Ok, I'm in. I haven't checked the blogs at all for a few days, so I am woefully behind in reading everyone else's responses. I've just spent a half hour here and barely scratched the surface! I already have some suspicions confirmed about people and some basic assumptions totally blown out of the water!
1. I'm a mutt. I have no true ethnicity. I'm a lot English, a little Dutch, German, Scottish, although my last name is totally Irish (as is DH).
2. I once traced my lineage online back to Scottish royalty.
3. My birthday falls on Thanksgiving every few years.
4. My birthday is also 2 days before my brothers, making us just under a year apart. We have celebrated it together nearly every year.
5. We have a female dog named Buford - and if you could see her, you would agree that the name fits.
6. My cat is named Ramen after the noodles, which she ate as a kitten.
7. I grew up on a farm and live on one now, although I am not (and will never be) a farmer. I love the experience of living on a farm, but I hate the work!
8. I learned I was pregnant two days after my grandmother died suddenly in her sleep. I was, prior to that, adsolutely convinced that I was not pregnant. Although I know it in my mind to be false, I believe in my heart that my grandma sent us a baby to help us get over losing her. I have my son my grandmother's last name (Dewey) as his middle name (we had decided on his first name, but not the middle - it came to me in a dream).
9. My children have enormous heads - really, we cannot buy hats for these guys.
10. My favorite color is blue, although my son will tell you that it is yellow. When he was learning his colors, he had to know everyone's favorite, but my mother had already taken blue.
11. My closest friends in high school were all in the top 10 (I was salutatorian). We called ourselves the Nerd Herd.
12. I went to four high school proms - three from my school and one from another school.
13. I had a long-distance relationship when I was 15-16 that lasted a year (NY to Texas). After he moved back to NY, he broke up with me because I was not ready to make certain, ahem, physical commitments. In retrospect, I realized that the relationship was borderline abusive. It later inspired me to intern and work for an abused woman's shelter.
14. I started college as a math major with plans to teach and switched to social work sophomore year.
15. When my DH met me, he was convinced we would end up together. When I met him, I was convinced that we would never be anything more than friends. I was never so glad to be proven wrong.
16. Whem my cousin and I were maybe 10 or 11, we thought we saw Bigfoot in our woods (really, folks, it was large, brown, and hairy). We stilldon't know to this day what it really was.
17. I was supposed to spend a summer in Uruguay with a friend who was a foreign exchange student in our school. Two days before I was to leave, her father kicked her out of the house and my parents would not let me go. Of course, I was mad, but they were absolutely right.
18. I have been letting my kids play on the computer next to me for over an hour now so I can catch up on these blogs!
19. I love dark chocolate covered coffee beans.
20. My DH is my best friend.
More to follow later...
Fun facts about Jodi
November 17th, 2006 at 10:50 pm
November 17th, 2006 at 10:57 pm 1163804269
I know it does not sound romantiic but that is how I see it.
November 17th, 2006 at 11:04 pm 1163804661
November 18th, 2006 at 12:50 am 1163811026
#2--my mom traced our lineage back to English royalty and I have pictures of the castles they lived in.
#8--my son's middle name is my husband's grandfathers last name (Quintin) who passed away before before DS was born.
#11--In middle school we were broken up into divisions 701, 702, 801, 802 etc...some of us in the '1s & 2s' called ourselves the 'nerd herd'.
November 18th, 2006 at 02:23 am 1163816621
Ima - mine is the 28th. Have a nice birthday next week!
PP - I completely agree. If I am ever talking relationships with a single person, I advise them to look under their noses for the person who had always been there, but that they never thought of in "that way". It might have been the perfect person there all along!
November 20th, 2006 at 06:22 am 1164003766
November 20th, 2006 at 03:33 pm 1164036802