I decided to become an accountant just to prove that not all accountants had to be boring. Before that, I was a psychology major...which actually serves me well in my work!

Sheila - Good for you! Hope you are working with those grandchildren to help them with spelling/grammar. The teachers sure let a lot of errors go by "in the interest of getting the child through the grade level." Where has pride in our language gone??

Steph
My younger sister still calls me for spelling corrections...even with spell check...

Something you don't know about Colleen. She is really smart. She works for me as a researcher and she just naturally picks up difficult concepts without having me to tell her what to look for.

Colleen is great at gardening. She grows bigger and better peppers, tomatoes, sunflowers and pumpkins than any body I know.

Finally, Colleen is the best person I have ever met. Her first instinct is to always do the right thing. I am very fortunate to be able to spend my life with her.

I was voted Worst Flirt my senior year of high school. And one of my best friends was voted the same the year before. ;)

I also said in my yearbook I wanted to be a scientist.

I have arachnophobia. So severe that I will black out if there is one close enough and big enough. UGH.

I can handle any other of God's creatures but those! Give me snakes, mice, wasps anyday!

Terri,

I kept a big one in a jar in my room when I was in Junior High. :)I also made my oldest sister 'scream' when she tried to clean my room ang got a long, thin 'scroll box' out from under my bed. It was full of leaves, caterpillars, and some moths and cacoons. I learned from the experiment that the regular sized caterpillars won't become butterflies, only small flying stuff... :)

Spiders eat roaches... (I hear your 'screams' - hey, this is part of the 'desensitizing' program...:)

Jackie,

desensitizing does not work for me. I've tried. I hate it at work when someone comes in with a spider story, then next thing you know, 10 more people all have spider stories, each one worst than the last!!!!

I just want to vomit and hide.

What Terri? No Charlotte's Web? Just kidding!

Terri,

You've already typed the word 'spider' two times. Evidently the desensitizing process worked... :)

Perhaps we can ask Joe to put into a device that will automatically block postings that contain either the Latin, Greek, or English form of the critter for you? The Chinese word is '蜘蛛' (Chihchu).

Don't block me, I might post some interesting and/or valuable information in the future - NOT. :)

I have pteromechanophobia and a Citation type rating. :)

'lizbeth,

'Scientists' are usually the 'worst flirts'. Are you a 'scientist' now? If so, I am sure you don't care about the labels any more. If not, those immature opinion of your school mates were wrong and there's no need to be worried about it. :)

I'd had 'pimples' all over my face since junior high. My home room teacher even pointed to the one on the tip of my nose one time and laughed. And I was too tall for most of the men in Taiwan, so (not really a causal-effect) I came to the States and found me a good-looking guy to marry... (No, I came on a student Visa - to marry a gringo was not my intent - it just 'happened' while I was on the so-called 'practical training' visa after I'd gotten my degree.)

Remember 'living well is the best revenge'... :)

'lizbeth,

For 'flying' or 'driving'? (The 'Citation' :)

I won the county 4-H blue ribbon in Arts and Crafts for my demonstration of Tie Dying........the first time it was popular......boy do I sound old!

i am going to be a grandma again sometime in feb or march. trying to pin down a date!

Flying. I have a Commercial Multi-Engine certificate and obtained my Citation Type rating in March 2006. I did the training and checkride in a Citation II.

I took a discovery flight in 1993 to humor a bank auditor. I was working as an Accounting Manager at Eagle One (car care products). And I had a terrible fear of flying after a bad experience on TWA Flight 99. I almost never flew again after the first flight but the flight instructor scheduled me for 6 more lessons and I didn't have the heart to cancel.

On the 2nd lesson I was hooked. Over the last 16 years I've accumulated 1000 hours, over 100 in turbine aircraft and some of the biggest adventures and best friends ever. :)

My previous job was as a diamond grader. I had a sparkling good time.

It was my birthday on July 5th. I shamelessly went and updated my profile so everyone would notice. However, I forgot to save the update. So no one noticed, not even Believe51, Ms. Marie, who notices everyone's birthday. LOL

I lived on a commune in the early 70's.