Fun facts about Dana

I am a complete DAREDEVIL...I love going to amusement parks and water parks. There is not one roller coaster I won't ride. I once got on the Giant Drop (Six flags Great America), 6 times in a row, I felt horrible after, but had to prove a point. The killing part is...I am afraid of heights...I am terrified to go on a ladder...go figure.


I love HORROR movies. I scan the television everyday to see if a horror movie is coming on. A few of my all time favs are Candyman, The Exorcist, Salem's Lot, Halloween, Carrie, and Prom Night. When I was a kid, we always saw our horror films at the Drive-In, my brother and I would lay on top of the car, stick our hands in the windows and scare the hell out my mom and sister. My dad always fell asleep in the back.

I have 6 pets and the children want to add on...ugh. I have one crazy Chi-rat (Chihuahua/ Rat terrier mix), one crazy kitten, 1 Beta Fish, and 2 red ear aquatic turtles and 1 yellow baby... we had 9 hermit crabs and a Alligator Gecko, but they croaked....I am thinking about allowing the kids to get a bird, haven't made up my mine yet...

Nobody believes I am 31, everyone thinks I am a teenager. I get carded everywhere I go. I can't even buy freaking lottery tickets without being carded. I think its the height....lol

In school I was always on the honor roll, but I was always in trouble for fighting. The kids used to pick on me because I was short and many thought they would bully me, but after a couple of KNOCKOUTS....they left me alone really fast. My brother wanted a little brother, instead he got me and every Saturday, he would teach me how to box, wrestle, and teach me his Kung-Fu moves. I started testing it out on all the little boys in the neighborhood and got dubbed the TINY TERROR....Now my daughter is the same way and I hate it. PAYBACK IS A MUTHA...

I am a TOTAL and COMPLETE MOMMA'S GIRL. I am sooooo spoiled that is sickening. I get jealous when my mom spends toooo much time with my sister. Sometimes I even get mad, but then I have to snap back to reality, after all I'm 31 and not 13. I spend lots of time with my mom. She is my absolute best friend. I see her atleast 3 times a week and talk to her all day...
She just got home from Acapulco, she was there for 2 weeks and I was dying....


I was a teenage mother. My husband and I dated in high school and when I was a senior, I found out I was pregnant. At first, I was in denial. Praying for my monthly friend to arrive, but she was a definite no show. I first suspected I was pregnant in February....I got soooo sick in class, but passed it off as a bug. I knew for a fact I was pregnant in April, told myself I would tell my parents after prom which was in May, then I said I better wait until after I graduated in June, by the time July rolled around I still said nothing, I didn't know how to tell my parents. One night I decided to sleep in my mom's room and I was stretching and she looked at my stomach and it was just a little curve and she said " Dana, are you pregnant?" I started crying and told her yes...she was not MAD, just disappointed. My dad went into a rage, banned my then boyfriend, now husband from the house. He didn't get a chance to step foot in my house (atleat while my dad was there) until the day I came home from the hospital. It was a very stressful time for me. My mother-in-law was not supportive, nor was my father. My mother-in-law told me to my face that under no circumstances would she allow her son in the delivery room, because he was not old enough or mature enough to witness a birth...HUH? Was she freaking real..he was obviously old enough to make our son, but not old enough to see him being born. My husband didn't listen and was there every step of the way. He has always been there. We proved so many people wrong. 8 years after the birth of both of our son, we were married. We have been married for 8 years and together 16 years. Still in love. I finished college, he is a successful district manager for Walgreens.. I didn't slow him down, the children didn't hinder me from getting my degree, and we are still TOGETHER...all things people said would never HAPPEN....

I hope I gave you a small peek into my life..until next time...peace

Dana