Joan Ellen Cornell

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I have been keeping a list on my phone of ideas of things I want to do with Porter this summer. I think my list is finally complete, so i'm posting it on here for anyone who needs some ideas :)

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Day 4. 
"Favorite quote and why you love it"

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Day 3
"Things that make you uncomfortable"

This is a hard one. I don't get "uncomfortable" very easily I guess...

~ When people ask me to take sides right there and then. Hate it.
~ Public speaking. Always so uncomfortable right before hand, but once I get going it's not bad.
~ When people misspell words, or use the wrong word instead of the right one (i.e. they're, their, there). The part that makes me uncomfortable is the fact that I feel the need to correct it, but don't want to be annoying, ha.
~ Shopping for clothes with other people, especially boyfriends. I like to shop alone for clothes, period. Anything else is fine, just clothes...
~ Wearing socks. Especially in bed. HATE SOCKS.

And that's probably about it. There may be more, but can't think of anything else at the moment. 

And a picture because no blog post is cool without a picture :)
The many faces of Porter...

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Day 2. 
"Educate us on something you know a lot about or are good at"

I am going to repost one of my sewing tutorials from two years ago, because that's what i'm good at, but I don't have time to sew anything new today...ha.

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So Day 1. Off to a good start...haha.
"Story of your life in 250 words or less"

Ready...set...go...

I was born in Illinois in 1984. I moved to Texas when I was about one and lived there for a year. My sister was born there, then we moved back to Illinois. My mom got married to my (step)"dad" when I was 4 and they built a house from the ground up. The house I lived in until I was a freshman in high school. They got divorced when I was in 5th grade and my mom moved 1/2 hour away and I lived with my Dad until freshman year. I then moved in with my mom and went to high school 1/2 hour away from all of my friends. After high school, I went to community college for a year with my best friend Val. I didn't know where I wanted to go or what I wanted to do so I stuck around for a bit. Then I discovered Northern Michigan University (in the Upper Peninsula, soooo beautiful there!) and I moved 8 hours away from home. I graduated from there in December of 2006, lived there for another year, and moved to Colorado in January of 2008. Sidenote- I planned on moving to CO before I had ever even been here. I packed up my 2 door Cavalier with as much as I could fit in it, and moved out here alone, not knowing anyone here. I met Jeremy (Porter's Dad) a year later, we dated for a year and a half, and I got pregnant with P. We tried to make it work for a long time, it didn't, and I moved out when P was 9 months old.
Now, I'm a single mom and i'm making it work.
I'm livin...

285 words...so my life is more than 250 words...oh well :)