User names, logins and passwords, OH MY!!!

I remember my mother's first password. Farmer Jack grocery store was making it easier for their customers to write checks and even allowed the password customers to write their checks for over the amount for cash. It was MEL. Her first (and only at the time) grandchild. I remember my first password, my first day working as a transcriptionist for Henry Ford Hospital. I won't reveal it - I still use it sometimes. The next password I got was assigned to my by Dearborn Federal Credit Union. I'm sure my kids still know it, though my money card won't dole out cash with it any longer, however, it will open my car. But I don't know the password to use my ATM now. I do still have the un-opened envelope containing that information.

Do you have just one password on everything from your online banking, your blog site, Lands End online catalog, Travelocity, IM, work email, home email, yadda, yadda, yadda? If you have just one password for everything, and someone finds it out, then you're screwed. If you have a few different ones, then you need to remember which goes with which. Well, there are those times when you need to click on "forgot your password?" and then they'll email it to you. Hmmm, which email account did I register with? Then they have the series of questions, who was your lab partner in 9th grade, or what was the street of the first house you lived in. Dan Frechette and Ardmore. Funny how important it is today to remember those things from the past. I know several numbers, telephone, both home, offices and faxes, logins and passwords for several clients (they are amazed that I know their passwords -- I never tell them I don't know my own, I let them be impressed), birthdates of my siblings, inlaws, children and their families, my best friend from 3rd grade. I know my ssn, my husbands' (not a typo, the ssn of 2 husbands. actually I memorized the first one first, after I married Jerome. I figured if I needed his, I could ask and he'd tell me. If I needed the former, he'd say something like "none of your business") I remember my house number on Ardmore, and my Grandma Mattson's phone number (she's been dead for38 years).

But I forgot my password for my blog. Darling Kirstynn figured it all out for me and now I am on track. I hope she takes as good of care of me (tweezing chin hairs and keeping lotion on my feet) when I am even more old and unable to....

Another funny thing: Today would have been my 30th anniversary, had I remained married to Charles Harrison. Hmmmm, wonder what he's doing.. Still with wife #3? I wish him no ill. He gave me 2 beautiful children, who are reproducing the same. More about that .... maybe tomorrow.