me

yesterday, I turned another year older...forty something....

Really it's all ok.  just another day, another ache type of thing.

Thought I might share some things about ME that you may or may not know....(they do this all the time on blogs...soul searching they call it!!)

I was born in Idaho Falls Id.  Had to have a blood transfusion when I was born...think it might have been touch and go...(sounds dramatic anyway)  Something about waiting for a calf to be born before Mom went to the hospital also plays in my mind.

Third and sixth grade were probably my favorites. Mrs. Clifford cast me in the third grade play and I got to sing "I'm wishing" (from snow white), it was my singing debut. We also made cool Christmas decorations with a cookie, ice cream cone turned upside down to make a tree, painted in green frosting and we got to use CANDY to decorate it. I also loved John Berrett in third grade....(HI JOHN)(still a great guy all these years later)

Sixth grade was Mrs. Sauer.  Today I would call her a LOVELY LADY!  Very kind and happy,  this was a great teacher.  I do remember going to Mrs. Bells HOUSE for kindergarten and having milk, graham crackers and loving to play "the farmer in the dell", coming home and going with dad to feed. 

I hated Junior High and High School certainly wasn't my favorite.  In 8th grade I got in a fight...fists that is.  I LOST!!  Came home with a huge fat lip to a laughing MOM who guessed I had learned my lesson not to fight with braces on!! I also got the WOODEN PADDLE AT SCHOOL!!  

Seemed I never really fit in in those days.  Although I was very lucky to have two friends that I had known forever that were alway by my side.  I danced in drill team....if they could see me clog now I may have made it to the front row!!ha!

I seemed to find my way in college.  LOVED IT! (probably a bit toooooo much)  

I attended my first two years at Boise State University.  I was often seen at Shortys. (thee bar)  Lucky me, broke the law a bit and took my picture on Lynda's drivers license.  (seth still thinks his DAD was so smart for doing this....HEY I DID IT FIRST!!!)  I was grandfathered in on the drinking age at 19....phew! Spent my 21st birthday in Jackpot.

 I started working for Zales Jewelers in Boise and would transfer back to Idaho Falls (and later bozeman) in the summer, my first job in retail. Did this for several years. 

I soon decided I was a MONTANA girl and headed to Montana State.   Yes, I HAD FUN!!!! I finally quite Zales and went to work at McCrackins...THE WESTERN STORE IN BOZEMAN (weird all these years later) (does that count for buying experience for a western store ???) Graduated in Elementary Education and student taught in Belgrade under an INCREDIBLE teacher!!   

I took a teaching job in Lima (home) and taught Kindergarten and title one, 1st through high school.  I soon had some incredible friends that mothered me along. (LOVE THESE LADIES)  The kids were great and  I knew at that point the career I had always known I would take was what I should be doing. I think I was a good teacher. 

In the summers I would come to Billings and work for Lynda cleaning apartments at Olympic Village.  Mom passed away my third year of teaching.  Call it fate but I was over staying with Lynda for a long weekend that fall.  I will never forget the call and the incredibly long drive back to Idaho.

 That next spring we started working on details for the store.  I knew I wanted to continue teaching but wanted to move closer to Lynda and figured  I would have to sub to get into Billings...thus the store as a transition till I could do some substitute teaching.  

It was that spring that I confessed my love of Brad to my friends..........after a long night out at the Pete bar...something that included a bath tub and what still remains to be most of my BFF's!

You know the rest............

Today hmmmmmm ME...

not nearly as outgoing as I once was.  I find myself being much more content being an introvert rather than the extrovert I once was.

I crave music....probably if I had the opportunity or made the opportunity it would be my hobby.  My dream  has me in a dark bar with an incredible pianist singing the night away.  Sad songs it would be....they are my favorite. 

Over the years I have adopted the PESSIMISTIC Stibal trait...although there is always part of me that hopes for good, and wishes and dreams how I could change the world (that I think I get from my Mom)

I am doing what I want to do....oh sure there are things I will and would change up.

I LOVE LOVE LOVE politics....am sure in this way I could change the world.....NO I AM NOT THINKING OF RUNNING FOR OFFICE, that's because I would want to go straight to the governors office than to the Presidents office no in betweens...not sure my school board experience would quite get me there.

Oh and I could listen to talk radio all day!  

wish I was a better mom and wife and friend and all those things.....

I think I need another hobby other than work....I am not very good at doing nothing....something I wish I could change. Although truth be told I am not sure what else I would do...I LIKE TO WORK! 

I am VERY opinionated. Am SURE I have the answer for everything!!! And don't really understand why people don't see it my way....HA

I am sure I could step in and fix every organization that is broken. Just give me a year!

I am still obsessed with education.....I just can't figure out why I can't change it.  And while I keep trying, I am finally realizing it can't change with just one person, or two or three.........makes me sad.  

I love to think of what to do next....thrive on thinking of changing things up, making things better, (or at least different.

I like to gamble. cards are my favorite...although I like to win and have found the older I get the tighter (with the money) I am.

I have great friends.

and family.

I like clogging.....miss dancing the nights away, I love to dance.  But must admit my heart is not into the clogging as much this year.  Doesn't seem to be as fun without dad bugging me EVERY DAY about how much money and time I spend doing it!

My bucket list is pretty short.  I am not very adventuresome and seem  pretty content with home.  I will someday go to the Kentucky Derby (no pressure Ken) and will spend all  summer in the Valley.

yes, there are things I would change about ME.....but really the reality is when you get forty something you are who you are............for the most part I am pretty content with that!  

 

 

 

 

Comments

[Tracy J]

Awesome post!

[Jeness]

Awe Lori you are the greatest!! Loved the post!

[Sydney]

your work habits are genetic! And yes...it was scary when you were born! You've done good girl...

[Janelle]

i loved this! well, you & chloe have something in common...blood transfusions! she had 2. i am a blood donor..give every 56 days. however, due to recent events have had to stop (it's why i've been so sick). i loved reading all your history! who was the teacher you completed your student teaching with? wonder if they are still around? happy belated birthday! xoxo