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FUN THING TO DO: Ride with my husband (motorcycle).
M&M = The Blue Ones
THINGS TO DO = Talk with people,
Read, Write, Play Sims 2 computer game, Play table games, Ride around (car) with my husband with no destination, Travel,
Go to Bible study, Work on my website, Visit a couple message boards, Ride on a motorcycle, Dine with Friends,
Organize my life...
CARTOON: The Jetsons
TV SHOW = Dancing
With The Stars
OFF THE AIR TV SHOW= Full House and Grizzly Adams
RESTAURANT = Friar's Kitchen (Warren)
PERSON TO HANG OUT
WITH = My Husband
NON-HUSBAND PERSON TO HANG OUT WITH = Deena
SONG = I have no idea
MAGAZINE: I don't
read magazines
EVENT: Any Demolition Derby
FAST FOOD: If by chance we go the fast food route it's Taco Bell
TALK
SHOW: Regis & Kelly
WEBSITE: It changes constantly
COMPUTER GAME: Sims 2 with all the expansion & stuff packs
BIBLE VERSE: Hebrews 4:12
COLOR: Black
FLOWER: Gerbera Daisy, Giant White Lily
and Purple Roses
HOLIDAY: Christmas
EVENT: H-I-M Biker Sunday (weekend)
BOOK AFTER THE BIBLE = The Pressure's Off
STATE: Michigan
ORGANIZATIONAL TOOL: Everything
- bins, files, Excel, dividers, racks, pegs, hooks, nooks and crannies, etc....
OFFICE ITEM: Post-it notes for
sure (in all colors and sizes) and white-out correction tape
CITY I'VE LIVED IN: Beside the one I live in now,
San Francisco
SPRINGTIME HOBBY: Cleaning my stuff
SUMMERTIME
HOBBY: Riding around with Neal with no destination
AUTUMN HOBBY: Cleaning work stuff
WINTERTIME HOBBY: Group Christmas
present wrapping party with hot chocolate and
Christmas cookies and driving around looking at Christmas lights.
OFFICE GADGET: My new headphones - is that a gadget?
KITCHEN GADGET: My George Foreman grill with
removable plates
ANIMAL AT THE DETROIT ZOO: Penguins
MODERN INVENTION = Online banking
FOOD:
Anything I don't have to prepare
STORE: Online
PASTTIME: Sims 2 computer game, puzzle books, exercise
TOY: Original Legos
DECORATION: Lava Lamp
FRUIT: Canteloupe & Strawberries
THING TO OBSESS OVER = counting calories and measuring food
SOLITAIRE GAME: bowling
SUBSTANCE I'M "ADDICTED" TO: Lipstick
GAME: Taboo and Hilarium
COOLEST CHARACTER IN A MOVIE: Patrick Swayze in Dirty Dancing and Roadhouse
ICE CREAM FLAVOR: Chocolate Chunky Gooey Caramel Surprise
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Things I want to do before I
die not in any particular order:
1) Visit Ground Zero in NY
2) Learn to Ride a Motorcycle for
Myself
3) Lose Weight Again
4) Write A Book
5) Learn to Play the Guitar
6) Travel Abroad
7) Teach Something
8) Take A Cruise
9) Sing A Duet With My Husband
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#2) Learning to ride a motorcycle
= Well, June 23rd, 2003 I had my first lesson. Okay, my first and last lesson.
Let's just say I will continue to enjoy being a passenger and let Neal do all the work up front. It's not for me,
not right now anyway. Trying to learn on an 1100 was not smart.
#3) Losing weight seems to be an ongoing battle.
I have committed the whole year of 2005 to getting real about weight loss.
[It's 2006 now - it's on ongoing battle]
[It's 2007 now. At least I am in control of my eating again. It's only been a couple weeks
so I will keep you updated.]
[It's 1/4/2009 today and I started following the same food plan I did in 1991 when I lost
175 lbs on 8/20/2008. I have lost 39 lbs. so far and am committed to this way of eating for the rest of my life. I exercise
three times a week using large equipment and three more times a week using small handheld equipment. I am incorporating more
and more healthy varieties of food into my daily food plan. I have used more self-discipline in the last 4 1/2 months than
ever before. What spawned this change? The Lord impressed this verse upon my heart one day - Hebrews
12:1 "Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a
cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience
the race that is set before us," My eating was OUT OF CONTROL and it was controlling my life. I'm
committed to health and self-control now in Christ's strength!]
#5) Playing Guitar = I bought
a guitar (2001) and tried for the second time in my life to learn how to play it. It's just not gonna happen in this
lifetime. I truly admire anyone who can play the guitar. I watch Neal play and my jaw drops open.
#7) Teach Something = In Mar/Apr 2005 I taught a floral design class. It's not exactly
what I meant, but I learned a lot about the world of teaching.
#8) We went on a cruise with two other
couples Nov 2nd-9th, 2003. It was out of this world. It's a fantasy vacation like no other.
