Lots More Stuff You Never Wanted to Know

I've been tagged by Crystal.
This one is a little different from the last one, though:

1. What was I doing 10 years ago?
Well, exactly 10 years ago, I was a Senior in high school and in and out of meaningless relationships. Why do I mention it first? Because apparently, it's all I could write about in my journal... (I had to go back and look). My high school sweetheart had gone off to BYU and I was about the only one in my group of friends who was left to finish the last dreary year of high school alone. I was working after school at US Bank as a Teller, was on the Seminary Council, and Laurel class President... (and still had nothing better to do than worry about boys). I thought it was the worst year of my life, and I think I still feel that way.

2. Things on my To Do list:
Short term:
- Find a cheap control panel & console assembly online so I can fix our blasted washing machine without paying some over-priced Maytag repair man who won't even do the job right! (Can you tell I feel strongly about this?!)
- Backup our computer files and wipe our hard-drive clean.
- Switch out my regular, girlie-figure clothes for behemothly large and somewhat frumpy maternity ones; and hang up the mass of clothes lying on my closet floor (which, lately, is the bane of my husband's closet experience, and I mean that in a strictly "straight" way).
Long term:
- Become fluent in French & German and visit Switzerland (where my ancestors are from), Austria, Belgium, Italy, Germany, France, England (where my other ancestors are from), and Sweden.
- Raise wonderful, righteous, and valiant kids who all gain their own eternal families.

3. Three Bad Habits:
I already did this the last time I got tagged and it just depresses me... Refer back if absolutely necessary.

4. Places I have lived:
Hmm... Let me think, there are so many.

1. Cornelius
2. Hillsboro
3. Portland

Whew! What a workout!

OH! I forgot some-
4. Mountaindale (where nearly all the sordid stuff happened)
5. Vernonia for a summer with my friend

5. Things most people don't know about me:
I've been shot at by a true redneck (overalls, red handkerchief, no joke); ridden horse bareback; fallen off a horse and watched the hooves miss my head by inches; eaten rabbit (yum); almost drowned; still own several pairs of Wranglers and Rockies, a pair of Ropers, and a massive belt buckle as relics of former days; have owned a goat, chickens, and turkeys; caught air in a mini-van; broke into a house and stole a machete; smuggled Rum out my Dad's house into my Mom's house and drank with my friends (for the record- it wasn't good and I never drank again); dated a 20-year-old when I was 14 (in his defence, he thought I was 19, though he found out soon enough and still dated me for a month- if you can call it dating when your Dad threatens him with his "sawed-off" shotgun that hasn't held bullets in over 20 years and wouldn't let me leave the house with him); tried out for Dance Team (urged by my best friend and lifelong dancer), sucked royally during try-outs, then joined the Colorguard for a few months (I can do cool things with stick- yay!); drove 110 miles/hr on a two-lane country road sitting on the center console of a Honda CR-X between my boyfriend and best friend who both had seat belts (ah, the stupidity); skipped school more than I went until I was a Sophmore (most of the preceding events happened before I was a Sophmore, then I became a paragon of the virtues- hee hee); talked my way out of a ticket for running three red lights in a row (and nearly killing pedestrians)- that's my Mom's favorite story; did hair in a salon for 6 months and hated it; worked a year for my Grandparents remodeling their house (loved it!) in which I somewhat conquered my fear of heights and ladders, manually tore up a concrete driveway, did basic plumbing and electrical wiring, framing, sheetrock, demolition, became a quasi-expert at mudding, crawled under the house and pried up floor-boards to find some resident (and dead) rodents, and got insanely buff and tan arms (well, for me, anyway); the rodent experience came in handy when a lady who rented an apartment from us let out her pet mice before she abandoned her apartment, when we found out weeks later that she had left, we also found the uncanny smell of death that I eventually had to clean out from the motor in the fridge; I can make my tongue "belly dance" and my eyes shake really fast (stupid human tricks).

There are probably *good* things people don't know about me, but the shocking things are easier to think of. Sad.

Now I Tag: Jamie, Lara, Wendy, Heidi, Kristen, Kirsten, Alie, and Doug

And after all of this reminiscing, I went to look for photos from this time period and there were none, so I decided to post this little gem of the past that I think some will find amusing...

Summer of '96

Hardinger's house for a birthday party (I think Jenae's and Michelle's)