I like the nostalgia threads. It's June, 1987. What are you up to?

[Left Is Write]

[Catch22Dem]

1. Hangin' out with my friends discussing all the boobies we touched...

and all of us lying about it. ;)

[supernova]

2. Enjoying marital bliss

and thinking that I have my life on track; that everything will work out for us. We had just gotten married the previous December. He was a TA as U of MD and I had a temp job at RCA.

[flamingyouth]

3. Finishing my freshman year of college

Working. Practicing witchcraft. You know, the usual.

[loudestchick]

38. also finishing my freshman year...coming home to live w/ the folks for the

summer...

[Taverner]

4. Celebrating my 17th birthday

Dropping out of high school and dating local metalhead girls....

[Left Is Write]

5. I was giving birth to my oldest child and then turning 21.

[ikojo]

6. I had just lost my job with an insurance company

and was preparing to move to St Louis. The best thing I have ever done. I would have been very unhappy staying in Springfield, Illinois.

[JohnKleeb]

7. one month to be born

:P

[Left Is Write]

11. So you were making your mother hot, tired, and miserable?

Juuuuuuuuuuust kidding! (I'm actually one of those nuts who enjoys the last month of pregnancy.)

So you are a month younger than my daughter?

[JohnKleeb]

18. Yeah I guess I am

and actually it was the 7th month of my mom's, I was born a month early :). I was born in late july.

[Left Is Write]

21. Kayla was born June 18.

[JohnKleeb]

25. a month and six days then

[ScrewyRabbit]

8. Biking in Europe

...having just finished college.

[Bertha Venation]

9. Just out of my third hospitalization for depression in six months' time,

and trying desperately not to commit suicide.

(You asked. :))

[Left Is Write]

14. I'm glad you succeeded

in not committing suicide.

:hug:

[Bertha Venation]

20. Thank you! So am I.

It was touch-and-go for a very long time, but I made it. :bounce:

[Borgnine]

10. I was three and a half years old.

My memories from this period are few, but I remember lots of Sesame Street, Mister Rogers, and the Real Ghostbusters. Oh, I also saw a UFO.

[mopinko]

12. getting to know my middle child

born april 23, 1987.
somewhat tough birth, but nothing too serious. couple of crappy days in the beginning. her 18 month old brother was not too thrilled with the whole idea, and her 11 year old big sister (1st marriage) was not all that worked up about it either.
she gave me a hard time then, and she gives me a hard time now. so very middle child.

[Guaranteed]

13. Hee hee I'm charmin all the schoolyard honies with my

golden blond hair, sun-drawn freckles and runner's build....

Those were the DAYS....lemme tell ya. They ALL wanted me....:P

[fluffernutter]

15. in New Mexico eating amazing food

hanging with amazing people watching amazing sunsets.

[New Earth]

16. wow, i was only 9

I was in second grade being teased because I had just gotten glasses :cry:

[burythehatchet]

17. getting ready to be a dad

on July 17.

[HeyManThatsCool]

19. I'm 14.

Getting ready for my last year of Junior High in LA.
Still a pretty normal kid.

Listening to The Cure, Depeche Mode, OMD, The Smiths, U2, Blondie, Red Hot Chilis...

[two gun sid]

22. Just got out of the service.

[StaggerLee]

27. See my post

:hi:

[orleans]

23. i'm on the verge of getting pregnant

and boy, do i ever look good!

[StaggerLee]

24. on a cruiser patrolling and escorting in the Persian Gulf

We spent 55 days doing this. We escorted Kuwaiti oil tankers.

Fun.

[two gun sid]

34. Dude, sorry I was in the Persian Gulf June 1986

I was just out of the service in June 1987. Did you operate with the Stark? I knew a couple of guys on her.

[StaggerLee]

37. We were heading out of Australia

when we got the message on the Stark if I remember correctly. Needless to say a few of our ports of call were scratched for the job in the gulf that summer.

USS Constellation battlegroup.

Good times.

[rwenos]

26. Working in LA, Getting Married in July

Just moved to LA from SF. Working as a computer geek for a big West LA law firm, looking forward to getting married (still married to same lady now in 2005), buying tickets for a Paris honeymoon in August. Waiting to enter law school in LA, fall of 1987. Hated law school, but have been lawyering and loving it since 1991.

Kinda boring but LA was jumpin' in '87, lots of work, lots of money, LA economy booming, good time in my life.

[Pirate Smile]

28. I just graduated from High School and was going to be heading off

to College in the Fall.

[NoPasaran]

29. I was unemployed

I'd lost my job with a crazy fundie ophthalmologist in El Paso. I spent a few weeks that summer working a couple of shitty low-paying jobs but mostly spent my time drinking beer and going to the movies. I specifically remember going to see "Ernest Goes To Camp" figuring it had to be the low point of my life and after I left the theatre my luck was bound to change.

