Rewind, Fast-Forward.

The thing that I like the most about having a blog - really, the only reason that I have a blog - is that I can click on the handy-dandy archive links on the side of my page and find out what I was doing around this time during the past few years. I have a pretty bad memory, so it's nice to be able to look back and read my posts about what was going on in my life at the time.

So prepare yourselves, folks, for another retrospective post. I know that my last post was a link back, so I guess I'm cheating or being very lame, but... ah well. Own it. ;)

Firstly, congrats to myself and my blog for making it for 4 years! I started this little online journal back in May of 2002 and I can't believe I'm still remembering (for the most part) to post to it. :) I was 22 when I first started posting and looking back and reading my posts from then just cracks me right up now. :) Well, actually, I can't really bear to read half of the posts from the first month or so of the blog because I was going through a break-up then with the evil ex and it's just too embarassing reading about how "heart-broken" I was over that tool. Ew. Shudder. Anyway... This Post is too funny, though. Documents a run-in that Beck and I had in Target with some scary-Jabba-type man. We were such little snots! I love it. :) This Post talks about going out and having fun - something that I rarely did with the ex. Amusingly, I mention hanging out with "Beck's brother" in that post... Yeah, I totally was crushing on him even then. :) So that was June of 02...

I figured that I'd continue to cruise through the Junes of my past. June of 2003 found me working at Mercury (ugh) and living on my own in my first apartment on Glenwood Street. I espescially enjoyed reading my apartment post. Glenwood was such a nice place.... I was very motivated with Weight Watchers in June of 2004. Also, I was apparently a lot more spontanious. Actually, I guess I just hated my job... but in that post I called into work to go to the Great Escape for the day and I know that now I'd never do that - I'd feel too guilty. Sigh.

June of 2005 blew. Tomorrow is exactly a year since the fire. I still miss Glenwood Street. Such a cute apartment, such a nice area. And I still miss my couch and coffee table and tv armoire. Glenwood Street still feels like home. :( Winnie Street ended up sucking, and this current apartment is very cute - but my neighbors are all kind of scummy. Well, and I'm a snob. So this place still doesn't quite feel like home yet. I can't wait to have a house. I'm hoping that when we have a house, that will actually feel like home... Anyway, I guess that's enough whining.

This June is obviously much better than last June, so far. ;) Although, Alex and I are so grown up now. :( Last night was Friday night and we were in bed, asleep, by 10:30. Ew. Of course, that's because Alex is out taking the Firefighter's Exam right now, so we wanted to be rested up for this morning, but that doesn't really excuse every other weekend night recently when we've been spending the night on the sofa. I guess that's just what happens when you both work all week and by the time the weekend comes along, you just want to relax. We're lame. So after all of this rewinding, I want to fast-forward. The summer looms long and uneventful in front of us. No vacations planned. Nothing real cool happening until the fall. So can I fast-forward now? I'd like to go to September, please. Irish Fest, and then a few short weeks later, Disney World!