What was your life like in April of 1985 (20 years ago)??

[SmileyBoy]

What was your age, your occupation, educational status, social status, financial status, etc.??

As for me, I was 2 1/2 years old, in the process of potty training, and in preschool.

I know, I'm still a young guy...:)

[notadmblnd]

1. I was 24 yrs old fully employeed as computer operator

at a bank and was single and carefree. Since then been married, gave birth, became a widow and lost job of 28 years.

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

2. It was happy and productive.

Unlike now. Now? Fear and Loathing.

[Huckebein the Raven]

3. 5 years old

playing with my toys and getting ready for kindergarden :shrug:

[BigMcLargehuge]

4. I was 15

working in the kitchen of my parent's restaurant as a prep cook/dishwasher and going to Greater New Bedford Regional Vocational Technical High School (My shop was Machining Technologies). I worked about 50 hours a week then (give or take) -

Wed - 3:30 - 11
Thurs - 3:30 - 11
Fri 3:30 - 1AM
Sat 10AM - 1AM
Sun 10AM -10PM

I was collecting comics, listening to The Who (Quadrophenia mostly), and trying to save for my first piece of shit car (a heavily used 1976 Chevy Monza) and pass my driver's license test.

Girlfriends - none

[mark414]

5. i was a newborn

[KitchenWitch]

6. I was 21 years old

Kind of slacking in those days, trying to figure it all out.

[salib]

7. weird year to choose, then

What's the point?

Anyway, I was just married, sort of. Trying to figure out how to "succeed" and coordinator of Amnesy Internation in my city. Long time since then.

[Robeson]

8. I was finishing up college, spending time tripping on acid and doing...

other assorted illegal activities. Oh, and my financial status was broke, but I was having a lot of fun being broke...:smoke:

[MazeRat7]

9. 20 years ago ?

I was slinging C code for a semi-conductor company, playing in the local music scene, and hearing really bad pop music that permeated the airwaves disguised as rock-n-roll.

All in all.. the 80's sucked.

MZr7

[SmileyBoy]

10. 20 years ago, dude!!!

Not 24!!

:smoke:

[MazeRat7]

14. Yup..

Thanks for pointing out my typo at the same time I was correcting it. *grin

MZr7

[Fenris]

11. I was 1 year old, living in Oklahoma

[graywarrior]

12. Age 35, not sober yet

a basket case, a walking nightmare. Two years from sobriety and self medicating on anti-depressants and alcohol. I don't remember what I was doing. Being a pain in the ass to everyone more than likely.

[rug]

56. 7 months sober then

[GainesT1958]

13. Starting a job as a techincal recruiter..

Living in a second-floor apartment with a HUGE screen porch. which contained my hammock, overlooking a forrested park on the side of a lake...across the street from a nice pool complete with soothing hot-tub..OW!

Watching Live-Aid, enjoying that tub with friends of the opposite gender, and enjoying life....boy, life was gooooood in those days(except for Ronnie beginning his second term, of course!). ;-)

Committed Young Democrat then...older now, but still (hopefully not in need of BEING)committed!:eyes:

B-)

[solinvictus]

15. Let's see...

I was fifteen, didn't fit in, and was beginning a round of Xanax for depression.

[flamingyouth]

16. I was a junior in high school

I was leading a semi-productive life for my age, I guess. ;)

[proud2BlibKansan]

17. I was 31

I had been married ten years, had two kids aged 6 and almost 2. I had taught for 5 years and was finishing up my last year in Catholic school. I got a job in a public school district a few months later.

[ScreamingMeemie]

18. 20 years ago, I was 14 and packing for a trip to D.C. with our H.S. Choir

to compete in the "Festival of Nations" choral festival. We scored all ones!!! And got a gold medal! Doesn't seem that long ago. :hi:

[Tektonik]

19. Cold and damp

I was still in my momma's womb.

[tavalon]

96. Then

that would be warm and wet. ;)

[RetroLounge]

20. I was 24 years old and living in the Chicago Area.

Working as a wrench turner at a retail auto shop. I had dropped out of college after 2 years. I was living in a nasty basement apartment with another musician. I was broke much of the time, but seemingly never without a girlfriend.

