Sometimes I write myself letters, that I can't open for years. I just found one today that was meant for 2009. Yay! It was actually meant for January. And judging by the first line of it, I opened the last one late too.What was going on in 1999...
* We often tease my dad for talking about religion, and apparently on his 50th birthday we threw him an (in-family) religious themed party. I don't even remember! Stepmommy made a cross-shaped cake, we had cross-pictured plates, and balloons with Bible figures on them.... Oh wait... I do vaguely remember buying the religious posters and banners. My anti-religious husband apparently loved the banners.
* Fernando was working the night shift.
* Lord Sherringham's current names were: Sherry, Sherry Beans, Beanie, Kakebeenwa , Beanie Baby.
Lord Tigernan's: Tiger, Nombly, Nomms, Nombalogne, Pooks, Pook-de-Ville, and (this one only by Fernando) Shithead.
* Tigernan had a heart murmur, was breathing funny, and just had a urinary tract infection. Sherry still sometimes had blood in his stool (that's gone), acne, dirty ears (he must clean them now, because that got better this year), and hairballs. He was also sporting a Fernando Haircut.
* Hm this was soon after we were married--had just bought the queen mattress.
* Fernando interests: bikes, camping, guns, go-carts, wilderness survival, preparing for Y2K, buying bed sheets, golf, bow-hunting, and primitive living. (Don't know what that means!)
* His dislikes: Yeti (a stuffed sasquatch I ran around with at the time), Religionspeak, Marx Brothers movies, movies that inspire copycat crimes, pickled stuff.
* I was wearing my turquoise Turkish dress, a Darth Vader watch, no earrings, dyed blonde hair with bangs, longish and layered and tied back. (I don't have the dress anymore, nor the watch, now bleach my hair, same cut apparently, but impossible to ever tie back cause I'd get a headache in one minute.)
* I had recently inherited the money from my grandfather which I later used for university.
* I was researching the Marx Brothers, writing a Harlequin (not sure which book that means!).
* I was thinking about going back to university, had just been made zone manager at work, and had apparently turned down the chance to take online Ryerson courses through work (but I must have changed my mind, cause I took 3.)
* Ahhhh Fuentes!!! Aaaahahahahaaa! Apparently my latest Crispy story was that he admired Larry Stevenson for being so honest. Must have been just after Stevenson came to the story to have a one-on-one talk with him?
* I was still attending church, but must have been near the end. Ah yes--I was up for renewal on the board, and didn't get it. I stopped soon after. (I wasn't bitter, just felt I had reached the end of my usefulness to others, and to myself.) Id been attending for 10 years. (I still believe in God but never joined another church.)
* My dad was still making his plane (that went on for these 10 years!) Step-mommy now had birds (awww but that first one is gone now.) Pablo worked nights at the radio station; Muthah had laser eye surgery and decorating her house.
* My grandfather died a month before.
* My dad's fave topic at the time was suffering. (Yes, that's my dad.)
* I was into the Star Wars Joseph Campbell hero journey thing. (Something I'm still all about, though the details of my spiritual beliefs have changed a lot from this letter.)
* While writing I was listening to Steve Bell's "This is Love", and the last book that had really moved me was Connie Willis' Doomsday Book.
Hm! Innnteresting. Well, I'll have to write a new letter for the next ten years. I should make some predictions this time, it would be more entertaining.
