Sopranos -- What's changed in your life?

I didn't start watching the show until 2002 after I graduated from college.
I watched the first two or three seasons on DVD to catch up and haven't missed an episode since.
I got married.
Promoted to ASE.
Bought a house.
Sold a house.
Moved to Texas.
Bought a house.
Got divorced.
Sold a house.
Moved in with a lame roommate.

While this isn't the longest lasting show of all time, I feel more connected to the characters. Maybe because it is an hour long each time. Maybe it is because it is a drama. I am not sure. But damn I will miss Sunday nights watching HBO and that feeling you always get on Sunday afternoons wondering what time it is and if the day could hurry up so The Sopranos will be on already.

 

I always wait for the DVD prices to come down. Really they aren't that expensive when I have bought them. I have always gotten them for around $40.

 

Netflix, dude.

 

They're $40 bucks on overstock.com right now.

My library has them...

 

Left newspapers to move to Evansville, Ind., to teach
Got engaged
Sister had nephew No. 1
Got unengaged
Quit teaching
Made a triumphant return to newspapers in Montana
Sister had nephew No. 2
Left that paper to get back into sports
Lost 50 pounds
Got very involved with a very bad guy
Lost my 21-year-old cat
Acted a fool at my second sister's wedding
Got rid of bad guy
Switched papers again
Sister had nephew No. 3

 

21-year-old cat?!!? Jeebus.

 

Might have been 22. We're not sure, but yea, one old-as-hell Siamese he was.

 

All that fucking stuff and you didn't have time to show me your toes.

 

-- Jan. 10, 1999, hadn't heard of "The Sopranos."
-- Started my second year at my second full-time newspaper job.
-- Realized I really could work somewhere other than my hometown paper.
-- Spent too much time being fooled by a married woman pretending to be single.
-- Covered what was probably the last Final Four season of a certain women's basketball team.
-- Covered a Division I-AA football team that had its best season to date.
-- Took a job at a larger paper, covering a major university.
-- Got involved with another married woman pretending to be single.
-- Covered a basketball team's best run in more than a decade.
-- Covered back-to-back Final Fours for the first time.
-- 9/11.
-- Covered a football team's best season in more than a decade.
-- Found out she was married. So much for that.
-- Discovered "The Sopranos" and was hooked.
-- Covered a football team's first national championship in 45 years.
-- Moved a few times.
-- Saw two of the greatest finishes in college football history.
-- Katrina.
-- Rita.
-- Lost my mother.
-- Lost her next-door neighbor three weeks later to suicide.
-- Lost more friends and acquaintances than I should post about here.
-- Started a blog.
-- Stopped posting on it.
-- Yada, yada, yada.
-- Became a moderator.
-- Quit.
-- Chilled.
-- Watched the last episode of "The Sopranos" and posted on SportsJournalists.com for the first time in more than a month.

Yada, yada, yada.

 

Was a business major and dating who I thought was my dream girl
Dream girl and I broke up
I took a year off from college
Went into car sales in my year off
Quit car sales and went back to college as a writing major
Got an intermship at a radio station which led to...
my first newspaper job stringing.
Mom moved to the beach
Nearly had a girl move in with me
did internship with said paper.
mom moved back from beach two years later when my stepfather got sick
Step father passed away a month later
I graduated from college
I moved back in with mom for a couple of months while looking for a job
I got my first FT gig at the paper I'm at now.

And I've been through three cars as well.

 

Glad I'm not the only one.
My tale on that is so epic, it could be a movie.
Anyway, lived in five towns as I flipped newspaper jobs.
Nearly died, twice.
And lots of other stuff.

 

That cat is one old p----. [/sarcasm]

The timeline of D-3 from the premiere to the finale of The Sopranos

-Working first job out of college and living with difficult parent
-Was a homebody most of the time
-Terribly shy
-Finally moved out on my own, but not without difficult parent threatening to beat me to a pulp
-Learned that company where I worked at was downsizing. Luckily I was kept on until they finally closed 18 months later.
-Started 2nd job
-Pissed in my pants for nearly two weeks in laughter watching "Pine Barrens" over and over and over.
-Moved into a larger apartment with cousin
-Admitted that I was suffering from depression and got help. Thank goodness I wasn't alone. I had Tony and Dr. Melfi.
-Mom divorced hubby #3. Her kids were right all along: she was better off single
-Moved to apartment #3 and cousin pulls off a disappearing act by going non-committal in moving. He wasn't sure if he wanted to move in with a girl he was seeing or paying for 1/2 of everything and have the opportunity to save money in the process. He decides that "if" she pays (for which she was willing), he would save all of his money.
-Best friend apparently married a control freak. Not much his buddies or me could do about it.
-Found sportjournalists.com. After two years of lurking, I finally came out and joined the professionals
-Joined a "non-Mafia" social club for young professionals
-An aunt, step-uncle, best friend's mom and classmate's husband passes away (the last two was the toughest ones I ever attended.)
-Unceremoniously got dumped from Job #2. Never been fired in my life.
-Started blogging for daily newspaper's internet site and ended up becoming most respected and thoughtful blogger they have right now.
-Took up volunteer work at art center, American Diabetes Assocation, and helped friends with their projects. I did not spend not one day in front of the t.v. to watch Bob Barker. I'll be taping his final shows this week.
-Landed new job and started the Tuesday after Memorial Day two weeks ago.
-Two friends got married and have kids. A third is engaged, shooting for 2008 wedding, and a fourth is starting a 4-year internshipin San Antonio. I'm still single and never had a GF.
-Life is good right now. New job, health still a little shaky, but I'm fucking giddy to be working again
-Writing this as a way to bid adieu(?) to America's favorite mob family.

Don't forget the cannolis, Tone.