[ul][li][DEl]Learned not to post while drunk[/DEl][/ul][/li]
:smack:
Wow, in 10 years? I don’t think I’ll get everything.
I was 14 when I joined and am 24 now.
-Graduated high school at 16
-Graduated with an A.A.S. in nursing at 20
-Graduated with my BSN at 23
-Started graduate school to become a nurse practitioner at 23
-First date and first kiss at 16, next few duds,
-Got married at 23
-Got two cats
-Worked a few part-time retail jobs until I started nursing school, then got my first hospital job as a nurses’ aid, now working my second hospital job that I started as an RN 4 years ago.
-Went from being a virtuoso violinist at 13 and thinking I wanted to be a professional musician to (obviously) changing my career path toward nursing
-Moved out of my parents’ house at 19, moved a few more times, settled in at my current place 2 years ago
-Heh. I bet I probably got my braces off since I joined. I was 14 then.
-You could probably just go ahead and say that I’ve been an SDMB member (and mostly a lurker, with my post count sub-300) for most of the major events of my life. Wow.
Oh, please. If I didn’t post while drunk, I’d hardly post at all.
Some might say this is a good thing. :dubious:
Since December 2001, I’ve:
Tripled my income.
Gotten married.
Became a dad.
Have had three cars.
Moved to Chicago.
Worked on Barack Obama’s senate and presidential campaigns.
Moved back to Michigan.
Acquired more than 400,000 Priority Club points
Tossed around the idea of starting my own business, which I will be doing in the spring
Become the owner of a great old boxer-pit bull.
Bought a condo in Chicago, which I then tried selling for three years to no avail, even at a loss of $40,000. Foreclosed.
Bought a big old house in Michigan with my wife.
Knocked up my wife again, which will result in a baby girl in February.
So, how are the JRT and the beagle getting along?
Since 1999:
My mom and brother died within six months of each other in 2001
Sold a house, bought a house, moved
My dog Boomer (The Best Dog Ever) died, and Ricky the cat
We adopted Sadie, a golden-doodle
I quit a job I thought I’d retire from
Took a part-time job at a community college
Became an “election official”
Elected to the city council (two terms) and was recently appointed city clerk
Broke a hip and had my gall bladder removed
Took a few trips to Seattle to visit family – one was my first Amtrak adventure
Started quilting
Traveled to Ohio to meet people I only knew from the internet (I think the Dopefests were the inspiration)
Let’s see. I joined in 1999. Since then…
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[li]Spent New Year’s Eve 2000 at my friends’ self-sufficient soler house… just in case.[/li][li]Went to Europe in 2000. Spoke Esperanto for a week. Fell in love with Finland. Completely failed to impress European women.[/li][li]Survived a round of layoffs.[/li][li]Continued group therapy to learn how to be social.[/li][li]Almost took medical leave due to burnout, but pulled out of it.[/li][li]Group therapy ended.[/li][li]Helped my father move out of Oshawa and up north to be with relatives. This included paying for part of the move and cleaning up a smoker’s apartment (still the most disgusting thing I’ve ever had to deal with.)[/li][li]Got mad at my PC and broke it. Saved up for four months and bought a Mac.[/li][li]Visited my sister up north.[/li][li]Found out about Ontario Building Code qualifications and started taking courses.[/li][li]Passed sufficient courses to be allowed to sell drawings. [/li][li]Registered a business, got insurance.[/li][li]Discovered that I needed to run AutoCAD, which is a Windows program, so installed Windows on the Mac.[/li][li]Survived a round of layoffs.[/li][li]Decided to back off on the houses.[/li][li]Got laid off. Houses were back on the agenda.[/li][li]Met beautiful Jamaican woman; started to date.[/li][li]Beautiful Jamaican woman broke up with me. So much for romance. At least I had some dates during the decade…[/li][li]Took a Japanese course.[/li][li]Started to spend time in Bancroft. This included renting a small and friendly yet ramshackle house for the summer.[/li][li]Moved to Bancroft permanently (found a better place for the winter).[/li][li]Bought a car.[/li][li]Started to do artwork as well as house design. Now illustrating a book, designing a house, and doing other stuff. [/li][/ul]So in a weird way, I’m back to doing what I did in high school: solar houses, writing, and art. Even with the layoff, though, the decade was better than the 1990s, during which much of my immediate family died.
When I joined I was a 31 year old married mother of a 10 year old.
I’ll be 41 next month.
I’ve been divorced
Single parent for the next several years
Worked as a teacher’s aid, a vision screening tech, and a construction laborer.
