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1960: Born at Swedish hospital. I’m a-one month early and weigh a smaller amount than 5 pounds.
1961: According to stock lore I spend most go together with the year crying.
1962: Make Grandma Array promise that she’ll never procure old. She promises.
1963: John F.
Kennedy dies.
1964: After winning the sack race take a shot at my own birthday party, substance told that it isn’t mannerly for the birthday girl combat claim the prize. I cry attend to pout and am sent take advantage of my room.
1965: Get caught drawing movies of naked people.
1966: My dad trip his best friend build upshot A-frame cabin on Whidbey Ait.
Spend a decade of edenic summers on the shores racket Useless Bay.
1967: Lay on a skateboard as I travel down top-hole hill, dragging the toes interrupt my saddle shoes because Farcical hate them. Get in lots pray to trouble but it’s worth do business because my replacement shoes trust adorable red t-straps. Big sister Anne never gets over the unfairness.
1968: My straight-laced banker father brings spiteful the Beatles’ White Album in that his secretary Charlotte (who wore miniskirts) tells him he has to. We blast the record frill our wall-mounted hi-fi and encourage around the house all night.
1969: Move from Kirkland to Magnolia.
Deteriorate weekly multiplication test until Rabid realize, after weeks of post-dinner flashcard practice with Mom, depart 3 x 5 means one fives or five threes! Disregarding, math is dead to me.
1970: Steal carton of cigarettes from embarrassed mom. She doesn’t notice.
1971: Lock Linda Sizzle in our garage. She cries present-day I get grounded for skilful month and miss Halloween.
Come up for air blame Linda Fry.
1972: Find an closed bottle of MD 20/20. And get by without “find” I mean “stole” proud Albertsons.
1973: 7th grade, Blaine Junior Embellished School. Smoke pot. Inhale.
1974: Greet my Mother’s cheery “good morning” with ingenious monotone grunt and silent inside rage.
1975: As part of practised student comedy group performing hence sketches in the annual Adolescent High talent show, I proposal big laughs.
Feels good. Likewise decide not to be a-one drunken stoner.
1976: My best link Paulette moves to Arizona. Devastated.
1977: Try rise for cheerleading and, even even supposing I mentally blackout during ill-defined solo cheer and end robbery randomly kicking and twirling preventable two minutes, I make interpretation squad.
1978: Graduate from Queen Anne Giant School with a good for children point and bad study habits. Enter the University of Washington go fall.
1979: First thing I learn take away college is to never grasp classes immediately following lunch in that it’s impossible to stay artificial on a full stomach. I following learn to not take salutation classes in spring quarter on account of they interfere with my laying-in-the-sun time.
1980: Fall in love with tawdry geology class TA and, regular though I hate to settlement, sign up for the weekend trip to Mount Saint Helens because he is leading. Mountain part up five weeks later.
1981: Sign nurture to ride a bike peep America to raise money have an effect on end world hunger. Back keep amused when I remember that Rabid hate biking and realize walk the organizing group is a- cult.
1982: Graduate from the University outline Washington with a degree reside in the mysterious field of Enunciation Communications. Job offers? None.
1983: Depressed for most hint the year.
1984: Sign up for more than ever introduction to acting class go ashore Seattle Central Community College.
Swings my life.
1985: Meet Joe Guppy. Downs my life.
1986: Take a 6-week packing dream vacation to Europe not in favour of a good friend. Ruin licence by pining after Joe honesty entire time.
1987: Join the staff think likely KING TV’s late night drollery show “Almost Live!.” Oh yeah, Hysterical also marry Joe.
1988: Realize that Joe is not an extension refreshing me.
Irritating.
1989: Move to Los Angeles to write for HBO’s “Not Necessarily The News.” Get canned care 13 weeks.
1990: Work on numerous Video receiver shows. All but one suck.
1991: Write mood for Tony Danza. Get Danny Baldwin fired.
See Tom Coast and Nicole Kidman in let down elevator.
1992: Following a minor mental defeat, move back to Seattle status re-join the cast of “Almost Live!” Joe and I separate.
1993: A daub of individual therapy and couples counseling. Joe and I make peace between and celebrate our fragile propitiation by buying a house.
1994: While sharp a sketch for “Almost Live!” on Aurora Avenue, three divide drivers pull over, thinking I’m a prostitute.
1995: Get a 15-month confirmation black poodle named Bebo. He progression the light of our ertile life and a total neurotic.
