census meme
Mar. 9th, 2011 03:19 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
llcoolvadI've moved around a lot in my life. More than this meme would suggest, certainly. Around 20 places, not counting dorms.
2011 - Living with my boy in rented apartment with two cats in Wakefield. It's a nice duplex with Patrick in the other half, big back yard, deck. Location is good, neighborhood is quiet.
2001 - Living by myself in rented apartment in Malden with my three kitties. It was pretty small, just three rooms plus a bathroom and the kitchen was awful, but it had really nice closets, and a close friend lived across the hall. When she moved out I went with her, renting an apartment in her new home's basement.
1991 - Living with 2 sets of roommates in two different rented houses in Amherst. The first one was a split level ranch with seven other people, including a boyfriend. Several cats. Xing! The second was out out out in the middle of nowhere, as remote as you can be in Amherst. Married couple and a baby. Ferrets. My cat. Soon a second cat (GreyKitty!). Lots of wildlife because we were on the edge of a nature preserve. Lots of feral cats. Pretty location, but the house had a lot of, um, holes? in the basement? that let in other cats. We ended up with fleas.
1981 - Living with parents and dog and several cats in a rented apartment in Watertown. We had the top two floors in a house, and I had the top floor all to myself. Hot in the summer, but otherwise awesome. Good yard, put an above ground pool in after a couple of years. My parents lived there for 17 years, so I think of this as "home" more than any other place.
1971 - Living with parents and several cats in an apartment in Cambridge. This was the first of only two apartment buildings we ever lived in. Two bedrooms, 1.5 baths, milk door in the kitchen (that the cat could open to let himself out); Dad built a temporary darkroom in the kitchen. Had balconies on both the front door side of the apartment and the slider in the living room. I was six.
ETA: Amusingly, this picture is from that 1971 Cambridge apartment. It was in the hallway in front of the elevators. I was all dressed up to go somewhere. Patent leather shoes, fetching chapeau, white gloves, white tights, anchor on my dress. You probably can't see it in the picture, but I also have a tiny patent leather purse. The dress was navy blue, as was the hat. 1971 was so fashionable.
2011 - Living with my boy in rented apartment with two cats in Wakefield. It's a nice duplex with Patrick in the other half, big back yard, deck. Location is good, neighborhood is quiet.
2001 - Living by myself in rented apartment in Malden with my three kitties. It was pretty small, just three rooms plus a bathroom and the kitchen was awful, but it had really nice closets, and a close friend lived across the hall. When she moved out I went with her, renting an apartment in her new home's basement.
1991 - Living with 2 sets of roommates in two different rented houses in Amherst. The first one was a split level ranch with seven other people, including a boyfriend. Several cats. Xing! The second was out out out in the middle of nowhere, as remote as you can be in Amherst. Married couple and a baby. Ferrets. My cat. Soon a second cat (GreyKitty!). Lots of wildlife because we were on the edge of a nature preserve. Lots of feral cats. Pretty location, but the house had a lot of, um, holes? in the basement? that let in other cats. We ended up with fleas.
1981 - Living with parents and dog and several cats in a rented apartment in Watertown. We had the top two floors in a house, and I had the top floor all to myself. Hot in the summer, but otherwise awesome. Good yard, put an above ground pool in after a couple of years. My parents lived there for 17 years, so I think of this as "home" more than any other place.
1971 - Living with parents and several cats in an apartment in Cambridge. This was the first of only two apartment buildings we ever lived in. Two bedrooms, 1.5 baths, milk door in the kitchen (that the cat could open to let himself out); Dad built a temporary darkroom in the kitchen. Had balconies on both the front door side of the apartment and the slider in the living room. I was six.
ETA: Amusingly, this picture is from that 1971 Cambridge apartment. It was in the hallway in front of the elevators. I was all dressed up to go somewhere. Patent leather shoes, fetching chapeau, white gloves, white tights, anchor on my dress. You probably can't see it in the picture, but I also have a tiny patent leather purse. The dress was navy blue, as was the hat. 1971 was so fashionable.
