So I am going to turn this post over to you? Huh? What?
I am so amazed with the people that I have met through my little blog, and it is amazing how small a world it is, how similar people are, how we affect people etc.
Like for example:
A blog reader commented on my Walgreens post that that is their neighbours dog, Boston – what fun!
A blog reader's son is good buddies with Zac Brown – gotta love that, they are one of my favorite bands!
A blog reader actually is married to my old boyfriend from highschool's best friend – freaky teaky eh?
So here goes:
Tell me something interesting, fun, weird…whatever about you in the comments section. I tell you stuff about me all the time, even stuff you couldn't care less about, or wish I hadn't of shared, or can't believe I shared…so step up to the plate and share…if you want…it is just for fun…no worries if you just want to lurk and read that is cool too.
So ya wanna be the first one?
Have an awesome Tuesday and thanks for stopping in and playing along.
Ok, something weird about me: I can bite my toe nails. Ha!!! Is that weird enough????? Anyhoo, love your little blog — you're too funny. Loved the stuff about the little chicks. Hugs, Syl xxxooo
Sure, I'll be the first one…Yesterday I was at work.. I leaned up against the desk of one of the fellas I was talking to and it was a little chilly – I thought that maybe I had sat in some water – but nope the desk was dry. Whatever. So I continued on with my work and then headed home for the day. I had to run to the clinic to drop off some forms for my kid then run to the post office then run home to let the dog out for a pee before I went to my hair appointment. I changed my shirt so I didn't get little tiny hairs in my sweater. Went to hair dressers – sat down on chair and my arse was chilly again. Whatever – get my hair done – sit in the car and my butt felt weird again……reach around…I have got a huge gaping hole in the ass of my pants – good thing I had a long sweater on at work….so that's what was chilly – my arse touching the cold desk and chair…but I put on a t-shirt to go to the hair dressers….good Lord…..just sharin' with the neighbours I guess!!!!
Is that the kind of stuff you wanted???
Compared to those comments, I have nothing interesting to share. Not that my life isn't interesting, actually, I am having cataract surgery in an hour and I am only 57 yrs old! What's up with that? Secretly though, I have always wanted to ask you to call me and I could ask you a zillion questions about how you got started as a demonstrator and how many people live in your area that you have so many groups, and etc…..
Hi Diana!
What a fun idea-it's amazing how small the world really is sometimes. I guess something different about me is that I was one of only 2 racetrack officials here at the 2 local (then NASCAR sancationed) racetracks. It is a male dominated sport, and there I was getting yelled at like the big boys! 🙂 It was fun, and I also ended up married to the General Manager of one of the tracks, so it worked out great for me!
Alright-whose next?? Have a great day!
Maria H.
I know your sister Jackie through stamping. I was at her house once and she was at mine! And I belong to her Yahoo Group Smallworldstampers!
Hi Diana, I have met you twice during the last two years at Convention! I loved talking with you and reading your posts everyday! Kinda feels like we have known each other forever except like you said in your post, you share way more everyday than I do. I am prior Air Force enlisted, now a military wife to my hubby of 11 years and he has been been in he Air Force 18 years. We have been stationed all over the globe but currently reside in Ohio. We are both X-ray techs and I do Mammograms. I am also a SU Demo but dont have near the downline following you do, i dont know how you do it! It is so hard here to find a group interested in joining! So there is a start! Oh btw, I love your new blog header and sig block with the chickens! SOooo CUTE! Thanks for sharing all you do! 🎃👻
Love your blog…you are so interesting, no matter what you think. The only cute thing about me is that I live in Toto, Indiana and my son and daughter-in-law live in Kansas City, Kansas…when I got to visit, people think I am nut when I say I am from Toto!! Especially at the Wizard of Oz store!
My claim to fame is that I met my husband on a cruise to Alaska 26 years ago this week. We were on the Pacific Princess (the ship that the Love Boat TV series was based on). We met the first morning at breakfast, got engaged 3 weeks later, and married 3 months after that. Princess cruises just featured our "love story" on their inspired to cruise blog this month. Hope it's OK to include the link to it: http://inspiredtocruise.com/2012/09/enough-adventure-and-love-to-last-a-lifetime/
love your creativity, I am one of your lurkers. Been stampin for about 5 yrs now , a su dealer for 1 yr.
I hadn't watched the finale of Chopped Grill Master yet, I had it on my DVR. However, I read on your blog that you thought the wrong person won. I knew right away that the cowboy lost. I just had a feeling we would like the same guy.
So this isn't very interesting but it's something about me that no one else knows. I like reading the obituaries, it's the first page I open when I read the paper!
I have 25 blog sites saved as icons on my desktop and I check them pretty much every day. Yours is the one I always go to first. Most of
the blogs are stamp related (98%) but one is a
girl in Sweden that always has a home related
project. Love that we are worldwide with the
internet!
