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August 27, 2007 by Maren Leave a Comment

I can’t believe that I have now done 2 surveys in one week!  These are the only 2 surveys I’ve ever done online, but I couldn’t disappoint Allison. 🙂  Here ya’re…

1. Who were your best friends?  I’m still the same way I’ve always been– many friends, but I don’t really claim to have BEST friends.  I was the closest to Sarah Jolley my Junior year and though, I had many GOOD friends, I don’t think I had a “Best” friend while at Wright…

2.What sports did you play?  Soccer, though not well.

3. What kind of car did you drive? ’76 Mercedes or Suburban (family vehicles)

4. It’s Friday night, where were you?  Depends on which school I was at… Football game, Soccer, Play Practice, Ultimate, With Heritage people, at home…

5-10. Were you a party animal? Were you considered a flirt? Were you in band, orchestra, or choir?  Were you a nerd?  Did you get suspended/expelled?  Can you sing the fight song?
no.

11. Who were your favorite teachers? Mrs. Cox

12. Where did you sit during lunch? Can’t even remember–too many schools–I know who with, but not where…

13.What was your school’s full name? Wright Christian Academy, Daviess County High School, Clements High School

14. School mascot? Wildcats, Panthers, Rangers

15. Did you go to Prom? Yes–to “Banquet”

16. If you could go back and do it over, would you? Try NO…

17. What do you remember most about graduation? A group of us girls got into a fight about how the song we were going to sing sounded too terrible to sing it in public for graduation (it sounded awful…) …the kicker was that it was called “Listen to Our Hearts” lol.  Also our principal read “Oh The Places You Will Go” by Dr. Suess.

18. What was your favorite class? Bible Class with Mrs. Vance or Economics with Mr. Biggs– “Don’t use Credit Cards– Postpone Consumption” –this was also where the idea of free land in Montana and the ranch called Tremacre was birthed. 🙂

19. Where were you on senior skip day? In class; don’t remember if we had one???

20. Did you have a job your senior year? I worked at a photo lab for the first part, but got too busy for it.

21. Where did you go most often for lunch? Um….The cafeteria?

22. Have you gained weight since then?  What a dumb question… Yes, but don’t know how much–I lost weight in college, then have gained some back–don’t know the difference–maybe 7ish pounds or so??? I don’t know.

23. What did you do after graduation? I worked at a camp as a canteen girl, then went to college.

24. When did you graduate? 1997

25.  Who was your Senior prom date? A friend–Micah Humpreys

26. Are you going to your 10 year reunion? Not having one…

28. What was your favorite thing to eat at lunch? Don’t remember…  Usually packed…

29. Who was your boy/girlfriend? Major crush, no boyfriend. 🙂

30. What was your favorite memory your senior year? Senior Trip– “Laissez les bons temps rouler”

31. Did you like how you looked in your senior picture? I don’t really care much for how I looked back then–for reasons to not be disclosed on the www. 🙂

33. How have you changed since high school? I’m not so stinkin’ loud. I have a harder time trusting people.  I’m married.

Whatever Four?

August 22, 2007 by Maren 12 Comments

4 jobs: Photo lab tech, Camp Canteen Sales Lady, 5th grade & Middle School Teacher, Ann Taylor Loft Associate

4ish places lived: Bartlesville, OK; Sugar Land, TX; Owensboro, KY; Tulsa, OK; Cedarville, OH; Indianapolis, IN; Louisville, KY

4 TV shows I watch regularly: Survivor, Dateline or 20/20 type shows (that’s about it…sometimes home improvement or cooking shows, but rarely)

4 places vacationed most recently:  Great Smokey Mountains, San Antonio, Phoenix, Florida

4 foods I like: Guacamole, Egg Rolls, Sushi, and Mangos

4 places I’d rather be:

  • On Survivor—so far, I’ve tried out twice… I’ve tried out for the Amazing Race 4ish times.  SINCE they didn’t choose me, I’ve never watched the show again. That’ll teach ‘em.
  • Australia—I’ve always had a hankering to travel there.
  • Anywhere—With My Husband.
  • Taking a nap.

4 places I like to shop: Amazon.com, Ebay, Marshalls, and Hand-me-downs…the jeans I’m wearing are hand-me-downs from a coworker who’d lost weight…gee…that’s a compliment…

AND IN COMBINATION WITH ANOTHER SURVEY, since you are on the edge of your seat with the excitement from this one already (sarcasm dripping)…

 

4 favorite places to be……..a state park in the fall, a cozy couch with a good book, anywhere next to Michael or zippy, a sushi restaurant

 

4 + 4 Favorite things to do…. camping in the fall, going to football games (or watching the Buckeyes play), watching plays or musicals, eating, watching movies, playing Ultimate Frisbee,sleeping, and playing ANY game with ANY victim…errr…volunteer.

Thing I wish I could do in the future… invent a game that was as popular as Monopoly, be on a game show, pay off my house, live life to the fullest because of Him!

