I thought it would be nice to get to know each other a little better. This week, for the Thursday Three, I’ll list three things about myself. Then you do the same. Try to be creative and list things that others might not already know about you.
1. I once met Mr. T. (had my picture taken with him, too) 
If you’re too young to remember Mr. T, you’ll probably be hearing about him soon, when the movie The A Team hits theaters.
2. My first job was at KFC. I got fired for not doing the dishes fast enough. It’s true!
3. I had braces twice and I could use them again. (Wear those retainers, people!)
Your turn!
Remember, next Thursday is Thirsty Thursday, so look for a great writing article to be posted instead of the Thursday Three.
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Hmmm, lets see:
1) I was born in Beirut, Lebanon but consider myself 100% a GRITS…(girl raised in the South)
2) My first driving mishap was to knock the support columns out from underneath the carport…which was very much a part of the house. My daddy wouldn’t speak to me for three days. (Thank goodness I was dating my future husband who just happened to have a house jack…)
3) I fall into holes that are not even there…seriously! I can trip in a smooth, paved parking lot.
Oh there is so much more, but we are limited to three, right?
LoL, Hanne. My daughter could relate to #3. She’ll be walking along the halls at school with her friends, trip, and keep walking. Her friends are like, “are you ok?” She says, “Yeah, no big deal. I’m used to it.” LoL
Thanks for sharing!
1)I met Liam Gallagher and got his autograph when Oasis were at the height of their fame.
2)I always thought I wanted to write childrens’ fiction but my first book turned out to be a memoir.
3)I was engaged once but not many people know that.
It’s nice learning things about others – come on people, be brave!
Sharon
Thanks for sharing, Sharon!
Not to sound incredibly ignorant, here, (which I will anyway), but who is Liam Gallagher and Oasis?
1. My first job was at KFC. I was just 17…but I didn’t get fired for dish maintenance…I met my husband there.
2. I owned a Christian book store for 8 years before coming home to work. I love to read Christian material.
3. I make soap for a living. In order to help support my family while I stay home and try to get started on writing, I make all natural soap and spa products and sell them online and at craft shows. It makes a perfect fit for our lifestyle.
1} I was a meat wrapper at the age of 15
2} I spent my 25th birthday in Australa, I’m from Oregon “Bring on the SUN!”
3} the common saying in our house, via my boys, “My you are SO weird!” Well, it’s true!
Cool about the KFC thing, Renea. My family still teases me about getting fired. LoL
Ha! I hear that one all the time, too! But weird is a good thing, right?
1. I’ve met Third Day, Audio Adrenaline, Bebo Norman, Jeremy Camp and gotten their autographs. I live next door to some of the band members of Silverline. I rode in an elevator with Garth Brooks. My best (boy) friend in grade school is now quite well known in the classical music world. (In other words, I’m a musician junkie.)
2. I tried selling Cutco knives for awhile.
3. My husband and I met in college but didn’t date until 9 years later – he actually had a huge crush on a friend of mine first! He finally “wised” up and put his eye on the true prize.
1) I was in the Air Force.
2) I have climbed Mt. Katahadin.
3) On my way to Mt. Katahdin, I was thrown out of the Atlanta Airport for inadvertantly not checking my husband’s backpack–it had a firearm in the bottom of it. I didn’t see it when I was packing. Needless to say, I missed my flight and missed jail by the skin of my teeth.
1. My kids like to inform me I’m “SOOO OLD”(36 by the way)
2. I had a newspaper delivery route. I delivered the paper during the wee hours of the night. First thing in the morning I dreaded answering the phone. Do you know how mean people can get if they don’t have their paper by 6:00 A.M.? Really mean!
3.I am technically challenged. I still like to start any good story with pen and paper and my cellphone is so old that when I lost it in my friend’s car, she gave it to her kids thinking it was a toy.LoL
1.) I first started working at my office job when I was 13 almost fourteen and volunteered until I was fifteen and could be legally paid.
2.) Besides cats and horses being my favorite animals, I LOVE chickens! We have four hens and a rooster and they make me smile everyday. They’re so cute! (They were hand raised so they are friendly.)
3.) I am not a witty person. I have my “moments” as my family says, but it’s mainly the facial expressions I make unknowingly that makes people laugh. 0_o
Oh this is fun!
1. I lived on Cat Island, Green Turtle Cay, and Nassau, Bahamas, when I was a young child. (My parents were missionaries.)
2. My favorite animal is a giraffe. I have quite a collection, mostly from my students and children.
3. I can recite the books of the Bible backwards. It’s a good way to focus, to take your mind off something..or to put yourself to sleep.
