Jinjer 36: Post-millennial Pregnancy

[Italiangirl]

My first memory i have to check with my mother if is when my father stupidly (is that a word?) give me a candle without tell me to watch out or anything and i put on my vimini toy's basket near my window curtains...i let you imagine what happen, luckily my parents where in the living room and my mom could fixed everything before it goes bad, so i only lost the cover of the toy basket and half of the curtains

or if it was that time at a friend's house when i didn't found my parents, think to have seen go in a direction and decide that i have to follow them because i was getting bored, even if they specifically sad to me to don't go down the stairs cause i could easily fall down and get hurt, well guess what, they were right, i fall and knock my head and even if wasn't noting big i still have a little scar almost 30 years later   

each time i was around 2,5 3 I'm not sure what has happened first

For newsworthy event's the first international big event that i remember is Princess Diana death i was pissed because i didn't care about her and they interrupt one of my favorite show (game without frontiers) for something that i found really boring

9/11 i was at home watching the afternoon cartoons with my baby sister near me, i still remember what cartoons we was watching because i was starting to feel to old to those baby's cartoons  (born in 87) at some point the cartoon was of and it comes this special news about a plane that has hit a tower i was a little bit confused and start to change channel to see if there was something else, but every channel was showing the same thing, my mom call me at home to tell me to turn off the tv and don't et that my 5 youngers sister watch the tv, i don't remember if i said ok to her yust to make her happy or if i told her that it was too late, i didnt understand why she told that 

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[Sairrr]

I’ve been reading here for many years and finally had to register so I could get in on this conversation. It’s so fascinating to hear everyone’s memories of 9/11.

I was twelve and I live in Yukon, Canada. I remember seeing it on the news before going to school. I was up in time to watch the north tower collapse. I can’t remember if my friends and I talked about it that morning but just before noon the entire town was evacuated because a Korean Air flight that was believed to have been hijacked was being diverted to our airport. Anchorage wouldn’t take them and apparently for the prime minister having a plane shot down over our town was preferable to Vancouver. So we had 15 minutes warning before this plane was to land and if they did anything strange they’d be shot out of the sky.

Obviously all went well, they were never hijacked and landed just fine. It was the first time I’d seen a plane so big and a plane being escorted by fighter jets. We all stood outside school and watched it fly over. It was a gorgeous blue sky day here, too. I guess the whole town got the rest of the day off. 

[singsingsing]

14 minutes ago, Sairrr said:

I’ve been reading here for many years and finally had to register so I could get in on this conversation. It’s so fascinating to hear everyone’s memories of 9/11.

I was twelve and I live in Yukon, Canada. I remember seeing it on the news before going to school. I was up in time to watch the north tower collapse. I can’t remember if my friends and I talked about it that morning but just before noon the entire town was evacuated because a Korean Air flight that was believed to have been hijacked was being diverted to our airport. Anchorage wouldn’t take them and apparently for the prime minister having a plane shot down over our town was preferable to Vancouver. So we had 15 minutes warning before this plane was to land and if they did anything strange they’d be shot out of the sky.

Obviously all went well, they were never hijacked and landed just fine. It was the first time I’d seen a plane so big and a plane being escorted by fighter jets. We all stood outside school and watched it fly over. It was a gorgeous blue sky day here, too. I guess the whole town got the rest of the day off. 

Holy crap, how have I never heard about this? I just googled it and there’s a Wikipedia entry and everything. Down the rabbit hole I go...

[adidas]

23 minutes ago, Sairrr said:

I’ve been reading here for many years and finally had to register so I could get in on this conversation. It’s so fascinating to hear everyone’s memories of 9/11.

I was twelve and I live in Yukon, Canada. I remember seeing it on the news before going to school. I was up in time to watch the north tower collapse. I can’t remember if my friends and I talked about it that morning but just before noon the entire town was evacuated because a Korean Air flight that was believed to have been hijacked was being diverted to our airport. Anchorage wouldn’t take them and apparently for the prime minister having a plane shot down over our town was preferable to Vancouver. So we had 15 minutes warning before this plane was to land and if they did anything strange they’d be shot out of the sky.

Obviously all went well, they were never hijacked and landed just fine. It was the first time I’d seen a plane so big and a plane being escorted by fighter jets. We all stood outside school and watched it fly over. It was a gorgeous blue sky day here, too. I guess the whole town got the rest of the day off. 

Wow, I’ve never heard about this!!

[Sairrr]

12 minutes ago, singsingsing said:

Holy crap, how have I never heard about this? I just googled it and there’s a Wikipedia entry and everything. Down the rabbit hole I go...

