High School Tag

Ick Sally!!! I'm sad that you tagged me on this. In retrospect, high school was lame compared to college and then compared to post-college. :) And isn't it ironic that my career right now is high school teacher. ha!

1. Did you date someone from your school? No
2. What kind of car did you drive? My dad's old ugly light tan pickup that he really liked. And then when I was @ school, he would drive his motorcycle up to the parking lot and then take the pickup to drive around farming and such. Then before I was done with sport practice, he would bring it back and drive his motorcycle away. What a sacrifice! Then later, I got to drive our old suburban when we got a newer one.
3. Did you pass your drivers test on your first try? Heck yes! We only had a pickup and two surburbans @ the time so I drove my grandparent's Oldsmobile for the test. I went to Yakima for the test. I got a 84%. The only mistake was I didn't use hand signals when parallel parking. ugh! What a tough guy!
4. Were you a party animal? nope.
5. Were you considered a flirt? Not then.
6. Were you in band, orchestra or choir? No
7. Were you a nerd? I don't think I was?...
8. Were you on any varsity teams? all 4 years for softball & basketball. 3 years for volleyball. (sure be impressed, but remember: there were 26 in my graduating class! ha!)
10. Can you still sing the fight song? We never did sing it. It was written down somewhere i'm sure, but we didn't know it.
11. Who were your favorite teachers? Ms. Russell! I adored her. Mr. Cordell rocked also. They both made their subjects (history, math) seem so exciting and we loved to learn.
12. Where did you sit for lunch? geez whiz...I do not even remember! For reals I don't. Can someone inform me of this answer please???
13. What is you schools full name? Wahluke High School
14. What is your schools mascot and colors? The Warriors /maroon and gray
15. Did you go to homecoming and with who? I was set up w/ a cute cousin of Bonnie Jeane's and the 2nd year I went with someone! I forgot!!! ouch!
16. If you could go back and do it again would you? no thanks. i conquered it.
17. What did you remember most about graduation? I got piles of gifts (I got 8 popcorn poppers!) -- that was when we gave real gifts instead of money. I spoke @ graduation. I don't remember my emotions...Maybe someone else does.
18. Where did you go for senior skip day? we didn't have one, but we did go to Disney Land for our senior trip
19. Were you in any clubs? National Honor Society, SAFTYE club
20. Have you gained some weight since then? dang it yes.
21. Who was you prom date? I think Kevin Price for my junior year and no one for my senior year.
22. Are you planning on going to your 10 year reunion? No one organized one.
23. Did you have a job in high school? I helped my dad on the farm: baling hay, picking rock, driving to town (45 minutes one way) to pick up parts. I also babysat for piles of people in Mattawa.

I hope you enjoyed this lil' background check. Now...who should be TAGGED: Anna Conners, Amy Israel, Rachel Daines, Leslie Sanburg.

You get 3 guesses and the first two don't count...

Guess where I'm going this weekend????

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Moab! It will be my 2nd time. I'm excited for the adventure! It is like a mini-family reunion w/ my mom's side of the family. Watch out -- here comes the Wright family!!!!!

Marci Theory #258: Brake less!

I have a theory. (I actually have lots of theories as you know...) This theory is that if we brake less, then traffic will flow more efficiently. I have piled on 172,000 miles on my little Mazda Protege (FYI: I drove the majority of those miles) I have been driving for 18 years (I started young on the farm ;) ). I have driven big cars, small cars, tractors, and pickups. I have driven extensively on highways, freeways, backroads, gravel roads, off -roading, canal banks and fields of open land (remember -- I'm from the farm...). Thus, I believe I am an experienced driver.

And from my experience as an experienced driver I have concluded a theory that IF we were to brake less and just flow w/ the traffic flow then all traffic would flow more efficiently. In Western Washington, people love to brake. When one person brakes, the next person immediately brakes and so on -- like a rock thrown in a pool that causes ripples. Instead of braking, just lay off on the gas pedal or cut the cruise (cut the cruise withOUT touching the brakes) and then you will lower your speed just flowing along. This will then stop the car behind you from braking.

When we brake, it imeediately slows the flow down -- and then when you move forward again, you have to gun your car and that doesn't seem very nice to the car. Therefore, today, try to just flow through traffic. Instead of braking, lift off the gas pedal and flow until you really do have to brake.