A walk down memory lane...
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hellisonSince it's friday, meme time. One I started ages ago but never finished, so might as well finish it now!
30 years ago I was
Six years old. In P3 in the primary school across the road (great if you slept in, but very inconvient if you wanted to pretend you'd left your homework behind) with long ringlets tied in bunches that never stayed in, socks that never stayed up and permanently cut knees. The headmaster (now a family friend) says he learnt how to tie up hair and plaster knees practicing on me ;p
And I had no front teeth. Lost the 2 top ones biting into an apple, just in time for Holy First Communion too, leading to lots of photos with very tight-lipped smiles.
20 years ago I was
*counts back* Just starting lower 6th and earnestly studying History, Latin and English for A level. Mostly by booking one of the school video rooms in free periods 'to watch Hamlet' or some other improving video but actually watching Dirty Dancing or a Doors video, depending on who'd smuggled in what.
I'd just spent a summer on my first job, on an excavation in my home town and even got drunk for the first time at the end of dig party. There was a BOX of strongbow. Never been able to find one of those since.
Had to go to school the next day, so very VERY hungover, as party was on a Thursday. Luckily, it had been the upper 6th formal the night before, so the teachers were all hungover too. Unluckily, it was also School Photograph Day and somewhere there is a picture of me trying to lurk at the back of teh class, hair covering as much of a rather green face as possible. Good times ;p
15 years ago
Learning to live in the Big Wide World after graduating that summer. With![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
thesme_01, so we were very Grown Up and Mature and did not lie in bed of a saturday morning shouting 'THIS IS WHAT YOU SOUND LIKE' then making loud Sex Noises for the neighbours. Or singing Heeeathcliffffe, or the Long Black Veil very loudly.
By this time of year, we were also discovering that the lovely flat we had move into which, while fantastic for parties - even with the not quite opaque enough glass bathroom door - and lovely and cool in teh summer, was very cold and damp and impossible to heat in the winter.
Workwise, I was digging at an exposed, wet site on the Antrim Coast, with really thick sticky clay and skellingtons everywhere. THe flat was so cold we only took the outer, muddiest, layers off at home and once C. moved in, she ended up sleeping in my room because the livingroom was just too cold. We spent A LOT of time in the pub that winter. Pretty much every night in fact, except wednesdays when the money had run out (thurday was pay day).
And of course we HAD to get home by 10 on Mondays to watch Northern Exposure, with Thesme in position as arial holder so we actually got some reception.
Failure to watch Norn 'Sposure could lead to catastropic consequences (for anyone forced to live with me) and hearing the music still makes me insanely happy to this day.
Finally, was very very much enjoying being single again. Probably just as well I didn't realise at the time it'd last quite this long tho...
Hmm. Having just written all this, I have a feeling this was actually 14 years ago. 15 years we were still in Agincourt, but otherwise, it's much the same, can't be bothered redoing it all ;p
10 years ago I was
Um. What WAS I doing when I was 26. OOOH.
Spent the summer digging in Arklow, with a group of people who have stayed very good friends to this day. Drove buses full time for 2 months then november started the job I'm in now.
We had just started a little company, all 4 of us, to tender for the first long term contracts the DOE were offering. I figured it would run a couple of years and then go off and do something else. The contracts were for 3 years with a 2 year extension and I remember behing horrified at the thought I might STILL be there after 2000.
Am STILL there today, the second run of 5 year contracts has just sort of ended (extension cos they didn't sort out tendering in time ;p), the company now has, um. Several employees. 17, 18? I dunno, it changed a lot over the summer, I was off! Haven't quite caught up again yet. I'm a good boss really... Anyway, has lasted longer and done better than we ever could have expected. Which is nice ;)
I was also driving buses evenings and weekends to make extra cash. And probably spending a lot of time in the Duke of York ;p Got a very nice and very cheaply rented house off one of the guides on the bus, moved in there with the Presbyterian and there we stayed, only occasionally trying to kill each other and sometimes even on speaking terms, til I bought a house 4 years later.
5 years ago I was
Caught up in the the preparations for my sister's wedding and doing my best to stay firmly in denial about the fact that my father might not be well enough to attend. In the end, we had a funeral instead and the wedding a few months later. "Life is what happens when you're making other plans" seems the most apt cliche here. Or in this case death.
2 years ago I was
Not Scary. Also getting very excited because Neil Gaiman was coming for a talk and signing and I got to go and right up at the front toworship listen and declare my love
I'd just had a visit fromtiquetoque and ghostcre and took the latter to see Ziggy. Even convinced him to get on and he very bravely trotted around. Also had just started an attempted at nanowrimo, which I don't think got much further that year.
1 year ago I was
Relieved my costume for the Hallowe'en party had arrived on time and frantically trying to get the house cleaned up before having lots of weirdos in fancy dress round. I don't think anyone bothered having a hallowe'en party this year, which is a bit sad, it's always been a set event in previous years and generally much fun!
Today. Well. Still an archaeologist, tho desk bound these days, running a company that's turned out surprising successful, considering...
Still single, tho I'm pretty sure that's just because DJ Chris from Northern Exposure hasn't me me yet. Current gimpyness aside, in general life is pretty good and filled with good friends and other joys (incl. horror). And cider ;)
30 years ago I was
Six years old. In P3 in the primary school across the road (great if you slept in, but very inconvient if you wanted to pretend you'd left your homework behind) with long ringlets tied in bunches that never stayed in, socks that never stayed up and permanently cut knees. The headmaster (now a family friend) says he learnt how to tie up hair and plaster knees practicing on me ;p
And I had no front teeth. Lost the 2 top ones biting into an apple, just in time for Holy First Communion too, leading to lots of photos with very tight-lipped smiles.
