Forgetting your own history
Oct. 27th, 2013 11:59 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dreamsharkI've been thinking about beds lately. For one thing, our venerable water bed has developed a small but stubborn leak that we can't seem to patch completely, so we've been thinking about getting rid of it. I'm trying to remember how old it is, and can't quite remember when we got it. It was either when we moved into DreamPark (spring, 1985) or when we swapped the bedrooms around about 2 years later. Either way, it's an old waterbed, but it bothers me that I can't remember just HOW old.
Then there was the old twin bed in Amber's room that I finally replaced with an Ikea daybed this year. I know that I got it from the gal that lived downstairs from me in that shabby old corner duplex in Seward who was getting a larger bed to accommodate a live-in boyfriend. But what was I sleeping on before then? I have no idea. And I know that bed followed me through 3 or 4 more rented apartments before I bought my first house in 1977. But... exactly where DID I move to after that Seward apartment? I know I lived with Nancy on Raymond Ave in St. Paul for a short time, and in an apartment in Powderhorn, but in which order? And how exactly did I end up in that duplex on 30th Ave? (Or was it 31st?) Did Cathy find that place and I moved in with her, or was it the other way round? And who was that woman that I drove to the east coast with in 1974 (?) Annette something? She had a VW bug and a couple of kids (who thankfully did not accompany us on the road trip), but where did I meet her and when did we drift apart? I just don't remember.
It no longer surprises me how few details I actually remember from childhood, but I didn't expect such large swaths of my adult life to simply fade away like this.
Then there was the old twin bed in Amber's room that I finally replaced with an Ikea daybed this year. I know that I got it from the gal that lived downstairs from me in that shabby old corner duplex in Seward who was getting a larger bed to accommodate a live-in boyfriend. But what was I sleeping on before then? I have no idea. And I know that bed followed me through 3 or 4 more rented apartments before I bought my first house in 1977. But... exactly where DID I move to after that Seward apartment? I know I lived with Nancy on Raymond Ave in St. Paul for a short time, and in an apartment in Powderhorn, but in which order? And how exactly did I end up in that duplex on 30th Ave? (Or was it 31st?) Did Cathy find that place and I moved in with her, or was it the other way round? And who was that woman that I drove to the east coast with in 1974 (?) Annette something? She had a VW bug and a couple of kids (who thankfully did not accompany us on the road trip), but where did I meet her and when did we drift apart? I just don't remember.
It no longer surprises me how few details I actually remember from childhood, but I didn't expect such large swaths of my adult life to simply fade away like this.
