I mean it's important to me to not forget the Halloween party that I was a bumble bee hanging out with Captain Morgan!
So when I started this project to collect my college memories and put them in print, the first place I went was Facebook. If it wasn't for Facebook 90% of my college memories wouldn't have been documented because I never took pictures of my own. So the only way for me to get the collection of photos I wanted was to Facebook creep on everyone photo pages. All and all it worked really well. Here is a few of my favorites...
(Roommate fell off the couch)
(Don't forget your shorts... or this may happen)
(Aftermath of a banana fight. What- you mean you never had a banana fight?)
However since my after my first year of grad school (which was 2009) I haven't printed any more photos, which is a shame because so much has changed in my life. Well, I needed that to change. Lucky for me a few years ago after grad school, I yet again went through Facebook and finished pulling all my grad school photos- I just never got around to printing them. Believe it or not for one year (2009-2010) I was able to find a total 200+ photos to print.
During this project I realized that every photo I print doesn't have to have me in it. I wanted to have the pictures from other people's cameras that I may not have been able it get. I figured as long as I was there, it's not creepy (ok-not too creepy) to have pictures of my grad school friends I didn't take or wasn't in. I really want to remember everyone and the different things I did throughout my time in college.
Now that my college years have been printed, I now need to work on gathering photos from the last 3 years and get those printed. There has been many milestones in my life since college- engagement, first really job, bridal shower, bachelorette party, wedding, honeymoon, buying our first house, and many other things in between. However, since college I have been better about taking my own photos but I still plan to Facebook creep to make sure I don't miss something good.
For example if I didn't creep my friend Lindsay's Facebook page I would have never seen this gem! Grant I didn't go to the bar with the boys before my wedding, but this is a memory I want save forever in my album. I know that Facebook doesn't seem like it's going away anytime soon, but there is something to be said about having the photos in a book filling my shelves with memories.
Questions- Do you still print photos? How do you preserve memories (other than blogging- I got that down already!)?
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