How My Life Changed 10 Years Ago
Posted By Kathleen David on March 11, 2008
Well 10 years give or take a couple of days really. I think it was the 7th but I would have to go back and find the journal I was writing in at the time.
What happened? I moved from Atlanta to New York to be with my boyfriend and see if I could find some steady work up here since all my theater jobs in Atlanta were at a serious lull and the comic book store wasn’t just cutting it anymore. The person who employed me at the Center for Puppetry Arts had moved onto another job and the new person was nervous about having me around because, as she told someone else, I knew too much and, if I had the right degree, I could do her job standing on my head. That was one of three times that my job got yanked from under me because someone was worried I would take their job. One of my best friends who was my theatrical big brother died rather suddenly after we had completed a show. My maternal grandmother passed. I had a falling out with some people I thought had my back but it turns out that they had their own interests at heart. All in all, it was a pretty sucky year.
The bright spot was Peter and that almost didn’t happen. I have written about that previously. Short version is that he told me that he and his wife were divorcing and he wanted to get to know me better, we talked on AOL and got to know each other better and he offered to give me a place to crash if I wanted to see if New York was better than Atlanta for work. So I took a rather large leap of faith and put most of my life in storage. I packed up my little truck and came up to New York.
Since then a lot has happened in my life both good and bad. My boyfriend became my husband. I had a child. I worked some theater and started a new career as a book editor. I started producing more puppets and dolls. I got back into costuming. There is really too much to write here about all that has happened. The online blog is now 4 years old so the last 4 years is pretty much out there for all to read.
It has been a pretty good 10 years. Here’s to another 10 and more.
I am grateful for all the time I have spent with Peter in my life.
WHHHhhhhhhhhhhaaaaat? You are Peter met on the computer??? You up and left your home and moved in with him??
Geez… sounds like a slice of MY life! IRC was a great thing for a socially akward freshman in college back in the day! Unfortunately my story didn’t work out quite the way it did for you, but nonetheless…
I knew i loved you guys for a reason… you are just like the rest of us… warts and all!
VBG!
“You are Peter” = “You AND Peter” of course
Eleven years ago I took a huge leap and started seeing a man younger than me, afraid it was a folly, a rebound thing after a divorce… and it was the best choice I ever made, because he’s my love and my best friend… here’s to taking leaps of faith!
More and more of that these days. I met Jenn online. We dated for about seven and a half months. This coming Dec. 1 will mark four years of being Fanboy and Wife (with fanbaby in tow.)
Here’s hoping we’re all doing as well as you ten years down the road.
~8?)
I met Susan basically through an APA (amateur press society – sort of like a Usenet group but a lot slower) in 1975; in 1997 i met Kate online (in a newsgroup devoted to my brother’s writings) and then we met face to face at a signing Dave did at the SF&Mystery Bookshop of fond memory…
fanbaby!!!!!
ÐÃMN! All three of my kids are too old for me to refer to them that way!!!
I could call Max “Fanboy”, but then *I’M* a fanboy. Just to prove that point: Max is named after Max Eilerson from Crusade, Hailey is named after one of her mother’s soap opera characters and Kaylee is named after Kaylee Frye in Firefly and Serenity.
So if I call HIM fanboy then we’d just get confused as to if I was talking to him or just talking out loud to myself….
I dunno about the girls.. Kaylee is OBVIOUSLY a fangirl, but then what do I call Hailey? Fangirl, Sr.?
Fanlad?
Fankid?
Fanboy & Fankick?
The Fanboy Wonder?
You’re on your own with the girls’ names.
BTW – when you worked at the Center for Puppetry Arts, did you know a woman named Ida McNeal (or perhaps Ida Hutchings; i lost track of her in about 1990 and she may have gotten divorced…)?
Last i heard she was working there in some sort of technical capacity; i’ve gotten out of touch with virtually everybody i used to hang with and i’d like to track some of them down…
(Hard to believe that Ida’s older daughter was 29 last week… Time does fly when you’re not looking.)
My wife and I area approaching our 5th wedding anneversary. Genevieve turns 1 today, and Xavier will be 2.5 years old later this month. None of which would be were it not for Everquest and a chance meeting with who would years later be my girlfriend and then wife.