Where was I?

  There are some things in my life that are indelibly imprinted on my memory. I can remember exactly where I was, what was around me and picture it in my mind so clearly (to me) even now years later. The moment my wife told me she was interested in my romantically (one of the biggest shocks of my life to say the least (in a good way)). The moment I heard that Margaret Thatcher had stepped down (a big thing for someone who grew up in Thatcher Britain). The various parts of the day my wife and I got married. Things like that are still in there as clear as day.

  You never know what will become one of those things. Take this morning for example, my grandmother was buried early today. What was I doing? Sitting down at work eating my breakfast going over the morning emails/forum posts/bugs etc. What exactly I will remember about my grandmother dying I don't know but I suspect something will stick. I can remember being with my brother in the conservatory when my mother came out of my grandparents house and told us our grandfather had died from a heart attack. I remember the phone call I got at university from my parents telling me my other grandfather had died. I recall exactly the reaction I had after hearing my grandmother had died the day before my wife and I's 10th wedding anniversary. Even down to knowing exactly that our pet dog had died when I was a teenager I can clearly see what I was doing trying to distract myself from it as my father and brother took him to the vet.

  These kind of major things in your life you always can picture, you just never know what they are going to be even as they are happening. They just are the things you can still see after all that time. There are even ones from my very young childhood when I was barely 3 or 4 I can still picture and I have no idea why those particular ones. Some are sad, some are happy but all somehow stuck with me.

  Here's looking forward to many more happy ones with my wife than the other type.