Terri Fortman:  

I've been married over 25 years to my husband Mark, who's from central Illinois. Have two kids ... both still living at home - Micah is 23 and Mariah 16. I graduated from Illinois State University with a bachelor's degree in Health Information Management. I worked as the Director of Medical Records (Health Information Management) in hospitals in the Rio Grande Valley in Texas(right on the border of Mexico). I owned my own businesses too....one in Harlingen, Texas ... it was like a "Mailbox, etc.", but we also did gift wrapping, money orders, rented strollers, etc. (It was fun!)Then another business in Brownsville .... a little different, we operated a slot car race track, in addition to offering all the other services from our other store. My husband and son pretty much handled that store, while I handled the Harlingen store. In 2000, we sold the both businesses and decided to leave Texas and move back to the midwest, to be closer to our families. So, here we are .... back in Wisconsin .... 20 years after I left. My past: In 1981, I was working for General Telephone in Sun Prairie, and the Wisconsin and Illinois GTE's merged. I transferred to the Illinois home office in Bloomington, Illinois. My dad also worked for GTE, and transferred also, so I had both my parents and my younger brother Todd around. I was a total wild partier back then, thinking back, I can't imagine how I held down a job, when I'd go out drinking every night. Shortly after I moved to Illinois, one of my co-workers took me out on the town, and I met my husband (it's a ...Expand for more