AGAIN!
I think that Kay at Kay Bratt Uncensored just didn't get enough esoteric tidbits about me with my last tagging and tagged me again! Or maybe its payback for actually suggesting the only reason I didn't go as her for Halloween was because I wasn't blond. In any case, its a good thing I'm such an interesting person! Yeah, I didn't fall for that myself. I'll try to not make this a snoozer.
So my 7 "interesting" facts straight off the top of my head:
1)
Some people get great super powers like flying or x-ray vision. I got rationalization.
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3)
In high school I had an English teacher who saw "great potential" in me. Imagine my surprise when I turned in a creative writing paper and I got a C. I went to her after class and asked her why I got a C when so-and-so's paper got a B and wasn't better than mine. She looked me straight in the eyes and told me that I was better than that paper I had turned in and she was grading me according to my potential not to the class standard. I had never been told anything like that before and it stuck with me forever. She was my biggest supporter and I thought the world of her.
A couple of years after I graduated I found out from my mother that my English teacher had been very sick and found out that she had cancer. It was very advanced and aggressive. She died soon after her diagnosis leaving a husband and small children. I decided that if I ever wrote a book it would be dedicated to her-- Mrs. Connie Davis. So all you teachers out there who wonder if you make a difference, please know that you do. I will always regret not thanking her for believing in me.
Wow, that's a tough one to follow but the list must go on.
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I am so totally blessed, even when I'm a crabby cake on Halloween.
5)
Sometimes we have to eat our words. And they don't taste too bad when you have them with a Grande nonfat, no whip Mocha.
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Back when I was histologist and went back to work after Julia was born, I interviewed for a job at the VA hospital in Little Rock. During the interview the supervisor confessed that he had had a very hard time keeping people in my position because the other people in the department were "characters" and sometimes hard to get along with. I knew I would only be at the job for about 5 months so I told him that I had never had a problem getting along with coworkers.
Oh my! When he said they were characters, I really had NO idea what I was getting into. It was a very interesting experience, from one guy literally watching the clock when I left for a break or lunch, to 2 coworkers yelling and screaming at each other in the hallway and finally the guy who told me he knew someone who could "take care of" a relative I was complaining about. Oh my is right! But I worked hard, helped them out and when I left my supervisor told me he had never seen anyone get along with the characters in Character City and how sorry he was to see me go. I heard he quit not long after I did.
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So now I'm supposed to tag 7 more people:
The Shaw Family
Not Your Average Soccer Mom
The Johnson Family Tales
Mommy Chronicles who redid my blog
Pokonutz
The Princess and the Ladybug Because Lorie's all new to blogging and she needs to get her feet wet!
I think 6 is enough 'cause I'm not going for 7!
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Edited Sunday morning @ 8:00: I have had several people ask me how to do a strike through, which is when a word or words have a line through them. I tried to answer this in the comment section and it got all freaked out with the Html format and wouldn't let me so I'm posting it here. Besides, lots of people don't read comments and might see it here.
The Strike Through:
Let's say I want to strike through some words in this sentence: My children woke me up at the crack of dawn at 8:45.
I want to strike through " the crack of dawn"
Go to the Edit Html tab and put your curser in front of the words " the crack" and type < str!ke>and after the word "dawn" type < /str!ke> when you click on the Compose tab it will look like this: (Important note: change the ! in the strike above to an "i" and take out the spaces. I also just found out that you can type this on the Compose tab and when you publish it will put it in the Html format.)
My children woke me up at
5 comments:
You are very special, and very funny!!
YOU ROCK!!
I'm so amazed by people like you who have such terrific blogs and do cool things like links, hyper links, can write words that are crossed out....all kinds of cool stuff and I'm clueless!!
So where's the sign up sheet for Remedial Blogging???
Jeannie
Your Royal Highness Queenie Jeannie, I am awed to be visited by royalty!
I was not born with all of my blogging skills and I, too, was coveting the blogging skills that I saw others had. So I took myself to one of my favorite places, Barnes and Noble, and gifted myself with Blogging for Dummies, no joke. It told me how to do most of that stuff. Others I have stumbled upon myself. Sometimes if I'm playing with something new I'm sure to announce it at the beginning of the post ex: {Today Denise is learning how to embed a video} etc.
I just tried to tell you how to strike out words and it won't let me so I'll edit the post at the bottom with instructions.
I'm visiting from SITS. Hope you are having a happy Sunday! I can't wait to read more of your blog.
Woke you up at 8:45 PRE-daylight savings time?? Oh my gosh. Don't even let me go there. I had a child in my bed at 5:3Oam today (pre-daylight savings). She asked me at bedtime why it took so long for us to "wake up" today. Uh, because it was the crack of dawn----at least at OUR house!
But on the postive side, she slept through Mass today so that was helpful. :-)
Thanks for the tag! I will post my answers later this week...
...if you promise to send me one of those infamous silk pies!
j/k
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