I was playing guitar in a band, beginning a long ugly descent into the hell of booze, drugs, and casual sex.

So yes, I was having fun.

RL

[CaliforniaPeggy]

21. April 1985--let me see if I remember.

My marriage was nearly 20 years old. I was trying to get into nursing school to get my RN. I already had my LVN and wanted to KNOW AND DO MORE! My daughters were 18 and 13! It was a very long time ago, psychologically as well as physically...I'm so glad those years are over.

I was 41 years old...

[texas1928]

22. One of your Daughters is the same age as me.

Told you were about my parents age.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

32. I remember your saying that...I believe you are the same age as my

younger daughter. She was born in May 1972. It's funny, but I don't see people your age as children. You are all adults, contributing to our society with worthwhile points of view and all that...

[Yupster]

23. Late Twenties, single schoolteacher

Taught history, pretty dull life. Saving lots of money, owned a house but should have done more with my time.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

24. I was 35 and teaching at a large state university

I loved the town I was living in but disliked almost everything about the school. It was bureaucratic and anonymous and totally dominated by the Greek system.

I was dating someone in another department but finding him increasingly annoying. He was nerdy in an arrogant way. We broke up in about April.

As a low-ranking college instructor, I didn't have much of a financial status, but I did okay, mostly by not making a lot of major purchases. I didn't have a car, which was okay, since the town was very bicycle-friendly. I just couldn't go very far beyond the city limits.

I spent almost all that summer in Japan, living in a rooming house for foreigners along with an airheaded married couple who were both models, an Australian woman working as a bar hostess, a retired Navy man just hanging out in Japan, a young Syrian man studying engineering, and a young Danish man who never cleaned up after himself in the kitchen. I was the interpreter for everyone, and one afternoon, one of the models came running and said, "Something's happened. Turn on your TV."

I turned on the TV, and they were reporting on the worst plane crash in history up to that point, a JAL flight between Tokyo and Osaka that crashed into a mountain side and killed 495 people.

The following fall, a relative sold me a 1978 silver Dodge Omni, which I referred to as "The Tuna Can." I also decided that I had to leave the school where I was teaching for the sake of my own sanity, so I went on the job market.

[Dervill Crow]

25. Oooh, this is horrifying.

I was a 30-year-old mother of two and pregnant with our third. My clock radio was set to come on to Focus on the Family at 7 a.m. I taught Sunday School and was a chapter chairman of Right to Life. I distributed "Christian Voter's Pamphlets" to the area churches. My parents thought I was weird as hell (they were agnostic), and I don't know how my husband stayed married to me because I wanted desperately for him to be "saved" and prayed for him every single day at least twice.

Thank God/dess it was just a phase.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

35. You prayed for your husband, and God answered your prayer

by helping you see the light so husband could live with you. :D

[Dervill Crow]

86. Gosh, you're right.

I never thought of that! :yourock:

[Nicole]

26. Those were the days

I was a 26 year old stay at home mom. Social status & financial status were good.

[Goathead]

27. I was doing wake and bake sessions with me friends in High School

I would get up extra special early to go to my friends house and do bong hits.

[Mizmoon]

28. 15 yrs old, starring in school plays,

dropping acid and cutting class.

And they never said I'd amount to anything. Pish posh!

:woohoo:

[Straight Shooter]

29. I was starting a new career, which is now tanking (thanks, bush)

I had also recently moved to Fort Worth, Texas, and met a great man from Mississippi, but we parted as friends 5 years later. I just couldn't keep up with him :P

[Technowitch]

30. Just finishing college, looking for a job

Lucky for me, I found one.

[xmas74]

31. 11 years old,

still living in Kenosha, WI. I was in elementary school still, hanging out w/ my cousins, hanging up pics of John Taylor from Duran Duran on my bedroom walls and sneaking drags off of a cigarette in the alley before school from my "older friend" (he was 13, had a paper route and bought the cigs from a vending machine). And I was probably listening to Cyndi Lauper's "She Bop", trying to figure out what she was talking about(those were the days).

[RevCheesehead]

33. I was in college and hopelessly in love

He's the one that got away. :(

[CO Liberal]

34. I Was 32, And Married to My Second Wife

I was in my third year of working as a technical writer. I was living in Wharton, NJ and DJ-ing a few nights a week at a bar called Beany's (since closed).

