wrenb | Year Meme: 1998

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.