The obvious facts about me: I am of pink complexion with freckles, blue eyes, wide hips, large feet, and dyed red hair. Those are the things any person could tell you about me. I would like to say that I am not very complex, but I probably am some days – exhaustively so. And clearly quirky. (At least I hope so!)
A few days ago, for my own amusement, I started keeping a list on a scrap of paper of things about me that were not so obvious. I have no idea what the purpose of such a list might be. My future biographer would probably be thrilled to have it – so for that reason alone I have decided to plonk the list from the back of an amazon.com invoice and present it to you here.
Things about me:
1. I never preheat the oven.
2. I do not like the phrase, “May I ask you a REALLY BIG favor” for asking small favors. I say it all the time and hate that I do that.
3. I never eat the last serving of chips in a chip bag. I also never throw the last serving away in case someone else might want it. This means that every so often I have to toss away several bags of stale chips.
4. I haven’t blown dry my own hair in years.
5. I do not like change or surprises without proper notice.
6. I make a great lasagna. (It has zucchini, mushrooms, & sweet onions instead of meat.)
7. I leave a spoon in my mug of coffee and it remains there even as I drink. I am very good at not poking my eye out.
8. I am not often a fan of jam.
9. I do not consider myself southern except for moments when I so very clearly am. Ya’ll know what I mean.
10. If I do not have food/ sleep/ coffee I am very bitchy.
11. I love wheat thins.
12. I apologize 231 times a day.
13. I am probably a few years away from giving up on the idea of ever meeting a great guy. Or any guy.
14. 2012 is going to be the year of a new tattoo.
15. I hate the way my hands look in photographs.
16. I don’t hate the color orange as much as I used to.
17. I drink more coffee now each day than I did per day in college.
18. I don’t remember the last dream I had.
19. I am oddly excited about all of the time I will save by saying “Twenty twelve” vs saying “Twenty eleven”.
20. I look at houses on-line every day. I day dream about having 2 bathrooms.
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#5, and #12 – Totally me too on both of these. Same with 15. Hopefully 14 too, but I’m hoping to be pregnant first. Otherwise 14 will happen sooner than later.
This is a great idea! Mind if I borrow it?
Ya Know… I never looked at it quite like that. There are many things I can relate to…
Coffee intake is huge! And I must say the “Big Favor” thing comes up a billion times a week ever since I have been raising my kids alone. Thank God for great friends!
Thanks for sharing. Have to make a list of my own now… This is gonna be scary.
I kind of preheat the oven. By which I mean I turn it on about three minutes before I stick things in. I haven’t blown dry my hair since I was in middle school. I learned my lesson. I’ve allowed it to be blown dry by someone else about three times since then. I leave the spoon in the hot chocolate until I get down to the bottom, and then I have to take it out to get the last quarter of the cup. Or it falls on my head. My last dream was at 7:15am this morning, and I was on a giant yacht, but one that had not been properly cleaned because there were leaves everywhere, and then Elizabeth woke me up.
I’ve never even owned a blow dryer.
Mostly I am an impeccable hostess except when it comes to hairdryers. More than once, a houseguest has been shocked that there is no hairdryer in this house.
I don’t preheat the oven, or not much anyway, when cooking, but with some baking it is mandatory — cooking is an art, but baking is a science.
I like this list, I can relate to a lot of it…especially looking at houses online-I look all the time(and I all ready have one with two baths)-I am just obsessed with houses…If I wasn’t so annoyed by people having NO BOUNDARIES with their real estate agents, I would be one and I would be very successful at it. But who wants people to think they are accessible by phone 24/7 365? NOT ME.
#3 behavior makes me crazy! My husband does this – either leave a whole serving or finish it off, FFS!!! What am I suppose to do with one cookie? How am I supposed to fill up on 2 bites? Why yes, I am cranky. Why do you ask?
Re #14: Oooh, exciting
Re #1: But the recipe says to!
Where’s my pic of W in the shirt (unless it didn’t fit him…)?
I have a blowdryer that is (honest to God) more than 30 years old. I bought it when I was going into my last year of high school when I was in Minneapolis, visiting my uncle. It still works, but the casing around the cord is getting a little brittle, so I’m thinking it’s time to get a new one. I hardly ever use it, but I would hate not to have one on those odd days when it’s -20 or colder outside, my hair is still damp, I’ve got to go, & I can’t get the image of my grandmother shaking her finger at me out of my mind. ; )
#7 is me too, and it makes my husband crazy.
I also do #20. I REALLY want a new, bigger house. One where people can actually come and visit and have a place to sit. And I can have a table that seats more than 6 people. And NO baseboard heaters. And a dishwasher. By the time we can afford one, my kids won’t be at home and I won’t need the bigger house.
I love learning the LITTLE stuff about people, the Little stuff that is really the BIG STUFF of who they are….you are, as I thought, complex and adorable.
HAPPY NEW YEAR Dresden. xo
I really liked this idea and followed your example (and wrote a similar post on my blog). I’m surprised how many of you don’t use out even own a hair dryer
I also drink much more coffee now than during my college years, in fact I only started drinking coffee when I started my first job after college.
I really love finding out these little random things about fellow bloggers
You look so gorgeous in that pic – like an old time movie star!