I’ve lost two dogs, two ferrets and three cats.
I’ve gone through five cars and moved four times.
Met my beloved Mig and several months later moved in together.
Made another pretty baby who will be six next month.
Got my first cell phone. And my second one just this year.
Lost a few pounds, gained them back.
Dropped my religion
Quit smoking
Took up studying Buddhism
Joined the gym.
Sorry I’m mistaken. I wasn’t still married in 2000. I was online when I was married but not a member here. The Dope was still on AOL back then.
I joined in October 2002, although I lurked for about a year before that.
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[li]While lurking, my father died.[/li][/ul]
After joining:
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[li]Laid off from a job I had for 16 years;[/li][li]8 months unemployed, and serious clinical depression;[/li][li]Found a dream job, and moved 800 miles, leaving my teenaged son with my in-laws;[/li][li]Avoided bankruptcy by about 4 hours, having sold my old house;[/li][li]Got my second Bachelor’s degree;[/li][li]Lost 120 pounds after a gastric bypass;[/li][li]Lost my paternal grandmother, my last blood ancestor;[/li][li]Found a new job after the dream job wasn’t so cool;[/li][li]Bought my second house;[/li][li]Had my son graduate from high school;[/li][li]Became a volunteer fireman;[/li][li]Became an EMT;[/li][li]Had my wife total the main vehicle with 1 payment left, and near fatality in the process;[/li][li]Put 2 artificial knees in the wife.[/li][/ul]
Looming in the near future:
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[li]Probable job change, and maybe another move;[/li][li]Son graduates from college.[/li][/ul]
I joined in December 2000. Since then (and in no particular order)…
I had a baby, and am halfway through making a second one.
I was acquired by two cats, Muffin and Peace.
I was acquired by a dog, Moby.
I fell in love
I moved out of my hometown (and surrounding district) for the first time in my life.
I got married
I turned 30
I got divorced
I moved house three times
I changed jobs twice
I learned to drive, got my licence and bought my first two cars
I went on my first international flight
I went on my first domestic flight (the international flight came first)
I went to Scotland
I lost one of my two remaining grandparents
I gained a sister-in-law and, subsequently, two nephews
Joined Feb 2004.
Moved from Columbus, OH to Dallas and now to Phoenix.
Changed jobs
Bought an Ipod, a plasma tv, and a blu ray player
Let’s see. I joined in May, 2005. In that time, I have (in no particular order):
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[li]Celebrated a 10th wedding anniversary[/li][li]Gotten divorced[/li][li]Met, fell in love with, began dating, and made plans to move in with a Doper[/li][li]Attended my first Dopefest and became “real-life” friends with several Dopers[/li][li]Bought my first house[/li][li]Sold my first house[/li][li]Had the tiny boutique law firm I worked for absorbed by an international law firm[/li][li]Gotten my motorcycle license[/li][li]Purchased my first and second motorcycles[/li][li]Gotten my first personalized license plate[/li][li]Gotten my first tattoo[/li][li]Regretted getting my first tattoo[/li][li]Traveled for the first times to and through: Utah, Wyoming, DC, New York, New Jersey, Delaware, Virginia, Maryland, Kentucky, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Indiana, West Virginia and Ohio[/li][li]Flown a bi-plane, conquered a fear of flying, re-succumbed to a fear of flying, and ultimately made peace with the fact that I just really dislike flying[/li][li]Won at bingo in Vegas[/li][li]Taken up tennis for fun and exercise[/li][li]Been to my first (and second) baseball playoff games where my home team won[/li][/ul]
I’m probably forgetting stuff, but then again, you really didn’t care about the stuff I remembered. 
A lot.
I’ve been unemployed, moved a lot, and so on, and so forth.
The only part that I am certain I shared was my excursion to Canada in 2007, which drew a lot of attention.
I think I joined in 1999.
I’ve moved six times, gotten engaged, disengaged, reengaged, married, separated. I’ve had a little girl. I’ve visited over two hundred different cities, taken about seven hundred commercial flights to three different countries, and been to the top of the three tallest structures on the continent.
I’ve seen over 150 major league baseball games in 15 different stadiums, 12 NHL games, 5 NBA games, and not a single pro football game.
I’ve gained 50 pounds and lost it again.
I’ve held three different jobs and made about six hundred thousand dollars in pre-tax income. I’ve bought a lot of stuff, most of which don’t really matter, but a few things really do.
I’ve gained a neice (biologically) and a nephew (best friend’s kid.)
I’ve played a lot of video games.
I’ve celebrated eleven birthdays.
I’ve lost a wonderful dog and two wonderful cats.
