This time last year, I was...

This time last year I was...
Planning a move from London to Hertfordshire while living in temporary accommodation with a rather eccentric French woman. I was also in the process of finishing my dissertation and interviewing for jobs - I ended up starting one a month later, the day after I handed in my dissertation! 

This time 5 years ago I was...
Starting my first year of full-time uni. (I had previously been going part-time as I went to uni and high school at the same time for two years... ). This was also about the time I first started talking to BF online.

This time 10 years ago I was...
13, almost 14, and probably in some moody, teenage stupor.

And on a somewhat related note, it's exactly two years to the day since I moved to the UK. 

And on a somewhat related note, it's exactly two years to the day since I moved to the UK. 

Congrats! Mine was yesterday! 

This time last year I was...

...getting ready for our trip to the States.  It was the first trip to the US since I moved here.

This time 5 years ago I was...

...getting ready for my husband to come visit me in the US.  I had just moved into the best flat I've ever had a few months before.  I was getting ready to quit the game where my husband and I met.  It was becoming awful.  In about a month's time, we would be hit by an early October snow storm which would disable the city for a few weeks and cause about 10 deaths.

This time 10 years ago I was...

...getting ready to get married.  We were officially engaged, and planned on marrying in a few weeks.  Things got delayed because of 9/11, but we ended up getting married about a week after we originally planned.

This Time Last Year I was...
Coming down from our summer vacation in Iceland where, after months of picking the date, the church, and everything else, my husband finally proposed. Is that kind of how it goes for people though? We had been doing the commute from Baltimore, to London and/or Reykjavik for over a year when I got notice that I would be let go on July 1, 2011 so we decided to get married and started planning, but the, boy, he really made me wait to ask the official question!

This Time Five Years Ago I was...
just starting an amazing job but was crying about my boyfriend all the time because I could feel the end was coming. We had just a few more weeks left, and when I found out that he had been telling his friend how much he needed to break up with me, but wasn't brave enough to do it, well I could just send him a sternly worded email. Dragging out that last month or so was dreadful!

This Time Ten Years Ago I was...
Packing my bags for a trade show in Reno. I flew out west on September 10. It was horrible to be away from home when all of that happened. Otherwise, I was pretty foot loose and fancy free. Cheap rent in a nice house with decent roommates. Lots of nights out with friends. That idyllic single life which seemed so at once horrible (I will die alone down by the river) and wonderful (I am a rockstar!).

This Time Last Year I was...
Working too much, stressing about work, contemplating how DF and I were going to get to the point we are at, gearing up for a visit from him.

This Time Five Years Ago I was...
4 months into new job and living in LA. Seems like a million years ago.

This Time Ten Years Ago I was...
Spending time with my mom after losing my job months before. As most of us, also never expecting how our world would change so dramatically after 9/11.

This time last year I was...

Getting stressed out over planning a trip to Yellowstone with my mum.  I had recently got back from a trip to the UK to visit her, and we had had a couple of arguments.  We actually just got back from Yellowstone last week, and it went well.


This time five years ago I was...

Just starting grad school, and had just moved to the US and moved in with my boyfriend.  I was terrified after meeting all the overenthusiastic students in my program, and wondering how I was going to survive a 5 year phd.  Now I'm a few months away from finishing.


This time ten years ago I was...

I had finished high school and was just starting my gap year in Romania.  I was probably just about to start teaching my first English class at a high school in Bucharest.  I was staying with an eccentric teacher from the high school at the time - she made me eat dinner from a tray while sitting in my pyjamas on the couch.  Within the next week or two, I would move in with a lovely Romanian family for the remainder of my time there.

This time last year I was back in the States, saving money and hoping we'd be ready for me to submit my fiancee visa app in time for me to at least make it there by Christmas. What a nerve-wracking time it was. So happy to be on the other side of the Atlantic now, after it's all worked out

This day last year, I was on the plane to come over! I entered on my T4 visa exactly 1 year ago today

This time 5 years ago, I was meeting with the international exchange officer at my university to decide where I should study abroad <3 Manchester

This time 10 years ago, I was starting freshman year of high school

Thanks NOT for reviving this thread!

This day last year, I was on the plane to come over! I entered on my T4 visa exactly 1 year ago today

Happy Anniversary!   

Time time last year my bicycle was stolen   

This time five years ago, I was heading off to Maine for a weekend trip to be a bridesmaid in one of my best friend's wedding.

This time ten years ago, I was enjoying my first week on my last year of Uni.   

This day last year, I was trying to convince my GP that my hypothyroid issues were real. I finally did and once we found the proper level of thyroxine, I felt like a new person.

This time 5 years ago, I was enjoying my brand new UK driver's license.

This time 10 years ago, I was living in CA and carpooling with my then husband. I remember us tuning in to Kevin & Bean on KROQ and thinking they were doing a not so funny "bit". Turned out to be very very real. 

This day last year, I was preparing for my then-fiance's arrival two weeks away, after not seeing him for 13 months. In the deep end of wedding planning craziness for our wedding 3 weeks away, and basically just an anxious wreck with the stress of all factors combined.

This time 5 years ago, I was newly graduated from high school, trying to decide where life was going to take me. I didn't go to the college I signed up for because I had second thoughts about what I wanted to study. I reconnected online with my now-husband by chance a couple months prior, so we were developing a casual friendship.

This time 10 years ago, I was in the first week of 8th grade, excited for the new school year to begin. Like everyone else, going about the normal daily routines and blissfully unaware about the events that would take place in a couple days. 

This time last year I was getting ready to leave for England and start my MA.

This time 5 years ago I was playing Marty in Grease the musical.

This time 10 years ago I had just moved from New York City to the SF Bay area and was working in a small clothing store.  I couldn't believe the news when I first saw it.  Such a sad day.