Thought Process January 24, 2003 - 3:00 p.m.

As I was writing this entry, I had trouble straightening the order of events. Not really the events themselves, but the time in my life in which they occurred.

I even emailed my step-mom, asking her when Mary broke her leg (hoping that would help place the events) and I only got her confused in my questions. And we went back and forth, trying to place events from each year. I even told her to look at pictures from Universal to see how Mary looks, to compare that with other pictures that she had taken when she was a certain age. Still no luck.

I would have said look at pictures of me, describe my hair or whatever. But I've looked the same since I was 12, so that would be completely useless. Twelve years now, and I've had the same look... I think it's time for something new.

So anyhow, for two days now we've responded to each others emails with only more confusion and added questions. Until finally, it dawned on me.

Okay, before I continue, I have to state that I'm a complete perfectionist when it comes to timelines in my life. If I was around someone for a particular event, and they were trying to figure out when it happened, I could tell them. We're not talking exact dates here, but general year and maybe which season. I don't know why, but it's just one of those things that I do. I guess I'm kinda anal about it too. It's my own personal history, so I suppose I should be. I realize it's trivial. But I don't care.

My methods to such madness? Anything. What grade I was in. What house we may have lived in. What car we may have owned. Who our neighbor was. Which pet's were around. Hair colour. Friends I was with. Anything that I could somehow find significant combined with another thing that places it in time.

For the Universal trip... I was torn between 1997 and 1998. Just out of school and the year after. Titanic was listed as coming out in 1997, but it stayed it theaters for so long, and it ran into 1998. It was one of those years that Mary broke her leg, and she did not have a cast when we went to Universal. Therefore deduction would conclude that whichever year it was that she was the purple-legged gimp, was not the Universal year. (She didn't have a cast in the picture with Scooby) Simple enough, until her own mother had trouble remembering when exactly it occurred.

The deciding detail... was my outfit. The one that caused so many people to stare at me.

How girly!! I'm remembering when a moment happened, because of clothes!!! *runs in shame*

The gist of it: I wore a black shirt that had a red velvet dragon on it. I bought this shirt while working at Sears (I know because I remember getting the discount for it), which I worked as a second job while working at Warner Bros. Both jobs took place after my trip to Florida in 1997 but before my trip in 1998. So I couldn't have worn that shirt in '97, therefore making the Universal adventure a reality in '98.

*inhales*

Now. Do you see why my thoughts are always so difficult??? I can hardly make sense of this stuff myself.

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