My Timeline

I think martha has much more vivid memories than me of growing up, but I'll do my best. Im mostly guessing at ages.

Age 2: My first memory: falling down outside carrying buckets of gravel (?) and break my arm. I swear no one believed me at first, my mom disagrees. We are living in Raleigh. Other people clean my room for me.

A few months later: My sister Kerstin accidentally pulls my cast off undressing me for a bath, we have moved to PBO by now.

Age 4: My dog Mikey dies. I visit his grave in the woods behind the house for like the next ten years.

Age 6?: My parents get divorced. It's not as big of a deal as everyone was trying to make it. I do remember having to sleep in the same room as the washer dryer.

Age 8: we get a new Dog, Patrick, a Jack Russell. He only listens to Dad. He starts to shuffle back and forth with us according to my parents joint custody agreement. It only made him more neurotic.

Age 8ish: I start collecting cats. My dad gets married.

Age 10?: After moving a few times, mom finally buys the big yellow house in the Q. I hollow out a bush in the yard and turn it into a fort. My cat spooks dies, my cat Winnie has kittens. We have to give the kittens to the animal shelter. One of them got bitten by a snake, and my neighbor came over and shot the snake. We get a dog named Smiley, he gets hit by a car. We replace him with Deila.

Age 12: I get hit by a car, Patrick gets hit by a car. I made it, Patrick didn't.

Age 14: I'm kind of over getting hit by the car, Im playing soccer again even though I was never supposed to walk without a limp, my sister starts hanging out with these wackjobs on the internet and I tag along. We make friends for life.

Age 15: I start dating asshat.

Age 16: I'm over asshat. I decide I'm good at math. We get a new Jack Russell, very cleverly named Jackie.

Ages 18-22: I go to Carolina, find Jesus, find Todd, find theatre, briefly want to be a master electrician for a living, until I realize I need to have health insurance and a steady income to refinance the Bynum house when I graduate. Deila gets diabetes.

Age 22: I graduate, I refinance the house, I get a job teaching at my alma mater, for the health insurance. My boyfriend finishes graduate school and drags me off to VA. Deila finally dies.

Age 24: I have a very strange living situation renting some rooms in some peoples house. We thought it would be awesome, it wasnt, we find a way to buy our own house. It is awesome. The dog situation starts to get out of hand. Jackie gets hit by a car.