20-Year Meme

Ooh, fun, Shelley tagged me for a meme... I never get tagged.

20 years ago I:

• was 10 years old
• lived in a small town in Ontario
• had a 5th grade teacher who was obsessed with nuclear armageddon
• bit my friend's brother on the ear until it bled
• read Wuthering Heights and decided it was my favourite book
  

10 years ago I

• was 20
• dropped out for a semester, then switched my major from political science to journalism
• backpacked through Borneo
• was in counselling for fairly severe depression
• worked in the cafeteria of a law school and thought law students were potentially the most snooty people on the planet
  

5 years ago I

• was 25
• met D and moved in with him
• worked as a program officer for the government and hated it
  
• wrote my LSAT
• went to Burning Man for the second time
  
• shaved my head
  

3 years ago I

• finished my first year of law school
• got engaged
• bought our first condo
• went on anti-anxiety medications for six months
  
• spent a heavenly week in Provence
  

So far this year I

• turned 30
• sold our condo and bought a house
• continued to be in remission from my depression/anxiety
• fell even more in love with my baby and my husband
  
• ran a half-marathon
  

Yesterday I

• met friends for dinner at a sort of fancy restaurant for dinner with LM
  
• spent naptime in the backyard reading instead of unpacking
• climbed through a small hole in 5-foot fence in a cemetery and lifted the stroller over it
• talked about post-baby body image issues with a group of women at a new mom support group
• watched LM learn how to clap
  

Today I

• read part of Late Nights on Air
  
• am bummed to be stuck in the house waiting around for appliance delivery people
• mopped the kitchen floor
• got the first two discs of The Wire: Season 4 in the mail
• cursed Stephen Harper and his moronic excuses for not doing anything to reduce greenhouse gas emissions
  

Tomorrow I will

• go to music class with LM
• attempt to get my nap in before said music class
  
• watch an episode of The Wire
• go to the park
• try to savour these lazy summer days as my maternity leave winds down

In the next year I will

• learn to juggle working full-time with motherhood
  
• go to Mexico for a wedding
• finish my articles and become a lawyer
• contemplate getting pregnant again the following year
  
• be amazed and appreciative for all my many, many blessings
  

I tag: Kaitlyn, Michelle and Lindsay.