A Little Bit About Me

In starting this new adventure, I think a good place to start is a little bit about me.

Religious beliefs:  I am a Christian.  I stumble a lot, but I know He is always there to help dust off my knees and get back up again.

Family:  Loving Mom and Dad, always there for you in a pinch, love you no matter what, and did a pretty fantastic job raising me, if I do say so myself.  One fantabulous sister “sissy!!” we can literally laugh about almost anything, and of course fight about anything, but at the end of the day she’s also a best friend.  And not to mention the most wonderful extended family!!  Grandparents who are completely magical and turn their kitchens, backyards, and camping into the greatest adventures ever.  Spectacular aunts and uncles that teach you games, let you make a mess doing crafts, drag you on the sled on a snow day, take you for boat rides, and let you swim in their backyard.  Cousins who are like a big brother, big and little sisters, who were there to experience the magicalness and terificness of the great times with grandparents, parents, and aunts and uncles.  And the cutest baby cousin with the most adorable little laugh you ever heard!!

Occupation:  Speech- Language Pathologist Assistant.  I absolutely love my job and am completely blessed!!  I do realize I use words that are not actually words.  In my opinion, magicalness is a completely appropriate adjective for what I wanted to describe above.  However, I would not teach this to one of my patients if we were working on adjectives!!  Please do not also judge my use of run on sentences, fragments, and other errors.   

Age:  26, and loving almost each day!!  26 is a good age.  I do favor even numbers.  Maybe this has something to do with being born on the eighth day of June in the year 1984.  I even like the TV volume to be on an even number!!  Weird, I know, but I know there are plenty of people out there with the same affinity for even numbers.

Pets:  One darling miniature pinscher, Izzy.  She is 5 years old and is always ready to snuggle.  She is not your typical black and tan pinscher.  She is a red brown color with the silliest personality.  She is persistent and spunky.  She would tell you that she strikes fear in the heart of all strangers with her ferocious bark, bite, and growl.  But I will tell you that after about a minute of meeting a new person, she would snuggle them. 

Relationship status:  Single and No thank you, not interested in the dating world at the moment.  This is my time to figure what I want to accomplish, and learn more things about myself and about the world before I go down that road again.  I have been divorced for about a year.  I used to think this is something I wouldn’t really like to share with people.  But then I realized, I wasn’t the only girl in their mid- twenties who went through it and certainly won’t be the last.  After all, marriage, divorce, those pieces of my life were some wonderful times, sad times, but taught me a lot!! 

Places I’ve lived: Tulsa Oklahoma, Kingwood Texas, San Marcos Texas, and Frisco Texas.

Living accommodations: The cutest apartment complex ever!!  Unfortunately, my individual unit is not as cute due to my lack of decorating in the year that I have lived here.  The sad part is that I can literally walk to Target, Kirklands, and a ton of other places to find awesome home décor.  That is also another reason I love this place.  I can walk to get groceries and to plenty of restaurants.  There is even and Old Navy and a DSW!!  Luckily, I am not a big shopper because it would be way to easy to do some serious damage to my budget.

Things I love: Cooking and eating, traveling, snow skiing, camping and lake activities, running and workouts, and playing the piano.

**Note** Unfortunately, all of these are done sporadically, but does not change my love for such activities!!

Random things about me:  I have run one half marathon, it was totally fun!!  I have been to Transnitria.  Yes, this is a real country!  I believe, and this is sad that I am not for sure, that it’s around Russia, Ukraine, Moldova somewhere around there. Obviously, I am not good at geography.  I was privileged to put brand new shiny shoes on the precious feet of hundreds of children in many of the orphanages in that country with some very amazing people.  I can hang candy canes off my nose, amazing I know!!  My voice hasn’t changed since I was 5, which actually is an advantage when telemarketers want to speak to the “head of the household”.  One of my biggest fears is automatic car washes.  I have to lock the doors, put on the parking brake, and blast the music. 

That just about does it, some personal and not so personal information about me.  Since I do not have a theme to write about, I’m sure that I will touch on all of these areas of my life at one time or another.  I think I have also come up with a name which equally represents the how random this might actually get.  I hope everyone is ready to enjoy this weekend as much as I am, may it be fun and relaxing!!