Time Travel, recycled and re-used!

This is the first meme I ever did, and I liked it so much I did it again the next year. I intended to do it every year, but — like so many of my great intentions — seem to have lost it in the shuffle. As Homer said about the roasted pig: “It’s still good!”

15 years ago today I would have been:

• finalizing my divorce (big, happy smile)
• unpacking boxes after moving in to my first “own” place, a room rented in a student house in the Glebe shared with five other people
• delirious with reclaimed freedom and terrified of being out on my own

10 years ago today I would have been:

• finaling the plans for our July wedding (another big, happy smile!)
• living in the Glebe a block away from that student house, in a gorgeous little bo-ho attic apartment with a balcony perched off the kitchen like a tree house
• a month away from finding Katie, the world’s best doggie and my first baby

5 years ago today I would have been:

• at home on maternity leave, with a newborn (Simon) and a two year old (Tristan) in the house
• massively, pathetically sleep-deprived
• a post-partum hormonal toxic disaster

1 year ago today I would have been:

• at home on maternity leave with a newborn, a four-year old and a six-year old in the house!
• coping with three much better than I coped with two, having just laid off our first nanny
• taking Lucas for his first visit to the Children’s Hospital

This year I am:

• thrilled with my new four-day work weeks
• obsessed with photography in much the same way I’ve been obsessed with blogging for the past four years
• very, very busy but very, very happy

Today I:

• forgot to buy my April bus pass (the driver let me ride anyway, bless him) and forgot my building pass at home. Sigh.
• will celebrate the early spring warmth by going for a photo-expedition at lunch time, perhaps behind the Parliament Buildings or over to the National Gallery.
• am worried about my dad.*

Next year I hope:

• to have a little bit more free time on my hands
• to have a little bit more control over the chaos and a few more projects checked off the to-do list
• to be doing more or less exactly what I’m doing now — but better!

(You like the vagueness here? Goal-setting was never one of my strengths!)

In five years I hope:

• to be thinking about looking for a four-bedroom house
• to be *this close* to having all three boys in school full-time
• to be rejigging my priorities to be putting a little bit more emphasis back on my career

This was really fun to do, and surprisingly difficult on the prognostication parts. It’s quite interesting to read the ones I’ve written before and see what I chose to note as important at that time, too!

Let me know if you play along!

* My dad is in the hospital with a subdural hematoma, and they’ll have to operate some time in the next few days to relieve the pressure on his brain. It sounds a little bit too much like an episode of House for my liking. They don’t know exactly how it happened, but suspect it came from a tumble down some stairs quite a few weeks ago.