I just went went on Facebook and it showed me 18 years of memories from this day in history.
The oldest post was a little ambiguous, saying something about “Trying to fit all of my stuff into 2 bags.”
17 years ago, I posted about spending $4.47 on 12 Halloween items and a soda. I love Halloween clearance.
The year after that I had a few more words. “A very large man wearing a fluorescent orange tank top stopped his electric cart in the middle of the main aisle and called his family over to show them a Santa Claus t-shirt that he proclaimed was ‘the epitome of macho.'”
13 years ago I made multiple posts about getting free Twinkies at Fun Fun Fun Fest in Austin. The year after that, I posted a bunch about how I was at Fun Fun Fun Fest and I was about to see Glassjaw. This was the second time I ever saw them. Jamie and I got to stand so close, in the safe VIP Zone, and I was so happy that I cried a little.
Ten years ago today, I picked the 4 songs I wanted Electric Six to play for their encore the next time they were going to be in Austin. *
AND… it was election day. I remember being so hopeful for the future. Ten years seems like a lifetime ago, doesn’t it? Hopeful, it seemed like we were organized, things were going to be alright. We had a Taco Tuesday party at my apartment. What an absolute disaster of an election. It made people feel empowered to be hateful.
I tried to be light-hearted the next year when I posted, “If I had to go back and give 8 year old Brandi a message from present times I would let her know that at 45 I still sometimes accidentally put my shirt on backwards.” 6 likes, 5 laughs, 3 comments.
Next, we jump ahead 3 years when I posted multiple times. Black Sabbath’s “Fairies Wear Boots” live in, like, 1970, along with something about how I needed to finish my thread art project.
I STILL NEED TO FINISH IT. So many things have popped up in my life in the last few years that a lot of my creative projects have been set aside. I got 3/4 finished with Geezer Butler and about halfway finished with Ozzy.
That day, I also made a post about sending off my T Rex project to the people who gave me their addresses.
I just need to say that this is a sort of stream of consciousness post. I am really annoyed by all of the suggestions that the WordPress editor is giving me about how I should write shorter sentences. “Long sentences are harder to follow. Breaking them into shorter ones makes your content easier to read and scan.”
I don’t really do a lot of posting on Facebook anymore. And it’s been a little too long since I’ve posted here.
I have been working really hard on another site** and neglecting this personal page a little bit.
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** Sassy as Heck is open for business!! I’m sure I still have a lot of little tweaks I need to make to get it up to snuff. But I think it’s good enough to let people know about it. I’m adding a lot of stuff all the time and I have a truckload of ideas. I’m funneling a lot of my free time energy to it. Check it out. There’s quizzes, personality tests and a bunch of arcade games.
