1.      I was born in Nebraska – Big Shout out to all my fellow Nebraskans!  I have very fond memories of growing up there.  Much of my family still lives there.    

2.      I am left-handed. – What more could I say about that?  I don’t turn my hand all weird to write.  I turn the paper.  So There.

3.      I cut and bat right-handed – In grade school they didn’t have any left handed scissors so I had to learn how to cut right handed.  Now it’s the only way I know.  Batting – I don’t know how that came about.  Interestingly enough I can use chopsticks with BOTH hands!  GO me!!

4.      I sang in the school choir – High School Girls Chorus and Concert Choir.  I can carry a tune well enough but really I just scare the rats away.   I had one solo ever and never got to perform it due to school closure.  Just my luck.

5.      I don’t have a gall bladder – I lost this when I was 18.  I got up in the night and wasn’t feeling good.  I had a horrible stomach ache and was nauseous.  I crawled – crawled - down the stairs to my parents room and woke my mother.  (she was closest to the door) She told me to take an aspirin and go back to bed.  Mother’s can be cruel can’t they?   I was really miserable so my Dad got up to take me to the hospital.  On our way there Dad says “if you start feeling better anytime between here and the hospital let me know”.  Gotta love Dad.  WE get to the ER and I get poked and prodded.  An Ultrasound is done and TA DA!  I have marble sized gall stones.  Well in reality they were teeny stones, like sand, all bonded together to make marble size stones.  Anyway – that afternoon I have surgery to have them removed and they just took the whole gall bladder too.   My mother had the gall bladder surgery 5 years earlier before the laproscopic surgery was available.  She has a very large scar from the surgery.  I have 4 tiny scars that you can barely see and one is hidden in my belly button.  HA!  Take that mom!   I remember waking up in my hospital room around dinner time.  How do I know it’s dinner time?  Because my family is there eating burgers and fries and drinking Ice cold sodas while I slept!  What do I get??   Broth.  Families can be cruel can’t they?  LOL  I missed a choir trip due my hospitalization and missed lettering in choir by 1 stinkin’ point that year due to the absence.  I am sure I’d have been more disappointed but all my emotions were dulled thanks to prescription Demerol.  Pharmacists are never cruel.  Lovedl loved loved those pills.  All in all I was back at school in a weeks time none the worse for wear.  J