Since none of you know me (I’ve recently joined faithwriters), this shouldn’t be too difficult.
1. My first job was working at a mushroom farm, picking mushrooms (at age 13).
2. I’ve kept a worm bin for several years, but just recently gave it away. I miss those little worms. Easiest pets ever!
3. I’m going to see Michael W. Smith in concert in a few weeks!
Oooh…I’ve seen Michael. He’s awesome! Enjoy the concert!
Yvonne – I’d love to hear you recite the books of the Bible backwards. Too cool!
Tammy McLean – HILARIOUS about the cell phone! LoL
Without priority order . . .
After landing in Madrid, I inadvertently threw my passport in the garbage can, just prior to going through customs.
I’m sure I’ve seen the purest and most stunningly turquoise lake on earth, at camp in the high arctic.
Seeing the magnificent Mona Lisa, at the Louvre, left me to never trust the copy of any artwork again.
1. In the Air Force my husband, then fiance, and I flew from England to LA. We were the flight right before Pan AM flight 103 that blew up over Scotland.
2. In the Air Force, I loaded bombs for a living!
3. I was one of very few female mechanical technicians to work on the space shuttle at Kennedy Space center from 1990-1995.
Ok, let’s see…
1. 1st job as information operator for telephone company (16)
2. Only girl, 6 brothers. Husband also from family with 6 boys, 1 girl
3. Have no sense of smell. Never smelled anything in my life.
1. I once worked in a factory making fishing lures.
2. I lived in Zambia for 5 years at a mission school.
3. I once was a cub scout den mother.
Mona,
One of my best friends has the same thing. She can’t smell anything. Which is good when you pass a sewage plant, but terrible when you’re in the middle of a field of flowers.
Thanks for sharing!
1. I was 13 years old when John kennedy was shot.
2. I am an entrepreneur and started at the ripe age of 8 selling my hand made potholders for 50 cents a piece door to door. I always sold out within 20 minutes. Not bad for a kid.
3. I forget…and even though I am sharing this…shhh keep it between us. I have just lost my fuit vitamin drink that helps that very issue.
OOPPS Forgot the “R” in fruit. And there you have it.
You know Z.E.C. I just love chickens and I have an armload of chicken jokes that have made me famous!
I am curious, how does someone give away a worm farm? Was it in the ground?
1. I have never left continental United States.
2. I was an Athletic Director and Teacher before I got married. Still teaching part time.
3. My first job was dusting furniture at a furniture store where my Dad worked. I announced at church that I was being paid under the table…not knowing really what that meant.
Lynda, this was such a wonderful idea. I’ve just enjoyed reading through all the interesting tidbits of other people’s lives, and now I realize what a boring person I am! I thought I would use this space to let people know 3 things God has done for me:
1. He saved me from a life of alcohol and drug abuse, and from sexual immorality.
2. By far, the most difficult part of walking with Jesus has often been the church. But, ironically, by far–the most healing, building up and personal growth has come through the church.
3. Even after so many years I am amazed that he continues to patiently work his love and promises into my life. His presence and love are very tangible, and he truly does work all things together for good.
1. I once started a singles group in my church and half the group ended up getting married, but I am still single.
2. I long to write, but after working a full time job as a medical transcriptionist, helping my elderly parents with things they need help with and my sister with her three kids there is not much time for writing and I am pretty tired – but someday I hope! I did write a couple articles for a church newsletter and a poem, but that is all I have done and long to do more.
3. I used to dress up as a clown, get all made up with the white face paint and all and go cheer patient’s up at a local hospital that I worked at, local nursing homes, and went a couple times to a mental health institute to the children’s ward. It was a lot of fun and also rewarding to bring smiles to sad faces and make then laugh – they say their is healing in laughter! Just happy to lift their spirits, if just for a moment!
Oops! I said my sister has 3 kids – it is only 2 – my apologies!
1. I was hired for my first job because of my penmanship. The Manager didn’t believe that I submitted the resume, so he had me write a paragraph in front of him, I got the job!
2. I went on a cruise from Bermuda to virginia on an Aircraft Carrier. I was not in the navy.
3. I once danced with Jimmy Hoffas wife, by his request.
I once had a prophetic word given to me by Katherine Cullman, and another by Francis Hunter’s husband. I was a new Christian and was too excited to hear either one.
I lost my hair piece while dancing with my husband at a party.
I kept a shoe in my car for driving as not to ruin my good shoes. Forgot to take it off. I was late for work so I jumped out of the car and was half way through the parking lot before I realized it. One was a high heal, the other a flat.
