I've seen a few people do this so I figured I'd join in. Except I figure, I'm 25... I'm going to post the important stuff that happened EVERY year for the past 25 years! ! It's long and I doubt you all will read it all. oh well, it's mainly for me. It's also picture heavy (since I dont' have anywhere else to put them I suppose).

ages 0-3:
-normal baby/toddler stuff, of course

ages 3-5:
-3 years of pre-preschool and preschool (I was held back once because I would never sit still, and wouldn't share! oops!, but it's why the ages per grade seem a bit old)

age 6:
-Kindergarten (with one of my favorite teachers)
-I used barbie points to get my own camera (I vividly recall the first picture being of my teacher, who didn't think the pink barbie camera was real)

age 7:
-1st grade

age 8:
-second grade
-I lied on my eye exam thinking glasses would be fun, and got glasses (big round 80's glasses, naturally)

age 9:
-3rd grade
-start of my insomnia

age 10/11:
-4th-5th grade

age 12:
-6th grade
-voted "Most Unique" by my classmates, due to me being quite weird and doing the YMCA at random points during class
-got my first dog, an american eskimo named Buddy!

age 13:
-junior high/7th grade
-depression begins as teasing begins (I had very short hair, big glasses, and was flat as a board)

age 14:
-junior high/8th grade
-started to get boobs!
-met a bad influence of a friend
-smoked a cigarette for the first time (and smoked randomly throughout the next 2 years)

age 15:
-high school/9th grade
-depression worsens
-had my first boyfriend (though throughout our 3 months together we only kissed a couple times, me being quite innocent)
-developed my first hardcore crush, whom I never talked to until I was about 17 and got high with him and had a deep talk about politics)
-started smoking regularly

age 16:
-10th grade
-had another boyfriend for a couple months, decided being friends was better (he has since been married, divorced, and come out of the closet).
-hospitalized for depression/cutting, was in hospital for 4 days and outpatient program for 2 months
-had sex for the first time with my best male friend
-got my first job working at a bingo hall and worked there for 3 years

age 17:
-11th grade
-found out I was pregnant from said first time having sex (which was right before my birthday)
-said best male friend/baby daddy and I started dating, which was my first time being truly in love
-gave birth to a baby girl whom I gave up for adoption
-gave talks to local schools about adoption and counseled other teens going through it
-had my first case of alcohol poisoning

age 18 (though graduated the day after my 19th birthday):
-12th grade/senior year
-ran an "underground" newspaper in my high school
-was broken up with by first true love and was very devastated for a couple months
-had my first one night stand
-was voted "Most Unique" yet again by my senior class, however I was sick and absent when they took the yearbook photo
-first discovered SG (though lurked for awhile)
-tried pot for the first time and smoked randomly (including before one class where I Was sitting front row and a police officer was speaking to the class )
-got my first tattoo
-got my first piercing (besides the ears) - nose
-got another piercings - labret



age 19:
-fell madly in love with someone who in the end used me (refer to the song "liar" by Henry Rollins)
-moved 400 miles away from my home town to Fargo, ND to live with 2 stoners
-spent the next 2 years in a stoned haze
-got a job as a stripper (not at a club, but doing bachelor parties)
-was raped while doing a private dance (which I hated doing but did anyway although I had a feeling), but the courts threw the case out because although there was the physical evidence, they said they couldn't prove I didn't do it for money.
-stopped having sex for almost a year after ^^^ until I:
-fell madly in love with the most beautiful man I'd ever seen, and he was the reason I stayed in Fargo as long as I did. We hung out for a couple weeks and I was so smitten, but then didn't hear from him for 6 months, where he called me and we hung out, got drunk, and had sex (which was awful, I hate drunk sex). I never heard from him again until years later on myspace. I was crushed.
-joined SG as pulloffmywings and was a hopeful (although the sets were pretty awful)
-got a couple more tattoos and piercings (double eyebrow I think)

my SG application pic:


and from my first 2 rejected sets:



age 20:
-visited CA to see my best friend (came out on Greyhound bus, ugh!)
-got the best job as assistant manager at a video store. I was promoted after working there only 2 months because I was the only one who would do anything (meaning if work was slow, I'd clean the bathrooms or rearrange the videos or sweep up cigarette butts outside)
-worked at a headshop (super fun)
-my grandfather died
-quit stripping because my boss told me I had to stop dying my hair and getting tattoos
-gave myself a mohawk
-got a couple more tattoos and piercings (including 2 lip, septum, 2 navel (top and bottom), and nipple)
-also gave myself a bridge piercing

at the video store


at the head shop:


pics from some rejected SG sets:




age 21:
-(a couple weeks before I Turned 21) I packed up my stuff and drove out to CA to live with my friend and her boyfriend
-spent 2 months with a drunk asshole who broke my heart (although he spent a lot of money on me, taking me to Tijuana and Big Bear all within 2 weeks)
-met my now husband (on the night said asshole broke my heart)
-got a job at Tower Records as a magazine merchandiser (best job I ever had)
-was kicked off of SG due to me believing silly rumors)
-had pinkeye on my 21st birthday
-had my car explode
-quit smoking
-more tattoos, but slowly losing some piercings)



me and my now husband during our first few months together:


riding the mechanical bull at a party:


age 22:
-bought a new car
-moved in with my now husband
-get a job at a call center (I was sad to leave Tower, but they went bankrupt a few months later anyway)
-met another amazing friend
-got pregnant
-got a tattoo

age 23:
-had a beautiful baby girl
-bought a condo
-started smoking again (due to post partum depression )



age 24:
-got married!! !
-went to some great local places in CA I'd never been (Sea World, Hollywood, San Diego)



age 25:
-rejoined SG
-celebrated 1 year wedding anniversary
-celebrated our girl's 2nd birthday
-became owner of minerals (oil money!)
-paid off all my debt
-took out all my piercings (including my 2g tunnels)
-got 2 new tattoos

me and my dog Buddy now (he's getting so old, *sniff*)




modeling the Tesla car my husband helped build:




and that's me. well, the bits and pieces of me I guess.