Things you miss...

tlv204 · April 2010

I don't know if many people are around, but I haven't been around a lot lately and since I finally have some downtime before madness tomorrow with multiple family gatherings, I thought I'd start a random thread.

So, what are some things that you miss?

I miss college a lot. I miss walking into a bar and knowing more than 75% of the people there and not having to wake up at the ass crack of dawn every day. (I went to a bar last night full of people younger than me who most likely lived within walking distance of the bar while I had to drive home, and then I started being nostalgic and living in the past for a while, hence this post)

I miss being limber. I mean I'm in the process of losing weight and have been working out a lot, but I just miss when I used to dance and cheer and stuff and just felt more bendy and moveable.

I miss not being freaked out by outdoor stuff. I mean I still love the outdoors, but I just miss when I was little and would roll around in the grass for hours and not even consider the amount of bugs there or whether I would get dirt in my hair. I would still consider myself more ok with bugs and dirt than most people, but it just never even crossed my mind when I was younger. That and making daisy chains and making sandcastles out of the dirt in the dugout where my dad used to play softball.

You?

PS- How is everyone? Have I missed anything good in the past few days? I haven't even read FFF.

nda_roxybabe · April 2010

I miss Sr. year of Highschool. I know I'm not supposedto miss HS but I do.
I liked drving around with my bestfriend, getting iced chais and just having fun.

I miss SC. I got so homesick while I was there butnow I miss it and think I want to move there. They practically have seasons there. Seasons.

I miss when I was really, really skinny. T says I look much better now (more like a woman) but I miss eating what I wanted and still being a stick.
Now, in no way do I have any kind of eating disorder. I realize I'm still skinny and I'm healthier now.

nda_roxybabe · April 2010

p.s. Hi! I'm currently obsessing over designs blogs and dying to start my own (if I could just think of a name) I don't think you missed anything too interesting, there was some fun over on SB but eh..and FFF was pretty lame.

Marina007 · April 2010

I miss backpacking. I travelled for 3 months after I had an exchange semester in Singapore and it was just SO much fun meeting new people every day, and the planning would consist of what new and exciting things I would go see next week. Sleeping in tiny huts on the beach with only a mattress on the floor for $5 a night. Not having any pressures apart from getting back to Bangkok airport 3 months later.

I also miss my social life. After graduating, I lived in London for a year, and was always meeting up with people for dinner, drinks, picnics, walks, shopping etc. I had an automatic social network where I worked and I loved it (I'm not super outgoing, and it was nice to have loads of other people around in the same position as myself). I moved back to a small town in Norway to be with FI, and while I'm really happy here, I miss the excitement of having so many social options and plans.

Mrs.B6302007 · April 2010

I miss sleeping on my back.

I miss drinking a glass of wine every once in awhile.

GreenMoon · April 2010

I miss driving!!! Its been my rant for the day, but I'm currently not able to drive because of medical reasons

I miss having a fenced in yard. I love walking my dogs, but at five am when I wake up for work, its so much nicer to just open the door and let them out. Also in the rain.

I miss spending money on really stupid things. Now that I've "grown up" a little, I have to talk myself into just mildly stupid things, like a new pair of sneakers from target just because my old ones are really dirty and then I can have an indoor and outdoor pair. I remember when I could go out to the mall and blow 200 on a pair of prom shoes that I knew I'd take off as soon as I got there.

aMrsin09 · April 2010

Wow, where do I start...

Living overseas, I miss being able to read food labels, being able to drive to where I want to go. I miss sailing. A Lot. If I had known there was this much winter sailing going on over here i would have brought my gear. I won't even go into all of the food stuffs I miss.

Stackeye210 · April 2010

I too miss being limber. I feel so unmoveable and blob like.

I miss banana milkshakes from DQ and being able to drink them without instant weight gain on my thighs.

I miss sitting with my friends outside on summer days when we were little listening to songs like Shoop over and over so we'd know all the words and feel cool.

katiewhompus · April 2010

I miss college a lot. I miss living with my best friends and sharing clothes. I miss being able to walk to different cafes for coffee or meet someone between classes. I miss being surrounded by 16,000 people my age and having friends.

I miss being young and dumb. Kind of like TLV, I used to always roll down hills or play in puddles. I loved picking up frogs and weird bugs and used to turn puddles into tad pole farms. Now I'm all "don't touch the bug because it might bite you and be poisonous."

I miss my dog being able to go on walks with me

We used to spend all of our time wakling about the apartment and playing outside. Now she can only walk for about 50' before her muscles give out. At least once we move she and I can sit outside all day.

