Difficult Assignment

Dear Shell,

My husband J helped pick out this assignment. I have a list of 28 possible topics (which has since grown to 37) and I asked him to pick a number between 1 and 28. He chose number 16, then asked "did I win something?" hehe

Number 16 ended up being one of the assignments from the article, but this one has a little twist to it to make it interesting. Every sentence can only be three words long. Not two, not five, only three words per sentence. Lets see how I do with that. (it's not all necessarily in chronological order, some of it would make no sense at all if i put it where it 'should' be in the list, since I'm limited to such short sentences).

Assignment #3 - Write 2 pages about any 10 years of your life: I chose Age 22 to 32

Laughed a lot. Cried a lot. I made mistakes. I repeated mistakes. I made friends. Lost some friends. Occasionally got drunk. Normally designated driver. Danced on bars. Fell in love. Got heart broken.

Went to parties. Tried being wild. I wasn't wild. I learned drums. Wasn't too bad. Met someone new. Heart broken again. I left him. Learned from mistakes.

Cousin Jason died. Injuries from fire. Memories still hurt. He was twelve.

Worked afternoon shift. Transferred to midnights. Started college classes. Went part time. Found someone else. Moved in together. He got mean. Feared for life. got myself out.

Bought new house. Tried online dating. Met new people. Met future husband. Had first date. Lasted six hours. Dated three years. Finally got married. Travel every year.

Transferred new department. Transferred to days. Had health problems. Health got worse. Transferred midnights again. Quit my job. College full time. Classes got canceled. College part time. Celebrated third anniversary. Went on vacation.

I finished college. Graduated highest honors. Can't find job. Economy in recession. Presidential election soon. Obama versus McCain. Don't like McCain. Unsure about Obama. Gas prices high. Oil prices high. Grocery prices high.

Great-grandma died. 98 years old. Was old age. Had six sisters. One still alive. Rest died old.

Grandma has cancer. Tumor around kidney. Got real sick. Was in hospital. Back home now. Chemo every week. third generation cancer. Family high risk. Scared for mom.

Have new ideas. Writing a book. Actually writing two. May write more.
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This assignment was difficult. It did end up being barely 2 pages handwritten (double spaced..haha). I know more happened in the last 10 years, but some of it I don't remember. Some of it, there was just no way to fit it into only three words and have it somewhat make sense. Some other parts, i can make it fit into three words per sentence, but the emotion is missing. It feels kind of clinical in a way, "don't express emotions, just give it to them straight". It really made me think though, what I have accomplished in the past 10 years, what have I learned, what can I change now, what can I do differently?

Shell