I was constantly battling with my ex-wife (now deceased).

[WilliamPitt]

36. I was in eighth grade

and in hell.

[VelmaD]

40. I'm in touch...

I was in 8th grade and in hell.

Had to edit this when I realized I was originally talking about April of 1986. Oh well. 8th grade was hell too. Being 14 sucks ass. Back then I was crazy about someone who didn't know I existed and trying to figure out if I was gonna stick with music or sports when I got to high school. First life decision my parents made me make on my own without telling me what they thought I should do. I'm sure it was a growth experience. :eyes:

[Red State Rebel]

84. There is NOTHING worse than Jr. High School

OMG!!! Sheer torture for me - chubby, face broke out, hated it. Freshman year rolled around and wow had things changed! Weight was gone, skin cleared up, grew breasts!, made Freshman Cheerleading squad and all was right with the world.

I feel for kids going through that awkward age now.

[RevolutionaryActs]

37. Nonexistent.

:P

[AntiCoup2K4]

38. Van Halen broke up and they took real Coca-Cola off the market.

What a shitty month that was!

At least we got Coke back a couple months later.

[yvr girl]

39. I was in grade 12

I might have been in Greece. I went for spring break, but I don't remember when that was.

[NewJeffCT]

68. I was in grade 12, too

Though, here in the US it is usually just called a Senior in high school. I was probably depressed over being too shy to ask a girl out, deciding between going to either RIT (Rochester Institute of Technology) or UConn for college (I ended up going to RIT for a year, then transferring to UConn) and just counting down the days until I got out of high school.

[carpetbagger]

41. Stoned. Very, very stoned.

High school in Florida. The one image that stands out is taking a nap on the rooftop of a four-star hotel, and waking up, stoned, to see the Good Year blimp hovering a few dozen feet over me.

[Droopy]

42. Puberty

That's enough. I don't want to think about it anymore.

[barackmyworld]

43. I was JUST about to come out of the womb

My bday is late april.

[DBoon]

44. I had my first corporate IT job for 3 years

I really hated the job. When i was offered the job out of grad school, I thought the pay was wonderful, but after a year I realized it was hard to live in a high-cost city like LA on that salary

I was having roomate problems and decided to move into my own place

I was still going to various local clubs but feeling a bit old for that sort of thing

I was 28 yrs old. I was very single.

[freethought]

45. Gettin' ready to graduate high school.

And head off to UMASS, Amherst the following September. Now, twenty years later I am in school again setting a new course from a career path that was going nowhere.

[SarahB]

46. I just turned 13 and was in 7th grade.

I had braces and it was my last year of dorkdom (and peace). At 14, I blossomed in a major way.

[cassandra uprising]

47. i was in the second grade

i was six or seven and my favorite thing to do in school was sit on my legs until i got the 'pins and needles' and then run around like crazy because the numbing in my legs made me laugh.

i was an expert pee-wee herman impersonator.

and along side my best friend aliya, i was a starting player and manager of my own professional basket ball team which we called the harlem girl-trotters.

[grace0418]

48. Freshman in high school. Life sucked pretty hard.

I introduced my two best friends (one had moved out of state and then moved back) and they decided to be each other's best friend and forget about me. It was bad enough being an arty, geeky, honor student AND a freshman. But on top of it to have no friends. April 18, 1985 (my 15th birthday) was not a good day for me. Yuck.

[Celeborn Skywalker]

49. I was one and a half. (nt)

[driver8]

50. I was doing a college internship in Washington, DC...

...and getting ready to graduate from college in upstate NY. My life was great -- great friends, lots of great bars and parties, and feeling like my life was wide open in front of me.

[Wapsie B]

51. 28 years old,

living in Iowa City, studying for my board exam in Sleep. Working like a dog with never a thank you, sometimes 10-14 night shifts without a day off. I've finally learned that loyalty to an employer is vastly overrated. This was also my last year of freedom, marital-wise. Oh the mistakes one makes along the way.

[Mutley]

52. I was five..

It was my first year in Kindergarten... I had friends but I can't remember their names... and I may have had fifty cents or something.

