7 Things You Don't Know About Me

[agt_spooky]

I was tagged to do this challenge on Facebook then decided it would be fun to post here on LJ, too!

7 Things You Don't Know About Me challenge. Hmm…what can I tell you guys?

1. I have always, always, always wanted to play the drums. Signed up for band when I was in grade school. Parents said I had to play the flute. I said no way. And that was the end of my band career! Still want to play the drums, though.

2. I'm a total believer in extraterrestrial life on other planets. It's naive to think we're the only life in the entire universe. I wear my "I Want To Believe" shirt proudly!

3. Vancouver, Canada is my most favorite place in the whole world. I'd live there in a heartbeat if I could.

4. I won my entire wedding (including a honeymoon in Barbados) through a radio contest. My parents only had to pay for the reception. You've never seen two happier people.

5. I'd give anything to quit my day job and become a professional photographer. Or a baker. Or a writer. Or an FBI agent.

6. I'm a roller coaster fanatic/adrenaline junkie. I've traveled all over to go on the biggest and fastest that's out there. I also zip-line off the tops of mountains. And go white water rafting.

7. One of my favorite hobbies is going to conventions to meet my favorite actors and actresses. I've been all over the country (and to Canada). Some women spend their money on clothes and shoes. I spend mine on autographs and photo ops, which make for some amazing memories.


Now YOU guys do this! Let's get to know each other even better!

Comments

[agt-spooky.livejournal.com]

but no way would I go on a roller coaster; they don't have brakes (that I'm aware of)!

LOL! They have brakes! Granted, they’re pretty much only used at the end of the ride. ;-)

3) I would like to try parachuting

That’s one thing that I’m only interested in doing at the indoor facility we have here. But it is really, really expensive for literally 30 seconds of flight.

4) I've given up on conventions (other than GMOH)

I’m so jealous that you guys still get to see Garett. I keep waiting for the new Moonridge Zoo to open (yeah, been waiting for that for the last 6 years!) and hopefully he’ll be there again so I can go see him.

I should have taken chemistry/physics to get a BsC and gone on from there into biology. I suspect my head teacher did that deliberately; he didn't really believe in girls doing academic work apart from teaching. So I ended up in teaching by default.

Wow! What a jerk! I mean, he completely put you on a different path in life because of what HE believed in.

[bluewolf458.livejournal.com]

LOL! They have brakes! Granted, they’re pretty much only used at the end of the ride. ;-)

I thought there was something on the line near the end of a ride that caught and slowed the thing. :-)

he completely put you on a different path in life because of what HE believed in.

In fairness, it was 1950, and at that time the idea of females in certain jobs was - well, unthinkable for a man who was certainly older than my father, who was born in 1906. It was a reflection of attitudes prior to WW2 (and for some years after) when the general feeling still was that women's primary job was to look after the house and kids (when my parents got married in the early 30s my father said that no wife of his was ever going to have to work) and it's really only in the last few years that women have been considered for certain jobs. (Yes, women held down certain jobs during the war, and when the war ended the women were o-u-t to give work to the men.)

Hell, I'm reflecting that attitude when I... well, think it wrong for a married woman to be expected to get a job (and then use most of her wages to pay someone else to look after her pre-school-age kids). (Fair enough to get a job if Gran is available to baby-sit.) Once the kids are at school, yes... At the same time, how much of that stems from my feelings of having been abandoned by my mother when I was evacuated in 1939/40? I'd guess quite a lot...

[agt-spooky.livejournal.com]

I thought there was something on the line near the end of a ride that caught and slowed the thing. :-)

LOL! Oh my gosh no! Though that could be a really interesting ride...

In fairness, it was 1950, and at that time the idea of females in certain jobs was - well, unthinkable for a man who was certainly older than my father, who was born in 1906. It was a reflection of attitudes prior to WW2

Very true. Everything needs to be put into perspective, for sure. I’m certainly glad times, and attitudes, have changed!

Hell, I'm reflecting that attitude when I... well, think it wrong for a married woman to be expected to get a job (and then use most of her wages to pay someone else to look after her pre-school-age kids).

I’m kind of in agreement with this. My mom didn’t work after I was born (and then my sister). She didn’t go back to work until I was getting ready to graduate high school and we needed money to send me to college. It was nice to have her home when most of my friends didn’t have a stay at home mom.

There are several women who I work with who have young children who don’t really want to be a mother. They want to have the image of a perfect family (husband, wife, 2.5 kids and a dog) but don’t want to actually raise them. So they work and send the kids off to day care. That really upsets me. Especially when their husbands make really good money and they don’t have to work.

[bluewolf458.livejournal.com]

There's a subtle difference between wanting to work and being expected to, even when you have kids. Even during WW2, mothers of school-age children (certainly under 12) were exempt from having to do war work (though many did voluntary work of some kind during the school day). Now, though, the government is bleating about getting married mothers back to work... with someone else paid to look after the kids. 'Course, that means the Exchequer pulls in more from PAYE...