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[fflo]

Just back from the International No Diet Day bake sale for NOLOSE across from the farmers' market this morning. About to head out for Kentucky Derby party.

I realized as I was making cookies last night that they were the first I baked in something like TEN YEARS. That is to say, the last time I made cookies before yesterday, at least most of the following were true:

upsidedownblue hadn't yet kissed a boy;
pijeanf still lived on the other side of the continental divide (and maybe even in CA);
vjsmom worked at the Archives & wouldn't have a kid for another five years;
homovegetarian was still working on her B.A.;
infinitepresent and elmur_fudd hadn't been through the third grade;
sprig5 and I hadn't even met yet.

In other words, it'd been a long time since I'd made cookies.

What else was true over ten years ago?

Comments

[wednes.livejournal.com]

10 years ago:

I had no criminal record.

I was constantly at odds with my mother, her husband, and one brother.

I was a McDonalds manager.

I did not own more than 2 dresses.

I shaved my legs religiously and was on a constant search for men.

I had never heard of South Park, Harry Potter or Thelema.

[wednes.livejournal.com]

Well, someone had. It's an actual place.

;-)

[wednes.livejournal.com]

LOL

[groovesinorbit]

And I've been there.

[disclaimerwill.livejournal.com]

Ten years ago:

I'd never driven a car (even to the extent that I "drive" now, which, as the number of tickets I've received will tell you, is still a rather loose usage of the word).

I hadn't yet written a single record review.

Soul Rotation by The Dead Milkmen was my favorite album. (Still a favorite, but not the favorite.) Monty Python and the Holy Grail was my favorite movie. (Again, I still love it, though it's no longer number one.)

I still ate meat.

I weighed pretty much the same as I do now.

I wasn't friends with anyone I'm currently friends with, I don't think. (Maybe my friend Jim? I can't really remember the timeline. But he's the only one who's even close.)

Umm... I think the rest is probably too depressing to contemplate. The ol' teen years weren't that kind to me.

[fflo.livejournal.com]

You're not the only one of my favorite people who would be loathe to revisit teenagedom.

[peteralway.livejournal.com]

Ten years ago...
My ex and I were on the same team.
I was working on my "Rockets of the World" poster. I was trying to make a living off of my books alone
My first bunny pal, Frida, would not be born for 2 1/2 months.

[peteralway.livejournal.com]

And my entire musical life was stuffed, out-of-sight, out-of-mind, in my blue corduroy dulcimer bag.

[fflo.livejournal.com]

I almost put something in my original list about you being pre-filk then. I knew the dulcimer was there but dormant.

Ten Years Ago ...

[groovesinorbit]

I'd been in CO for less than a year.

I had 5 cats, only one of whom I have now.

R&I owned our home, which we don't anymore.

I was unemployed, soon to be hired at the bakery.

There was 10 feet of snow on the ground that wouldn't completely melt until July. Welcome to Colorado.

Re: Ten Years Ago ...

[fflo.livejournal.com]

Speaking as a homeowner whose circumstances changed rather unexpectedly, maybe it's not always such a bad thing to go back to renting. (Especially to have a place like yours.)

Re: Ten Years Ago ...

[groovesinorbit]

No, it's not always a bad thing. Less responsibility is always good. I'll be glad when we have our own place again, though.

Ten years ago . . .

[vjsmom.livejournal.com]

I was drinking heavily (of course that was true ten months ago).

Jeffrey was not born or even contemplated.

I was not speaking to one person that I talk to all the time now.

I hadn't met most of the people I now consider friends.

I don't think I'd kissed a woman.

Re: Ten years ago . . .

[fflo.livejournal.com]

Well, considering Denise left our lives circa 1993, I think you're wrong on that last one. (You did kiss her, yes? I'm pretty sure pijeanf did.) (She was a good kisser! Sadly, the H-bomb was even better.)

Re: Ten years ago . . .

[groovesinorbit]

I did. Twice!

Never had the pleasure

[vjsmom.livejournal.com]

Nope--I never did kiss Denise. You know who the first woman I kissed was; you've just forgotten--the Hippo after the sensual opera after the sensual Italian dinner. . . . then the woman opted not to take it any further even though at that point I was pretty receptive to the idea. . . . ah--rejected again (yes, that's a joke).

Re: Never had the pleasure

[fflo.livejournal.com]

What are you doing up, girl? I thought you were going to bed over an hour ago.

Somehow I hadn't realized that was your first woman-kissing. That was some good kissing. It was indeed a sensual night all around, Samson et Dalila not the least of it.

And believe me, I wanted to.