Seven things you didn't know about me
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There's a fun meme (latest craze) running around the internet called "Seven things you didn't know about me". Thought it might be a fun diversion here at MCC to help up get to know each other better.
Type your list. Click some photos. Or shoot a video. It doesn't matter how you play the game -- just that you play.
You can read Shannon Paul's post or Ken Burbury's post for inspiration.
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Sandra,
Did you realize that your Grandfather didn't have powers or that you actually did inherit them?
1. My first job was a "car hop" at a place called Bob's Drive-In...roller skates and all! The place is now a used car dealership. I think I was making .75 per hour.
2. I married my high school sweetheart, right out of high school, except the 1st few months I became aware of his presence at school, I thought his name was Greg. Once we met, I found out it was Bill and 31 years later, we're still best of friends and enjoying each other as much as we did when we met.
3. My most interesting job was working at the Detroit Field office of the FBI in the late 80's and early 90's. I was on "POPE" detail when the Pope came to Detroit (I think it was 1988) and I was locked down at the office to prepare for any sort of incident that would occur. I was a ComSec Analyst (that's short for COMmunications SECurity) and was responsible for managing all incoming and outgoing communications including radio transmissions, teletypes, switchboard, faxes, complaint desk, NCIC/LEIN and more. Very interesting job.
4. While at the FBI, I met Bob Probert when he played for the Red Wings...he was being brought in on charges of smuggling drugs in his underwear from Canada; I think I still have a mug shot of him somewhere...
5. Two summers ago hubby and I started on a trek to drive the entire Route 66 highway. We started in Chicago right at Lake Michigan and made it just inside the state of Oklahoma. We plan to resume at that location this summer and either drive all the way to CA or at least get another chunk of it out of the way. Awesome drive, by the way. We stayed on the actual Route except where it ended and we had to get back on the highway. Really cool.
6. I also met Mark "The Bird" Fidrych, in a small diner in Riverview one night. He was playing for the Tigers at the time, and had gone and "tied one on" that night and was with some friends at the diner. My husband went over to ask for his autograph, and he got it. When he was leaving he smiled and waved and said goodbye. Too bad I didn't have a camera with me back then. He was very gracious, albeit drunk on his A** !
7. I represented the city of Wyandotte in the Mrs. Michigan pageant two years running and finished in the top 10 the 2nd year (Stacy Fielder, Cecil's wife, won that year...can you say "fixed??")
Well, here goes. I am posting these 7 obscure facts in the hope that I get to know a lot more about many of my favorite MCC friends and acquaintances.
1. As a young girl, living in Jersey City, N.J., I was "privileged" (ha!) to go to many Broadway shows when I was just a baby (including the original CAMELOT with Julie Andrews and Richard Burton and PETER PAN with Mary Martin). Of course, I don't remember a thing about these shows. I think my parents thought I would get "cultcha'ed" by osmosis (LOL).
2. I can't ice skate. Tried (and failed) miserably time after time ---- from venues like New York's Rockefeller Center to frozen ponds in friends' backyards, I have managed to only walk on my ankles every time.
3. Along the way, I have met a number of celebrities. Tony Randall once bought a friend and I a drink when we were in a Broadway pub before seeing a show (by this time I was clearly no longer a baby). I met Lauren Bacall in the elevator at The Dakota building when I was dating one of my first real boyfriends (whose relatives lived there). But my favorite story is that Jackie Onassis and Barbara Walters were friends of my first mentor (and boss) at NYU; and they came into our rickety old office on Washington Square West to pick her up --- and barely anyone recognized them! (And, yes, Jackie Onassis had a very quiet voice!!!)
4. I amassed 500,000 "flown" Frequent Flyer miles in my 9 years at Unisys. It was exhausting. And (more embarassingly) we barely used them before quite a few expired! (Too much business travel; who wants to do it for fun when you are in that kind of a role?)
5. I love to sing. I will sing. Anywhere. Anyplace. Any time of day. My one regret is that it takes so much effort to get people to join in (perhaps they prefer to be on key? Who knows???)
6. My husband, Dale, and I are BOTH hyphenated. We don't call it getting married, even though we had a fun and festive wedding in New Canaan, Connecticut. We call it "getting hyphenated". When we celebrate anniversaries, it is the anniversary of hyphenation. And for almost 25 years, explaining that to credit card companies, anyone doing nametags for us, anyone taking reservations etc. has become almost second nature. I even have the terrible (but sometimes necessary) habit of explaining what a hyphen is ("you know, it's a dash or a minus sign on your keyboard?") which is either welcome or irritating depending on the audience.
