The twenty
I thought I would give all five of my readers a little glimpse into who I am. So here it goes.
1.) I have broken my nose three times. I have never had it reset. I can only breathe out of one nostril. I really want to get this fixed. I figure that it is good to breathe.
2.) My husband and I chased a “tornado” while on our honeymoon. The “tornado” never really touched the ground, but came REALLY close. My husband was driving the car with one hand and holding my foot with the other hand. I was leaning out the window taking pictures. Hail was pelting me in the head. I used to be crazy.
3.) I was married at the age of 20. I was still in college at the time. Today, he is still “The One.”
4.) In my high school English class, we had a project where we had to act out a scene from any of the books we read that year. My partner and I picked Walden by Thoreau. We wrote a dialogue between two trees in Walden Woods discussing transcendentalist philosophy. We dressed up as trees with trimmings from actual trees. We got an A. The script and performance should have won awards. Instead, we were shunned by the greater high school community. Go figure.
5.) I taught high school science to the son of the OB that delivered my daughter. After he delivered my daughter. It was a bit awkward knowing that one of your students fathers has seen you…… all of you.
6.) My sister and I once scared off Jehovah’s Witnesses by answering the door wearing shower caps and magnets on our heads. Nothing like outweirding the weird.
7.) I moved into my first home in March of this year. It is in my hometown. I have returned after being away for 15 years. It is very strange being back here, even though I have visited my parents who still live here, it isn’t the same as living here.
8.) At my last teaching position, I had to run to save K-8th graders from a gang fight involving bats. It took place a block from our school. I was 6 months pregnant with Wise Guy at the time.
9.) I am the oldest of four. I have two sisters and a brother. I fit the oldest profile perfectly.
10.) I love geology. I graduated with a BSEd. in Earth Space Science. My concentration was in geology. I used to know more hard rock geology than I do now (being out of school and not immersed in it anymore). When I am riding down a highway with rock cuts, I look at the structures intently. I try to interpret as much as I can from a speeding car. I love the term orogeny. I am a dork, and I like it that way.
11.) I logged over 1500 community service hours in high school.
12.) For some reason that is completely unknown to me, I remember VERY, VERY little of my 10th grade year of high school. I do know however, that I was not on drugs. I haven’t done any drugs (unless you count caffeine and the VERY, VERY occasional alcoholic beverage) in my entire life (not even experimented with cigarettes).
13.) I graduated Magna Cum Laude. I missed Summa Cum Laude by 0.03 points. If only I tried harder……
14.) I suffered from postpartum depression after Sweetie was born. It was bad. Very bad. I wish to be an advocate for all women who suffer from the disease. It is so hard to suffer so badly when such a blessing has come into your life.
15.) I had a crush on Ducky from Pretty in Pink. I still have a crush on Lloyd Dobler from Say Anything.
16.) I am still friends with my very first friend. We have been friends since we have been 4 years old. We don’t keep in touch as well as I would like (mostly my fault), but we still talk and get together at least twice a year (hopefully much more now that she lives close again). I think her impression of me is still rooted in her first impression (shows you how much first impressions matter….. we were 4 for crying out loud). I was hanging upside down from my couch in nothing but underwear.
17.) The older I get, the less interesting I feel.
18.) I took dance for 11 years. I wasn’t as good as I should have been for having taken dance for 11 years, but I really enjoyed myself. I stopped when I blew out my knee in high school. Now, I am a big klutz.
19.) I sat next to Cassidy (and his collaborator Niko) on a plane to Atlanta. They were on their way to record their first record. They both expressed regret over having dropped out of high school now that they were trying to understand recording contracts. They asked me if I could send stuff to them to tutor them from afar. Then, Niko felt up my leg. Interesting way to try to seduce a teacher. “Sorry I dropped out of school…. please tutor me…… I know that makes you hot…. Are you interested in a threesome? (Niko really did ask me that.) His hands sat folded in his lap for the remainder of the flight. I am not one of the female teachers that you see on the news.
20.) I am happy beyond words that I was blessed with children. Life couldn’t have prepared me for the love and joy that parenthood brings. All other successes in my life have paled in comparison.
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The fact that I’m a complete nerd and she still chooses me over a couple of young soon-to-be-rich musicians leaves me with little concern over losing her to another man. Not to say that I still couldn’t screw things up somehow, but at least I am comfortable in feeling that if I do it will likely be my own fault.
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Re: #17: The older we get, the more interesting we BECOME.
Found you via EC. Nice blog!
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#15- Lloyd Dobbler- Yummy. I dare any woman to watch Say Anything and NOT have a crush on Lloyd Dobbler.
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Re: #6: Some Korean Jehovah’s Witnesses came to my door several years ago. I told them my family has been here a long time and I don’t speak the language any more. Without much English to fall back on, they left.
A few months before my daughter was born, they returned. They were shocked to find a very pregnant white woman answer the door. We aren’t legally married, but we function emotionally like husband and wife. However, she elected to tell them she was my girlfriend. I think that scared them off for good.
@Carol: I agree with you, Re: #17.
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#4 Way to weird out a high school class… Dude!
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That was really fun! There were quite a few points where I really identified with you (also the oldest, married while still in college, I took piano for 11 years and still no good). I guess that was your husband who was your first commenter? That is cute. My husband has only read my blog once (probably my first post).
Jen
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Added. Nice work on this one. Btw, my blog is dofollow, stop by and grab a link. Walter
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Did you know kickboxing is the sport of the future?
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