I miss horseback riding and swimming. I loved doing both of them and was really good at them but stopped in college. Now that I've stopped it's hard to start up again and there's no way we can afford riding lessons or a pool membership right now.

opalsky007 · April 2010

In Response to <a href="http://forums.theknot.com/Sites/theknot/Pages/Main.aspx/wedding-boards_etiquette_things-miss?plckFindPostKey=Cat:Wedding%20BoardsForum:9Discussion:f69751bd-167a-4580-800d-ff7ca760e7d7Post:5df3da0f-36a4-46b6-bda5-ea25a17b78f6">Things you miss...</a>:
[QUOTE] I miss being limber. I mean I'm in the process of losing weight and have been working out a lot, but I just miss when I used to dance and cheer and stuff and just felt more bendy and moveable.
Posted by tlv204[/QUOTE]

OMG, this. I bent over to touch my toes the other day and they felt about a foot further away than they used to. I recently even injured my hamstring badly trying to step over a piece of furniture that would have been a piece of cake two years ago.

Along those lines, I miss dancing, a ton. I realize that my body just can't do those things anymore, but still have delusions of grandeur when watching SYTYCD.

I also miss home, a bit. I've never been one of those kids who gets homesick, ever, but my parents announced this week that they're moving halfway across the country. I'm a little freaked out at the prospect of going home to pick out which things from my childhood I want to keep.

Stackeye210 · April 2010

In Response to <a href="http://forums.theknot.com/Sites/theknot/Pages/Main.aspx/wedding-boards_etiquette_things-miss?plckFindPostKey=Cat:Wedding%20BoardsForum:9Discussion:f69751bd-167a-4580-800d-ff7ca760e7d7Post:87b4756d-e427-416d-80f0-5f280b4380df">Re: Things you miss...</a>:
[QUOTE]In Response to Things you miss... : . I also miss home, a bit. I've never been one of those kids who gets homesick, ever, but my parents announced this week that they're moving halfway across the country. I'm a little freaked out at the prospect of going home to pick out which things from my childhood I want to keep.
Posted by opalsky007[/QUOTE]

I had to do this like 2 years ago. It's not fun. I was trying to be so realistic about what I needed to keep vs wanting to keep it all.

katiewhompus · April 2010

Opal, my mom has kept "my bedroom" the same ever since I moved out in 2002. This year she finally fully converted it to her super sewing room. Honestly, that was a bit weird but didn't bug me.

What did get me, is when I called them one day and the answering machine said "You have called the home of Mom and Dad last name". There machine has always been "mom and dad and me lastname", and even though I haven't lived with them in 8 years it was still really sad to hear. I still fill in my name in my head...

ricksang · April 2010

I miss Italy.
I miss being able to drink and stay up until the crack of dawn and not be physically ill the next day.
I miss New Orleans

Nebb · April 2010

I miss when I was in college - I somehow existed on 7$ an hour but I had a great figure, I was always out doing things, and I smoked a lot of weed.

That said, I miss smoking weed. I am too paranoid now to do it and my husband doesnt like it. I just miss it.

I also miss doing whatever, whenever, and being able to walk there in the process - when I was in college I lived downtown and could walk to grocery stores, parks, bars, restaurants and I could see the bus station from my window. I miss that.

I also miss mc donalds pizza, wendys pitas, crocadile soup (the noodles were shaped like crocadiles), and ceasar salad chips. mmmmmmm...

opalsky007 · April 2010

Heh, my bedroom became a plant nursery almost the second I moved out. It's weird because I had already pulled out the "gotta have it now" things: photo albums, my senior yearbook, my favorite books, etc. But the rest of it? It's going to be sad, especially because Dad and I built a lot of the furniture in my room together, and we don't have room for it either here or at my parents' new place.

Nebb · April 2010

I also miss my alcohol tollerance, somehow over the years it has gotten out of control and it costs WAY too much money to get drunk now. I should not be able to drink 8 beers without blinking and hardly feel anything.

I also miss summers as a kid, nothing important to do just existing and enjoying the weather/outdoors.

aMrsin09 · April 2010

right now I just miss being able to sleep. This insomnia is killing me!

Now that I'm married, I miss being able to have just "whatever" for dinner. Who cares if I've had it 3 nights in a row? Seems, H does care...

oh and I miss having a clothes dryer and a garbage disposal. I am firmly convinced that the US is the only country that considers them to be standard kitchen equipment.

tlv204 · April 2010

Oooh I also miss a garbage disposal. Our house is ancient and we're too lazy to put one in, but H still dumps food in there like we have one, then I end up having to clean out the sink traps. Gross.

I also really, really miss cigarettes lately. I can normally go months without even thinking about them anymore, but I think since it has gotten nice outside lots of smokers are taking advantage of it and it's making me jealous.