7. In between my freshman and my sophomore years in college, I was dead broke; and worked three jobs all summer. During the day, I was an administrative assistant in a bank; at night, I was one of those annoying B to C market researchers; and on the weekends I made sandwiches in a Blimpie Base (the East Coast equivalent of a submarine shop). To this day, I:
a. Believe that being an assistant can be one of the most stressful jobs on the planet (and have tried to be as kind as possible to anyone who had the job with me);
b. Always answer the market researchers who call our house (even at inconvenient times);
c. HATE the smell of oil, vinegar and onions when mixed together (they were the standard Blimpie combination).
By the way, I quit all 3 jobs just 1.5 weeks before the semester started, and was lucky to have a good (male) friend take me to Puerto Rico for 6 days. Almost made the whole summer worth it!
Hey, Curtis:
On the cholestrol thing, my husband (Dale) is bordering on it, for the same hereditary reasons. He is currently managing it solely through diet. Do you recommend that approach or do you use some mild medication?
If you don't want to post the answer, my e-mail is kathleen@midwesttechnologyleaders.com. If you want to share any advice, I would welcome it.
Happy New Year, and thanks (in advance).
Kathleen
1. I show dogs as a hobby and had a fantastic year in 2008 - I was breeder/owner/handler of the top Bull Terrier in Canada who also won the Silverwood Trophy for Best North American Bred Bull Terrier. "Marley" (aka Am/Can Ch Nuance Nonsense, ROM) is my husband Mike's favorite dog and likes to lie with her head across his face when he's trying to watch TV.
2. I graduated from Justin Morrill College - a wonderful, but now sadly defunct residential college at Michigan State where you could design your own major. Mine was marketing and communication research, one of the more mundane combinations.
3. By some weird combination of coincidence and design I've never owned anything other than a Chrysler vehicle, and I didn't start working for their ad agency until I was 25. (You have to grant me a little leeway about the 1988 Renault Medallion wagon purchased right after Chrysler bought AMC. Crappy quality, great design) My parents bought my first car, a 1964 Plymouth Belvedere from a neighbor and the first car I bought myself was a 1972 Dodge Dart, "triple green." Today Mike & I own 3 white Chrysler/Plymouth minivans.
3. I credit Tom Peters with my meeting my husband - I went to a seminar where he inspired me to look up an old friend - who's now my brother-in-law.
4. I collect Santa heads. Just the head, no full body Santas for me! Actually, I rarely purchase them anymore; my sister's mission in life is to find me more. Best item this year was a tiny pack of SH tissues.
5. My grandfather was in the first sitdown strike at Buick. He lived to be 103 and was very proud of the fact he was retired from GM longer than he worked there. My grandparents pushed my Dad and aunt to do anything EXCEPT automotive.
6. While at MSU during the winter of 1978-9 I jumped off the walkway in front of my 2nd story apartment into a snowdrift. Woo-hoo! The campus had 3 snow days while I was there.
7. The local Bull Terrier club insists I make my "famous" shortbread cookies for our fall show; some exhibitors swear that's the reason they drive cross country to our show every year.
I LOVE reading these! It's FUN!
Share the shortbread recipe? Or is it a family secret?
Kathleen
kathleen@midwesttechnologyleaders.com
I'm pretty much an open book so it's typically difficult to find things that people don't know about me but this group should be easy since I don't know many of you (yet!)
1) When I was 10 I was allowed to travel Toronto Transit by myself and didn't think twice about transferring buses and getting around the big city. Mostly I went to the roller rink. When I was in my early teens my friends and I would get on our bikes with a picnic lunch and ride 2-3 hours to the closest provincial park and back. We'd be gone all day, no phones, no contact and no one worried. I don't let my kids go anywhere without knowing exactly where they are and being able to reach them at all times!
2) I applied for a job in a pub I'd been drinking in with my friends for over a year, forgetting I was just shy of legal drinking age. They hired me on my 19th birthday.
3) I was the first woman to work in that pub since it opened in the 1800's. Two nights a week there paid for my large apartment and my college education. When I bartended I was expected to drink with the patrons on Saturdays and as a result I learned to "hold my liquor" better than most.
4) I worked as a counsellor at a center for the deaf and organized fundraisers as well. When the local news showed up, I was too shy to be interviewed so I had my deaf coworker speak while I signed what he said on on camera.
5) I used to take a 7 am aerobics class in Toronto (North York) and one of the other participants was Sue Johanson of "Sex with Sue" fame.
6) I LOVE to travel/vacation by myself because I always meet interesting people.
7) Last week I had to request to reschedule my citizenship interview due to an unavoidable conflict and I'm paranoid they'll make me wait forever as a result. I'm excited to become an American citizen.
I can corroborate Kimberly Kassner's #6. I have been fortunate enough to try her wicked chocolate chip cookies - warm - with ice cream. They are every bit as good as she says!
