Monday Monday....what a meme!

Thought we could all use a break from hot button issues. Here's a fun little meme I lifted from My Utopia.

20 years ago I was:
- finishing up my first year of high school in Colorado . Highlights for the year - joined the volleyball team with mixed results, discovered the Forensics team and Drama Club with much better results. Slowly still adjusting after having moved from another state the previous year.

15 years ago I was:
- Older and wiser Sophomore at Drake University and learning some hard lessons about life and love. Made the decision to stay in Des Moines and work over the summer instead of going home. That summer was as educational as any classroom could have been.

10 years ago I was:
- having a mid-20's crisis (similar to a mid-life crisis only with a lot more unnecessary angst), still working my first real post college job but getting itchy feet, and still learning a lot of hard lessons about life and love. Living in my own apartment all by myself and enjoying my freedom but struggling with loneliness.

5 years ago I was:
- Happily married, no children but planning to start a family very soon. Working my second post college job. Experiencing the joys and heartache of home ownership - celebrating our one year anniversary in the house. Mourning my grandmother who went home to be with God in January of that year.

3 years ago I was:
- Planning my daughter's first birthday party. The sole breadwinner while hubby was on unemployment for 7 months and struggling to make ends meet. Working my second post college job and trying to balance work and motherhood. Wondering if I needed to start looking for a new job but not ready mentally/emotionally.

Last year I was:
A year and a half into my third post college job. Really annoyed at having been handed a crap project that would last the entire summer and beyond. Still balancing work/motherhood and struggling to make ends meet.

This year I am:
-Planning my daughter's fourth birthday party. Will reach my third anniversary with my current job - getting itchy to try something new but not ready to commit to a plan of action. Celebrating 7 years of wedded bliss. Still haven't mastered work/motherhood but getting better at it. Still struggling to make ends meet...wondering if they ever will.

Yesterday I:
- Enjoyed our traditional Relays Sunday Brunch with the usual suspects. Watched Chariots of Fire with hubby and for the first time I did not run in slow motion through the room during the opening credits.

Today I:
- went to work, wondered about the sanity of my fellow human beings, had an uncharitable thought about a co-worker, ran a yellow light (twice) , hugged/kissed my daughter/hubby and said 'I love you', thanked God for my many blessings, complained to God about lingering problems, experienced great optimism for the future, doubted things will ever change, thought about a friend overseas, thought about a friend in another state, thought about my parents/siblings, read my favorite web sites, put off working on a project, finished a project, sighed in frustration, laughed at something absurd and listened to my biological clock tick.

Tomorrow I will:
- get up and do it all over again.