Art mentioned how during his 50th class reunion, they did a game where everybody wrote three special, unique things about themselves that people might not know and classmates had to guess who it was.
Art wrote:
1. I delivered my son in an elevator.
2. I climbed Kilimanjaro.
3. I ran in the Honolulu Marathon.
That got me thinking. What would I write? Well, I get to write the same thing for #1.
This was NOT easy.
1. I gave birth to my son in the elevator with Art's help.
2. I taught for 19 years in the same school, in the same classroom at the same grade level (1st).
3. I climbed down into the tomb of Tutankhamun in Egypt's Valley of the Kings and saw his mummy.
Actually, we've enjoyed so many different things during our travels, but that was the first exotic thing that came to mind.
What would you write?
Art wrote:
2. I climbed Kilimanjaro.
3. I ran in the Honolulu Marathon.
That got me thinking. What would I write? Well, I get to write the same thing for #1.
This was NOT easy.
1. I gave birth to my son in the elevator with Art's help.
2. I taught for 19 years in the same school, in the same classroom at the same grade level (1st).
3. I climbed down into the tomb of Tutankhamun in Egypt's Valley of the Kings and saw his mummy.
Actually, we've enjoyed so many different things during our travels, but that was the first exotic thing that came to mind.
What would you write?
This is hard, Kay. I'll have to think about it for awhile. I do know that if I wrote I have made 4,200 more takeoffs from an airplane than landings, I would give myself away. :-)
ReplyDeleteGood gosh! That many? I hope you'll come back and tell me more. How about your time in China?
Delete1. gave birth to four sons.
ReplyDelete2. traveled to Iceland
3. danced in the Los Angeles Ballet company!!1
Dancing with the ballet company would definitely capture everybody's notice and imagination. That's so wonderful, Lin. You could also mention being an author and poet.
Deletean elevator? Wow that must of been quite the ordeal.
ReplyDeleteActually it was loads easier than my first, doctor assisted birth. It sure gave us lots to talk about though the military hospital preferred keeping it quiet.
DeleteWell, my first would be the same as yours, without Art's help of course and it was my daughter that was born in an elevator.
ReplyDeleteI will have to think about the others, but they would probably be travel related.
So were you by your yourself, Jeanie? That is amazing! Isn't it great to be able to talk about it? Jon will always be known for that event with our friends and relatives.
DeleteThat is definitely a hard one for me....I do nothing special or unique as I live a very mundane life. I should have wised up 25 years ago in therapy. Then the question asked to me was "name three things I want", that was my homework for the week. I went back and said I don't know.
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You really don't give yourself enough credit at all. You are so smart about so many things. I'm amazed at all I know that you do with your business. That should be your #1. Now all you need are two more. :-)
DeleteWow. An elevator. And the same thing happened to Jeanie? I am so impressed with you two women, as I have never given birth to anyone, anywhere.
ReplyDeleteWhat have I done, besides travel?
1. When I was sixteen, I was one of four winners of a Columnist-for-a-Day contest in the Vancouver Sun, and I'm still in touch with the other three winners.
2. I used to travel alone, a lot, and might just have done so for the last time. It was harrowing, getting to the coast of Virginia last week, although definitely worth it, but my solo travel days might now be a thing of the past. We'll see.
3. I just discovered that our property alone is now worth as much as we paid for the land and the house, making our house worth the same dead or alive, like a cowboy reward poster.
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You are so brave to travel alone, Kay. I know I could never do it with my sense of direction. Congratulations on your win!
Deleteit's tough to write things about myself....maybe that I took French in university, a lot of people don't know that I am doing a lot of art these days, that I've been to Istanbul?
ReplyDeleteAnd wasn't Istanbul such an incredible place? So you speak French?
DeleteThis is a wonderful question that will stir a great many minds. I really had to think and posted your question on my blog while I was stuck. 1. Clean and sober for 30 years. 2. Graduated from college despite severe learning disabilities at age 50. 3. Changed a lot of lives through my art. That's what my friends say any way.
ReplyDeleteThank you for the mention, Mage. I'm so glad you were able to conquer your addiction and the learning disability. You are such a strong, determined, resourceful, loving, organized, creative person.
DeleteGoodness, Kay! You must've known every square inch of that classroom! The King Tut tomb visit sounds a bit spooky.
ReplyDeleteDon't know that the 1,000 in my high school graduating class could guess about too many of us. (Since my class was so big, I'll list 4 things.) We band kids still talk with our band director, though. Our concert and marching bands were top in the state for 2 years in a row.
I recently learned about a "Box Car Baby," born on a train in Shawnee, Oklahoma in 1929. There is more room in a box car than an elevator.
As for me:
1. Fourteen skydiving jumps when I was younger. (Salute to DJan!)
2. 3 husbands: (widowed when 29 years old, then 2 divorces,) but one great kid born in a hospital!
