Finish my sentence...

small grocery run.

still working on

hmmm.....this is interesting to me anyway....in 2009 I was chosen as North Dakota's Abraham Lincoln Fellow & got to go to Springfield, Illinois & spend a whole week with 24 other history-nerd teachers (they split the 50 states into two groups), learning about Lincoln, going to historic Lincoln sites, listen to presentations by experts, participating in activities & discussions.  It really was the most fun week ever!

Another interesting thing about me is....

I'm an adult Girl Scout. I'm no longer a leader because the girls in my troop have all graduated from high school and now college. I still volunteer on the Service Unit level and the Council level.

Today has been.............

and I have everything done (and a 5 hour stew in the oven), I am going to read my interesting 'who done it' book.

opps...it is interesting!

One book I would recommend to most people is.....

The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out The Window and Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson

A reluctant centenarian (who is an explosives expert with a fondness for vodka) decides it's not too late to start over . . .it has a Forrest Gump flavor and the plot is so twisting and funny! I read it aloud to a friend during a long road trip, and we were laughing so hard we almost drove off the road a couple times!

A book that really touched or inspired me is....

............

sit up straight to avoid the pain from my bulging disc!

A health goal I have for this year is ..........

forsythia --- but I don't like it when people prune their bushes to make them "neat."  I like it better when it is free-flowing and natural-looking.

With my tax refund, I am going to ..............

maybe some new walking sandals

For St. Patrick's Day, I am going to...

wear my green shamrock shirt & make a toast to my Irish great-great grandmother.

My ancestry is.....

more than half Norwegian, the rest German, Swedish, Irish, and English.

I like the topic too.

My ancestry is....

saw Abraham Lincoln (my Irish great great grandmother....when she was 12 years old, she and he step-father walked 50 miles from Indiana to Illinois to hear him speak!).

Another one of my ancestors.....

was born in a covered wagon.

Another ancestor....

My love of shoes .... My ancestor was transported to Australia .. His crime, he stole a shoe, a very interesting fact about the convicts is that there were only 3 sentences you got 7 years, 14 years or life but  very few ever returned to England, they made their life in Australia after they finished their sentence.

One if the traits I got from my mother is....