Potpourri About Me!

Hello!!!! Well, just wanted to open by sharing a few tidbits about me and my world! This will help give a close-up view on me and my world. Hopefully, I won't bore you too terribly bad! I will also include a few interesting things about me that most people probably wouldn't know...so hopefully you will find this both informational and interesting!

I am from De Kalb, MS. I have one older sister (everyone thinks I'm the oldest  because she's so short!). We grew up as country girls working in the fields a lot with my father....most people can't believe when I say the first vehicle I learned to drive was a tractor! LOL! My father originally wanted boys, so he made us as close to boys as possible! We hauled wood, cut grass, planted and harvested crops...you name it, we did it! It's funny, but that may explain why a lot of times I'd rather do outside work than housework...guess I am so used to that outside labor! I appreciate the lessons learned though...I think all of that has made me more independent today!

Both my sister and I grew up surrounded by music. My sister took formal piano lessons, but I learned simply by watching her! I guess my parents said they could save that $$!!! So I was sort of "self-taught" I guess you could say. I must have learned pretty well because by the time I was in Jr. High, I was selected as the accompanist for the school choir. I guess those "self-taught" lessons paid off! LOL!

We were big into the band and choir. She played clarinet while I started on the trumpet, moved to the French Horn and also played the xylophone. I think I have always been a multi-tasker..the more the better!!! Again, I had no clue about how to play the xylophone but amazingly enough, I played the xylophone for my talent in Jr. Miss and won the title of Kemper County's Jr. Miss (at the time it was called Young Woman of the Year)! When I look back, sometimes I suprised myself!

Another interesting or probably surprising thing about me is I was such a tomboy! Growing up, my sister would ask for dolls and girly stuff! I wanted Hot Wheels cars! I had an entire fleet of Hot Wheels!!! While my sister had all her Christmas gifts lined up with dolls and the like, I had all my Hot Wheels lined up and ready to race! Looking back, it is so funny, because I don't know why I was so into the boy stuff! I guess I was giving my dad as much of the boy as he could get out of me! LoL!

Well, hope you found this somewhat interesting...there are so many more stories I could tell, but don't want to bore you. Thank you for checking out my blog and have a great day!