You haven’t heard of it because no one talks about the Yukon! There’s a post by a guy named Jerome Stueart if you just google “whitehorse 9/11” that I thought describes that day pretty well. 

[singsingsing]

12 minutes ago, Sairrr said:

You haven’t heard of it because no one talks about the Yukon! There’s a post by a guy named Jerome Stueart if you just google “whitehorse 9/11” that I thought describes that day pretty well. 

I guess there was so much crazy stuff happening that day that it got lost in the shuffle. But wow. You're right, though, the Yukon tends to get forgotten.  I was super interested in it in grade school, though, after finding a book about the Yukon in the school library. I really wanted to visit Whitehorse! Maybe one day I will. And now I know about its wild part in 9/11!

[Sairrr]

@singsingsing I highly recommend a visit! In the summer though. Our eight months of winter is overrated.

[Lurker]

I live a few miles from the World Trade Center on the other side of the water in Brooklyn.  If there is no traffic it will take me 10 minutes by car, heavy traffic is 20 minutes.

Whatever you have read about 9/11, there are no words to describe the reality. The smell of burning for months while the sky was bright blue is still imprinted on me. The days after when our houses and streets were covered with ashes and bits and pieces of paper, fabric, whatever blew over from the pile will never be forgotten. I told my shrink that the unseasonable blue sky was like Groundhog Day to me for months, I kept waiting for something else to hit.

All of the hospitals staffed up to receive wounded, there very few, either people got out or died.  People waited for hours to donate blood that was not needed.  Funerals were held all day, there were lines of cars waiting to get their turns into cemeteries in the tri state area.

My husband and I and our daughter born in 87 had knew people that were killed. (People we knew from our business and PTA and my daughter’s circles from schools).  My son born in 92 stills feels guilty that he was happy that they got an break from class until he learned what had happened.  

Still, one thing we did not do was change our lives and live fearfully.  The first day the A train subway was running, I got on it and went to see/witness what was there.  I did not get close but I saw the wreckage.    9/11 was the day of our election primaries, they were rescheduled and the process went on normally two weeks later.  We went to the office a few days later, and evacuated our building a time or two due to bomb scares,  I made sure I had comfy shoes and a flashlight after the first time.

There is always more to say about 9/11, but it is still too close for comfort and occupies way too much of my brain.

[Runningfromreality]

2 hours ago, Sairrr said:

I’ve been reading here for many years and finally had to register so I could get in on this conversation. It’s so fascinating to hear everyone’s memories of 9/11.

I was twelve and I live in Yukon, Canada. I remember seeing it on the news before going to school. I was up in time to watch the north tower collapse. I can’t remember if my friends and I talked about it that morning but just before noon the entire town was evacuated because a Korean Air flight that was believed to have been hijacked was being diverted to our airport. Anchorage wouldn’t take them and apparently for the prime minister having a plane shot down over our town was preferable to Vancouver. So we had 15 minutes warning before this plane was to land and if they did anything strange they’d be shot out of the sky.

Obviously all went well, they were never hijacked and landed just fine. It was the first time I’d seen a plane so big and a plane being escorted by fighter jets. We all stood outside school and watched it fly over. It was a gorgeous blue sky day here, too. I guess the whole town got the rest of the day off. 

Though I remember hearing about 9/11 in school, my most vivid memory from that day also involves a watching a plane escorted by fighter jets. Once we got home from school (I remember being mad that my parents didn't pick me up early from school like most kids, but they worked near the pentagon, it took a while to get us) the whole neighborhood was just out in the street talking and waiting nervously for our neighbors who worked at or near the pentagon. Our across the street neighbor was an Air Force pilot, and shortly after he got home (he walked from Arlington to Fairfax) we saw a plane escorted by fighter jets fly over head. It was such a clear day. Our neighbor informed us that the plane being escorted was Air Force one. It strikes me now that if anyone had had camera phones at the time, we would all have pictures of it. 

[PennySycamore]

Since others have shared about their seemingly impossibly early memories I will share mine.  I remember seeing the trailer on TV for a movie with a giant spider in it.  (The 50s were the time of giant mutant critter movies.)  This spider was so big it could crush houses and cars.  Anyway the movie Tarantula came out in 1956.  I was one year old.

I also remember going to the drive-in with my parents and siblings to see Gone With the Wind.   I can't figure out what release this would have been.  It was re-released in 1954 and 1961.  My memories of the movie (a pretty girl walking across the yard and a big fire) are too dim for it to have been the 1961 release as I would have been 6.  Could I have seen it in '55 or '56? Movies tended to be shown at the drive-in months later than they were at the regular theatre.

