Old School Blogging

A New Meme: Old School Blogging

I'm totally stealing this from my friend Kate over at Mommy Monologues (which you definitely need to check out because she is HILARIOUS!)

1. What were you doing 10 years ago?

In March of 2003 I had been out of the hospital for just over 2 years.  I was adjusting to life with an incurable illness, we were talking about buying a house, and I was livid that I couldn't go back to work. 

2. What 5 things are on your to-do list?

Just five??

• Finish laundry today
• Write my penpals
• Vacuum
• Go to the store with Doug, drop off last hack cup to the lab, go to Rite Aid (they have 40% off Almay products and I have a $5.00 coupon off any 2 Almay products.... SCORE!!!)
• Make sure everything is ready for TRACY AND MARY TO VISIT!!!  AHHHHHH!!!!

3. What are 5 snacks you enjoy?

•  popcorn
• pretzels (sourdough of course)
• celery with chunky peanut butter
• combos (which I never have in the house)
• ice cream  

4. Name some things you would do if you were a millionaire.

• find researchers dedicated to find a cure for MG
• establish a college fund, etc. for Jacob
• go shopping
• take my friends shopping
• Buy a brand new pimped out SUV of some sort (don't ask me what kind, because I don't even know what's out there... OH but one that can park itself.  That's awesome!)

5. Name some places you have lived.
Michigan.  Indiana.  Michigan.  That's all.
6. Name some bad habits you have:
Bad habits?  Me?  Hmmm.....  Let's see....
I procrastinate when I can't get something done perfectly.
I'm a perfectionist.
I tend to like "more" of just about anything...clothes, jewelry, things to make jewlery, etc.  Need to search for simplicity.  Working on it!
I take on too many commitments and then can't fulfill them all and feel like a total loser.

7. Name some jobs you have had:

• My first job was unwrapping cactus at my dad's greenhouse when I was like 5.  And what was our pay?  A cactus.  Aren't there child labor laws against that??
• Hardware stores.  Three different ones.  Yup, I know!  The first thing that comes to mind when you think of me is "power tools."  Synonymous.
• I was a pharmacy tech in high school.  LOVED that job!!!!
• I was a telemarketer for about 15 minutes
• Operations manager at Towne Air Freight. (loved that too)
• worked at Office Depot
• substitute teacher
• small business owner
• and best of all:  MOM

So...if YOU have a blog, do this meme, and then let me know you did!

Eight Questions, Eight Answers

Okay Folks,
Rainforest Mommy posted this MeMe and invited her readers to play along:
Here are my answers:

1. Have you ever seen a ghost?

Nope. I don't really believe in "ghosts" per say; I believe that any spirits here on earth are either demons or angels, and though I've never had the privilege of seeing a heavenly angel, I've seen plenty in human form through the kindness or friends.

2. What is your most embarrassing moment?

After being in the hospital for 3 months with everybody seeing your business, getting sponge baths while you're unconscious? Ya. 'Nuff said.

3. What was your best job and why?

Anyone who knows me will know the answer! Towne Air Freight. I was an Operations Manager at a trucking company. I worked my way up from the "lowliest" position: part-time data entry on nights. Over the course of the next 3 years, I moved up the corporate ladder (by working my butt off thank you very much), and became the 1st or 2nd female Operations Manager in the entire Towne Air Freight Company (13 terminals?) LOVED IT.

4. What was your worst job and why?

It's a tie between a waitress at a greasy spoon diner next to a bar when I was 18, or being a telemarketer for about 2 weeks when I was 17. Both sucked for different reasons. The diner was nasty, dirty, had roaches, and the customers always hit on me. The telemarketing job, well, how do YOU feel about telemarketers? Exactly.

5. If you won the lottery, what would you do with the $?

First I'd pay off my bills. Then I would buy Fred and Joanna a house. IN MICHIGAN. Then I would give my parents a crapload of money and send them to Hawaii for all they have done for me. I would put another crapload in the bank for Jacob's college, I would give my sister Lori a bunch because they have no health insurance. I would send some to Pastor Alex in the Philippines who is the most precious man on the planet. His wife Emma has lots of health issues, so money would help them in their ministry as well as for Emma's medical treatment. I would also donate a bunch to the Myasthenia Gravis Foundation for research for a cure. Hope that was a HUGE jackpot!!!

