Jill Anderson:
CLASS OF 1980
Hammond Baptist SchoolClass of 1980
Schererville, IN
Jill's Story
I'm 45, have 3 grown children and 6 step chidren. I got married to my 1st husband in 1982 (two years after graduation). We were married 20 years and lived in the Cincinatti/northern KY area. In 2003, after my divorce, I moved to FL to be closer to my parents. I met a Navy Search & Rescue Swimmer named Roger Anderson in Sept that same year. He retired after 20 years in the Navy in 2004 and we got married in March of 2005. My children live in Ohio where one is a college student, one is a Chef at the Hilton in Cincinatti and the oldest is a designer for Abercrombie & Fitch and lives in Columbus. Four of my step-children are grown. The oldest has two kids...yep IM A GRANDMA! Rhonda (nee Barnes) if you are reading this SHUT YOUR CAKE HOLE! You are OLDER than I am! Everyone who graduated in the infamous class of '80, it might interest you to know that I STILL HAVE this crazy scrapbook that has many of your pictures and goofy notes in it. Plus it also has an envelope with the famed "STUDY HALL COLLECTION". I still have the poem about the "wandering minutia". HA...Don't ask how I got some of those notes back from ole what's his name...you know, the guy with the sausage fingers ? Of course I stole them out of his desk. But that was 30 years ago...what's he gonna do now? Send me down to the office to see MR STAAB or that crazy coach they made VP...Butch Madden wasn't it? Good grief he was a piece of work!
Jeff Lawrence, I never forgave you for pouring Brute aftershave in my hair in the EIGHT GRADE...LOL. James Heavner...I've got the funniest picture you probably never saw, (drawn by Julie Hagenseker) entitled "Jimmy the Gig" (short for giggalo). I've got a GREAT picture of PIA PARKER (only a select few of you will know what the PIA stands for...LMFAO), Kevin Hughes, Dave Anderson, Taco Fiero and Jeff Hueber in the back of a tour bus headed to Florida on Senior trip. Got another picture of Jeff Lawrence, mouth wide open, sound asleep on the bus, and MY hand in the side of the pic with a tube of toothpaste...HA. I've got pictures that I could BLACKMAIL some of you people with! LOL Your kids would pay BIG to see these relics from the past! I guess Im getting old and nostalgic on myself because I got to wondering about all of you lately. We are only a couple of years away from our THIRTIETH anniversary of our release from that loony bin! My life turned out WAYYYYY stranger than I ever thought it would. I wasted 20 years being married to a man I couldn't stand. When I thought my kids were old enough to understand, I packed my stuff, told him to choke on my dust and hit the road. My brother Grayson and his family live here in Fl as well. He was like me. Married to a REAL PIECE OF WORK for 20 years. Once his 3 boys got old enough, he threw her out...LOL. Long story. He's the one that kept the kids, the house and everything else. He's remarried now too. My husband and I lived in Jacksonville but moved to Orlando about a year and half ago. He's a residential contractor now that his "secret squirrel" days are over. I run an organic food co-op. I am currently writing an all organic cookbook and I teac...Expand for more
h organic cooking classes. I also do large group demos and catering...all organic of course. Im the quintessential tree hugger you could say. Flower child, hippie...LOL. It's all good. Life is too freakin short to be worried about what's going on up on Wall Street all the time. I'm into reducing my carbon footprint and recycling. I won't go into all that here...I have a LOT of soap boxes from which to stand and preach when it comes to clean living. Obama, Hillary and McCain ALL make me sick so I've stopped watching the news until further notice. I think most of you who knew me back in the day wouldn't be all that surprised at the person I am today. Ever the rebel and free spirit..somethings never change! If there's trouble to be gotten into...I'm at the front of the line..LOL. I can still say (unashamedly)after all these years, that THE STAND is still my favorite book and ORDINARY PEOPLE is still in my top 3 favorite movies, I have JOURNEY cd's and still consider DAVE ANDERSON one of the best friends I ever had. How funny that my last name ended up being Anderson. Mike Parker was my high school nemesis...lol. We always had some sort of unspoken rivalry I think. Mike...you could write ALMOST as well as me but not quite..LOL. MR. OLSEN AND MR. WILSON BOTH LIKED ME BETTER! But that's ok, I imagine you did alright for yourself inspite of your nickname...PIA! Still cracks me up. I can't remember who made it up but maybe if you ever see Rhonda Barnes you can beat it out of her. HEY...I wonder how many of you former "studs" are old, fat bald guys..LMFAO! Probably just about as many of us girls have big butts, saggy stuff and cellulite. Myself not included of course! I might own up to ONE OR TWO "almost vericose" veins but that's it! I have to keep myself looking halfway decent since I teach other people how to cook and eat healthy! Iactually have a website if anyone is interested in looking at it. Just google "thehomegrowngourmet" (can't give the URL in these bios...the internet police will get ya!) That is a "dot com" address by the way. Im cynical but not jaded, prefer to think of myself as "bohemian" as opposed to just plain old "out there". I think that every moment of the lives we've lived have led us to the exact place we are today so inspite of what has occurred along the way, we are ALL exactly where we are supposed to be doing what we are supposed to be doing. If I died tomorrow, I'd want my headstone to say "Here lies Jill...she made some mistakes but she did her best and she leaves behind NO REGRETS". For those of you who remember me as a little nutty and a lot proud of that fact....that has never changed...never will. I could still go see the Rocky Horror Picture Show to this day and be amused! I could still sit in Rhonda's Pinto and sing the words to "Paradise By The Dashboard Lights" playing from an EIGHT TRACK TAPE DECK!
Well, I think that about does it. I skipped all the "drama" of my "wild years" because IM STILL LIVING THEM! The directions for the profile said to keep it G rated. Don't act so shocked! None of YOU are that innocent either! Health and Happiness to all.
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