Lily

Let’s meet some more IMAO readers. Today, it’s Lily.

What’s the story behind your name? I have a bookmark that says my first name is from the Hebrew word for lily, and lilies are one of my favorite flowers, so yeah. I used to use Lady Lily, because my dear husband is a knight (of Columbus) but then he would say “You’re no lady, you’re my wife.” and that got real old. So now I am just plain old Lily.
Where do you live? Lead, South Dakota. 12 Miles from Sturgis home of one of the biggest Harley Davidson rallies in the US and 12 miles from Wyoming and 40 miles from Mount Rushmore.
How old are you? Well it’s like this, as a newly minted Democrat, I voted for Ronald Reagan in my first ever Presidential election even though my Grandmother-in-law-to-be tried to make me promise to vote for Jimmy Carter. She said he had vowed to open up the 7 freezers in the basement of the Whitehouse so the American people could finally see the Space Aliens they had in there, on ice, for ourselves. Grandma Margaret always did hate a cover up. She was the first moonbat I ever knew. But not the last. God rest her soul.
Tell us briefly about yourself. I am happily married to a great guy and we have 6 trophy children. Our oldest is a Mandarin Chinese Linguist for the Air National Guard. Next we have a son who is a plumber in Wyoming. (He makes more than all the rest of us combined.) One son works for G.E. Financial and is going to school full time for Industrial Engineering. These guys are all married and are parents to our four grandsons and two granddaughters. Our oldest daughter is a junior at the University of Arizona. She is double majoring in Linguistics
and Japanese with minors in Spanish and Arabic. One daughter is a junior in High School and is a talented musician who plays flute, alto sax and sings and who plans to be a Chemical Engineer but hasn’t yet chosen a college. Our
youngest is 12 and also plans on being an engineer. A roller coaster engineer, that is. I home schooled them all until I had to go to work to pay off some massive medical bill debt. I am a certified Catechist for the Diocese of Rapid City and I teach the Confirmation Class at my parish. I trained under Archbishop Chaput who is one of the best bishops I know and a great and holy man. I also work with our parish high school and middle school youth groups. I do actually have a paying job too and work in the local Middle School as a one-on-one paraprofessional (a type of teacher’s aide) teaching severely emotionally disturbed and academically challenged students. Since most of my own kids are now gone, I have lots of free time on my hands, so I am also going to school to finish out a degree in Computer Network Administration. I hope to be done before I am 50 and definitely before one of my students knifes me in the halls.
How long have you been reading IMAO? Since the just before the infamous T-shirt Babe contest. I just had to keep reading to find out how it all turned out. At first I was really annoyed when you hired on other bloggers, but I guess they aren’t quite as lame as they seemed at first. Now I wish you had hired me too. You don’t have any girls at all which is totally uncool. SarahK doesn’t count because she has her own blog and never posts here.
What’s your favorite IMAO post? This one.
[heh -Ed.]
If you were to describe IMAO in three words, what would those be? To quote the immortal words of a Nobel Peace Prize Judge…….Not entirely accurate.
What’s your favorite political issue? Once I realized that no administration is ever going to come clean on the frozen alien conspiracy, I have turned my attention to the life issues. All of them. I really believe that we can do better for women and children and old people than to kill them off if they seem to be inconvenient. I can
really get into Nuking the Moon and Terrorists, but the young, the sick and the elderly, not so much.
Do you have a website? If so, please tell us briefly about it. I have a Facebook page that I use to keep up with my kids and grandkids who are far away. I also have a Myspace page that I use to keep in contact with my youth group kids. They really work great for that. Otherwise, I just post lame comments on the sites of others.
What’s your solution to the monkey political assassin problem in India? I would collect a select handful of the emotionally disturbed students that I know best, give ’em some weapons and ammo, some picture IDs (they can’t read) of the assassins in question, the promise of some M&Ms for hitting the right targets and a good tazering if they miss, and turn ’em loose. Believe me, these kids can really work hard at a job if given the right incentives. I don’t think people give emotionally disturbed, retarded kids enough credit or let them use their talents to their best advantage. It’s a win, win I tell you.
[That idea would make a great, inspirational after-school movie. -Ed.]

If you commented in the last post asking for participants, you’re still in the running. Thanks to everyone who has participated thus far; just because you may not think you’re interesting doesn’t mean we won’t enjoy your story.