Continuing with my peculiar notions thread, I will now post Part II. Enjoy these oddities, little known facts, and peculiarities about me.
ALPHABETIZED YOUR PERSONAL FILES
I normally do not tend to err on the side of an obsessive personality type. With one small exception – when I am taking IV steroids or high-dose oral steroids, I become quite obsessed with organizing. I’ve spoken with other cancer patients on high dose steroids and they have had the same quirky side effect. Give me one day of IV steroids and the buzzzzzzz begins. I have gone for four days and nights with no sleep, all the while I am organizing, making lists, and cleaning. I alphabetize not only personal files, but also spices, computer files, anything that stands still will risk the possibility of being alphabetized. Another positive benefit of high dose steroids is how clean our house is after their use. Closets are organized, drawers are cleaned, papers are sorted, and I can write a notebook full of lists. Users of high dose steroids should beware!
MADE COOKIES FROM SCRATCH
I have made cookies from scratch for most of my life. As a young 4-H club member, our first foods fair exhibit was a cookie. I baked my Maternal Grandma Evelyn’s Dream Bar cookies. It was a blue ribbon and champion award winner at the fair. Many years later, our daughters were 4-H members and they, too, entered Grandma’s recipe and were blue ribbon winners. I will post the recipe on the Blog later this week.
FOUND OUT SOMETHING SIGNIFICANT THAT YOUR ANCESTORS DID
A couple of years ago, I embarked on a genealogy journey. I spent most of the year researching our family’s heritage. When I completed compiling it, I bound it and presented it to our daughters as one of their Christmas gifts. Most of our ancestors originated from England, Germany, and Ireland. While I didn’t find anything significant about a particular ancestor, I was able to trace some of our family lines back to the 14th century.
BROKEN A BONE
I have had broken bones - -plural. Among those fractures were a broken finger, broken arm, several broken toes and a broken foot. One of these fractures remains vividly in my memory – my broken arm. I was carrying our youngest baby in my arms, turned, and cracked my elbow on a door casing. It was not funny to fracture the funny bone! Even less funny, was the circumstances surrounding this injury. I had three babies all under the age of 17 months at the time and we had no family living nearby. I telephoned my husband at work and told him I thought I had fractured my arm and he told me it was probably just bruised. I knew differently. So I loaded up our 3 babies and went to an urgent care center. Needless to say, the staff was not enthused to treat a patient with 3 babies in tow and no one to help me. The arm was x-rayed and the verdict was in – a broken bone that required casting. With crying babies assisting, the arm was casted and I put the girls into the car and headed to my husband’s office. When I pulled up front, I simply rolled down the window and held my casted arm out the window. One of my husband’s co-workers saw me and went in and told my husband, “I think you are in BIG trouble!” Enough said.
READ THE BIBLE COVER TO COVER
Every year I read my Bible cover to cover, at least once. I am a person who likes to highlight and make notes in my Bible as I read. A few years ago, I began the tradition of giving my Bible (after reading it cover to cover) to one of our daughters. I hope that one day when I am gone, they will treasure the notes and prayers that they will find written in my Bibles that I have given to them. I read mostly from the New King James Version but also use the Amplified version and the NIV. In Proverbs, it tells us: “Give attention to my Words; incline your ears to my sayings. Do not let them depart from your eyes for they are LIFE to those who find them and HEALTH to all their flesh.” God’s Word is literally life-giving to me and I treasure it with all my heart.
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