bakin'

[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?

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[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.