As if on cue, I'd also finally gotten batteries for my old camera earlier today and was just messing with it a few minutes prior. So, naturally, I put it in my camera to see what was on the SD card. I ended up wanting to back up my stuff, even though all I could find were just pictures of my American Girl doll from 2016.
Luckily, I had also just set up a little workspace outside my room with a work laptop I have that has my SD card reader. So, I hopped on over and popped it in to back up the files, when I found some files on the card that weren't accessible through my camera.
Luckily, I had also just set up a little workspace outside my room with a work laptop I have that has my SD card reader. So, I hopped on over and popped it in to back up the files, when I found some files on the card that weren't accessible through my camera.
A few videos.
Clicking through those videos was like stepping into a time machine, because holy shit...
Now, I don't like to say my memory is horrible, per se, but it's definitely prettyyyy foggy when it comes to parts of my childhood. Anything prior to 2014 is basically a blur, and even that's pushing it. Hell, if I have trouble remembering 2020-2024, I think that says more than enough. So opening these files was like being blasted with memories I'd completely forgotten about, or just don't remember even happening at all.
In the folder were a handful of videos from late 2012 to early 2013. Now, even growing up I had trouble remembering really anything from this time period. I'd admitted this before various times, that I just can't seem to recall a single memory from this time, just little events that I know happened, but no real memories or recollection. Photos and videos pretty much keep my only "memory" of that time alive. That, or my diary entries from back then.
In these videos, it's like watching myself without even processing that the person in those videos is me. I feel like I'm watching somebody else. Someone else's home videos, someone else's memories. I don't even remember the moment I filmed these. Any of them. So to be able to suddenly access them feels weird and foreign.... But I'm really grateful to have been able to find these.
I won't go too much into detail, but the content consists of these:
- Me on my DSi, documenting my voice recordings so I don't lose any of them. This includes old friends. (2012)
- A night video documenting the time my yard was vandalized and had pumpkins thrown at our house. Still unsure why this ever even happened in the first place... Ft. My brothers and a trip to Walmart (and our horribly squeaky kid voices I can't even recognize) (2012)
- Me on my DSi, documenting my voice recordings so I don't lose any of them. This includes old friends. (2012)
- A night video documenting the time my yard was vandalized and had pumpkins thrown at our house. Still unsure why this ever even happened in the first place... Ft. My brothers and a trip to Walmart (and our horribly squeaky kid voices I can't even recognize) (2012)
- LPS videos (2013)
- One particular moment at the Y where me and a group of my friends at the time were in a party room with loud music and laser lights. I guess something is happening, cause I'm screaming my ass off and calling for my friend Amanda. (2013)
- One particular moment at the Y where me and a group of my friends at the time were in a party room with loud music and laser lights. I guess something is happening, cause I'm screaming my ass off and calling for my friend Amanda. (2013)
The rest, as mentioned, consisted of a photoshoot 3 years later of my American Girl doll.
Natalie, JLY/MAG 13(?), photographed in the rain with a Mettaton Undertale pin. (2016)
Speaking of which, does anyone else have a hard time comprehending that 2012-2016 were all much closer to the late 2000s/early 2010s (notably 2006-2011 period) than it felt like? I swear back then it felt like those were years ago, but now looking back with them being about 10-20 years ago. I feel so ancient.... And I'm so young!!! I'm YOUNG!! I AM IN MY EARLY 20S!! How did I even GET here?!
Anywho, thank you lot for joining me on this little nostalgia trip. I know this probably isn't the most interesting blog post since it doesn't really provide any fun content or input on anything worthwhile, and I'm far too lazy to try and write some lesson or moral of the story into this post, but I felt like sharing it anyway. It's the small things in life that make me joyful.
Heads up, by the way, I do have some more interesting blog posts in my drafts right now. I'll be sure to post those soon. Alrighty, then. Well, that's all I have for today, so thank you all for reading and tuning in to my little corner of the world-wide-web. That being said, peace out!
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