Trudy
Hiya Di! My poor puppy (12 yr old yellow lab) just blew out her OTHER knee. She did the other one about 2 years ago and had the surgery to repair it. Oh, and it is my 13th Wedding Anniversary! So good and bad news. 🙂
Hey Di!
I cannot talk right now I am at school and the little kindergarteners will be back in a minute, but here's one tidbit about me. I had my fourth child in the car on the way to the hospital. He's 16 now. What a day that was!!!
I smelled one of the most distinct smells I have ever smelled before while sitting on an airplane next to you……… (I'm not saying it was you…..just that we had some giggles that day….)
Shelli started Stampin' Up! about a mile from my home! I wasn't living here at the time but I have several friends who went to her parties when she and Vonna first started out! None of them ever thought she'd make any money selling stamps! Oh, and Kathy Pitt who is the original artist for Stampin' Up! (and still is) is a friend of mine and came to one of my workshops a million years ago so she could learn to use all her stamps!
Although we have known each other since high school Diana I bet you don't know the story of how Brad and I met. We had graduated from S.D.C.I., it was January of 1984 and I wanted to go to a Valentine's dance at The New Canadian Club (a local band Melting Ice was playing) as a bunch of girlfriends were going with dates, I didn't have one so I opened up the school yearbook and no word of a lie it opened to the page with Brad Denning on it, I thought hey he's cute (I didn't know him in high school even though we were in the same grade)so I looked up his last name in the phone book and called (there were a lot of Dennings in the book but I got the right one first try) and said "I don't know if you know who I am but my name is Marcy MacKay and I was wondering if you wanted to go to a dance with me" 28 years later we are still together, happily married for 23, yikes I still can't believe I did that!!!!!!!
I don't think I can top Jacqui's comment! LOL
My nickname in high school was Ernie – my older sister was and still is quite athletic and the guys on the high school bus nicknamed her Bob. So, when I started high school, they spent the entire 15 mile trip to high school trying to come up with a nickname for Bob's "brother". By the time we got to school, they had named me Ernie. I don't think half the guys on the bus ever did find out my real name which is Anna.
My claim to fame is my name…Mrs. Gillespie, unless your'e one of my 4yr old preschool students who call me Mrs. Gill-recipe~~Gotta love those little guys!
I used to read lots of blogs, but now I just read yours. Even though I live in Michigan I feel connected to you because I have hearing loss and wear hearing aids.
I was introduced by a lady I worked with many years ago at First Regional. She lived out in QC. Her name escapes me, Jayne I think. Well she would bring supplies in for us to make paw prints of the furbabies that passed on. And they would give these priceless momentos to the owners. She brought in SU paper and ink. Well then I saw a catalog for the 1st time. Didn't take to it right away but look out now!!!
Hi Di…just gotta tell you, long story short (ok, maybe not *lol*)…I met this chick through a friend, a past SU! demo…she said she'd been at a workshop I was at once and waved to me across the tables…she wanted to order some SU! and so her friend connected us.. we get chit chattin', me on my computer and her on her cell…and I was tellin' her my cuz is a teacher in Parkhill…turns out her son has her this year, her Daughter last year…and then, at one point she says to me…my sister is a SU! demo in Arizona, not sure if you've heard of Diana Gibbs or not…and I'm like 'OMG, you are freakin' kidding me …dianagibbs…… …do I know her?!?!?…' I have been following you from the day I took interest in paper crafting…I now talk to your sister, Jacqui, on a regular basis…small world? you bet!!! *Hugs* p.s…she also told me what a hilarious gal you are and how much she misses you!!!
I can't beat any of those…I'm just a sister desert rat out here in the SW, trying to keep the bugs off my cucumbers and tomatoes,and stamp a little. You and I chit chat about your chickies, since my daughter in Tenn also raises chickens. I remember when I was little and we had chickens and my mom and Grandma used to dunk them to scald the feathers off after they were killed.. Just something you grew up with on the farm. I understand a lot of kids these days don't realize veggies and chickens and such are grown.. and don't come in plastic packages!! Glad you share your chicken stories with us!!
Hi Di, I've been following your blog for almost as long as you've been posting. I didn't start stamping until a bit over five years ago after recovering from a skiing accident that had me in a wheelchair for 12 weeks. After attending a friend's SU party the first weekend after the doctors allowed me to have full weight on my leg, I was so taken with the creative process of making a card. I was HOOKED! I always felt like it was meant to be, and I love it.
OMG, don't know if I'll chicken out and hit delete before sending this but here goes… A guest at my wedding had a stroke as I was to walk down the aisle with my dad! We were all ushered downstairs to the reception area until paramedics tried to help the guest. We were then invited back upstairs where the wedding took place. Such a sad thing to happen on an otherwise joyful occasion. That was almost 44 years ago. So Di, not a fun story but something you didn't know about me as we do stamping business together. Your CA friend.
