reminiscing....

[emmasmommy]

So, there's been this little status thing on facebook going around, where someone gives you a year and you answer a few questions about that year. i thought it'd be kinda fun to do that here. we always know about what's going on in the here and now with each other, but wouldn't it be fun to see what was going on 'back then?'

so, here ya go, answer these questions for the year 2000
The year was:
I was:
I lived in:
My favourite movie:
My favorite thing to do:
My biggest fear:

[emmasmommy]

The year was: 2000
I was: 23
I lived in: Muncie, IN
My favourite movie: Welcome to the Dollhouse or Drop Dead Gorgeous
My favorite thing to do: Hang out at Dill Street on Wednesday nights for penny drafts
My biggest fear: not being able to see Darik on the weekend. we had just gotten back together and that year of being at school was HORRIBLE for me.

[NeverendingJen]

The year was: 2000
I was: 14
I lived in: Utah
My favourite movie: Sound of Music
My favorite thing to do: play ngiht games with friends
My biggest fear: not having a boyfriend

[pewtertm]

The year was: 2000
I was: 29
I lived in: Houston, TX
My favourite movie: Erin Brockovich or Miss Congeniality
My favorite thing to do: read
My biggest fear: mom dying of cancer (she was undergoing chemo for non-Hodgkins lymphoma that year)

[heathergw]

The year was: 2000
I was: 27
I lived in: Winfield, IL
My favourite movie: I have no clue lol
My favorite thing to do: hang out with Mark
My biggest fear: losing Mark (we met and were engaged in 2000)

[MamaBee]

The year was: 2000
I was: 24
I lived in: Grand Chute, WI
My favourite movie: My BestFriends Wedding or The Night at the Roxberry
My favorite thing to do: mini-movie marathons in my apartment while scrapbooking (I had just started traditional scrapping my photos from a 13 week business trip to England)
My biggest fear: rejection... my parents were going through a divorce, didn't know that in two months I would have a huge fight with my dad and not speak to him for 5 years.

[Gemma]

I was: 14
I lived in: Newcastle, UK.
My favourite movie: Seriously can't remember lol.
My favorite thing to do: Sitting with my friends and babysitting my Aunt's 2 kids! :
My biggest fear: Being forced to move away from my friends (it didn't happen in the end)

[kim21673]

The year was: 2000
I was: 27
I lived in: Streator, IL
My favourite movie: don't have a clue
My favorite thing to do: going out with friends
My biggest fear: being single forever

[Tracyfish]

The year was: 2000
I was: 25
I lived in: Lakeland, FL
My favourite movie: Coyote Ugly
My favorite thing to do: Fishing with my soon-to-be hubby and planning my wedding
My biggest fear: That something would go terribly wrong at the wedding

[adrianka]

The year was: 2000
I was: 24
I lived in: Bratislava, Slovakia
My favourite movie: Gladiator
My favorite thing to do: Probably website creation, reading Harry Potter and thinking up HP fanfiction without knowing (yet) that there are thousands of people out there who do the same and publish it online.
My biggest fear: No idea, probably never finding the right partner.

[cardinalskate]

The year was: 2000
I was: 19
I lived in: A little no-name town in rural Missouri
My favorite movie: Erin Brockovich
My favorite thing to do: Hang out with Brandon and plan our wedding. Oh, and dork that I am, I loved doing my homework for classes.
My biggest fear: Being alone. My WHOLE FAMILY (2 sisters, mother, and little brother) had just moved across country to Washington State. I decided to stay in Missouri because I had met my future husband. It was scary feeling alone, but I haven't really been alone since I met my hubby.

[Buggie185]

I was: 26
I lived in: My own little apartment by myself in Oregon City, OR (I loved that place)
My favourite movie: I have no idea
My favorite thing to do: Spending time with friends especially my then boyfriend, now husband, I loved doing good work at my job
My biggest fear: I can't think of anything

[Priscilla]

The year was 2000.
I was 19 years old.
I was living with my mom, again. ( I had been living with my dad and then on my own before the wreck)
My favorite movie: I have no idea ... I don't think I watched much TV that year.
My favorite thing to do: Surf the web. It was still new to me.
Biggest fear: How I was going to learn to drive again and move out and start my own life. AGAIN.

