{"id":220,"date":"2009-04-08T21:26:29","date_gmt":"2009-04-09T01:26:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/strathconn.com\/lady\/100-things-about-me\/"},"modified":"2013-12-16T14:04:51","modified_gmt":"2013-12-16T19:04:51","slug":"100-things-about-me","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/strathconn.com\/lady\/100-things-about-me\/","title":{"rendered":"100 Things about Me"},"content":{"rendered":"
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  1. I think of myself as a girl.<\/li>\n
  2. I was born in the year of the US bicentennial.<\/li>\n
  3. I have dark blonde hair and blue eyes.<\/li>\n
  4. I have one younger sister.<\/li>\n
  5. My parents are still married.<\/li>\n
  6. My parents were married 10 years, one month, and two weeks before I was born.<\/li>\n
  7. I have lived in the same town my whole life.<\/li>\n
  8. I went to southern Virginia for college, but didn’t think of it as “home”.<\/li>\n
  9. I lived on an island for a summer, working as a waitress.<\/li>\n
  10. I couldn’t imagine wanting to live any where but Vermont.<\/li>\n
  11. Just like I can’t imagine being anything but a teacher.<\/li>\n
  12. I have wanted to be a teacher since I was a little kid.<\/li>\n
  13. Before that, I wanted to own a store, just like my parents.<\/li>\n
  14. I majored in psychology in college, because I couldn’t major in education and a lot of my classes were psych anyway.<\/li>\n
  15. I am certified to teach nursery school through sixth grade.<\/li>\n
  16. I love teaching first, second and third grade.<\/li>\n
  17. I have never been a classroom teacher, but I had over 400 students in my first 8 years of teaching.<\/li>\n
  18. In my 10 years of Literacy I have had 14 reading groups over 4 grades (first, second, third, and fifth) totaling over 130 kids.<\/li>\n
  19. I teach computer skills, K-6.<\/li>\n
  20. Sometimes, I feel like I have no idea what I am doing.<\/li>\n
  21. I hope to teach at my current (and only) school until I retire – after June 2029.<\/li>\n
  22. I have a master’s degree in teaching with Internet Technology.<\/li>\n
  23. I have only collected pay checks from 5 different employers, not counting my parents’ 2 businesses.<\/li>\n
  24. My first paycheck was for being a playground and classroom aid at a summer arts days camp.<\/li>\n
  25. My second was my work study jobs at college – tourguide and computer lab assistant.<\/li>\n
  26. Third paycheck was earned at the island.<\/li>\n
  27. Fourth was as a cashier for the town pool.<\/li>\n
  28. Finally, being a teacher.<\/li>\n
  29. My parents owned a small town grocery store until I was 12.<\/li>\n
  30. I was stocking shelves at 6 or 7.<\/li>\n
  31. I could run the cash register by the time I could see over it, age 9 probably.<\/li>\n
  32. The smell of stale beer reminds me of sorting empties at the store.<\/li>\n
  33. I can still picture almost every inch of the store.<\/li>\n
  34. I have always had cats.<\/li>\n
  35. We got our cat from a friend, on 2 hours notice.<\/li>\n
  36. My husband and I renamed our cat so our 3 names would be the name of a singing group from the 70s.<\/li>\n
  37. I love to play games.<\/li>\n
  38. I say I am not competitive, but I really like to win.<\/li>\n
  39. I know all sorts of random trivia.<\/li>\n
  40. I can remember little details.<\/li>\n
  41. I can’t remember the big important things.<\/li>\n
  42. By the time I was 30, I had worked on over 40 theatrical productions.<\/li>\n
  43. At 34, I have worked on over 50.<\/li>\n
  44. I taught myself to knit one weekend when I was nearly 30.<\/li>\n
  45. I like to knit dishcloths and baby hats.<\/li>\n
  46. I have lived in 2 houses and 2 apartments.<\/li>\n
  47. The apartments and one house are all within the same 1 mile of road.<\/li>\n
  48. The second house is less than a mile from the first.<\/li>\n
  49. I don’t deal well with change.<\/li>\n
  50. Moving has been a traumatic experience for me.<\/li>\n
  51. Packing for a week long trip can put me on edge for days.<\/li>\n
  52. There is not one single household chore I actually like to do.<\/li>\n
  53. Just thinking about scrubbing toilets makes me gag.<\/li>\n
  54. I enjoy reading fiction, mysteries, humor, and true crime novels.<\/li>\n
  55. My favorite picture book is Where the Wild Things Are<\/em>.<\/li>\n
  56. My favorite young adult novel is The Giver<\/em>, which I didn’t read until I was an adult.<\/li>\n
  57. A grown-up book I could read over and over (and have) is Wicked<\/em>.<\/li>\n
  58. I also like to read trivia books, like the Uncle John’s Bathroom Reader<\/em> series.<\/li>\n
  59. I am a mom.<\/li>\n
  60. I wanted a girl, but couldn’t imagine a better baby for me than the boy I got.<\/li>\n
  61. We didn’t tell any one (other than doctors) that I was pregnant until I were 14 weeks.<\/li>\n
  62. I didn’t even tell my husband for 4 days.<\/li>\n
  63. My son was born on my 33 birthday.<\/li>\n
  64. I worked all day having contractions, but had no idea that’s what was happening.<\/li>\n
  65. I loved staying home all summer with my baby, but don’t think I could be a full time SAHM.<\/li>\n
  66. I have the same middle name as my mom.<\/li>\n
  67. My son is named after both of our maternal grandfathers, because they had the same name.<\/li>\n
  68. His middle name is the masculine form of my mother-in-law’s name.<\/li>\n
  69. His other middle name is my maiden name.<\/li>\n
  70. We picked out our daughter’s name before we were even married.<\/li>\n
  71. We still intend to have one, so the name is still a secret.<\/li>\n
  72. I have hoarding tendencies.<\/li>\n
  73. I hold on to things “just in case”.<\/li>\n
  74. I have over 900 Facebook friends.<\/li>\n
  75. I think the last three are related.<\/li>\n
  76. I love choosing just the right thing for someone.<\/li>\n
  77. I am disappointed if they don’t have the right level of excitement over what I got them.<\/li>\n
  78. I have good intentions, but poor follow through.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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