Sherilyn Herkey:
CLASS OF 1981
Glenbard East High SchoolClass of 1981
Lombard, IL
DePaul University - Computer TechnologyClass of 1996
Chicago, IL
Glenn Westlake Middle SchoolClass of 1976
Lombard, IL
Glen Park Elementary SchoolClass of 1974
Lombard, IL
Sherilyn's Story
Check out my dart website at thepassionatedarter.com (and no, it's not x-rated...get your mind out of the gutter!). You know that little dive bar on Park in downtown Lombard known as Punkies? Well, years ago I threw my first dart or two (okay, three darts) at that little pub and I fell in love with the game. Today I love to play competitive steel-tip darts in league and tournaments. My website is for anyone passionate about the game of darts. And yes, there actually is some strategy and skill required to win every now and again.
Why am I here? (Well, why are YOU here??? Duh? I hope to meet up and reconnect with friends through this classmates.com website or maybe in-person at the 30-year reunion...if you remember me positively (or positively remember me!), then drop me a line by opting to send a "Message" through this site to say hello. I keep getting emails about all these classmates.com "Guest Book" signatures that I have. So every week it seems I'm logging into this website (after receiving yet another email from classmates.com, and for some reason there are a grand total of 2 (yes, only TWO!) different people's signatures in my online guest book. What's up with that? From what I can figure out I guess there are two (yes TWO, ONLY TWO) different fellow-classmates who keep looking at my profile page, over and over and over. It seems as though both of these fellas (yes, all "TWO of them!) have checked my profile out about 90+ times each during the last year. This, despite the fact that I haven't updated this profile page for a few years, HA! And for some reason, for the life of me (!!!!) I can't seem to remember either one of these two people who obviously seem to remember me and also seem to think that my (up-to-now non-updated Profile Page) is utterly fascinating. HA! Who are these two people, hmmmm? Does this kind of thing happen to others or only happen to me?
I'm not sure where I'm going with this Profile Page so I'll just jump in. Life is good...yes, life is good and I wish the same for my fellow classmates.
Well, I had some time to spend online tonight and ventured again to this website to look up a few friends from the good old days in high school. I figured I would actually update my Profile (not that I've found anyone that I remember personally out here - or who remembers me, who has actually updated their Profile), but here I am. It turns out this site has a "Story Wizard" button to click on, which prompts the person updating or writing their profile with some questions to get their creative juices flowing. Well, guess what? It works because I've actually been inspired to write a few things down and actually following through and clicking on "Save!" OMG, some of these "Story Wizzard" questions are hysterically funny! Read on...
As for growing up, I'll let you know when I get there. For some reason I'm actually in my 40s but feel like I'm still young and in my 20s. Awe shucks, who am I fooling? Funny thing is when I was younger I actually thought 30 was old! Today I think the mid-forties are the new twenties and fifty seems young! Makes sense to me!
What's the wildest thing I did in school?
Cutting class doesn't count, everyone's done that, right? I'd have to say that the wildest, or least the stupidest thing I've ever done in school is probably that one time when I was driving around Lombard aimlessly with one of my friends from Chemistry class. We had nothing to do and decided that after a pep-rally at the school we would leave and throw water balloons from within our moving car at another random car going the other way (yes, that would be throwing a water balloon from within our moving car, at a stranger's moving car traveling toward us in the opposite direction).
Stupid, stupid, stupid. Would you believe that we thought we were cool at the moment that we did that? What were me and my friend thinking? Obviously we weren't thinking very much and, oh, by the way, thinking we were cool (ha...life is so cruel) only lasted about a moment. Oy vey. What WERE we thinking? Oh yes...that we were cool. HA!
It turns out that me and my buddy (Steve R., not to name names) ended up in a really scary high-speed car chase (Steve was driving, not me) through Lombard. Now how did we know this guy, whoever he was, wasn't going to be hit with this water balloon and get really, really, really pissed off? And that this pissed-off stranger didn't have a lead pipe? And that this really pissed-off guy wasn't going to catch up with us and beat us up over the head (senselessly!) with this lead pipe? (Not that we didn't deserve it....) Well, the good news is this guy didn't have a lead pipe.
