• I’ve been married to a very handsome half Norwegian and half Italian man for 14 years.
  • I have a gorgeous step-daughter and a new son-in-law. :-)
  • I do not have any pets, fish or a pool.
  • I love the colors purple, turquoise, and emerald green but have yet to knit myself anything in any of those colors.
  • I knit. A lot. I’m addicted to fiber. Real fibers. (p.s. Acrylic is NOT a real fiber, yo.) If you care, my Ravelry id is ‘knitgirl63’.
  • My knitting mojo seems to have slipped to the side for some reason lately, probably related to being busy with school, plus the fact I’ve been sewing in my spare (ha!) time to prep for a craft show in September.
  • I have 4 best friends.
  • My hair is now 85% salt/pepper (who the hell let that in??). Now I get it colored something else about every two months. I’m too young to be salt and pepper, yo!
  • I can be extremely moody and petulant.
  • I can be extremely generous and helpful.
  • I love to read thrillers, mysteries, and some sci-fi (vampire books).
  • I do not like reading romance novels – I have a vivid imagination so I don’t need those books.
  • I make stained glass panels. Small ones. Not often. But I do make them. I currently have an idea in the works for a wind chime. I have it all drawn out, just need to get into the studio.
  • I’ve gone para-sailing on Little Duck Key in the Florida Keys with the hubster.
  • I’ve been to Cancun and was propositioned by a stranger.
  • I’ve never accepted a proposition from a stranger.
  • I met my husband on a blind date set up by my step-father.
  • My husband moved in with me 2 weeks after we met, we were engaged 4 months after we met and we were married 14 months after we met.
  • Other than when I was born, I’ve never spent the night in a hospital.
  • I’ve broken or fractured two bones in my 46 years – I broke my right big toe and fractured my left fibula.
  • I’m 10 years younger than the hubster.
  • I live in cold state, Minnesota, where in March if the temps hit 30, you’ll see people in shorts, t-shirts and tennis shoes.
  • I love to fly – well, I love taking off and landing, the in-between stuff is just naptime.
  • I love naps. I seem to get one in about every other day for 30 minutes or so, during the day when the neighborhood is quiet. Seems to help the stress.
  • I’m crabby without an every other day nap.
  • I used to hate to do laundry so it would pile up, and then I’d end up doing about 8 loads in one day. Even though I still don’t like doing laundry, I’ve learned to do it more often…it’s nice to have clean undies.
  • I love shoes.
  • I don’t have as many shoes as Heather, my friend from the company I used to work at does, she has a closet dedicated to JUST SHOES! I have a floor of a closet. I need more room.
  • I love bags. Purse bags, project bags, bags that have no known purpose at the time of purchase other than I liked them. I like them so much I’ve started sewing them. Hubby thinks I’m making them for others. What he doesn’t know…
  • I have to sneak in new bags so hubby doesn’t see them.
  • When I buy a new pair of shoes or piece of clothing, something has to go in the donation pile. Preferably, more than one thing.
  • I hate clutter.
  • I could write up an inventory of our house in about an hour without leaving the couch.
  • I’m not anal. Though there is a place for everything in our house, it just doesn’t always get put back there. Unless company is coming.
  • I like to do word fill-ins.
  • I don’t like word searches, they’re too easy.
  • I sew new kitchen curtains about every two years. The current ones are a retro lemon pattern.
  • I’d like us to retire in New Mexico.
  • I was laid off December 19th, 2008, after working 24 years and 8 months at a financial services company. But I’m cool with that, see last bullet point.
  • I do volunteerism – send stuff to soldiers, knit items for the needy, serve food to the homeless, give money.
  • I do not have a college degree.
  • I grew up on welfare and made a decision early on in life to never end up there as an adult. I have succeeded beyond my wildest dreams. That doesn’t mean I have money, it means I know how to survive on my own.
  • I have the best mom in the whole wide world and love her dearly. Growing up the cupboards could literally be bare, but somehow, some way, food always showed up at mealtimes.
  • I love to watch thriller movies, the more tension the better. But a good chick flick does me good, too.
  • My hands and fingers turn to ice at the mere thought of speaking in front of a crowd. Since I started going to school in January (2009), I’ve had to start working on getting over this problem. I’m working it…give me time.
  • I have never had a driver’s license in any state or country.
  • I’m sometimes too self-sufficient for my own good. I take the bus, I take the light rail, I ride my bike, I walk. It annoys the hubster because I don’t always ask him to take me somewhere and he says sometimes it’s okay to ask for help.
  • I love the hubster.
  • I’ve never been to Europe or Hawaii. I would need knockout pills because even though I love flying, even *I* can’t nap for that long without going cuckoo.
  • I’ve never been to Canada and it’s less than 4 hours away from me.
  • I’ve never been to the east coast but would love to see the upper coastal areas during some fall.
  • I’m turning into my mother. The only thing bad about that is the fact that I find myself suddenly talking out loud to anyone who listens, midway through the thought I have in my head (just like her). Kind of embarrassing when I realize it based on the astonished looks on their faces. But I love her anyway and she loves me. :-)
  • After being laid off on December 19, 2008, I decided to go to school to become a medical office assistant. I’m loving every single minute of it. Kind of overwhelming at times because I haven’t been in school for over 20 years, but I know it will be worth it in the end. It has to be, I’ve deemed it so. Not only that? I’ve yet to have a sense or feeling that it WON’T work out. Complete and total confidence here, my peeps.