IN YOUR SENIOR YEAR DID YOU...

Fill this out about your SENIOR year of high school! The longer ago it was, the more fun the answers will be! At the end, choose 10 people (or more) to be tagged. You have to tag the person who tagged you. If I tagged you, it's because I want to know more about you.(To do this, go to "notes" under the tabs on your profile page, copy and paste my note in the body of the note, delete my answers and type yours, tag 10 people [in the right hand corner of the app]. Then click publish.)
IN YOUR SENIOR YEAR DID YOU...
1. Did you date someone from your school? Nope
2. Did you marry someone from your high school? Nope
3. Did you car pool to school? My first few years, yeah, but once we moved to Humboldt, nope
4. What kind of car did you have? 1981 Ford Tempo
5. What kind of car do you have now? 2007 Grand Prix
6. Its Saturday night...where are you now? It's always different - sometimes here at home with my hubby watching a movie or lounging, sometimes out with friends, sometimes
7. It is Saturday night...where were you then? When living in Indiana, out with friends or a night in with the family. Once we moved to Iowa you could find me most Saturday nights working behind the customer service counter at HyVee
8. What kind of job did you have in high school? I worked at Penguin Point as a cashier for one month, helped prepare the salad bar at Grace College for one month, and then worked customer service at HyVee once we moved to Iowa for the rest of my life it seemed like. (7 years between HS and college)
9. What kind of job do you do now? IS Application Developer/Programmer at a manufacturing plant
10. Were you a party animal? Absolutely NOT!
11. Were you considered a flirt? Depends on who I was around. If it was people I knew, yeah, but just random people from school, nope. Now ask if I was boycrazy, and you might get another answer :)
12. Were you in band, orchestra, or choir? None of the above, although I played piano for 12 years.
13. Were you a nerd? I wouldn't say a "nerd", but I wasn't a cheerleader or anything (although I did try out in 4th grade...)
14. Did you get suspended or expelled? I never even got detention! In fact, I don't think any teacher ever even raised their voice at me.
15. Can you sing the fight song? Shoot...its been a while. The Humboldt one I can for sure, because my Dad used to sing it on our way out to Iowa when we were kids. The Warsaw one...like I said, its been a while. If I heard it, I think I'd know it.
16. Who was/were your favorite teacher(s)? Mr. Jones at WCHS because Journalism was a pretty sweet class.
17. Where did you sit during lunch? I used to sit with Anna and Hermie and probably a few others and play Euchre when I was at WCHS. I honestly don't remember at HHS - probably with Jen G. It was a pretty quick year.
18. What was your school's full name? Warsaw Community High School and Humboldt High School
19. When did you graduate? 2000
20. What was your school mascot? Warsaw Tigers and Humboldt Wildcats
21. If you could go back and do it again, would you? Not for a million dollars!
22. Did you have fun at Prom? It was alright, just different than I was expecting my jr. year to be, since I just moved from a much bigger school four months earlier.
23. Do you still talk to the person you went to Prom with? Yep! Ben just got married last March!
24. Are you planning on going to your next reunion? Not really sure. I doubt I would remember too many in my graduating class, since I was only there a year. I don't really remember much, although if I hear a story about HS, I vaguely remember it sometimes.
25. Do you still talk to people from school? Sometimes, and strangely enough, to people I never really talked to in HS
26. School Colors? WCHS - Orange and Black; HHS - Blue and Gold

My Great Diet Plan

If you want to lose over one pound in a week, follow this advice:

1. For about a week, eat as much salsa as you possibly can, alongside anything else salty and acidic. Pickles...tomatoes...anything citrusy.

2. Wait until the most wretched little sore in your mouth appears - the canker sore :(

3. Try eating pretty much anything...I double-dog dare you!


I'm going on 8 days with this stupid thing! In only one way has this painful little sore been beneficial - namely, it hurts so badly to eat that I haven't been eating so much. Snacks used to sound so great, but for the past week, I've been having to REALLY determine whether or not it's worth the pain.

I most certainly have been trying to find ways to dull the pain, but I've found that Advil doesn't really work so great, Tylenol generally upsets my stomach, and Orabase only works until I drink some water or try eating something.

In my spur-of-the-moment googling on the topic, I've learned the following:

1) There seems to be no cause for these little devils (which I find to be false...I almost always get them when I go a little crazy with the salsa/tomato/pickle/pineapple/orange/etc.)

2) There is no cure for them either, only ways to dull the pain.

3) They last about a week (which to me means that it should be gone very soon - HOORAY!)


Trying to be very positive about the whole situation, which has left my poor husband dealing with a very cranky version of the Humdawg for the past week, at least I've lost over a pound in the past week!

It doesn't pay to not eat BBQ sandwiches for lunch

So instead of having the coveted BBQ sandwich and mashed taters that taunted me for a half hour before lunch, I went home and had the un-coveted turkey and swiss with red peppers and string cheese.

I checked the mail, and HALLELUJAH, there was the refund check from Verizon that I had been waiting, oh, SIX MONTHS for! (Might I note, this check is a result of about 15-hours worth of phone-calls to Verizon, all of which seemed to get me nowhere). Also got the title for our new waverunner - another plus! What a great idea going home for lunch was, right?

Then, I went inside and put some chicken in the fridge to thaw for supper tonight, and spilled an entire jar of salsa all over the stinkin fridge and down the wall...on the carpet a bit, and (somehow) under the fridge even! It took me 15 minutes of my 30 minute lunch break to clean it up. Thank GOD I only live 2 minute from work and had already eaten!

I should've stayed at work and eaten the coveted BBQ sandwich...