{"id":1115,"date":"2007-08-04T12:24:14","date_gmt":"2007-08-04T12:24:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/8-things-5-3-more\/"},"modified":"2026-11-11T22:04:37","modified_gmt":"2026-11-12T03:04:37","slug":"8-things-5-3-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/8-things-5-3-more\/","title":{"rendered":"8 Things: 5 + 3 More"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was tagged by Christy Tucker<\/a> to share in the latest “random facts” meme … now up to 8. Since I shared 5 back in December<\/a>, I thought I would add 3 more now:<\/p>\n

From December:<\/p>\n

    \n
  1. I have a bunch of hometowns: I grew up in itty<\/span> bitty Lodi<\/span>, WI <\/a>and spent every summer with my friends and cousins at my favorite place in the world … Fish Lake<\/a>. I now hop around among my adopted hometowns of Chicago<\/a>, New York \/ Hoboken<\/a> and Gouldsboro<\/a><\/span> and get back to my original hometown of Lodi<\/span> (to visit mom) as often as possible. [Update: Oooh! I forgot my very first hometown – I was the bi-product of a fun filled (apparently) vacation in New Orleans<\/a> and my Grandma called me Dixie the entire time my then 40 year old mom was pregnant – too much information?]<\/em> <\/li>\n
  2. I had (but lost) many talents: In high school, I played the saxophone in the band, appeared in a handful of musicals, became the first girl on the boys golf team (we didn’t have a girl’s team), and was the captain of the volleyball team.<\/li>\n
  3. I had (but gave up) a great career: After 16 years as an insurance underwriter, I gave up the bright lights and glamour to pursue my edtech<\/span> geek passions.<\/li>\n
  4. I want permanent “student” status: My goal has always been to have a current student ID card in my wallet. I have been largely successful in achieving this goal with student ID cards from University of Wisconsin-Madison (BBA<\/span> in Finance ’85 – ’89), University of Illinois at Chicago (MBA ’94 – ’96), New York University (Instructional Design courses ’05) and Indiana University (MS in Instructional Systems Technology ’06+). Now, with this whole informal learning path I’m on, I see that the ID card isn’t mandatory in order to achieve “student” status. <\/li>\n
  5. Go Badgers!<\/a> ‘Nuf<\/span> said.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    … and 3 more now:<\/p>\n

        6.  Today is my anniversary! Happy Day, hubby!<\/p>\n

    \"Roll<\/a><\/p>\n
       
        7. I’ve decided to turn in an application to     Indiana University’s IST PhD program<\/a>. <\/p>\n

        8. I adore popcorn (with lots of butter)!<\/p>\n

    … and my 3 new tags Durff<\/a>, Ms. Mercer<\/a>, Lee Baber<\/a> … you are all “it”!<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    I was tagged by Christy Tucker to share in the latest “random facts” meme … now up to 8. Since I shared 5 back in December, I thought I would add 3 more now: From December: I have a bunch of hometowns: I grew up in itty bitty Lodi, WI and spent every summer with…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[194,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-design","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1115"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3033,"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1115\/revisions\/3033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}