Okay, so I missed that my Special Friend K (aka Special K) tagged me. I totally blame it on the fact that I’m having computer issues but am sorry nonetheless.
So I have to list five interesting things about me? Let’s see.
1. I used to serve on a grievance committee for the State Bar of Texas. The committee was made up of four attorneys and myself (there was another opening for a non-attorney but we never had that position filled). Hearings where the committee voted to disbar the attorney were automatically appealed and put before another committee where a court reporter was present and the decision of the second committee was final. On one such hearing, I was the lone holdout in saving an attorney’s license...all four of the attorneys on the committee thought he should be disbarred.
2. When I was younger, if I didn’t like any aspect of my job, I had no qualms about quitting. Piss me off before lunch? I didn’t come back from lunch. Piss me off after lunch? I just didn’t come back the next day. Once, I accepted a job and showed up about 15 to 20 minutes early. Ten minutes after I arrived I went into the manager’s office and said, “this isn’t going to work out” and I walked out of the office, never looking back.
3. Shortly after I separated from my ex-husband, I met a woman who I decided I wanted to be like, when I grew up. She was so confident, warm and giving. She was my mentor. One of the things she told me about though was that she sunbathed in the nude! I thought that was scandalous (particularly when I went to her house and saw that all the houses surrounding hers were two-story houses and people could see into her backyard!) but secretly wanted to do it myself. So, one weekend my ex-husband came over and was mowing my lawn for me and I laid out nude in the backyard. He went inside and was gone for a while so I went to check on him...he was videoing me in the nude! Less than a week later my house was broken into and my video recorder (with nude video of me in it) was stolen. (I choose to believe my ex-husband was the culprit but it’s possible there’s a nude video of me out there somewhere. Scary, isn’t it?!)
4. The first dog I ever got as an adult was the result of my ex-husband sending me to the mall to get our Christmas pictures developed. I came home with the pictures - and a doberman. A few weeks later, he sent me to a flea market to get our new doberman a collar and I came home with an Irish Setter. In between, I agreed to watch my sister’s dog for the weekend and as soon as we got it home, I informed my ex that we weren’t giving her back. So within a very short time, I went from having no dogs to having three.
5. I once received an email from a man I knew and he detailed his five-year plan for us, which included marriage and kids. We’d never been on a date. He’d never hugged me. He’d never even held my hand. And my only problem with his plan was, I thought five years was too long...I was impatient. (P.S. We stopped “seeing” each other a few weeks later and he still hadn’t ever hugged me, kissed me or held my hand...and I wasn’t upset at all that things broke off.)
I’m going to tag Maria, Kim, Laura and Jan. :o)
5 comments:
Looking back, do you still think you made the right choice about not disbarring the lawyer? Hindsight and all that...
Regarding jobs, I was the opposite when I was younger -- would stick it out no matter how miserable I was. Fear.
And the nude video...sounds like your ex wanted a momento. LOL. Also, apparently, you getting dogs is directly related to your ex "sending you on errands." Perhaps a little passive-aggression? LOL. (You had your own little 5-year plan). :)
Actually, I don't have any regrets about the lawyer. In the three years I served on the committee, only one attorney had shown up (him) to defend his license when it was appealed. That said something to me. Also, the case was one where the evidence showed that his workers were the guilty parties (although, technically he was responsible for their actions, whether he knew of them or not). I believed he didn't know what they were doing and I believed he deserved a second chance because, I believed if he was guilty, he'd screw up again down the line - and the committees were made aware of past grievances filed so he wouldn't be able to say "first time, give me a second chance". As it was, his license was suspended for a year and he had to make restitution to his clients. The case I thought deserved to be disbarred was one where the attorney was fleecing elderly clients. Our chair said it wouldn't stick so we scared the poop outta him and I think suspended his license for a few months - something like that. Wasn't hard enough as far as I was concerned.
As for jobs, I guess I figured life was too short to be unhappy. (But apparently I've gotten over that? *sigh*)
Well, you know, when you send someone to the mall where you want them to WAIT for your pictures to be developed and you KNOW they always stop by the pet store, you have to know that one day it will bite ya in the backside. ;o) But, I did call in advance and be sure he was "okay" with it before I actually bought the dog so.... ;o)
Sounds like you made the right call on the lawyer. I probably would've gone that way too.
The dog thing cracks me up. LOL.
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sunbathing in the nude! LOL, it's funny the things you discover about people in these kinds of posts! :)
In case I forgot to mention it, I only sunbathed the one time. I'd always had a fear that even though you didn't think anyone could see you, someone might. And finally letting down my guard like that and sunbathing nude only to have it video taped - and stolen! - cured me of the adventurous side. I never did it again.
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