In Her Thoughts

My name is Donna.  Amazingly, I will be 50 in a few years! <I’m amazed> I live with my husband John, my daughter Christie and my our two dogs, Sheba and Sierra in the middle of the New Jersey Pines.

I am French, German and American Indian. I was born in San Francisco, raised in St. Petersburg, Florida (Savannah, Ga. during summer recess) and I wound up here in “Joisey” in the ’70’s!  There is no place like home!

As a kid I was a tom-boy.
As a grown-up I’m a lady who can climb trees!

As I kid I lived in dysfunction.
As a grown-up I don’t!

I like to paint, sculpt and do jigsaw puzzles (which I donate to a local rehab center when I’m done), and tidying up the house.
I love to play Scrabble.  We play 9 tile.
I never sit completely still and I’m never bored.

I never dated anyone longer than 6 months until my husband.  Two decades and happily counting!  The wait was worth it!
We were married on the 4th of July in the middle of the woods!

I am anti-infidelity of any kind.
What the hell is wrong with people? I don’t understand being driven by your crotch!  I’ve never cheated on anyone.  Not even a boyfriend that I knew that I was going to break up with!

I am anti-alcohol abuse.
I used to drink socially but it was never my friend!  I think that it is a highly abused drug that needs more control.  Enough lives have been ruined!

I voted for Gore…once!  I was glad that Bush was in office very quickly!  I didn’t used to be so political, but I never felt that I had to be, so there ya go!

I love to research stuff…just random stuff!  I love “useless” knowledge!  As soon as I hear about something, I want to know more.  I love words, putting them together and hoping that they’re read with the intent that they were written.  I don’t like numbers much.  They’re the foundation of greed…and math just sucks!

I went to Maple Shade High School in NJ and graduated in 1982.
I don’t see anyone from “those” days although I am curious as heck as to how they all made out!

Basically, my only friends are the people that live in this house.  It’s so much easier that way and they’re good people!

I retired in 2002 from Lockheed Martin after 20 years of employment.

I cannot tell a lie, even a small one.  It’s like some sort of defect, but thankfully the people in my life know this and don’t put me on the spot very often.

I snore, according to John!  I don’t know how he hears it since I usually have the blankets bunched up under my nose when he’s had spicy food!  <HA!  Take that!>

I have a tattoo of an angel on my left shoulder blade. There’s actually two.  I had one done years ago and then had a larger one, a better one tattooed over it.

My favorite song is “Spirit in the Sky” by Norman Greenbaum, but I have so many that are right under it that it would be futile to try to list them.  Music is very much a part of our lives.  I sleep next to four large amps and walls of guitars in our bedroom!  The artist met the artist.

Red Foxx once bumped into me at an airport when I was young.  He was in such a hurry that some other guy apologized for him!
I used to fly a lot but you couldn’t get me on a plane these days!
I have no desire to leave the country to sight-see, anyway.  There’s plenty here in the USA!

There’s so much more that I could write about myself…idiosyncrasies and such, and there are many!

I guess you’ll just have to keep reading my blog if this page wasn’t enough!