Please Allow Me to Introduce Myself

By Leigh Ann McCready

I am

• A teacher, a mother, a friend• Fun, but I know when to quit• Smart, but still learning• Serious if I have to be• More about big picture than details• Dependable, trustworthy,

I was

• A very good kid until the summer I was 15• Working class• Better off living with my grandparents• Very self-conscious and insecure• The only child my parents had together• The first person in my family to graduate from

regular high school

I am not

• Fake• A liar• Too Nice• Too Mean• Disrespectful• Naïve

I like

• Peace• Stability• Honesty• Tact• People who say what they mean and mean

what they say• The Golden Rule

I would like to (or My Bucket List)

My favorite things

• Kids• Laughing• Reading• Talking• My phone <3• Music• Movies• Criminal Minds

10 (or 25?) Truths

I’d ratherWould you rather….

[] Live without musicor[] Live without TV?

Would you rather….[] Eat a bar of soapor[] Drink a bottle of dishwashing liquid?

Would you rather….[] Be called a racistor[] A traitor to your country?

Would you rather….[] Lose your legsor[] Lose your arms?

Would you rather….[] Have a beautiful house and an ugly caror[] Have an ugly house and a beautiful car?

Would you rather….[] Be blindor[] Be deaf?

Would you rather….in a fire…save a..[] Siblingor[] Stranger?

Would you rather….[] Eat sushior[] Eat liver?

Would you rather….[] Live in Antarcticaor[] Live in Death Valley?

Would you rather….[] Have 3 eyesor[] Webbed Feet?

Would you rather….[] Find true loveor[] Get $ 1,000,000?

Would you rather….[] Always have to say what’s on your mindor[] Never speak again?

Would you rather….[] Be gossiped aboutor[] Never talked about at all?

Would you rather….[] Have stars in your eyesor[] Eyes in the back of your head?

Would you rather….[] Have X-Ray visionor[] Bionic Hearing?

Would you rather….[] Be able to hear any conversationor[] Take back anything you say?

Would you rather….[] End hungeror[] End hatred?

Would you rather….[] Publish your diaryor[] Make a movie about your most embarrassing moment?

Would you rather….[] Get caught singing in the mirroror[] Spy on your crush?

Would you rather….[] Be a dog named Killeror[] A cat named Fluffy?

Would you rather….[] Be stranded on an island with someone you hateor[] Be stranded on an island alone?

Would you rather….[] Get evenor[] Get over it?

Would you rather….[] Always loseor[] Never play?

Would you rather….[] Be forced to tell your best friend a lieor[] Tell your parents the truth?

Would you rather….[] Know it allor[] Have it all?

Would you rather….[] Give bad adviceor[] Get bad advice?

Would you rather….[] Have sand in your shortsor[] Have water in your ear?

Would you rather….[] Forget your sunscreenor[] Forget your sunglasses?

Would you rather….[] Kiss a jellyfishor[] Step on a crab?

Would you rather….[] Own a ski lodgeor[] Own a surf camp?

Would you rather….[] Forget who you wereor[] Forget everyone else and who they were?

Would you rather….[] Have one wish granted todayor[] Have 3 wishes granted in 10 years?

Would you rather….[] Give up your computeror[] Give up your pet?

Would you rather….[] Be the sandcastleor[] The wave?

Would you rather….[] Write the worst book in historyor[] Record the worst song in history?

Would you rather….[] Get free chocolate for 1 yearor[] Get free potatoes…..forever?

Would you rather….[] Have half days everydayor[] No homework…..forever?

Would you rather….[] Wear all pink to schoolor[] Wear all purple to school?

Would you rather….[] Take a math testor[] Do a lab in science?

Would you rather….[] Have a mansion in the middle of nowhereor[] Share an apartment with 10 friends?

Would you rather….[] Bake cookies in cooking classor[] Do art projects in art class?

Would you rather….[] Have a pie-eating contestor[] A wheelbarrow race?

Would you rather….[] Have a big group of friendsor[] One very close friend?

Would you rather….[] Be nervous, but excitedor[] Be relaxed, but bored?

Would you rather….[] Wear a school uniformor[] Last year’s Halloween costume?

Would you rather….[] Spend the day surfing the Internetor[] Surf the ocean?

Would you rather….[] Be an actor/actress for a big movieor[] Be the director of the big movie?

Would you rather….[] Have an ugly, loyal dogor[] A prize-winning, snobby cat?

Would you rather….[] Be saved by Supermanor[] Meet Winnie the Pooh?

Would you rather….[] Go to an amusement parkor[] Go to a family reunion?

Would you rather….[] Be rich with an unhappy jobor[] Be payed less with a job you like?

Would you rather….[] Not be able to use your phoneor[] Not be able to use your e-mail?

Would you rather….[] Snowboard in the winteror[] Swim in the summer?

Would you rather….[] Pick your own noseor[] Pick someone else’s?

Would you rather….[] Be a treeor[] Live in one?

Would you rather….[] Write a mysteryor[] Write a poem?

Would you rather….[] Be popular, but meanor[] Be nice, but unpopular?

Would you rather….[] Eat rubberor[] Eat plastic?

Would you rather….[] Be shotor[] Shoot someone?

Would you rather….[] Be strandedor[] Get kidnapped?

Would you rather….[] Skip Christmas for a yearor[] Skip your Birthday for a year?

The Future (not the End!)