Year Meme: 1998

[wrenb]

buzzy_bee gave me 1998.

I started off 1998 with a bang and got engaged at DH's family's cabin in Cloudcroft, NM. It was lovely and low-key, and startled me no end. In March I turned 21and my grandparents gave me a wonderful combination birthday/engagement present: a Kitchen Aid stand mixer. It may have seemed like an odd gift for a college junior, but it was just what I wanted. I may have a photo somewhere of it standing below the lofted bed in DH's dorm room.

In the summer of 1998 I worked at Denison Library; partly shifting the stacks and partly going through photos from special collections. It was a good summer. We lived in a 1 bedroom apartment that we would share with Drew's longtime roommate, John, when school started again.

That was the year I cooked my first Thanksgiving turkey. It fell apart when we tried to transfer it from the roasting pan to the cutting board! We ate around an elevated coffee table.

By the end of the fall semester I had defended my senior thesis, something about low-level depression in college students.

Comments

[ukelele.livejournal.com]

Someone else on my flist has been doing a few of these, and your opener startled the heck out of me -- I thought it was her, and I was all "wait! they can't have gotten engaged that long ago! Wasn't she still dating someone else then?!?"

But then I realized the chances that she would spend time on the kind of internet sites where one picks up the acronym "DH" are very low, and thought to check the username ;).

[springbok1.livejournal.com]

I like this meme. I would like a year, if you feel inclined to be giving them out. :)

[wrenb.livejournal.com]

How about 2000?