3. Became an R.N. at 48 years old.
3. 4 trips to Hawaii, my favorite place in the world!
I enjoy a more boring life now. In spite of life's "bumps-in-the-road," I have plenty of pleasant memories to be grinning when I'm at the nursing home!
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Now YOU my dear friend, have really led a very amazing life and accomplished so much. I'm so glad I met you.
DeleteThat would be pretty difficult for me. Hubby and I were in the same graduating class with just 54 others, so there is not much we don't know--or couldn't figure out--about each other. Fun to think about though.
ReplyDeleteOnly 54 kids? That is really small. I think we had about 350.
DeleteThat sounds like a fun exercise if the class was not too large. i always liked the two truths and a lie one where you revealed three things and everyone else had to guess which one was the lie.
ReplyDeleteThat does sound like a fun thing to try.
DeleteThat is some list. This is hard.
ReplyDeleteI have been sober longer that I wasn't.
I briefly worked as a private investigator.
I once outran a tropical storm in a 36 foot boat.
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My goodness, Patti! You have really, REALLY led an interesting life!
Delete1. Survived three potentially fatal illnesses before age five.
ReplyDelete2. Traveled in Peru three years ago and saw Machu Picchu and other wonders.
3. Will celebrate my 50th wedding anniversary next year.
50 years? That's great! I'm sure glad you survived those illnesses, Marianna.
DeleteSome of your readers have very interesting lists! I sort of drew a blank on this one. I guess I would have to think about it. I have very little contact with my old high school class, having moved 200 miles away at the age of 18 when I went to Seattle from rural Oregon to go to college. I did surprise those who attended our 50th reunion last year by not being the shy, quiet one I was back in high school.
ReplyDeleteIt's hard to believe you were that shy, Linda. I wish more people wrote their three things because it sure was interesting to read about everybody. They have all led such interesting lives.
DeleteI really had to think on this one. I once met Elizabeth Taylor when she was married to John Warner. I met him too. When I first came to this country I was invited to an afternoon on a boat with Gregg by the Deputy Director of the CIA, through a mutual friend, who later became the Ambassador to Germany. These two also came to my first birthday celebrated in the U.S. and it was at Benihana's. not sure if that is the right spelling. It was all a bit surreal to me coming from a small village in England.
ReplyDeleteElizabeth Taylor and John Warner came to your birthday party? Seriously? Wow! That is amaaazzzzzing AND such fun! Wow! So what were they like? :-)
DeleteUps, sorry Kay, I meant the CIA chap and Gregg's friend came to my first birthday party in the U.S. I should have worded that better.
DeleteI'm afraid I was too thunderstruck to take it all in. I got to shake Ms. Taylor's hand and I remember saying "Hello Mrs. Warner, it is such a great pleasure to meet you." We were actually warned not to call her Ms. Taylor. She smiled and said, "Why thank you." and that was about it. I remember her beautiful eye color and smile, and that was about it. She was very gracious. Don't remember much about Senator Warner other than he seemed very nice.
DeleteMy first memory of Liz Taylor is my mother telling me when I was quite young that Taylor was supposed to have violet eyes and a perfect face where both halves of her face was identical. She was certainly a very beautiful woman. You are so lucky to have met her in person. Wow!
DeleteWoW...three very exciting things, for both of you!!
ReplyDeleteand ouch on the elevator birth!!
Actually, it was awfully easy.
DeleteWell, it's impossible to match the amazing accomplishments of those who commented earlier, but here goes:
ReplyDelete1. My grandfather and father were born on Christmas Day. I was born on New Years Day.
2. I was the only person ever to play for on the junior and senior teams in a Wisconsin Amateur Baseball Tournament.
3. I met (more than a handshake) five Chiefs of the U.S. Forest Service during my career with the agency.
Well, gosh, Dick!!! That is pretty darn amazing! Wow!
DeleteI was delayed because I really had to think, and my life turned out not to be so remarkable as I thought.
ReplyDelete1. The Anne Frank House in Amsterdam
2. Michelangelo's"David" in Florence, Italy
3. Vermeer, "Woman Pouring Milk" in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
More everyday possibilities:
1. Seeing my only biological child, Chip, for the first time when he was born, a miracle!
2. Meeting and riding on the same airplane with Martin Luther King to the Selma-Montgomery March, Alabama, 1965
3. Enjoying my other three children, all grown up now, and not overpopulating the earth
Another trio:
1. Going with six nuns to meet and talk with Mother Theresa in Calcutta, India, 1983.
2. Seeing my son, Nick, score a soccer goal all the way from midfield against a team from Korea.
3. Seeing Satchel Paige warm up in the Yankee Stadium Bullpen and yelling, "Hey, Satch, throw your Grapefruit Ball." And he obliged by thowing a 15-foot high twisty looper.
What was the assignment?
Are you kidding, Hank? You've led an incredible life! Good heavens! You've met Mother Theresa and MLK? Too too fabulous!!!
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