The 12-9-6-3 NOW meme
As tagged (and created) by the lovely EF.
TWELVE YEARS AGO, ME: LOCATION: Tall victorian terraced house in Todmorden CHILDREN: Three, aged 3, 5 and 7 JOB: MD of leisure company. Manager of roller skating rink. Mother! TRANSPORT: Car - one of a series of many. Can't remember which one, but it'd be a big family car. Estate or similar. Many seats. EMPLOYEES: Staff at rink, part time nanny, mother's help. All good friends FAVE DRINK: Herb tea LOVE INTEREST: Husband. Still trying to make it work after 8 roller coaster years CONTRACEPTION: Probably not needed by then. WISH FOR FUTURE: Eek. I think I wanted to be divorced. SPONSORS: Customers. Creditors. Parents, to some extent. HAIR: Hair?? Goodness me, I can never remember that. It'd be black and quite long, probably. UNDERWEAR: EF!! I don't know! Erm.... think think.. probably black lycra type stuff. I was working out in gyms a lot at the time. FAVE OUTFIT: Black leggings, silky tops. Good for skating and rushing around. Busy busy busy.
NINE YEARS AGO, ME: LOCATION: This house, on the hill. Sold the Tod house and moved here the year before. Bliss! CHILDREN: 3, aged 6, 8 and 10. JOB: Kung fu/ T'ai chi teacher and loving every minute of it. TRANSPORT: A nippy little VW Polo. EMPLOYEES: Er - none! Bliss, after years of trying to keep track of way too many. FAVE DRINK: Herb tea. LOVE INTEREST: Two or three that year I think. Colleagues, mostly. CONTRACEPTION: Condoms + panics. Then IUD coil. Ugh, hated that. WISH FOR FUTURE: I think I had it all that year. SPONSORS: Students, topped up by government money or the other way around. UNDERWEAR: Just cotton stuff. FAVE OUTFIT: Training gear.
SIX YEARS AGO, ME: LOCATION: As above. CHILDREN: Three, aged 9, 11 and 13. JOB: Home educator. TRANSPORT: A nippy little Peugeot 205. EMPLOYEES: None. FAVE DRINK: Tea. Coffee when living on the wild side. LOVE INTEREST: None I can mention. CONTRACEPTION: Still that IUD coil, but it was on its way out. WISH FOR FUTURE: More children. Was very broody that year. SPONSORS: Dole Office. HAIR: Same as ever. Long. Dark. Maybe a bit shorter than usual. *Shrug* UNDERWEAR: Yep. FAVE OUTFIT: Yep. Oh. Jeans, leggings, whatever.
THREE YEARS AGO, ME: LOCATION: Here again. Still. CHILDREN: Four now. Ages: 2, 12, 15 and 17 JOB: Home educating. Good, innit? I think I might have been running a Warcraft guild by then as well, which was actually a hobby, but felt like a job. TRANSPORT: By foot, by bus, borrowing friend's car. EMPLOYEES: none. FAVE DRINK: Still with the boring old tea and coffee. I didn't suddenly take to drink! Running a pub all those years ago put me off booze for life. LOVE INTEREST: Hmm. None. Maybe. CONTRACEPTION: None. WISH FOR FUTURE: To finish Molten Core and kill Ragnaros. You'd have to be a WoW fan really, to know what I'm on about! SPONSORS: Dole Office. HAIR: Yes. UNDERWEAR: Yes. I'm not really getting into the spirit of this, am I? FAVE OUTFIT: My little WoW priestess had some pretty cool armour...
TODAY, ME: LOCATION: Still here. CHILDREN: Five! Ages: 19, 17, 15, 5 and 1. JOB: Home education-ing. Still loving it. TRANSPORT: This month? None. We're staying put. When it's working: Renault Espace. EMPLOYEES: None. FAVE DRINK: Tea, coffee, yada yada. Ooh: chai. LOVE INTEREST: Absolutely none. I'm far too ruthlessly independent for all that now. CONTRACEPTION: None. WISH FOR FUTURE: To build our new off-grid house and keep on living happily ever after. SPONSORS: HM Govt for now, but not for much longer. And The Green Parent magazine, bless it. HAIR: Yes yes. It's getting many grey streaks now. Should I start dying it? UNDERWEAR: Yes indeed. FAVE OUTFIT: Depends if the heating's working or not. Able to wear black again now, after 11 months of not being able to. Weird thing that - the day I last gave birth I suddenly couldn't wear dark colours any more!
If you haven't seen this before, consider yourself tagged.
