My Amy recently blogged about a game she plays called “Where was I?” and posted her Septembers thru the years. Her recall is amazing, and I’ve seen her track down dates in her head like a toddler on a cherrio trail (side note: I accidently just typed toodler instead of toddler just now and after laughing about it for a bit I’ve decided that’s what I’m going to call them from now on).
So, anyway, my recall is not amazing, (I’m like a toddler trying to feed herself those same cheerios with a spoon) and I spent a good hour or two looking thru old journals and school planners thoroughly confused and trying to recreate where I’ve been in Septembers past. So, for the sake of posterity, here I was in September:
September 1999 – I’ve finally arrived as a sophomore @ Greeley West High with great friends. I'm in some weirdo rigorous International Baccalaureate program and have a ton of homework. I'll soon be elected sophomore class VP. (We’re allowed to brag about high school, right? It was so long ago…)
September 2000 - I'm a junior in high school in a new town in Indiana where my dad is starting his new job. I miss my old high school, and the school spirit, but I'm trying to make the best of it. I learn what a ‘Hoosier’ is this month in an embarrassing manner.
September 2001 - I'm a senior in high school with plans to graduate early in December. Small town Indiana schools are evidently not for me.
September 2002 – I’m feeling pretty cool among all the new freshman as a 2nd Semester Freshman @ Purdue and am developing a crush on a cute boy in my biology class. Speaking of September, He had just written an album entitled September Blues. I’m on the activities committee at church and am planning and participating in all sorts of social events.
September 2003 – I join and quit the Purdue Crew team this month. They want your life (or every Sunday of your life) and I wasn’t willing to give it to them, though I loved it. My only journal entry this month is about missing Nick (that cute boy from Biology class), who is on his mission.
September 2004 – Interestingly enough, my only journal entry this year in September is about missing Nick and wishing he’d write to me. I guess it’s just September Blues. In my old planner I have things penciled in like Ultimate Frisbee every Saturday morning, Spanish class and interior design assignments that are due, and little notes marking the days where I had heart to heart talks with friends. A squirrel breaks into our house this month and leads us on a chase all over the house and we name him Mike. He is also immortalized in duct tape sculpture later that September.
September 2005 – I’ve just spent the summer in Maine for the second year with amazing friends. Though sadly I begin classes without my Hannah love, to whom I had been joined at the hip all through Interior Design. She’s married and off in Albuquerque. This September that cute boy of mine mentions wedding dates for the upcoming summer…
what we looked like Sept. 2005
September 2006 – I’ve been married for 9 months and I’ve just started my Senior year in Interior Design. I get to teach the Young Women at church and I love it.
September 2007 – It’s the first fall I don’t have to go back to school. I have a job and Nick is starting school. I don’t envy him one bit.
September 2008 – I'm new in Chapel Hill and Nick is just starting classes @ UNC. I love our new place and am excited to meet new people and re-define myself. I walk with him everyday to campus and spend time wondering around the gardens and reading books on the park bench. It’s idyllic.
September 2009 - I have ridiculously cute 3 month old twin boys and my moms have just left town. I am all alone and worried whether or not I can hack it. I’ve reached the stage when all the lactation consultants said feedings would be wonderful and I find they are gravely mistaken. But I still feel like I’ve won the lottery (for lack of a better phrase). Nick and I are closer than ever.
September 2010 - I'm about 6 months pregnant with a baby girl, and totally excited to meet her, and nervous again to see if I can hack it with one more li'l kid. My little 16 month old toodlers (ha ha) are in life threatening peril daily but also make me laugh daily. My mom was just in town to help me get my nest in order and I’m feeling a little better with most of my projects finished. Thank goodness for moms!
It’s interesting to me how fast things seem to have occurred when written like this, and how slow it all felt when I was living it. Who knows what it will be next September!
Happy Birthday soon, Pops!
11 comments:
Your hair looked awesome in September 2005 (not that it doesn't now!).
Fun idea!
Wahoo, see yours was fantastic, and not just because you put up that hot picture of yourself and the twins, which are always crowd pleasers.
OF COURSE you can brag about yourself in high school. Why else do we suffer through it?
Good job pal. That was fun.
that was fun!
Awesome. Definitely some exciting years.
I did the same kind of post once in October- fall must be time for reflecting.
And I like toodlers.
Love this post. And those pictures of you and Nick from '05 are totally rad. I feel like they say "we are so effortlessly cool and you only wish you could rock like us."
Ha ha, thanks Kelley -- except for the fact that we're wearing glasses inside and in the dark.
The duct tape monument still lives, though he is in pretty rough shape...
Call me some time, I miss you
YEAH! going in for number three! We are trying for it, too. What is wrong with us? Isn't two toddlers enough? Thanks for your comments on my blog. I do wish we could share some of this. I think we would have a lot of fun laughing about some of this stuff.
I read this the day you posted it, but didn't comment then. You have come a long way in a few years haven't you. And welly so I might add : ) You and Nick are doing a great job, you'll look back again someday and wonder where it all went. Love ya : )
That was so fun to read, since I didn't know how cool you were in college.
I especially liked the duct tape squirrel and, well, all those babies you're going to have!
Seems like only yesterday you two were dating. And look where you are today!!! Just shows you how the years speed by.
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