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Faith D. Mitchell (Biggs)
I'm back! Didn't realize how long I'd been gone!!! I've been crazy busy and thanks to a post from classmate I've been nudged! I really have been crazy busy with work between on-site UK MoD/Customer meetings, expansion, new hires, writing PARs (Performance Assessment Reviews) for my direct reports and more. Oh and I got a promotion pushed through for myself...amazing that I had to spend so much time getting my functional to do her job to get my promotion through! Anyway...can't believe how many pages of posts there are since I last posted!!!
Katherine – I've been designing clothing since High School...of course, I didn't have near the cool equipment / tools I have now! I make custom drapes too, among other things. I will post some pics from my portfolio. Might as well show off some of my work up there!
Jim – Sorry I missed your birthday! I'm singing Happy Birthday to you now and my guitar is crank'in! Hope you had a great one!
Hey Sandy – I have just about every rider from Lockheed Martin nudging my husband on a daily basis! I could run down and make the purchase myself, but man it is so much more fun sicking all of our co-workers on him! Besides, he loves to buy me nice things! He will cave :-) and we will both be on new Harleys before the reunion!!! I'm so much braver than him!!! Oh man...that reminds me of the frog story!!! We had frogs coming up our toilets the year before last – now think about that when you go to the bathroom in the dark around 2 or 3 in the morning!!! Freaks you out for months!!! Anyway, the first time we had one bopping around in the Master Bathroom toilet was the funniest! A few minutes after discovering the frog and making sure the toilet lid was shut, I see my husband walking through the hallway with boots on (in Florida!), gloves and goggles, carrying some kind of stick and a garbage bag...it was the funniest site!!! Turns out he is scared to death of frogs!!! My strong brave husband :-) I wished I'd grabbed my camera...I will never get that picture out of my head! Of course, I ended up handling the situation myself...frogs gone...for good! These were those awful frogs that came over from Africa...NOT GOOD!
Wow – so I got to around the 12th or the 13th of the month and things kind of turned sour on the site! I would certainly hope that at our age we can just have fun out here and not take anything personally. Glad to see it started lightning up again. Anyway, the chicken crossing the road reminded me of my deer story. Now for those of you who still think I was a quiet shy type of girl...let me remind you that I always ran for student office, was always involved in choir, musicals, Spanish, yearbook...just about every club I could get into...I still keep myself that busy. Anyway, here is my funny story...don't let it shock you...no, it's funny...let it shock you and laugh at the same time!
Okay...so at the time I had a yellow belt in karate. I have a black belt in Taekwondo and a black belt in Shoenru, but this incident was toward the beginning when I was only at yellow belt. I was the only woman at our Dojo (training facility) who wasn't afraid to spar the men. So, when 4 men and I took off to a tournament in Detroit I was ready to go! Fired up! I wasn't used to sparring with women; we just didn't have many in Niles. So, I get to the tournament and am paired up with this HUGE scary mean woman (I swear she was at least 200+ pounds...I've always said 300 when I've told the story because at the time I was tiny and she probably did look like 300 pounds to me). Anyway, she got one good kick in to the chest and I realized I was either going to die or search for all my inner strength and put her down! Put her down, I did!!! Okay, so I'm proudly standing up with the 4 men I went with, who also took trophies, for a group photo. We had one taken in Niles as well that made the Daily Star. I have it proudly posted on my photo wall. Anyway, so you are thinking “this isn't funny!”...Not there yet!!! So, it's late at night and we are returning from a not so nice area of Detroit...me and 4 men (one was our sensei). I had no clue what was in store for us on 94 as we were returning home OR what was in the trunk of the car I was riding in!!! So we are driving along enjoying our wins when all the sudden we see a couple cars had pulled over and the occupants were looking at a freshly hit deer suffering on the side of the road. We could see the deer's heat rising of its body. Our driver pulls over! He assesses the situation, goes to his trunk, pulls out a pistol then proceeds to go over to shoot the deer in the head to put it out of his misery. The carload of people in one of the other cars flipped out after seeing this guy with a pistol and a car full of people in karate uniforms (we must have looked like we belonged to a gang!) and took off in their car...I've never seen a car drive away so fast! They called the State Police and reported that a car full of crazy people with guns shot a deer and were after them!!! Okay...me...a crazed gun'woman'! Of course, by now, our driver with the gun puts the deer in his trunk! Good deer meat – right? We didn't get more than a half hour down the road when we are SURROUNDED by cops!!! Cops with guns and rifles pointing at us from every direction. “Put your hands in the air!” “Get out with your hands up!” “Get down on your knees...NOW!” They rounded us up, made us get out of the car (by the way it was FREEZING...I think it was early March...my teeth have never chattered so much in my life!) and made us kneel in a ditch for soooooooooooo long. So, here is your innocent Faith Mitchell from the Class of 1974 who never got into any kind of trouble through her school years on her knees (be nice Jim!) in a ditch, being treated like a crazed maniac criminal. It was scary at the time, but OMG...think about it! Me!!! It's the funniest thing that has ever happened to me in my entire life!!! Oh – get this, the cops took the deer away (said it was illegal for anyone of us to have it!)...but I'm sure they enjoyed that deer for a time to come after that night!
Name tags...a must! But I do like Cheryl's idea about mixing them up!!!
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