Timeline: My Life

Dec 19, 1987

BIOSOCIAL: I am born

I am a colicky baby. My parents said, "if you had been our first, we never would have had another."

Period: Dec 19, 1987 to Dec 19, 2005

COGNITIVE: I experience an insecure attachment to my parents

Period: Jan 1, 1990 to Jan 1, 2000

PSYCHOSOCIAL: My best friend is Kelly

Mar 30, 1992

COGNITIVE: 1st trip to Disney World

Feb 5, 1993

PSYCHOSOCIAL: I meet Ted Lindsay at a charity event

Feb 5, 1993

PSYCHOSOCIAL: I meet Gordie Howe, "Mr. Hockey", at a charity event

Jun 25, 1993

BIOSOCIAL: I suffer a severe allergic reaction to a bee sting.

Jul 20, 1993

BIOSOCIAL: I break my collar bone.

Feb 12, 1994

PSYCHOSOCIAL: I meet Ron Mason, coach of the MSU Hockey team. He was inducted into U.S Hockey Hall of Fame in 2013.

Jul 10, 1994

PSYCHOSOCIAL: I meet Ernie Harwell, "the voice of summer", at a Tigers' game

Nov 16, 1995

BIOSOCIAL: I break my arm.

Dec 17, 1995

PSYCHOSOCIAL: I meet Erik Estrada from CHiPS

Jun 16, 1996

PSYCHOSOCIAL: I meet basketball star Kareem Abdul Jabar

Period: Sep 1, 1997 to Jun 1, 1999

COGNITIVE: I participate in Odyssey of The Mind (later called Creative Minds)

Period: Jan 1, 2000 to Jan 1, 2010

PSYCHOSOCIAL: My best friends are Tessa and Sara

Jun 1, 2000

PSYCHOSOCIAL: My parents divorce.

Period: Jan 5, 2001 to Nov 1, 2007

PSYCHOSOCIAL: Following the divorce, my relationship with my father deteriorates. I do not see him for 6 years.

Feb 17, 2001

PSYCHOSOCIAL: I experience a traumatic event.

Aug 18, 2002

BIOSOCIAL: Travel to Cozumel, Mexico

Mar 15, 2003

COGNITIVE: I visit Epcot in Disney World

May 3, 2003

COGNITIVE: Boarshead Theater, a theater which ran in Lansing, Michigan for over 25 years, puts on one of my plays, a comedy called "One Night With The Jacobsons".

Jul 24, 2004

PSYCHOSOCIAL: My brother gets married.

May 5, 2005

COGNITIVE: I travel to New York City with Model U.N. I represent Spain.

Aug 16, 2005

COGNITIVE: I travel to Canada and view Niagara Falls with my friend Tessa

Jan 20, 2006

COGNITIVE: I graduate from high school one semester early

Mar 1, 2006

COGNITIVE: Apply at colleges. I am accepted at Central Michigan University and Wayne State University.

Jun 1, 2006

PSYCHOSOCIAL: I am voted class clown of the 2006 graduating class.

Jul 1, 2006

COGNITIVE: I travel to New Zealand and Australia

Jul 10, 2006

BIOSOCIAL: I jump off a building in Auckland, New Zealand (it's called "Sky Jumping", it's a guided bungee jump)

Aug 28, 2006

COGNITIVE: I begin attending Lansing Community College

Jan 15, 2008

PSYCHOSOCIAL: I get married!

Nov 10, 2008

BIOSOCIAL: I suffer a miscarriage. I am deeply saddened.

Period: Feb 1, 2009 to Apr 1, 2009

COGNITIVE: The Epic Excursion

I spend a few weeks exploring the United States in an attempt to figure out which state I want to reside in for the next few years. I visited the following states: Utah, Idaho, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, Indiana, Illinois, Montana, Arizona, New Mexico, Iowa, Texas, and Colorado.

Mar 9, 2009

COGNITIVE: I visit the Grand Canyon

May 30, 2009

COGNITIVE: Travel to the Baker Creek Heirloom Seed company and Laura Ingalls Wilder's home in Mansfield, Missouri

Mar 8, 2010

PSYCHOSOCIAL: It's a boy! My first child is born!

Feb 1, 2012

BIOSOCIAL: I begin raising chickens and ducks for eggs.

Feb 24, 2012

BIOSOCIAL: We buy our first house and move!

We move from our rental house in town in Williamston, Michigan to our new home out in the country in Fowlerville, Michigan.

Aug 2, 2012

PSYCHOSOCIAL: It's a boy! My second child is born!

Mar 10, 2014

PSYCHOSOCIAL: My in-laws go through a bitter divorce, thus opening up new wounds for me from my own parents' divorce.

Apr 30, 2015

PSYCHOSOCIAL: My brother and sister-in-law divorce. My relationship with my brother improves dramatically.

Aug 28, 2015

COGNITIVE: I begin attending Schoolcraft College

Sep 16, 2015

COGNITIVE: I take a cruise to the Bahamas!

Oct 12, 2015

PSYCHOSOCIAL: I am diagnosed with PTSD

Period: Nov 22, 2015 to Jan 8, 2016

PSYCHOSOCIAL: My mom and step-dad are involved in a serious car accident during a snow storm. They spend nearly 7 weeks in the ICU at U of M until my step-dad passes away, sadly.

Jan 1, 2016

COGNITIVE: My photography is published in the Jan/Feb issue of Michigan History magazine

Jan 8, 2016

PSYCHOSOCIAL: My step-dad passes away due to injuries sustained during a car accident.

Feb 22, 2016

PSYCHOSOCIAL: We get a cat!

May 6, 2016

COGNITIVE: I graduate from Schoolcraft College with an Associate of Arts

Aug 20, 2016

COGNITIVE: I begin working on my bachelor's degree in Business Administration. I eventually transfer to Ferris University after obtaining 90 credits for transfer.

May 4, 2019

COGNITIVE: I graduate from Ferris University with a bachelor's degree in Business Administration!

Mar 30, 2020

BIOSOCIAL/COGNITIVE: We buy a bigger house in a nicer town.

We move from our small house out in the country in Fowlerville, Michigan to a larger house in town in a nicer community.

Oct 12, 2020

BIOSOCIAL/COGNITIVE: Following years of treatment, my PTSD goes into remission and I am able to live a normal life.

May 4, 2025

COGNITIVE: I receive my Masters in Business!

Dec 20, 2030

COGNITIVE: I write a children's book

May 6, 2032

COGNITIVE: I earn my Doctoral Degree in Business Administration from Baker College!

I'M A DOCTOR! WOOHOOOOO!

Jan 1, 2037

BIOSOCIAL: I finally develop cataracts...

BIOSOCIAL: I finally develop cataracts and therefore get my "free Lasik surgery" to fix my eyes, as covered by my insurance company. (I'm bitter that my insurance company doesn't cover Lasik eye surgery). Every year I ask my eye doctor if I have cataracts yet.

Apr 10, 2038