Afterall, it was only a few months after I was paralyzed.

[Jengerbread88]

The year was: 2000 (my brother was born that year!)
I was: 11
I lived in: Spring Hill (same place I live now)
My favourite movie: Titanic
My favorite thing to do: Read
My biggest fear: Fed Ex

[taracotta7]

The year was: 2000
I was: 24 years old
I lived in: Midwest City, OK (I hated it....hubby owned a house there when we first got married and I was stuck living there for 5 years. Totally sucked)
My favorite movie: I watched a lot of movies at that point....had lots of favs.
My favorite thing to do: Honestly? Work or go out with friends. Wasn't the best time in our marriage at that point. I just wanted to stay away as much as possible to avoid arguments.
My biggest fear: Being stuck in an unhappy marriage and never leaving Midwest City.

(the good news is the following year, everything turned around for us and we have been happy ever since! )

[digideb]

The year was: 2000
I was: 14
I lived in: Albany, GA
My favourite movie: Anne of Green Gables. Always will be! But, if it's suppoesd to be a movie that came out then...Model Behavior or The Color of Friendship...both Disney Channel movies. lol
My favorite thing to do: shop & talk about boys!
My biggest fear: cockroaches. lol I really wasn't afraid of much!

[MandaT]

The year was:2000
I was:16

I lived in: Mon ta gue, CA; this was during the time I started living with my aunt/uncle

My favourite movie: Never really watched many movies, Pure Country & 8 Seconds were still high on my list

My favorite thing to do: Spend time with my BF in another town, doing farmy/country things

My biggest fear: losing him (he had a really bad ATV accident, with major head trauma )

[Kenzi]

The year was: 2000
I was: 19 turning 20
I lived in: Boise, ID/ Provo, UT
My favourite movie: So I married and Axe Murderer
My favorite thing to do: Hag out with my roommates and my boyfriend/fiance
My biggest fear: getting married... and not getting married and losing Brandon. I was young and he wanted to get married but I wasn't sure. I didn't want to lose him but I thought I was too young to get married yet. We called it quits for a couple weeks, but then I realized I really did want to marry him and what was I so scared of anyways, so we got married. It has been happily every after since...well most of the time

[kscwgirl]

The year was: 2000
I was: 24
I lived in: Kansas City KS
My favourite movie: no idea
My favorite thing to do: go to the bar
My biggest fear: that my uncle would pass away before our wedding (we got married in Sept of 2000)

[chastml]

The year was: 2000
I was: 18 turning 19
I lived in: Springfield, MO
My favourite movie: I don’t remember.
My favorite thing to do: Drive home for the weekend.
My biggest fear: Finding myself stuck in a life I didn’t want.

[cbettua]

The year was: 2000
I was: 17
I lived in: Sunrise, Fl
My favourite movie: I don't know probably bring it on, still my fav
My favorite thing to do: Hang out with friends and boyfriend
My biggest fear: being alone

[mdb21]

The year was: 2000
I was: 28
I lived in: Falls City, Nebraska
My favourite movie: Coyote Ugly
My favorite thing to do: Cuddle with my daughter - she was born in February.
My biggest fear: My husband. Very scary time in my life.

[newfiemountiewife]

The year was: 2000
I was: 24
I lived in: Lewisporte, NL my home town
My favourite movie: Final Destination
My favorite thing to do: touch my pregnant belly, and then, playing with my baby. We watched the Sydney Olympics live in the middle of the night
My biggest fear: something being wrong with my baby and other miscellaneous first time pregnant mom fears

[Lauramarie]

The year was: 2000
I was: 27
I lived in: Whittier, CA
My favourite movie: No idea what I was watching back then
My favorite thing to do: A year earlier I would say party with my friends but this year I made a 360 degree change in my life and ways. I was probably looking for a fireman to date (LOL)
My biggest fear: never accomplishing anything

[Freckles]

The year was: 2000
I was: 24
I lived in: Ghent, Belgium
My favourite movie: Memento
My favorite thing to do: partying
My biggest fear: I was pretty fearless at that time

[Traci Reed]

The year was: 2000
I was: 16
I lived in: Rocklin, CA
My favourite movie: The Breakfast Club (I'm a classics kinda girl)
My favorite thing to do: Photography
My biggest fear: My Dad! LOL

[emmasmommy]

Originally Posted by Jengerbread88

The year was: 2000 (my brother was born that year!)
I was: 11
I lived in: Spring Hill (same place I live now)
My favourite movie: Titanic
My favorite thing to do: Read
My biggest fear: Fed Ex

why was your biggest fear Fed Ex?

