‘97: Shitty, shitty job working for the Powers That Be, before I had any idea what to do about such things. Good relationship tho. :-D

‘87 Ah, the tag end of the golden age of home computing. 16/32 bits, full colour, and all of it at my command and my command only, mwahaha, just before Bill assimilated everything. Much, much teenage angst.

‘77 I was 5. In the UK, ‘77 was the Jubilee: 25 years of QE2. In ‘77 this meant they closed the roads, and people put out tables and bunting and threw street parties. Great times. Everyone had bad hair and wore hand-me-down brown corduroy but we were happy.

Scary amount of time. Some things stay the same, some things change, I guess.

1997- registered for college for winter quarter at NSCC. Paul, age ten, was in football and Matt started first grade. Ken was working construction. I worked at Baby Love Maternity at the mall then worked at GTE for two months (horrible job), then was a stay at home mom from July to December 2007.

1987- hottest summer ever in Washington state and I was pregnant with Paul. Paul was born 8/13/87. Was getting use to being a new mom. I was in school fall of 1987 at Peirce College in Tacoma WA. I would not recommend being a student and a new mom all at once. Very difficult! Ken worked at Elmer’s as a cook.

1977- eighth grade year at La Cumbre Jr. High. Was assistant director for “You Can’t Take It With You”. Did a lot of baby sitting. Of course Peter Frampton’s Live Album was out, the rage of all the teenage girls, or was that 76? Star Wars of course! And Jimmy Carters first year in office.

There you have it in a nutshell.

Andrea