December 2011: my once a year update

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

• I live in Alaska
• But I was born in Columbus Ohio
• 60+ 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 put her picture in the paper for her 50th birthday.
• Not sure she’s forgiven me for that
• ~ @ ~ @ ~ @ ~
• 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
• ~ @ ~ @ ~ @ ~
• I married my high school sweetheart 11 months after we graduated
• First we dated off and on for 4 years
• Our 43rd anniversary will be May 10, 2012
• We have two daughters
• We have 8 grandchildren
• But one of them lives in Heaven now
• I love being a gramma
• I used to ride motorcycles
• I sold two Yamaha Viragos, a 750 and an 1100
• no longer a Yamaha Gramma
• I miss riding – but there are reasons I cannot
• ~ @ ~ @ ~ @ ~
• 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 in my room
• When I am skinny I look just like her
• But not right now
• ~ @ ~ @ ~ @ ~
• 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
• ~ @ ~ @ ~ @ ~
• if you are reading this, you are probably not one of the stinkers
• our family owned and operated a small print shop for over 20 years
• we sold it a few years ago
• 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!
• ~ @ ~ @ ~ @ ~
• 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 once paid me $20 for a book review!
• I’ve been published in several issues of Alaska Women Speak
• the fall 2011 issue featured one – AND – pictures I took, too
• ~ @ ~ @ ~ @ ~
• 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
• ~ @ ~ @ ~ @ ~
• 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!
• ~ @ ~ @ ~ @ ~
• 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
• My daughter is a digital diva – but not a “Digital Diva”
• ~ @ ~ @ ~ @ ~
• 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

Kiss the Moose >..<