A little bit more about me

I just did an About Me post a couple weeks back, but it's always fun to do the random things memes that come along from time to time. (This one came from Brittany.)

I had a fear of my house burning down when I was a kid. Not when I was in it, but that we'd come home one day and instead of seeing our house, there would only be ashes.

That house burned down 2 years after we moved out.

I am named after two of my great grandmothers. I consider myself lucky to not have an 'old' sounding name.

I was picked on my freshman year of high school by a group of boys who were friends before and after that year. I was thrown in the boys locker room shower, squirted with pickle juice, and made to sit all by myself in Advance Biology while the rest of the students moved their desks to the other side of the room. I could go on and on.....

Their nickname for me was "paja muchacha" loosely translated to "Prairie Girl"

I don't wear my wedding or engagement rings very often. Instead I wear a $15 silver band I picked up at Von Maur. I love my rings so much that I don't want the daily wear and tear to take a toll on them.

I am a photographer and also a potter (wheel thrown), but don't consider myself an artist. I looked at the Minneapolis Institute of Art and Brooks, but didn't think they were 'me'.

I didn't buy my first CD until I was 18. I maybe own 15 CD that aren't kids or Christmas music.

I photographed my first wedding when I was a sophomore in college.

I have been disowned by my dad's family because my sisters and I wouldn't pay $40,000 (there were debts against his property after he died) in order to give away an $80,000 piece of property. (My grandparents didn't want us to have the property. They wanted us to sign it back to them after we paid for it.)

I lived on $40 a month for food my sophomore year of college, yet those were my heaviest days.

I asked my date to the junior prom the day court was announced. ALL our friends were on court and if I didn't ask Gary, I wouldn't have anyone to go with. He said yes. I wore a magenta dress and he wore a matching bow tie. We went to Chuck-E-Cheese for dinner. I beat him at Skee Ball. I remember a little girl asking me if I was Cinderella.

I have ridges in my fingernails from mineral deficiencies.

I haven't eaten a McDonald's french fry in 52 months.

I was in a sorority in college.

I haven't ridden a bike in over 5 years.


There. Sixteen things that most people don't already know. It was harder than I thought because, really, what haven't I blogged about? Maybe there's something that you'd like to know about me or our little life in the woods that you haven't already asked. Feel free to leave a question in the comments. I'm off to get ready for my date tonight (see recent tweet). Have a great weekened everyone!

Oh! I almost forgot!

I'm going to tag Jenney, Esther, Lori, Hilary, Debbie, Kelli, and Lisa to write 16 things about themselves that most people don't already know.

Tag!

Miss Mommy tagged me with the 7 random fact meme. The great part about this one is that the rules are all listed in the image so it saves time. Speaking of rules...I'm going to break most of them. This is such a busy time of year and I don't want to add to any one's to-do list. Instead, if you read this post, consider yourself tagged. Play along right away if you want, or wait until after Christmas if you prefer.


Now lets see if I can come up with 7 random things about me....

1) I can count on one hand the number of times I've exercised in the past year and a half.

2) I got through college (I have a B.A. in Geography) without taking a math class.

3) I don't get slapstick comedy. I think those kind of movies are dumb.

4) In 8th grade I was 5' 8" and weighed 140 pounds. Twenty years later I am 5' 8' and weigh 145 pounds.

5) PapaBear and I play a game where he starts to tell me/ask me something and I answer him before he can get more than two words out of his mouth. I give him the right answer 90% of the time.

6) My sleep number is 25. (For those of you who don't have a sleep number bed, that means I sleep in a rather large dent in our bed.) PapaBear's side is set above 40 most nights so he has to be careful not to roll into my pit or he can't get out.

7) I keep shoes forever. I still have (and wear) my hiking boots from my freshman year of high school.