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Name: Valerie
Country: United States
State: Michigan
Metro: Grand Rapids
Birthday: 1/18/1985
Gender: Female
Interests: hmm...let's see...I love God, my sweet boyfriend, writing (can yuh tell?), soccer, singing....among other things...oh *cowboys* rock.
Expertise: In paradisum deducant te Angeli... recently became an expert at being a foreigner. Living in a country where I don't speak the language= fun times, lol. Home at last.
Occupation: Other
Industry: Other
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AIM:  JeSaignePourTe
MSN: vcprice@hotmail.com
Yahoo:  JeSaignePourTe
Member Since:
7/27/2004
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| I got this email from my aunt...thought it was good...I know it doesn't quite apply to me...but alot of it I relate to... Born 1930-1979! TO ALL THE KIDS
WHO SURVIVED the
1930's 40's, 50's, 60's and 70's !!
First, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank while they were pregnant.
They took aspirin, ate blue cheese dressing, tuna from a can, and didn't get tested for diabetes.
Then after that trauma, we were put to sleep on our tummies in baby cribs covered with bright colored lead-based paints.
We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, doors or cabinets and when we rode our bikes, we had no helmets, not to mention, the risks we took hitchhiking.
As infants & children, we would ride in cars with no car seats, booster seats, seat belts or air bags.
Riding in the back of a pick up on a warm day was always a special treat.
We drank water from the garden hose and NOT from a bottle.
We shared one soft drink with four friends, from one bottle and
NO ONE actually died from this.
We ate cupcakes, white bread and real butter and drank kool-aid made with sugar, but we weren't overweight because.
WE WERE ALWAYS OUTSIDE PLAYING!
We would leave home in the morning and play all day, as long as we were back when the streetlights cam! e on.
No one was able to reach us all day.
And we were O.K.
We would spend hours building our go-carts out of scraps and then ride down the hill, only to find out we forgot the brakes. After running into the bushes a few times, we learned to solve the problem.
We did not have Play stations, Nintendo's, X-boxes, no video games at all, no 150 channels on cable, no video movies or DVD's, no surround-sound or CD's, no cell phones, no personal computers, no Internet or chat rooms.....
WE HAD FRIENDS and we went outside and found them!
We fell out of trees, got cut, broke bones and teeth and there were no lawsuits from these accidents.
We ate worms and mud pies made from dirt, and the worms did not live in us forever.
We were given BB guns for our 10th birthdays, made up games with sticks and tennis balls and, although we were told it would happen, we did not put out very many eyes.
We rode bikes or walked to a friend's house and knocked on the door or rang
the bell, or just walked in and talked to them!
Little League had tryouts and not everyone made the team. Those who didn't had to learn to deal with disappointment. Imagine that!!
The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke the law was unheard of.
They actually sided with the law!
These generations have produced some of the best risk-takers, problem solvers and inventors ever!
The past 50 years have been an explosion of innovation and new ideas.
We had freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and we learned
HOW TO
DEAL WITH IT ALL!
If YOU are one of them . . CONGRATULATIONS!
You might want to share this with others who have had the luck to grow up as kids, before the lawyers and the government regulated so much of our lives
for our own good
And while you are at it, forward it to your kids so they will know how brave (and lucky) their parents were.
Kind of makes you want to run through the house with scissors, doesn't it?
The quote of the month is by Jay Leno:
"With hurricanes, tornados, fires out of control, mud slides, flooding, severe thunderstorms tearing up the country from one end to another, and with the threat of bird flu and terrorist attacks, "Are we sure this is a good time to take God out of the Pledge of Allegiance?"
For those that prefer to think that God is not watching over us....go ahead and delete this.
For the rest of us.....pass this on.
I wish these freedoms were avaliable to more kids these days | | |
| Wow, it seems like...years? since I've been on xanga. I'm bored though. I know nobody reads this anymore. I have an adorable neice now  . She's the cutest baby girl I've ever seen. Five months until the love of my life and I will be getting married . In May I graduate finally, pending the un-gotten co-op. We have a house, it's small but enough room for my man and our two cats and eventually me and Gannon. Life is good. | | |
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My new car!!! | | |
| Summer has lost all meaning *yawn*. (in other words I'm bored with homework and had nothing better to do than post on xanga and relive the awesomeness of last summer,reading old entries ). Babysitting has become my life. Is that such a bad thing? I feel....old. | | |
| I know nobody reads this anymore....but good news...my daddy is
engaged!! Dad and Ann are getting married next summer. Whew that's
gonna be a wedding-filled summer. Phil and me, Courtney and Sean
(maybe), Dad and Ann, then Jake and Sarah. And that's only the weddings
in the family! Can't wait for next summer.
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