20 years ago I was
*counts back* Just starting lower 6th and earnestly studying History, Latin and English for A level. Mostly by booking one of the school video rooms in free periods 'to watch Hamlet' or some other improving video but actually watching Dirty Dancing or a Doors video, depending on who'd smuggled in what.
I'd just spent a summer on my first job, on an excavation in my home town and even got drunk for the first time at the end of dig party. There was a BOX of strongbow. Never been able to find one of those since.
Had to go to school the next day, so very VERY hungover, as party was on a Thursday. Luckily, it had been the upper 6th formal the night before, so the teachers were all hungover too. Unluckily, it was also School Photograph Day and somewhere there is a picture of me trying to lurk at the back of teh class, hair covering as much of a rather green face as possible. Good times ;p
15 years ago
Learning to live in the Big Wide World after graduating that summer. With
thesme_01, so we were very Grown Up and Mature and did not lie in bed of a saturday morning shouting 'THIS IS WHAT YOU SOUND LIKE' then making loud Sex Noises for the neighbours. Or singing Heeeathcliffffe, or the Long Black Veil very loudly.By this time of year, we were also discovering that the lovely flat we had move into which, while fantastic for parties - even with the not quite opaque enough glass bathroom door - and lovely and cool in teh summer, was very cold and damp and impossible to heat in the winter.
Workwise, I was digging at an exposed, wet site on the Antrim Coast, with really thick sticky clay and skellingtons everywhere. THe flat was so cold we only took the outer, muddiest, layers off at home and once C. moved in, she ended up sleeping in my room because the livingroom was just too cold. We spent A LOT of time in the pub that winter. Pretty much every night in fact, except wednesdays when the money had run out (thurday was pay day).
And of course we HAD to get home by 10 on Mondays to watch Northern Exposure, with Thesme in position as arial holder so we actually got some reception.
Failure to watch Norn 'Sposure could lead to catastropic consequences (for anyone forced to live with me) and hearing the music still makes me insanely happy to this day.
Finally, was very very much enjoying being single again. Probably just as well I didn't realise at the time it'd last quite this long tho...
Hmm. Having just written all this, I have a feeling this was actually 14 years ago. 15 years we were still in Agincourt, but otherwise, it's much the same, can't be bothered redoing it all ;p
10 years ago I was
Um. What WAS I doing when I was 26. OOOH.
Spent the summer digging in Arklow, with a group of people who have stayed very good friends to this day. Drove buses full time for 2 months then november started the job I'm in now.
We had just started a little company, all 4 of us, to tender for the first long term contracts the DOE were offering. I figured it would run a couple of years and then go off and do something else. The contracts were for 3 years with a 2 year extension and I remember behing horrified at the thought I might STILL be there after 2000.
Am STILL there today, the second run of 5 year contracts has just sort of ended (extension cos they didn't sort out tendering in time ;p), the company now has, um. Several employees. 17, 18? I dunno, it changed a lot over the summer, I was off! Haven't quite caught up again yet. I'm a good boss really... Anyway, has lasted longer and done better than we ever could have expected. Which is nice ;)
I was also driving buses evenings and weekends to make extra cash. And probably spending a lot of time in the Duke of York ;p Got a very nice and very cheaply rented house off one of the guides on the bus, moved in there with the Presbyterian and there we stayed, only occasionally trying to kill each other and sometimes even on speaking terms, til I bought a house 4 years later.
5 years ago I was
Caught up in the the preparations for my sister's wedding and doing my best to stay firmly in denial about the fact that my father might not be well enough to attend. In the end, we had a funeral instead and the wedding a few months later. "Life is what happens when you're making other plans" seems the most apt cliche here. Or in this case death.
2 years ago I was
Not Scary. Also getting very excited because Neil Gaiman was coming for a talk and signing and I got to go and right up at the front to
I'd just had a visit from
tiquetoque and ghostcre and took the latter to see Ziggy. Even convinced him to get on and he very bravely trotted around. Also had just started an attempted at nanowrimo, which I don't think got much further that year.1 year ago I was
Relieved my costume for the Hallowe'en party had arrived on time and frantically trying to get the house cleaned up before having lots of weirdos in fancy dress round. I don't think anyone bothered having a hallowe'en party this year, which is a bit sad, it's always been a set event in previous years and generally much fun!
Today. Well. Still an archaeologist, tho desk bound these days, running a company that's turned out surprising successful, considering...
Still single, tho I'm pretty sure that's just because DJ Chris from Northern Exposure hasn't me me yet. Current gimpyness aside, in general life is pretty good and filled with good friends and other joys (incl. horror). And cider ;)
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Date: 2007-11-02 02:50 pm (UTC)hmm, maybe i should do one of these, although I have to wait a bit before I can include the "30 years ago.." section as atm the answer to that would be "I was in the womb and very busy trying to strangle my twin with my umbilical cord" :p
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Date: 2007-11-02 03:00 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-11-06 10:29 am (UTC)EXCEPT NOW I CAN'T GET THE SOUND OF YOU SHOUTING 'NORN SPOSURE NORN SPOSURE NORN SPOSURE' OUT OF MY HEAD
*twitch*
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Date: 2007-11-06 12:32 pm (UTC)That, and the urge to yell 'THEY HAD THEIR OWN TREES'
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Date: 2007-11-06 12:46 pm (UTC)*smug*
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Date: 2007-11-06 12:52 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-11-06 01:13 pm (UTC)wait. WE ARE NOT SPENDING THURSDAY WATCHING BLOODY NORN SPOSURE!
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Date: 2007-11-06 01:45 pm (UTC)*dances to happy joy theme tune*
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Date: 2007-11-06 01:46 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-11-06 01:14 pm (UTC)