I challenge you to try this--it isn't easy to come up with 25 things about you, period, let alone 25 things others might not know--here goes:
1. When my mother took me to school on the first day and left, I hid in the closet and wouldn't come out. They had to send for my dad to come and get me and take me home.
2. I have absolutely no artistic ability when it comes to crafts, drawing, painting, etc!!
3. I hate to sew
4. I started piano and clarinet lessons in the 3rd grade, and continued through my 2nd year of college!
5. I am a slow reader.
6. When I was a young child, we moved to La Grande. Everyone thought my sister and I were twins because mom cut our hair the same and dressed us the same. She made all of our clothes alike but in different colors. I was usually green, and Jackie was blue. We did look alike and were about the same size, although she was 20 months older than I and 2 grades ahead of me in school
7. I am a fainter. I used to faint when I got a shot, cut myself badly or got too tired. I'm better now, but can't guarantee I won't faint!
8. For years, I had a collection of personally autographed movie star's pictures. I entered my collection in hobby fairs and won blue ribbons. I had everyone: Rock Hudson, Marilyn Monroe, Jimmy Dean, Doris Day, --all of the old greats. I left my collection in my mom's basement when I went to college; the basement flooded (we lived at the foot of the mountain, far from a river of anykind), and my collection was destroyed.
9. I used to save $2 bills. I had about 200 bills saved when I got married. Ron and I used them to get a little used car. I still love $2 bills!
10. When I was 6, my sister got the measles. So, my mom took my baby sister and I to get a measles shot. The problem was, I already had them, but they hadn't "come out", so I was twice as sick. I had to spend 2 weeks in a dark room, with the door shut because I was contagious. Only my dad and mom came in to see me and care for me during those 2 weeks.
11. When I was in high school, President Dwight D Eisenhower shook my hand and handed me a signed ticket worth one free milkshake. I was in the high school band, and we were at the Spokane Lilic Festival. I loved milkshakes, so I spent it! What a foolish thing to do--have regreted it my whole life.
12. When I was in HS, I was cooking for 200 firefighters in our restaurant when I spilled hot grease on my whole left hand. It created a big blister, and was very painful. But, I was the only cook there, so I had to finish my job! What an ordeal that was.
13. I was co-editor of the HS yearbook, class of 1958, with my now husband, Ron.
14. I once helped my dad unbury glass jars containing money from the basement of our house. We dug up $25,000, which he used to buy a downtown building. He didn't trust banks because he had been affected by poverty during the Great Depression!
15. I was one of only 3 girls in the University of Oregon Concert Band in 1960.
16. I won a music scholarship to U of O, but turned it down to major in accounting.
17. I shook John F Kennedy and Jackie Kennedys' hands when they gave a campaign stop and speech at Eastern Oregon State College.
18. I was invited to tour Europe with a symphony orchestra, but declined because The Berlin Wall was scheduled to come down. I didn't want to be in Europe if there was going to be another war!
19. I almost didn't graduated from college because Biology was a required course, and I wasn't going to cut up any dead animals!! Ron rescued me and became my lab partner. He did the cutting,
20. I am a family history buff, and started my original research as a newly-wed working on my Golden Gleaner Award.
21. I spent 20 hours this week reading microfilms in search of my 17th Century ancestors in England
22. I have had 14 surgeries, which includes 5 C-secions.
23. I won a State Recognition Presidential Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Field of Mathematics. My reward was a T-shirt and $700, which I used to buy my first computer.
24. I used to play in the orchestra for the musicals presented at BMCC. I loved doing it--played for such plays as South Pacific, Fiddler on the Roof, Brigadoon, Grease, and the presentations of The Messiah, and many more.
25. I sat and ate dinner within 20 feet of President Spencer W Kimball when I attended a Genealogy Conference at BYU.
Now you post 25 things I don't know about you!!
I went to Boise last week for Kres' 3-year old awards ceremony. It was fun! And Kres won the award for "Best Worker"! Keep up the good work, Kres! They all wore butterfly wings because the theme was "evolving"