I was born in Alaska while it was still a territory.
I went to Pakistan to teach and preach in over 25 churches and open-air services. It was really quite humbling to see the hand of God move in such marvelous ways.
I am the first one in my family to have received a degree from college, B.Th..
1. I wanted to be an opera singer.
2. I visited England and enjoyed seeing all the history.
3. I will be sending a talking animal story for children at the end of the month hoping to be published.
Gosh, Laurie, you sound like a breath of fresh air to others. I like this.
I have read everyone of these, thououghly enlightening and fun. Great idea!
1) I was only sent to “the Principal’s Office” once during all my years in school. The result: I had to write 500 times: “I must not forget my needlepoint for activity day again”. (Wasn’t I bad?!!?)
2) I have a not-so-hidden big-time crush on George Strait.
3) One of my favourite things is to go on week-long silent retreats – just me, and meeting my director once a day.
This is FUN. I have really enjoyed reading everyone’s stories. You are all soooo interesting – I am struggling to come up with one interesting point and am pleased there is no time clock to display my ‘time taken’. Here we go.
When visiting Israel I felt deja vu until I realised Jesus’ Spirit within me was very familiar with the place.
As a junior nurse my future husband lectured my class on Orthopaedics. Sometimes he would pick up one of the front row girls’ hands to demonstrate a carpal or metacarpal – and of course they would later pretend to ‘swoon’. But he never looked my way. It was years before I could get his nose out of patient charts long enough to notice me.
When in heaven I want to spend time talking and dicussing God with Enoch, Joshua, Paul and Mary …if I can take my eyes of Jesus.
1. My friend and I had a military escort to walk up the hill at Arlington National Cemetery. We placed a wreath of Jacky Kennedy roses on John F Kennedy’s grave site. All that was there at that time was the eternal flame and the white picket fence.
2.I was the cub scout den mom of an original member of Audio Adrenaline.
3.I spoke to and rode in an elevator with Lisa Welchel, of TV fame, she now travels and speaks with Women of Faith.
http://faithwriters.com/blog/2010/04/22/three-things-about-you/
—– Original Message —– From: “Myrtle Thompson”
To: “FaithWriters Blog”
Sent: Friday, April 23, 2010 10:58 PM
Subject: Re: FaithWriters Blog
Are you serious? Three things about me, whom none of you know? You don’t
need to print this; I am also unable to keep to “few words” [?] as I suspect
you want. Anyway, here it is:
[?]I have spent time in 4 countries in addition to the US: Pakistan, Iran,
and the UAE where we were missionaries, and in India, where my in laws were
missionaries.
[?]I am proof that God can help us learn a foreign language if we also put in
the time; I learned to read, write and speak the Urdu language which is
written in the Persian or Arabic script, right to left.
[?]It’s a long story, but I know that God has a sense of humor. My husband
and I are worlds apart in just about everything in our backgrounds and in
the kind of people we are, but we have been married for 60 years and still
love each other, cannot imagine being married to anyone else![?]
Myrtle Virginia Thompson (aka Jenny)
(Keep in mind that Myrtle is mentioned 6 times in the Bible; also, it was
the translation for Hadassah, Queen Esther’s Jewish name. But I didn’t know
that when my college roommates nicknamed me Jenny.)
Myrtle,
Many of us have gotten to know each other on the FaithWriters message boards, so we know many things already. That’s why I said “unique” things. But, obviously, if you aren’t on the boards, we don’t know you at all.
This post is so that we can get to know each other and to have fun. 
Thanks for participating!
I am asking LaTawnia to contact me. I saw her website and it is absolutely beautiful. I do not have a website as of yet, so I need to be contacted by email. Thanks.
1) I am obsessed with leaving a legacy when I die. I do not want to die and have God ask me ‘so what DID you really do?
2)I have such high energy levels that I just think I am going to crush into something one of these days
3)I am only happy when I am giving away; I have no sense of self outside this realm and that worries me
What wonderful attributes, Beatrice! Leaving a legacy and something of eternal value should be what we’re all obsessed with.
Leaving a legacy; perhaps, Lynda, another idea to blog.
God saved me and called me to preach when i was 18. At one point I felt God telling me I would someday preach all over the world. At the age of 42 I was diagnosed with polycystic kidneys…and went on home dialysis that same year. In 1992 my wife gave me a kidney that is working fine. Since the kidney operation I have physically preached on 5 continents and am engaged in Sermon Audio where I preached in 43 different countries last month. God is good and keeps His promises…no matter how impossible they seem when he makes them. I know this is more than three…but how do you choose?