It's January, 1987. Where were you?

[DeposeTheBoyKing]

I was mourning the death of my mother on January 15th. Fortunately a HOT Hungarian goalkeeper bought me a drink and kept me from falling completely apart. Then I drove home on the icy roads and tried not to bawl myself to death.

[Left Is Write]

1. I'm sorry.

I was thinking of ways to tell my parents I was making them grandparents in a few months' time. (I was 20 years old, unmarried, and about four months pregnant.)

[flamingyouth]

2. I was being initiated into my sorority

I'd tell you all about it, but I'd have to kill you. ;)

Sorry about your mom, but hooray for the hot Hungarian goalkeeper. :hug:

[NightTrain]

3. I was 20 years old, standing in the bathroom with a butcher knife,

staring at myself in the mirror, and deciding whether or not to open a vein. Suffice it to say, that wasn't a good time in my life!

[DeposeTheBoyKing]

5. YIKES!!

Seriously? So glad you decided not to open that vein!!

[Left Is Write]

11. Night Train -

I'm glad you're here to tell the tale.

[JohnKleeb]

4. 2nd month being a fetus

[DeposeTheBoyKing]

6. When is your birthday?

[JohnKleeb]

9. July 24th

I was born 8 months in to the pregancy.

[Danmel]

7. I'm sorry about your Mom. I lost my mom in February of 1998.

In January of 1987, actually just a few days from now I met my husband at a party with no food. He instantly liked me when I managed to procure some food for the assemblage ( I kid you not)

[DeposeTheBoyKing]

10. Sorry about your mom too. But happy about the husband!

[B Calm]

8. Taking the third wage and benifit concession so the company

can be more profitable.

[x-g.o.p.er]

12. I was at USAF Survival School, Fairchild AFB, WA

It was freezing, and I was sleep-deprived, hungry, bitch-slapped while in "captivity", forced into stress positions, and learned more about myself than in any other situation I have been in before or since, save actual no-shit bullets flying combat.

It was the best training course I have ever attended, but no way in a million, billion years would I want to do it again.

I would honest to God rather go back into combat than go through that course again.

[MrScorpio]

26. You should've hopped over to Clark with me

It was a lot more fun than Fairchild for sure.

[x-g.o.p.er]

27. I bet it was!

Never made it to the PI, but I heard stories about that place.

LOTS of stories.

[MrScorpio]

28. And guess what...

They're ALL true

[x-g.o.p.er]

29. LOL!!! n/t

[Cobalt Violet]

13. Having a very tough time finding a job in the Reagan Depression.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

14. First year teaching at a small college in Oregon

I wasn't teaching during January Term, so I was spending a lot of time in the town where my then-gentleman friend lived. :-)

[Massacure]

15. I was in two pieces of DNA during January 1987.

[Midnight Rambler]

16. Five years old

Watching "Transformers"

[no name no slogan]

17. Starting college courses during Sr. yr of high school

A new program started in my state the previous year that allowed high school students to get HS credit for college courses-- which were also paid for by the state, too.

So, essentially, I spent the last 1/2 of my senior year taking courses at a local college. Since I hated everything about high school, it was a perfect solution. I got my intellect challenged, avoided the stupid social scene at high school, and got a free half-year of college. Not a bad deal at all.

[NNadir]

18. I was a little two years into my marriage.

My wife and I were dead broke, but we had this idyllic life together, making love, drinking coffee, running on the beaches of LA, talking, dreaming, watching films, listening to music.

We did a lot of struggling, but I felt so excited, so alive, somehow.

[Hans Delbrook]

19. Starting the process of turning my life around.

Long story but that was a watershed year for me. Wow - has it been that long?

[Boswells_Johnson]

20. At the record store buying Deep Purple's latest cd

"The House of Blue Light"

[MrScorpio]

21. 16 Jan 1987. I just flew into Clark Air Base in the Phillpines...

For 30 days of pure, unmitigated debauchery.

Every deviated perversion that you can imagine... and some that you can't.

I left there a man changed beyond all recognition.

Ahhh, those were the days.

[BamaGirl]

22. I was 15

and, um, those years are a little blurry lol. ;) In hs, in Atlanta, having a ball.

[Penndems]

23. Working like a trojan as a secretary in the Office of Communications,

U.S. Department of State in Washington, DC. I was a single, 31-year-old woman renting a one-bedroom apartment in Arlington, Virginia (that I never really had time to decorate) which I shared with a female tabby named "Biddy".

[TOhioLiberal]

24. Awaiting...

...the birth of my second (and last) child, due at the end of April. My entire family thought it would be SO CUTE if the little tyke would be born on my birthday, April 27th. My standard response? Oh sure that's the place I wanna be on my birthday, at the hospital, in labor x(. As it turned out, he was born on April 22nd :).

[salin]

25. Series of snowstorms dumped 2 feet of snow in DC

which was woefully unprepared... so I have to guess that I was snuggled up somewhere enjoying the company of another stranded special someone ... well that would have been after we drove the car into a snow bank and had to walk home, thaw out, etc.

[yellowdogintexas]

30. working 4 part time jobs

and my daughter was just a little past 2 yrs old.


Long time ago.

Selling Tupperware
mornings at one business
afternoons at another business
and about 10 hrs a week doing data extraction from medical records for
a study being conducted by a couple of doctors ( I had worked for them before)

Mostly, I was exhausted

[deadparrot]

31. Gestating...one month away from being born.

[Liberal Christian]

32. I was negotiating the call to my first pastorate

Serving an interim in Wisconsin, I'd just finished seminary and was working on the interviews and call sermon for my first church in suburban Detroit.

I came home, gave notice to resign my interim position, was ordained on February 22, started work at the church on Ash Wednesday, and moved to Michigan. I guess that makes 18 years of ordination this February. Who knew I'd be doing anything for that long???

[BBradley]

33. Sucking on my mothers teet.

[Valerie5555]

34. Nearly 16 and unable to help but find myself

:scared: for Terry Waite the British hostage intermediary who became a hostage himself.

[Susang]

35. Working at the Kalamazoo Hilton Comedy Club

And finishing my bachelor's degree in theatre.

[realisticphish]

36. pooping

and eating. and sleeping.


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