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When I was a freshman in HS, I broke 3 vertebrae while doing gymnastics. I had to school myself at home for the second half of the year. Years later, I took my daughter sledding. It was her first time going sledding and wanted me to go on the sled with her. We wound up hitting a bump and I re-broke 2 of the same vertebrae.

Did you have them fused?

No, just spent several months in a removable body cast. Ugh! That sucked!

school you huh?

i spent a year in Peru when i was 18, did an exchange program between high school an college. it was amazing! and now i got the espanol thing down. :)
was a cheerleader for 4 years of high school, and capt. for 2 of those years
had a cat that died a few months ago, but he was 20 (thats really old for a cat!!!! old as me!)


um... thats about all thats interesting about me!

~pet

Did you live with a family or in a boarding type school?

With such a wide range of skills and experences we might need to look at starting consulting firm.It would have possibilties.

For myself I lived in Fairbanks for about 2yrs. lived in K.C 2 different times for 9 yrs.but always came back to Okla.
Used to build and sell dollhouses and 1/12 scale furniture.
Mostly just enjoy every day life with the family and friends

Did you make the kind with all the gingerbread on them? I made one once thattoo forever just to do the fish scales on the gable.

What kind of injury did you sustain Lil? How did it happen? How did it change your outlook on life?

Very interesting thread!!

with and without gingerbread, shadow box rooms ,my favorite was a violin that I cut out the front then carved a violin makers workshop to put in it.

Actually it was a back injury from carrying girls that weighed significantly more than I did, as a young cheerleader, caused some serious nerve damage. Unfortunately it was misdiagnosed then (actually until I had my second kiddo some 10 years later) and I spent a lot of time in treatment for a problem that was really something else. No wonder it wasn't getting better...any whoooo. I spent some time in a wheel chair and got to experience first hand how difficult it can be to be mobile. Makes me look at ADA as a neccessity not just a good suggestion :)

Jay-t
Do you have pics of the violin piece?

I think I shared other places that I was lucky enough to have a chance to live in Germany (near Mannheim) for three years; Sendai, Japan for 1 1/2 years and Yokohama, Japan for another 1 1/2 years as a kid. In 9th grade in Japan one of my classmates had been in my first grade class in Germany. Small world, huh?

Been to most of the fifty states and about 10 other countries.

Met my wife on a blind date, dated for three years, now married with seven children (four boys; three girls). One son still a dependent although three of the boys live at home. Oh, yeah, one sponsored child in Mexico. A beautiful young lady who is now 14.

Had one brother and now have five, going on six, grand-children.

What is it like having a house full of grown children?

They basically do their own thing. Even dinners are less of a family affair since they're often at work or at friends. One of our boys is a senior this year and next year will be at college. He's a great help. Does most of the laundry for my wife and I and always is willing to help.

This sentence is worth a year's worth of 'net bills for me right there!!!

I don't know if I've told the story of my conception before . . . thought I did but it's not in this thread . . . my young biological mother went to Israel and met my father, a Czech soldier on the run from the Russians (I think -- either that or he was running from his own army). My mother returned to Newfoundland and gave me up for adoption.

I've just got a couple more steps to go to finalize the search and will get on that asap. I just got a letter from Post-Adoption Services today telling me I need to send money :rolleyes2 for some paperwork.

Wow. I did not know that ^^^.


I can speed read--the "normal" way AND upside-down.

I can cause wanton destruction with a single typo :)

I don't know that I ever "saw the light" as such...just gradually fell away from being a fanatic eventually to where I am now, which I guess is sort of an agnostic who wants to hedge his bets ;) Dealing with other peoples' kids was something I didn't do well enough to ever fool myself into thinking it might be my purpose...just ask anybody who worked with me that summer if they think I missed my calling. Actually, now that I think about it, it may have been the talent show they had for the counselors that I did not participate in that reminded me that I had a love for music, but didn't know any songs I could play & sing in front of people...my experience at that point was mostly playing bass in Music City's first ever heavy metal band, & that didn't seem like a great talent to display at a church camp...

Doesn't take me long to come back with an answer, huh?