This time last year, I was...

Today 10 years ago I was getting married!!! Its my 10th Wedding Anniversary today! Eek.

It's my 20th anniversary today!

Happy anniversary, Mindy and racheeeeee!

Happy anniversary, Mindy and racheeeeee!

Thanks!

Lots of anniversaries today!

Tarnlover - 1 year.

racheeeee - 10.

Mindy - 20!

Sept 25 is a big day! Congrats all! 

1)  This time last year I was hugely pregnant with Struan and it was lllaaaaammmeee.  He wasn't born until 3 November, though, 9lbs., 5oz.

2)  This time 5 years ago we had moved to Leith.  I was happily working at Edinburgh University and DH was a SAHD to Aillidh, and we were considering having a second child, to start trying that Xmas, which we did, although Roisin wasn't born until 2005!

3)  This time 10 years ago I was living the life of a dual-income professional in the home my ex h and I had bought the spring before in Denver, CO.  I was working as a paralegal in the legal department of a financial company, had a new car, he had a great job. 

1)  This time 1 year ago, I was exactly 2 weeks from having DS.  (I can't believe he's almost a year already!)  I was as big as a house, on crutches, and miserable.  Totally worth it though

2)  This time 5 years ago, I was still trying to adjust to being in Ireland, and was in the early stages of my pregnancy with DD.

3)  This time 10 years ago, I was gonig through a marriage break-up and moving from Wyoming to Colorado.

1 year ago- I was planning my son's first birthday party

5 years ago- I was working a swing shift job as a case manager in a corrections transitional facility. Yes, I worked with inmates of federal prison.   

10 years ago- I was 21 and in my last year of college.

One year ago- on limited activity due to pregnancy complications
5 years ago- I was in head of my team working 50 hours a week and dealing with backstabbing coworkers.  I was contemplating on having a second child although that would be career suicide.  I quit my job the following July and now I have three children and I am totally in control of my day/mood/destiny but I have a hell of a lot less money!
10 years ago-- Ten years ago this month, I met my husband in person, and we were married by December.  Everyone said I was crazy.  We are still going after 10 years, and incidentally, I am still crazy. 

One year ago... I was watching my daughter stuff herself into nylon tunnels and discovering the wonderful world of Hasbro My Little Pony entertainment. (A better explanation is here: http://blarghattack.blogspot.com/2008/10/princess-ponies-must-be-watched-in.html) It's great having a blog... you just have to check out what you wrote that day.

I had recently returned home from my first visit to England, and realizing that I wanted to spend the rest of my life with this person was pretty upset at the prospect of a year or more of long-distance relationshipness. Which, obviously, we've since sorted out. 

Five years ago... I was contemplating moving in with my then-boyfriend. I had just returned to college after a two-year hiatus and was loving my new intellectual life. That was the season I made a ton of new friends from school and my life drastically changed from what it had been the two years prior (which was supposed to be a fun, no-responsibility, travel-filled couple of years, but mostly just ended up with me working too many hours in an awful job for too little money).

Ten years ago... I was spending my junior year of high school abroad in Krefeld, Germany. I was about a week away from picking up the worst and longest-lasting habit of my life, smoking. Bleh. If only I could go back to this moment ten years ago, and have a conversation with my younger self...

One year ago- keeping close tabs on the election.  I would go nowhere without my Blackberry and the ability to check the latest polls, news, etc.,

5 years ago- I think this was the year I didn't see Mr. A on our anniversary.  A bit crappy, but he was temping at the time and we needed the money.

I was planning a long trip to my parents in November.  I stayed about 2 months.  I am surprised the trip went as smoothly as it did.

10 years ago-I had just moved 500 miles to be with a guy who had doubts about the relationship, but didn't bother to tell me before I packed up house and moved my life.  It was about ten years ago exactly that he dumped me in an email (about a month and a half after the move).  Ah well, if it weren't for that mistake, and the series of mistakes after, I wouldn't have met Mr. A.

1) This time last year, I was...

Cleaning my house and packing to meet my parents in London, as they were coming for a 2 week visit

2) This time 5 years ago, I was...

In a class for my master's degree which I was doing whilst working full time

3) This time 10 years ago, I was...

Very good chance I was in one of my bands' practice or rehearsal sessions- have been in some kind of band or another (all different types) for most of my life

Aw, this is a nice thread.

1 year ago I was in Tanzania having the time of my life. Best holiday ever.

5 years ago I was still fairly new in my job, living in Hyde Park and just still adjusing to living in the UK.

10 years ago I had come back from my exchange in France that summer and was starting the boring task of getting a job and getting into college. I was a very young 18.

Yeah, this is fun...

This time last year I was moving back to California, for the third time.  Who knew a year later I would be moving to England....


This time 5 years ago, I was living in Orange County, California.

This time 10 years ago, I was in high school in NY.  Senior year....

1) This time last year, I was...

Leaving the worst job I'd ever had. Packing up all my stuff and moving to London.  I was really emotional about the whole thing, it really knocked my confidence but it turned out for the best, as am happy now

2) This time 5 years ago, I was...

At uni and having the time of my life, sort of. As I'd picked up a borderline drinking problem, random guy - check! a litre of Absolut vodka - no problem!
In reality I looked like I was having fun but was really messed up, I'd had two terrible relationships between 15-18, one with a jealous, obsessive, abusive, loser who stole money from me and did nothing whilst I worked myself to death. I got rid of him and moved to uni a month later.
I met an amazing friend at university who really understood me, unfortunately he had a drinking problem and was sucking me into the mire with him.
So overall, a bad time. I was also about to be diagnosed with a brain tumour, which almost killed me but also saved my life, as I made me realise I needed to quit drinking to focus on getting well  - which I did

3) This time 10 years ago, I was...

I was 16 and having a ridiculous affair with a guy in his early 40s and utterly convinced of how "right" it was -turns out...it wasn't! Living on my own in a flat above a psycho who later attempted to break into my flat and murder me (proper psycho, he played "white xmas" in July on an old scratchy record player at 2am - he was screaming "i'll kill you" whilst I escaped out of a tiny kitchen window, fell two stories onto a gravel path and ran to a phone booth), it was an awful flat with different type of mismatched floral wallpaper on each wall but when I was alone I loved it but I moved out the day after the Break in and didn't even go back for my stuff.

Good thread!

1 year ago:  I'd just had my husband's parents and family all down for a visit.  I'd become a school governor and was taking lessons to get my UK driver's license.

5 years ago:   My husband was leaving the US to start his new job in England in a week and I was about to spend the next five months on my own with the kids, working part-time teaching and tutoring, selling and packing up our belongings, selling the house and cars, and visiting my parents one last time before moving.

10 years ago:  I was working full time as a nanny as well as taking care of my two-yr-old son, and I was pregnant with my daughter.

15 years ago:  I was teaching kindergarten and working at a bookstore.  I was engaged to be married next month!