November 2008 Weddings
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Decade (stole from BF post)
Thought this was neat...
2000: got my Honda Civic...
2001: took up knitting/quilting
2002: gah... can't remember for the life of me...
2003: started realizing I need to make some changes in life or will be w losers for a while...
2004: became certified in kitchen design! lost 45 lbs...
2005: met DH
2006: went away to Mexico with some great gal pals....
2007: moved in w DH after we became engaged earlier that summer
2008: married DH
2009: got into the SMOM 'mode' and also got motorcycle permit...
Re: Decade (stole from BF post)
2000: Living it up in Cali
2001: Got out of the Marine Corps (again)
2002: moved in w/a boyfriend
2003: P left for Iraq and I realized that I had feelings for him while living w/other said boyfriend. I also went back into the military since all my friends were headed to Iraq.
2004: P and I went to Ireland for St. Patricks Day!
2005: moved into our purple house
2006: Went to NOLA
2007: Engaged in July
2008: sold my soul for some cake and lost my job
2009: VEGAS!! Woot Woot!
2000: Turned 21!
2001: Graduated from college, started grad school
2002: Lost my grandfather
2003: Started dating J. Got my graduate degree
2004: Took my first real job as a professional. Moved into my first "grown up apartment with my kitty cats. Bought my first new car.
2005: Figured out that I didn't have to stay in my first job. Got a new job.
2006: Became an aunt.
2007: Moved back to my hometown. J proposed.
2008: Married J. Moved to South Florida.
2009: Bought a house. Became an aunt (again).
2000 - I was in high school, in the Netherlands, the moved to Iowa
2001 - High school in Iowa
2002 - see above. I was pretty boring in high school
2003 - Graduated from high school and started college
2004 - Met DH
2005 - Got Carter (I think thats significant, right?)
2006 - Got accepted into grad school and started field practice for undergrad.
2007 - Graduated college, got engaged! Drove to Tulsa for Wrigley
2008 - Got married, graduated from grad school
2009 - got knocked up and gave birth to Hunter, the giant baby.
2000: three week tour of 9 countries in europe through girl scouts
2001: uhh...trivial high school stuff! tried out for track (hurdles), was in the musical Children of Eden, started at Subway, president of the art club lol!
2002: graduated from high school, started college, met DH the first day, broke up with ex for DH!
2003: lost my freshman 15 over the summer
2004: my first big purchase: a mac powerbook!
2005: got an apartment w/DH & 2 male roomies (i.e. became a "mom...") got Symon the Cat, studied abroad in England
2006: graduated from college, got a job, moved to philly, DH moved in 6 months later
2007: got engaged, moved to bensalem, got promoted
2008: married DH! got wisdom teeth out, got our kitten, Gossamer!
2009: got laid off, grew my freelance design business, took a web design class
2000: graduated from high school and started college
2001: lost 25 pounds
2002: got Bella
2003: studied abroad in Germany
2004: graduated from college and started grad school. Met DH
2005: went to Vegas with DH in Jan (his first time)
2006: graduated from grad school. DH and I bought a condo. started working at my current job
2007: got engaged in Nov
2008: married DH!
2009: lost some weight and am generally healthier than in the past
2000 - I was Living with the guy who I thought was "the one"
2001 - Started realizing that the BF and I were not compatable after a trip down to Cabo.
2002 - Found a new job (I was working for BF's family) and got an apartment with my sis. Dumped the Bf after 4 years.
2003 - Lost 50 pounds! Started working at my current job
2004 - Was quite the party animal, 04 was a bit of a blur
2005 - Co-Founded The Dirty Darlins of Debauchery, Phoenix's only Pudding wrestling troop! Met DH
2006 - Moved in with DH
2007 - Got engaged
2008 - Got married
2009 - Bought a house, Became an aunt, Got a puppy!!!
2000: Lost "the love of my life" to the army
2001: My mother died
2002: alcoholic blurrrrrrrrr + met my soul mate
2003: more blurriness and soul mateness drama
2004: Moved to Florida + engaged to BFF (probably to piss off soulmate)
2005: Found BFF sleeping with best man, moved home from florida. + Stupid Katrina. (karma got me good) Got current job.
