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Friday, May 05, 2006
two memes because I'm a lazy blogger
Ten years ago, it was 1996. Take this survey, post the results, and see how many things have changed since then.
(Apparently I am more a static character than a dynamic one. :)
1) How old were you?
THEN: 21
NOW: 31
2) Where did you go to school?
THEN: Wasn't going to school.
NOW: Am not going to school.
3) Where did you work?
THEN: I didn't.
NOW: I don't.
4) Where did you live?
THEN: The apartment over the garage detached from this house (for two more months until we moved into...)
NOW: This house.
5) How was your hair style?
THEN: Somewhere between my chin and my shoulders.
NOW: Waist-length.
6) Did you wear braces?
THEN: No.
NOW: No.
7) Did you wear contacts?
THEN: No.
NOW: No.
8) Did you wear glasses?
THEN: Yes.
NOW: Yes.
9) Who was your best friend?
THEN: T.
NOW: T.
10) Which of your pets were still alive?
THEN: Actually we had two cats named Chloe and Chelsea and they had each just had a litter of kittens. Fun times.
NOW: Have two different cats named Mary and Elizabeth and we have robbed them of their reproductive choice.
11) Who was your boyfriend/girlfriend?
THEN: Married to T.
NOW: Married to T.
12) Who was your celebrity crush?
THEN: Didn't have one.
NOW: Don't have one.
13) Who was your regular-person crush?
THEN: Didn't have one.
NOW: Don't have one.
14) How many piercings did you have?
THEN: One in each ear (the second hole in each ear may not have been COMPLETELY closed over by this time).
NOW: One in each ear.
15) How many tattoos did you have?
THEN: 0
NOW: 0
16) What was your favorite band/singer?
THEN: Tchaikovsky.
NOW: Vivaldi.
17) Had you smoked a cigarette?
THEN: A few during high school.
NOW: A few during high school.
18) Had you gotten drunk?
THEN: Silly twice during high school.
NOW: Silly twice during high school.
19) Had you driven yet?
THEN: yes
NOW: yes
20) If so which car?
THEN: At that time we were driving a 1972 Ford LTD (ugly ugly huge ugly car) and a 1966 Dodge Polara (OK except it had really odd-looking tail lights. Really powerful. Really awful gas mileage). T also had a truck, and his Charger which I think ran intermittently back then.
NOW: Daily driver is a 1991 Buick Park Avenue. We also have three other registered insured vehicles and a handful of project cars including the Charger.
21) Looking back, are you where you thought you would be in 2006?
Um, yeah, pretty much exactly, although I had thought we might own a home and have more kids than we do.
And another meme borrowed from Jenn:
I AM: up later than I ought to be considering that we're getting up at 5:30 tomorrow.
I WANT: to lose twenty-five pounds. Is that so much to ask, Rachel? Can you not stop stuffing yourself with Panda Express (YES AGAIN TODAY KRISTEN MMM YUM BLACK PEPPER BEEF) and apple pie long enough to lose twenty-five measly pounds?
I WISH: I had more discipline, and not just in the above area (and yeah, wishing is TOTALLY the way to make that happen).
I HATE: rip-off endings in books (yes My Sister's Keeper I am talking to you)
I MISS: Jenn. :) I miss a lot of people -- well, several -- but this is kind of a big time in Jenn's life right now and I really wish I could be there in person for it.
I FEAR: irrevocably damaging my children in some way.
I HEAR: silence. blessed, blissful solitude and silence.
I WONDER: if I will ever be the kind of person who just keeps a neat house all the time.
I REGRET: not buying this house for a hundred thousand dollars five years ago, because we could have sold it for three hundred thousand this year if we'd wanted to.
I AM NOT: tired, like I should be.
I DANCE: only when I absolutely know nobody is looking at me, and not often then.
I SING: constantly. decently.
I CRY: for every hokey romantic-comedy daughter-growing-up heart-tugging manipulative scene that comes down the pike. Well, not quite. But close.
I AM NOT ALWAYS: coherent.
I MAKE WITH MY HANDS: food. and baby blankets.
I WRITE: drivel much of the time.
I CONFUSE: the names Marian and Miriam. If someone's name is Marian I can only be sure of remembering that forever by picturing her as a librarian.
I NEED: some new summer shirts.
I SHOULD: do some laundry and catch up on Living Beyond Yourself.
I START: annoying people after only a few minutes in some cases.
I FINISH: crochet projects after many years have passed.
I TAG: I was going to say "whoever wants to do this", but Kristen, who doesn't do memes much, hasn't updated in too long. So Kristen, this one's yours. And Debi, you too.
Comments
I would not call you static...But defined. :) Oh, and I miss you so much I wanted to take the $1025 Jason gave me to pay the rent to just rent a car and come see you for the weekend.
Posted by: jenn at May 6, 2006 02:11 AM
robbed them of their reproductive choice. Oh dear is that too funny. Look, it's THEIR BODIES. NOT YOURS. Oh, I'm still laughing.
You need to stop it with the Panda, if only so i am not jealous anymore. Mmmmmm, Orange Chicken. And My Sister's Keeper was SUCH a ripoff. I felt gypped.
Posted by: mary at May 6, 2006 10:31 AM
I really avoid dancing in front of anyone other than my 4 yr old son. I am not any good at dancing.
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at May 6, 2006 04:56 PM
