Comments on: 170th Friday Blog Roundup

By: Jamie

Jamie — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 03:07:53 +0000

I had my first job as an RN in 1999. All the nurses employed in the unit were required to be present at midnight. I remember standing by my patient who was on a ventilator and waiting for the clock to strike midnight – the doctors and administrators thought all the equipment was going to go kaput – when I noticed the date on my ventilator’s screen said August 23, 1986. I thought to myself, “What a waste of my freaking time.” I could have been doing something cool!

By: Kate (Bee In The Bonnet)

Kate (Bee In The Bonnet) — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 21:17:19 +0000

Ugh. The millenial kiss. That would be with the guy who I shared one of the worst relationships I’ve ever been in. I dated him for two years and pretty much hated him the whole time. I still don’t know why I did that. Anyhow, we had just started dating two months prior, and I broke up with my last partner in order to date him. However, my prior partner and I had been friends for years before we dated, and were still friends afterward. So I kissed the awful boyfriend at midnight and then kissed the prior partner immediately afterward. I preferred the friendly kiss with the prior partner, frankly.

However, if I had to do it all over again, I would have kissed my husband at the millenium turn. I didn’t even know he existed yet, he was dating someone else, living almost 2000 miles away, didn’t even know that he would be moving to my town in just a few months. But he did decide to come to the PhD program at UT and he did meet my friend in a Sanskrit class, and his girlfriend did break his heart while they were overseas for his research, priming him to meet me on his return from his overseas research. It’s weird to think that this person that is so central to my life now wasn’t even a whiff of a thought in my head when this millenium began. So if I could do it over again, I would have had him in my life back then. My millenial kiss would have been with the love of my life, the one I can’t imagine being without, not with the train-wreck of a person that it was actually with.

By: Battynurse

Battynurse — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 05:53:31 +0000

Oh man. My millennial kiss. As long as I live I will never forget that. No matter how much I would rather I did. 1999′s move into 2000 I was with my ex D who to put it quite mater of factly was a serious alcoholic and I was dumb and stupid enough at that point to think I could fix him. We decided to get some whiskey and put it in Soda bottles with soda and go downtown Spokane for the party that we were sure was going to happen. It had been snowing a lot for several days. We took the bus so there would be no driving. Walked around a lot and were having fun at first. Went on the Merry Go Round and tried ice skating (not a good plan). Then as was the usual progression of events, D started to get mean and nasty. He took off walking, leaving me behind. This freaked me out because he’d miss the last bus and my house keys were locked in his house. Plus it was my “job” to keep track of him. So I followed him. Which led to a very loud and noisy fight on a street corner in which there was some shoving and there might have been more (I was fairly drunk and things were hazy). Ended up with D getting arrested about 15 minutes before midnight and me getting a ride to the jail to get his keys and then back to his house in the drunk van. Yeah. Sucked donkey balls.

By: Erica

Erica — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 05:18:54 +0000

Poor me. I had no millenium kiss. Just a lot of booze.

By: Manapan

Manapan — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 03:52:32 +0000

Gotta love ChickieNob. Logical kids are the cutest!

I was barely 14 years old on NYE 1999. My best (female) friends and I had a slumber party. We watched intently as the time changed in the Eastern time zone to make sure there weren’t going to be any Y2K issues. Then, since we live where the time zone changes from Central to Mountain, we stood next to the dividing line at midnight Central time / 11 pm Mountain time and hopped from one millennium into the other over and over again, laughing all the while. Kissing? I’d say we were way too immature for that kind of nonsense. And I wouldn’t have the story any other way.

By: luna

luna — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 07:32:27 +0000

I was lucky to be with my hub and spent the new year dancing outside under the stars with him and my cousin and his girlfriend. there may or may not have been illicit activities involved.

er. and on another note. that chickienob! well played indeed. I love their little analytical minds. can’t wait to see what happened.

By: coffeegrl

coffeegrl — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 05:32:50 +0000

My millenial kiss turned into my husband. We had literally just started dating the night before (after knowing each other and communicating long distance for 6 months). We were finally in the same place and celebrated in a big way. To this day, Dec. 31st is a far more meaningful anniversary to me than even our wedding anniversary which came more than 5 years later. When I consider that we’ve only been married for 4 years it seems sort of silly since we’ve really been *together* for 10 years now. I wouldn’t trade that moment for anything!

By: Paz

Paz — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 04:22:39 +0000

Oh, I had a doozie. And I won’t tell either.

By: HereWeGoAJen

HereWeGoAJen — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 02:25:18 +0000

I was dating Matt then, so I kissed him. And he is just who I would have picked anyway.

By: Vee

Vee — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 22:05:08 +0000

My millennium kiss was from Max, we had met on Boxing day the week before. We went to a party then went to the beach and kissed as we lay in the sand on a beautiful summer balmy night.