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Recently, I have met some new people who know absolutely nothing about me. Even persons I’ve known for a long time don’t know much about me. I’ve actually lived a very full life, but I don’t talk a lot about it to anyone. So, I think that most people think that I have lived a somewhat boring existence and now I’m just an old woman who wouldn’t be interesting enough to get to know. Honestly, I don’t care what most people think about me, but what I’m trying to do is to let my grandson and my great grandchildren know more about me and the life I’ve lived. I want them to know that I’ve traveled to a lot of places and what those places were like when I was there. I want them to know about things I did growing up, and any accomplishments that I have had throughout my life. Do they know that: 1. I sang on television when I was 13 years old? 2. I won several talent contests when I was in elementary and high school? 3. I used to sing with live bands? 4. I won a trophy for playing basketball when I was in high school? 5. I was a speed skater in roller skating and could skate backwards almost as fast as I could skate forwards. I knew all the dance steps too. Speaking of dancing, I met my husband-to-be on the dance floor and we were so good at dancing together that, in later years, some people thought we were dance instructors. 6. We got married when we were 18 years old and had four children by the time we were 22. We had twin boys the third time around, and then a new baby boy came along when we had four teenagers. 7. My children were born in Colorado, Okinawa, Maine and Virginia 8. I was a Region Manager with a Direct Sales company and earned many sales and recruiting awards, including over 30 FREE trips to Europe, Mexico and the Caribbean and many places in the U.S. such as San Francisco, Las Vegas, Lake Tahoe, and Disney World . 9. I’ve been to the Grand Canyon, Niagara Falls, Yellowstone Park, the Grand Tetons, Mount Rushmore and many other places in 45 different states. 10. I have been a motivational speaker for many years, training hundreds of persons how to sell and recruit new sales persons. 11. I write poetry and was the Secretary of West Virginia Writers for two years and wrote for two newspapers. I recently published my first novel. There are so many other things that I have seen and/or done that most people I know, have no idea of what memories I have, so I am using MyLot to record some of these things and then I can print them out for my memoirs at some point. In the meantime, I do take the time to tell my grandson, that I see every day, about some of my adventures. He listens with interest and asks me some crazy questions. I enjoy telling him about events from what he considers the ancient past of my life. He is fascinated with some of the things I tell him. We have a good relationship.