I saw someone do this on another blog I stumbled onto and thought it was a neat idea. Post diary entries from years ago. So...here's what I found... (I'll put comments after each entry.)
Feb 12, 1982
Went to GDC Awards Dinner with John Powell. It was okay, but had a very weird atmosphere. Met Phyllis Seto and Vic there. It wasn't worth $25 a ticket.
(This was in Toronto. GDC is Graphic Designers of Canada...I was a member very briefly around that time. John Powell was a boyfriend from high school who'd moved to Toronto. Phyllis Seto and Vic were college classmates)
Feb 12, 1983 - Saturday
Tony's Gringo Party
Tony's Gringo Party was okay. Mike showed up. I finally gave in to my desires and went home with him. Nothing happened, but it looked very bad. When I got home, Hugh was upset of course, but forgave me. That experience turned me around 180 degrees and now I'm staying with Hugh. I feel really bad about letting Ingrid down but it's something I have to do.
(1983 was the year I met Phil...who became my husband seven years later. Hugh was the man I was with for four years prior to Phil. I cheated on Hugh two or three times while we were together. Not even for very good reasons. Twice was with ex boyfriends who came back for a night. The other (Mike) was a rather long, drawn out thing that was mostly just unconsummated sexual tension and finally ended up with one or two rather awkward and unsatisfactory encounters that would have been totally forgettable had it not been that they were illicit and the culmination of six years - SIX YEARS - of flirting and innuendo. Could that sentence be any longer?? I wasn't always very good to Hugh...even though he was always good to me and loved me very much. I really regret that Hugh probably thinks I slept with Phil before I left him...but I didn't. All our friends thought we had too. But we hadn't. We were officially dating for three weeks before we finally slept together. The first night we spent together, he slept on top of the blankets and we hardly even touched. Anyway, *I* know the truth, and I'm glad that at least I got the cheating thing out of my system before I started seeing my future spouse! As for Tony's Gringo Party, I remember it well. We dressed up like Mexicans, made blender Margaritas and tacos, and watched Clint Eastwood videos all night. It was apparently less fun in actuality than it is in my memory! LOL. I can't remember why I felt I was letting Ingrid down. Probably something to do with Mike. Ingrid had both Mike and Phil wrapped around her little finger, slobbering after her for months until she finally made her choice. She took Mike and let me have Phil. I don't know for sure, but I think Phil and Ingrid had a fling when he and I were first going out. Ironic...I never cheated on him, but he probably cheated on me. Funny how things turn out. If Ingrid had chosen Phil, my life would have been very, very different.)
Feb 12, 1985
BIG snowstorm today. Expecting 20 cm (8"). Wet snow, great for snowmen. Everyone is staying home today. I came in to answer the phones because I'm the closest. Went home at noon.
(I think I was working for Hayward Designs in Oakville then...Speers Road. I was like the Jane of all trades there - receptionist, typesetter, designer, mail girl, even did a bit of light bookkeeping. We shared the office with a machine shop's front office. I never spoke a word to the guys who worked there...they made me feel shy. Looking back, I was pretty hot back then...maybe I made them shy too! ;-) It wasn't a very busy job. I had time to stitch an entire cross-stitch sampler for my step-brother's wedding gift while at the office. I was allowed to smoke at my desk. My boss was a dear old guy. Chainsmoker, a little unkempt, always had cigarette ashes on his lapel. We're having a snowstorm today too.)
LOL...this is kind of fun...maybe I'll do it again.
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