2006: Attempted the step-mom thing with a rebound guy = fail ( have man issues lol)
2007: re-met Drew + got engaged.
2008: Got two adorable puppies. Married Drew. Lost my soul mate forever...=(
2009: blah....2009 was just not my year....um....Paid off almost all my debt.
2000: Broke my elbow
2001: Graduated high school
2002: ummm...? switched from health sciences/pre-med to history and Spanish?
2003: study abroad in Spain
2004: study abroad in China
2005: Graduated college; started law school
2006: ummm...? probably disappeared under a pile of law books.
2007: got engaged; externed and clerked for an awesome firm
2008: graduated law school; took and passed bar exam; married the love of my life (yes, I'm a sap)
2009: got an AWESOME job!
2000: Got engaged to my then-bf . . . then had second thoughts immediately after.
2001: Finally broke off above mentioned relationship.
2002: Met new guy, he became Fiance #3.
2003: Super bad breakup with crazypants fiance #3, went into hiding for basically the rest of the year. Met DH. Moved in with DH.
2004: Got a new job in the OC, bought current house with DH.
2005: Vacation in Kauaii with DH. My Gramma died.
2006: My Nana died. My cousins first son was born just 3 days later. Spent most of the year in a blur dealing with family drama. Got my bulldog, Trudie.
2007: Engaged to DH.
2008: Got married and pregnant and fired all in the same month.
2009: Found a new job I love . . . had Bebe . . . settled in to being a wife and mother.
2000: "Graduated" middle school (shut it -- I know I'm young)
2001: Met DH
2002: Got my license
2003: DH moved 1 1/2 hours away for college....lost my V.
2004: Graduated high school (saluatatorian =D). Placed 6th in the state track meet for discus.
2005: Moved in with DH
2006: Gained way too much weight. Made 1st big purchase with DH -- 32" LCD tv LOL.
2007: 1st vacation with DH - to San Fransisco. Interned (with my now permanent job). Lost over 30lbs. Got engaged =D.
2008: Graduated college (with honors). Got my 1st car. Started my 1st real job. Married DH. Bought our 1st house.
2009: Adopted our furbabies.
2001: The year I was really content with my friends and being a junior in high school, stressing about which college to attend
2002: The year I graduated from high school and became a lushy freshman
2003: The year I was meeting my best friends in college
2004: The year I did the Washington semester and fell in love with DC!
2005: The year I did a bunch of cool traveling around Europe
2006: The year I went to Egypt, graduated from college and had a blast living with my friends in DC
2007: The year I got engaged (yay) but moved to Georgia and hated life
2008: The year I got married
2009: The year M was laid off and we moved back to Chicago.
Mine is totally bummerville, then triumph.
2000: Worked at a private elementary school for a pittance, Lost my favorite relative (paternal grandmother), Got engaged
2001: Got married and spent a month in southern Europe, Quit my job, Went on heavy anti-depressants
2002: Started working at the Law firm for a Devil-Wears-Prada type, went on heavier anti-depressants
2003: Generally pursued by a little black rain cloud
2004: Filed for Divorce, moved back to Hollywood, Went through much nasty divorce crap, Went off of anti-depressants, Dated A LOT, Met a fabulously perfect guy
2005: Got rid of "fabulously perfect" Lying Loser, Inherited some money, bought a Beetle, re-met J after the high school reunion
2006: Finally got my Divorce! Dated J long distance, thought about moving to Wisconsin, but got promoted at work
2007: J and his dog moved in with me in Hollywood
2008: Got Engaged, Moved to Valencia, Married J, Got KU on the Honeymoon
2009: Moved to Orange, got Ginger, got my new job, Lost my Dad, gave birth to Scarlett
2000: My first year of high school... And M totally dissed me at a hs football game sometime in October. First niece was born in March!
2001: Met my first serious bf on a summer church mission trip in Northern CA. Went to my first formal dance.
