CAC GTKY Day & Photo Day!

Wednesday was Getting to Know You Day at the CAC blog! Charlotte gave us some fun questions, so here are my fun answers!

Where were you in 1987? In school? Working? Single? Married? Attached? What was important to you? What were you doing creatively? Tell us a bit about your life then. I realize some of you were children then...all the better!

In 1987 I was... 7 years old! Little and cute, always giggling (wait, that all describes me now! hehe). I was kinda dirty (my parents didn't teach the greatest hygene habits back then), made fun of a lot, but loved by my family and random strangers... like the cashier at our local grocery, who called me Giggles... and my first grade teacher, who gave me her daughters way-cute hand-me downs, since we were both size 6-slim, which was very hard to find. Creatively? I drew a horse for my mommy.

Where were you in 1997? What would you like to share about the nineties?

Oh, yikes, I was 17 then. Scary time... driving around in my mom's old car... just getting out of my wild stage... struggling with severe depression and thoughts of suicide... converted... lost most of my friends... made new friends... joined track... a very eventful year!

Where did you plan to be or think you'd be in 2007? Have your realized your goals? What is one thing about your present life you love and one you'd like to change?

In 2007 I planned to have children... my goal through my teenage years and early twenties was to have a baby by age 25, or else adopt, and to travel to at least one foreign country. I haven't accomplished either of those... I am definately not ready for children right now... and I still haven't left the USA. However, I DO have "my kids" that I work with on Thursday nights, and M-the-unofficially-adopted-daughter. I'm making a difference in the life of children, even if they aren't from my womb. And travel? Well.... I'm traveling where I can, when I can. Slowly but surely, I'm seeing more and more of the USA... and setting NEW goals for my future.

How do you see your life in 2017? Do you have any goals or dreams for your future?

My life in 2017? I definately want to have children, or if not, I would like to start doing foster care. I want to be less deeply in debt (just the mortgage would be nice!), and hopefully to have figured out a way to make money through either something creative, or through my computer skills. (I create a lovely MS Access database!) Or at least work in a job that is far less stressful.

PHOTO DAY!!!!

Yesterday's Photo Day theme was "celebrations". I thought that was SO FUNNY, because I had just decorated (and taken a picture of) this envelope:

when I read what the theme was! Yes, seriously, I decorated this very happy-looking envelope with no idea what the photo theme was!

So what IS this wonderfully decorated envelope? It's my registration form for Just Be!!!! I am OFFICIALLY going! Wooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Anyone else want to join the fun? Check out the website here!