[Anarcho-Socialist]

53. In Thatcher's Britain as a three year old...

...my parents had a tough time of it back then as we weren't well off. It was a hard time to be working class in the mid-1980s under Margaret Thatcher.

[two gun sid]

54. I was 24, employed by Uncle Sugar,....

completed some college and poor. (The US Military didn't pay very well.)

[Skittles]

55. IT SUCKED

April 01, 1985 my dad passed away 6 days after shooting himself in the head. I had turned 28 just three days before. :(

[GOPisEvil]

57. I was a junior in high school, and I had a job bagging groceries.

Socially? Nerd City, baby. :-)

[YellowRubberDuckie]

58. I was four...

Getting ready to turn five. I was probably playing outside by myself or at my grandmother's house getting in to all sorts of Mischief.
Duckie

[all.of.me]

59. i was 31 years old

waitressing in a fabulous restaurant, good food, great money, the best hours. it was easier and more lucrative than landscaping, which was my trade.

i was single and hating it.

living in new hampshire.

that's about all i can remember.

the rest of the year was more memorable - my dog died in may, my dad had a triple by-pass in june and almost died, then i bought my first house in the fall. it was quite a year!

[Bok_Tukalo]

60. I was a teenager in the US Army - 101st Airborne Div

I had a Trans Am and being the weekend, was probably taking off the T-Tops, turning on the REM and driving through Kentucky's back roads with a friend and having a great time.

[Deja Q]

61. I was 13... (fair warning about the revealing nature of my post.)

I had already by this point been:

* molested by P.E. teacher
* molested by another guy
* beaten up at a bus stop
* unprovoked, my teeth kicked out by a bully who got no punishment - the teacher of the class, trying to say there were 52 states in the country no less, doing nothing... getting no punishment.
* taunted and teased by local school bullies (and occasionally beaten up, but the emotional assaults were good enough.)
* taunted and teased by most of the students in my grade
* tricked by generally vile fellow schoolmates into doing something, of which they would then tell everybody else that it was something else (I won't go into details but it's humiliating)
* ABOUT to be sexually assaulted by a female peer after being taunted by her and 2 of her scary friends (she, the following year, got preggers at the age of 15 and gave birth to a boy...)
* getting the severer punishments when the instigators and true miscreants got away with their dirty deeds against me "Scot free". (I'm Scottish, and use the phrase even though I know it to be vile and racist.)
* never understood why I was punished on a couple of things as I didn't do them. (was I set up?)

Pity we're sticking with just 1985 and what happened to up to that point. By 1990, total strangers were walking with their tarty little girlfriends, calling me "God's little joke" as I'd try to study in the hallway. (I should have gone to the library where everybody else was, I suppose... where fellow acquaintances would then call me dumb too. So his comment did have validity.)

Any successes I made in this joke of a "society" were due to ME and my perseverence. Not the school district. Not the crackpot quack 'doctors'. Nobody else. I'd fucking sue them to bankruptcy and back if I knew any of them trying to use me as a crutch for their supposed success, oh I have every right to be livid and more. Every RIGHT to be. My parents even fought the school district. OFTEN. Lost ALWAYS. And only recently does the media report on issues they had FOUGHT FOR 20 years ago but were denied. My parents were right, the asinine system WRONG.

I serve as an example of people who have been hurt royally in life (y'all have no frigging clue, trust me) and still continue to survive and struggle.

People like me; we are loners, we were hurt, we try to do the right things, we are misunderstood, we are scapegoats. But we are also symptoms of a much greater problem and we are NOT the problem. If a killer is labelled "loner", the fuckers who make the accusation should find out what the hell made the person a loner and change things. Eliminate the problem. Don't create symptoms, isn't THAT enough damn COMMON SENSE?

And forgive me, but that Charles 'Andy' Williams got a very raw deal and is more proof of how wrong the system is and anyone can blame him all they want. Lord knows what true aggressive animals are doing to him in juvie prison. :scared: I know full well what terrors he'd gone through. I don't know why I ended up who I am, or why I'm nonviolent - as I was, am, and always will be. Maybe that's why I was hurt by a species that doesn't deserve to exist. My nonviolent nature; and nature is composed of the predator and the prey. I am prey. They are just animals, humans are taught to be better. Probably by teachers claiming there are 52 states. x(

[YellowRubberDuckie]

62. You poor thing...

:hug: I'm sorry all those awful things happened to you. I truly wish I change them. :hug: It's funny how something called common sense isn't common at all.
Duckie

[Deja Q]

63. Thanks, but (and this will sound weird)

I wasn't looking for pity.

