Getting to Know You
Blogging can feel a little like dating. I put myself out there and hope for a positive response in return. Right now I kinda feel like people are “checking me out” but not willing to ask me out on a date. What’s up with that? I am totally date-able (is that even a word?).
So I think I should tell you a little bit more about myself. Break the ice a little so you won’t be nervous to date me…
Here are ten random things about me:
1. I used to be an over-the-road truck driver. For three years. With my husband. I lived in a tiny cab of a semi-truck. For three years. With my husband. It was the hardest thing I’ve ever done (including childbirth!)
2. I have two college degrees: Mass Communication and Radio/TV.
3. My first real job was stacking wood at a factory that made hog feeders.
4. In high school I was the homecoming queen who dated the quarterback. How is that for cliche?!
5. I can’t stand chocolate cake. Or chocolate ice cream, chocolate frosting or chocolate syrup. I sometimes enjoy things with chocolate in them (like some candy bars).
6. I used to be an unofficial wedding singer. (Read: I sang in a lot of weddings–often for people I didn’t know very well–but instead of paying me which is custom, I just got crappy gifts.)
7. I was once exposed to hazardous chemicals (nitrus and sulfuric acid) and had to be decontaminated in the parking lot of a small town fire station. (Like, I had to strip down and be washed off and had to put my clothes, shoes, everything in a red hazmat bag. In a parking lot. In 40 degree weather. With only a thin tarp to keep the 40 volunteer firefighters from seeing me naked.) Good times.
8. I have bad taste in music (for the most part) and am unashamed of it. My husband wishes I was embarrassed by this.
9. Five minutes before my best friend walked down the aisle, I accidently dropped the groom’s ring in a toilet full of the flower girl’s pee. I had to fish it out and wash it off. That was almost ten years ago and I’ve never told them.
10. I have been to 48 of the 50 United States. I haven’t been to Alaska and Hawaii.
So there you have it. Ten totally random things about me that you didn’t need to know. But I’m kinda chatty so I felt the need to share.
Did I scare you off?
