It's Just Life

  • Home
  • About
  • Comments for a Cause
  • Tea and Teapots
  • Books
  • Travel
  • Writing
  • Recipes
  • Products
October 24, 2025

Randomness Reigns

60 Comments/ 4213/ 0
photo

I’ve done this post in the past and I am going to update it a little bit today. Just some random facts about me.  Here it goes.

I am a list maker. But they have to be neat lists — even numbered lists are best.

I played only one role in my short lived theatrical career. Sister Sophia in the John Glenn High School musical production of The Sound of Music. I was told by one person that “nuns don’t wear glasses: but I am fairly blind. The glasses stayed.

My guilty pleasure is binge watching television shows. Recent ones have included Monster: The Ed Gein Story (which I watched because of Charlie Hunnan but it is truly disturbing), Blue Heelers ( an old Australian cop show) and The Great British Baking Show.

My choices in music are varied — Bach to Florida to Broadway musicals to Chicago.

I wrecked my brother’s Spyder bike with the cool banana seat when my friend Beth Bacon (yep!) came to visit me in New Concord one time. The front wheel started wobbling like crazy and I knew it was going to happen. I flew over the handle bars. This was before helmets were a thing. It was not pretty. A nice guy in a pick up truck stopped, picked us up and took us back to our house. I was a bloody mess and still have that scar on my knee but I DID NOT FAINT! That was huge.

Speaking of scars— I was THAT mom that ran over her son’s foot with the vacuum cleaner. It was horrible. Aaron was always stealthy as a toddler and he snuck up and was someplace unexpected as I vacuumed. Poor Aaron still has a little scar on his foot .

My first paying job was delivering The Sandusky Register in North Fairfield, Ohio. My brother, Mark, and I split the route. He had to play the heavy a couple times when collection time came.

We used to have a rabbit named Sniffy. Sniffy would often crawl under the front porch when my sister cleaned the cage. We used a stick called Stoney Stonewall to encourage Sniffy to come out from under the porch.

I took Basic Computer for Beginners in college. I went into the final with an A. I got a C in the course. What does that tell you?

I won the Snacker Packer award in 4H and still have the little nameplate off of the trophy some 55 years later. My claim to fame.

How about a random fact about you?  Leave one in the comments and let everyone know one random thing about you!!!Thanks for playing along.

43.152457-93.237147
Share:
Tags:
quirky facts random facts random things about me
← Previous Fall Treat Time – Caramel Apple Dip

Related Articles

  • Waterfall Wednesday – High Falls

  • Waves of Grief

  • Midlife Friendships

  • Our Greatest Need

  • Daughter Mountain Heaven

  • Subscribe To Rss Feed
  • 2,256 Followers
  • 2,272 Fans
  • Followers
  • Subscribers
  • Subscribers
  • Follow It's Just Life

Comments For A Cause

  • Comments For a Cause Goes Cyber

  • September – Comments for a Cause – Supporting International Charity Day

  • Comments for a Cause – July Edition

  • Comments for a Cause – Alzheimer’s and Brain Awareness Month

  • Support Mental Health Awareness – Comments for a Cause

  • From Forests to Firefighters-Comments for a Cause

  • Linens to Forests – Comments for a Cause

  • From Ribbons to Linens – Comments for a Cause

  • Leaping Into the New Year – Comments for a Cause

  • Remembering All Saints

  • Comments for a Cause – WNC Source

  • Comments for a Cause – It’s Time for School

  • Comments for a Cause Gets Legal

  • Comments for a Cause – Fresh and Local

  • Comments for a Cause Reaches New Heights

Check Out My Past Posts

October 2025
S M T W T F S
 1234
567891011
12131415161718
19202122232425
262728293031  
« Sep    

Text

Follow

Pinterest

Visit Beth Ann's profile on Pinterest.

Beth's bookshelf: read

The Art of Social Media: Power Tips for Power Users
5 of 5 stars
The Art of Social Media: Power Tips for Power Users
by Guy Kawasaki
As always Guy Kawasaki has a great book with great information about all things social media. I highlighted tons of places in this book and it is definitely one that I will come back to time and time again to help me in all of the socia...
Old Girls in Low Cotton
3 of 5 stars
Old Girls in Low Cotton
by Helen Childress
This short book was one that looked like it would be a fun read. I honestly did not enjoy it all that much---it was a lot of characters bickering and while some of the writing was witty and funny it was not that kind of book that made m...
The Good Girl
5 of 5 stars
The Good Girl
by Mary Kubica
I loved this book! It had my interest from the very first page and was my "airplane" book on a recent trip. Author Mary Kubica created believable and interesting characters that the reader learned to identify with and care about. Mi...
All the Light We Cannot See
4 of 5 stars
All the Light We Cannot See
by Anthony Doerr
This is quite a book! I had it recommended to me by several people and while I thought it might be a little dark and depressing it made me have a better understanding of what life in this time period was like. The strength of the huma...
An Abundance of Katherines
5 of 5 stars
An Abundance of Katherines
by John Green
Another great book by John Green. I have become a huge fan of John Green since my reading of A Fault in our Stars and this book was another that did not disappoint me at all. It was a story of a child prodigy, a lot of anagrams, and a b...

goodreads.com
Subscribe to Blog via Email

Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.

Copyright © 2015 It's Just Life, All Rights Reserved.

  • Media Kit, Advertising and Disclosure
 

Loading Comments...