Twenty-five uniquely random items about me.
- I've been told (by a male friend no less) that I'm comfortable in my own skin - which I value as a compliment. I've never been an every hair in place kind of girl and I'm usually a quick to the ready person - not a lot of fuss here. I guess there's not a lot of pretense with me and I like that in other people as well. Come as you are. I have been known to go to the gas station and the grocery store in my pajamas (with a coat thrown over, of course) much to the dismay of my children.
- I absolutely adore the season of FALL and I prefer cold weather over hot. And I love and miss snow.
- I'm very resourceful. Also a little OCD - I once returned a half gallon of butter pecan ice cream because there were NO pecans in it (I dumped it in a big bowl and stabbed it through with a big spoon - no pecans). I got some strange looks on that one (from the Winn Dixie folks AND my kids).
- I'm extremely adaptable to my surroundings. I love to travel but then I love my time at home too.
- Jobs I have held: theater performer, au pair counselor, sales rep, manager for online retail store, paralegal, medical transcriber, personal assistant, licensed state childcare provider, government employee (HUD); retail sales. Jack of all trades - master of none.
- I am sentimental. I keep mementos - ticket stubs, cards, letters, matchbooks - and hold them, and the people or places from whence they came, dear to me.
- I was a weird kid. As a teenager, when most my age were totally caught up in popular singers and actors, I was firmly ensconced in all things nostalgic - old movies, old TV shows, old music (know many 16 year olds who listen to Al Jolson?) I even because a pen pal of sorts with octogenarian George Burns.
- Though I haven't tried in a long time, I used to be able to put my entire fist in my mouth. Don't quite know how I came to the realization that I had this talent but it made for some very lively conversation back in the day.
- I'm not much of a reader. As a matter of fact, I really prefer not reading fiction. Maybe its because I always have a dialog/script/novel or two of my own running through my head on any given day and mine definitely is more interesting than any fiction I can read. I do LOVE non-fiction and find biographies - a person's life - MUCH more interesting than something made up. If I do read fiction, I start at the end of the book and read backwards. Drives my kids nuts. But I guess I go to the end to see if the rest of the book is worth reading.
- I prefer to be barefoot...any time I can.
- I have Native American blood in me but I do not know which tribe. Paternal grandmother's side and she passed away when myfather was nine so we don't know a whole lot about her side going back...working on that.
- I have not truly felt loved - adored - since my Grandmother died in 1987 and that's OK.
- The only true aspiration I have ever had was to be a mom. And it has been EVERYTHING I imagined it to be.
- If jumping to conclusions was an olympic sport, I would gold medal. I'm working on this.
- I feel I am quite intuitive and pride myself to be a pretty good judge of character. Having said that, I am emphatic about honesty. As I have told my kids, please just be honest and forthcoming with me. Even though it may hurt me or worry me - or even disappoint me - it will do all those things tenfold if I find out down the road that I have been lied to. LB not so much; LP comes clean immediately.
- I am a late bloomer and that's why, I guess, I feel I have a pretty youthful outlook on things. I tend to forget just how old I am. I have never rushed myself in life. Maybe this is because I essentially became a mini adult when my father died when I was six. I don't know. I played with Barbies til I was about 13; I didn't have my first kiss until I was 16 (yep, Sweet 16); I didn't lose my virginity until I was 23; I married at 28 and had my children at ages 32 and 36. I started, anew, at 55 and truly have high hopes for living a VERY rich life in the next third.
- I'm true blue. I take commitments, whether that be work, or friends, or love relationships, very seriously. I'm incredibly loyal...and patient...and faithful. For 27 years, I took my marriage vows to heart, took them very seriously - at times to my detriment.
- I rarely give up on things, dreams...people. And when I'm interested in someone or something, it's nearly obsession (not in a scary way, but in a focused way). BUT having said this, when I'm done, I'm DONE. No going back.
- I have been told I can be blunt. I don't see this (of course, I don't).
- I consider myself an introvert though I am hardly a wallflower. I am an observer. I enjoy my own company (being an only child certainly cemented this behavior) but I love having lots of people around - especially at meals and on the holidays - the more the merrier.
- I am keenly interested in the lives, families and backgrounds of others. I find the fabric of our lives fascinating and I NEVER tire of learning about the journeys of others.
- I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE water. Always have. Beach, pool, bathtub. I can while away the hours on the beach and have absolutely nothing to show for it save for a totally untangled mind and a calm countenance. Someday I WILL live at the beach.
- I am blessed with many people I claim as friends but there are multiple levels of friendship with me and my TRUE friends, the ones who know my good, bad and my ugly, I can number on one hand. And they are GOLD to me.
- The best advice I give: be happy with yourself and by that I mean live an authentic life - yours alone. Pursue what fills your heart, your soul - everything else should fall in place. I have always told my kids, be happy with yourself first before you take on a commitment with another person; don't expect someone to make you happy - YOU make you happy first.
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