Here are my last 25 revelations about myself.....by the time you finish these, you should know as much about me as I do.

76.  I hate to cook.  I only do it because I have to.

77.  I don't mind cleaning house, but I am not fanatical about it the way my mother was.

78.  I love children.  I would like to have more grandchildren, but my girls  say they're done.

79.  I'm very particular about my yard.  I want it mowed a different direction each week and cut a specific length depending on what time of the year it is.

80.  I got the short end of the gene pool.  I am only 5' 2".  For many years I weighed only 98 pounds; but I now weigh about 130.

81. I believe firmly in giving to my church and to the poor.  I would feel totally guilty if I spent all that I had just on myself and my children.

82.  My husband, I, and my two girls were all born in the same hospital in Clinton, Oklahoma.

83.  I once got lost in the crowd when I was four  the day Santa came to town.  A kind gentleman put me up on the back of a flat bed truck where Santa was greeting the children and they asked for the parents of this little girl to come forward.  I was so shy back then that I was absolutely embarassed and mortified to be on display.  I refused to go up to get my candy from Santa after that.

84.  I was baptized in a cow tank because our small country church, which also had been a school at one time that my parents attended, did not have a baptistry.

85.  All my life people have misconstrued my shyness, thinking that I am aloof and distant.   I am not a good mingler at parties, needless to say.

86  I love to play all kinds of card games and board games.  I used to cut class in college to play bridge in the student union lounge.

87.  I have many friends but only three lifelong friends.  We can meet after not seeing one another for years and still talk for hours.

88.  I grew up on a farm that was nine miles from the nearest town.  When I left to go to college, I never looked back and never wanted to live on a farm again.

89.  In spite of my shyness, I do not mind speaking in front of a group or doing a sales presentation because I have a prepared and memorized script. 

90.  I once tore the clutch out of my parents' car showing off by popping the clutch and "laying rubber."

91. I'm a goal setter in life and in work.  I always have daily goals, weekly and monthly goals as well as yearly goals.

92.  If I believe I am right about something, I am as obstinate and stubborn as they come.  Changing my mind is equivalent to an amateur trying to climb Mt. Evererest.  In short, it just "ain't gonna' happen! 

93.  I love men who are blond-haired and blue-eyed.  I also like tall men.  I have never been attracted to any man who was not at least six feet tall. 

94. I am currently hooked on playing "no limit Texas hold-em" on the Internet.  Of course, it's all in fun.  Even in Vegas, I gamble very little.  I just can't see giving my money away.

95.  Because of my work, I have taken some fabulous trips.  I took trips, all expenses paid, to New Orleans, The Bahamas, Mazatlan, Can-Cun, Yellowstone National Park, Key West, Salt Lake City, and  Las Vegas.

96.  Thanks to my blogging sites, I now am acquainted with people around the world.  It has truly been so much fun getting to know people from everywhere.

97. I have never lived more than four years in one house since I was a kid.  Growing up, I lived in the same house from Age 3 to Age 18.

98.  It has always been important to me to be the best at anything I do; and I am willing to put in the effort and the time to see that it happens.

99.  I am a Type A personality; it is difficult for me to relax and just do nothing.

100.  The one thing I haven't done that I want to do is "write the great American novel."   I've got to give that more serious thought no later than tomorrow!! 

 Seriously, I actually do have the general plot in mind, have begun doing research, and have the names of some of the characters already selected.  It is going to be a fictionalized account of the land run of 8896 to open the Cheyenne-Arapaho Indian Territory for white settlement. 

 Some of the events will be based on historical fact; however, the characters will be fictionalized, though I do plan to weave some of the stories of my grandparents who made that run into it. 

 I plan to take the story of three families--one Indian and two white-from 1896 to the present.  The story of the land run in Oklahoma in 1892 is well known....But very little has been written about the settlement of far western Oklahoma Territory in the Cheyenne-Arapaho region.

So, give me your honest opinion.  It this too trite? 

 





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