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Graymuzzle Meme: The Arlo Responses
10 years ago
Musings of an old, gray (and black) fursuiter!
Just saw this as I was clearing out my FA pages (haven't been around of late) and thought I'd chime in...better late than 'late' as in dead, so to speak!
1. How many jobs have you had, and which was your favourite?
Whoosh....way to test my memory! I've worked in a pet store, an animal shelter, done telephone customer service, worked retail as a bookseller and am now a teaching naturalist (my chosen career field). I LOVE my job as a naturalist...I am living proof that you can still use your college degree even close to 20 years after you get it, lol!
2. When did you first connect to other people via computers?
1997 is when I first discovered this wonderful thing called the intronets! (raise your hand if you remember dial up?)
3. We’re/are you on AOL? Compuserve? LJ? Dreamwidth? A Listserv? Other?
Nope, just a little old Hotmail account from the dinosaur days.
4. If you went to college, does your major match your career/current job?
Yes and Yes (see end of answer to question 1)
5. Have you had a mammogram? Colonoscopy?
That's a rather personal question...PASS!
6. When did you get your first cell phone? What was it like? (Did it have a screen? Could you text? Was it a brick or flip?)
2009. The only reason I have a different one now is that I fell in a creek and drowned the first one. It is a flip, it makes calls. That's it.
7. When did your family first acquire a color TV?
Probably around 1976 or 77.
8. When did your family acquire a second TV?
My family never had more than 1 TV. When I got together with my SO, we kept both our TVs so we have one in the bedroom & 1 in the media room.
9. Did you ever own “designer jeans”?
ROTFLMAO....Oh hey-yall no!
10. Have you ever been to a disco?
Sadly, I was technically 'too young' to go to an actual disco. I did however enjoy going to roller discos. (All Skate....All Skate Safely....All Skate)
11. How many places (towns, states, countries) have you lived in?
Towns: 6, States: 2, Countries: 1
12. Have any of you contemporary friends died? (I.e., people more or less you age.)
Only one, I have been very fortunate.
13. Are you parents still living?
Yes. All my grandparents are deceased.
14. Do you have any gray hairs?
I am about the 60% saturation point with gray hair. I don't cover up my gray, I worried hard to get it and it shows people I have a teeny bit of life experience, lol.
15. Did you or your family own a Betamax?
Nope. But I can remember going to Circuit City in 1988 and proudly buying my first VCR for an outrageous amount of money.
16. How did you spend New Year’s Eve 1999/2000?
Eating Chinese takeout w/my SO & watching a Marx Brothers movie marathon (courtesy of my still functioning VCR from 1988!)
17. What’s the oldest article of clothing you still wear?
I have an army field jacket that I borrowed (cough...stole...cough) from my dad in 1985. Still fits, go me!
18. Do you eat your vegetables?
Heck yeah young-un's....a healthy colon is a happy colon and something you don't take for granted as you slide into middle age. Besides they taste really nommy!
19. Are the privileges of adulthood worth the responsibilities?
I could reply with some amazingly profound philosophical answer here but the truth is I know quite a few folks who are chronologically considered adults but are in no way what I would call responsible (and they now have kids).
The humorous/sarcastic answer is NO. Being able to vote, drive a car, drink, set my own curfews, buy/read/watch/eat/wear what I choose do not begin to make up for the fact that once you reach the glorious and coveted state of 'adulthood' you learn the dirty little secret that comes with it: NOW YOU HAVE TO PAY FOR EVERYTHING YOURSELF!!!! SUCKERS!!!!! I understand now why my parents seemed so stressed out and grumpy all the time when I was a child.
But seriously, for all its hassles and tribulations (mortgage, doctor bills and automotive repair costs)I enjoy my life more as a middle-aged adult than I ever did when I was younger. As a young adult I spent too much time worrying about what others thought I should be. Now I am who I am and the world can like me or not as they choose. I love my SO/friends and they love me. It is more than enough!
20. Do you feel like an adult?
Frick no, lol! I'm 47 and in my brain I still feel like I'm in my early 20s. Though some days my body tells me it really is 120 years old!
21. Is youth wasted on the young?
Sometimes I think so...only because I remember all the inconsequential things I obsessed about when I was young. If I could go back in time I'd tell my 18 year old self to just relax....that in ten years what your hair or clothes looked like, what cliques you hung out with or fads you glommed on to will not matter at all or define you as a person.
