1. I student taught in New Zealand; what an amazing experience and amazing country!!! There I jumped out of a perfectly normal plane to skydive and jumped off a tower in auckland! Those were the days! (2005)
2. DH and I went to Yellowstone and Jackson hole last summer and he took me on a hike which I nearly cried the entire time. I'm such a worrier. I thought a bear would kill us- we had bear repellent. (2016- my how times have changed)
3. I coach girls lacrosse and have won three state championships since starting 10 years- but we've been dry for a few years and losing is getting OLD! I'm such a conpetitor.
I love this thread! I've been off the TB because I have been so super tired after work. I'm so glad the weekend is here!
1. I live on a small farm. We have 3 goats, 2 chickens, 2 cats, and 1 dog. 24 more chickens arrive in June! Everybody mixes with everybody except the goats and the dog (the dog chases goats; we could train her out of it, but it's not a priority, so we just keep the goats behind their fence).
2. I have a PhD in Communication and used to teach at a top University. I left because the job was literally killing me. Best decision ever!
3. Our home came with a pool. I was not very enthusiastic about this at first, but now I love it so much and am astounded by how often I slip into it for just 5 or 10 minutes.
@kirss@cait5413 and whoever else said they've never broken a bone... one night when I was talking with my boyfriend (now DH), I told him I had never broken a bone. Next day I stepped on my phone charger and fractured my foot. Figures... I guess that can count as my first interesting fact.
2. I helped break the world record for world's largest kazoo band. I think it's been broken since then, though. This was back in 2008.
3. I'm really good at recognizing actors in other movies or shows that they've been in. I don't always know their names, but we'll watch a show and I'll say "oh hey! He was in an episode of _____." Then we look it up and I was right. I also LOVE movie trivia and have fun hitting up IMDB after I enjoy a movie or show.
1. I'm the middle of 3 girls. Older sister is 40, I'm 38 and younger sister is 37. There isn't barely 3 years between all of us. Very close growing up.
2. I live in a place that is so cold it's affectionately know as Winterpeg. It gets down to -50 sometimes with windchill here. Don't really like the cold. But all my family lives here and it's home.
3. I lived in Germany for 3 months as an exchange student In Grade 11. Best experience ever. Saw lots of Germany and some of Europe. If my kids ever get the opportunity I would send them.
Gonna follow others leads because I suck at coming up with things!
1. My cousin is Paul molitor the manager of the Minnesota twins. Which is my favorite baseball team, being from Minnesota. However, I am the black sheep of the family as I am a packers fan instead of Vikings. Also don't like hockey (no one in my family does though)
2.i am a magnet for weird illnesses, shingles, swine flu, whooping cough, e. Coli (had it for 2 and a half years, got into my bloodstream and everything). Just to name a few
3. I have my left forearm tattooed, a half sleeve on my right arm, my whole neck from ear to ear around the back, my whole back, my whole right side (torso), my left side of my chest, and my foot! Was supposed to get my left upper arm to start that part of that sleeve but then found out about baby #2!
@ktcakes87 awww, love this thread, thanks for starting! Kk, let's see:
Fact 1: Although I'm over 30 (#TBT to fast metabolisms and irresponsible youth!), I only got my drivers license about two years ago. And I'm still generally too terrified to parallel park in NYC...
Fact 2: I am extremely excited about this pregnancy/impending life change -- but also still unabashedly prefer dog pics > baby pics on FB...
Fact 3: I had a karaoke night with a few of my girlfriends recently -- dead sober, of course -- and STILL came away 100% convinced I missed my calling to become the lead singer of an all-90s cover band...
I love this thread. I know it's no longer Friday, but I'm playing along anyway.
1 - Like a few others, I've never broken a bone. 2 - I can trace my family all the way back to the American Revolution and the signing of the Declaration of Independence. 3 - I don't like any condiments. No mustard, mayo, ketchup, hot sauce. Occasionally, I can do bbq sauce, but it needs to be in very specific, bbq foods. Like on wings, or pulled pork. But otherwise, not really.
** December BMB Siggy Challenge - Animals in Pools **
Me: 31+ H: 32 TTC Since 11/2015 #1 - MMC 6.5 weeks (2/16); #2 - MC due to cystic hygroma at 20 weeks (10/16); #3 CP (2/17); #4 - Due 12.16.17
I am also going to post even though I'm a couple days late! For some reason I haven't been able to log into the bump for over a week!
1. George Washington is my ninth great uncle on my mother's side. 2. When I was 6, I had the same brain surgery for chiari malformation as @txmomma16 had. (I would love to know more about your story and how you realized you had it. We discovered I had it by a freak accident! Long story short, A boulder rolled on top of me and so they did X-rays... saw that I had severe scoliosis and knew it had to be caused by somethig else... so they did an MRI and that's how they caught it!) 3. I used to be in theater productions with Sean Aston's daughter and the voice of Hey Arnold.
@leighaw91 Wow! 1st of all, the relation to GW is awesome! How fun!
