Version of Me~ Sandy

6 Year Old Sandy
What Makes Me Happy - Jelly shoes, playing with barbies, jelly bracelets, Cabbage Patch Kids, Smurfs, Get Along Gang, Small Wonder, Americas Funniest Home Video, playing hairdressers, Happy Meals, Book It! personal pan pizza, stretch pants with leg warmers, transformer fights at Jimmy’s house, swimming at Jimmy nana’s house, Jimmy, Jeff S., and Nancy
What Confuses Me - Reading, family dynamics, break dancing, why I always had to be a cop when I played at Jimmy’s.
My Wish List – My own room, to be left home alone, to write my name in cursive, to play on the big playground on the other side of the wall, a boy bike, and to be Mary Lou Retten

12 Year Old Sandy
What Makes Me Happy – Friends, school dances, , Z.Cavarichi pants with Champion sweatshirt, family pizza night... hungry tiger french fries and onion rings and town cheese pizza, tennis shoes with slouch socks and stretch pants, Dad’s dress shirts with thick belts, and side ponytails, our new pool, playing school, Nintendo, Bethany Slack, Lori Wall, Matt Graybeal, and Joey Towne
What Confuses Me – Madonna, dancing the Lambada, school, Brendan, death, why someone cheats, why horror movies scared me, band, french kissing, and why Milli Vanilli would lip sing
My Wish List - A phone and TV for my room, for my hair not to be stringy, to get a monkey from Michael Jackson, and to be a teacher

16 year old Sandy
What Makes Me Happy –Ed, Kevin, Brendan, having the power I did in school with teachers, my figure, driving, the beach, and proms
What Confuses Me – Erin Rainey, sex, math, science, english, spanish, my mom’s reasoning for not liking Ed, my mom’s reasoning for everything
My Wish List – A new car, graduate high school, date Kevin without Ed knowing, Brendan to stop being a jerk, a new dress for Ed’s prom, and to get out of band.

21 year old Sandy
What Makes Me Happy –Jamiel, Jean, sex, and drinking, being with my family, working at the Angier
What Confuses Me - Cancer, death, life (this was my year in therapy!)
My Wish List – Money, children, marriage, freedom, college to be done, a stable relationship, the hurt to go away, to understand what is making me so sad, to understand why I do the things I do, to know who my real friends are…to be skinny.

24 year old Sandy
What Makes Me Happy – My apartment, Gretchen, Jenn, and Mike, weekends with Julia and Jimmy, traveling, work, dating, cosmos, and family
What Confuses Me - death, relationships, Lisa, work
My Wish List – Money, children, marriage, to be skinny, and my mom back to what she was before my dad died, dad back

31 year old Sandy
What Makes Me Happy -Sophia, Mike, thoughts of becoming a Mommy again, work, mom’s potato salad, when my entire family is together in one room, Christmas, the ocean, a clean house, when Mike, Sophia, and me dance together before bed, the smell of Sophia after her bath, the big smiles that great me when I go into Sophia’s room in the morning, the way Mike makes me chocolate chip cookies, being held in Mike’s arms, a good laugh, memories of my life, having no regrets, scrapbooking and the ocean
What Confuses Me – life insurance, wills, stocks and bonds, funerals, weening from the bottle, vaccines, autism, and Adrienne’s ideas about dogs
My Wish List - Money, Mike to be successful in starting his business, Sophia to sleep through the night, Sophia to stay healthy with her vaccines, living long enough to see my great-grandchildren with Mike alongside me, good health for everyone I love, a healthy pregnancy and delivery the next time around….have I mentioned to be skinny!