Jumping on the Tag-Wagon

20 years ago I:

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1. was 3 1/2 years old, and loving life.2. spent most of my days playing with Kev.

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3. was already really bossy.

4. cut the belly buttons off of my and my sisters' cabbage patch dolls.

5. would walk around the block in my underwear with a knife and an orange.

6. played hide & go seek with Jake, Sara and Kev every Wednesday night while our parents, and Chris and Aly were at mutual.

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10 years ago I:

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1. finished up 7th grade strong and received the "7th Grader of the Year" award, which meant that I loved my teachers to love me even back then.

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2. wrote letters to my BFF Lethe almost every day, and we would send them to each other, even though we lived a mile away.

3. had started working for Melvin, two hours a day.

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4. went on an awesome Cali vacation with the family where we drove up the coast from Valencia (Six Flags) to SanFran.

5. cried when Jason proposed to Sara in our kitchen.

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6. went to Academy for Girls/baby EFY with my cousin Rachel Jones, of which I have very very fond memories, and REALLY attractive pictures.

(Yes this is Pres. Eyring, good thing we looked so good when we captured this moment)

Thanks Rach for the good time. And you're welcome for posting these.

5 years ago I:

1. just graduated from MHS and started working front desk for Melvin.

2. registered for classes at MCC, thinking that I would major in interior design.

3. was having a slight identity crisis since all of my friends were either still in high school, going on missions, or going away to school and I didn't know quite what to do with myself.

4. was still hating being an only child, since Kev was on his mission, so I hung out with my sisters and nieces a lot.

5. cried when these girls left for BYU.

6. watched 'Runaway Bride' a lot and realized that I needed to get my ducks in a row and figure out who I was.

3 years ago I:

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1. had been married for like five seconds, and was LOVING it.

2. stressed about making dinner for my new husband every night. .

3. had no furniture in my house, since we didn't know when we went to purchase couches and table, that we couldn't take them home that day, and 4-6 weeks is the norm. .

4. had just got my hair caught in a paper shredder at work, which resulted in a six inch trim. Yes, a paper shredder.

5. hated the green that I had painted my bedroom, but couldn't tell Philip because I felt bad that I had wasted like a whole $50 on two cans of paint. .

6. was still trying to figure out my new signature, and how to make Lindblom look pretty.

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1 year ago I:

1. was in summer school again, boo. .

2. was so excited about my new tile. .

3. painted my light green stripes over the bright green in our office on a day that our AC decided to freeze over, and basically inhaled 140 degree paint fumes for three hours and consequently took five years off my life.

4. had torn apart our house in prep for all the new good stuff. .

5. was stressing about my application for Rio..

6. was SOOOO looking forward to a week in Newport with my boy, my sister, and her boys.

So far this year I:

1. have started the most challenging and stressful 15 months of my life (read: hygiene school).

2. become unemployed for the first time in ten years, which if you remember, was bittersweet . 3. got a fatty tax return, and decided to be adults and act responsibly and pay off our car with it. .

4. have met so many good girls in my class that have become such good friends. .

5. have learned how to clean teeth. .

6. went to Disneyland!

yesterday I:

1. finished my laundry, cleaned the bathrooms, and swept the floor all by noon, a new record. .

2. went grocery shopping..

3. picked up my prescription from Costco. .

4. did a small hallelujah dance when I heard that my Rx finally has a generic, which saves me a sweet $12 a month! Then in six months more than one company is allowed to make the generic, so it will go down even more! Exciting huh? .

5. was with Philip when he opened his parents' mission call and read it to them over the phone, since they are currently at a family reunion. .

6. maybe cried when Philip was reading call to his parents, imagine that. :) .

today I:.

1. fell a little more in love with Philip when he looked so handsome at church today, and then got all giddy when he told me that I looked pretty. .

2. took a nap that wasn't nearly long enough. .

3. studied until I took the nap that wasn't long enough. .

4. met up with Diane to give her the skull that we stole from the school so that she could study too. .

5. made Philip some pepperoni bread for dinner/made Philip love me lots. .

6. "manicured" Sara's eyebrows while a curious Liz, Oakley and Nicole looked on. .

tomorrow I:

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1. start my 6th week of this semester. .

2. don't have a quiz in Pharmacology, for the first time since the semester started, hip hip hooray.

. 3. will watch the Finale of The Bachelorette, which I'm so excited for. .

4. will most likely tear up watching the said show. .

5. should probably study. .

6. won't want to study and will find reasons not to or things to do that are more appealing than studying, such as blogging, watching one of my many DVR-ed Forensic Files, or wiping down all of the baseboards in my house.

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in the next year I:

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1. WILL FINALLY GRADUATE COLLEGE! .

2. will take an awesome trip to NYC aka my graduation present from me and Philip. .

3. hope to learn to better prioritize my time and stress less. .

4. will study my brains out for school and boards and whatnot. .

5. will have four new nieces and nephews! (two from each side! and so far it will be nephews on the Lindblom side, hopefully nieces on the Jones side!) .

6. will spend lots of time with my favorite people in the world/my family. .

in 3 years I:

1. will hopefully have just bought our Halfway House (the house half way between our first one and our last one)..

2. will have a Pharmacist for a husband. .

3. will have finally been to Hawaii aka Philip's graduation present from me and him. .

4. will hopefully have Baby Philissa #1 growing in my belly. :) .

5. will be the proud owner of an elliptical machine and beach cruisers (something that we can't have until we have a real house). .

6. will most likely never see my Pharmacist husband due to the fact that we will both be working like crazy to pay off student loans as quickly as possible.

. in 5 years I:.

1. will be 28, that's weird to think. .

2. will have two Philissa babies, hooray, if all goes as planned. .

3. will be attending my 10 year high school reunion, crazy. .

4. will have our student loans paid off, once again, if all goes as planned (CLEARLY, we're big on planning). .

5. want to have lots of pretty flowers growing at my house. .

6. might be working part time, I don't know. That's actually one thing that we haven't planned completely!

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Good grief! Aren't you glad I'm finally done with that? Sorry for being so very wordy lately, apparently I'm starved for writing/literature/anything that isn't dental related! Have a fantastic week!