Twitter has an interesting hashtag going, #10years ago.
What are your memories of the world around you as we entered Y2K?
What were you doing?
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Trying to make it into ECW or Japan as a professional wrestler.
I was getting ready for college. RJ
Joseph was seven months old, Regina and I were working full time, I was also in grad school full time, and if the world ended with Y2K, I would have been too busy to notice.
I was in middle school.
I was a freshman in high school enjoying my Sega Dreamcast. :)
Babysitting two kids who are now in college!
Now, Its your turn Mods Jill, and Carla, What were you’ll doing ten years ago? RJ
Pregnant with my second child and teaching Middle School Learning Disabilities. My last year teaching before I became a stay at home mom!! :)
It was a different world back then. I was raising my four year-old and blissfully unaware that something like 9/11 could ever happen in my lifetime.
I was a sophmore in high school and went to a Y2K celebration fair held downtown, then we had a small New Years party for family and a few family friends at my parent’s house. A few months later, I began to date the guy who’d later become my husband :-)
I was getting ready to have my first baby…he was born on Jan 16, 2000.
I had an almost four-month-old baby and I was working as the director of a pregnancy resource center.
Kel,
Didn’t know you directed a PRC. Very cool.
I was trying to graduate from Fordham. Completion of my dissertation was still two years away. Also writing a screenplay that I still haven’t finished!
Looking forward to the next decade, when I finish that and hopefully other projects as well.
Sippin’ on Merlot?
what I remember is my friends going crazy, hoarding food, water and gasoline.
no kidding! it was beyond ridiculous.
I thought they were nuts.
I didn’t pay any mind, went to bed early and woke up to find the same world as before.
I was a sophomore in college and didn’t know I would meet my husband in just a week!
I don’t remember much because of a death of the family member before Christmas of 1999 but I remember others were worried about all the computers crashing and the possible technical, financial fallout that they thought would occur. I really did not worry about it.
Enjoying being an AUNT for the first time. New Years Eve 1999 for ringing in 2000 we had a wedding to go to, but left early to make it home for 11:00 PM Mass for the Holy Day (I don’t remember why we went instead of going in the morning, but probably because we were dressed up from the wedding).
I talked to my ultra-conservative brother on the phone on January 1, 2000 and laughed about the Y2K hysteria. Then we got into a heated discussion about Bill Clinton (I was a card-carrying liberal at the time). My brother asked me how I could be pro-life and vote for Bill Clinton? Didn’t I know what Clinton had done to unborn babies?
Well, you know, I didn’t know. This one conversation began my research into pro-life issues. I even did a paper on pro-life issues within the government for a grad school class. Boy were my eyes opened! Couple that with a return to my born-again Christian faith and I have been a proud pro-life activist ever since. I have become a one-issue voter and those votes have always fallen Republican.
I have been to the March for Life in DC as well as the NJ capitol, Trenton, various other protests/demonstrations and in my church I’m the deacon for pro-life issues.
This fire was all started on January 1, 2000.
Lets look at what’s changed sence then. Who’d have thought of something called an I-phone? Now their everywhere! Or, What about Skype? Thats become comonplace. I just got on skype yesterday! RJ
Yes, I can remember the Y2K histeria and just shaking my head, not believing it. Also, no kidding, RJ, I can remember when the first Mac II and PCs came out, operating only on MS DOS. I feel…old (and I’m only 26)! LOL!
yeah, well Rachael C I can beat that!
Try having to WRITE the algorithms for a mainframe! There were no personal computers in the dark ages….. ;)
LOL, yikes, Angel!
I was working and experiencing empty nest syndrom.
Remember the Y2K scare. My husband said nothing important is going to happen in 2000. He was wrong. He developed a brain tumor and died in two mos. But God is faithful in good times and in bad times. Did not want to end on a downer.
Maria,
I’m so sorry for your loss, and admire your strength in the Lord.
As for me, I was doing the same thing then as I am now…waiting on the Good Lord to bring a wonderful husband into my life, and waiting on the Good Lord to open up a door to do something important with the life He has given me.
Maybe this will be the year?
Please pray for a couple in my church. The woman stopped me this morning and told me that her son called her last night crying. He and his fiance had an abortion. This woman fell into my arms and sobbed about her grandchild. They are heartbroken.
Abortion hurts us all.
I am sorry, Maria.
Praying, Carla. How horrible.
Carla,
I’m praying for the grieving family. Please let them know.
Maria,
I’m sorry for your loss.
Marie,
I’m praying that God’s will for you is revealed.
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It’s interesting that the pro-lifers commenting here didn’t seem too concerned about Y2K. I wasn’t either, although I made a point of not flying right after the new year. We know God will provide. :)
Good wishes and God’s blessings to everyone in 2010.
It was my first week living in Nashville.
Janet,
Thank you so very much. It’s very kind of you.
Carla, I pray for healing for this family. I wonder what this young couple thought that made them choose abortion. God help them.
