What Were You Doing Ten Years Ago?

Wow it's 2010!!! 

I graduated from high school ten years ago.  

Ten years ago the whole world thought the world was going to end, including my father, who made us grow a garden & start raising rabbits.  

Ten years ago, I still had never had a sip of alcohol.  

Ten years ago, I was a virgin.

Back then, didn't we ask ourselves how we imagined our lives in ten years?

Ten years ago, I never dreamed I would be living in Texas, working in the field that I do, or that I would be pregnant & not married.  

Ten years ago I was working in radio, being an amateur musician & photographer, and still pursuing acting.  So I’m sure I thought in ten years I would be a famous actress, musician or voice over artist.  

I gave up theater acting because throughout college I had to have a job, and it didn’t go over too well when I couldn’t be in any plays because my job never matched rehearsal schedule.  

I gave up film acting because I decided I had a much better chance to get rich & then write, produce, direct & act in my own movies than to break into the movie scene as an actor.  

I gave up radio when I started majoring in it & realized I could learn more by working in the field rather than being taught in class with equipment that no one used anymore.  

I gave up being a musician when I ran out of time working my way through college.  

My radio turned into restaurant work because it paid more.  I am still in restaurants.  

I am in Dallas because I hated Mississippi, and this was the quickest way out.  

I could be a lot further in life, but if I was where I wanted to be in my career, I probably wouldn’t have met the boy, so I’m happy that I didn’t excel as quickly as I expected.  

Now I love Dallas, my job, my boyfriend that isn’t my husband, and my baby.

What about you?  What were you doing ten years ago?