As far as Chiari, it's been a really long adventure. Long story as short as I can make it, we found out incidentally in 2010 after I had a very strange occular migraine, having never had one before. They were checking for tumors, but found Chiari. After that I had no issues until 2013 when I had the weirdest symptoms. I never got the excruciating headaches most get, I got vomiting, nausea, and then eventually never ending dizziness. I spent a full year going to specialist after specialist, doing tons of testing, and coming up with no other cause, when a Neurosurgeon thought surgery might work since it was possible it was the Chiari Malformation causing problems, and by that point I had lost complete sensation in my fingers and toes. Turns out, surgery worked. And lovely discovery after, apparently people don't get minor headaches every day. :-/ I'd had daily headaches as long as I can remember, and at some point someone told me to stop complaining, so I did. They weren't incredibly painful, just there, so I was able to ignore it for years. 3.5 years after surgery, I have dizzispells about once a month (not including the daily ones I've had during pregnancy), and headaches are few and far between. I will take it.
Me: 30 DH: 31
2 Dogs / 2 Cats
IUI #1 07/2016 BFN
IUI #2 10/2016 BFN
IUI #3 11/2016 BFN IVF #1 03/2017 - 23 Retrieved / 22 Fertilized / 11 at Day 3 / 1 Beautiful Embryo tf on Day 5 / 7 Frozen on Day 6 - Beta #1 4/5/17: 104 Beta #2 4/7/17 224
@blueskies17 I too an now wondering who your roommate was... Does she still keep in contact with you?
Let's see... 1. I was a Study Abroad Advisor and miss working in International Education. Like many of you traveling is a huge part of my life and I lived in London and Rome for a bit. 2. I grew up on a dairy farm, which my parents still operate about 5 miles from where I currently live. 3. We just bought 80 acres of land, with the hopes of building a house this fall.
These are great! I've been wracking my brain trying to come up with good ones. I'm pretty boring!
1. I was on The Bozo Show when I was an infant.
2. When I was in 6th grade I was diagnosed with a condition that causes my body to produce too much spinal fluid. I had been having constant headaches and the doctors I saw just kept brushing it off. It was my optometrist that caught it, because the excess amount of spinal fluid was putting so much pressure on my brain that it made my optic nerve was swell to almost double it's size. I was referred to a neurologist and he did some testing and it was so bad that I had to have an emergency spinal tap at 8 pm on a Friday. I was at a bowling alley with my best friend and my parents had to come pick me up and take me to the hospital. The head of neurology actually came in and we were the only ones in the whole department. It was one of the scariest moments of my life and I'd be blind today if they didn't catch it when they did!
3. My grandma (mom's mom) grew up the next town over from Ed Gein when he was doing his thing. I've been to the cemetery he's buried in, but his headstone has been missing for ages. My grandpa (mom's dad) knew John Wayne Gacy. I don't recall the details, but they were friendly enough that they went to lunch together when my grandpa was in town. These grandparents were pretty weird in general, aside from their association with murderers. From the outside, they appeared to be a normal upper middle class family, but I think they were into some weird ass shit. They believed my aunt was "the chosen one" and no one really knows what that means, but I think they were in a cult or something, masquerading as a Masonic order.
3.5. To continue with the murderer trend, I had a friend in high school who lived in the building Jeffrey Dahmer did his killing and eating in... While it was happening.
Re: Fun Fact Friday
2. DH and I went to Yellowstone and Jackson hole last summer and he took me on a hike which I nearly cried the entire time. I'm such a worrier. I thought a bear would kill us- we had bear repellent. (2016- my how times have changed)
3. I coach girls lacrosse and have won three state championships since starting 10 years- but we've been dry for a few years and losing is getting OLD! I'm such a conpetitor.
1. I live on a small farm. We have 3 goats, 2 chickens, 2 cats, and 1 dog. 24 more chickens arrive in June! Everybody mixes with everybody except the goats and the dog (the dog chases goats; we could train her out of it, but it's not a priority, so we just keep the goats behind their fence).
2. I have a PhD in Communication and used to teach at a top University. I left because the job was literally killing me. Best decision ever!
3. Our home came with a pool. I was not very enthusiastic about this at first, but now I love it so much and am astounded by how often I slip into it for just 5 or 10 minutes.
2. I helped break the world record for world's largest kazoo band. I think it's been broken since then, though. This was back in 2008.
3. I'm really good at recognizing actors in other movies or shows that they've been in. I don't always know their names, but we'll watch a show and I'll say "oh hey! He was in an episode of _____." Then we look it up and I was right. I also LOVE movie trivia and have fun hitting up IMDB after I enjoy a movie or show.
2. I live in a place that is so cold it's affectionately know as Winterpeg. It gets down to -50 sometimes with windchill here. Don't really like the cold. But all my family lives here and it's home.
3. I lived in Germany for 3 months as an exchange student In Grade 11. Best experience ever. Saw lots of Germany and some of Europe. If my kids ever get the opportunity I would send them.
