This is a tough one because I’ve done nothing for the last two years here but talk about myself. I’ll try to put in some details that you might not know and might be slightly interesting… /crosses fingers!
1. I love my job! Seriously love it. I started 5 years ago as an Executive Assistant and I have enjoyed every minute. I get to do a lot of different things for two very great people who in turn treat me very kindly and generously. Sometimes it’s stressful but never for long. Sometimes there is yelling but it is never at me (just through me). Every day there is a different challenge but I couldn’t be happier. Plus, sometimes I get to fly on private jets to go shopping in big cities!
2. I am still boy crazy and will watch pretty much any stupid movie as long as it has a cute boy in it.
3. To illustrate point 2 (and this almost became a blog post but in the end it was too shameful to dedicate more than two sentences to): I have watched all of the Twilight movies. I know – I’m an awful terrible baby eater for even watching them and now I’m sickly committed to watching the rest of the series. Sigh. PS: They are large steaming piles of glittery wolf poop.
4. I sneeze. A LOT. Like 20-30 times in a row isn’t really all that abnormal. I’ve done it since I was a kid and it’s just something I do. On the plus side – I always carry tissues if you ever require one.
5. I was a bridesmaid 6 times before a being a bride. It’s okay – I adore weddings and was thrilled to be able to stand for all of my brides. The dresses weren’t all that awful and I actually wore one of them again (although I designed and sewed that one myself). That old adage, always a bridesmaid and never a bride, doesn’t have to apply for all of your life. There’s still hope for all you spinsters out there. Love, Your Aunt From The 1920s.
6. My Dad is a minister which means that I grew up in what I thought was a relatively normal manner. You know where you go to church every Sunday, have big family dinners and burst into song in perfect harmony a la the Von Trapps? I didn’t know that other kids were sleeping in or watching TV on Sunday mornings – those lucky ducks. Now that I’m older I still like church and churchy things – especially zany church ladies – they rock and make a damn fine platter of crustless sandwiches.
And no matter how much my sisters-in-law get a kick out of it, Dusty Springfield’s song, Son of a Preacher Man, has always made me uncomfortable.
7. Despite the above and my love of love, happiness, sparkles and unicorns I do have faults. The main one being that I hold a grudge. I know it’s bad but there you go. That mean-spirited clown that embarrassed me and made fun of me when I was 5, the vile maitre d’ at the restaurant I worked at one summer and my insane university dorm-mate who wrote strange things about me in a letter to her mother (which she wrote and saved on my computer). DIAF ALL OF YOU…especially clowns.
8. I love my life with my husband, our friends and everything we have – I wouldn’t change anything about it…but sometimes I am overwhelmed, nay overcome and slightly weepy, with baby fever. However this is generally cured by weekends with my adorable little nieces and sleeping 10 hours a night.
9. I once ate so many egg rolls that I made myself sick. I think the count was around 11 or 13. Then I vomited. Yes. That’s the kind of girl I was at 12 and while I haven’t tried it since then, I doubt I’ve learned my lesson.
10. I love a good rock ballad (or any song) with a key change in the last chorus to really drive the emotion home. There’s is nothing like a well placed key change…well, maybe a choreographed dance scene busted out in a high school movie. I love those.
So there you have – 10 very random things and silly about me. Hopefully they did not leave you in a state of shock due to their dark and shameful nature. Let’s be thankful that this wasn’t 11 Things We Don’t Know About You because the 11th one is a doozy!
Thanks for reading!
