looking for an excuse to stay up late

[mrsbrown]

20 years ago (1987)
I was pregnant, living in a share house in Fitzroy, failing most of my engineering degree subjects (for the second time) and spending my weekends riding my bike around Richmond with my mother and partner looking for a house to buy.

15 years ago (1992)
I was pregnant, only failing two subjects (although i knew better this time and applied for special consideration). The house we bought had been decimated and we were camping in the two storey extension without plaster on the walls or a whole kitchen.

10 years ago ((1997)
I'd been pregnant earlier in the year, but had sensibly aborted. I was home full time looking for Engineering work after being retrenched from my first graduate job. We were living in the new house we bought after I got my first graduate job. The old house was finished and sold in a hurry when I got retrenched (yep, we owned two houses in Richmond for a short time). I got my big break in November and started on the career road I'm still on now.

5 years ago (2002)
mr-bassman and I were in our year of handfasting and I couldn't believe that I could possibly still be in romantic love after 22 months. (It's still weird after six years together). I went to work and I came home, I adjudicated on children's squabbles and lived a quiet life. Did we make a tent that year?

1 year ago (2006)
Just getting used to the much bigger SCA commitment we'd made, struggling through through the work and small baby stage. I think we finished renovating the laundry at about this time of year.

Comments

[lurextoga.livejournal.com]

You need an excuse to stay up late?

There's this 67 page document I have at my house; it needs reading and buffing! It's compelling stuff. But as liable to send you to sleep as to keep you up.

Your post made me think about what I was doing at those times.
1987 - failing most of my agricultural science subjects; straight out of school and running headlong into the Dean's office to explain the gap between my HSC results and my first year academic performance, hoping like hell my parents weren't going to find out.
1992 - Leaving Myer and going to live in Swan Hill and practice as an agricultural scientist (of sorts).
1997 - 'Surviving' a takeover of my organisation and commuting miles and miles to and from work everyday.
2002 - At RMIT doing a programming degree (what the?) and enjoying being single for the first time in a very, very long time.
2006 - Recovering from acrimonious and frightening relationship and being thankful to have nurtured my friendships over the preceeding two years.

Thank you!

[villana.livejournal.com]

that quite a snap shot of a life.

I don't want to think too hard about where I was in the same time brackets...

[mishymoocow-2.livejournal.com]

For some of us it's just too many of our anti-depressants keeping us up. Gotta love mummy's little helper. %-&