[nikkiARNGwife]

The year was: 2000
I was: 26
I lived in: Brandon, MS - rooming in an apt with my best friend and younger sister
My favourite movie: Gladiator - still one of my top 5
My favorite thing to do: hang out with Brian (we were engaged that year) and my friends
My biggest fear: tornadoes

[Paula]

The year was: 2000
I was: 34
I lived in: Jones Creek, Texas
My favourite movie: Gladiator and American Beauty
My favorite thing to do: scrapbook (did paper back then)
My biggest fear: having enough money to pay my bills while hubby was in school

[Stacey42]

The year was:2000
I was:33
I lived in:The house I live in now
My favourite movie: Clue
My favorite thing to do: Go out to dinner
My biggest fear: Having kids

[Megan Turnidge]

The year was: 2000
I was: 14
I lived in: Tucson, AZ
My favourite movie: I have no idea!
My favorite thing to do: Hang out at my friends' houses
My biggest fear: My step-mother (thankfully, she moved out during the divorce a year later)

[misfitinmn]

The year was: 2000
I was: 18
I lived in: Rochester, MN (though about to move off to college)
My favourite movie: Moulin Rouge
My favorite thing to do: hang out with friends
My biggest fear: moving out on my own!

[Becca Bonneville]

The year was: 2000
I was: 25
I lived in: Dwight, IL
My favourite movie: um..wow I can't remember haha
My favorite thing to do: Hanging out with friends and family
My biggest fear: That was the year my first husband had two severe strokes. It changed my life as I knew it at that time and I was very fearful of what I was going to do at 25 with a 3 year old.

[pewtertm]

Originally Posted by emmasmommy

why was your biggest fear Fed Ex?

LOL I was wondering the same thing

And Tara...what was so bad about MWC?

[emmasmommy]

Originally Posted by BeccaBoo

The year was: 2000
I was: 25
I lived in: Dwight, IL
My favourite movie: um..wow I can't remember haha
My favorite thing to do: Hanging out with friends and family
My biggest fear: That was the year my first husband had two severe strokes. It changed my life as I knew it at that time and I was very fearful of what I was going to do at 25 with a 3 year old.

dude. you were my neighbor. seriously.

[HeatherKS]

The year was: 2000
I was: 23
I lived in: KS
My favorite movie: Road Trip (LOL)
My favorite thing to do: Work on fixing up our fixer-upper and going to college football games.
My biggest fear: My business failing.

[Jengerbread88]

Originally Posted by emmasmommy

why was your biggest fear Fed Ex?

It's a really long story, but I've been afraid of Fed Ex for ages. It started as a joke. I accidentally ran into a Fed Ex machine while walking and broke it. On our way home, a Fed Ex truck was on it's route and followed us most of the way home. My family joked "Uh oh! They're after you!" After that, for two weeks, every time we would go anywhere, at some point during our outing, there would be a Fed Ex truck following us for at least part of the time.

I became convinced they actually WERE after me... it got to the point where I couldn't see a Fed Ex truck without shaking, wouldn't open the door for them, etc.

Now, it doesn't bother me as much, but it seriously was an issue for me for quite some time. It sounds silly, especially because it started as a joke, but I was honestly terrified of Fed Ex.

[taracotta7]

Originally Posted by pewtertm

LOL I was wondering the same thing

And Tara...what was so bad about MWC?

Stacy, parts of MWC are not bad. Where we were at was BAD. No exaggeration. I lovely refer to it as the ghetto and it WAS (it is even worse now). I hated the house, it was gross and has so many fix up issues that neither of us knew how to take care of. It was the house I moved into when we got married so I didn't feel like I had a choice in it. It just wasn't part of my "dream" of growing up and getting married. Not to mention that Steve was working nights as a police officer and I was left in a scary neighborhood with my step daughters (8 and 6 at the time) every night. Seriously.....it was so ghetto that Steve couldn't leave the in his uniform because our neighbors didn't like cops and would retaliate. I was SO thankful to leave.

