What were you doing 1,000 days ago, 10,000 days ago, 20,000 days ago? (I'll make it easier -- those dates are January 30, 2014, June 10, 1989, and January 23, 1962.)

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Jaimie  JT Profile
Jaimie JT answered

The dates don't make it easier :/

01/23/1963 : Easy !!! Wasn't  born yet  :) my mom would have been 6 years old though... So she was probably playing with a plunger:/....when I was young and would rip the heads off my barbies she would tell me she never  had  toys ...all she had to play with was a plunger when she was a child....so I should appreciate my toys .... I think she was fibbing but that's fine :)

06/10/ 1989 : I think that was the year I was " in love" with a boy in  my class named Jody :) I loved him so much  but he didn't love me back:(... So I filled up his gym shoes with rocks one day and whipped one of them at him at recess. He ended up being the first guy I ever slow danced with at grade 7 dance...:) turned out I didn't love him ... That's fine :)

01/30/2014 : Much of 2014 is a blur for me.... I think I was roll ( not a mug)'ing Elvis for sunglasses "not" in Vegas and making forts out of couch cushions. That's fine too :)

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Jaimie  JT
Jaimie JT commented
Hi Jan :) I'm well thank you :) just peaking in cos I have a 4am wake up tomorrow :/ ....that was a good stroll down memory lane :p hope you're doing well :) 💚
Jann Nikka
Jann Nikka commented
I'm well thank you 🍊
Didge Doo
Didge Doo commented
Well, that's a very comprehensive answer, Jaimie. Mothers do tend to tell whoppers to their kids. Even so, I'm not gonna let you anywhere near my gym shoes.
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Jann Nikka answered

Jan 2014 Love my new 🏢home TX.

June 1989 Love my new 🌁home state TX.

Jan 1962, running🏃, jumping🎠, playing💃, babysitting👶, school🏫 and having fun😄. My old state OK.

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Didge Doo
Didge Doo commented
Good memories, Jan. It's so easy to forget the good times and even the good places.

Once in a while I've gone home to where I grew up (it's only about 40 miles from here) and just walk around to see what's changed, what's the same. Haven't been back since 2005. It's changed so much.
Jann Nikka
Jann Nikka commented
I want to go back to OK and look around haven't been back in 30 yrs, home city 48 yrs. I'm hoping maybe April 2017 its warmer 🤗
dragonfly forty-six Profile

I wasn't born yet.

On my honeymoon, we'd just gotten married on May 27, 1989.

I was in bed, with my sidekick kitty and comfort dog watching vigil. I had a bad case of viral pnemonia, that took me all of that year to recuperate from. One minute I was making chinese chicken salad, two hours later I was fighting for my life.

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Didge Doo
Didge Doo commented
I'm glad you made it, Dragonfly. It must have been dismaying to get so sick so quickly.
dragonfly forty-six
Thank you, Jan. Needed it..
Thanks, Didge. It was my friends on Ask that got me through that. Even though they didn't know it. Being bed ridden for three months was tolerable if I could answer questions on my device. I'm glad some of us are still together here.
Jann Nikka
Jann Nikka commented
🐥🐥🐥
Virginia Lou Profile
Virginia Lou answered

Here you go Didge the fascinating stuff!

January 2014...starting my 4th unexpected year in Iowa, and reading the life of Bruno Gröning, a remarkable citizen of WWII Germany.

June 10, 1989...extremely sick from lab chemicals, couple of blank years...   At 5'6" I weighed 95 pounds...finally decided I could just as well be deathly ill out in the world as at home. So, went out and helped found THE AIDS PROJECT OF LEWIS COUNTY, teaching and writing a weekly newspaper article, AIDS & YOU. And, I didn't die after all...although some of my colleagues did...

January 23, 1962...finishing up my senior year at Montesano High School in SW Washington State, and the world was brand new and full of promise!

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Tom  Jackson
Tom Jackson commented
@Didge

EVERYBODY does the best they can (unfortunately)---especially parents.

