This is what you blog about when you don’t know what to blog about!

  1. I used to be an automechanic for a Corvette shop.  I rebuilt engines and carburetors, back when cars actually had them.
  2. I married mid-term my senior year of highschool, on purpose and I wasn’t pregnant.  What were my parents thinking!
  3. My favorite pasttime growing up was hanging upside down.
  4. When I was 12, I was denied a career as a guide dog trainer because I was a female.  I guess I showed them!
  5. I am a faculty member at a university but have never been enrolled in one.
  6. I just hit my seven year anniversary as a yogi – and I still can’t stand on my head.
  7. I won an art contest when I was four – and continue to draw at about that same level.
  8. I was first chair clarinet in high school. 
  9. Yes, I actually made and used computer punch cards in a former work life.
  10. I was bitten by a police dog every weekend for a year.
  11. I raced on the Indy 500 track, twice.
  12. My IQ and my weight are identical.
  13. I was addicted to drugs in my 20’s.
  14. I was addicted to work in my 30’s.
  15. I was addicted to personal growth in my 40’s.
  16. I am cultivating a chocolate addiction for my 50’s.
  17. 3 years at an inner-city high school left me with a crippling phobia of large, black women that I have recently overcome.
  18. My mother used to add rick rack to the bottom of my pants when I grew too much in one year.  At 5′ 10″, I still have a phobia of rick rack.
  19. I won a regional square dance competition (while wearing a country skirt, petticoat and silver dance shoes – pictures of which have since been destroyed).
  20. With my love of cooking, crafts and gardening, I could easily be content with the job of stay-at-home housewife, if only it paid better.
  21. I have an endless supply of empathy for unhappy situations, but I have run out of patience with unhappy people. 
  22. I am very shy, and hide it well.
  23. I have the largest private collection of blown glass made by three generations of the Lawrence family in Brown County, Indiana.
  24. I looked forward to turning 50…until I actually turned 50.
  25. My first boyfriend, Mike, wouldn’t let me tell anyone that he was my boyfriend.  It took me a while to figure out, “He’s just not that in to you”.  I’m sure he has since regretted that decision.