We rang in 2003 right… Watching OU take the win at the Rose Bowl. It was a beautiful day in Pasadena, the parade was amazing to see too. Right after we returned home I made the big move 120 miles southwest to Norman, OK. Bevan and Evie were living there and finishing up school. They lived in a charming little apartment complex that luckily had an apartment open right when I was looking. So I looked no further and moved directly upstairs from them. It was a small complex and the neighbors I met were all friends. My friend Cailey lived there and I grew to love my time spent with she and her now husband Marshall. It was always great fun. But best of all I became best friends with one of my brother’s best friends and past roommate Jason. We ended up hanging out pretty much whenever we weren’t in class or work. I worked at Journey Church in Norman at this time too. Bevan got me a job there and from that I met some more of my favorite people ever. But back to Jason… We started taking guitar lessons and we would play and listen to old records and make really unhealthy food. If it wasn’t for Jason, I totally would never have survived living in Norman that first year. Through the church I met my best friend Mindy. She worked at Journey too. We never talked. I thought she was a weird A/V type and she thought I was just weird. When I first started there I answered phones in the room with the copy machine, so anytime anyone would come and make copies I would do the Rob Schnieder “Making Copies” routine… I was bored. But one day an attorney who shared a parking lot with us was yelling at Mindy because her car was parked illegally and my brother had to get in his face to get him off of Mindy. So she came in and told me how nice my brother was and from there we became friends. Plus I had a washer and dryer and she didn’t at the time… I think that was the real driving force of the friendship. After she came over to my house one night to watch a movie and do laundry we became instant best friends.
While I’m off in Norman having a grand ole time little did I know that there was some 19 year old boy was preying on my sweet baby sister. She in my opinion was no where near the age of dating… She should still be thinking boys are gross on the playground, right? Well anyways, it’s a good thing I wasn’t able to chase him off because today he is my precious brother in law… Okay, so she was 18 years old… But I always thought of her as a baby sister, not a grown up younger sister. Jeffery Paul Hutsell you sweet son of gun, I love you man!
That pretty much sums up 2003.
Hope you enjoy!
Jason in my messy apartment.
Jeff & Millie in 2003
President: George W. Bush
Vice President: Richard Cheney
Population: 291 million
Federal spending: $2,158 billion
Federal debt: $6,783 billion
Unemployment: 6.0 %
No. 1 Song the week of February 12, 2003: All I Have by Jennifer Lopez featuring LL Cool J
Nobel Prize for Literature: J. M. Coetzee (South Africa)
Random Facts:
- Scientists uncover the fossil of a new species of flying dinosaur in northeastern China thought to have existed 120 million years ago. It is the first dinosaur ever found with four wings
- Johnny & June Carter Cash die this year.
- Three fossilized skulls discovered near the Ethiopian village of Herto in 1997 have now been identified as the oldest known remains of modern humans. Assigned to a new human subspecies called Homo sapiens idaltu (idaltu means elder in the Afar language of Ethiopia), the skulls are estimated to be about 160,000 years old—a good 50,000 years older than any previously discovered Homo sapiens
- Space shuttle Columbia explodes, killing all 7 astronauts (Feb. 1).
Wow! Look at Jason’s hair!
Ha, nice photo
. I was hoping nicotea would get a mention in this post. I still laugh out loud everytime I think about it.
This is a really great idea for a blog series, thanks for sharing it all.