[B Calm]

30. On a fishing trip in Northern Minnesota...

[Zomby Woof]

31. Turned 20 that month

Finished my Spring Semester of my sophomore year of college the month before. It was successful, and marked my first role in a play, Tina Howe's "Museum".

I worked during the summer as a grunt in a furniture warehouse, owned by tightwad fuckers who didn't run the A/C during the week, since we were a clearance branch of a larger store and we only opened on weekends. This was in Norfolk, VA, where the heat and humidity in the summer could be killer. I had a brief episode of heat stroke, where I stopped sweating. I dared them to fire me, as I went to drink cool water the rest of my shift. I kept the job, despite this treatment. There wasn't much opportunity in this area back then, if even now.

That was my last summer in the freeper hellhole of Virginia Beach, VA. Greener pastures awaited me in Seattle the following summer.

It was a good summer outside the job. Went to some local AAA Minor League ballgames, drank like a sailor, and my sister got married.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

32. I had just finished my first year teaching at a small college in Oregon

I was hanging around town, waiting to get my free trip to Japan in August to accompany the fall 1987 group of study abroad students to Yokohama.

[SmileyBoy]

33. In preschool, age 5, messing around, taking naps, eating snacks.

:)

[progmom]

35. I was living in Holland...

...finishing up 4th form. (that's 10th grade for you following the American system)

...purchasing tickets for my first jazz festival.
...hanging out with my friends Marieke, Marie-Claire, Dominique, and Flavia.

...riding my bike a lot. :)

[bo44]

36. Working at Kinko's, playing softball, and getting high

[solinvictus]

39. Basic Infantry Training...

at Ft. Jackson, SC.

[yellowdogintexas]

40. between freshman and sophomore year of college...

on vacation in Oklahoma with my family, went out to visit my uncle the carreer Army man before he left for VietNam.

I also had a new boyfriend.

Spent the summer reading, a week at camp as a counselor, visited the new boyfriend in Louisville, he visited us a time or two.

Oh yeah, I was maid of honor in a wedding in August too.
on edit, I need to go to bed, I swear I thought this thing was for 1967!!!

In June 1987 I was still doing all the things I did in Jan 1987 except the weather was warmer and my daughter was older.

Geez do I feel stupid

[deadparrot]

41. Four months old...trying to keep cool in my first summer of life.

St. Louis summers are hell.

[Revillusion1]

42. Looking forward to my Senior year in high school...

and probably listening to "Slippery When Wet"...drooling over Jon Bon Jovi with my friends...

[no name no slogan]

43. Graduating high school, joining my first "real" band

I had just got out of high school and was preparing to head off to college in the fall. In the meantime, I worked as a bill collector and played guitar and sang in a cheezy "New Romantic" band.

We played a lot of Bowie and Roxy Music, and some Cure and some Duran Duran for good measure. Two of the five of us were still in high school, so we could only play house parties and such. We played quite a few and did okay.

I almost ditched college to stay with this group, but I'm glad I didn't. I later hooked up with 3/4 of these guys the next summer for another band, and I still play in a band with the drummer to this very day.

It was at the end of this summer that my mother took a "temporary" assignment in a town 100 miles away from where we had lived for the past 18 years. A few years later, the assignment became permanent, and we moved out of the only home I'd known for the first 21 years of my life. Kind of a strange summer, that.

[Hardrada]

44. Looking for a good used VW Beetle

since I needed inexpensive but sort of cool transportation to the U of Iowa Library to assist with my never completed analysis of the Holy Roman Empire. Also I was beginning to do more freelance writing. I did find a good old Bug though.

[Bouncy Ball]

45. Looking forward to starting my senior year in high school.

I didn't have a boyfriend, I was working in a frozen yogurt shop.

Just being a teenager.

On edit, I think that was right around the time I tried pot for the first time, got involved in a really weird love triangle with my best friend and our pot connection, and started listening to Pink Floyd CONSTANTLY.

I was wearing acid washed denim.

Going to Jack in the Box a lot. Wishing the next year would go by VERY quickly so I could be off to college and out of my parent's house.

[T Town Jake]

46. Kegging the nights away with my House brothers...

...sleeping until noon, frequently waking up in strange environs, etc.: basically, slaughtering brain cells, and having an absolute blast doing it.

[bettyellen]

47. Crying all the time because my Dad forgot who I was...

who he was, everything.... Worst month of the worst year.
That's him on the left, my friend just shrank him for me.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

48. Very pregnant with my first...

Fortunately, the worst days of summer wait until after he's born. I remember that summer well, because we had a week-long stretch of 100+ degree temperatures.

[Left Is Write]

49. We had an early summer that year -

I remember because we had a couple of days of 80-degree temperatures in April, when I was 7 months pregnant. It went on to be unusually warm in June too, when Kayla was born. It must have been warm all over!

[HEAVYHEART]

50. Hmmm

Lemme see.. I was 22, holding down 2 waitressing jobs, pretending that I was in college, bar hopping every night and being a slut, approximately 2 yrs before I finally started getting my shit together..