2002: Got my license and first car ('89 Chevy Blazer haha) Broke up with bf right before I started my junior year. Lots of "playing the field" for me, introduced to the partying of hs. Oh joy.
2003: Met M again in July online, started dating a few weeks later. Had huge drama with him and my parents, my mom threatened to put a restraining order on him, blah blah blah... He ended up turning everything around and made things good : ) Second niece born in March!
2004: Graduated hs, went to Hawaii for the first time with my family. Went to cosmetology school. Bought my 1st car ('02 Lancer on my own!
2005: M and I broke up in January... Got together again a few months later. And broke up again later in the year right before the holidays. Had mono 2x that year. Lots of stomach issues. Got my tonsils out in December right before Christmas. M's first niece born Christmas Eve!
2006: Year of single life. Swore M off and told him I never wanted him in my life ever again. Went back to school. Met new bff, had my first real drunk experience. Swore off alcohol. Changed my priorities in life. Sister moved to Montana.
2007: Turned 21. Falling out with bff. M saved the day on my 21st and we started secretly dating again around that time. Hid it from our families for a while, then finally started admitting it. Got engaged in August. M's second niece born in April, my third niece born in December! (Total count: Nieces - 5, Nephews - 0)
2008: M's first trip to Japan (5wks long) put a strain on us. Hardest thing we've been through together! Moved out of parent's house and into first apartment with M a few months before the wedding. Got married! My friend K died from cancer in December.
2009: M's wrestling career skyrocketed. Moved into our 2nd place. Adopted Z in January and C in September. Gma died in May. Uncle died in November. Sold my Lancer to MIL : ( Inherited Gma's car. Went on our first cruise together for our anniversary. M signed with TNA. Resumed TTC in December! Found out SIL is expecting 3rd baby!
2000: Got my first (and only!) car, my trusty Honda Accord
2001: Graduated from HS, started college
2002: Lost my v-card
2003: Broke up with my first serious boyfriend, started a very unfortunate relationship
2004: Traveled abroad to Italy (and ended said unfortunate relationship)
2005: Graduated from college, started law school, met D
2006: This year was fairly uneventful...D and I went to our first wedding together, and to St. Augustine (together) for the first time. In the fall, I lived in a REALLY crappy house in Gainesville (although the location could not be beat).
2007: Celebrated back-to-back Gator National Championships! (Oh, and got engaged)
2008: Wowee, this was a big one...graduated from law school, bought a house / moved in with D, took / passed the bar, started my career as an attorney, got married, and celebrated Gator National Championship #3.
2009: Got knocked up!
2000: Graduated HS
2001: M and I's bf's find out they are pregnant (M's bf still in hs). Nephew (bf's baby) is born April 25. M graduated HS
2002: Nothing exciting or big happened
2003: M got his "dream job" (the job he'd been trying to get since graduating hs / where he currently works), I got my first "grown up" job and my current job. M's parents let me move in to get away from the douche.
2004: M's paternal grandmother passed away October 15 (everyone here was very close to her). M's paternal grandfather was diagnosed with Alzheimers and quickly declined to remembering nothing.
2005: My paternal grandfather passed away September 25 (lived in Florida, Step-Grandmother told everyone on his side to not bother going down for a funeral because supposedly he did not want one that he was being cremated and ashes spread in ocean and she said no one was welcome by her) and step-grandmother sent lovely letters to his side of the family basically telling everyone to eff off (I was told this was a long time coming). M and I were in our first wedding together when then best friends got married in October. We got engaged December 5.
2006: My maternal grandfather passed away September 26, I was a mess for a while, I was super super close to him. In November one of our main plants (work) explodes destroying homes, etc (thankfully no one was killed).
2007: M's grandfather passed away the day before M's birthday, October 8 we were happy because he no longer had to suffer, at this point he was not speaking, he could not eat because he "forgot" how to chew and swallow, etc. M and I both buy our first cars, brand new, without assistance 1 week apart.
2008: SIL finds out she's pregnant and is due just in time for our wedding. M and I get married November 8, honeymoon in Hawaii (our first big vacation alone). Our first niece is born November 14. M gets promoted to Supervisor at work.