1. My cousin is Paul molitor the manager of the Minnesota twins. Which is my favorite baseball team, being from Minnesota. However, I am the black sheep of the family as I am a packers fan instead of Vikings. Also don't like hockey (no one in my family does though)
2.i am a magnet for weird illnesses, shingles, swine flu, whooping cough, e. Coli (had it for 2 and a half years, got into my bloodstream and everything). Just to name a few
3. I have my left forearm tattooed, a half sleeve on my right arm, my whole neck from ear to ear around the back, my whole back, my whole right side (torso), my left side of my chest, and my foot! Was supposed to get my left upper arm to start that part of that sleeve but then found out about baby #2!
1 - Like a few others, I've never broken a bone.
2 - I can trace my family all the way back to the American Revolution and the signing of the Declaration of Independence.
3 - I don't like any condiments. No mustard, mayo, ketchup, hot sauce. Occasionally, I can do bbq sauce, but it needs to be in very specific, bbq foods. Like on wings, or pulled pork. But otherwise, not really.
** December BMB Siggy Challenge - Animals in Pools **
Me: 31+ H: 32
TTC Since 11/2015
#1 - MMC 6.5 weeks (2/16); #2 - MC due to cystic hygroma at 20 weeks (10/16); #3 CP (2/17); #4 - Due 12.16.17
1. George Washington is my ninth great uncle on my mother's side.
2. When I was 6, I had the same brain surgery for chiari malformation as @txmomma16 had. (I would love to know more about your story and how you realized you had it. We discovered I had it by a freak accident! Long story short, A boulder rolled on top of me and so they did X-rays... saw that I had severe scoliosis and knew it had to be caused by somethig else... so they did an MRI and that's how they caught it!)
3. I used to be in theater productions with Sean Aston's daughter and the voice of Hey Arnold.
As far as Chiari, it's been a really long adventure. Long story as short as I can make it, we found out incidentally in 2010 after I had a very strange occular migraine, having never had one before. They were checking for tumors, but found Chiari. After that I had no issues until 2013 when I had the weirdest symptoms. I never got the excruciating headaches most get, I got vomiting, nausea, and then eventually never ending dizziness. I spent a full year going to specialist after specialist, doing tons of testing, and coming up with no other cause, when a Neurosurgeon thought surgery might work since it was possible it was the Chiari Malformation causing problems, and by that point I had lost complete sensation in my fingers and toes. Turns out, surgery worked. And lovely discovery after, apparently people don't get minor headaches every day. :-/ I'd had daily headaches as long as I can remember, and at some point someone told me to stop complaining, so I did. They weren't incredibly painful, just there, so I was able to ignore it for years. 3.5 years after surgery, I have dizzispells about once a month (not including the daily ones I've had during pregnancy), and headaches are few and far between. I will take it.
2 Dogs / 2 Cats
IUI #2 10/2016 BFN
IUI #3 11/2016 BFN
IVF #1 03/2017 - 23 Retrieved / 22 Fertilized / 11 at Day 3 / 1 Beautiful Embryo tf on Day 5 / 7 Frozen on Day 6 - Beta #1 4/5/17: 104 Beta #2 4/7/17 224
Let's see...
1. I was a Study Abroad Advisor and miss working in International Education. Like many of you traveling is a huge part of my life and I lived in London and Rome for a bit.
2. I grew up on a dairy farm, which my parents still operate about 5 miles from where I currently live.
3. We just bought 80 acres of land, with the hopes of building a house this fall.
1. I was on The Bozo Show when I was an infant.
2. When I was in 6th grade I was diagnosed with a condition that causes my body to produce too much spinal fluid. I had been having constant headaches and the doctors I saw just kept brushing it off. It was my optometrist that caught it, because the excess amount of spinal fluid was putting so much pressure on my brain that it made my optic nerve was swell to almost double it's size. I was referred to a neurologist and he did some testing and it was so bad that I had to have an emergency spinal tap at 8 pm on a Friday. I was at a bowling alley with my best friend and my parents had to come pick me up and take me to the hospital. The head of neurology actually came in and we were the only ones in the whole department. It was one of the scariest moments of my life and I'd be blind today if they didn't catch it when they did!
3. My grandma (mom's mom) grew up the next town over from Ed Gein when he was doing his thing. I've been to the cemetery he's buried in, but his headstone has been missing for ages. My grandpa (mom's dad) knew John Wayne Gacy. I don't recall the details, but they were friendly enough that they went to lunch together when my grandpa was in town. These grandparents were pretty weird in general, aside from their association with murderers. From the outside, they appeared to be a normal upper middle class family, but I think they were into some weird ass shit. They believed my aunt was "the chosen one" and no one really knows what that means, but I think they were in a cult or something, masquerading as a Masonic order.
3.5. To continue with the murderer trend, I had a friend in high school who lived in the building Jeffrey Dahmer did his killing and eating in... While it was happening.