i have a bad memory,

this is a "look at the last decade." i'll start every year with how i rang it in, if i can even remember. i think i blocked out most of the end of middle school haha.

2000! (end of 7th grade - beginning of 8th)
-celebrated in vermont at our old house with my mom. we stood outside when the clock struck midnight and i was really pissed that there weren't explosions and fireworks and crazy shit happening all over the world.
-spent 3 weeks travelling around england, ireland, and wales with a bunch of kids my own age and a few chaperones. fell in love with ireland and wanted to marry all the boys.
-i finally quit karate after 5 years.
-started playing softball and owned every single person at first base.

2001! (8th - 9th grade)
-rang in the new year at emily wilson's house. i think we had fireworks. a lot of people were there. good times.
-was in my first play. "the pajama game."
-had an undefeated softball season.
-got hit in the head with a softball and still have a bump.
-spent the summer as a CIT at the ymca. hated it. reported someone as a child molester and no one did anything, years later said dude got arrested for raping / molesting a bunch of girls under 14 at a different ymca.
-started high school.
-moved to annis street because my grandparents had moved in with us and we needed a bigger house.
-smoked weed for the first time.
-skipped school for the first time.
-spent 9/11 freaking out because my dad left that morning for a business trip and i forgot where he went.

2002 (9th-10th)
-cannot remember how i spent the new year. i probably didn't do anything.
-this year kind of sucked. i was pretty awful during early high school.
-went to my first concert - weezer and saves the day with kiki, jess and erin.
-didn't make the softball team, spent the day crying and not going to classes. found out i didn't make it cause i'd be away all of spring break.
-went to france for a week.
-skipped school and went on my first "date" but i brought erin and kim along haha.
-started sophomore year with my first legit "head over heels" crush and he ended up dating my best friend.
-started going to shows at the sad cafe.
-first piebald x-mas show in andover!
-got wasted for the first time off booze skimmed from my dad's liquor bottles.
-skipped more school.

2003 (10th-11th)
-again, don't remember how i spent new years haha.
-contintued to go to more shows / get drunk / smoke.
-got my first job at star market in north andover.
-had a show at my mom's house in the basement.
-met the "methuen kids"
-my friend and her boyfriend (first real crush) broke up and she went to australia for 3 weeks. we made out while she was gone and he was my first real kiss. late bloomer?
-i think this is when we started going to ambry shows...i don't remember.
-2nd piebald x-mas.

2004 (11th-12th grade)
-i THINK erin and i spent new years at my dad's with his friends.
-got my license at some point.
-quit star market and worked at perfecto's for a hot minute.
-skipped school with melissa and went to boston on my birthday.
-went to california for a week.
-continued to go to shows.
-spent the summer spending all my savings.
-joined leaders at the ymca.
-started having parties at my mom's house.
-spent fall of my senior year slacking off and never going to school.
-3rd piebald x-mas.

2005 (12th - umass)
-had a huge 2k5 party at my mom's. best time ever.
-spent most of the rest of the academic year grounded, so i lied a lot and snuck out.
-got a job at stop & shop.
-turned 18 and got my first piercings.
-managed to graduate somehow.
-got tattood for the first time.
-had more parties at my mom's.
-went off to college at umass.
-met rain and all my psk friends, had an amazing time.
-backpacked in boston a lot to visit erin.
-4th piebald x-mas.

2006 (umass - boston)
-spent the new year wicked sick and hanging out in a hotel room under blankets.
-went back to umass and rain and i could finally live together. we pretty much turned into hermits and decided to leave umass and go to boston.
-got really wasted on cinco de mayo in east boston and tried to get my 2nd tattoo the next day, bled A LOT. but it's a best friend tattoo w/ erin and i love it.
-spent most of the summer in east boston with melissa getting fucked up and eating blams and freezepops.
-at the end of the summer she basically moved into my mom's.
-didn't work all summer and did chores for 10-20 bucks a week.
-moved to kelton street in allston with erin and went to umass boston.
-partied too much, never went to class, smoked and drank almost every day.
-melissa lived with us for awhile.
-got a job at jasmine sola in harvard square.

2007 (umass - ulowell - tenacity)
-celebrated new years with rain, sitting on kelton street and making balloon animals. we partied too hard the night before and were too sleepy to rage.
-continued to ruin my life on kelton street and in allston.
-got switters! the furry love of my life.
-broke my hand while wearing a toga. needed surgery. had too much fun with pain killers.
-quit jsola and got a job working at rubin's.
-decided to leave umass and move home and go to ulowell.
-went to school part time and worked as a paraprofessional in lawrence.
-got laid off, found a job with americorps at tenacity in brighton.
-decided to take time off from school and move back to the city.

2008
-got way fucked up on new years with melissa, devin, krystal and matt.
-moved to quint ave.
-had the worst night of my life.
-worked a million hours every week and fell in love with my job.
-went to tons of baseball games.
-went to argentina.
-spent the summer working at ringer playground and getting ridiculously tan.
-had so many good parties on quint ave.
-went part time to simmons and part time to umass for fall semester.
-got a job at monroe salt works.
-spent christmas in cancun.

2009
-there was a new years party on quint. spent time there and also walked to josh's with ora.
-moved to mission hill.
-started going to simmons full time.
-had so much fun going to bars on the hill.
-started going to karaoke.
-dated matt all summer.
-moved home for the summer to my dad's...hardly worked. spent most of it by the pool.
-moved to jp in the fall. disliked my living situation immensely and spent most of my time in the valley.
-started working at boing and then stopped going one day.
-got a dwi.
-slacked off wicked hard in school.
-cared too much and invested too much time in someone who wasn't worth it at all.
-went to costa rica for christmas. didn't want to come home.

2010!!!!!!!!!!!11
-spent new years at a party in allston with all of my friends. had so much fun.
-moved to brookline.
-sat on this couch and filled this out and probably forgot TONS of things. woops.