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:

1. I love old houses! My own was built in 1788.
2. I’m a total foodie, love the good stuff!
3. I pay almost no attention to politics, just not interested
4. I have three kids, ages 10, 12, and 14
5. I’d much rather spend my money on travel than anything else
6. I have a huge garden, which always gets completely out of control by August, at which point I give up on weeding
7. I have a Masters in archaeology, and a Masters in molecular biology
8. My husband is from Ireland
9. I am a complete multi-tasker, all of the time
10. I like to run and listen to music; that’s when I get my best ideas
11. I play the clarinet
12. I love to cook, but rarely follow a recipe because that’s just too much planning!
13. I host a party every year on the Winter Solstice, but there’s no naked dancing.  Too cold 😦
14. I’m short, 5’3”
15. I have my own honey bee hives
16. I’m (trying) to learn to play the guitar
17. I’m an artist (though not currently working as one)
18. I love living in New England, but don’t particularly like the winters
19. I had a brief obsession with moose in my early twenties
20. I worked in a library during the summers when I was in college
21. Yes, I still listen to 80’s music sometimes
22. I used to work in Biotech
23. I love animals, and have a small farm with Alpacas, Sheep, Goats, Chickens and a very silly goose
24. I love red wine
25. 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
26. I plant way too many seeds every spring and end up giving away plants to anyone who will take them!
27. I was a very shy child
28. I’m much more of a listener than a talker
29. I obsess about making socks match when they come out of the laundry
30. I met my husband on a blind date
31. When I was a kid I collected rocks, stamps, and shells, obsessively
32. I get creeped out swimming in lakes where you can’t see the bottom
33. I go on a cleaning binge every fall, not every spring
34. I’m horrible at math
35. I love spicy, ethnic cuisine
36. I can’t possibly live without coffee
37. My kids and I have dance parties in the living room
38. I need my ‘alone time’ to recharge or I get grumpy!
39. I love thunderstorms
40. I was in the marching band in high school