Celia Bates:  

Let's see, where to begin?? After heading for Salem and trade school, I headed back to the area and started working in a group of different jobs and back to LBCC for some accounting courses. That's when I met Hubby Mike. He was in the Computer Program. We married in '84 and then things really got started!! We had been married about 7 years and he accepted a position in PA, then back to OR for 2 yrs. So the University of AK Fairbanks hired him on a 2 yr contract. Well, 8.5 yrs later, the company in PA hired him back and we moved to CO. After 9.5 yrs there and one EF3 (165 mph sustained winds) Tornado, of which our house was ground zero, we started looking into moving back to the PNW. And we are now in Longview, WA. During all of this I have had many jobs and many experiences. I was Office Manager for our Church and School in PA, then in Albany I was a Commercial Lines Rater for an Insurance Company. Then in Fairbanks I had a blast working in a little Kitchen Store selling all sorts of gadgets, coffee, tea, and small appliances plus a little Crystal and China thrown in. Then to CO we went and I worked for a company contracted to DOD, DOJ, TSA....well, you get the idea. We did the background checks for Top Secret Clearances. Then we had a very large layoff and I have not been working since. Just a lady of leisure. If you can say quilting, machine embroidery, Tunisian crochet, knitting, and all sorts of stuff like that is leisure. I a...Expand for more