I loved school.....always did well & got good grades.....I remember being really shy but for some reason in junior high I ended up being president of orchestra & getting to direct the orchestra for my graduation, I was president of the girl's scholastic club & class rep for student council.....have no idea how shy I was I could have possibly done those things.

High school was a bit more of a challenge......especially when it came to Chemistry & Math analysis.....but did well in all the other classes & really enjoyed being involved in Marching Band.....we got to try out for marching in the Rose Parade, but we were beat out by another band. I graduated the year before they started taking people from every school in Los Angeles to be in a unified band....oh well...that would have been a long cold parade to march in anyway.

College was great....I got my AA in music...performed a lot with my flute & challenged to write a lot of different kinds of music & took choral conducting.....after that, I transferred into the Univ & realized that Music wasn't going to be a good direction so change to Accounting information systems & Computer Science....long before the PC was in existence...It was a challenge....enjoyed the accounting but really loved the business law classes but mostly love programming computers.....ended up getting married (the huge mistake of my life)..........however.....

I got an opportunity to go to Roma Italy for 5 weeks with my husband & his job & had an amazing experience there just wandering around Roma for 5 weeks & finding so many interesting places & tours & meeting interesting people to talk with....I always hated history until I went there I lived completely surrounded by it......that cost me a whole semester off of school but it was so worth it.

Ended up pregnant & had our daughter 10 months before graduating....I had several job offers before even graduating & took the best one.....then about 2 years later ended up taking a position in aerospace firmware design engineering which I enjoyed for 15 years....I went back to UCLA's extension classes to get continuing education & really enjoyed those classes.

After aerospace collapsed in 1994.....I took a couple of graphic design classes....but depression had taken over then & couldn't function & was in & out of the hospital by then.......it wasn't until 2003 when I decided to go back to the local junior college & take interior design classes that I really was able to enjoy school again. My accounting degree came in handy as I ended up treasurer for the on campus interior design club & put together grant request for them to get money for speakers for the club activities. I was the leison with the professional interior design associations.......H had lost his career as an engineer by then also & started taking the classes with me....sadly he had issues with school & tried to major sabotage my class project because he didn't want to do the amount of work I was putting into mine & he didn't want to accept doing less than I was doing. All the serious issues in our marriage of all those years was finally coming to a head....my mother had cancer & that summer she had the surgery & I had a horrible asthma attack from the smoke from a forest fire....my mare had her baby & my foal was injured when 3 weeks old just at the time my mother wasn't getting well from her surgery & the cancer was taking over & ended up going through a trauma with the home care person, anorexia hit.....so needless to say....I never went back to school.....instead it took me a few years to be able to function again.....& I finally LEFT my H moved 2100 miles away to where I didn't know anyone......

Getting back into classes again......there is a Seminary about 20 minutes away from my farm that offers some outstanding classes & being a senior citizen now.....they offer free audit of some classes.....so will be looking into that when I get my place a bit more organized.

Love figuring out how to fix things, take things apart....first thing I did when I got my lawn tractor was to take it all apart & put it back together while installing the mulcher.....love learning how to do new projects.....new hobbies learning how to paint, blend colors & textures. beading jewelry & other projects.....all part of liking to learn new things constantly....good thing I can figure out how to repair things because around my farm & being the only one here, I am the one that has to fix everything that breaks or how to get something done with the tools I have available.......love a challenge & constantly have to learn new things to do this......it makes life interesting & enjoyable even when I end up fighting with a project when it doesn't go as easy as it should.