One Sentence Per Year of My Life
So this is my life in one sentence per year:
1. I was born in Burlington Vermont and I was nearly two week past my due date.
2. We move to Barrington, RI and my earliest memories of my life are playing with a slinky at our rental house.
3. My little sister is born, and when I went to visit her in the hospital I was more interested in eating my mother's fruit salad than paying any attention to my baby sister.
4. I decided that I wanted to be a doctor when I grew up and I tried unsuccessfully to convince mom that I should quit my dance classes in favor of doctor classes.
5 After some trepdiation about ski school classes I had such a wonderful time skiing that I decided I wanted to ski every day for the rest of my life.
6. I learned how to read with the Frog and Toad series, while my father read Chronicles of Narnia and Wizard of Oz series to me, setting me up to be a lifelong fan of fantasy/sci fi genre
7,. After a lot of false starts including an experiment where my dad took one training wheel off my bike and kept the other one on for a few weeks I learned how to ride a bike
8. Inspired by the 1992 Olympics I spent my entire summer doing cartwheels on the front lawn pretending I was Shannon Miller or Kim Zmeskal.
9. My family went on this huge road trip from Rhode Island down to Florida; the highlight was the night where we got to a hotel that claimed it was fully booked until my sister and I charmed the clerk into letting us the stay in their for emergencies only room (my parents were so grateful they bought us frozen yogurt).
10. Several events led me to the realization that the world was not always a nice place: I read the diary of Anne Frank, I had two fallings out with good friends (one of whom said some really vile anti semetic things to me) and we moved to Virginia under some very unhappy circumstances
11. Inspired by many re-readings of the baby sister club books and the fact that Ididn't really like any of the babysitters in Virginia, I successfully convinced my parents that I am old enough to babysit my little sister.
12. My dad shows me how to use the internet - my first web search is for puppy breeds which leads to my parents finally making good ont their promise to get a puppy when we moved to Viginia
13. I experience the fleeting promise of popularity when I celebrated my Bat Mitzvah - for many of my conservative christen classmates had never seen a temple before, much less celebrated a Bat Mitzvah.
14. When I blew out the candles on my cake I wished that I could have my first kiss and then a few weeks later my wish came true, followed by my first date and my first boyfriend.
15. I get hooked on all things vampires (at least where hot vampires are concerned) and watched Buffy the Vampire Slayer religiously for Angel sightings, and also watch Interview with a Vampire at least a dozen times.
16. In lieu of a big splashy sweet 16 party which was favored by some of my classmates, I go see RENT with some theatre geek friends for my16th birthday.
17. I had one of the happiest times of my life at young writer's camp, one of the few places where weird, creative, diffrerent kids can be the themselves and it opened my eyes up and my mind up about not being judgemental.
18 After years of being the understudy or walk on I finally get a lead in a school play, Elizabeth Proctor in the Crucible although I nearly get the part taken away from me, prehaps proof that I wasn't that great shakes as an actor.
19 I go from attending a private school with a population of 500 to a huge university with a population of 20,000 undergrads which I loved it and despite all odds I met, befriended and then started dating Mr. C.
20. I exit teenagehood for the roaring twenties by start livejorunal as an experiment to see if I can keep an online journal better than I can keep a pen and paper one (my first entry is about being obsessed with crappy reality shows, tsk tsk)
21. First legal drink is strawberry margaritas at Mi Ranchos and I come to the realization that now that I am legally an adult I need to start putting all my baggage about being a social pariah for the majority of middle school and high school behind me.
22. The only time I get a score of 100 in college is on a test that I forgot to study for because I had been in Cancun for the past 4 days and I was sick with a cold and I crammed for about half an hour beforehand. -How I managed to pass that test, let alone ace it continues to be a mystery.
23. I enter the terrible wilderness known as unempolyment/under employement and I can't seem to get a job that lasts.
24. C and I get married.