Name: Jan

Birthday: Jan. 20th

Where I Live: Dallas, TX - Native, hate it here, wish like hell I was in a small town

Family Members: daughter Emily, son Eric

Work at UT Southwestern Medical Center, a Program Coordinator in Simmons Cancer Center. Incredible job and place to work!!

Pets: Lacy, Lab/Blue Heeler, Maddie, Aussie/Border Collie

Things I like to do: Volunteer with Red Cross, Read Mysteries, watch tv (The Closer, Sons of Anarchy, In Plain Sight, Fringe, NCIS, Criminal Minds), and oh yea, play cards and bg online with friends

Favorite Saying: there are so many, ('Life is a Qualude', 'kick ass and take names', 'eat shit and die', 'Screw you we're from Texas', 'If it won't matter 100 years from now, don't worry about it', 'if no one died, we can fix it) AND Well Behaved Women Rarely Make History

Most Favorite Spades Format: REG, no dnd last hand

Least Favorite Spades Format: some of those awful alts

Why you joined True Spaders: My dear friend Dessert_Rose wouldn't leave me alone about it, and I was tired of canasta