This is a little thing-y that's been making the rounds on facebook. Although I don't really want to post it on facebook, I thought it'd be interesting to record my answers with a little explanation for some of them, since a few of these have somewhat interesting stories to go with the answers. Enjoy!
Tattoos- 0 (Unless you count all of the stretch marks I earned after six pregnancies. Maybe not as polished as a tattoo artist would do, but infinitely more memorable to me).
Piercings- 2 (One in each ear)
Marriages-1 (He's a keeper!)
Divorces- 0
Pregnancies- 6 (Nothing spectacular to report about them other than the fact that I had a seizure in the middle of my last pregnancy, making it more of higher risk than the others).
Children- 7
Surgeries- 3 (Hernia as a baby, 1 c-section, 1 appendicitis)
Been to Jail- no
Shot a gun- yes (hated it)
Quit a job- (Not in anger or anything ... just normal moving on to better things sort of action)
Flown on a plane- yes (also hate it, but glad for the convenience)
Gone over 100 miles in a car- yes (more times than I wish to remember)
Hit a deer- yes (Once while I was driving a deer was in the road. I noticed at the last second and slowed down a bunch. I managed to miss it mostly, but our back bumper clipped it. I think the deer ended up okay, but I'm sure it was limping for a bit. This summer we hit a deer on I-44 while Herman was driving. I'm pretty sure this deer ended up dead. The front bumper of our brand new Toyota
Camry was pretty dented).
Gone zip lining- no (I'd like to someday).
Cried over someone - yes (lots of times. One time I cried a river over a boy that Laney ended up hurting. She didn't mean to hurt him. He just liked her A LOT, and she started dating another guy. I was so upset over that poor guy).
Fell in love- yes
Skipped school- yes (My kids have skipped school WAY more than I ever did. I never skipped in high school, but I did skip a few times in college).
Watched someone give birth- no (Unless it counts for watching in on a tv series ... and I'm sure that doesn't count).
Watched someone die- no
Been to Canada- yes (Check out our adventure on the border when we forgot that Minsy had a Chinese passport and not an American one. You can read all about it HERE.)
Ridden in an ambulance- yes (Hyrum had some weird thing going on when he was 2 or 3. His muscles would just give out and he would collapse, unable to move. Our doctor had no idea what was going on, but she was worried that it was some horrible condition, so she sent us by ambulance up to St. Louis to be seen by a specialist. Also, when I had my first grand mal seizure in 1999 I was taken by ambulance to the emergency room because that had never happened before. Scariest night of my life!)
Been to Hawaii- no (No desire to go either ... too touristy. ... Although I would go there to visit my brother and his family, I think).
Been to Europe- no (but I'd love to someday!)
Been to Washington D.C- yes (Twice. Loved it both times. Although the amount of security that separates we the people from OUR government, although understandable, drives me CRAZY).
Visited Florida- no (No desire to go here either. Same as Hawaii ... too touristy).
Visited Mexico- no (I might like to visit someday ... if I can get over my fear of being offed by the Mexican mafia).
Visited Las Vegas- yes (Only the airport. Worst airport I've ever been in. So incredibly crowded. If they would get rid of even half of the 10,000 slot machines all over the place there would be plenty of room for the people. No one is using them anyway. So slimy and gaudy. Not a fan. I'm sure it's a lovely town, though. I just don't have much desire to see it.)
Sang karaoke- yes (Three times in China. Soooooo much fun. We went to two karaoke places that are popular there, rented a room and went to town. It was a blast. The workers and patrons would come by and look through the window to see the funny American family singing hokey pop songs. Then we sang at an outdoor karaoke thing in Hong Kong and were quite popular with the large crowd that gathered to watch us sing. The best!).
Laughed so much you cried- yes
Caught a snowflake on your tongue- yes
Had a pet- yes (Since we've been married ... 3 dogs, 2 cats, 8 goats. Favorite pet ever was my kitty, Oliver. I got him from my friend, Amy Lock, when I was in 2nd grade. He loved me so much that his tail would twitch whenever he heard my voice. I called him my Kitty Mao. He had a tragic death, though. After I had left to go to college he got some sort of gangrene in his leg. Instead of taking him to the vet to be put down my mom decided to drown him in the bathtub. It was not an easy task for her. I can't even imagine. I'm pretty sure I would not have done it that way, but from what Mom said, Oliver didn't suffer nearly as much as my mom did).
Been sledding on big hill- yes
Been downhill skiing- no (I think that ship has sailed. I'm not sure I could ever stomach it at my age).
Rode on a motorcycle- yes (Uncle Marvin's. Other than that I haven't. They scare me to death).
Rode a Horse- yes (I got thrown from a skittish pony at my Grandpa Lay's once. That memory is burned in my psyche, making me nervous to ride a horse on my own. But I did get led on one recently).
Stayed in a hospital - yes (For all my births as well as a bout with appendicitis).
Donated blood- yes (Only once in high school. It was there that I found out that I had been exposed to hepatitis at a young age, making my blood ineligible to be donated or used. Since then I haven't been able to do it at all. You should see the faces I get when a blood donation company asks me to donate and I tell them that I'm not allowed to donate. I'm pretty sure that many of them think I must have some sort of horrible disease or something because I get lots of looks of pity).
Driven a stick shift- yes (best thing I ever learned on a pseudo-date. Joe Hettinger taught me how to drive his car so that I could be the designated driver for our group of miscreants that evening. Obviously, I've moved on from those days, but my stick driving ability stayed with me. I actually enjoy it quite a bit, especially driving our cute little Miata convertible. I love the sound of the vroom when the gears change).
Rode in the back of a police car- sadly, yes (Here's one that requires explanation. My mom struggles with bi-polar disorder. Normally, she does just fine, but there are times when the mania gets out of control and she begins to make poor decisions that she wouldn't normally make. One thing that she does is wander from her house. One night it was 3 am when I got a call from our local 911 center. The police had found my mom walking in the middle of the highway near our house. Holy cow! I drove to the end of our neighborhood and found a million emergency vehicles with lights flashing. My mom was sitting in the back of one police car. She was fine ... just a little manic. I rode in the police car with her back to her house to make sure she was safe, and then the policeman drove me back to my car. Crazy night! But all is well).
So there you go. A little bit more about me than you probably ever wanted to know. I'm feeling like I want to make more posts like these in the future. I think my family will appreciate them someday. Maybe.
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