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1. Yes, I really am a grandma.
2. I have 10 grandchildren. 8 girls, 2 boys
3. I may resort to showing pictures of them in the future.

4. That's because I have the sweetest, smartest, grandest grandchildren in the world. DUH!

5. You'll just have to learn to deal with that.
6. I love pizza.
7. I love fresh fruits. And fresh vegetables.
8. Battered and fried, steamed, raw, baked, stewed, roasted, .........omigoshhhhhhh....!!!!!!!!!!!!!
9. I don't necessarily want to do the cooking. So, invite me for dinner, okay?
10. I'm a year round, ice cream lover. I could live on it. Black Walnut!!!! Oh, man!
11. I'm not your typical grandma.
12. I'm not through being a kid yet.
13. I do have a touch of the scalliwag. (as required by the grandma law.)
14. I can appear to be a mature adult or an insecure child.
15. The child prevails
16. This is getting difficult. Hmmmmmmmmm...........
17. I've had all kinds of pets - dogs, cats, ducks, chickens, guineapigs, fish, turtles...........
18. I want an armadillo! A newborn so it can bond with me. They are so cool!Wonder if I'd have to feed it grubs or something?
19. I like all kinds of animals, especially guinea pigs.
20. We had our guinea pig, Georgie, for 12 years. He was so sweet!
21. I like the intricate details of nature. I see God in the details
22. I like the unusual, the unique, and the underdog,
23. I have a common sense look on life - most of the time.
24. I am not surprised by the events of life, I expect them.
25. I am 5' 4" tall. My husband is 6' 4" tall.
26. I like doing puzzles, including crosswords, and jigsaw.
27. I like Civil War movies.
28. I love going on adventures.
29. At my age everything is an adventure, like getting up in the mornings.
30. I love working on "projects".
31. I'm a country girl at heart. The rest of me is a home body.
32. I have a weird sense of humor. In fact, I have several weird senses of humor.
33. I just had my 43rd anniversary.
34. I like to do things that are creative.............Like counted cross-stitch, crocheting, Sewing, painting, rubber stamping, scrapbooking, you name it!
35. I procrastinate, . . . . . . . . . a lot.
36. I've never gotten a speeding ticket.
37. I can not deal with useless formalities.
38. I like my peanut butter extra crunchy.
39. I like storms.
40. I analyze EVERYTHING!
41. I need to be needed. Doesn't everyone?
42. There aren't very many people that REALLY know me.
43. I would never sleep if it were a choice.
44. I have never flown in a plane, but I have in a helicopter.
45. I am right handed. Everyone is born right handed. Only a few overcome this. I didn't.
46. I love Garfield, the cat. He's so HONEST!
47. I was born at home. A 10 pound baby!
48.. I was reborn at the age of 21.
49. Jesus is my Lord and Saviour.
50. I worship Him at a Baptist Church.
51. I have four daughters, and I'm very proud of each one of them.
52. I also have four terrific son-in-laws. Heh, heh, heh!
53. I am the mother of twins. Everyone should have at least one set.
54. Mine are identical, mirror-image twins.
55. My best vacation ever was when my hubby and I went to Savannah, GA on a 5 day motor coach tour.
56. I was a stay at home mom until my girls were in school.
57. I made and decorated cakes at home for about 12 years.
58. I'm requesting help with this list from family and friends.
59. Can't wait to find out about myself.
60. I was member of a puppet team for several years. Loved it!
61. I love reference books.
62. My head has been under water twice in my life; once when I was baptized (age 21) and once in a pool (age 59). Moving right along, aren't I?
63. I like a lot of different kinds of movies.
64. We have TV guardian, edits out all the bad language.
65. I am the youngest (and only surviving) of four children. (2 girls & 2 boys)
66. I married at the age of 17.
67. At age 21 I was mom to Elizabeth, Becky, Jennifer and Jessica.
68. Their ages are 42, 41 and the twins are 38. How did my kids get so old?
69. My husband is retired after 38 years and 9 months with the Power System.
70. All of my daughters wore braces. And they all had impacted wisdom teeth.
71. All of my grandchildren come to my house when they have a school project. (I love it!)
72. I can read while riding in a car and not get car sick.
73. I enjoy reading aloud to others.
74. I’m a horrible housekeeper You can write in the dust, just please don’t date it, okay?
75. I've only been in one foreign country - Canada. Went to visit relatives in Detroit and we drove across theAmbassador Bridge into Canada. Can't tell you a thing I saw. Wooo whooooo!!!!!