TWELVE YEARS AGO, ME: LOCATION: Tall victorian terraced house in Todmorden CHILDREN: Three, aged 3, 5 and 7 JOB: MD of leisure company. Manager of roller skating rink. Mother! TRANSPORT: Car - one of a series of many. Can't remember which one, but it'd be a big family car. Estate or similar. Many seats. EMPLOYEES: Staff at rink, part time nanny, mother's help. All good friends FAVE DRINK: Herb tea LOVE INTEREST: Husband. Still trying to make it work after 8 roller coaster years CONTRACEPTION: Probably not needed by then. WISH FOR FUTURE: Eek. I think I wanted to be divorced. SPONSORS: Customers. Creditors. Parents, to some extent. HAIR: Hair?? Goodness me, I can never remember that. It'd be black and quite long, probably. UNDERWEAR: EF!! I don't know! Erm.... think think.. probably black lycra type stuff. I was working out in gyms a lot at the time. FAVE OUTFIT: Black leggings, silky tops. Good for skating and rushing around. Busy busy busy.
NINE YEARS AGO, ME: LOCATION: This house, on the hill. Sold the Tod house and moved here the year before. Bliss! CHILDREN: 3, aged 6, 8 and 10. JOB: Kung fu/ T'ai chi teacher and loving every minute of it. TRANSPORT: A nippy little VW Polo. EMPLOYEES: Er - none! Bliss, after years of trying to keep track of way too many. FAVE DRINK: Herb tea. LOVE INTEREST: Two or three that year I think. Colleagues, mostly. CONTRACEPTION: Condoms + panics. Then IUD coil. Ugh, hated that. WISH FOR FUTURE: I think I had it all that year. SPONSORS: Students, topped up by government money or the other way around. UNDERWEAR: Just cotton stuff. FAVE OUTFIT: Training gear.
SIX YEARS AGO, ME: LOCATION: As above. CHILDREN: Three, aged 9, 11 and 13. JOB: Home educator. TRANSPORT: A nippy little Peugeot 205. EMPLOYEES: None. FAVE DRINK: Tea. Coffee when living on the wild side. LOVE INTEREST: None I can mention. CONTRACEPTION: Still that IUD coil, but it was on its way out. WISH FOR FUTURE: More children. Was very broody that year. SPONSORS: Dole Office. HAIR: Same as ever. Long. Dark. Maybe a bit shorter than usual. *Shrug* UNDERWEAR: Yep. FAVE OUTFIT: Yep. Oh. Jeans, leggings, whatever.
THREE YEARS AGO, ME: LOCATION: Here again. Still. CHILDREN: Four now. Ages: 2, 12, 15 and 17 JOB: Home educating. Good, innit? I think I might have been running a Warcraft guild by then as well, which was actually a hobby, but felt like a job. TRANSPORT: By foot, by bus, borrowing friend's car. EMPLOYEES: none. FAVE DRINK: Still with the boring old tea and coffee. I didn't suddenly take to drink! Running a pub all those years ago put me off booze for life. LOVE INTEREST: Hmm. None. Maybe. CONTRACEPTION: None. WISH FOR FUTURE: To finish Molten Core and kill Ragnaros. You'd have to be a WoW fan really, to know what I'm on about! SPONSORS: Dole Office. HAIR: Yes. UNDERWEAR: Yes. I'm not really getting into the spirit of this, am I? FAVE OUTFIT: My little WoW priestess had some pretty cool armour...
TODAY, ME: LOCATION: Still here. CHILDREN: Five! Ages: 19, 17, 15, 5 and 1. JOB: Home education-ing. Still loving it. TRANSPORT: This month? None. We're staying put. When it's working: Renault Espace. EMPLOYEES: None. FAVE DRINK: Tea, coffee, yada yada. Ooh: chai. LOVE INTEREST: Absolutely none. I'm far too ruthlessly independent for all that now. CONTRACEPTION: None. WISH FOR FUTURE: To build our new off-grid house and keep on living happily ever after. SPONSORS: HM Govt for now, but not for much longer. And The Green Parent magazine, bless it. HAIR: Yes yes. It's getting many grey streaks now. Should I start dying it? UNDERWEAR: Yes indeed. FAVE OUTFIT: Depends if the heating's working or not. Able to wear black again now, after 11 months of not being able to. Weird thing that - the day I last gave birth I suddenly couldn't wear dark colours any more!
If you haven't seen this before, consider yourself tagged.
posted by Gill at
11:53
6 Comments:
Sorry EF - have taken the link out of there now. xx
That was really interesting. Thanks!
LOL, the baby is **13** months old, not 11! Now, where did those 2 months go...?
OOh I love reading these.
*LOL* Re your undies answer ("Yes"), reminds me of when my dad used to write "Yes" on the gender boxes in forms.
I could never get on with the coil. I doc once approached me with one and I ran off screaming. I've yet to meet a woman who thinks they rock, but each to their own I spose.
I'd forgotten you had this blog, and am now going to read it's archives with my coffeeeeee. xxx
Fanx for doin this meme x
Oh, I'm glad you liked it! Not much else to see here though. Just memes & stuff. I mean. Personal? Moi? ;-)
IUD coils. Uck. I just couldn't live knowing I had that bit of copper sabotaging my natural processes like that. What are we, women or robots?
only thing i liked about the coil was the being able to have sex any time any place - never experienced that before. The periods were hell on earth though and I was so glad to get the bloody thing out in the end and would never ever get one again!
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