Random Blast from the Past

Fall 2001

Greg and I had been married one year.


I was in my senior year of college.  After working at a bank for a year after his graduation, Greg had gone back to school to get his teaching degree.


We lived in a cute little house on the downside of a steep hill.


We lived there with a cat much like this one:

Her name was Ivy.  Ivy was much sleeker and trimmer than this kitty.  Nobody but me liked Ivy much.  She was kind of a wild-child, but I blame a lot of that on kitten-hood.  She was about to grow out of it and into being a sweet mellow cat when we moved and she ran away.  I still miss her sometimes!


We, being the sophisticated grown-ups we were, drank a lot of this:

We pretty much kept a pitcher going all the time, to the best of my memory.


Up until Sept 11, 2001 we didn't have cable.  After being in the dark about such a big national catastrophe, we decided to get tv.


Even with it, we spent a lot of evenings eating cereal and playing several rounds of two-person Uno:

We still like to play two-person Uno sometimes before bed.  Some light-hearted him 'n me time before calling it a day.


Or sometimes, when we felt like a good laugh, we would pull out our grammar for some Mad Libs from here:

I can't vouch for anything on the rest of the site, but the 'crazy libs' tend to be pretty funny.  Especially if Greg picks the words.  He's better at that than I am.  But that's okay.  I love to see him laugh!


Of course, not all our evenings were such fun and leisure.  We were both full-time students, I had a part-time job, and we were involved in our church.


We were also involved in something else that took up quite a bit of our time in the fall:

It was a big decision to go back for one more year, but it turned out to be incredibly worth it!  There is no way I can point us out to you, but we're both in there!  Greg is playing melophone, and I am in the colorguard.  Enjoy!

What were you doing in 2001?