13 Random Facts About Me

Is it Thursday already? I’m not sure where the week went, but I’m glad that it’s almost over. Now on to this installment of Thursday 13, my 9th!

1. I have one brother (3 yrs younger) and one sister (9 yrs younger & yes, she was planned).

2. I grew up in the same town that my Mother did and there were teachers of mine throughout the years that had been her teachers as well.

3. My Father was a city policeman in this small town. In other words I got away with nothing! They usually knew what I had been doing before I got home. My least favorite phrase of my Dad’s was “I saw you, Mike, Tom & Jeff cruise by on the strip 25 times last night.”

4. My parents have been married for 40 years. They only knew each other for about 9 months when they got married. Obviously they’ve done something right.

5. I’ve voted in every election since I turned 18. I even vote for School Board and those types of elections.

6. I wanted to be a Veterinarian when I was in high school, my college degree is in Psychology and I teach computer classes. Not sure how I got from one to the next but I did.

7. I found out in January that I’m diabetic. I’m trying to control it through diet and exercise, but it’s hard. I’m going to have some tests run next month and hopefully we’ll see that my glucose levels are down, I don’t want to have to start taking medication for this.

8. I have extremely high cholesterol when I’m not controlling it with medication. I was 17 the first time I had it tested and it was high then. I went on a no cholesterol diet and the total amount almost doubled for some weird reason. I’m just glad that there is a medication I can take for it now because my Dr. said I’d have dropped dead from a heart attack before now if I didn’t take care of it.

9. As part of my get healthy, beat diabetes plan I’m seeing a Nutritionist. She has me drinking about 3 liters of water everyday. Apparently I have a micro-bladder, so I’m having to pee about every 30 minutes lately.

10. It took me 6 years to get my BS in Psychology. It took that long for two reasons. First I went to the Community College in the town I grew up in for free for two years. Then I went to University where I changed my major about 10 times. Those two combined set me back two years. Oh and the fact that I wanted to be a professional student might have played into that as well.

11. Bryan and I hated each other when we first met. We were both interested in the same guy and saw each other as rivals. Somehow we ended up going out a few times and started dating. None of our friends at the time thought we would last more than a few months. Surprisingly it’s now been 14 1/2 years that we’ve been together. I guess we’re doing something right as well, or we’re just too stubborn/lazy to give up.

12. I dated a guy in college who had the nickname “Blackjack” because he ended all of his relationships after 21 days.

13. My main hobbies are photography, cooking and genealogy research. Unfortunately it doesn’t seem like I get to spend any significant amount of time enjoying any of them except cooking.