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dianec42It is astonishing the friends you find on LiveJournal, and how many of them are still listening to the same music as when you last saw them, 15 or 20 years ago(!). It's even more astonishing how time flies - are we having fun yet?
Some random things I found whilst sorting a box of mostly old papers, late last week: a certificate of achievement from a cake decorating course I took in 1978; Westminster High School presents "Fiddler on the Roof", 1981 ("The daughter, the daughter! Tradition!"); a photo Christmas card from around 1984, the photo including![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
madbodger in a rainbow wig and merde as well as several people who I'm no longer even sure who they are; and postcards. A postcard from my once-best friend Nancy when she spent a summer in Norway (no year on it, I'm guessing around 1979). Various postcards and letters from my parents, from old lovers (THAT is what we did before the Internet, children; we set pen to paper, or occasionally coerced our dot-matrix printers into cooperation, and walked to the mailbox; how quaint!), and even a set of 3 postcards from this bloke Kent that merde and I were writing to for a while. I even remember that "E.T.A." stood for Envelope Thieves Anonymous. Also found a birthday card with the punchline "We're not getting older, we're getting sillier".
I think the real reason people usually only live for about 70 or 80 years is that their brains get full and explode. Who's with me on this one?
update: I may yet scan in that Christmas card just for sheer humour value.
Some random things I found whilst sorting a box of mostly old papers, late last week: a certificate of achievement from a cake decorating course I took in 1978; Westminster High School presents "Fiddler on the Roof", 1981 ("The daughter, the daughter! Tradition!"); a photo Christmas card from around 1984, the photo including
madbodger in a rainbow wig and merde as well as several people who I'm no longer even sure who they are; and postcards. A postcard from my once-best friend Nancy when she spent a summer in Norway (no year on it, I'm guessing around 1979). Various postcards and letters from my parents, from old lovers (THAT is what we did before the Internet, children; we set pen to paper, or occasionally coerced our dot-matrix printers into cooperation, and walked to the mailbox; how quaint!), and even a set of 3 postcards from this bloke Kent that merde and I were writing to for a while. I even remember that "E.T.A." stood for Envelope Thieves Anonymous. Also found a birthday card with the punchline "We're not getting older, we're getting sillier".I think the real reason people usually only live for about 70 or 80 years is that their brains get full and explode. Who's with me on this one?
update: I may yet scan in that Christmas card just for sheer humour value.