But he did have a gun. Really. And so me and my buddy thought we were cool one moment and the next we ended up being chased by some really pissed off man driving really, really, really FAST to catch up with us. And he had a gun. Yes, a gun...Expand for more
, this guy had a gun. And YES it turns out that this guy really was pissed-off and yes, did you catch the part about how this guy chased us down and whipped out his gun and pointed it at us?
Unfortunately this guy not only had a gun but he was also driving a car faster then my buddy Steve's car because this guy caught up with us and in a split second raced out after us when we had nowhere else to go. He was pissed-off, man this guy was pissed-off so he caught up to us and before me and my buddy could even move or think of a plan, this guy pulled a gun and pointed it at us.
It turns out that the stranger, who we happened to target with a water balloon while driving away from our high-school pep rally, was an off-duty police officer who didn't have his uniform on while driving around town and in hindsight, was not a good person to throw water balloons at.
We realized we weren't too cool after that point and I guess Steve R. gets ribbed about this a lot more than I do because his mother had get us from the police station after talking the guy out of not-pressing-charges. (Thank you Mrs. R...) Yes, that would be one of the stupidest things I did during high school...
Okay, to segue, let's switch gears here.
My obsessions ? (And by no means all of them!) I'd have to say my beagles, Augie (Augustino Dogmeister, World's Greatest Dog (yes, I thought of that name all by myself!) and Dudley Do-Wright or Dudley Do-Wrong, depending on his devious nature of the day!
Other obsessions? And who says obsessions aren't healthy??? Not me! I'd have to say (without hesitation...) shoes, handbags watches (and I really only do wear one at a time, I mean, who gets obsessed about owning and wearing so many different watches???) and shopping in general! (Lord, help me now! My husband's right, I DO need a 12-step program for this online shopping fascination! And eBay, don't even get me started on eBay!
How about those career aspirations, huh? I know, I know, it's been almost 30 years since high-school and I still DON'T know what I wanna do when I grow up...I figure it all out soon cause life's too short!
As for the weirdest job that I've ever had...what kind of a pervert do you think I am?
Style? HA! I like to think I'm a pretty stylish woman but I'm probably deluding myself. For those of you reading who remember me, you'll have no problems recognizing me at the 30-year reunion because I am SO damn stylish that I'm still sporting the same 'hair-do as I did in high-school! Stylish? Well, suffice to say that's not exactly my middle-name!
Oh boy, this next question is getting too serious! "You get one do-over. What do you do differently?" My goodness that's a thought provoking question. While I've tried to live my life as if it were an adventure and to reach out of my comfort zone and really live, whatever I do, I don't want to live with regrets that I can never go back and change. But...to know then what I know now...or even if I still didn't know much about anything about this thing called life, to look back and have and have one do-over? Off the cuff, that's a tough one. I'll have to give that some more thought because I can't really think of just one thing that really affected my life in such a negative way that today...today, I live with regrets. Hmmmm, that would be the worst thing (I think...) to live one's life with any kind of regrets that keeps you focused on things in the past that you can't go back and change, and literally stops you from living in the moment today. Yes, I'll have to think on that one. I'll get back to you...
"In 10 years, I hope to be..." Answer: In 10 years, I hope to be 57 years old because the alternative isn't something I want to thoughtfully entertain for much more than a moment.
How do I hope friends will remember me? Fondly!
...And to be truly happy? While I wouldn't mind winning the lottery (and for all you literary types or former high school Honor's English students...I'm certainly not referring to the Shirley Jackson short story!), and so again, while I wouldn't mind some extra cash falling into my lap outta nowhere, I'll venture to say that I'm actually a happy camper kinda gal in life right now. Life is good and if you still knew me today - even you would agree that yes, I'm really pretty happy..one could even say lucky...and definitely blessed with the life that I've got. Yes, I'm pretty happy nowadays and I'm not sure I need anything I don't have today to be any happier!
Thanks for stopping by my Profile Page and actually reading everything down to this paragraph. You get two points just for reading this far, three for believing that I'm witty, four points for not correcting my grammar and a grand total of five points for sending me back a nice, warm & friendly kind of email/message to say hello. God bless, take care, and Mazel Tov! See 'ya at the Class of '81 30-Year Reunion!
~ from Sherilyn (Sherry Kuenstler)
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