10 THINGS I HAVE DONE .... that you may not have.

1.  I held a VW bug up all by myself.  Actually I was lifting it with my brother and his friend and they let go... the bumper landed across my thighs but I held it up so the guys could grab some toads that had been hiding underneath.  I wore the bruises like medals of honor until they faded.

2.  I infiltrated a high security government installation to investigate reports of paranormal sightings.  Okay, not really, I sneaked in the back gate of a military installation and drove to some old bunkers that were rumored to be haunted.  My first visit was after midnight with no ghostly sightings, however blood stains were seen on the ceiling of the bunker.  A later visit in the daylight proved that the blood was merely catsup splatters.

3.  I came face to face with a black bear in the woods.  And I was terrified even though I had a gun!  No, I didn't shoot it.  I tried to hand my husband the gun but he wouldn't take it, he just kept singing 'I'm not scared of a big ole bear, my woman has a 30.06!'  Obviously the bear wasn't scared of us either cos he just kept munching away at something in the bushes and we were able to put a safe distance between us. 

4.  I touch about $100,000 a day.  Unfortunately its not mine.

5.  I almost fell off of a submarine.  It was Family Day at my father's base and we got to visit the submarine that he was stationed on.  I stepped on to it, walked where I shouldn't have and slipped.  I don't know if I was really close enough to go over the side, but to this day I swear that sailor who grabbed my arm  saved my life.

6.  I almost drove a car off a cliff.  Seriously!  I took a hairpin curve too sharp and had I been going a little faster, or braked a little slower I would have gone over the edge of a 50 cliff.  The tire stopped right at the edge.  I believe a railing is now up on that portion of the road, but I've not driven there since.

7.  I've been in the Girl Scouts AND the Boy Scouts.  I was a cadet and then a leader in the Girl Scouts.  I was in the Explorer Scouts, which is a co-ed division of the Boy Scouts and later became a leader, I volunteered as a cook at many of the Boy Scout campouts and would fill in as a drummer for the Order of the Arrow dance team.

8.  I was a human pincushion.  I fell into a hidden crack in the ground and was wedged upside down in the crevice that was laced with cactus roots... I managed to turn upright but I was in way over my head and the earth was too soft to climb out of.  My friends found me when they spotted my florenent orange hat poking up out of the grass... I had thrown it up as a marker to catch their attention.  My body was covered with cactus spines, mostly on my arms and face.  My son pulled about 72 spines out of one of my arms before he lost count.  I had to use duct tape to get the fine spines from the roots out.  I was still pulling cactus out 4 months later.

9.  I have been admitted to the hospital 9 times in my life.  The first time was after my birth, and 5 other were for the birth of my children. 

10.  I have never been treated for a broken bone.  I think I broke my tail bone while roller skating, but I was too embarrassed to go to the doctor so that one doesn't count.  I might also have broken my nose, but then I might have broken it a year later and it straightened out.