Kathleen,
No problem - the recipe actually appeared in the AKC Gazette many years ago, it's by Anne Seranne who was a Yorkie breeder as well as a cookbook and dog book author. My technique has been honed over many years, so it may take some practice for yours to turn out as good as mine . . .
Cleo
Specialty Shortbreads
20 Tablespoons granulated sugar
5 cups all purpose flour
1 pound butter (at room temperature)
Sift flour & sugar together (I mix with a whisk) & set aside.
Slice butter into mixing bowl and gradually work in the flour-sugar with fingers until mixture is the consistency of cornmeal. Press together into a ball, turn out on floured board and knead thoroughly until dough begins to crack.
Roll dough out 3/8 in think on lightly floured board and prick the entire surface at intervals deeply with tines of a fork. Cut into rounds with floured cookie cutter, about 1 1/4 inches in diameter. Transfer to baking sheet and bake in 325 degree oven for 25 minutes or until very lightly browned. Do not over bake. Cookies should be pale in color. Cool before eating. Makes about 4
dozen.
HINT: Only use simple shapes for these cookies (rounds, hearts, diamonds) other shapes will crack & fall apart before cooking. Do not grease cookie sheet. Line with kitchen parchment paper for best results.
No medication, daily mutli vitamins and lots of omega 3's and exercise. My wife keeps me on a healthy diet and I live a low stress life. All good for a healthy heart.
.5 I just finished finished writhing this and fat fingered the keyboard. It took me to another web page and I lost the entire post. I do this at least once a month and still remain in good spirits.
1. I am an urban cowboy. If we run into each other you will likely see me wearing cowboy boots. I have two pair currently; A black pair of shark skin and a black pair of ostrich belly. I have had at least one pair of boots for the past 25 years. Here's the kicker: I don't like either Country or Western music. If you play it in your car, I will get out. I will leave restaurants that have it on. CMT is a waste of a network as far as I am concerned. I don't like the hats, buckles or shirts either...just so you know.
2. I am an introverted extravert. Or is it an extraverted introvert? Either way, I am 50/50 on the idea of meeting new people and I really don't like crowds (unless they came to see me). It's actually a pretty interesting dichotomy considering who I am and what I do.
3. My mother used to teach ballet in the basement of our house. So guess who used to take ballet in the basement of our house? Yes. That's right. ME. I took two years of ballet. In fact I was the lone black sheep in the field of 12 sheep during the recital. For the record I was nine and yes I looked smashing in my tights and leotard.
4. I have a Masters degree in common sense. While I was working on my second major, Communications (my first is Psychology) someone told me that I was trying to get a degree in "Common sense". I remember pointing out to him how uncommon common sense truly was. He quickly agreed. Three years later EMU handed me a sheepskin that says M.A. and it was in Communications. They also gave me a graduate assistantship. It was kind of cool to get to try out teaching as a career at the college level on someone else's dime.
5. I love me some little yellow people. I remember sitting in my suitemate's room watching his TV in December of 1989. It was my first semester of college and the very first airing of a then new show...The Simpson's. Since that day, I have missed less than 10 airing of first run episodes. When I bartended during college people would be at the bar and have to wait until a commercial to get served. If new people walked in, the regulars filled them in on the rules. Too funny.
6. I would rather work with you than for you. I am not sure why, but I am not that good of an employee. I think I have some issues with authority. I may have to work on that in 2009. And by that I mean making sure I am the authority ;-)
7. I find myself very funny. I am not saying I am the funniest person I know, but I do make myself more than anyone else I know. Perhaps it's the amount of time I spend with me. Perhaps I just know my humor. I remember someone once saying "you're kind of funny". I told him it was a bonus that he found me funny as my goal is simply to amuse myself. And simply amused I am.
I hope you enjoyed learning about me and the other members here. Please share with the group your story. This is kind of fun.
Terry, I find it very amusing that you find yourself so amusing. Chuckle on my friend.
Wow, Terry - we have some interesting things in common...
I took ballet lessons at the Birmingham Community House when I was 5 years old. To this day, my mother loves to tell how in my one and only recital, I stood on stage, watched the other girls, then did what they did - just a few steps behind - to the high amusement of the entire audience.
I, too am an "extroverted introvert" and echo your #2 point 100%.
And, I learned a long time ago that I'm better as a business owner than I am as an employee. I think the entrepreneurial spirit is genetic - my father, grand father and great-grandfather were all biz owners, and today 3 of my 4 siblings own their own businesses, too.
Now, here's a bit I forgot in the earlier post: I once hung up the phone on Gordie Howe.
This first day of 2009 has been awesome at my house - hope that is so for everyone here!