All children deserve more than that from their parents. But I wouldn't have missed my chance at living for anything---it's been great (even if not every day).
Didge Doo
Didge Doo commented
Nor I, Tom. The rough and the smooth make an interesting blend. Uninterrupted bliss would make life boring.
Tom  Jackson
Tom Jackson commented
Yes. (It's not surprising that we enjoy change---after all, it's a law of our being.)
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Ancient Hippy answered

Jan. 1962...........8 years old, probably playing in the snow.

June 1989.........single father raising two kids, learning how to cook          anything other than hotdogs and TV dinners.

Jan. 2014..........sitting at my old computer, answering questions on Ask.

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Corey The Goofyhawk , Epic has no limit, answered

January 30, 2014 was about the time Enterprise bought out Triangle Rent-A-Car and I went to work for them. June 10, 1989 I was probably being conceived. January 23, 1962? I, um, wasn't around yet.

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Didge Doo
Didge Doo commented
Some of us have more days than others. I was tempted to add 30,000 days but that would have taken us right back to 1942 --the year I started school. But I thought I'd have been on my own, there.
Thrice Gotcha Profile
Thrice Gotcha answered

not even a thought.

PJ Stein Profile
PJ Stein answered

1,000 days ago I still had my home in KS, but was in Florida visiting family and friends. (Thanks to Facebook for that one.) 

10,000 days ago, June 10, 1989 was my younger brother's wedding day.

And  20,000 January 23, 1962, I was still in the womb. I didn't pop out for another 18 days.

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Jann Nikka
Jann Nikka commented
LOL
PJ Stein
PJ Stein commented
I did not fall down any rabbit holes, but I did have a rabbit nest in the back yard that spring. My pup, Arabella, took it upon herself to be the guardian of the baby bunnies.

On the third one, I was one of those who didn't quite follow the rules, even then. My head was down but I wasn't facing the back bone like an infant is suppose to. I was facing forward. I must have known Blurtit was ahead.
Didge Doo
Didge Doo commented
You were destined from the womb to be a Burtit star, GB. Glad you made it. :)
Tris Fray Potter Profile

I started high school about January 30, 2014, give or take a few days.

I wasn't alive for any of the other ones.

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Virginia Lou
Virginia Lou commented
It appears that you are definitely a millennial then, Tris Fray!
Didge Doo
Didge Doo commented
Wonderful, Tris. That means it's all still in front of you and you have much to look forward to.
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Levi F. answered

January 30th 2014 I was a freshman in college; it was Thursday so I was probably in my dorm room finishing homework so I'd have nothing to do Friday, leaving it open for parties. I remember on January 28th of that year, I had a really bad earache, probably the most horrible pain I've ever felt (I remember the date because it's the Challenger explosion date and I remember reading about it that day). I think by the 30th, my ear was fine though. :)

In 1989, I was -6 and in 1962 I was -33, so can't comment much on those.

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Didge Doo
Didge Doo commented
That ear ache must have been a bad one to remember it still. I'm glad it's in the past. Thanks for answering, Levi.
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otis campbell answered

Jan 1962 i wasin diapers

Jan 1989 mechanic at clear lake dodge 

Jan 2014 retired

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Didge Doo
Didge Doo commented
Concise answer, Otis. When I was young I looked forward to being retired but when it happened I didn't notice. Computers had cut into my area so subtly that I just lost one job after another as I was no longer needed. Then one day I looked back and thought, Hey! I must have retired sometime back then. :(
KB Baldwin Profile
KB Baldwin answered

Jan 30, 2014, Thursday.  Not at all sure what I was doing, being lost in the wilds of a fairly comfortable retirement,  altho I do know that I was not looking forward to my upcoming prostrate surgery.

June 10, 1989, Saturday.  Just glad I had two days off from a job that I had come to hate.  Blotting on how to arrange for a very early retirement.   

January 23, 1962, Tuesday.  Junior in high school.  Doing poorly in Chemistry, angry at my parents, 

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Didge Doo
Didge Doo commented
I've got a couple of parallels there. I beat you by four years for the prostate, though mine was radiation therapy, not surgery
In 1989 I had my worst ever job. Fortunately I only had to stay a few months before finding a better one.
But in January 1962 our first son was just a year old and I managed to fracture my skull. So that was a memorable time for me. :)

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