Hey, I'm John
I'm an electronic
and computer network technician by education. Before my formal
education, I started working with my brothers as one of dad’s
custodial assistants. Dad was a church custodian. So, I learned
sweeping, vacuuming, large lawn mowing, cleaning bathrooms, and many
things about coal boilers from age 12 to 18. My first paying job was
as a paper boy at 14, then a local butcher’s cleanup assistant,
garden shop employee, greenhouse tender, church carpenter, hospital
carpet layer, McDonald’s fry cook, missionary (French
speaking), McDonald’s night custodian, a landscape gardener
(indoors and out), I was even a ZCMI electronics salesman, potato
processing custodian, and finally a schooled electronic and computer
network technician.
However, more
about me as a person: by nature I'm curios, patient, practical, and
contemplative. As if this wasn’t bad enough. Over the last few
years I’ve helped start a few businesses and in so doing I’ve
needed to know more about myself. You know, attitudes, aptitudes, and
reasoning. What makes me tick (besides all the electrical shocks I’ve
gotten over my lifetime).
In my studies I
found that I'm right brained over left; an INTJ according to Briggs
Myers; and… that my learning style is 33% auditory, 33%
tactile, and 34% visual. So, what does this mean? Well... I have no
off switch. Everything is to be studied, cataloged, and mentally
stored for later use. To understand something I need to experience it
using all three learning styles. This arrangement makes me a little
slower than most on the up take but, I retain information well
and can incorporate it into other lingering ideas equally as well.
My interests are
trains, planes, and some boats. I study engines, nutrition, emotions,
food, chemistry, physics, people and gardening. I like watching,
designing, and participating in various systems. I’m hard to
argue with as you need to satisfy my ears, eyes, and hands to really
win. Hence, I believe that we must know a thing or idea physically,
mentally, emotionally, and spiritually to make it part of us.
If there’s one thing I’ve come to know it’s that we can do anything we put
our minds to believing that we can achieve it. Sure, each of us have a
different arrangement of talents. However, we are only stifled by our own
beliefs.
I’m Laura
I’m a
secretary by education. I wanted to be a stay at home mom, but life
takes you places you don’t expect. I’m thankful that I
was able to stay at home till my youngest was three. But, then my
husband’s health began to really fail; so, I ended up going back to
work.
Past to present, when I was younger
I worked as a hotel maid, a cashier-n-cook at McDonald’s,
and for Kelly Temporary Services. Later, when I
went back to work, my secretarial skills were very old. I ended up
working for a commercial laundry cashiering, renting clothing, and
washing laundry. After 9 years there, they closed the building for
renovation and let the employees go. The renovation took two years. I
spent two years looking for another job. John and I even took a real
estate course, but it ended up being fruitless with our limited funds
at the time. After 72 job rejections I went to Deseret Industries to
upgrade my secretarial skills. I was really good at interviews and
resumes but, I needed updated accounting skills to even get my
current job.
I’m
actually a secretary again for a small company part time. I’ve
also labeled CD’s for a video transfer company and cleaned a
house professionally for a lady twice a month. I’ve enjoyed my
jobs and the people there, but the income didn’t always meet
our family’s needs. I wasn’t wanting to work outside of
the house for the rest of my life. My health even began to decline. I
started having heart racing (tachycardia) problems. My appendix
burst; three weeks before I saw a doctor. I suffered from pelvic
congestion, which required surgery. Then gall stones, shingles, and
an infection finished off the last two years. So, we started this
website to try to help with our health, improve our diet, make an
outlet for my crafts, and help ourselves and others be more
independent.
Since my husband
loves to bring it up, I’m an ESFJ, according to Briggs Myers,
and have a very high auditory learning style score. I’m a left
brained female, my husband is the right brained one. This is rare.
I’m the one who forgets our anniversary and likes sports.
(Olympics, auto racing, etc.) I laugh with my sons when there’s
a whoopee cushion around. I’m very black and white. John has
taught me to be more gray when seeing the world. Since I like people
to be happy I’ll put up with a lot of guff if I know why a
person is dragging along. Our family loves good, non-degrading
sarcasm. This combination ought to make our blogs very interesting at
times for you, our readers.
I play the piano
and have sung in our church choir with John. (he sings far better
than I do). One of the benefits of marrying him was his baritone
voice. Recently our youngest son joined in with his deep bass
vibrato.
We can’t wait to see each other again when we’ve been
apart. We enjoy spending time together. John and I enjoy going to
church, continuing to court, going for drives, collecting model
railroading stuff, watching movies and working on our blog. I enjoy
crocheting, reading and spending time talking with my five sons. It’s
funny, the only way we acquired daughters was through our sons’
marriages. As a result, we have three grandsons now. (Notice, no
granddaughters yet) We love watching movies and playing games as a
family. Our family and religion are a big part of our lives.