76. I can wiggle my nose.
77. I loved to climb trees when I was a kid.
78. All my grandparents died before I was born.
79. I can remember as a kid when cokes went from 5 cents to 6 cents. There was talk that they might go up to 7 cents. People said that was crazy. Nobody would pay 7 cents for a coke.
80. I remember when we had to pay a deposit on drink bottles. They had a way of accumulating. We'd turn them all in when we needed some quick cash to go to the movies, or some other activity.
81. I can also remember when we'd rent movies, and we had to rent the VCR too!
82. I have lived in the same county in Tennessee all my life.
83. I speak only one language - Southern.
84. One of my favorite authors is Ted Dekker.
85. I smoked as a teenager. Quit at age 21. One of the smartest things I've ever done.
86. I'm a hoarder. I really will eventually need it! Or someone else will.
87. I completed 11 years and 9 weeks of school. Ten years later I earned my GED, and took a few college classes.
88. I don't care for seafood at all. How people put that stuff in their mouths is beyond me.
89. I could be a vegetarian without much difficulty
90. Things I always wish I had learned to do: how to swim, horseback riding, and playing the piano.
91. Small, yippy dogs annoy me. So do yippy people.
92. I don't do mornings, not willingly anyway.
93. I love salads. My favorite restaurants are Ruby Tuesday and The Olive Garden.
94. I have had strangers comment on how pretty my salad looks. I don't get it.
95. I love to learn.
96. I don't watch Soaps. Too much TV makes me brain dead. I watch a lot of movies. No commercials.
97. A grand daughter and I love watching movies and rating them as 'one, two, or three hanky' movies.
98. I'm really interested in how people think.
99. If I have to wear panty hose, I'm not going. Panty hose and bras should be abolished!
100. I asked 8 people to send me ideas for this list. Only two have replied. That scares me.

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Up Close And Personal Things About Da Grandma

1. I am a house plant killer.
2. I had my teeth pulled at the age of 21.
3. I have never dyed my hair.
4. I wish I had kept a journal throughout my life.
5. I am pro-life - period.
6. My right thumb is double jointed.
7. I'm non-confrontational to a fault.
8. I'm not superstitious, don't believe in luck but blessings.
9. Crocheted Martha Washington's shawl for school project in just one evening.
10. I would like to travel the U.S.
11. There's a lot about me that I won't say here, a lot I'd be afraid to say.
12. I don't do well in large groups. I prefer one on one.
13. I over react about things sometimes, but I mostly keep it to myself.
14. I have never been arrested.
15. I always appreciate honesty, even though the truth sometimes hurts.
16. People who impart the truth can't always take the truth.
17. I have fibromyalgia.
18. I have polycystic kidney disease.
19. I started hemo dialysis May 7, 2007.
20. I am on the kidney transplant list at Vanderbilt University Hospital.
21. No matter how long I live, I'll never feel good enough.
22. If you don’t understand what I mean, I’m probably trying to be funny. It's okay, just laugh.
23. I met my husband while playing hooky from school to spend the day with my boyfriend. That was the only time I ever played hooky.
24. I go barefoot every opportunity I get, any season. Therefore I have ugly feet.
25. I used to collect Noah's Arks. I don't any more because my collection outgrew my space to house them.
26. I have some very interesting arks.
27. I have never lived by myself.
28. I spend too much time on the computer.
29. I rode a full-grown bull when I was a child.
30. I am my husband's barber.
31. I don't like phonies.
32. I like working with paper, scissors and glue.
33. I was part owner of a gift shop for several years.
34. I love shopping for bargains and clearance items!
35. I like all kinds of tools and gadgets.
36. I am a master at tickle-torture.
37. I wanted to be a teacher when I grew up.
38. I love sauerkraut!
39. I love finding goofs in movies and TV shows.
40. I am very indecisive. I hate this about me. I wish I could more easily decide on things.
41. I enjoy live theater.
42. There are 66 books in the Bible. I have read 65+ of them. I stalled in Revelation. I will finish it though.
43. Sonic has the best crushed ice I can find. I take a cup of it to dialysis three times a week. Crunch, crunch, crunch.
44. Christmas Eve, 2007, I did not go to bed. I worked right through the night. No nap. No snooze. Very interesting actually.
45. According to the book I'm reading, I'm in a pit, every way except physically.
46. I have an AV Fistula in my left arm, which doesn't work now. Will receive one in my right arm in a few days.
47. I have a deep longing to re-invent myself.
48. I tend to use a lot of sarcasm. Probably not a good habit.
49. I still have my tonsils and appendix. More than you wanted to know, perhaps.
50. I don't untie my sneakers before I pull them off.
51. I wear bifocals.
52. Spring and Autumn are my favorite seasons. The rest is too hot or too cold.
53. My mouse pad is a miniature Monopoly board.
54. I like collecting witty, amusing, and sometimes profound quotes.
55. I received a kidney transplant on Friday night, March 13 at Vanderbilt. Came home on Monday, March 16. I now have three kidneys!
56. I haven't craved ice at all since I had my transplant
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