10 Things in 10 Days Meme
Dec. 29th, 2010 12:24 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tehutiDay One: Ten things you want to say to ten different people right now.
Day Two: Nine things about yourself.
Day Three: Eight ways to win your heart.
Day Four: Seven things that cross your mind a lot.
Day Five: Six things you wish you’d never done.
Day Six: Five people who mean a lot (in no order whatsoever)
Day Seven: Four turn-offs.
Day Eight: Three turn-ons.
Day Nine: Two images that describe your life right now, and why.
Day Ten: One confession.
Trying to list six things I wish I'd never done is going to be tough. There are quite a few things I'd strongly consider doing again differently if I could. But at the same time, those choices led me to where I am now, and I really love my family and the life we have together.
1. Back in high school, I let my mother ruin a very important friendship. She cost me my first magickal mentor, and it still bothers me, over twenty years later.
2. When I was a kid, I really wanted to go to vocational high school instead of the regular school. My parents, teachers and guidance counselors all thought I was crazy, and tried to talk me out of it. I insisted that I wanted to go, because I knew exactly what I wanted to study, but without my parent's consent, I couldn't go. I began high school in 1985. The year I was a freshman, the voc school was starting a new program; computer science. Instead of studying computers in the mid-eighties, I spent my high school years bored stiff.
3. I should have pulled the plug on my relationship with![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
sylvari sooner than I did. I knew a few months before it was officially over that it was over, but didn't want to accept it. I put her, myself, miashell and pinksbrat through some unnecessary angst and pain.
4. I absolutely should have fought harder for my boys. I could write endlessly about everything that went wrong with them and me after I left my ex-wife. I failed all three of us.
5. I shouldn't have gone to UMass right out of high school. A big school was not the place for me then. I should have really tried to figure out how to afford Hampshire College. It was the right place for me, but I let money get in the way.
6. When I enlisted in the Army, I maxed out the ASVAB scores. I could have any job I wanted. What I wanted to do was something with computers, or satellites. There wasn't anything available, according to the recruiters, so I settled for something else. I should have held out for what I wanted. I was a prime recruit, and should have used that to my advantage. More importantly, I'd have been trained at a different post, and maybe I wouldn't have gotten hurt and discharged.
Day Two: Nine things about yourself.
Day Three: Eight ways to win your heart.
Day Four: Seven things that cross your mind a lot.
Day Five: Six things you wish you’d never done.
Day Six: Five people who mean a lot (in no order whatsoever)
Day Seven: Four turn-offs.
Day Eight: Three turn-ons.
Day Nine: Two images that describe your life right now, and why.
Day Ten: One confession.
Trying to list six things I wish I'd never done is going to be tough. There are quite a few things I'd strongly consider doing again differently if I could. But at the same time, those choices led me to where I am now, and I really love my family and the life we have together.
1. Back in high school, I let my mother ruin a very important friendship. She cost me my first magickal mentor, and it still bothers me, over twenty years later.
2. When I was a kid, I really wanted to go to vocational high school instead of the regular school. My parents, teachers and guidance counselors all thought I was crazy, and tried to talk me out of it. I insisted that I wanted to go, because I knew exactly what I wanted to study, but without my parent's consent, I couldn't go. I began high school in 1985. The year I was a freshman, the voc school was starting a new program; computer science. Instead of studying computers in the mid-eighties, I spent my high school years bored stiff.
3. I should have pulled the plug on my relationship with
sylvari sooner than I did. I knew a few months before it was officially over that it was over, but didn't want to accept it. I put her, myself, miashell and pinksbrat through some unnecessary angst and pain. 4. I absolutely should have fought harder for my boys. I could write endlessly about everything that went wrong with them and me after I left my ex-wife. I failed all three of us.
5. I shouldn't have gone to UMass right out of high school. A big school was not the place for me then. I should have really tried to figure out how to afford Hampshire College. It was the right place for me, but I let money get in the way.
6. When I enlisted in the Army, I maxed out the ASVAB scores. I could have any job I wanted. What I wanted to do was something with computers, or satellites. There wasn't anything available, according to the recruiters, so I settled for something else. I should have held out for what I wanted. I was a prime recruit, and should have used that to my advantage. More importantly, I'd have been trained at a different post, and maybe I wouldn't have gotten hurt and discharged.