#4 Write A Book = Here it is the beginning of 2009 and I still have not finished writing
a book. I've started but have no clear and precise vision. Perhaps this year!
PET PEEVES
1) When you answer the phone and the cord is tangled just enough that it pulls the
phone on the floor (at work). EEEEEEEEEEEEK!!! Now I use all cordless so this no longer happens.
2) People who call on the phone and as soon as they get an answering machine they hang up.
They don't wait and talk or even expect someone to pick up. Don't people realize in this day and age half the people screen
their calls?
3) When a phone call is answered with one automated answer after another or it's voice sensitive
and you can barely breath without it changing.
4) When my mom answers a different question than the one I asked her.
5) People who have no self-control when they post on message boards.
6) Being interrupted.
7) People who don't take their cell phone with them even if they don't turn it on.
8) People who contradict you through the whole conversation.
9) Phone numbers that are written using words.
10) When people leave the corn servers on the cob when they are finished and expect me to
remove them. Ick!
11) Not having enough room when doing something: i.e. having to move a lot of stuff
to do something else.
12) When people keep fixing the money obsessively in the drawer at work so all the bills face
the same way.
13) When people at work put the Canadian coins in a separate place instead of mixing
it in with the rest, thus creating a small stash of hard to get rid of money. (we live near the border so getting and giving
Canadian change is typical here)
14) People who make a complete mess on the table at a restaurant during dinner -
and they're sitting by me.
15) When they only fill your coffee cup 2/3 full.
I think fifteen is enough pet peeves.
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MY FAVORITE THINGS
(in no particular order)
Puffs w/ lotion
Post It Notes
Cordless mouse
Bottled water
Lipstick
Internet Message Boards
Body Pillow
Highlighters
Magnifying Glass
Rhyming Dictionary
Extra Large Harley Mug
Cruise Ships
Pizza Delivery
Search Engines
Graph Paper
Clipboards
Copy & Paste
Caller ID
Internet Shopping
Calculators that add sales tax
Accountability
Magnet Men
Puppies
Shampoo & Conditioner In One
Reachers (extended arm for reaching things)
Canned Air
Online Banking
Wedding Ring insurance!!!!!!!!!!
Gel Pens
Tubular Hangers
Puppy Calenders
Scented Candles
God's Grace
The Planet's Funniest Animals TV Show
Customer Service
Intercoms
Stevia
Cell Phone pick-up lots at the airport
Surround Sound
George Foreman grill with REMOVABLE plates
Alarm clocks that wake you with your favorite CD
Bifocals (These last two---
Tylenol PM ----are showing my age a wee bit too much)
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MONK-LIKE TRAITS:
I have to have everything in my space at a restautant placed evenly and neat and my space is big.
If the rolls or such are near my space I move them to the other side of the table. Everybody I eat out with knows I am going
to mark out my territory within a few minutes of sitting down.
If I am not 15 - 60 minutes early wherever I go I consider myself late and don't want to even go.
(I didn't turn into this until I met my husband as he is like this - now I am like this)
I'm following a food plan to lost weight and eat healthy. I weigh and measure my food and count calories
to the extreme.
I keep track of everything no one including me even cares about in a small calander.
I keep all receipts, papers, etc. and file them in files that are color coded with matching files
and tabs.
I have a small notebook titled "WHERE". It has written in it all the contents of drawers, cupboards,
shelves, etc. in our room and some other areas.
I have calender pages I made on the computer that I keep track of my calories and weight loss on
every day and also an accountability chart I made for myself that I check off every night as so various things I want to do
regularly like exercise, drink green tea, floss, etc.
I keep emails until they add up to about 300-500 and while doing this I also file some in folders
and delete others. It only takes me about an hour to clean it out periodically. I just CAN'T get rid of them until I see for
myself I didn't need to keep it.
I have way too many email addresses.
I've only worn two non-black pieces of clothing in the last couple years.
I pull my hair out. When I notice I am doing it I put my hair back in a pony-tail, put on a hat or
put my hair up in a big clip so I can't pull it out.
I don't really know if these are Monk-like traits, but I know I have OCD tendencies and have many
overt perfectionistic compulsions.
A Parent's Support
I love red! I really love red
& black together!!! I wear black most of the time and it's probably my favorite color. Hot pink is cool. When I was a
teen-ager my mom let me paint my room a beautiful satiny smooth navy blue color. That was cool, too. I used to paint on some
of the walls, like abstract mountains, scenery, geometrical shapes, and stuff like that. It was a lotta fun! My mom always
supported my individuality even though she didn't understand me.
Our Piano
I love music! I love
the song right now "Change Your Mind" by Sister Hazel.
We had an old upright piano that was my grandmother's at our flower
shop and one day my mother went over and started playing it. I was shocked. I grew up with this piano in our basement. I taught
myself to read music on it. My sister took piano lessons and practiced on this piano. I never knew until that day at the flower
shop that my mother could play the piano. Who knew?
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