numbers and misc info

 My son gave me the number 5.

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1. My son sometimes likes to dance and sing I Am Just a Gigolo. hahahaha (okay Daniel....I simply HAD to post that one.....)

1. My name Terrie is spelled with an "ie" cause it was the in thing at the time I was born. Girls were given guy type names and they were spelled with an "ie" You will find lots of Tommie, Jerrie, Billie, Bobbie....etc. in my generation
2. My name Terrie is because my mom had a neighbor with a dog named Terry when she was a little girl....she liked the name.....and gave it to me.
3. Many of the girls born in my time have Lee or Lynn as their middle name.
4. I grew up being called Terrie....I turned it to Terrie Lynn when I started in AA. There were several Terry people at that time....and I wanted to be different.....and for people to know which one they were talking about when they were talking about me. Plus, it felt like I left my old self behind when I took on the new double name.
5. My mom and dad will only call me Terrie Lynn when they are mad at me. Ha.
*Bonus* I thought it would have been neat to have been named Terra.


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 My second number......13.....so here are 13 more things about me you may or may not know.

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1. My favorite number is 44 cause it was my boyfriend's football number....and the only number I ever wore when playing sports. I wore his jersey and number playing powder puff football.
2. 8 is my next favorite number due to being born on May 8th. Everyone in my family knows that *8 is great* so this is not a new fact to them.
3. I haven't had a soda to drink in a little over 20-1/2 years. I stopped for New Year's due to a challenge from my kids.....I was drinking so many Dr. Peppers it is amazing their stock didn't drop in value when I quit!
4. I wanted to be a police officer, like my dad. But, alas, at the time I was growing up....women had to be 5' 8"....I was only 5-5 1/2"
5. When I couldn't be a police office, I seriously thought about joining the Air Force....I wanted to be the stewardess on the President's plane. Made sense to me at the time.
6. I had a pet tarantula named Okie for 8 years. She was brought to me by my FIL at the time....all the way from Oklahoma, in a can.
7. I had a red tail boa for a little over 13 years, named Columbia after my girl on RHPS.
8. I learned to drive in a T-bird with no second gear, at the age of 19.
9. I never missed a day of school....ever.....perfect attendance up till my senior year. I left home, got married, and found out I was pg. I had permission from the school to complete my senior year, but got so darn sick I ended up in the hospital and was not able to go back to school that year.
10. I wanted to name Robbie Lynn, Shasta, after my favorite flower....the Shasta Daisy. To this day she is thankful I didn't. hahahaha You have to remember, my kids were born in my hippy phase of life.
11. I bleached out my hair and went blond.....once long ago. I have the picture around here somewhere. I look awful as a blond.
12. I sang in choir....alto tenor.....up till I hit puberty and my voice totally changed! I miss being able to sing like that.....
13. I took my GED test at the age of 25. I never studied cause you didn't do it that way back then. You simply signed up, took the test, and either passed or failed. If you failed, you waited a certain amount of time and tried again. Of course, I passed. <wink>

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My friend John gave me the number 17......
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1. I walked to elementary school. No one worried about a girl walking. And I took my own lunch from home in a cool lunch kit.
2. I was able to volunteer and work with the blind kids in our elementary school. Brenda was the first blind person I had contact with. She showed me the machine she used to print the dots for her homework. We were good friends till we moved away just before junior high started.
3. I was the pitcher for my softball team in elementary school....until a hit right straight back at me got me in the face.....scared the heck out of me!
4. When I was in elementary school, we had oil heater things mounted on the wall under the windows. I loved sitting there in winter....and sneakily melt my crayons on them.
5. I was the one who hand drew maps for geography class lessons. My teachers loved my artist side.....remember this is back before the internet, and computers, and copiers. The copies of the maps were made on these machines with a green paper, and smelled really good when printing them. Ha.
6. My 5th grade teacher had me grade most of the tests, keep the grades in a hand written book....and fill out the report cards for the whole class.
7. I also would do the bulletin boards in most of the classes all over the school. Hand cutting out those wavy edges to go around the boards and all the letters.
8. I learned to play chess in the 6th grade, at lunch, watching some of the chess team guys practice.
9. My very first nick name in Junior High was Tree. Ha. I had this necklace of a tree with the word on it....people thought it sounded like *Terrie* so they called me Tree.
10. I grew up with three tv stations, NBC, CBS, ABC and two UHF stations. I watched Captain Kangaroo iand Cadet Don n the morning before school.....and Kiterick, after school.
11. I would chase and catch chickens, by their legs, not their tails.....wring their necks, pluck them for dinner....at the early age of 7. You didn't pay the store for something you could do yourself.
12. I love to go crabbing off the jetties in Galvestion....although I will not hang out while you cook them....nor will I eat crab.
13. I am a fishing nut....I could do it for days....alas, Mr Awesome doesn't like fishing so I have only gone once or twice in all the years we have been together. I kind of miss it. I do/did cook what I catch......but now a days would be happy to catch and release.
14. I will pull over anytime I see a turtle in the road.....move it to the other side so it will be safe.
15. The San Jacinto Monument is my most favorite place in the world. I want my ashes scattered there when it is time for me not to need this body any more.
16. I rescued a big huge bullfrog from biology class in the 10th grade. They had it for dissection. I knew there was nothing to be done about the already preserved frogs we had..... I did my first official protest over that frog! I took it and refused to let them have it back if they were going to kill it. It was finally approved for me to take it home...which I did.....and it lived a nice long life in our duck pond. And....I also refused to dissect *any* of the frogs in that class.....and got permission to not do it......although I did have to take the test.
17. I liked to go crawdad hunting in the ditches as a kid. Yes, we had ditches. Crawdads can be quite feisty little critters.