2009: M and I started saving for our own house.
Wow my life has been pretty depressing the last decade. No wonder I have anxiety issues.
2000 - gave birth to Carrianne
2001 - played super-mom, worked from home, room parent for Austin's class, had 2 under 2 at home with me
2002 - still WAHM
2003 - started massage school
2004 - then-husband left me. Worked graves from home, went to school FT 4 days a week, and took care of the kids. I was in a walking coma most of the time.
2005 - ran my massage business and started working at the college
2006 - met Redneck, he moved in with me w/in 3 months
2007 - had my neck surgery, switched from Financial Aid to Admissions
2008 - got engaged, moved to Wyoming, got the job at the Comm. College
2009 - moved to Kansas, gall bladder surgery, got the bank job
2000 - started my senior year of hs; got my first car ('93 Ford Tempo - paid for by myself); had the perfect ending to marching band - straight superiors at festival for the first time in years
2001 - got stood-up by then BF for prom (turned out he had a date with the local jail and had gone AWOL from the Air Force); broke up with said BF; graduated from hs and started college out of state; also went thru rush;
2002 - initiated into sorority; had HORRIBLE reaction to BCP Loestrin Fe (long story, but brain surgery was discussed at one. Ended open-ended with, it may have been an itty bitty undetectable stroke or stress. Stess my a$$, but I won't admit it was a stroke either, lol).
2003 - got drunk for the first time in Italy
2004 - interned with a political party and realized alittle too late I didn't want to become a lobbyist or a campaign manager.
2005 - my sister was involved in a fatal car accident while we were in college together. Her best friend (and our sorority sister - my sister and I went to the same college and were in the same sorority) died two days later. Was a rough last semester. Graduated college and moved back to Florida. Got my first 'real' job (same company I work for now). Got my first apartment.
2006 - met Harley; my sister flunked out of college (hadn't dealt with her issues from accident) and we decided to move in together. Met DH when I did his new hire orientation at work. Gramma diagnosed with breast cancer.
2007 - moved in with sister; started dating DH; sister moved in with her b/f and got engaged; agreed after 3mos of dating to move in with DH; at nine mos got engaged; my now BIL deployed to Iraq. Moved in with DH in Jacksonville and changed jobs.
2008 - brother got married; sister got married; sister got pregnant; married my soulmate in November; sister delievered niece three months early in December; found out I am heterozygous for Factor V Leiden (slightly higher risk for developing blood clots, DVT, repeat miscarriage, pregnancy complications, etc, nearly two years after being told my bw was fine and I could go back on the Pill).
2009 - moved back to Tit-ville; niece came home; sister stopped talking and more drama; got my old job back where DH and I met; dealt with fertility issues (ongoing).
Hard to believe its been a decade already!
2000: graduated High School.
2001: first year at college, did the playing the field thing despite having an at home BF
2002: broke up with the "love of my life", met DH
2003: on/off with DH
2004: graduated college, accepted to PT school
2005: met my best friend
2006: many an ulcer I am sure formed from PT school
2007: graduated PT school, engaged to DH
2008: passed my boards, first real job, married DH
2009: adopted fur baby Caden
2000 - Started smoking for real (really, it was Dec 25, 1999, but...) Went to Argentina!
2001 - Turned 21 while visiting friends in MN, so I got the whole "21" US thing (as you know, the legal drinking age in Mexico is 18)
2002 - Graduated college, and did an internship in Everglades NP, learned what love was all about...
2003 - Internship in mexican NP, took a sabatic, hehe
2004 - Moved to La Paz for grad school, started dating douche (who is a heavy smoker, so lots of smoking in those years)
2005 - Lots of field work by myself. Presented my preliminary results at US conference for the first time
2006 - Started teaching, continued MsC stuff.
2007 - Finished grad school, broke up with douche, moved for a job in mexican NP, met DH
2008 - Quit smoking!! Got engaged, moved to the US, met you all, got married!
2009 - got Neela, m/c, grew a big belly!