Well, hmmm, let's see...where to start here???
O.K.,I was born "ahem", maybe we don't need to
go back quite THAT far.
I'm a single mom of 6 kids, from 33 to 12. I have
4 girls and 2 boys. I have 8 grandkids, 4 girls, and
4 boys, from 16 to 4 mos, and all of them, kids and
grandkids are highly bent out of shape that they're
not on here, but this is MY page. They crack me
up, frowned up about it, so I'll put a photo album
on here, in a minute, so they can be seen. LOL
I've been a surgical tech since 1986. Up until
then, I had been a bit of everything, nothing that
totally turned me on, though. At 15 or so, I
worked with some of my best friends in their
dad's donut shop Nothing to jump over the moon
about, eh, BUT, that donut shop was the stuff! :-)
Then, on to Montgomery Ward where I worked in
the shoe dept, ran the elevator, DON'T even try
to act like you don't know what I'm talking
about! You know the one! The one where the
elevator operator never got the elevator even
with the floor...ahh, it's all coming back to you
now, well, that was me. :-) Also worked the
switchboard there. you know, the one where you
had to wear headphones to actually hear the
person and it had this teeney microphone that
stuck in front of your mouth for you to talk and
all these spark plug looking gadgets you had to
'hopefully' plug and unplug into the right party,
come on now, get that frown off your forehead,
you know what I mean!
I graduated,THEN, my first, full time big job with
the City of Peoria, you'll never guess...a secretary
with the police dept., full time, big pay, benefits,
the works! A young girl, set for life! Well, wait a
minute...read on. A little over 2 1/2 yrs of this
"secretarying", I became interested in this funny
looking gadget they had in the back and only one
girl in the whole place knew anything about it.
Sooo, of course I had to find out how to work it!
*bet you want to know all this* hee hee
Alright, alright, back to this gadget. It had it's
own little table, well, not so little, in the very back
of the room, four-foot barbed wire fence, (so you
didn't DARE try to lean over and *meddle* with
this rather hallowed gadget, touched only by one person, while
all others looking on, were held at bay. This thing reminded
me of a maze of railroad tracks, but, instead of locomotives, cabooses, and such, these were cards, no, not playing cards, but stacks of manilla
colored, about 3 X 6 (inches that is), and they had a few
holes punched in each of them in, seemingly, random places and
two bigger ones across the top and, Dody, that was her name,
would stand at the beginning of this "track" and start the
cards along their way. Looking at them weave along this "railway"
reminded me much of logs going downstream and the loggers
guiding them on their journey. If any card, on this "railway",
was, in the least bit, crumpled, bent, or stacked unevenly, the whole row would "jump track" and all the cards would back up on each
other and go tumbling over the edge of the table. Quite
a mess! Much like the deck of cards in Alice in Wonderland, remember?
What in the world could all of this have to do with A Bit about Me?
(hee hee, and you didn't fall for that "4 foot fence" line did you??? *G*)
ahem, but, I digress. This gadget was a 'keypunch' machine.
The birth-mother to the computer as we know it today. Now, check
this out, was I in the right place or was I in the right place! And, I'm
rich and a successful bombshell today, right? Keep reading.
Now, me being me, I had to know more about this...especially
since no one else did (except one). I even saw the Lt. looking on,
trying to figure it out. (he didn't have a clue!) LOL I started to stay a little
after I was off work, to watch, and ask a few questions. (didn't want to appear TOO interested, you see)
The long and the short of this
tale, (stop jumping up and down,
and clapping your hands, and
shouting YEAAAA) I learned
how to work it (welll, a 'little',
anyway)...pretty much like water
rolling off a duck's back, sooo
the Police Dept was going to
send me to school at a nearby
(by *nearby*, I mean
down the street).
hehe Remember, WAS is the
operative word here. They were
going to send me to class,
7 a.m., I think, three days a
week, and put me on second shift.
Well, I had this new baby, and I
was young and "OH! so dumb and
second shift was going to mess
with my 'life', so I said "no".
They had already changed my time
to second shift, so I quit.
(any comments unwelcome) From
there, to an insurance company.
NOT for me! ...lasted all of 1
week! And, on and on, at this
and that, til I became a surgical
tech.
Now, wasn't that well worth the wait??? :-}
As you can see from my page, I love RED!!!! My house is, mainly, decorated in red with black and gold furniture. My new aquarium is not set up, yet, but I have a mixture of red rocks to put in it and a red light.
(I'll put a pic up when it's ready). I love the Lord, and Heaven is my destination! If you've passed through my Kraft Korner, you'll see, I absolutely
LOVE doing ceramics! I've been
doing them for about 14 yrs, even
sell a few from time to time. (a
few pics on Kraft Korner in a
day or two) I like to take the
kids and camp out, and I DO mean
*OUT*. We don't have the luxury
of an RV or a camper...we have a
TENT and a hatch-back Chevette. LOL>
(do I have a couple of stories for
you, but I won't put them here.)
I love to fish and horseback ride
(a few more hilarious stories
for sure! I'll have to put them
somewhere and add a link, O.K.?
you know, EVERYBODY'S got a tale
to tell about the one that got
away. I love a good laugh, the one
when you're doubled over and your
stomach hurts and you're crying
so hard you can't see and that makes
it all the funnier. I get tickled
even thinking about it. I like it
when it was SOOOO funny, I think
about it right before I go to sleep
and still get a good laugh or I
wake up the next morning with a
smile on my face and I laugh all
over and shake my head as I get
up. *I* don't think I like to
talk, I'm, basically, quiet, but, my
kids say "Mom, PLEZZZ, all you
do IS talk!" I beg their
pardon! I love the smell of
clothes drying and the warm
fuzzy feel and smell of clothes
fresh from the dryer. I love
bubbles, and stuffed animals, and
coloring books. I love scented
candles, thunderstorms, and stick
shift cars. I like to read...
mystery and suspense are my
favorites. I'm reading one, now, by
Agatha Christie, and have a new
one by Danielle Steele. It's
first one by her, so no opinion
yet. John Grishom is good
too. I like to pop a big
bag of microwave popcorn, and
pop a good movie into the VCR.
I, probably, have every cartoon
released. We know Disney
rocks! *G* When I find myself
by myself, I like murder mystery,
suspense, the ones where that
chilling suspenseful omnious music sends a chill down your spine, and a tight knot in the pit of your stomach and you
know something is getting ready
to happen and you sit there all
clinched up and oblivious to
the rest of the world (except
that something that you just
glimpsed move, out of the
corner of your eye, about
the same time the perpetrator
in the movie strikes, and you
scream as the victim in
the pic screams, as you're
reduced to a shapeless,
formless, useless, quivering,
mindless mass on the couch,
and when all that's done and
the screaming is over and
you realize that movement was
the remote sliding off the
back of the couch, you exhale,
fan the sweat from your brow
(and everywhere else) :-)
take a deep breath and hope
your heartbeat is, now, under
145 b.p.m. and are right back
intently in the movie. 'grisley murder or gruesome mayhelm are soon to follow? But......when?????? Around which corner???? TURN AROUND! TURN AROUND! *H*U*R*R*Y, TURN AROUnnnnn Much
later, you stop and laugh
at yourself. I love cocoa wheat,
"In the Heat of the Night", and
some game shows. I "L-O-V-E"
snow, and, last, but, not
least,
anything else you want to see me put here, give me a shout.
BUT, what in the world else,
could there be????
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