25 Things about me

So I did this thing on facebook a couple of months ago in a note but thought I would redo it on here and see how it has changed. These are 25 random things about me, hopes, habits, and goals.

1. I used to work in an alternitive middle/high school for a college semester. (I was working on my 2 year degree in Social Service Technology and for a semester interned through Boy's Village at both their treatment foster care {1 day a week} and the Oppurtunity School {3 days a week}. I would go from 9 am until 12pm. I learned a lot that semester and decided eventually that is where I want to work {well in that area of troubled teens}.

2. I was on probation for most of my teen age years but did successfully earn my release from probation and was able to graduate with my class {i failed my 10th grade year but was able to catch up and graduate with my class. Something at one time that no one thought I would accomplish}.

3. I was a part of a community play last Aug. call Over the Rainbow and actually enjoyed doing it (for years I had always said I wanted to do community theather and never went through with it until last year and I found I loved it totally)

4. I am going on my first cross county trip next week (I have never been farther than Ill and I am acutally going to Utah on Friday).

5. I took 2 years of Spanish in highschool and can only remember hi, how are you, and how to count to ten.

6. I wouldn't change any of the experiences I have had in life because they have showed me areas I have grown in, things I need to change, and who my real friends are.

7. I play many different areas but my favorite to play in the paino (I learned to play paino from my grandma {my dad's mom} and it has given many special memories of her and I together)

8. My mom has 2 different sets of parents (ok this is just an interesting fact about my mom's family. My mom's parents were killed when she was two in a freak car accident that also killed her grandfather and aunt {my grandparents were on their way to church with their 5 kids and my grandfather was on either his way to church or home with my aunt in another car and they collided head first into each other and all 4 over 16 were killed. My mom and her siblings all lived} and so she went to live with her aunt who at had 8 other children and my mom made 9.)

9. I was placed for adoption at birth and my parents got me when I was 4 weeks and 3 days old (my parents actually got a call on a monday and asked if they still wanted a baby and my mom of course said yes and they told her to come to the court house on friday to pick up their new baby girl {my parents had a total of 4 days to get prepared for a newborn}).

10. I had one other sister before my little sister came to be (My parents were trying an adoption placement when I was 4 and it didn't work. I have always wondered what happened to Crystal who would be 32 this year. We have never heard anything about her since my parents took her back {long story to explain this one}.

11. I love to sing (i sometimes sing in church and i had a solo in the community play I was in earlier).

12. I love my 2 neices very much (when I moved to wooster in 2006 I got to spend a lot of time with my upstairs neighbor and her family. We became friends very fast and both her girls call me aunt Jen. It's been amazing to see them walk for the first time and to talk. I am amazed at how fast they grow).

13. I love working with the ROCK group (I have learned to love each and every child {it took me a long time to let my guard down and to just have fun with the kids} and enjoy watching them grow in their love of Christ and the love they show each other).

14. I used to work at a domestic violence shelter for 2 years (I also interned there for a semester with the children since my main job was to work with the women. I learned first hand what a hard decision it is to leave a partner who is abusive and I truely give credit to those that do it on a daily basis ).

15. I worked for 2 years of my college years as a video store clerk (and I knew almost all my customers by name when they walked in. I loved that job because I could study when I was slow and it was a lot of fun. I really got to know some of my customers).

16. I graduated in Dec. of 2000 with a two year degree in social work and even for awhile was registared with the state of ohio as a social work assistant (I was the first in my family to graduate college and it was an awesome experience).

17. I have a huge frog collection (and couldn't even begin to tell you how my collection started).

18. I am a daughter of a Heavenly father and he truely loves me for me (all my faults and everything. I just recently have finally accepted that he truely loves me).

19. I have some pretty awesome friends who I don't know today where I would be without them (and I am truely grateful for them and love them so much).

20. I do not like the movie Forest Gump because of the line "that's my jenny" (i hate to be called Jenny and my sister will say it sometimes because she knows I don't like to be called that. She even went as far to write it on my cast one time in big letters knowing I couldn't cut off the cast an it was the middle of aug so i wouldn't be wearing pants).

21. My neighbor met her husband now because of me (This is a funny story. In the apartment complex I live now i used to live there before I moved to wooster. So anyways I moved out and he moved in and they began hanging out and eventually got married. I moved into a different apartment at the complex and they now live 2 doors up from me. She and her husband always look out for me and I love them like my grandparents).

22. I have an older lady who lives in my apartment complex that i have adopted as my grandma (she didn't have kids and i truely love her).

23. I love to read (and have read many books).

24. It takes me a long time to warm up to dogs (I was bit when I was 7 and sometimes dogs scare me).

25. I am glad I let you guys get to know some more about me.