Fun facts about my past…

  • I went to 3 high schools in 4 years.
  • In middle school, my mom gave me a home perm that fried off my hair where bangs would have been.  People started looking at my forehead when they were talking to me, so I had to cut bangs that covered the singed hairs.
  •  I can still recite the lines to my middle school theatrical debut (haha) in Midsummer’s Night Dream as the Wall (yes, that was my character…), “In the same interlude, it doth befall, that I, One Snout by name, present a wall…”  Not very many people can say they were a wall (Snout) in a play.
  •  In second grade (ONLY for competition’s sake), I memorized 2,000+ lines of poetry, and received a stuffed dodo bird as a reward.

4 random facts about my childhood… (Sent by my mom as I was trying to think of facts…)

  • While a child, I wanted a band-aid so badly that I bit my toe in order to create a boo boo.
  • Locked my mom out of the car in order to avoid discipline at a busy intersection at age 5.
  • When I was 3 and was disciplined, I told my mom that she was “wasting my time.”
  • After an argument with Ross, my mom made us say something nice about the other person.  I thought and quickly came up with, “Although I don’t always act like I love you, I really do.”  Ross thought and thought and thought and thought and thought and thought, and all he could come up with was, “Well… you keep yourself clean.”

I wonder why all of the facts from my mom above involve injury or discipline?  HMMMMmmmmm…perhaps I was a handful…

When tagging for this, I instantly (because of the nostalgic post) became reminded of the unathletic, awkward kid at a recess game being picked last–not saying that this relates to any of you, I just didn’t want to pick…plus, i love reading other’s blogs—SO, I TAG EVERYONE that wants to fill this out and hasn’t done so already:  Michelle, Allison, Amber, Amy, Ann Marie, Kerri, Brittany, Ben, Carrie, Michelle, Hannah, Molly, Shelley, Jamie, Julie, Brooke, Kelsey, Daniel, Krista, Katie, Kristen, Sara, Laura, Liz, Lucinda, Brooke, Bethany, Lynn, Melissa, Marla, Beth, Vianna, Rachel, Risha, Rebekah, Renee, Sarah, Emily, Joanna, Kelly, Jen, Susan, Megan, Lisa, Chrissy, Andrea, Dave, Christy, Maren, Katie,  Andrea,  Alex, Claudia, Abby, Andrea, Michael, Jason, Christopher, David, James, Matthew, John, Robert, Brian, Joseph, Jennifer, Jessica, Melissa, Heather, Amy, Sarah, Angela, Amanda, Michelle, Elizabeth (I also just added the 20 most popular names in 1978 too just in case I had forgotten someone—gives me a 70% chance that I’ll get them on this list, too…lol)… and ANYONE ELSE, I’ve missed accidentally, please feel free to join.  THE MORE THE MAREN-ER, I always say.  (actually, I don’t, it just fit seeing how I just listed all those names…)

 

Happy Wednesday, folks!

It’s official–I’m crazy.

August 10, 2007 by Maren 6 Comments

Michael and his parents, who have been visiting from Ohio, this week have been working on projects around the house during the work days while I’m at work.  Many of these projects have been in the kitchen and  I’m thankful for what has been accomplished.  They are always so kind and helpful–TERRIFIC-EST inlaws EVER, and its fabulous to have them here! 

SOOOOOOOO…Last weekend, my sister-in-law made me some cookie dough for the freezer (THANKS SO MUCH, LAURA!), and IT HAS BEEN WONDERFUL being able to pop the dough in the oven to have cookies available for my in-laws throughout the week.  SO VERY NICE! 

Last night, I baked about 3 dozen of the cookies, thinking that Michael was having additional guests over.  Today, the cookies were mostly gone when I got home from work, so I went to pop some more in the oven.  Slight problem: My favorite cookie pan was nowhere to be found.  Like previously mentioned, there have been projects going on the kitchen this week, so I figured that someone moved it.  I frantically searched throughout the cupboards in the kitchen, but was unable to find my special tray.  It was nowhere!  I started to presume that my neighbor (the one who knows the color of my kitchen and peeks in my windows) was perhaps envious of my amazing stoneware pan, and had come into our house under the cover of darkness to steal it.  There was no explanation!!!  That is, until I opened the oven door, and sitting in the oven was my cookie pan from last night!  Why is this a big deal, you ask?  There were a dozen cookies still on the tray.  It’s official.  I’m crazy.

Living the Life…On Pennies!

August 1, 2007 by Maren 11 Comments

I probably did something today that most people in America wouldn’t consider.

Kroger keeps the most delicious Lemon Pepper Asparagus Salad on its rotation at the deli, and when I’m in the store during my 30 minute lunch, it’s impossible to pass up.  Included in the deliciousness is asparagus, roasted red peppers, olives, feta cheese, lemon pepper vinaigrette, artichoke hearts and pine nuts. Its 100% of pure tastiness.  The total for this scrum-did-le-ump-tious-ness totaled to $2.00.

I quickly scanned the UScan area.  Assessing the current level of busyness, it was there that I did what most Americans wouldn’t dare to do.  Reaching slyly, but laughingly into my purse, I pulled out my Ziploc back of pennies and filled the Uscan with 190 pennies and 1 dime.

About 5 minutes later, and with only one assist from the Uscan clerk, (who had to bang the machine to release my stuck pennies) I left with a smile on my face, the sneer of disgust from a random customer waiting on who knows what (not me!  I made sure I wasn’t holding up the line…), and the best lunch in the world.

My asparagus salad is now eaten, and I can truthfully say, “I paid pennies for it.”

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