feeling insecure.) Of course, you never appreciate it at the time...

    I promise I'll try & play along again soon - I always get sidetracked on Fridays!

    x Aly

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  16. VictoriaJanuary 31, 2011 at 9:23 AM

    totally vlogging with y'all next week.

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  17. KatieJanuary 31, 2011 at 2:11 PM

    HAHAHA YESSSSS!!! You and I were totally sock twins!!!! And guess what? I ALSO would wear a lovely combo of tights and socks. I remember it distinctly: I wore a pair of denim and white shorts overalls (oh gosh kill me already)...and then I'd wear WHITE tights underneath, with lace foldover socks on top...with my white Keds. Ohhh baby that was sexy.

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  18. JessFebruary 2, 2011 at 8:51 PM

    OMG yes to all of that stuff...wispy bangs, LEI and Mudd jeans, Doc Martens...I was right there with you!

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