1. I love being a mother.
2. Being on Facebook has made me question my life's decisions - er rather, is motivating me to pursue the things I always thought I would but never did. Or maybeit's just time for me to conduct a mid-life retrospective...
3. If I had known about scooters in college, I probably would have bought one and driven it at 40 miles per hour between Decorah and wherever I needed to go.
4. I have terrible allergies.
5. I sometimes feel faint when I get a shot or when talking about medical procedures.
6. I'm considering allergy shots. If you read numbers 5 & 6 you know that my desperation must outweigh my fear of passing out!
7. Years after seeing a movie, I can see the same movie again and think to myself, "This seems familiar... I wonder if I've seen it?"
8. Chocolate is my favorite "food" and as a purist, I believe it shouldn't be mixed with fruit, liqueur, or creams...
9. My favorite exercise is walking stairs while listening to salsa music. Don't do it anymore though...
10. I enjoy Nordic Walking.
11. In 7th grade I sang "Feelings" in Spanish for extra credit (ie. I have no pride, but do have some chutzpah) and in 5th grade I sang, "God Bless America" for the Hampton Flag Raising ceremony, at the time the tallest flagpole in Minnesota. I still have a letter from Steve Sviggum who commented on me being more nervous about falling off the milk crate they'd put up for me to stand on than singing...
12. I have a favorite mug. If you ask me about it, I could tell you its many merits.
13. I miss speaking Portuguese and Spanish.
14. I once directed traffic at Xfest.
15. No matter how hard I try, I just can't tell a joke well.
16. Bitter and sweet are two words to describe my life. Good seems to be tempered with bad more often than not. Yet, I consider myself an optimist. I just have to work at it sometimes.
17. I love to star-gaze, especially when the city lights and sounds aren't there to distract from the purity of the night sky and the serenity of nature.
18. The internet has improved my life exponentially. What I don't know, I can always look up and usually find. And every day reinforces that fact that I don't know an awful lot.
19. I believe that there are many paths to the same destination.
20. I would like to go to Machu Pichu someday and also to return to Brazil with my husband and children.
21. On that vein, I don't know how returning will affect me emotionally - the poverty of children in particular will be challenging, especially now that a/I'm older b/I have my own children/have gained mother's perspective of the world. Update 2014: Returned in 2012 with my family. Things have changed. For the better. And with it, progress brings its own challenges. Another topic for another day.
22. I flew in the cockpit of a NWA cargo plane as the care-taker for a dozen horses going from Minneapolis to Japan.
23. In 1997 I lived in Venezuela - 8 months of intensity good and bad.
24. I've worked in IT for almost 20 years now. I was an English major and music minor. Believe it or not, my education and profession do not conflict with eachother.
25. Sometimes I think I wear a sign on my forehead that says, "Walk up to me, start a conversation under the pretense of being friendly, and then tell me something really weird or offensive." Really. I could tell stories.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment