7 Things About Me for Smaller Indiana

We meet people every day on a variety of social networking sites. But often, all we know is their occupation, where they live and a small amount of personal or professional information they include in thier brief bio.

One of the sites I belong to is Smaller Indiana. We are participating in a 'chain-letter' type of blog, which has been fun, and also has helped create additional connections by learning more about each other. The rules are: share seven facts about yourself in the post and link to the original tagger's post. Then, list these rules and tag seven people at the end of your post by leaving their names and the links to their blogs/profiles. Send a note to let them know they’ve been tagged.

My friend Theresia Whitfeld tagged me to participate in the Seven Things About Me that's spreading around the Smaller Indiana social network. This is fun!

1 - I was born in Alliance, Ohio, and moved to Sandusky, Ohio, when I was 10. Lived in Traverse City, Michigan for one year, then back to Sandusky. Indy became home in 1986.

2 - My twin (you've all heard that everyone has a twin somewhere?) and I met at summer camp when I was 8. She was from Illinois. We even had the same clothes on the day we met, and everyone thought we were kidding when we told them we didn't know each other.

3 - Married when I was 19, I was the mother of 2 sons, Sean and Brian, by 24. Now proud, happy, loving, lucky grandmother of Olivia, Tyler, Payton and Josh, ranging from 4 to 10 years old.

4 - Macaroni with ketchup is my comfort food.

5 - My cat, Oozo (my spelling for Ouzo), was named after the liquid refereshments Mike drank the night before our wedding. She was a black cat (Ouzo tastes like black licorice.) Our best man's parents were from Greece, and they 'taught' Mike how to enjoy WAY too many drinks. Hangover still when the wedding started at 7:00pm.

6 - A late achiever, I was 43 when I earned my BS, and my MBA at 52.

7 - A little ornery streak in me...while still living in Alliance, my grandfather took my cousin and me to Mount Union College football games. We'd always sit on the top row because he wanted to lean against the tall cement wall. On the other side of the wall, waaayyyy far down, was the walkway into the stadium. My cousin and I would throw peanuts and see how many people we could hit on the head.

I'm tagging:
Dr. Leah Jackman-Wheitner
Jack Klemeyer
Lorraine Ball
Mike Hartman
Sarah Wenger
Serina Kelly
Tony Scelzo

So, that's the 'get to know you better' process. Are you in a group that could benefit from using this process? It's fun. Why not try it?