Truger’s TechTalk

I’ve been tagged by Mark Dunk (AKA Unklar) to contribute to this meme. The idea is that you share 7 things about yourself that would be unknown to your readers. Here are the rules:

• Link your original tagger(s), and list these rules on your blog.
• Share seven facts about yourself in the post – some random, some weird.
• Tag seven people at the end of your post by leaving their names and the links to their blogs.
• Let them know they’ve been tagged by leaving a comment on their blogs and/or Twitter and/or Plurk.

I was shocked to be tagged. After all the last time I wrote here was almost a year ago. Mark told me that this is the reason he tagged me, so I could start writing again with a purpose.

*Sigh* It took awhile but here I am. Trying to decide what kind of things I can reveal about myself and just how much I want to open up to other people. The upside is that not many people will read my blog since I have not written in such a long time : )

1) Who am I? I am the mother of two amazing boys. Ages 7 and 10. The 10 year old is on the Aspergers spectrum. I am wife to the most wonderful man who adores me. I have wanted to be a teacher from the time I was 5. I am an Instructional Tech Specialist for a special education district. I am a person who is never really sure of themself and looks to others for validation. I was teased mercilessly growing up and have never really developed the skill of letting comments just roll off of me. I take things to heart, the positive and the negative.

2) Where do I want to be in 5 years? I have absolutely no idea. Everything up to this point in my life was planned on a timeline project I did in 5th grade. We created a timeline of what we wanted out of life and I have come to the end of the line and now do not have a clue where I want to go. I got my Masters before I got married, got married by 25, had 2 kids by 30, have a steady job….but now I approach 40 (yes I revealed my age!) and I am lost. Do I want a doctorate? Do I want a Type 75? Do I want to go back into the classroom? Do I want to …..?

3) I am a follower and have no desire to be a leader. Leading scares me. I don’t want to make a mistake and screw things up. I prefer to follow and learn as I go. Although there are people that think I am a leader, I do not consider myself one.

4) Ok so now for some fun facts: I am a soap opera junkie! I watch all the ABC soaps, my DVR is my lifeline. My Soap Opera Digest AND Soap Opera Weekly are my sources of info. I use the soaps to “escape reality” and see that my life even on it’s worst days, isn’t as bad as Erica Kane! LOL

5) I watch waaaay too much TV! Not only do I love my soaps but I am also a teen angst fan. That’s right I love Gossip Girl, One Tree Hill, Greek, Lincoln Heights…etc.

6) I hate reading philosophical and deep books! I know…I know, I should read the Earth is Flat, Wikinomics, Brain Rules…etc. but I just don’t enjoy thinking that hard when I am reading. I prefer my contemporary romances and criminal stories: Allison Brennan, Sandra Brown, Nora Roberts….the list goes on.

7) I was in the Miss Teen Illinois pageant my junior year of high school. An ex-boyfriend submitted my picture and never told me. When the pageant called to tell me, I hung up on them twice telling them to leave me alone because I thought it was a gag! (Remember I had ZILCH confidence growing up)

Ok, so now anyone who has read this far knows way too much about me. I can’t believe how hard this was to write. It made me face some tough truths but also allowed me to laugh at myself.

The next part of this post is supposed to be tagging people to go next. This is very tricky because this meme has been around so long that most of the people I know have been tagged before, but I will try, please let me know if you have already been tagged and I will try to fill your spot.

The first person just started blogging about a week ago, so I KNOW she was not tagged yet.

Val Donnan (A bright new Illinois STAR)

Beth Lepper ( AT Coordinator who hasn’t blogged since 2007!)

Dave Hohulin (Infinitec) He may have been tagged before but time will tell.

Yasmin Eisenhauer (DEN STAR)

Patricia Shaw (DEN STAR)

Lynda Baker (DEN STAR)

Marie Coleman (DEN STAR)

Well that’s 7! Wow that was tough! I don’t know how many responses I will get but I did my duty! LOL

Special thanks to Unklar for giving me the kick in the butt I needed to try blogging again. You have not heard the last of my ramblings….. : )

~Anne

JessieMarie Flanagan – DEN in SL LC