Looking Backward: The Twelve Firsts Of 2006

I’ve seen this meme here and there this month. I can’t recall where now. The idea is to re-print the first sentence of the first post from each month in 2006. With the New Year approaching, this seems like a good time to do so…and I’m curious.

(If the “first post” fell on a “Quote of the Day” or similar, I skipped it to one of my own posts.)

• January 3, 2006: History Repeating Itself?
  

  So, four years ago, the hospital I was at went through lay-offs and an administration change.

• February 2, 2006: I Am Alive & Going To England
  

  I appologize for seemingly abandoning this blog.

• March 1, 2006: Forgotten New Orleans
  

  Gulf Coast Reconstruction Watch has put together a document analyzing how much progress the city of New Orleans with the promised State and Federal help has made since Hurricane Katrina struck in 2005.

• April 1, 2006: Lowest Poll Rating Ever?
  

  Is it me or does it seem like every week or so this year there’s been a headline that announced Bush having his “lowest poll rating ever” and they’ve all been between 34 and 37%?

• May 1, 2006: What I’ve Learned Since My Puppy Came Home
  

  I admit I’ve been too busy with the new puppy to post.

• June 1, 2006: Stomach Acid & Pink Eye
  

  When it rains, it pours.

• July 4, 2006: Why I’m Almost Embarrassed To Be An American…
  

  Here are a few things I’ve overheard while in England:

• August 1, 2006: The Next Step In Man-Made Miracles
  

  When you think about the possibilities…when you consider what lives might be helped…when you consider that in hundreds of labs around the world unused, unwanted embryos are never going to become anything more than lifeless chemical waste…when asked, if you did your part, however little for stem-cell research, what will you say?

• September 1, 2006: Discombobulated Thoughts - 09/01/06
  

  Pugly loves that credit theft commercial where the woman voice-over sings “Unbreak My Heart” really badly.

• October 2, 2006: Monday’s A Bitch: Random Joy
  

  It’s that time of week again…

• November 2, 2006: Thursday Thirteen Discombobulated Worries This Week (#11)
  

  My brain is way too scattered and full of anxiety to focus on one particular nifty topic this week.

• December 1, 2006: My Brain May Explode
  

  I wonder why my brain doesn’t explode from the sheer insanity of contradictory messages I get from my parents sometimes — mainly from my mother.

Hmmmm…

I’m tempted to go through and write the first sentence of the last post.  Or the last sentence of the third post.  Or the twenty third sentence of every month.  The possibilities are endless.

Of course, this is only worth the time if it actually intrigues anyone to go back and read something old.  Seems far too random.  I think my posts from memory lane in the right margin at the top would be better for that, but I don’t think that’s all that successful either. Hmmmm…

If you do find yourself wandering back through my memory, please leave a comment there, or here, to let me know if this sort of this is an effective use of my time.

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