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My Life

  • BIOSOCIAL: I am born

    I am a colicky baby. My parents said, "if you had been our first, we never would have had another."
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    COGNITIVE: I experience an insecure attachment to my parents

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    PSYCHOSOCIAL: My best friend is Kelly

  • COGNITIVE: 1st trip to Disney World

  • PSYCHOSOCIAL: I meet Ted Lindsay at a charity event

    PSYCHOSOCIAL: I meet Ted Lindsay at a charity event
  • PSYCHOSOCIAL: I meet Gordie Howe, "Mr. Hockey", at a charity event

    PSYCHOSOCIAL: I meet Gordie Howe, "Mr. Hockey", at a charity event
  • BIOSOCIAL: I suffer a severe allergic reaction to a bee sting.

  • BIOSOCIAL: I break my collar bone.

  • PSYCHOSOCIAL: I meet Ron Mason, coach of the MSU Hockey team. He was inducted into U.S Hockey Hall of Fame in 2013.

  • PSYCHOSOCIAL: I meet Ernie Harwell, "the voice of summer", at a Tigers' game

    PSYCHOSOCIAL: I meet Ernie Harwell, "the voice of summer", at a Tigers' game
  • BIOSOCIAL: I break my arm.

  • PSYCHOSOCIAL: I meet Erik Estrada from CHiPS

  • PSYCHOSOCIAL: I meet basketball star Kareem Abdul Jabar

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    COGNITIVE: I participate in Odyssey of The Mind (later called Creative Minds)

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    PSYCHOSOCIAL: My best friends are Tessa and Sara

  • PSYCHOSOCIAL: My parents divorce.

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    PSYCHOSOCIAL: Following the divorce, my relationship with my father deteriorates. I do not see him for 6 years.

  • PSYCHOSOCIAL: I experience a traumatic event.

  • BIOSOCIAL: Travel to Cozumel, Mexico

  • COGNITIVE: I visit Epcot in Disney World

  • COGNITIVE: Boarshead Theater, a theater which ran in Lansing, Michigan for over 25 years, puts on one of my plays, a comedy called "One Night With The Jacobsons".

  • PSYCHOSOCIAL: My brother gets married.

  • COGNITIVE: I travel to New York City with Model U.N. I represent Spain.

  • COGNITIVE: I travel to Canada and view Niagara Falls with my friend Tessa

  • COGNITIVE: I graduate from high school one semester early

  • COGNITIVE: Apply at colleges. I am accepted at Central Michigan University and Wayne State University.

  • PSYCHOSOCIAL: I am voted class clown of the 2006 graduating class.

  • COGNITIVE: I travel to New Zealand and Australia

  • BIOSOCIAL: I jump off a building in Auckland, New Zealand (it's called "Sky Jumping", it's a guided bungee jump)

  • COGNITIVE: I begin attending Lansing Community College

  • PSYCHOSOCIAL: I get married!

  • BIOSOCIAL: I suffer a miscarriage. I am deeply saddened.

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    COGNITIVE: The Epic Excursion

    I spend a few weeks exploring the United States in an attempt to figure out which state I want to reside in for the next few years. I visited the following states: Utah, Idaho, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, Indiana, Illinois, Montana, Arizona, New Mexico, Iowa, Texas, and Colorado.
  • COGNITIVE: I visit the Grand Canyon

  • COGNITIVE: Travel to the Baker Creek Heirloom Seed company and Laura Ingalls Wilder's home in Mansfield, Missouri

  • PSYCHOSOCIAL: It's a boy! My first child is born!

  • BIOSOCIAL: I begin raising chickens and ducks for eggs.

  • BIOSOCIAL: We buy our first house and move!

    We move from our rental house in town in Williamston, Michigan to our new home out in the country in Fowlerville, Michigan.
  • PSYCHOSOCIAL: It's a boy! My second child is born!

  • PSYCHOSOCIAL: My in-laws go through a bitter divorce, thus opening up new wounds for me from my own parents' divorce.

  • PSYCHOSOCIAL: My brother and sister-in-law divorce. My relationship with my brother improves dramatically.

  • COGNITIVE: I begin attending Schoolcraft College

  • COGNITIVE: I take a cruise to the Bahamas!

  • PSYCHOSOCIAL: I am diagnosed with PTSD

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    PSYCHOSOCIAL: My mom and step-dad are involved in a serious car accident during a snow storm. They spend nearly 7 weeks in the ICU at U of M until my step-dad passes away, sadly.

  • COGNITIVE: My photography is published in the Jan/Feb issue of Michigan History magazine

  • PSYCHOSOCIAL: My step-dad passes away due to injuries sustained during a car accident.

  • PSYCHOSOCIAL: We get a cat!

  • COGNITIVE: I graduate from Schoolcraft College with an Associate of Arts

  • COGNITIVE: I begin working on my bachelor's degree in Business Administration. I eventually transfer to Ferris University after obtaining 90 credits for transfer.

  • COGNITIVE: I graduate from Ferris University with a bachelor's degree in Business Administration!

  • BIOSOCIAL/COGNITIVE: We buy a bigger house in a nicer town.

    We move from our small house out in the country in Fowlerville, Michigan to a larger house in town in a nicer community.
  • BIOSOCIAL/COGNITIVE: Following years of treatment, my PTSD goes into remission and I am able to live a normal life.

  • COGNITIVE: I receive my Masters in Business!

  • COGNITIVE: I write a children's book

  • COGNITIVE: I earn my Doctoral Degree in Business Administration from Baker College!

    I'M A DOCTOR! WOOHOOOOO!
  • BIOSOCIAL: I finally develop cataracts...

    BIOSOCIAL: I finally develop cataracts and therefore get my "free Lasik surgery" to fix my eyes, as covered by my insurance company. (I'm bitter that my insurance company doesn't cover Lasik eye surgery). Every year I ask my eye doctor if I have cataracts yet.
  • BIOSOCIAL: I learn how to surf!

  • BIOSOCIAL/COGNITIVE: I learn how to scuba dive and become scuba certified. I explore shipwrecks.

  • COGNITIVE: I travel to Japan and China!

  • PSYCHOSOCIAL: I become a grandma!

  • COGNITIVE: I travel to Brazil!

  • BIOSOCIAL/PSYCHOSOCIAL: I buy small a vacation home in Florida and spend 4 weeks of every winter there.

  • COGNITIVE: I travel to Alaska!

  • COGNITIVE: I travel all throughout Europe and explore!

  • COGNITIVE: I become a faconer and become skilled in the art of falconry.

    Seriously. I have always wanted to do this!
  • COGNITIVE: I finally learn how to knit...

  • PSYCHOSOCIAL: I become a great-grandma!

  • BIOSOCIAL: I get a hip replacement

  • BIOSOCIAL: I die in my sleep in a nice warm bed.