I'm so proud of you. You'll have to let me know if I can say why.......I don't want to make you shy....BUT here is a great big hug from me.
No, Lotti isn't pregnant... Well, at least not that I know of.
Honest guys, as soon as Lotti gives me permission I'll tell.
[ April 28, 2006, 12:04 AM: Message edited by: Kelly Thorson ]
Posted by Glenn Taylor (Member # 162) on :
Ok. Spill it.
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Posted by Kimberly Zanetti (Member # 2546) on :
You can't say something like that and not tell us why! Posted by Kelly Thorson (Member # 2958) on :
Yes, I can I did didn't I. Posted by Glenn Taylor (Member # 162) on :
I swear. Women can be so cruel.
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Posted by Kimberly Zanetti (Member # 2546) on :
Watch it girl, I hold the keys to your "beachside motel" ! LOL
Posted by Jon Aston (Member # 1725) on :
Whatever it is...Congratulations Lotti! Posted by Lotti Prokott (Member # 2684) on :
What if I say no, huh, what are you going to do about this post, Kelly? Posted by Kissymatina (Member # 2028) on :
I think I know what it is.
Congrats! Proud of ya girl.
Posted by Harris Kohen (Member # 2139) on :
Hmmmm
Posted by Kelly Thorson (Member # 2958) on :
Tell them anyway..... Lotti has been wanting to get her GED or Canadian Grade 12 equivalency for a while now. She was a little worried about the upcoming tests but after recently writing them thought she did all right. She emailed me the results which included a letter congratulating her on her outstanding achievement of ranking in the top 1 percent of Canadians who have written the tests. Considering that english is her second language, that is a phenomenal achievement! And I just wanted to tell all of you how proud I am of her, but she is too shy to blow her ow horn, so I had to trick her into it. I know she'll still love me anyway. Posted by Jerry VanHorn (Member # 4704) on :
good for you!!!!!!!!!! Posted by Dan Sawatzky (Member # 88) on :
Congratulations on a well earned achievement!!!
-grampa dan
Posted by Catharine C. Kennedy (Member # 4459) on :
AWWWWRIGHT!!!! Way to go, Girl! Ya done GOOD!!!! from the inarticulate Cat
Posted by Linda Silver Eagle (Member # 274) on :
Lotti,
Congratulations! You have every right to be proud! It takes guts to go back and finish something you didn't want to do in the first place! LOL
We are proud of you!
(psst...isn't this when the party starts?) Posted by Glenn Taylor (Member # 162) on :
Way to go, Lotti!!!!
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Posted by Don Coplen (Member # 127) on :
Doggone it, Lotti...I'm proud of ya! Posted by Mark M. Kottwitz (Member # 1764) on :
Congratulations, Lotti... Top 1% is really somthing to be proud of. I'd hang that sucker in my office in a gold frame...
Posted by Janette Balogh (Member # 192) on :
Way to go Lotti ... Congrats!
Posted by Deri Russell (Member # 119) on :
Yo da girl, yo da girl!!! da da da- da da da- Good job Lotti, Congratulations!!
Posted by Judy Pate (Member # 237) on :
Congratulations Lotti on completing your goal and doing so well! Judy
[ April 28, 2006, 09:02 AM: Message edited by: Judy Pate ]
Posted by Pat Welter (Member # 785) on :
Hey Lotti that great news...congratulations Pat & Ruth
Posted by Graham Parsons (Member # 1129) on :
Congrats, Lotti, from all in Speedy Creek!
Posted by Kimberly Zanetti (Member # 2546) on :
Lotti, That is just superb news! You have every reason to be incredibly proud of yourself. Hope you're going to celebrate.
Posted by Barb. Shortreed (Member # 1730) on :
Congratulations Lotti Posted by Kelsey Dum (Member # 6101) on :
Congrats' Lotti!!! Way to go!!! Posted by Randy Campbell (Member # 2675) on :
Congrats Lotti be very proud we are of you. Posted by Bruce Bowers (Member # 892) on :
WTG! Posted by Duncan Wilkie (Member # 132) on :
Lotti I'm so thrilled. Way to go!!!! ; Now reward yourself by joining us in Lodi...bring Sarah too.
Posted by Lotti Prokott (Member # 2684) on :
Thank you. Thank you very much.
Seems a little silly to celebrate what mostly everybody has anyways, but I truly cherish your kind words.
PS: And thank you, Kelly for blabbing, but I do still love you Posted by Jane Diaz (Member # 595) on :
Way to go, Lotti! It had to be a great feeling of accomplishment!
Posted by Marty Happy (Member # 302) on :
Congrats Lotti!!!
Posted by Suelynn Sedor (Member # 442) on :
Ha ha Kelly, I was thinking about doing the same thing.
Way to go Lotti. You deserve to be proud of such a great accomplishment! And now you've got ammo for when your kids think they can get poor marks!!
Suelynn
Posted by Mike O'Neill (Member # 470) on :
I'll steal one from Glenn... Congratulations!
Posted by Rick Beisiegel (Member # 3723) on :
Not everyone has one Lotti! Life keeps many from this acomplishment!
WTG!
Posted by Amy Brown (Member # 1963) on :
Congrats!
