5 Things About Me

OK, I owe this to Rebecca over at The Space Between My Peers (an awesome blog about the how to’s of fashion-not that weird runway stuff no one actually wears, but the mechanics of how to look good in real clothing. Love it! Totally on my daily reads. If I ever make it out to her part of the country Rebecca is going to have a houseguest.).

This is supposed to be 5 things about me that I haven’t mentioned before. This takes a bit of thought since I like to talk (uh, type).

#1. I’m 5’2″ tall, have short dark brown hair, hazel eyes tending more to green, and weigh about 150 lbs (although people usually underguess my weight by about 10 lbs-honestly. I don’t think they are just trying to be nice, I think I’m just compact). When I gain weight it is all in my belly, but my butt, legs and hips usually look fine. (is that more than you needed to know?)

#2. I never decided to go to college. I just always, as long as I could remember, knew that after I went to highschool I would go to college. Brainwashing? Maybe. . . but I think my parents were right.

#3. I spent most of one summer, I think when I was about 10, convinced that I would become a marine biologist when I grew up. I think I spent the entire summer in a snorkel mask with my face down in our pond. There were a wealth of tadpoles and frogs, and my dad (Dr. Bones) had caught a pregnant Bass while fishing and when he realized it, threw it into our pond. So there were always minnows and fish living out their life cycle in there. I think I also collected quite an impressive collection of small white rocks and probably got a nice tan on my back. I still like visiting aquariums and have had a fishtank in every house/apartment that I’ve had since moving out on my own, starting with my junior year in college. I even left a fishtank full of fish in my apartment in Germany when I deployed to Bosnia for 10 months. When I got back there was one left-the cannibal (You don’t want to know what he had to do to survive). . . . Our current tank is cared for and managed (as all the ones since we have been married) by Yankee Bill, who also really enjoys the tropical fish.

#4 Someday I am going to decoupage an entire coffee table with beer and wine labels that I have been saving. This is actually my idea, not Yankee Bill’s. Of course this will be a downstairs den sort of project, not a middle of our living room sort of project. . . .

#5 I wish magic was real. I know it isn’t, and if it was then there would also be a lot of really awful and creepy stuff that would be true, but there is a little piece of me that wishes that there were magic. Hence my long time fascination with Scifi/Fantasy (ie David Eddings, Piers Anthony, Anne McCaffery, JK Rowling, Terry Prachet, etc. Don’t even get me started on that pretentious, self publicized little puke who has that movie out. If Yankee Bill has to hear me go off on what a cut rate poorly written predictable novel Eragon is [gee, ya think that stranger he meets is going to turn out to be the last living person who can teach him how to be a dragon rider?], and how it never would have been anything if what’s his name’s mommy and daddy hadn’t bankrolled the whole book. . . . don’t get me going. Just let me say-if you think Eragon is actually a good book, then pick up David Eddings “Belgariad” series or Anne McCaffery’s “Dragon Riders of Pern” and read something by an good author with talent instead. . . . )

Enough of that.

I’m supposed to tag 5 more folks to do this. Hmmmm. Actually I can’t think of anyone else. Let’s do it this way. If you are interested in doing this meme leave a note in the comments and I’ll add you on with a link till we have 5. How’s that?