[LacyMay]

My earliest memory is around 2.5/3 I remember not being able to sleep and having an awful stomach ache so my parents brought me to the ER. I haven't confirmed this with them but I think it might have been the catalyst for my being diagnosed with Leukemia (the timeline matches) It's weird because I remember the time I was on chemo (2.5-5.5) fairly well considering my age BUT as I mentioned earlier I have 0 recollection of any news stories or anything from that time. 

 

[allthegoodnamesrgone]

@Lurker as affected as I was by 9/11 in Iowa I can't imagine being 20 miles away. The country felt very small those few days after it happened. 

 

I'm also interested to see that I'm not the only one that has memories from being 3 years old. My mother is always amazed that I can remember certain details of our first place in Des Moines because I was so young, I actually wasn't quite 3 I was almost 3 my mom  had just had my brother and her sister came down with her oldest daughter and youngest (who is my age) the older girl was staying for a week to help my mom with me. 

[imokit]

I have a memory from around my second birthday, and then some more from about 3ish.

[CarrotCake]

12 hours ago, Flossie said:

My friend has always hated cake.  Go ahead and buy her one for her birthday, she'd make a wish and blow out the candle, but she'd never eat it.  She'd take a scoop of ice cream instead.

Is your friend Jessa Duggar? ;-)

[Four is Enough]

A post 9/11 very vivid memory: After the fly ban was lifted, we were all sitting at soccer practice, watching the kids. A plane flew over. EVERYONE stopped and looked up. The skies had been so quiet. It was weird getting used to the planes again. I remember doing the same thing shortly after that day, at a camping trip. Again, we all paused and looked up.

[kachuu]

1 hour ago, Four is Enough said:

A post 9/11 very vivid memory: After the fly ban was lifted, we were all sitting at soccer practice, watching the kids. A plane flew over. EVERYONE stopped and looked up. The skies had been so quiet. It was weird getting used to the planes again. I remember doing the same thing shortly after that day, at a camping trip. Again, we all paused and looked up.

I totally forgot about the fly ban. I will say that even to this day, people don't like to travel on 9/11. My brother had a flight one year on that day and was the only passenger. He said it was super creepy.

[Rosalie]

My first memory of a happening that scared me, was the Challenger accident in ‘86. I was actually almost 8 years old when it happened, but it is the first happening that really scared me. The second one was the murder of the sweedish prime minister Olof Palme the same year (I’m from Norway).

On 9/11 I was at uni. Being at a computer lab, everything suddenly went so slow. Got a text from my bf telling me to find a TV, as a plane had crashed into WTC. Had keys to the office of my student organization, so I rolled the TV into the hallway and within minutes the hallway was crowded. And everyone was dead quiet. We were all so scared! Was this the beginning of WWIII?

But Norway was still quite innocent and peaceful. Until 7/22 2011. The 2011 Norway attacks, referred to in Norway as 22 July (Norwegian: 22. juli), the date of the events, were two sequential lone wolf terrorist attacks by Anders Behring Breivik against the government, the civilian population, and a Workers' Youth League (AUF)-run summer camp. The attacks claimed a total of 77 lives. It was in a way our 9/11...

[nausicaa]

13 hours ago, PennySycamore said:

Since others have shared about their seemingly impossibly early memories I will share mine.  I remember seeing the trailer on TV for a movie with a giant spider in it.  (The 50s were the time of giant mutant critter movies.)  This spider was so big it could crush houses and cars.  Anyway the movie Tarantula came out in 1956.  I was one year old.

I have a couple memories that must have happened before I even turned three. One is getting my diaper changed by my mom and my dad coming in to kiss me and my not liking it because his stubble kind of hurt and I didn't know how to verbalize it. Another is sitting in my crib with a plastic snow globe that began to leak and another is sitting in my high chair during a power outage squeezing a squeaky rubber ducky bib tied around my neck.

None of these memories are particularly interesting or fantastic, and in all three I remember details about the set up of the house that are accurate from when I was a baby, so it seems they most likely happened and aren't just stories I've told myself.

I thought everyone had some memories like this, but I was shocked to learn some people can't even remember their kindergarten teacher! I remember everything about kindergarten, including where my cubby was and what we did for assemblies.

The downside to having a good memory is 1. You remember every embarrassing thing you ever did in excruciating detail and 2. Everything seems like yesterday and so your perception of time is completely skewed.

[SapphireSlytherin]

37 minutes ago, nausicaa said:

I remember everything about kindergarten

I remember the entire kindergarten roll call. First and last names.

[Alachantal]

18 hours ago, Sairrr said:

I’ve been reading here for many years and finally had to register so I could get in on this conversation. It’s so fascinating to hear everyone’s memories of 9/11.

