Meme

I rarely do memes but I was actually tagged (thanks Laura!) so I decided I'd do it. Cory was going to do it too, but apparently it didn't save or something so mine is all you get. :)

20 years ago I... was 8 years old, starting second grade at Harold Oliver Primary. I actually don't remember a whole lot about second grade. I had a friend named Cindy Berube, and we would play underneath the big douglas fir trees in the schoolyard. They had roots that came up out of the ground in places, so we would play house with root chairs and tables. I remember sweeping the "floor" with fallen branches, and I would get mad at Cindy sometimes because she pretended she was the mommy and I was the baby, and she was really annoying. We also had a reeeeeally tall slide (or so I thought) and fun teeter-totters (that my sister would later fall off of and go to the hospital) and huge truck tires that were laid vertically and end-to-end that we could go inside of or jump across the tops.

10 years ago I... was 18. I'd just graduated from high school the year before, and flew by myself to Australia to visit my aunt and uncle and cousins for the summer. I took my cousins on the train to Sydney, I ate Turkish Delight (YUM), I fed kookaburras and saw wild kangaroos, and had an all-around great time. My aunt worked at a photo studio so we took a couple of Saturdays and played around in there, with different hairstyles and outfits and things. I also went on a blind date, which was sort of disastrous (for dramatic little me, anyway) because I was super nervous, and stood in the corner of the pool hall with my coat and umbrella in my arms, trying to figure out what the slang they were using meant. Haha. So 10 years ago today I was back from Oz, and preparing to go far away to Monmouth for college at Western Oregon University and live in the dorms.

5 years ago I... was newly-married! After a 2-year relationship and a cross-country move, I'd just come back to Oregon two years before and very soon after that met Cory through my friend Nicoal. We got married in July and were having a good time being newlyweds. I was working at Columbia Sportswear, and living right across the street (technically - the complex was big and I was on the corner furthest from Columbia, so it was a longer walk than if my apartment was RIGHT across the street). In September we were doing the South Beach Diet and walking in the mornings, I believe. Good times.

3 years ago I... had been working at the lumber mill for about 5 months. I'd started in April as a temp at the front desk, and was hired on permanently in July. By then I'd taken over log accounting as well, and I think had started doing some accounting stuff as well. I was enjoying the last few days of quiet before the college kids came back - we lived on 9th and Adams in a "garden-level" (half-basement) apartment with neighbors who would get drunk and pee off the balcony, and play their music too loud. Around this time one of my neighbors asked if we'd seen the homeless guy who'd been sleeping in the laundry room. Heh.

1 year ago I... was learning the nuances of my old boss' job. She'd quit at the end of August and I took over most of her job (some of it went down to our sister company for someone else to do). I'd been going down to our sister company in Saginaw quite often to do log accounting for them as well as for my company, and then once my boss put in her notice they hired someone to do logs in Saginaw and I was trying to train her and get myself trained for my new position as well. I ended up going down to Saginaw almost every day for three months to train. I wasn't feeling all that confident and some of the new projects I had to do were pretty intimidating for awhile, especially since I didn't have a whole lot of training time. Cory also quit his job right around this time, so he could go to school full-time. That was a big change!

So far this year... I've been bringing home the bacon while Cory finishes up his accounting degree, work has been slow, I've been daydreaming about starting a family, and have been really enjoying the veggie box we get every week from our local farm.

Yesterday I... helped Cory put Lego sets together so we can take photos of them and try to sell some of them on eBay. This was the end of a weekend full of cleaning up the spare room and getting rid of a bunch of stuff. I also had a chai and some good conversation with a good friend who lives in my apartment complex.

Tomorrow I will... probably follow the same old routine - go to work, come home, grab our CSA box, make dinner, and maybe bake some bread (I'm trying to get back in the habit of using our bread machine).

Next year I will... hopefully be adding to our little family, and maybe staying at home while Cory utilizes his new accounting degree (and CPA certification!) at a shiny new job!