It's strange, the way certain things remind you of certain people. You think about something seemingly random and you get an immediate mental image of someone in your mind. I just tried to play the movie Silence of the Lambs and, as always, it made me think of Peter - we watched that movie the first time we met. I had never seen it before then, so maybe that's why.

It's not like it bothers me or make me sad or anything - there's just a little wire in my brain that runs those two sections together. And I think that's interesting. I mean, I guess we all have that, objects or situations which a certain person is connected to in our heads, but it's not always conscious.

There are a lot more examples, and they're all totally random. My new white pants remind me of Tristan every time I put them on, because of a comment he once made. The song 'Vrij zijn' always makes me think of Linde, because we got dressed to it in the morning the first time I was in Holland. Ice Breakers mints will forever remind me of Pauline, because she got so addicted to them while in America. There are four songs - 'Can't Stop Loving You', 'We've Got Tonight', 'Engel van m'n hart' and especially 'When You Say Nothing At All' - which I will never be able to listen to again without thinking of David. The crunching sound of cars driving on pebbles makes me think of camp. If I see images of the World Trade Center disaster, I think of Mrs. O'Connor, because that's whose class I was in at the time. And the jingle of keys always makes my ears perk up, because when I was a little girl, the sound of keys jangling outside was the cue for, "Daddy's home!"

Anybody got a 'connection' like that which springs to mind? Leave a comment!