Parker County Today January 2016 | Page 12

interesting people into your life and interesting animals too.  how he stayed on his back for so long while he did that chapel. Q: What do you do to relax?   A: Fishing. I like to fish and play with my animals. Q: If someone asked you for your best piece of advice, what would you say?   A: Be true to yourself. Don’t try to be someone you’re not. Q: What makes you really sad?   A: Cruelty to people or animals. Q: What scares you?   A: Snakes. Q: If you could visit any place in the world, where would you go?   A: America Q. What’s your favorite hobby?   A: Fishing.  Q: Who in your life has influenced you the most? How?  A: My dad. He was a true gentleman. Q: Who is the one person from history you’d like to meet?   A: Michelangelo. I’d like to find out Q: What is the one thing that makes you happy?   A: Good food. Q: What would you most like to be remembered for?   A: Kindness. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Lori Ann Perz Co-Owner & Operator of A Step Back’n Time Antiques, Auctions & Estate Sales Services.  A Licensed Phlebotomist JANUARY 2016 PA R K E R C O U N T Y T O D AY Q: What do you do? A: I was in the medical business before coming to Texas. I am a Medical Transcriptionist, Phlebotomist, M.A., Operating Room Tech, Pain Management Tech, GI Tech.  Now I am co-owner and operator of A Step Back’n Time Antiques, Auctions & Estate Sales Services.  Q: What is your favorite book? A: Same Kind of Different as Me, by Ron Hall. This book changed the person I was. It has made me appreciate what I have in life as others who are not so fortunate. We are so fortunate to be doing Ron Hall’s estate in the near future. The movie about the book will be coming out April 26, 2016.      Q: Are you married? How did you meet your spouse? A:  Yes. I met him at a Halloween party. I was a green M&M and he was a Cowboy. It was love at first “bite”.     Q: How did you get into your field? A: We went to an auction and got hooked. Then we started buying storage units, before it was cool. We sold the contents out of our garage. Once we moved to Texas, we decided to branch out and start our own 10 antiques store.  Q:  If someone asked you to give them your best piece of advice, what would you say? A: I would tell them not to sweat the small stuff, save it for the big stuff. I just wish that I could take my own advice. I am my own worst enemy on pushing myself, having to be the best at whatever I do. I am very hard on myself to make sure and please everyone. Maybe I should have a new motto!   Q: What makes you really sad? A: It makes me sad to see what is going on in the world today. It has almost become an epidemic on random shootings. I feel so much for all the victims.  These acts are changing people’s lives forever. Little children can’t even feel safe anymore to go to school.  You can’t attend a movie [and] feel safe. When I grew up, you could have your child outside playing. It’s a shame that children growing up now never had the freedom I did as a child growing u p in the country.  Forever gone are the days of “Go Hide and Seek” after dark!   Q: What’s your favorite hobby? A: I would have to say my favorite hobby is actually setting up an estate sale. I grew up cleaning houses for a living when I was a teenager and on. It feels like being an artist. When you begin, the house is dirty, disoriented, etc. When you are finished, you have what looks like a store. It gives me great pleasure to see the faces of my clients when they see what I have done to their homes. You have to love what you do or you shouldn’t be doing it.    Q: Do you like to plan things out in detail or be spontaneous? A: I am very detail-oriented. I am a little bit OCD.  Everything has to be in its proper place. Closet doors need to be closed or I can’t sleep. Boy, people are going to think I am a freak. I have to agree that with age I am getting better. I can go to sleep if there are dirty dishes in the sink now.   Q: When you were a child, what did you want to be when you grew up? A: A nurse. When I was very young my favorite aunt graduated from nursing school and she gave me her first white nursing cap. She received one with stripes on it for her graduation. I wore that cap all the time dreaming of being a nurse. I idolized her. After high school I went to work for