Herein lies the beauty of blogging, or really of any sort of journal-keeping. It's easy to take a quick look back through the archives to see exactly what was going on at any given point of your chronicled life.

One year ago, I was getting super excited about a number of good things whilst being exhausted from massive amounts of overtime. Being that March 16 was a Tuesday in 2010, I can almost guarantee that I'd gotten to work around 4 AM, probably not leaving till close to 4 PM. Aside from those small things, there's really not much else that DID happen. Work was pretty much the sum total of my life.

I was also, apparently, working on a soon-after abandoned 365 project, wherein you take one photo every day for a year. This project, while awesome in its own right, takes more commitment and dedication than I was able to muster after the first hundred-odd days. The attached picture is from Mar. 16, and it was taken as part of the alphabet project-in-a-project. That day's letter was W, and this was originally titled "W is for Wow What a Wonder Wicked Was!" (Or something like that.)

Five years ago, I was apparently a little bundle of negativity. My life wasn't bad, not really. I was just in a pretty bad place mentally. So on Mar. 16, 2006, I was working as a part time temp at a Community Services Board in my area, pushing papers. I was complaining about my meager salary -- which by today's standards would actually be below minimum wage -- and the price of gas. Copied and pasted from an old LiveJournal entry: "And on a totally unrelated note, gas is up to $2.47 here. Outrageous!" Considering that the lowest gas in my area is now $3.39, I've got to admit I'd love to have the good ol' $2.49 a gallon days back. At least my car gets pretty decent gas mileage!