Posted by Bob Stephens (Member # 858) on :
Way to go girl. I quit HS in my senior year after the first three weeks. I traveled the country for a year and then asked if I could re-enlist. They let me and I graduated a year later. They mailed me my diploma and I threw it in the garbage the day I got it. Not that it did me much good but at least I couldnt be called a quitter. Its only paper anyway. You really earn your rights once you step into the real world.
[ April 28, 2006, 03:09 PM: Message edited by: Bob Stephens ]
Posted by Myra Grozinger (Member # 327) on :
Fabulous Lotti!
Ausserordentlich beeindruckend!
Celebrate!
Posted by Susan Daniel (Member # 6092) on :
Many congrats Lotti! Posted by Curtis hammond (Member # 2170) on :
Happy Happy Happy,, joy, joy joy..
Posted by Rick Sacks (Member # 379) on :
Oh, Lotti, that's so great! I remember when my dad was in his early forties and decided to get over his fear of the water and enrolled in swimming lessons. It was a major lesson for me in overcoming obsticles and fears that hold us back. Thank you for reminding me that we can be bigger than our challenges.
Posted by Jill Marie Welsh (Member # 1912) on :
Good on you, Lotti. I remember arguing with my Mom when I was about 16. I ended my schpiel by adding the cruel dig "So what do you know? You didn't even graduate from high school!" I deserved to be slapped for that one. Instead, Mom went out in secret and got her GED, graduating just a year before I did. I was very proud of her, and ashamed of myself. I'm sure everyone you know is very proud of your achievement. Love....Jill
Posted by Randy Campbell (Member # 2675) on :
Lotti I got mine in 1988 and I was 34 years old at the time.Be very proud.
Posted by Doug Allan (Member # 2247) on :
congrats!!
Posted by Lotti Prokott (Member # 2684) on :
The oldest person writing the GED tests with me was a guy in his fifties. It is my hope that this post would inspire somebody else to go ahead and do this. It feels really good, and I can't understand why I waited so long. Thanks again, everybody, your response is so encouraging! Posted by Kelly Thorson (Member # 2958) on :
Lotti, My Dad wrote his GED when he was 62, just 5 years before he died. He also scored very well. I've been thinking about him a lot lately and your achievement touched me because it makes me proud of both you and him. He said he didn't want to die an uneducated man, which was silly, because he had more in terms of life skills and humanity than almost anyone I know. Still he had a dream and he made it reality. Tomorrow will be 10 years since he passed away. I miss him so much. Yes it is just a piece of paper, but it is also a document that says that you still choose to better yourself.
Posted by Lotti Prokott (Member # 2684) on :
I didn't know that about your dad, Kelly. It says a lot about him, doesn't it? He sounds like somebody I would have liked to meet. Six years since my dad passed away. That's the only sad part about achieving this, I can't tell him about it. He would have been so proud of me and would have told everybody. I can just hear him...
Posted by Dave Sherby (Member # 698) on :
Way to go Lotti.... Very proud of you girl. Posted by Deb Fowler (Member # 1039) on :
Congrats, Lotti! Your dad would be so proud of you! I'm sure he is with you in spirit. Lotti, I also miss my dad everyday, and it's been 5 1/2 years since I lost him. One thing I remember so much about him is that he was truly a "self-made man" in every sense of the word. Many folks proclaim to be, but have had help by many others. My dad quit school at 6th grade at 13 years of age to work so the family could survive. He grew up in the depression and his father had just been killed in a car accident, leaving him and his 11 year old younger brother fatherless, at a tender age. It was sad. Their mom opened a grocery store, and my dad learned everything there is to know about cars and doing odd jobs. He never went past the 6th grade in high school. Then, a few years later, he went straight into Electrical Engineer college. He graduated and worked for the Chicago railroad for years.
My dad told me that he used to barter and one fine story was that he needed all his teeth pulled due to eating a "lot of candy" and so forth so he traded with the dentist. My dad wired the dentist's electrical chair to work, and my dad got all his teeth pulled and later got dentures. I don't think he ever got his GED, but today as I was going through some of my huge stashes of papers, I ran across the patent for his invention of a "dairy waste pollution device". My dad got a job with ABC radio during the depression and there were 130 applicants. When asked why my dad should be hired over everyone else, he told the owner of ABC that "I'm the man for you, baby". He said to me that he was "sweating bullets", but he got the job with a strong handshake and a fervant desire along with his moxie. My dad was a smart man, one of the smartest in the world: (he married my Mom). Lotti, the world is at your feet. Thank you for sharing your great news with us. It means so much to me to see you accomplish your dream, and have the drive and discipline to do that. One day maybe you can teach me French! would you?
I would love to go back to high school since there are so many classes we never had that I would love to take, like animation design and horticulture and electronics.
[ May 01, 2006, 10:35 PM: Message edited by: Deb Fowler ]
Posted by Ray Rheaume (Member # 3794) on :
Congrats, Lotti.
Rapid
Posted by Doug Phillips (Member # 5708) on :
Congrats Lotti! My aunt Denise got hers at the age of 38 and it made a dramatic difference in her confidence level -- best thing for her! All the best!
Posted by Murray MacDonald (Member # 3558) on :
Waytago, Lotti! Got mine when I was 47, and it allowed me to go to university as a "regular" student, not a "mature" student, so no extra classes. Felt pretty darn good, so go ahead and feel proud, you deserve it. MUR
Posted by Bobbie Rochow (Member # 3341) on :
Congratulations Lotti! That is just wonderful, honey!
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