And I realize that I sound like a spoiled brat and expected life on a silver platter........that is partially true (at the time) but I swear it was THAT bad. Reality just really bit me in the hiney! LOL

[pewtertm]

LOL I was just curious! The only part of MWC I've been to is Tinker AFB for the air show, and the Steak 'n Shake & Target center across I-40


And Jenni---glad you have gotten past a lot of your fear! DH works for Fed Ex so I was really curious

[nun69]

so, here ya go, answer these questions for the year 2000
The year was:
I was: 30
I lived in: Fort Monroe, VA
My favourite movie: some Disney movie I am sure
My favorite thing to do: spend time outside with Sam {she was my only child at the time}
My biggest fear: having a baby in Italy {I was pregnant with Ben and we moved to Italy in Sept 2000}..the having hte baby in Italy wasn't so bad, what was bad was they told me after I got there that epidurals were NOT routine and unless you had complications you just got IV pain medication}....so my fear of having a baby with no drugs was even more frightening ...and sure enough I had him without even any pain meds!

[mariewilcox]

The year was: 2000
I was: 37
I lived in: MCB Kbay, Hawaii
My favorite movie: The Whole 9 Yards
My favorite thing to do: Swim and hike/watch DS doing his various sports (he was in 7th grade that year).
My biggest fear: In February I found out I was pregnant - after trying for over 12 years! I was so scared to start over and raise another child!

[TheHybridMess]

The year was: 2000
I was: 25
I lived in: Johannesburg, South Africa
My favourite movie: Probaby Coyote Ugly or Charlie's Angels
My favorite thing to do: missing Cape Town
My biggest fear: That something would happen to Niki

[Shawna]

The year was: 2000
I was: 22
I lived in: Wichita, KS
My favourite movie: Almost Famous, Where the Heart Is, Coyote Ugly, The Replacements (we saw a TON of movies that year!)
My favorite thing to do: I was busy planning our wedding (we got married 8/4/2000) so pretty much anything to do with that!
My biggest fear: losing another friend or family member (one of my BFF's died in a car accident in 1999) or the wedding or our honeymoon trip not going as planned

[scrapmonkey]

The year was: 2000
I was: 31-32
I lived in: Houston TX
My favourite movie: Austin Powers The Spy Who Shagged Me, or Deuce Bigelow Male Gigolo (both for sentimental reasons)
My favorite thing to do: go to clubs to listen to live music
My biggest fear: my boyfriend/fiance's mental health (I met and got engaged to my husband during that year and he was having some troubles with his student insurance and he couldn't get his depression medication)

[terrab]

The year was: 2000
I was: 24
I lived in: Zeeland, The Netherlands
My favourite movie: 10 Things I Hate About You
My favorite thing to do: Take day trips by bike/train around the country
My biggest fear: Not really sure about this one... maybe my ex-mother in law?

[SweetMelissa]

The year was: 2000
I was: 12
I lived in: Florida
My favourite movie: Cinderella
My favorite thing to do: Read & taekwondo
My biggest fear: I don't recall.

[Andrea Gourley]

The year was: 2000
I was: 24
I lived in: Rugby, UK
My favourite movie: No idea
My favorite thing to do: Shop, craft, explore the local area, work related stuff
My biggest fear: Spiders, volcanoes, being lonely

Yeah, apart from the location and the fact I am 11 years older everything is just about the same

[nanienamou]

The year was:2000
I was:19
I lived in:Ottawa, Canada
My favourite movie: Could it be Titanic? I'm not sure.
My favorite thing to do: go out with my bf (now DH)
My biggest fear: I don't recall. It was a difficult time since I had just lost my dad in 1999.

[Julie Billingsley]

The year was: 2000
I was: 29
I lived in: Portland, Oregon
My favorite movie: Remember The Titans
My favorite thing to do: I was still a newlywed
My biggest fear: that I rushed into marriage too quick

[Becca Bonneville]

Originally Posted by emmasmommy

dude. you were my neighbor. seriously.

Awesome! lol