i was at high school, 16, probably just finished my end of year exams and dreading going into my final year and with good reason too, it didnt turn out to be as cruisy as i wanted

* Just moved to a college town to start my Master's
* Probably weighed about 140 lbs
* Lived in a really shady apartment that I hated with people I didn't know
* Started DJing at a college radio station and met some of my favorite people ever
* Very single
* About to start a bad depression that would last 2.5 years.
* Was really into being a vegan (unsuccessfully)

My updated life: Still not done with that Master's! Hope to finish next fall. Moved overseas, live with my boyfriend of 2 years. Been mostly not depressed for 2.5 years. Still friends with many people from that radio station. It was a bright spot in an otherwise trying time in my life. Still not vegan.

Wow 5 years ago...
I was 22
Had a fanatstic Job in London, was living life to the max, drinking and partying way too much......but hey i was working damn hard.
Just met my now Husband, who was suppose to be a few nights of fun, as i had no intention of settleing down and getting married......
Weighed a lot less
Had blonde hair (not a good look)
Living with my parents, no bills, no responsability...god i miss those days.

I can tell you exactly what I was doing as I keep a journal and have for the past ten years. I was suffering from a case of the "runs" which I know was nerves as I waited to hear whether or not I got the part in "The Vagina Monologues"....and I did! I also did pet therapy that day and drove to town in the pouring rain for groceries.

Five years ago was November 2003. Wow.

I was 22 years old and in my next to last semester of college, working on a degree in journalism at a school in east Texas. My immediate family members were all alive, I was dating a loser who has THANKFULLY been long gone for years now.

I was 19, in my sophomore year of college, looking at my last time in onederland. I will get there again!!!

<sniff> I was at home writing a romance novel while my son hung out with me on the couch and watched Dora the Explorer and played on the living room floor. then we'd saddle him up in his stroller or sled and walk to the post office and pick up my daughter, who was in elementary school around the corner, and come home and hang out. Now, my daughter is in hockey, my son is in second grade and I own my own hair salon and I'm never, ever home anymore. My son is in the principal's office all the time and my daughter is seeing a therapist for agoraphobia and my husband lives 4 hours away in Buffalo because we can't afford to move our whole family there.

I miss the simple days when I could grocery shop when I wanted and keep my house up. Now everything's a crazy mess.

I was teaching at a small college in a different state and procrastinating on finishing my dissertation (I finally finished a year and a half later). My boyfriend and I were long-distance at the time, and I was pretty sure he'd propose soon (he did). I was looking forward to seeing him at Thanksgiving, I'm sure! And I was "skinny" and able to make dieting and exercise a priority due to my flexible schedule and not having to feed an entire family.

Five years ago I was a recent college grad living in Cleveland, OH, and working in a lab. I had moved back home with my parents, and at the time was also close to my heaviest weight, which was at least (but likely a little more than) 286 pounds.

5 years ago I was in Grade 12 I guess... Wow, I can't believe that was 5 years ago!. I was head over heels in love with a gay man, hung around the wrong crowd, but I remember being happy... very happy. Happy memories.

It's threads like these that make me realize how old I really am!

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..oh come on...you`re not THAT old!! LOL!!!

5 yrs ago, wow! 5 yrs ago, I was travelling 4.5hrs a day to work, trying to get in every hour of overtime to make ends meet while hubby was trying to get his business off the ground ... big drama with friends ... & 185lbs.

boy am I glad that`s all behind me!!!

5 yrs ago I was working at a crappy factory, hating every minute of it. I was 2 yrs into my relationship with my boyfriend living in a much smaller apartment. My father was alive but we still weren't speaking. And I was a good 50 lbs heavier, acting like I didn't care.

Heheh. Feeling older by the day.

This thread makes me realize how old I am, too...

Five years ago... hmmm...

I was living in a two bedroom apartment with my cat, I was two years divorced from my alcoholic ex-husband, I was taking yoga and kickboxing four nights a week because I had a desperate crush on the woman who taught the classes. I also drank way too much Starbucks - the previously mentioned woman was the morning barista... Talked my boss into a laptop so I could work out in the field, code for using the WiFi at Starbucks to flirt...

I worked for a restaurant franchisee, in 2003 I was doing payroll, accounting, HR, training, cash register support, you name it, I did it. I was out in the restaurants a lot... I was already talking on the phone pretty regularly to DH, who was married to someone else at the time, moving towards divorce (totally unrelated to me, by the way! )

Wow, sounds dramatic when I write it all down.