Cicadas
mate every 17 years and this is the year. They are very noisy right now and
they bother me when I am trying to sleep. Last night I was thinking about what
I was doing 17 years ago.
It
would have been 1996.
I
had been married for 6 years. I believe my sister & her now husband were
dating because I remember going out on a double date w/ them and my future BIL
talking about the cicadas. Of course, it could have been the year they
got married…
My
little sister was still alive. By this time of the year, I think she was in
the process of moving to AZ to be near mom. Or she might have already moved
there. I have to say, that I am not always good at remembering when stuff
happened. I go off of how old people were when an event happened. The Girl
would have been 4 and her brother 1 and that was when my sister took them to
AZ. Of course, it could have been later in the year… I just don’t know. If I
kept a proper journal, I would know these things.
On
the Price is Right, they have a game called Then & Now where you have to
choose products and decide if the price is from now or some date in the past
(like 1986). Sometimes I watch it and think did they have that back in 1986? My
life is just like that, I just ask myself “did that exist in 1996?”
I
realize I have not blogged in over 2 years. I have no good reason for it, just
less time to write them during work. The Girl has moved out… it was not easy at
the time, but it is done. And I have a room of my own. I am going to turn it
into a craft room. I have learned how to sew. I have made 2 things and they are
not too bad. This jumper is one of them. It contains actual straight seams!
Next
year I am going to challenge myself with knitting 52 hats, one a week. I will
blog about it. I promise!