The director at our CPC says she is seeing “Christian, church-going” young women and even dating couples who say they are “too ashamed” to have their babies, some even say their parents would kick them out and disown them if they had a baby. This director is now making an appeal to all “Christian” parents of teens and young adults, (Catholic and Protestant church-going families), “Please tell your teens you love them no matter what bad choices they make. Tell them you would support them, help them and we will get through this as a family. Tell them you want them to “CHOOSE LIFE NOT DEATH” for your grandchild”.
I have very good friends who are in the ministry who are helping their daughter as a single parent, she is so grateful that she chose life. No, the circumstances were not what God or they preferred but they have a beautiful grandchild who has brought them great joy, their daughter has now come back to Christ and is raising her son in the love of the Lord (they are not raising their grandchild for her). God is a God of second chances, third chances,… etc. He doen’t throw any of us away. Let your kids know you won’t do that to them. Not coddling or spoiling them but helping them take responsibility for what they have done. That is real LOVE. But let your kids know you want them to choose life through adoption or through parenting their child not abortion.
Prolifer L.,
I too was ashamed to tell my Christian parents when I was pre-maritally pregnant. However, I did, and it was hard…probably the hardest thing I EVER had to do.
I think what these young women need to know, is that after the initial shock, they would be amazed at how God will not only work in their lives, but in others around them to support them. God can and does change hearts and minds.
God has worked absolute miracles for me and my child. What these young women and their parents also need to be reminded of, is that this child they are pregnant with is created by God Himself.
I’ll be praying for the director at that CPC that her God-given mission does not fall on deaf ears.
Great post, Prolifer L.!
Thanks Marie for your prayers. I think this has been one of the most discouraging things for the CPC director, trying to talk these “Christian” young people out of aborting their babies which they seem harder to convince than unchurced kids sometimes. Do you know what I mean? The church kids are more abortion-minded than the “heathens” who have never darkened the door of a church (I do NOT mean that in a demeaning way, because there but the grace of God go I). We sure cannot be proud of this in any way, it is just horrific and hypocritical. God help us. We need an action plan developed by all of our churches to get to the parents.
Hey Cranky Catholic. I live in Nashville area too.
“It’s interesting that the pro-lifers commenting here didn’t seem too concerned about Y2K. I wasn’t either, although I made a point of not flying right after the new year. We know God will provide. :)”
Some of us godless heathens weren’t concerned either. I don’t even recall what I was doing that night. Probably went to bed early.
Hal, glad to know you were not sweating it out during Y2K either. See you had faith that things would out afterall. Did you know the Bible says “To every man there is given a measure of faith”? I will keep praying for you that 2010 will be your year to discover your faith in a loving God who has a plan and purpose for you. One of my favorite scriptures is “For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans to prosper you and not for your destruction, plans to give you a future and a hope.” Jeremiah 29:11 Happy New Year Hal.
Hi Hal!
I will join Prolifer L in praying for you in the coming year. I doubt that you would be surprised by that. :)
God bless you!
I think if God was some cruel god who wanted to just punish everyone when they mess up then He would zap you with AIDS or Herpes or some disease as soon as you had premarital sex. The fact that some people sin and yet He still gives you a GIFT, a beautiful child, and says “I am entrusting this innocent child to your care” shows that God believes in second chances. He is so merciful, so forgiving, so loving! I went to a private Christian school my whole life and I know of one girl who was two grades below me who went on to have an abortion several years after graduation. She was heavy into drugs and thought the baby would be deformed. So so so sad that a Christian who KNOWS that we will give an account of all our actions could still choose to abort her baby. No one is immune to sin even those who have been forgiven of it. We still have sin natures and we still fail. But God is so ready to forgive us if we ask!
On a happy note to all born-again believers on here…my three year old son asked Jesus to forgive his sins and take him to heaven when he dies! He did this tonight! I have been talking to him about heaven and hell and sin and what Jesus did for us on the cross and tonight he just brought it up and wanted to talk to Jesus!!!! He said he wanted to ask Jesus to forgive his sins. He understood that sin is the bad things he does. I am so grateful that it only takes the faith of a child to be given the gift of eternal life. Its not a hard theological concept…its very simple–ask and trust Jesus. period. Even my three year old gets it.
Sydney, how cool is that?! :) I remember when my kids did the same. What a precious moment. Awesome job, Mommy! :)
Some of us godless heathens weren’t concerned either. I don’t even recall what I was doing that night. Probably went to bed early.
LOL Hal, I have to agree. I was a junior in high school at the time and I didn’t go to bed early – hung out with some friends, counted down to midnight, etc – but I don’t know ANYONE who was freaking out. Teenagers or adults. Regardless of their religion. Even at the time it seemed more like a sensationalist media exaggeration of a few whackjobs, than like a legitimate phenomenon.
Thanks Prolifer and Carla. Best New Years wishes to everyone here.