While commenting on a blogpost from one of my friendly interwebz neighbours, I casually dropped that I used to blog before it became popular. I was totally an early adapter, I wanted to brag… and then I realized HOW FRIGGING LONG ago this was. That first tentative post at the end of June, saying I’d probably never touch that livejournal again? Was in June 2001.
JUNE 2001, people! That’s over eight years ago! (insert pause here while Lannie faints)
Eight years ago. You know, when I was still working at the helpdesk, starting for my Bachelor’s Degree was the first seedling in my emo-befuddled brain. I was still a blonde. Olli and I were living together for two years at that point. I was emo, whiney, dramatic, and totally seeing problems where there weren’t really any. Or if they weren’t any problems for me, I took the problems of others and made them my own.
I started off blogging with a few painfully honest introspective entries, and took it from there. All in all I can say that when I look back at the girl – barely out of her teens and so obviously battling with trying to grow up – that wrote those blog entries… that’s not me anymore. Maybe for the better. But let’s not go there.
What I thought would be funny to see, especially since the past few years I’m kind of making bucket lists, is a list of things I NEVER thought I’d do way back in 2001, and what I’ve done anyway.
Here’s the list, in no particular order:
- get married
- obtain a Bachelor’s Degree in Human Resource Management
- obtain a Post-Bachelor’s Degree in Training & Teamcoaching
- go wild water rafting
- dye my hair red for over four years on end
- become a child of divorced parents
- go on ski vacation
- get my boobs autographed
- get my driver’s license
- get headhunted
- land Olli a job through my own
- rock out at metal festivals and concerts
- get initiated into reiki
- get tattooed
- camp in the snow
- organise my own festival
- write a novel in a month (I’ve done that seven times now)
- write the first draft of a novel in FIVE DAYS
- leaving Hoorn move to the general area of The Hague
- eat herring and LIKING it
- buy a house
- buy a new car
- dance through a deserted train
*grins* what a great list!
…if there’s anything weird/awesome/lifechanging that I’ve done that you can remind me of, you know where to find the comment button! 
*takes a bow*
That is indeed an awesome list!