10 years ago
I was probably in LA or in the car somewhere between LA and Santa Fe. Silly young boyfriend there whom I thought I loved. Not one-tenth the man Cody is but to be fair he was just a nineteen year old kid. I wouldn’t want to be judged solely on who I was at nineteen either. I think I was about to have a serious bout with kidney stones and be put on medication for major clinical depression for the first time. But maybe that was 1996.

5 years ago
I was in the process of changing jobs from being a third party tech support person for a major online store to managing transactions for variable, whole, and single premium life insurance policies and answering questions about unearned income tax receipts from demutualization. In the end both jobs sucked pretty hard.

1 year ago
I was probably watching Upstairs Downstairs and eating a popsicle after a morning of water aerobics.

Yesterday
I watched entirely too much news and kept hitting redial on the phone trying to reach Will’s parents. Then we drove to a family thing in Los Lunas and ate incredible barbeque. Avoided eating any “God Bless America” cake that ironically had a layer of chocolate pudding between two sheets of yellow cake covered by gobs of white buttercream icing. I did my best to not say anything catty but I think I failed.

Today
Drank coffee, talked with my parents on the phone, had a great time at the Saturday knitting group, bought five skeins of noro cash iroha and the two tiered Lantern Moon basket at Village Wools, got a hot dog at Weinerschnitzel. Managed to get through to the phone ringing in Natchez only to get answering machine. Submitted some photos and lists to the craft revolution etsy store.

Tomorrow
Taking more photos for the etsy shop, knitting a scarf with the Noro, taking Winter to the dog park.

5 snacks I enjoy
cheese dip, pretzels, cheetoes, satay peanut won ton snacks, edamame

5 bands/singers I like
The Clash, Billie Holiday, The Ramones, Loretta Lynn, John Lee Hooker

Things I would do with $100,000,000
right now I would send 97,000,000 of it to charity groups for the Gulf of Mexico, give my parents two million, pay off and fix up the house and put the rest in savings.

5 locations I’d like to run away to
Northern Italy, Ireland, ten thousand waves, anywhere slightly cool

5 bad habits I have
money management, thinking negative thoughts, eating unhealthy foods, blurting awkward things, not cleaning up very well

5 things I like doing
knitting, watching movies, shopping, eating, sleeping

5 thing’s I’d never wear
tiny spiky-heeled overpriced shoes, giorgio perfume, big fake fingernails, Republican party paraphinalia, a scarlet A

5 TV shows I like
Upstairs Downstairs, Changing Rooms, Monk, Dead Like Me, Designing Women

5 movies I like
Gosford Park, Amelie, The Royal Tennenbaums, French Kiss, Cold Comfort Farm

5 famous people I’d like to meet
(alive) Alexander McCall Smith, Elizabeth Peters, Bill Clinton, Frances McDormand,
(dead) Katherine Hepburn, Henri Matisse, Hildegarde von Bingen, Eudora Welty, William Blake

5 biggest joys of the moment
iced tea, melon being and eating well, cool sheets, citrus sunrise lip balm, wet dog noses

5 favorite toys
my computer, the goko yarn swift, the hedgehog catnip toy I found at petsmart, water cooler/heater, satellite dish receiver