Ahhh... memory lane... this road really needs to be re-paved!

this 20, 10, 5, 1... is brought to you courtesy of Meg, and the number 20.  (I watched WAY too much Sesame Street as a child... but that was more than 20 years ago and thus the subject of another post entirely)  And yes, I'm doing 2 in one day - I'm getting tired of tag week so we're going to condense it a teensy bit!

20 years ago:  maybe not to the day - but I was finally of legal dating age and went out with some guy named Bryant to a Chinese Restaurant.  Trying to disguise my dislike of the food I'd  ordered I was talking a lot and gesturing with my hands - I know, that's a shocker.  Unfortunately my hands were holding a fork (no, I wasn't brave enough for chopsticks 20 years ago) and we were seated next to a short wall with a teensy little ledge which caught the edge of said fork and sent it flying... end over end over end... and it finally landed amongst a group of people just coming in to eat.  I used my embarrassment as an excuse to be done.  Funnier still - he continued to ask me out after that for awhile... I don't think we ever did go out again though.  Only guy I ever knew who really looked great with a beard.  OOoops, this was supposed to be a more general thing - working at a theatre in Downtown Denver, ditching my geometry class a lot... you know, typical teenage stuff :)

10 years ago:  Living in Wichita Kansas... wait, no - we had just moved AWAY from Wichita and were actually living with Q's parents for a little while (that being the code word for the fact that we overstayed our welcome by a tad...)  I was working at my 3rd KinderCare and suffering from a severe lack of respect for my boss - which was not entirely her fault I'm sure.  My two oldest were still but little wee ones and I had not learned the meaning of the words "basket case"  that came soon after though.

5 years ago:   Hmmm - why is this so hard?  We were living here, in this very house - though it looked VERY different at that point.  The kids were all doing well in school and I had yet to get super involved in PTA (ahh, those were the days).  I was teaching an occasional scrapbook class for the city, or maybe I was still on at Michael's then... details - who needs 'em?

1 year ago:  I was enjoying the beginning of school very much as the finally past-PTA president, it felt great.  The girls' awful summer haircuts were beginning to be manageable and I was beginning my Christmas shopping early!

Yesterday:  I listened to LDS General Conference on the radio...  it was good - I had small twinges of guilt that I will henceforth refer to as inspiration :)

There are no rules on how many I have to tag - so we'll go with... 2!  I'd like to see what Malinda was doing all those years when we'd lost touch - and since Becky and I seem to be twins separated at birth (aside from the whole birthday thing) I'd like to explore this theory a little further :)