Judy J

Mild mannered small business owner, formerly a USAF Minuteman III Missile Systems analyst team chief (1st woman to target and maintain missiles and command centers, so yes I am actually a Rocket Scientist). Turn off the lights and watch me glow in the dark! Don't hold it against me that I was once a SAC trained killer. Try everything in life at least once. Travel. I have been skydiving (landed and rolled in cactus), whitewater rafted over a 27 foot waterfall in NZ (concussion), hiked in Hawaii within 10 feet of new molten lava (sat on a new hot rock, OUCH!). I've been knocked down and chewed on by a black bear in Montana, was brave enough to once to sit through an entire performance of "Cats", and stupid enough to buy stock in Enron. Best jobs I've ever had? Delivering motorhomes and trucks to dealers across the country tied with working Spring Training for the Boston Red Sox for four seasons (that is why they won the World Series in 2004 of course). Worst Job? Cleaning Lint out of huge commercial dryers. People say that I am funny. Not in the tell a joke catagory, but make people laugh by being myself. I can make a sock talk, wear two different colored shoes (hey! I have another pair just like them!), or be very ironic, and I can become MacGiver in a pinch with repairs to my business since we are so remote in Montana during the summer. To heck with the duct tape, give me a bicycle inner-tube and a couple of steel clamps and I can stop any leak :) I am not above throwing on a bear suit to get attention for a few more sales at the family business, hence the pic of me above. (and I am SO over being darted and transported to the woods by that Park Ranger, but that is another story.) No matter if you call it a random act of kindness or a good deed, try to do at least one every day. Let that person go first in the line ahead of you even if he has 11 items in the 10 item line, let someone go first at the stop sign, it will all come back to you and more. Now I am the bionic woman with a new knee at a fairly young age. The entire process has had me down lately, but I know somewhere I will again find my smile. It's out there somewhere, so if you see it in your neighborhood, hold onto it for me and give me a call.