6. Have you met any celebrities? If you have, what's the story behind it?

Well, I don't know if you'd call them celebrities, but I met the 1981 Detroit Tiger Baseball team while they were spring training at Lakeland, Florida. This was when they were really good. Alan Trammell, Kirk Gibson, Mark Fidrych, even Harry Carey!!! (He had BLACK hair back then!) It was really cool.

7. What is your favorite childhood memory?

Sometimes when we'd all drive in the car together (there were 7 of us) especially if it was just the 5 girls, we would BEG my mom to sing. My mom sings like an angel, but we always wanted her to be goofy with us. We'd sing "There was an old man named Michael Finnigan"...anyone know that one? We'd start singing really low and slow like a tape that's going bad, and keep singing higher and faster until we sounded like the Chipmunks and were laughing so hard we couldn't breathe. Good times.

8. What's your biggest regret?

That I cannot have more children.

Feel free to play along and post your own answers if you'd like. If you do, send me a link and let me know!

Have a blessed day.

99 Things

I found this blog hopping today, but the person I got it from got it from Jamee at A ew Kind of Normal. Though it looked kind of fun...not your typical meme!



1. Started your own blog

2. Slept under the stars

3. Played in a band

4. Visited Hawaii

5. Watched a meteor shower

6. Given more than you can afford to charity

7. Been to Disneyland

8. Climbed a mountain

9. Held a praying mantis

10. Sang a solo

11. Bungee jumped

12. Visted Paris

13. Watched a lightning storm

14. Taught yourself an art from scratch

15. Adopted a child

16. Had food poisoning

17. Walked to the top of the Statue of Liberty

18. Grown your own vegetables

19. Seen the Mona Lisa in France

20. Slept on an overnight train

21. Had a pillow fight

22. Hitch hiked

23. Taken a sick day when you're not ill

24. Built a snow fort

25. Held a lamb

26. Gone skinny dipping

27. Run a marathon

28. Ridden in a gondola in Venice

29. Seen a total eclipse

30. Watched a sunrise or sunset

31. Hit a home run

32. Been on a cruise

33. Seen Niagara Falls in person

34. Visited the birthplace of your ancestors

35. Seen an Amish community

36. Taught yourself a new language

37. Had enough money to be truly satisfied

38. Seen the Leaning Tower of Pisa in person

39. Gone Rock climbing

40. Seen Michelangelo's David

41. Sung karaoke

42. Seen Old Faithful geyser erupt

43. Bought a stranger a meal at a restaurant

44. Visited Africa

45. Walked on a beach by moonlight

46. Been transported in an ambulance

47. Had your portrait painted

48. Gone deep sea fishing

49. Seen the Sistine Chapel in person

50. Been to the top of the Effel Tower in Paris

51. Gone scuba diving or snorkeling

52. Kissed in the rain

53. Played in the mud

54. Gone to a drive-in theater

55. Been in a movie

56. Visited the Great Wall of China

57. Started a business

58. Taken a martial arts class

59. Visited Russia

60. Served at a soup kitchen

61. Sold Girl Scout Cookies

62. Gone Whale Watching

63. Got flowers for no reason

64. Donated blood, platelets or plasma

65. Gone sky diving

66. Visited a Nazi Concentration Camp

67. Bounced a check

68. Flown in a helicopter

69. Save a favorite childhood toy

70. Visited the Lincoln Memorial

71. Eaten Caviar

72. Pieced a quilt

73. Stood in Times Square

74. Toured the Everglades

75. Been fired from a job

76. Seen the Changing of the Guards in London

77. Broken a bone

78. Been a passenger on a motorcycle

79. Seen the Grand Canyon in person

80. Publish a book

81. Visited the Vatican

82. Bought a brand new car

83. Walked in Jerusalem

84. Had your picture in the newspaper

85. Kissed a stanger at midnight on New Years Eve

86. Visited the White House

87. Killed and prepared an animal for eating

88. Had chickenpox

89. Saved someone's life

90. Sat on a jury

91. Met someone famous

92. Joined a book club

93. Gotten a tatoo

94. Had a baby

95. Seen the Alamo in person

96. Swam in the Great Salt Lake

97. Been involved in a law suit

98. Owned a cell phone

99. Been stung by a bee

Now it's your turn! Copy and paste this to your blog, highlight YOUR answers, and then come back here and leave a comment with a link to your blog so we can check it out!

Have a wonderful Memorial Day tomorrow! Heartfelt thanks to all who serve and have served our country. God bless you!