As for my present self, I would almost give a limb to be able to lie down and take a nap in the middle of the day like I was forced to when I was a child!
Hope you enjoyed reading this & it wasn't a total time waster.
1. How many jobs have you had, and which was your favourite?
Whoosh....way to test my memory! I've worked in a pet store, an animal shelter, done telephone customer service, worked retail as a bookseller and am now a teaching naturalist (my chosen career field). I LOVE my job as a naturalist...I am living proof that you can still use your college degree even close to 20 years after you get it, lol!
2. When did you first connect to other people via computers?
1997 is when I first discovered this wonderful thing called the intronets! (raise your hand if you remember dial up?)
3. We’re/are you on AOL? Compuserve? LJ? Dreamwidth? A Listserv? Other?
Nope, just a little old Hotmail account from the dinosaur days.
4. If you went to college, does your major match your career/current job?
Yes and Yes (see end of answer to question 1)
5. Have you had a mammogram? Colonoscopy?
That's a rather personal question...PASS!
6. When did you get your first cell phone? What was it like? (Did it have a screen? Could you text? Was it a brick or flip?)
2009. The only reason I have a different one now is that I fell in a creek and drowned the first one. It is a flip, it makes calls. That's it.
7. When did your family first acquire a color TV?
Probably around 1976 or 77.
8. When did your family acquire a second TV?
My family never had more than 1 TV. When I got together with my SO, we kept both our TVs so we have one in the bedroom & 1 in the media room.
9. Did you ever own “designer jeans”?
ROTFLMAO....Oh hey-yall no!
10. Have you ever been to a disco?
Sadly, I was technically 'too young' to go to an actual disco. I did however enjoy going to roller discos. (All Skate....All Skate Safely....All Skate)
11. How many places (towns, states, countries) have you lived in?
Towns: 6, States: 2, Countries: 1
12. Have any of you contemporary friends died? (I.e., people more or less you age.)
Only one, I have been very fortunate.
13. Are you parents still living?
Yes. All my grandparents are deceased.
14. Do you have any gray hairs?
I am about the 60% saturation point with gray hair. I don't cover up my gray, I worried hard to get it and it shows people I have a teeny bit of life experience, lol.
15. Did you or your family own a Betamax?
Nope. But I can remember going to Circuit City in 1988 and proudly buying my first VCR for an outrageous amount of money.
16. How did you spend New Year’s Eve 1999/2000?
Eating Chinese takeout w/my SO & watching a Marx Brothers movie marathon (courtesy of my still functioning VCR from 1988!)
17. What’s the oldest article of clothing you still wear?
I have an army field jacket that I borrowed (cough...stole...cough) from my dad in 1985. Still fits, go me!
18. Do you eat your vegetables?
Heck yeah young-un's....a healthy colon is a happy colon and something you don't take for granted as you slide into middle age. Besides they taste really nommy!
19. Are the privileges of adulthood worth the responsibilities?
I could reply with some amazingly profound philosophical answer here but the truth is I know quite a few folks who are chronologically considered adults but are in no way what I would call responsible (and they now have kids).
The humorous/sarcastic answer is NO. Being able to vote, drive a car, drink, set my own curfews, buy/read/watch/eat/wear what I choose do not begin to make up for the fact that once you reach the glorious and coveted state of 'adulthood' you learn the dirty little secret that comes with it: NOW YOU HAVE TO PAY FOR EVERYTHING YOURSELF!!!! SUCKERS!!!!! I understand now why my parents seemed so stressed out and grumpy all the time when I was a child.
But seriously, for all its hassles and tribulations (mortgage, doctor bills and automotive repair costs)I enjoy my life more as a middle-aged adult than I ever did when I was younger. As a young adult I spent too much time worrying about what others thought I should be. Now I am who I am and the world can like me or not as they choose. I love my SO/friends and they love me. It is more than enough!
20. Do you feel like an adult?
Frick no, lol! I'm 47 and in my brain I still feel like I'm in my early 20s. Though some days my body tells me it really is 120 years old!
21. Is youth wasted on the young?
Sometimes I think so...only because I remember all the inconsequential things I obsessed about when I was young. If I could go back in time I'd tell my 18 year old self to just relax....that in ten years what your hair or clothes looked like, what cliques you hung out with or fads you glommed on to will not matter at all or define you as a person.
As for my present self, I would almost give a limb to be able to lie down and take a nap in the middle of the day like I was forced to when I was a child!
Hope you enjoyed reading this & it wasn't a total time waster.
