like a rainy saturday
Jan. 20th, 2007 03:09 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
threeplusfireGiven that work is dead, I thought I would proawl the interweb for entertainment. I'm getting tired of reading about the jockeying for Democratic presidential nominee already. So on a whim I decided to look at the past five years of LJ for January 20th.
January 20th, 2001 - Well. That was also a Saturday. Around 8am I was laying in the bath tub contemplating suicide. Around noon Patrick called from NEw Jersey and asked me to marry him. That afternoon I went to a party at Karen's apartment. Sam and Greg made a pot roast with so much Shiner and jalapeno that we almost died. Melynda spilled food on herself when I mentioned I was engaged. It was sunny, I remember.
January 20th, 2002 - I went to Mass, visited my mother, played with the animals. My sister was visiting her drug dealer boyfriend in jail.
January 20th, 2003 - Apparently I bought Girl Scout cookies, ate hardboiled eggs and smoked. I think this was right before I got hired by FAFDS for a couple years of night shift work.
January 20th, 2004 - I cleaned the house and made tea while Alan was sleeping. I hadn't been married very long at the time. I was depressed by the general news of the world, and took comfort in a story about a Texas man catching a 121lb catfish. I can remember what the light looked like when I had the front door open at the apartment.
January 20th, 2005 - My training at DFPS had started, and we listened to example calls. I picked up my state ID badge. It was very grey that year. In a couple weeks my life would start to go to hell, but I didn't really expect it. There are a lot of things that I did not write down during this time period.
January 20th, 2006 - I was cranky, and made some random reference to the Bene Gesserit about needing to control my emotional reactions. It was a hard week.
January 20th, 2007 - It's cold, wet and sort of wintery out there. (How strange that almost every other year it was sunny.) I'm sort of puzzled by the passage of time. This is the longest I have ever kept a steady journal/diary. Most of the ones I had before ended up lost, forgotten or destroyed. I suppose I could delete my LJ, but that's not as dramatic as say, setting a spiral notebook on fire in your driveway. (thankfully)
I've been posting a lot lately. Perhaps even excessively. I wonder if this will ever have any value some day. If someone will read it while researching some topic tangentally connected to my life. If I will have children who will find the entire thing saved on some archaic electronic storage device and wonder what it was like to live in such a deprived world as the early 21st century. It occurs to me that among the things I need to have put together with my will I will need to write down my LJ password. Only after I'm gone will anyone ever read all those private entries. What a strange thought.
January 20th, 2001 - Well. That was also a Saturday. Around 8am I was laying in the bath tub contemplating suicide. Around noon Patrick called from NEw Jersey and asked me to marry him. That afternoon I went to a party at Karen's apartment. Sam and Greg made a pot roast with so much Shiner and jalapeno that we almost died. Melynda spilled food on herself when I mentioned I was engaged. It was sunny, I remember.
January 20th, 2002 - I went to Mass, visited my mother, played with the animals. My sister was visiting her drug dealer boyfriend in jail.
January 20th, 2003 - Apparently I bought Girl Scout cookies, ate hardboiled eggs and smoked. I think this was right before I got hired by FAFDS for a couple years of night shift work.
January 20th, 2004 - I cleaned the house and made tea while Alan was sleeping. I hadn't been married very long at the time. I was depressed by the general news of the world, and took comfort in a story about a Texas man catching a 121lb catfish. I can remember what the light looked like when I had the front door open at the apartment.
January 20th, 2005 - My training at DFPS had started, and we listened to example calls. I picked up my state ID badge. It was very grey that year. In a couple weeks my life would start to go to hell, but I didn't really expect it. There are a lot of things that I did not write down during this time period.
January 20th, 2006 - I was cranky, and made some random reference to the Bene Gesserit about needing to control my emotional reactions. It was a hard week.
January 20th, 2007 - It's cold, wet and sort of wintery out there. (How strange that almost every other year it was sunny.) I'm sort of puzzled by the passage of time. This is the longest I have ever kept a steady journal/diary. Most of the ones I had before ended up lost, forgotten or destroyed. I suppose I could delete my LJ, but that's not as dramatic as say, setting a spiral notebook on fire in your driveway. (thankfully)
I've been posting a lot lately. Perhaps even excessively. I wonder if this will ever have any value some day. If someone will read it while researching some topic tangentally connected to my life. If I will have children who will find the entire thing saved on some archaic electronic storage device and wonder what it was like to live in such a deprived world as the early 21st century. It occurs to me that among the things I need to have put together with my will I will need to write down my LJ password. Only after I'm gone will anyone ever read all those private entries. What a strange thought.