You know I think you're a ROCK STAR! I loved meeting you and seeing you at SU! events! I also got to see a real rock star in Norman, OK (near Oklahoma City) Many years ago at a concert. Well, that's really not that unusual I guess. Way back before U2 was very popular, They were playing in a small venue where the stage was in the middle with seats all around. I was on the second row. Bono started walking around the floor carrying a big flag of some kind, going past all of the seats. I made my way to the end of the row as he walked by and I GOT TO TOUCH BONO'S SWEATY ARM!!! Pretty awesome!
Hugs,
Jackie
I am doing this a little late as work is crazy this week…I started reading your blog (emailed to me every day!) after my first attending one of your and Rhonda's wonderful SU events and I just had to laugh when I started noticing that we were reading the same books at about the same time. I've been hooked ever since. Thank you.
Hmmm…I feel like I know you, since I've been following your blog for a long time! I was diagnosed with cancer at age 26,having just celebrated our fourth anniversary, having just gave birth to our second child, and now have been cancer free for over a year and a half – a 32 year old wife & mother of two who is 100% menopausal due to treatments but Oh, So Thankful! My baby just started Kindgergarten. I've been a Stampin' Demo for three years (I joined in between cancer recurrances and just can't give it up!) I totally enjoy your blog. I don't subscribe to any blogs but yours is the now the only blog I check daily, when possible. You always seem to have an adorable new card posted, and I love getting to share in events like convention through your posts. Thanks for always sharing!
I don't know if there is anything about me that no one knows. I will say I am the customer who's son knows Zac Browne. I also have a Boston Terrier with skin allergies and he is naked right now. This is the worst breakout he has ever had. He had surgery a few weeks ago to remove a piece of nylabone that got stuck in his intestine. We think a med reaction or stress of the surgery set off the allergy. I also have a Shar Pei that had 2 knee surgeries last yr. The first one he blew out in Feb and the 2nd on in July. I just found out our vet in moving to Texas. Her hubby is in the Army and going into the medical field. He was accepted to med school and then will do a yr of redidency somewhere. She is hoping they will come back here and I hope they do. She has saved both my furbabies. I love them a lot and they are now 9 & 11.
Interesting thing about me…on a trip to South Africa when I was 10 years old, I came face to face with a spitting Cobra which did spit in my eye! Praise God we were on a hospital base at the time visiting the place where my sister we born. My mother scooped me up in her arms and ran to the hospital. I had to put gooey stuff in my eye everyday for a few days so that I would not loose my sight. It was discovered that the Cobra was a baby, so the venom was not strong enough to harm me. But it was never discovered that the reason the snake spit in the first place was that I had betraying to kill the poor thing! I was a Texas girl at the time so I knew that I just needed to cut off the head of the snake…which I foolishly thought I could do with a kitchen chopping knife! I am 44 years old now and the truth about this came out probably 15 years ago.
Well, I guess it goes without saying you are my favorite blogger! I'm a hobby demo for 3 years now.
I have a Yorkie too, named Jasper. He's more tan and silver.
I'm married for 21 years and my husband is a quadriplegic (injured while serving in the US Army). When we first married I had a wave-less waterbed. And I weighed a LOT more than my hubby at the time. One night when I got back in bed I wasn't thinking and plopped down on the bed and it tossed him out! I heard the thud as he hit the floor. He said "it's a good thing I'm already paralyzed!" We laughed till we cried. Needless to say getting a "real" bed was our first major purchase. :0)
I loved reading all the posts. It's fun learning new things about people. This was a great idea for a post!
You already know I'm as deaf as you and wear aides and that I am joined at the hip with my Russel, but you didn't know I found him under a truck! He was rebuilding the engine and whenever I wanted him for something, that's where I would find him. Driving him to get parts was how we started to get to know each other. Will be 35 years in December! My how time flies.
So, I'm a few days late and probably several dollars short (it's something my Momma used to say)… I've been kissed by a giraffe! When I was about 12 or 13 years old my great-aunt and great-uncle took me to one of those drive through animal parks. They had this little car, a Chevy Chevette I think, it was a tiny little four door hatchback. We bought buckets of food and I had one that I was specifically saving for the giraffes! When we got to the giraffes I rolled down my window and put the bucket out the window and was in awe as this gorgeous animal was eating practically out of my hands. When the food was gone I pulled the bucket back in but apparently Mr. G wasn't done, so he just followed me into the car with his long neck… all the way across this little car's back seat until I was squished up against the window. He kept trying to find food and finally he looked up at me and just stuck his tongue out and gave me a smooch! O_O Let me tell you… Giraffes do have VERY long tongues and they do not own toothbrushes, mouthwash, or breath mints! It did not deter me in my love for those gorgeous creatures though, they are amazing to me. My uncle still teases me though. 🙂