If your life story was a book, what would it be titled? What would its chapter titles be? (Topic from The Imagination Prompt Generator.)
Title: Dreams Deferred
- Early Christmas gift : a daughter is finally born
- Sibling ups and downs
- Childhood friendships
- Morning coffee routine : the bond between father & daughter
- Catholic school or how I learned to fear the ruler
- The bond with grandma & grandfather’s painting legacy
- Have you heard of Japan?
- Going to public school : meeting my best friend
- All the curses I need to know I learned in Junior High
- Sometimes Akira ISN’T the best way to introduce someone to anime
- High school is the innermost circle of Hell
- Dad’s home early. What’s a pink slip?
- Ronin Warriors : love of anime rekindled
- College life
- An anime fansite is born
- Music Department Work Study
- Changing majors repeatedly
- My world is shaken as my grandmother dies
- Summer school and my first library job
- Cataloging Student Assistant
- Mom rejects my new career choice
- Meeting my future husband
- A year of Japanese
- Graduation and moving to New Hampshire
- Bookseller or yes ALL calendars are on sale
- First cataloging job out of college
- 9/11
- Moving 50 miles away from my job
- Future husband’s job loss & the start of his diabetes
- The debt builds & the cursed car
- The promised land of Georgia
- Job promises fall through
- Moving out of New England. At least it’s snowing on my birthday..
- Trying to get my foot back in the door, and failing
- Temp work
- My first full-time cataloging job
- What is Dragon*Con & JapanFest?
- The economy tanks, again
- Heath issues..
- OMG! Delicious Japanese food, Korean bakeries, & Asian supermarkets. I’m in Heaven!
- Future husband can’t find a better job because he’s paid too much?
- Seattle & Sakura-con
- Marriage : So long and thanks for all the fish
- Finally my husband gets a good job
- The head cold & wisdom teeth surgery from Hell
- Dear Rabbit: I thought this was supposed to be a slow year!!