Tagged: 10 years ago

Natalie tagged me, and this seems like a really fun one.

10 years ago I was a senior at Bainbridge Island High school Washington. Some of my friends were Lindsey Griffith, Amanda Jensen, Maggi Holbert, Blaire Keller, Ryan and Taylor Simmons. I had a crush on Jared Dever, who was older than me, and have always had a thing for Brad Pitt.

Snacks I enjoy: Any kind of fruit, wheat thins, raw carrots, vegan chocolate chip cookies (See post below)

5 Things on my to do list:
1. Start Joshua's scrapbook
2. Clean my house
3. Go for a run
4. Get a haircut
5. Do and fold my piles of laundry

Things I would do if I were suddenly a billionaire:
1. Buy a 20 acre ranch in Santa Barbara County, CA with a farm house, gardens, dirt bike trails, pool, tree house, chickens, ducks, horse and a pet cow. All this so Joshua and his future siblings can play, explore and discover outside everyday of the year, like when I was a kid.

I'd use the remaining few dollars to:
2. Pay off all our debt and my siblings debt.
3. Go on an African Safari to see the big cats, and then travel the rest of the world.
4. Get my masters and possibly doctorate.
5. Make Caleb work 1/2 or 1/4 time so he can spend lots of time with us.

3 of my bad habits
1. I pick at everything.
2. People watching, I find people and all their quirks very interesting and often find myself staring and eavesdropping.
3. I like to get job done quick, sometimes at the expense of the finished project.

5 Places I have lived:
1. Santa Barbara, CA
2. Spokane, WA
3. Bainbridge Island, WA
4. Narva, Estonia
5. Vilnius, Lithuania

5 Jobs I have had:
1. House Painter for 5 years with my brother-in-law
2. Child care worker at a day care
3. Receptionist at Rob Rosenberry Physical Therapy
4. Teacher at Lindamood-bell learning processes
5. Substitute Teacher

Things People don't know about me:
- I have had pet rabbits, chickens, hamsters, rats, turtles, fish, ducks, crows, parakeets, cats, dogs and about any other critter I can turn into a pet.
- I have ridden a camel and climbed into the inner tomb of the pyramids in Egypt.
- I am a health nut. I take my vitamins daily, buy organic foods, read the labels of everything I buy, workout, would rather spend money on good food than on clothes, read and study about homeopathic medicine, and am paranoid about using any over the counter or prescription drugs unless absolutely necessary. I think that the food and drug industry is a business, like any other business they are out to make a buck even at the cost of the American public. Caleb calls me his closet hippie, it is my favorite soap box subject. [Editors Note: Caleb doesn't entirely approve, condone, or support some of the author's opinions...in fact he wonders why she fell for someone planning on a career in the health care establishment]
- My oldest brother is closer in age to my mother than to me, which makes makes the oldest of my eighteen nephews and nieces 21 years old.
- I love to work, not in an office (I hate that) but manual labor. It physically challenges me and makes me feel really good. I can't sit still and am constantly doing something.