L-Bride · April 2010

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[QUOTE]I miss Italy. I miss being able to drink and stay up until the crack of dawn and not be physically ill the next day. I miss New Orleans
Posted by ricksang[/QUOTE]

<div> You have typed the words right out of my hands! I can't believe how I'm affected by alcohol these days and I miss being able to party like a rock star and not be incapacitated the next day! My motto is work, hard play on the weekends. These days the cocktail flu is kicking my ASS after a night of drinking. </div><div>I can't believe I partied Thursday, Friday, and Saturday nights through college. Not that want to do that now- I just want my body to have the option of doing it!</div>

aMrsin09 · April 2010

oh no no. H puts the food down it, H gets to clean the traps. In fact, in our new house, since there is no garbage disposal (I hear only about 10% of houses have them and even then, they are only the "posh houses"), H gets to clean the traps anyway. He doesn't want to do that, he can install a disposal.

nda_roxybabe · April 2010

I miss summers in Alaska. They are so, so amazing.

katiewhompus · April 2010

I miss being able to eat food and not think about the calories. When I was younger I could eat anything and get away with it, now I need to be careful. It's really depressing to watch them make a yummy burrito bowl at Chipotle and just think "glop of sour cream, 200 calories, glop of guac, 300 calories"

Nebb · April 2010

In Response to <a href="http://forums.theknot.com/Sites/theknot/Pages/Main.aspx/wedding-boards_etiquette_things-miss?plckFindPostKey=Cat:Wedding%20BoardsForum:9Discussion:f69751bd-167a-4580-800d-ff7ca760e7d7Post:b42a6422-a667-4d20-b684-77bf14222427">Re: Things you miss...</a>:
[QUOTE]I miss being able to eat food and not think about the calories. When I was younger I could eat anything and get away with it, now I need to be careful. It's really depressing to watch them make a yummy burrito bowl at Chipotle and just think "glop of sour cream, 200 calories, glop of guac, 300 calories"
Posted by katiewhompus[/QUOTE]
I feel the same way, when I was younger I ate like crap - nachos for dinner, a big bowl of pasta for dinner, a big bowl of rice (and only rice) for dinner, eating out all the time, whatever. It didnt matter, I stayed the same weight. I think it had something to do with walking all over but even if I ditched my car I dont think I could eat that way.

tlv204 · April 2010

Yep, ditto on the food.

[Deleted User] · April 2010

good thread.

i miss college the most, i think. i miss being young and surrounded by so many people my age, like someone else said.

i also miss being 22, when i had the energy to follow phish around the country without a care in the world, first discovering the music while tripping on mushrooms every night. my body just can't hold up to that kind of abuse anymore.

i miss being single sometimes - being a viable woman with infinite possibilities, just doin her own thing.

i miss not being fat.

i miss my mom.

i miss not seeing wrinkles when i put on eye makeup.

i miss diving. man that was fun.

JessAndTrav · April 2010

I don't miss being in college, but I do miss things about college life.

I miss my weight right before I started college. I thought I was so fat. Now, I'd do anything to be that small again.

I miss my group of friends from college. It was a small group, but I still consider them my best friends. Lately, I've been missing them a whole lot.

I miss my grandmother. I hate that she's missed so much in my life just since she passed away a few years ago. She always dreamed big for me.

iamjoesgurl · April 2010

I miss going on vacations with my sister (before she had kids).

I miss spending money without having to justify it to someone.

I'm going to miss eating at Chipotle and getting guac now that I know it is 300 freaking calories in one glop!

sarabellam · April 2010

I miss my sister and nieces intensely. It's worse right now knowing that my parents are over there visiting her.

I miss my house. I've only been away 11 days, but I'm REALLY tired of needing something (clothes, kitchen gdget, a particular pair of shoes,whatever) and realizing it is still at home.

I miss having a fenced-in yard. I miss my HUGE bedroom (20' X 24') in my last house.

I miss the disposable income that I had when my ex-h was working fulltime.

LP11509 · April 2010

Every now and then, I miss living by myself. I could come home from work, plop down on the couch, eat whatever I wanted for dinner (which was often just an order of breadsticks from the Pizza Hut Express across the street) and nobody knew to judge me. Except maybe the guy who was always working at Pizza Hut. He started getting breadsticks ready as soon as he saw my car pulling up.

I miss the last day of school in high school Every year on the last day, my friends and I would have a huge bonfire and burn the papers we didn't want to keep. We also burned our school IDs (we were required to wear them around our necks everyday) It was so much fun.

jasmineh7777 · April 2010

I miss the long drives my best friend and I would take on weekend nights.
I miss my high school cast parties. In fact, I miss doing a show every couple of months.
I miss the big circle of friends I had had since elementary school. We've all gone our seperate ways now.

brookelynpaisley · April 2010

I miss sleep. We got married in October, and I didn't get a solid night's sleep for almost two months before. We got a new puppy 2 days after the wedding, and - even though I love her - her wide-a-fucking-wake-at-6am schedule is killer.

I miss my sister being nearby. I'm happy for her that she met a guy she wanted to move away with, but I do miss going to visit my parents and having her there.

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