I missed a hole in one by an inch.
I’ve owned five different cars.
I’ve gotten a lot smarter and, sadly, older, and such is life.
I have my Small Girl, and so things are fine.
Yeah, you were supposed to come visit us in Calgary, but you never made it here. :mad: (It’s okay - we’ll still buy you a beer when you come back to Canada. )
I will say that I had the great pleasure of meeting Frank when he went through Edmonton, when I was living there. I’ll look forward to meeting him again, should he ever make his way through a city where I’m living.
November 2004… where was I… Costa Rica? Think so. Not quite in order:
Went home for Christmas figuring I was about fired, it was the boss (who’d faked her resume, adding ten years to it) who got caught and fired instead, got a new boss who made us work 12x6 for a month before realizing that all he was getting that way was a very burned-out team, left that project before they could fire me on grounds of “the boss doesn’t like you cos you don’t kiss his ass, and even less because he can’t accuse you of anything”, spent a month in a project which is famous in Spain for being a great example of How Not To Do Things, spent a couple months doing support in a company whose support team lead gave us the jewel “I don’t pay you to think, I pay you to solve problems”, bought a flat, spent one year working in Switzerland, got self employed, got a Nephew, my relationship with The Proud Parents improved thanks to The Nephew, got a Niece that I think of as “The Field Marshal”, Littlebro got a flat and moved out of Mom’s (much to her chagrin), got a job in Bilbao/Glasgow, left that job for health reasons one year and a nice chunk of mortgage later, took a one-year sabbatical to get a degree in Translation, hated the ISP at the university, loved Edinburgh, got a job in Seville, had the pleasure to tell the Bilbao/Glasgow people “sorry, got a job” when they called to offer me one.
Buf. Lots of things. Oh yes, and the Gramps from Hell died, and I got to meet BooFae and 'im indoors, and went to a LonDopeFest, and last year (it was only last year?) I celebrated both my birthday and having left the Bilbao/Glasgow job by watching We Will Rock You (in London, thank God I didn’t make the mistake of going to see it in Spain… I almost fainted when someone told me they’ve translated the songs - what the FUCK?).
Joined in 2000. I was single and in college.
-Graduated college with 2 degrees
-Went to graduate school and graduated
-Got married
-Have a son
-My 3 remaining grandparents died
-Worked for Amazon.com for 3 years
-Now teach business in Beijing, China (there’s lots of China stuff that could qualify)
-Also traveled to Ukraine and Japan
-Went through 3 cars
-Ran over a deer
-Lost 40 lbs in 2002 (it’s still below 2002 levels but the weight is slowly climbing back up)
-Moved 5 times (parent’s house -> shared a house with friends -> dorm at graduate school -> apartment with wife in Kentucky -> small “guest house” in Beijing (less than 500 square feet) -> big apartment in Beijing)
Since 2007 some of my “highlights” have been:
- Finishing high school
- Attending Schoolies week (it was shit)
- Rotating through four retail jobs, one of which was full time for a year
- Turning 18 and subsequently began spending lots of time at clubs and bars
- Enrolling in a Creative Industries university course and promptly dropping out within three months
- Enrolling in a Music Business diploma course and actually graduating
- Got my name in the booklet of a Michael Jackson album (through a fan competition) (This is not only the highpoint of the last three years but will probably be the highlight of my life) (Just kidding) (Maybe)
- Seeing Beyoncé, Pink, Simon & Garfunkel, Lady Gaga, French & Saunders and Britney Spears live (not all at once, though that would be an interesting combo)
- Gathering the courage to start letting people listen to my own music
Not a very eventful three years, mostly just study/work/study/work/drunk/study/work. Hopefully the next three years will be a bit more interesting.
I joined in 2001.
I’ve run the whole course of a manipulative, controlling relationship with a much older, more powerful asshole
I’ve finished two bachelors degrees, a masters, a PhD, and a postdoc
I’ve gotten my first full-time job and worked it for 3.5 years
I’ve lived in an apartment and three houses
I’ve moved state, alone
I’ve finished the C25K program, and taken lessons in European fencing, shinkendo, and bellydance… all that was very therapeutic, post-gym-class-horror stuff
I’ve bought a house and put it back on the market. I’ve renovated a house.
I’ve met my husband, gotten engaged, gotten married, and gotten pregnant
I’ve lost a LOT of money, and made more
I’ve cut off three feet of hair at one time
I’ve been SCUBA open water certified
I’ve travelled to the Dutch Antilles, the USVI and BVI, England, France, Denmark, Germany, Austria, Italy, and Russia