About The Moose!

Ahem! Me-me-me-me . . .times 100

• I live in Alaska
• But I was born in Columbus Ohio
• 56 years ago
• that seems like a really long time to me
• and a really short time as well
• I have a younger sister
• She likes to think she is TWO years younger
• But she is only 14 months younger
• I gave her a website for her 50th birthday
• I put her picture in the paper, too.
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• I�m a NUT
• Not certifiably, but close enough for government work
• I was raised Catholic �
• 12 years of Catholic school
• and lived to tell about it
• my dad was a drunk
• he beat my mom
• in front of me and my sister
• we escaped when I was 12
• it was ugly, but we survived
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• I married my high school sweetheart 11 months after we graduated
• First we dated off and on for 4 years
• Our 37th anniversary is May 10th
• We have two daughters
• We have 8 grandchildren
• But one of them lives in Heaven now
• I love being a gramma
• I ride motorcycles
• I own two Yamaha Viragos, a 750 and an 1100
• Yamaha Gramma
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• I would rather make people laugh than cry
• But do a little of both, sometimes
• People sometimes hurt my feelings
• Or make me angry
• But I never tell them about either
• My mom used to say I wore my heart on my sleeve
• I think she was a wise woman
• I have her photo on a shelf above this computer
• When I am skinny I look just like her
• But not right now
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• my daughters look like me
• which, I think, is a good thing
• my grands look like me, too
• and I LOVE that
• my legacy to them is in the form of apple cheeks and big blue eyes
• my legacy to my daughters also includes my hips � heh!
• I am built for comfort
• I have been online since 1997
• And have a lot of neat friends because of it
• But have met some real stinkers along the way, too
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• if you are reading this, you are probably not one of the stinkers
• our family has owned and operated a small print shop for over 20 years
• we just sold it
• I work at a local women�s crisis shelter
• I love my job
• some days more than others
• I love the paycheck, too
• It gives me a sense of validation, that paycheck
• I worked for free at our print shop
• Being paid is much nicer � heh!
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• I like to write
• Poetry and essays
• Gramma type essays
• I have some talent � or so they say
• Validation comes in the form of published pieces
• I have had a few of those
• but a by-line is my usual pay
• or a tee-shirt � although the local paper paid me $20 for a book review!
• I�ve been published in several issues of Alaska Women Speak
• and now I�m a weekly columnist for our local paper
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• Did I tell you that I was going to be a nun?
• I like sex better than abstinence, though
• But I got abstinence anyway �
• TMI???
• My daughters may read this and that is a bit weird
• My sister and niece, too, and that is also weird
• Hubby�s niece may read it � ah well
• And YOU are reading it � and you know who you are
• Hopefully my coworkers WON�T read it
• Don�t wanna be dooced, you see
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• I have cut my hair for Locks of Love twice.
• It is just about shoulder length right now
• I massage my head when I shower � to encourage the hair to grow
• Not sure if it is working or not � but will keep on doing it
• I really like therapeutic massages
• Feels so good when he quits!
• My hair has a lot of gray in it
• It�s getting a little fine for my taste, too
• It�s always been �baby fine�
• But now it�s baby fine and gray – Sigh!
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• there are a lot of things I COULD tell you
• but not here and now � they would really be TMI
• at least in my mind
• I have a beautiful mind, if you don�t mind, thank you very much
• I love chocolate � but you know that if you read me
• I love the color purple � and the movie is a favorite, too
• I have several purple moose surrounding me
• They sit alongside a shelf full of varicolored moose
• Or drive along next to me in the car or on the motorcycle
• My daughter is a digital diva � but not a Digital Diva
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• THERE!! 100 � who�da thunk it?
• And there are LOTS of things I did NOT tell you
• Remember all those eyes peeking in?
• Yup, that�s why
• But if you REALLY wanna know
• Come to Alaska and ask

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