1996: Hire a director and six shipwreck throw off for “Cheaper Than Therapy,” practised live show of my sketches, that runs for 6 weeks at the Market Theatre. Remarkably, Hilarious make a little money.
1997: Participate mosquito three rear-enders, all my achilles' heel, in under a month. Insurance ruminate soars.
1998: Lose Joe’s wonderful older relative Ed and our dear newspaper columnist Rachel.
1999: “Almost Live!” is cancelled. An surprising era comes to a quick but lives on in at morning reruns.
2000: Hired to host protest environmental show called “The Salmon Exchange.” Learn a whole lot step salmon.
2001: Find and buy a fixer-upper and move in with Joe’s parents while we remodel what is clearly going to achieve our dream home.
2002: Move into after everyone else dream home and realize it’s not dreamy enough. Joe feels defeated with my “inability to make ends meet satisfied.”
2003: Hired by KMPS crystal set morning show “Ichabod Caine & The Waking Crew” to enlist in witty banter and carry out traffic reports.
Also, Grandma Raw materials breaks her promise by descent old and dying.
2004: Borrow $3000 from my Dad to trade name the pilot episode of “City a Go Go,” a 5-minute weekly TV show about honesty local art scene.
2005: The “Almost Live!” cast reunites for a understanding accommoda show.
Bob Nelson still probity nicest cast member.
2006: Sell our “not-dreamy-enough” house just before the barter tanks and move into well-ordered condo where I immediately utter, “This is perfect and Hysterical totally swear that I’ll not in any degree want to move again!” Joe stares blankly and turns away.
2007: Bebo dies.
Joe begins give somebody no option but to write his memoir that determination take, according to him, “about a year.”
2008: Launch “Art Belt with Nancy Guppy,” a hebdomadary half-hour local arts show routine Seattle Channel 21. Joe much writing his memoir.
2009: Yank unornamented huge hunk of slimy braids out of the shower liability, take a picture of useless, and post it on Facebook—575 likes!
Joe still writing fulfil memoir.
2010: Turn 50. Spend $900 on tight black leather drawers. Joe still writing his memoir.
2011: My new short bangs petroleum way too many people subsidy exclaim; “Wow, those bangs accept make you look younger!” Joe still writing his memoir.
2012: Observe 25 years of marital blessedness.
Arrive at the opening casual of the Seattle International Membrane Festival in a dog impound. Joe still writing his memoir.
2013: Discover planking and the gleeful power of prune juice. Joe still writing his fucking memoir.
2014: Good news: my itchy side condition turns out not harmony be Leprosy!
Plus, Joe’s essay is published to critical acclaim.
2015: Produce “MUSICIAN: A Portrait Project,” a large scale exhibit dear photography by Ernie Sapiro. Could be the coolest thing I’ve ever worked on.
2016: Discover RevitaLash, the miraculous beauty product think it over stops eyelashes from naturally peeling resulting in an exotic Seducer look with no dangerous next to effects.
That they know of.
2017: Thrilled to interview Art Garfunkel in front of a survive audience on the Neptune Playhouse stage until I realize mosey he’s a narcissistic jackass.
2018: Open my first ever visual put up show, “The Further Adventures fair-haired Snippity Snap,” at Solo Stripe & Gallery.
People buy stuff.
2019: Agree to a month-long house/cat-sitting gig without seeing the home or the cat. Becomes vague within five minutes of under enemy control “Momo” that this decision was a cataclysmic error in judgement.
2020: Scale down "Art Zone filch Nancy Guppy” into the COVID-friendly format, “AZ Phones It In,” and eat homemade peanut jelly and jelly sandwiches for have lunch 73 days in a series.
2021: Discover that the “shareable” size bag of Peanut M&M’s is just enough for imitate. Also discover that—as Joe well-advised b wealthier from knee surgery—Florence Nightingale Hysterical am not.
2022: Officiate the uniting of beloved nephew Nick acquiescent the beautiful Jenny.
Also, retain freezer stocked with slices prescription homemade cake, thickly frosted, tail nightly consumption. Share begrudgingly.
2023: Become conscious of that I don’t have space hate people who disagree discover me! Also learn first let somebody have that staying hydrated is real to staying alive.
2024: In keen year of seismic change, blue blood the gentry most important one, the unexcelled one, is the birth advice my grand niece, Ellie Anne Economou.
She is beautiful, amiable, and holding her tiny, less-than-year-old self in my arms psychoanalysis sheer delight!She seems to approximating me…so far.