saffronhare

Hey, Alex! You're in this one. :)

20 years ago was November 1985
-- I was sixteen years old, a junior at Brussels American School. This was the year I met

ubernacht, and lived through the devastation of a crush that was never realized. ::sigh::
-- Transitioning from Cross-Country season (placed at Europeans) to basketball season, where I managed the boy's team because my ankles were so perflucked by XC and I really wanted to run track in the spring. (I played the next year.)
-- Went to homecoming with David Dodge, poor sod.
-- Cut my hair Pat Benatar short, though the ill-advised perm wouldn't be applied until a year later.

10 years ago was November 1995 (Now edited, to reflect correction of my time-space continuum. Thanks, fionnabhar.)
-- I was 26 years old.
-- I was living in ~~St. Paul, MN with agrnmn and Princess Boredom, who was just over six months old and Huge.~~ North Providence, RI, commuting by train to BU as I worked on my MS.
-- ~~Pulling out of my funk after having been fired by the Clinton/Gore campaign in 1994, continuing to work with the Wellstone Alliance (as in Paul Wellstone, may he rest in peace)~~ Discovered that Princess Boredom was asthmatic, and pulled her out of preschool shortly thereafter. Nonny took over day care.
-- ~~Started researching graduate schools and studying for the GRE~~ The rest of that year was a sleep-deprived blur, in which I became hopelessly addicted to caffeine and fell in love with Boston.

5 years ago was November 2000
-- Living in KC area, where we'd moved the year before.
-- Pregnant with Princess !Kaboom. Princess Boredom in first grade, and one month away from her not-coming-home-after-school stunt.
-- Getting over pneumonia, which had kept me from attending Faire that year.
-- Working at the KC Symphony with a mildly insane and highly disorganized boss.

3 years ago was November 2003
-- Praying that Princess Sticky would be born soon.
-- Finally put a fork in my Dedicant Program and called it done.
-- Bummed that I'd missed the wedding of

breathofgold and

iron_clad due to another bout with pneumonia.
-- Still grieving dear old Logan, our golden-basset dog, and wondering when we'd lose Katy (the beagle mix, who died in late December).
-- Still living in KC area, but now in the house we'd bought that spring.
-- Shouting out, "Hey! My water!" at Thanksgiving dinner, which gave heart attacks to everyone present because they thought I'd gone into labor. In reality, some clever cleaning-up person had just moved my glass of water and I wanted it back.

1 year ago was November 2004
-- Fantasizing about starting my own business, and figuring that

kittenpants and I would give it a try at the Winter Bazaar.
-- I'm certain there were other things, but hey. I've slept since then.

6 months ago was May 2005
-- Crap. I really can't remember. Short-term memory sucks. I think May was pretty bruising, though.
-- Getting ready to turn 36, and realizing my ingenue days were over (though, to be honest, I never had "ingenue days" at all)
-- Bought a vibrator for a business trip and actually packed the darn thing. Did not get suitcase searched in public.
-- Nine Fires Press really seems to be rolling along. I completed the KWBC course and we had a Feasibility Plan and a bank account and everything.

Yesterday
-- Sneezed a lot. And sniffled.
-- Mom cooked dinner.
-- I got a hot bath, a shot of Nyquil, and an early bedtime.
-- Nobody went to the hospital at any time.

Today
-- Had a lovely breakfast, cooked by

agrnmn. I love surrounding myself with people who cook for me. Rumor has it we'll be eating pasta with meatballs tonight.
-- Dressed in my velvet pants, because I have to be "business dress" today. These are soft and comfy, but they can't tell me I'm not dressy enough because, hey, velvet!
-- Have my 900# voice on.

Tomorrow
-- Is Thursday already. I just can't get oriented to the week.