Just to let people know WHY I am a strange loner best avoided or ignored in their eyes.

There's a stigma with loners. A very bad stigma. And I'm going to ensure people understand why many loners are the way they are because many of them had childhoods like mine or worse and I can think of worse scenarios I'd wish on nobody. It's the only thing I can do to try to assert change in a society that doesn't seem to be one. Awareness, not violence, is the key.

Even some of the bullies likely had traumas of their own. I doubt all of them are vicious just for the enjoyment of it.

[Anarcho-Socialist]

64. I always thought of you as "free thinker" rather than "strange loner"

that's the impression I got from your posts. From your contributions to this site, I enjoy your posts and love your humour.

I feel like a 'loner' sometimes but I can't claim to have had the instigations that you suffered. I am very glad you're the person you are now, at least from the aspects of your personality you share with us on this board. Thank you for being here.

[Deja Q]

107. I'm honored, thank you!

:hug:

I'm glad to be here, that's for sure. Glad you are here too!

Cheers,
'Toad

[YellowRubberDuckie]

98. I know you weren't looking for pity.

And I wasn't really pitying you. I was giving you sympathy, because I truly care about you. :hug:
Duckie

[Deja Q]

106. Thanks! And,

:hug: back at ya. :hug:

I wish those with similar or worse childhoods who ultimately turned to violence would just hang in there because things usually do get better. While I can empathize with their emotions, the murderous rampages are also tragic. But the system HAS to look at the root causes and stop fiddle-farting with the incongruous symptoms...

[MrScorpio]

65. I was in Austin Texas

I had a fine girlfriend and my 1976 Chevrolet Monte Carlo with swivel bucket seats was bad ass.

Life was good

[ghostsofgiants]

66. I had just come out of the womb a few days prior to April's beginning

I spent most of April crying, pooping, sleeping and knocking back the milk like the Bush daughters at a kegger.

Good times, good times.

[bikebloke]

67. About to leave a moshav in the Negev Desert

I'd been working there over the winter. Inflation was high, and they froze our wages. A lot of hard work for literally nothing. Everyone was hitting the road early. Unknowingly, what turned out to be a four year backpacking adventure (poor in the pocket, yet a wealth of experience and knowledge) would be coming to an end.

And I had freinds who said I should have stayed home and bought a stereo and colour teevee.

[Bunny]

69. I was one month away from getting married.

I had just turned 27, and was finally marrying Mr. Bunny, my SO of seven years.

Sadly, marriage proved to be the death knell of THAT relationship. We divorced three years later.

[LeftyDarthBrodie]

70. Preparing for my second birthday party

You all know how that is. VIP Lists, Champagne, strippers, cocaine. The usual activities that need to be arranged for a 2 year olds birthday party.

[tammywammy]

71. I was 4 years old

Living in Longview, Texas. I was spending the day at my nanny's, playing with my friend, Gaylen (he was only a few days older than me). He had the Bert doll, I had Ernie (though I was constantly begging my mom for the Bert doll). I'd have lunch then a nap, and in the afternoon my mom would pick me up.

When I'd get home, I'd play with my kitty, Custard (names appropriately after my favorite television cartoon Strawberry Shortcake). Mostly she'd hid from me, while I begged her to come out.

[TyeDye75]

72. I was 4 months away from being concieved

[Wcross]

73. I was a slut!

I was 22 years old just out of the service and going to school. I was working part time at resturants and chasing anything that even looked like a girl! If there was one time I could be stuck in (ala- groundhog day) 1985 would be it!

[otohara]

74. I Was 30, Worked in Record Biz

always going to concerts, living in the coolest apt., having too much fun.

[loudestchick]

75. Finishing up my junior year in hs--found out I was a national merit

semi-finalist--preparing to work as a CIT at a camp for the summer--realized I'd skipped a period and wondering how to tell my college bound boyfriend.

