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What were you doing 10 years ago?

I was working on my craft room yesterday and pulled a water damaged photo album (I had a window that leaked in my last apartment and it must have been on the shelf under said window) out of a box.  I flipped through it, wanting to see if I should keep it or just take some of the photos out and trash the album.

Oddly enough, it was from ten/eleven years ago.  There were even photos in there from June 9^th, 1998…nearly ten years to the day!  I had graduated from Wright State a year earlier with a degree in English with an emphasis on Creative Writing and was working as a copy writer for a financial company (which later went under and the founder is now serving time for doing some pretty bad things).  I was with my first real (I had another but I don’t count him) live-in boyfriend, Nate, and just months away from a pretty bad break up and a major (for me at least) shift in my life. 

 

I never thought I’d be the type but I wore combat boots (that I actually need to photograph because I’m finally going to throw them away even though I still love their cracked soles) that Nate bought me when we very first started dating.  When I think of Nate, I think of his comic book collection which was…um, almost like living with a third person who never left behind any dishes for me to wash.  I collected teddy bears and had just gotten a sewing machine.  And I ate a lot of hot food – something I haven’t cared for since.    

What are 5 things on my to-do list?

1. Take care of all the account transfers on my desk
2. Buy yarn to crochet a summer hat
3. Spend at least an hour working on the craft room
4. Get the chicken ready to make Baked Fried Chicken by the Barefoot Contessa tomorrow night
5. Find a dessert to take to the family reunion this Saturday (suggestions welcome!)

It was actually kind of hard to come up with five things.  Mondays don’t motivate me much – I’m going to guess that maybe three of these things will actually get done today. 

Where have I lived?

Bah.  Dayton and Columbus – both in Ohio.  Oh and, if you were at the dinner before my five year reunion, there was that small stint in California where I lived with Pierce Brosnan. 

What would I do if I was a billionaire?

I have thought about this WAY too much.  What to do with my cats while I traveled the world kept getting in the way.  Since this isn’t likely to happen I’m going to pretend I don’t have cats.

I’d quit my job (ahem) and pay off all of my piddly little debts.  Take care of my family.  Travel and buy a home in a little town in Italy as well as in Charleston, South Carolina.  Meet my blog friends in cool places.  I’d take lots of photography and cooking classes and outfit myself with a kick ass kitchen.  And of course, I’d knit and crochet with whatever yarn made my little heart pitter pat.
 

And, because I’m terribly likeable and now well known, meeting celebrities would be a breeze.  I’d have dinner with Elvis Costello and make a failed attempt to woo him away from Diana Krall. Oh well – it was worth a try.

Who would I like to know more about?

 

Kim - Hand Eye Crafts

Delly - Delly Bean (if she ever gets a chance)

Bertha - Karma Kitties

Lisa - Punch Pink - because I love Ginny's idea of having her answer the questions with photos.  :-)

and Mary - Mary Love - because she's fallen off the face of the earth and I keep meaning to email her.  :-)

Comments

[Chris]

When you say you haven't much enjoyed hot food for the past 10 years, I just picture you eating nothing but bowls of room temperature porridge and maybe some cucumber slices. What are you going to do with the oven fried chicken - just leave it sit on the plate for a while? ;)

[Mary]

Long time no talk to - i played the tag game! talk to you soon!