8 things about me you probably didn't know

On Facebook, a friend posted 8 things about herself that we probably didn't know and challenged us all to do the same...so I thought Id also post it in here.

1. My 1st love was our 1st cat, Hobo. Santa brought him to our house Christmas eve when I was 6 & it made me believe in Santa longer because I "knew" that my father would never bring home a kitten (or cat) and since my mother couldn't drive, there was no other explanation of how the kitten got there other than from Santa. I miss having a cat around.

2. My #1 favourite movie is The Sound of Music I went to it for the 1st time when I was in grade 4 and it was my 1st field trip. I also really enjoyed going to the Sing-A-Long version and saw it live in Toronto & I'm looking forward to the live tv-version of it on NBC early this December!

3. Traveled, a wee bit ... Australia, Cook Islands, Bali, Japan, Greece, London, Mexico, Several places on 2 separate bus tours of Europe , Several places in US & Canada. I really REALLY miss travelling!

4. I don't eat fish (and yes, that includes anything that lives in and around the water...shrimp, lobster, oysters, clams, octopus....its all disgusting).

5. Took organ lessons starting in Grade 2 and continued until I started some after-school part-time teaching organ beginning when I was in Grade 8. Also play the clarinet and took saxophone lessons.

6. I can NOT ride a bike 

7. Love snorkeling but I'm way too afraid to scuba dive.

8. I used to be able to type at 110 WPM (maybe more, can't remember - its been awhile & I'm not that fast now).

2013 Christmas Card

I'm not a big card maker, but I do make cards for Christmas.  This year I'm feeling lazy so instead of making 50 cards, I'm just going to make as many as I make and the rest of the people on my card list just get a purchased card.  We typically send out around 50 cards and maybe get 20 in return...so instead of going through all that effort for people that can't even bother to send us a note, I'm making less cards.

Here's this year's card.  The skate and mat are both from winter woodland and the banner is from Artiste (I think).  There is a small purple stripe near the patterned paper.  The skate boot has Martha Stewart chunky glitter and the blade is Martha Stewart silver glitter and the skate is popped up with 1 layer of foam tape.  Ink is Stampin up.