This really has been an amazing decade, hasn't it? There's been a lot of change: technological, political, and personal.
This time ten years ago I was 11, in 6th grade. Over the decade I've graduated middle school and high school, gone to college, held a job, had my first drink.
My great-grandparents died, several cousins were born, and we added two dogs to the family.
I saw The Lord of the Rings for the first time, watched House on TV, and read some of my favorite books like The Count of Monte Cristo and Jane Eyre.
I and my family have been a bit battered, some more than others, but we've all come through as stronger people with more understanding and compassion.
So what will this decade bring? I'll be graduating college, and then...who knows? Bring it on, 2010.
The honey and I splurged on a Wii this weekend. It's SO fun! It was a couple hundred bucks for the Wii, with one game and one controller included. The honey wanted to get three additional remotes so we could play 4-player games with friends -- and another game, and a high-resolution cable. Which doubled the cost. D'oh.
Oh well, it's too fun to care. Now my right forearm and shoulder is really sore. How sad that my muscle soreness is coming from a video game these days....
Long ago, when I lived in Boston, my roommates and I had a problem with mice. Now, we were clean people, so it frustrated us that half a dozen mice had taken up residence in our house.
We set out traps and one morning my roommate Julia and I found a poor little mouse stuck to an icky sticky trap. Neither of us had the stomach to deal with it right after waking up, so we walked to Dunkin Donuts and had breakfast.
While we were gone, Kate and Hillary cleaned up the mouse.
Now, living back in California, I have no roommates. So if I go out for donuts, no one will be around to catch and clean up the mouse that is living somewhere downstairs.
I have GOT to get a roommate.
And I need a donut.
See you in 2010!