I was twelve and I live in Yukon, Canada. I remember seeing it on the news before going to school. I was up in time to watch the north tower collapse. I can’t remember if my friends and I talked about it that morning but just before noon the entire town was evacuated because a Korean Air flight that was believed to have been hijacked was being diverted to our airport. Anchorage wouldn’t take them and apparently for the prime minister having a plane shot down over our town was preferable to Vancouver. So we had 15 minutes warning before this plane was to land and if they did anything strange they’d be shot out of the sky.

Obviously all went well, they were never hijacked and landed just fine. It was the first time I’d seen a plane so big and a plane being escorted by fighter jets. We all stood outside school and watched it fly over. It was a gorgeous blue sky day here, too. I guess the whole town got the rest of the day off. 

Holy crap! I've never heard of that until now, and I'll have to do some reading! I live in a suburb of Vancouver so I would've thought I'd have heard of that lol.

I remember getting up on 9/11 and coming downstairs where my mum was watching the planes on the news and crying. We have a relative who worked in one of the towers (who thankfully got out and was fine) and although we aren't close to that relative she was really worried about him. All day in school the teachers were playing the footage on TV and we had an assemby about it.

[Iamtheway]

1 hour ago, Rosalie said:

My first memory of a happening that scared me, was the Challenger accident in ‘86. I was actually almost 8 years old when it happened, but it is the first happening that really scared me. The second one was the murder of the sweedish prime minister Olof Palme the same year (I’m from Norway).

On 9/11 I was at uni. Being at a computer lab, everything suddenly went so slow. Got a text from my bf telling me to find a TV, as a plane had crashed into WTC. Had keys to the office of my student organization, so I rolled the TV into the hallway and within minutes the hallway was crowded. And everyone was dead quiet. We were all so scared! Was this the beginning of WWIII?

But Norway was still quite innocent and peaceful. Until 7/22 2011. The 2011 Norway attacks, referred to in Norway as 22 July (Norwegian: 22. juli), the date of the events, were two sequential lone wolf terrorist attacks by Anders Behring Breivik against the government, the civilian population, and a Workers' Youth League (AUF)-run summer camp. The attacks claimed a total of 77 lives. It was in a way our 9/11...

The murder of Olof Palme is my first news memory (I was 6). I have pretty vague memories from when I was little. And I’m not sure what I remember from actual memories and what I have been told and seen photos of. 

I was also at uni on 9/11 and remember sitting alone in my tiny apartment watching tv all day. The Breivik attacks I think changed the whole of Scandinavia. 

[Triplet3]

I can remember when I was 3, possibly 2, but for some reason the first major newsworthy thing I remember is the 1992 Olympics, when I was 7. My parents let my sisters, older brother and I stay up later than normal to watch it. 

I'm in the UK so it was early afternoon here when the planes hit the Twin Towers on 9/11. I didn't hear anything about it straightaway, so I assume teachers deliberately didn't tell us. The first I heard was when my sisters and I were in school orchestra practice after school, and the mum of the principal cellist came in during a quick break, went up to the teacher who was the conductor, and quietly told her that planes had flown into the Twin Towers. I overheard her, but the enormity didn't sink in because 1) I hadn't heard of the Twin Towers before then, and 2) I don't think she said there was terrorism involved. We then just carried on with the practice. Our mum told me and my sisters more about it in the car as she drove us home afterwards. We got home and pretty much stayed glued to the TV news the rest of the day, and devoured newspapers for at least a fortnight. It was horrifying enough just watching and reading about it all thousands of miles away, so I could only imagine how awful it must have been for everyone actually in the US - most of all those who lost loved ones. I remember being most affected by seeing footage of people jumping from the windows.

[Carm_88]

1 hour ago, nausicaa said:

I thought everyone had some memories like this, but I was shocked to learn some people can't even remember their kindergarten teacher! I remember everything about kindergarten, including where my cubby was and what we did for assemblies.

I have a really good memory but I have very few memories of Kindergarten. First Grade is very clear but for Kindergarten, where I was in a small school, they filmed a lot of our days in Kindergarten and gave them to us at the end of our year. Now I never know if I actually remember something or if it's from the VHS.  

I can totally related to remembering every embarrassing thing that you have ever done. I still blush thinking about the time I fell down the stairs and ripped my pants and that was 12 years ago. 

[adidas]

My very earliest memory is from my cousin’s third birthday party in 1979. I remember running down the hall in my party dress, excited to be getting some cake. 

I remember my own third birthday really clearly, and my third Christmas. I remember preschool and ‘big school’ orientation, plus my first day of school. 

But ask me what I had for breakfast 2 days ago and I’d struggle to remember

[tabitha2]

My very first memory is tasting Doritos.  Go figure.