[ContraBass Black]

76. I was two months old, well loved, straight faced, and rather boring.

[Blue Diadem]

77. I was 29

and in outside sales but began to burn out that year, with 3 kids at home and my running appts. sometimes 12-14 hrs a day, keeping up with the house, helping my parents out since my Dad's stroke, etc. Hubby became a journeyman, completing his company's 8 year on the job apprentice course plus night school at a local community college. It was also the first year he'd worked a complete year through without a layoff. Little did we know that he'd be forced to work 7 days a week with only one weekend off a month for the next 13 years.

Back then we had hopes and dreams to retire early. Unfortunately it won't work out that way. Two plant closings later and we're making less money per hour than we did back then.

[gizmo1979]

78. I was a wild 24 and in the Army

To say I and the Army didn't get along would be an understatment.All I did was party party party.It took me 3 years to get over my hangover.Man we drank alot!

[Orsino]

79. I was about to grajjyate from college...

Graduation speaker turned out to be then-VP Bush. Ick.

[elehhhhna]

80. 254, planning our October Wedding. Living in Lincoln Park on 19K/yr.

(and had money left over!) Imagine.

[Maestro]

81. I was 16 I think.

going through my Jr. year in High School trying to stay out of trouble.

[WindRavenX]

82. I was less than a month old

So, I imagine life revolved around eating, peeing, pooping, and sleeping :D

[jmowreader]

83. I was on Team Spirit 85

Team Spirit was a big field training exercise held near the Korean DMZ every year just as the weather was right for the North to invade the South, or the South to invade the North if someone down there decided his name was really Kim Jong Bush.

[JimmyJazz]

85. Wow - let's see. 1985 - huh?

When ketchup was a vegetable? When the United States considered the contras to be the "freedom fighters?"

I was a college educated woman making shit for wages with my head planted firmly against a glass ceiling and wondering if I got a masters if I could make a decent enough wage to support myself. Yeah - times were great. :(

[Deep N RedLand]

89. Still in high school.

I was also a young Reagan-supporting Conservative who thought he knew better and liberals had it all wrong.

What a difference 20 years and two Bushes in office can make for one to see the light!

[JimmyJazz]

91. I'm glad you have seen the light!

Reagan: I love my military dictators and don't you forget it!

[PopSixSquish]

87. I was Finishing My Freshman Year of College

and still pretty naive about the ways of the world. I've certainly been educated since then.

[Quetzal]

88. I was one year old

wearing diapers and having fun with my twin brother every day. We would always escape from the playpen our parents would set up for us.

[Catchawave]

90. That was during my stupid "Supermom of 3" years....

..somehow I survived working full time for a vet, soccer mom, special olympics coach, husband with a marine battalion, AND Fukkin' gone all the time (cleaning up that Beirut mess for Reagan), dog and cat rescue..........I'm soooooo glad you asked, now I'm depressed...LOL.

:bounce: I'm just peachy keene now.

[gristy]

92. One year out of grad school and very single.

Grad school had been a blast, with plenty going on (I shared a house my first year) and a GF for much of the two years. Well, I moved away and we broke up, and that was tough. Lived in a pretty awful apt at the edge of a farm, and I ran along the farmers roads after work. The year before I had been doing my running along a deserted beach (Pacific) after school. I was feeling pretty sorry for myself. Knew nothing of politics, except that I was a Democrat.

[bigwillq]

93. I was 7!

Probably was playing in the fields across the street from my house. Those fields are now filled with houses.:cry: Had a lot of fun in those fields. Damn houses.

[neebob]

94. I was 24 and trying to get my ex-husband to marry me

As they say, be careful what you wish for. But hey, thanks for the flashback.

[katinmn]

101. Ditto!

We were living together.

Now I've been divorced almost as long as I was married.

Oh - if I'd only had a crystal ball....

[tavalon]

95. Wow, that's a long time ago and just a short time ago

I had been married for 4 months, we were living in San Antonio, TX. We had just gotten a second dog as company for our first dog (and Beatty, our second dog, was indeed forever Nipper's bitch). I was working as a bank teller and it hadn't yet dawned on me that unless one had a third leg, one wasn't going to be climbing any ladders in that industry - it would be two years before I started nursing school.

