All right, I was challenged to come up with 40 things that people might not know about me, so here goes! Any of you have things in common with this list? I know I’m a little odd…
Here goes:
- I love old houses! My own was built in 1788.
- I’m a total foodie, love the good stuff!
- I pay almost no attention to politics, just not interested
- I have three kids, ages 10, 12, and 14
- I’d much rather spend my money on travel than anything else
- I have a huge garden, which always gets completely out of control by August, at which point I give up on weeding
- I have a Masters in archaeology, and a Masters in molecular biology
- My husband is from Ireland
- I am a complete multi-tasker, all of the time
- I like to run and listen to music; that’s when I get my best ideas
- I play the clarinet
- I love to cook, but rarely follow a recipe because that’s just too much planning!
- I host a party every year on the Winter Solstice, but there’s no naked dancing. Too cold 😦
- I’m short, 5’3”
- I have my own honey bee hives
- I’m (trying) to learn to play the guitar
- I’m an artist (though not currently working as one)
- I love living in New England, but don’t particularly like the winters
- I had a brief obsession with moose in my early twenties
- I worked in a library during the summers when I was in college
- Yes, I still listen to 80’s music sometimes
- I used to work in Biotech
- I love animals, and have a small farm with Alpacas, Sheep, Goats, Chickens and a very silly goose
- I love red wine
- I don’t want to get a new car because mine is “broken in” so I don’t feel like I need to keep it clean anymore
- I plant way too many seeds every spring and end up giving away plants to anyone who will take them!
- I was a very shy child
- I’m much more of a listener than a talker
- I obsess about making socks match when they come out of the laundry
- I met my husband on a blind date
- When I was a kid I collected rocks, stamps, and shells, obsessively
- I get creeped out swimming in lakes where you can’t see the bottom
- I go on a cleaning binge every fall, not every spring
- I’m horrible at math
- I love spicy, ethnic cuisine
- I can’t possibly live without coffee
- My kids and I have dance parties in the living room
- I need my ‘alone time’ to recharge or I get grumpy!
- I love thunderstorms
- I was in the marching band in high school