Aimee and I put together our Top 10 (and Bottom 5) Films of the Year lists this past weekend, which reminded me that, as a life-long nostalgist and inveterate list-maker, I have done precious little reflection on the fact that we’ve just completed a decade and moved onto a new one. I haven’t gone back and thought about where I was ten years ago (avoiding Y2K madness on a new year’s ski trip with George in Vermont) or contemplated the “so-called aughts” in any way, so while things are still fresh, I decided to take a closer look at the last ten years. Maybe I would have come to the same conclusion at the end of the nineties, but when I look at the last ten years, almost every year contains a turning point or major event in my life. So, here we go:

• 2000: April, I meet Aimee and over the summer, I move to Boston for a new job.

• 2001: January 2, I get laid off from the job I moved to Boston for, and begin a year in the wilderness of temping, Eastern Europe, general aimlessness, and eventually grad school.

• 2002: February, I begin as an intern at the HFA, which would lead to a job, my first in my now-chosen field.

• 2003: November 8, I start this blog.

• 2004: April 18, I propose to Aimee in San Francisco.

• 2005: July 9, Aimee and I are married in Newport.

• 2006: July 30, we arrive in Los Angeles.

• 2007: To make up for all of the other monumental years, we just have a lot of fun going to movies, concerts, and exploring Los Angeles.

• 2008: The Year of Travel: four trips to Alaska, vacations in Italy, Hawaii, and England, plus shorter trips to San Francisco, San Diego, Las Vegas, Savannah, Charlottesville, Denver, Boston, and New York.

• 2009: March 2, we close on our first home.

Bring on the ‘010s.