July 16th, 2008 - about this time last year
I just read a lovely post by a lady approaching her birthday, where she revists the last few years and decades. I thought it would be fun to try to do the same thing. Since I haven’t done it in the past, I might be hazier than she is.
Oh, yeah, it was my birthday on Monday.
A year ago…2007
Things were about the same. I was participating in One Local Summer, something I’m not doing this summer. Monkey and AnnMee (my brother and his now-wife, then-fiancee) were visiting and we went blueberry picking, something I managed to never even mention in this blog.
Two years ago…2006
Monkey and AnnMee were visiting us before they’d started dating. I was already hoping they’d get married. I was buying a lot of stuff, like a compost bucket (that we still love and is still in great shape), worms for vermicomposting (which did not work out), and a hand cranked cell phone charger (which didn’t work out as I got it shortly before I sliced my thumb open with the blender and couldn’t use it). We were sighing in relief that we hadn’t bought the Elmwood house and dealing with lead paint in our current house. (By Dec 07, she was safe.
Three years ago…2005
I was dreaming about building our own home (scroll down to the 2005 entries) in the country.
Five years ago…2003
We were working on our homestudy for adopting from Russia. (Hmmm, not to carry on a theme, but that didn’t work out either. Or did it?)
Ten years ago…1998
I was trying to realize that I needed to break up with my emotionally abusive boyfriend. I did so in mid/late-August. I didn’t actually realize it until early August but I’d known all summer something was really wrong.
15 years ago…1993
I was spending the summer in Pennsylvania, where I knew absolutely no one but my parents and some of their friends. They moved there the previous year and I thought it would be a good idea to spend the summer with them. I found work through a temp agency working as an over, short, and damaged clerk at a shipping company. It was actually quite fun and like no other job I’ve ever had. (Including that I always wore a dress! In a trucking terminal, no less. And we had about one visitor a week. I don’t know why we had to dress up.) I really wanted to go back to the MidWest and help with the major flooding, but my brother was visiting from Hungary (he only came home once in 3 years I believe).
20 years ago…1988
I turned 16 and had my second birthday party. I had saved a copy of the hand drawn invite from my 9 year old party and reused it. One girl was actually invited to both parties!
25 years ago…1983
Couldn’t tell you what I was doing….
Oh this was so much fun to write! I hope I remember it again next year. :)
July 16th, 2008 at 6:21 pm EDT
I was so excited to see this post! It’s fun to watch how things change. Going blueberry picking sounds great too. Happy Birthday!