Now, both the pups have died of old age, I've been a nurse going on 16 years and my husband is my ex-husband. It's weird, I was thinking about all of this before I got on the computer because tomorrow is my ex's birthday and I'm about to send him an email. It seems every time I talk to him, it's a trip down memory lane. I'm so grateful that we are still friends because we shared damn near two decades together.

[samplegirl]

97. I was 27

and potty training my two year old daughter. Life was good.
I thought I had it all. A husband a daughter and a job dental
assisting. Weekends came and we were out having a ball.

[fudge stripe cookays]

99. I was 18, and in Denton, Texas finishing my freshman year of college.

Flirting with this cute guy in my drawing class. We exchanged lots of music, and developed a really good friendship, but he started dating a girl in his dorm. I thought he didn't think of me as girlfriend material. Unbeknownst to me, he DID really like me, but couldn't decide between the two of us.

When I came back in the fall, he was bored with her, and we began dating. We stayed together for a year, but it ended rally badly. Fortunately, years later, we made overtures of friendship again.

He's a comic book artist now. Anybody heard of Mike Lark?
FSC

[Not_Giving_Up]

100. I was twelve

I played french horn in the band at school, and I was the bookworm to beat all bookworms.

[Mugweed]

102. I was 17

and working after school as the attendant at a laundromat. I went to punk shows at City Gardens in Trenton at nights and was generally a delinquent anti-social punk.

[Bouncy Ball]

103. I was finishing up my first year of high school.

I had just started dating my 18 year old boyfriend (YIKES!).

I was living in a suburb of Dallas, like I am now. (Different one, but looks the same....sigh.)

I generally hated my life and just wanted to graduate and go to college very far away and never see my parents again. Well, THAT wish came true, at least.

I loved dating, listening to music, putting on makeup, etc.

Was working part-time as a model. That cracks me up now, because it just seems so unlike me! I modeled in fashion shows in downtown Dallas (and um, that actually IS really shitty work, on your feet prancing around in some damn uncomfortable 80s style dress and two inch heels for 15 hours!! OUCH!). Also did some print work for some regional catalogs which was WAY easier than the fashion shows.

[CRK7376]

104. College Senior,

making descent money off the GI Bill, Army Reserves and working for the university. Wasn't married yet but would be the next year. Heading off for Active Duty with the Army and glad to be getting out of school.....

[AzDar]

105. I was 19....Just moved to Arizona from Cincinnati to go to ASU....

Partied at all the local rock/metal clubs using my sister's ID.
Metal ruled, and (jeebus)I was wearing spandex, and partying with Ratt,Ozzy, Motley Crue...ah, my misspent youth. The only news event I can recall at all from those days was the space shuttle exploding!

[liberalhistorian]

108. I was twenty years old and finishing up

my sophomore year of college; I was also getting ready to transfer to the college I graduated from. I just cannot believe that was already twenty years ago! If I'd known then what I know now, I not only would have made different decisions and choices, I also would not have been so eager to get out of college and into the "adult" world, lol.

[HeeBGBz]

109. I had just joined the army at age 31

Pre-midlife crisis.

[shesemsmom]

110. I was 26 and single widowed 6 years almost to the day

life was dull and predictable. Then my future Hubby came into my life and we married in September and life has never been the same......... I mean it!!!

[progmom]

111. I was in 8th grade.

I was the undefeated pitcher of my jr. varsity softball team.

My best friend Gloria and I still loved Michael Jackson (we had just seen him on the Victory tour the previous fall) but were starting to branch out into a-ha, Duran Duran and Wham. I had just discovered Rickie Lee Jones and was busy listening to her self-titled debut, Pirates, and The Magazine. I was still several months away from my big jazz epiphany - the following October was when I took all my birthday money and bought Charlie Parker and Miles Davis records.

At some point in April, the youth fellowship group I was a member of spent a week sleeping at the church and doing projects (cleaning, painting, etc) for the elderly.

My brother had chicken pox, and spent a week chasing me around the house trying to infect me. I never did get it...

I was friends with a high school senior who I thought was the coolest human being on the planet. She was the lead in the school musical (Anything Goes) and I worked on the crew - building sets, helping with the wardrobe, etc.


Wow - I remember that way better than I thought I would.