28 random things about yourself..

**Daisy and Delilah** · 02-09-2009, 07:34 PM

LOL LOL LOL Thanks David

**boomersooner** · 02-09-2009, 09:21 PM

Here goes....I did this for Facebook, too, and it took longer than I thought it would!

1. I’m the youngest of three girls. All of our names begin with the letter S. For the longest time, I thought my name was Susansandyshannon……..

2. I don’t wear jewelry because I have a terrible nickel allergy. Even supposedly gold earrings break my ears out, and it hurts a lot!!!

3. I don’t like to wear dresses because I’m not really girly girly. Panty hose were invented by the devil himself.

4. Bridges and high overpasses terrify me….especially high bridges over water. Even though tunnels don’t bother me, I don’t think I could go through an underwater tunnel either.

5. I teach at the same elementary school I attended. When I went to Caldwell, it was first through sixth grade…no kindergarten.

6. Even though I didn’t go there, I love all OU sports, especially football and basketball….men and women’s.

7. I have a bachelor’s degree in Library Science and a master’s in Elementary Education. The thought of going to school now really gives me the heebie jeebies………glad I’m done.

8. I love, love, love dogs, and I have two great ones…Cassie, my 14 ½ year old Dalmatian and Boomer, my year old English Springer Spaniel. I guess I must have a thing for black and white dogs. HA

9. Snakes absolutely, positively scare the beejeebers out of me!! My nephew has one, and I don’t know how my sister sleeps in the same house.

10. I have been in a football stadium when a bomb when off right outside. Some guy tried to take a backpack with a bomb in it into Memorial Stadium at OU. We heard the explosion, and everyone around us was speculating about what it could be, but I think everyone was thinking bomb…..especially those who live in the Oklahoma City area, but no one wanted to actually say those words. The guy couldn’t get in with the backpack so he went and sat on a bench outside the stadium to figure out what to do next, I guess, and the bomb went off……..poor bus driver sitting in a bus saw it all.

11. While in an airplane, we almost had a midair collision when the traffic controller sent a small plane in our path….pilot had to like brake in midair! I looked at Mike, and when I saw the concern on his face, I knew something bad had happened. The pilot came on and explained what had happened. Pretty freaky!!

12.I once scratched my cornea while wearing a construction paper bird beak. The teachers were acting out the Twelve Days of Christmas, and my group were the six geese a laying. I was acting silly, “pecking” at a coworker who was afraid of birds. I guess the beak slipped up and got me in the eye. It was one of the worse pains I’ve ever experienced. I went to an afterhours clinic, and the doctor acted like he had heard that same story a dozen times that day. I had to wear a patch for 24 hours, and my lovely husband would only talk pirate to me! HA

13. I’m related to Davy Crockett and Abe Lincoln. Our family all came from the Tennessee/Kentucky area. We always knew we were kin to Uncle Davy, but my sister delved deeper into our family tree, and found that we were also related to Abe.

14. I have a “fear”, for lack of a better word, of down escalators. My mom and I were in a Boston mall once, and the down escalator was going so fast and was at such a steep slope, neither one of us could get on. I haven’t liked them since. I will almost always find an elevator. Up escalators don’t bother me.

15. I’ve never had any broken bones that I know of….I think I may have broken the toe next to the little one when I tripped over a big rock. I cut my foot pretty badly when I was 8…..that was about it as far as injuries go.

16. I’ve traveled to 9 countries and 37 states. I went to Europe before I was married, and my parents and I used to go on these long road trips. I’ve also gone to quite a few states with Mike and the kids, following OU football.

17. I’ve never smoked a cigarette, even as a kid. My mom used to smoke so I had access to them…..just never, ever appealed to me.

18. Old classic television shows are my favorites…The Andy Griffith Show, The Beverly Hillbillies, The Dick Van Dyke Show……the best TV. If they ever take TV Land off, I’ll be lost! HA

19. At my parents’ 60th wedding anniversary celebration, my sister made me laugh so hard, I….I…..yes, I wet my pants!!! Luckily, it was at my house, and I was able to slip down the hall to change before everyone knew….There I’ve said it!!!

20. I am a Christian but I know I’m not as good of one as God would want. I pray every day to be a better person than the day before.

21. I don’t know how to drive a car with a stick. I’ve lived 47 years without knowing, so I really don’t see the point in learning now.

22. I am NOT adventuresome when it comes to trying new things such as food……If it isn’t something I’m familiar with, I won’t eat it….just like a little kid, I guess, but again, I’m 47 years old, and I don’t have to eat anything I don’t want to!!

23. I was a Cub Scout leader for 4 years for my two nephews’ den. It was fun, but I didn’t want to do it again. I stayed up all night at a lock in with what seemed like hundreds of 7,8, and 9 year old boys....never again!

24. I’m a librarian, but I really don’t read that much. I’m busy with the kids and the husband, the job, the house, the dogs, etc.so I really don’t do much reading. My dad and my older sister read two or three books a week probably.

25. I’ve lived in the same city all of my life. I never had to experience changing schools or making new friends.

26. I met Mike on a blind date. He had hired the daughter of one of my coworkers, and they hooked us up. We were engaged after 3 weeks. When you are in your 30’s, I guess you just know if you have found the right person.

27. I used to always tease my mom about the many different hairstyles and hair colors….well, I realized I can’t talk much! HA

28. I don’t like confrontation at all! I can tell people off really well while I’m in the car or the shower, but I don’t like actual confrontation. I guess that is why I don’t talk about controversial topics unless I know the person I’m speaking with is of the same opinion as me.