2 minutes of your life you will never get back...

I am totally stealing this post idea from Mindi- so all of you that came over from her blog...It's her idea, but I am taking it and making it my own. She got me into this blog thing so she is also helping out in the idea area. I am going to post 5 things you might not know about me... Why am I doing this? Because it is my blog, and I really have some funny things about me that many of you might not know.

#1- My dad is a mortician... I would like to say this is me standing next to the family vacay wagon, but it isn't. My hair isn't red. The fact that my first home was a mortuary, I've ridden in cars with dead bodies, and the first thing my family checks in the newspaper is the obituaries will answer alot of questions about me. It isn't like My Girl or Six Feet Under... It was an normal abnormal part of my life. Someday I'll write a book... there is too much for one little paragraph!



#2- I am not a very good car traveler. I only have about a 6 hour radius of places I'll go in a car. I don't know if it is because I get car sick or just a little keyed up and antsy...Who knows. I was about divorced once over Thanksgiving in Reno. I am worse than most kids in the car and really don't like to take long distance trips in the automobile. When I moved 12 hours from home it widened a bit because I knew it was an awful means to an end.

#3- I taught High School for 10 years. I broke up fights, had drunk students, chaperoned the Jr. Prom...sometimes at the same time. When I started teaching I was only 5 years older than my aide...strange! I taught English and History to 9th and 10th graders. I loved it and sometimes miss is. Now I can't get anyone to listen to me talk about the Russsian Revolution or Shakespeare's sonnets... My students had to pretend to listen- I was giving the grades. I couldn't have taught Elementary School...snot and shoes? NO WAY! Maybe I never really left High School so I had to go back and live the dream some more. Yeah Right! Going back as a teacher is crazy... maybe all of my teachers knew more than I gave them credit for...YIKES!



#4- I love to pick things. When I grow up I want to be an aesthecian- get paid to pick people's zits. I will admit that I have even looked up zit picking on You Tube. My family thinks I am sick and wrong. I have told my middle school aged son that the only reason I had him was to pick his zits when he went through puberty. He still won't let me at them. I know there are some of you that think this is gross, and then there are some of you that are right in my boat- forever looking at people's zits and wondering how you could acidentally bump into their face so you could get the zit on their chin.


#5- I am an adrenaline junkie! I procrastinate and then scramble to get things done. For instance... I am hosting a bridal shower at my house in two days and haven't really thought about what I am doing. I have a few random thoughts and have made a few assignments to those that are helping me, but I will wait until Wednesday night to really think about it and then have to bust a move all day on Thursday to get everything done. I love that I am flaky...hopefully it will turn out and be a smashing success. It is a crap shoot every time- We'll see!