The 'letter' manifests itself as a list of questions..so here goes:
1. What was I doing 10 years ago?
I was engaged to Tina and working at Elkhart Central High School as a teacher. I had insomnia about 1-2 time's per week due to fear of what the next day of school would bring.
2. Five things on my to do list today?
-pack myself this morning for an overnight trip with a bunch of goofy high schoolers 2 hours north of home (forgot running shoes).
-try to get my sub plans together for school tomorrow while... (check)
-...trying to teach today and help with a staff inservice and... (check and check)
-...grade tests that were given on Wednesday by a sub because I had to be home with Henry (hmmm)
-stress, worry and think about very special friends as their very special boy had surgery today (check - and all signs are good right now)
3. Five or so places I have traveled?
-Cote d'Ivoire
-Costa Rica
-lots of places in the US of A...especially West, Southwest, Southeast and upper Mid-West
-ug...I suck
4. Five snacks/treats I enjoy
-ice cream (vanilla with peanut butter is a recent fav)
-dark chocolate
-any fresh fruit
-cheesecake
-apple pie (any pie really)
5. What would I do if I were a billionaire?
-I haven't thought of this in like...forever. I'd probably wonder how much money it would be ok to keep and how much to give away and then forever be racked with guilt about whether I kept too much.
-be the only person my age I know who actually owns their home
-college fund for Henry
-??
6. Five bad habits (ouch..only five?)
- volunteering and/or taking on too much stuff
- not getting enough sleep (like right now)
- not keeping in touch with people I really love and want to keep in touch with
- important dates. who needs em?
- obsessing about exercise/cycling/triathlons/running
7. Places I have lived (I assume for like 3 months or more??). I'll do my best with the dates but look at one of my answers to the above question...there may be edits when I double check these with my 'fact checker.'
- Beanblossom, IN (1975-1990)
- Hesston, KS (1990-1993)
- Phoeniz, AZ (summer of 1991)
- Goshen, IN (college years 1993-1997)
- Cote d'Ivoire (study abroad through Goshen College summer of 1994)
- Elmer, KS (parents still live there, this is where I spent the summers of 1995 and 1996)
- Elkhart, IN (1997-1999)
- Lafayette, IN (1999-2000)
- Pine Village, IN (2000-2003
- current residence (2003-2008) whoohooo longest stretch of time I've lived in one place since 1990!
8. Jobs I've had (kind of in order)
- farm kid/farm hand general all around worker person (?)
- paper boy
- airplane fueler/washer and waxer at private airport
- chemistry stockroom attendant
- custom hay baler (co-owner/operator)
- substitute teacher
- teacher
- maintenance man and furniture deliver person
- research assistant
- lab manager
9. People I think should answer these questions (you've been tagged!)
- jeremy
3 comments:
yay!! look at you go... answering questions like some kind of crazy meme expert.
Nice addition with the detailed dates. I had not thought about your many geographical transitions. Do you feel an uncontrollable urge to pack stuff now every two years, just for fun?
Yeah so I had quite the run of re-locations there from 1990-2003. I realized the other day that I've lived longer here than anywhere else since we left Brown County 18 years ago...crazy.
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