Little Known Things....or Other Ways to Put Off Paperwork

It's Sunday and the weather is absolutely gorgeous. If I weren't such a famous procrastinator, I would have my paperwork done and be able to go do something interesting and fun outdoors today. The good news is that it isn't midnight the night before it is all due--which is usually when I am typing furiously and drinking coffee by IV. No, today, I just have to type and watch the leaves falling and the sun shining from indoors. The plan is to work a while and then play awhile later maybe. Of course, by the looks of things...it appears that I am playing first and will have to work later!
I thought I would see if I could come up with some little things that folks may not know about me. Of course I feel like I've always been such an open book and talk so much that there's not much left to tell....but let's see what I can come up with.

1. I'm very patriotic. I get teary almost every time I hear the national anthem and see the flag being raised. At the same time, I want to go beat up people who continue talking and being loud while it is being played. I don't think I was always that way. 9/11 did a lot to change how a lot of us viewed our freedom.
2. I was a cheerleader in high school. While in junior high I even broke my leg while preparing for tryouts...and apparently not doing something correctly. It was so different then than it is now. The year was 1974 and we were so cool. I even remember most of the cheers. No, do not ask me to do them for you because it will embarrass the children.
3. I passionately HATE snakes. Any shape, form or fashion. Even cartoon ones. I grew up in eastern Arkansas where they are everywhere! Our house sat surrounded by rice and soybean fields that were all irrigated, which provided the perfect breeding ground for water moccasins. ugh. They were always in our yard. Always. If I have nightmares, they are usually in them.
4. Believe it or not (and some would say I'm not), I have this thing that keeps believing that people will change and so I keep forgiving them. Even when they should not be forgiven. I don't know why. Maybe I think there is some hope for the hopeless. I really should get over this because it has been the source of a lot of pain.....but I just seem to keep doing it!!
5. I have to watch my sailor's mouth. Honestly. We've laughed that I will be that old woman in the nursing home that the workers will all avoid because I will curse them out if they are not doing what I want them to do! My favorite term is "I don't give a rat's ass." I don't know where that came from and how I ever started saying it...but it IS my personal favorite.
6. I have this dream of some day having time to sit and watch Lifetime, Oprah and CNN all day and scrapbook every photo that I've collected since my children were born. I have collected enough supplies to make this happen, but getting to the work just hasn't happened. I've made efforts to start. I have most of a Christmas scrapbook finished. It's quite good, as a matter of fact. But that is one of those things I suppose would be on my "bucket list" if I were to write one of those. Maybe on another day, another blog.
7. I love flowers. I really don't think there are any ugly flowers. It's funny too because Steve is not a "sending flowers" guy. Not at all. But I love to plant them and I love to have them on my desk at work. The funniest story about him sending them is on our very first Valentines Day, I was really expecting flowers at work like so many teachers get. There had been years when I would even send some to myself just to save myself the embarrassment of not getting anything at all. Our anniversary of our first date happened to be Feb. 15, so he had planned a big deal for THAT day, thinking he would skip Valentines. Woo boy-not a good plan. I was so disappointed, until of course, I found out what had happened! Needless to say he has been so good to remember since then!
8. I love and LIKE my children. Not everyone can say that. I would like them even if I just met them out there somewhere randomly. That is a lucky thing. And it is a real compliment because most people know that I do not throw compliments out to just hear myself talk. I really mean them! I like the people they have become. But you likely knew that one, didn't you?
9. I am a true camera hound. Rarely do I go anywhere without my camera. I miss the great photos I used to get with my 35mm, but the convenience of the digital makes up for it.
10. Hmm...the last thing is a funny one. No one, and I mean NO ONE works harder at having nice nails than I do....to have such bad nails! I had to give up wearing acrylics years ago and I continue to have the absolute weakest nails on the planet. I work on them daily. And I mean daily! It's like an obsession, but that really does no good whatsoever because they still look the same.