"Give Me Five"

Five Things I Was Doing 10 Years Ago
1. Attending Waubonsie Valley High School
2. Being the only child left at home with my parents
3. Attending early-morning seminary
4. Pretending to take piano lessons from Sherri Moss
5. Hanging out at the Child’s house

Five Things On My “To-Do” List Today
1. See children
2. Go to my nephew’s birthday party
3. Go to a professional development meeting after work – FUN!
4. Make some phone calls for work
5. Play with my nephews

Five Favorite Snacks
1. Peanut Butter Cups
2. White corn tortilla chips with mild salsa
3. Popcorn
4. Clementines
5. Nutty Bars

Five Jobs I Have Had
1. LC’s Frozen Custard – I scooped custard (and made it – and ate it…)
2. Hallmark – and yes it is annoying if you put a card back in the wrong spot!
3. Jacobs Engineering – filing, filing and more filling. Oh, don’t forget the data entry…
4. IP Relay Operator – took and made phone calls for the deaf/hard of hearing
5. Speech-Language Pathologist at an elementary school (hence the “see children” on my list of things to do)

Five Things I Would Do With a Million Dollars
1. Buy a townhouse
2. Travel the world
3. See my family more often
4. Buy fun things for my nephews
5. Invest (safely in CDs currently)

Five Things That Made Me Laugh This Week
1. My dad dancing to “Manheim Steamroller” Christmas music
2. One of my nephews running around with no pants on – (part of potty training possibly?!?)
3. While trying to glue a Nativity back together I got superglue on 5 of my fingers and almost glued the Nativity to the kitchen counter
4. My mom finding two more Nativities online to purchase and then her proceeding to tell me why they would be good ones… (like a kid at the candy store!)
5. My nephew doing a “Kung-Fu” kick at Wal-Mart while saying “Hi-ah!”

Five People I Tag to Answer the Same Questions
1. Janene
2. Amanda
3. Maren
4. Conni
5. …
(I guess I should work on getting more friends!)

Bumps and Bruises

So I had a very exciting Thanksgiving Break. It started off with a race on a bounce house obstacle course that ended like this...


And now looks like this...


And Sunday night, the day before I have to go back to school, I fell down the stairs (who knows how - I'm going to claim it was due to favoring my good ankle due to the above photos...) which resulted in the following:

A lot of ibuprofen later, I am just hoping this goes away soon!