On my recently-celebrated sixtieth birthday, my wife made a list of sixty things you may or may not know about me. As is her custom, she is inclusive. She wrote a similar list for our thirty-five-year-old daughter, our twenty-two-year-old niece, herself, and is working on one for her eighty-six-year-old mother and our other daughter. I told her I was going to attempt such a list about her, mostly because she said non one else would. Keep in mind that I have known her for only about 2/3 of her life and that anything referred to before our meeting is from her very own telling to me, or by her parents. So, here goes:
1. Sherri is an excellent map reader. This is a good thing for me as I am a geography major.
2. She truly loves young children. She doesn't really consider her job a drag because of it.
3. Sherri and I have almost the same inseam.
4. She has become a very knowledgeable football fan. Also good for me.
5. She has become a good cook and likes to experiment.
6. Sherri is a very good financial budgeter. We don't have much, but, boy she uses it wisely.
7. She is a good vacation planner.
8. I have never been leery about her driving, even though she prefers me to do our couple driving.
9. Sherri has lost the use of one eye due to a botched retinal reattachment surgery in 1979.
10. This eye surgery occurred while she was pregnant with our youngest daughter.
11. She had very heavy eyebrows until part of the way through freshman year in college.
12. Sherri is one year and eleven months older than I.
13. She is not excited about Valentine's Day or Sweetest Day for us as a couple. Another good for
me.
14. We both have never celebrated the Hallmark-made Grandparent's Day.
15. Sherri was a 2nd place all-city tennis player at a young age (10 or so).
16. She suffered some sexual harassment when working for the local movie theater in high school.
17. Retrospectively, Sherri missed some good high school experiences because of her infatuation
with a boy.
18. She married her college sweetheart. (so did I).
19. She has a good sense of humor and has really nurtured it since having been around me all this
time.
20. She still laughs at some of my jokes that she's heard forever.
21. She doesn't care to see the world.
22. Sherri doesn't like flying all that much. It's not fear, just dislike of the entire experience.
23. She's not interested in ever taking a cruise.
24. Sherri occasionally likes to take "the scenic route" on our trips.
25. She's a good ice skater.
26. She's a good roller skater.
27. She ALWAYS over dresses for winter activities.
28. Sherri has coached cheerleading, but only one sports team with a fellow teacher in her first
teaching year.
29. She is generous to a fault, ask our son-in-law, Nathan.
30. Her memory is amazing. If you need to know the birth date of a high school friend, just ask.
31. She is a loyal friend.
32. She usually listens to the suggestions I make regarding her wardrobe choices.
33. She stills asks if she thinks I might be able to fix something, knowing I most likely cannot.
34. Sherri can get addicted easily to computer games.
35. But, just as quickly, can tire of them.
36. She doesn't mind dirt (soil).
37. A dusty house is not a bother to her, to a point.
38. She loves the sun.
39. Sherri will attempt to get a decent tan every summer.
40. She never really wanted a mini van. We settled for a couple of station wagons instead.
41. She is a saver, to a point.
42. Sherri likes the idea of a rummage sale, but
43. dislikes the time it takes to price and organize all the crap.
44. Sherri likes to play board games.
45. She never sits idle. She's always doing something.
46. She really loves to do projects with pre-schoolers, especially our granddaughters.
47. She hates drive-throughs.
48. She almost never calls in food delivery orders.
49. When we were dating, Sherri wore tight fitting clothes and very short skirts, and wore them very
well.
50. Sherri ran games at two of my company picnics and got paid for it.
51. She was the driving force in seeing to it that our daughters were excellent students.
52. Sherri doesn't care for baseball. It's too slow moving.
53. She was a cheerleader in grade school and high school.
54. Sherri was in a musical in high school.
55. She's been wearing glasses since about the second grade.
56. Sherri's favorite thing to teach her pre-schoolers is "Jesus Circle".
57. She doesn't like driving at night. She isn't afraid of the dark, she just doesn't like to.
58. The only real "critters" she's frightened of are snakes and
59. mice.
60. Sherri wanted more children. I said no and we settled for quality instead of quantity.
61. Sherri had many pets as a child, but we had only gold fish, hermit crabs and one cat as parents.
AND
62. She likes movies, but not going out for them as she generally considers them too expensive.
Well, there you have it. Let's see if her list stacks up to mine. Anyway, happy birthday to my best friend and the love of my life, and many more.
