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15 {Potentially Awkward} Things…

                              You probably don’t know about me. 

                   {and quite possibly, don’t want to}

  1. I think sweaty feet smell like buttered popcorn {which, needless to say, I don’t care for}, and belly-button “jam”, like parmesan cheese {which, disturbingly enough, I do enjoy}.
  2. I really want a tattoo.  I’m just far too chicken to go through with it, which is odd considering… 
  3. My super-woman ability to push a 10.5 pound baby out of my…um, body, naturally…and still needles make my stomach flutter and my knees weak.
  4. I don’t believe people should rise before the sun does {yes, I realize the world as we know it would cease to function}.  I loathe getting up early and, my husband will attest to this, will miraculously come up with very convincing reasons as to why I should remain snuggled under my warm covers and not emerge {don’t judge}.
  5. If I could redo my wedding, the only thing I would change would be the color scheme.  Periwinkle blue in October…?  What was I smoking?
  6. One time in 9th grade, before all this, I accidentally stole a backpack from Target.  As soon as I realized I had walked out with it on my back, I walked back in and returned it.
  7. When people crack their knuckles in front of me, it makes me want to dry heave.
  8. Despite my ability to speak easily to inanimate objects, to hold down {relatively intelligent} conversations with most anyone and in spite of my love for speaking publicly, I’m really quite awkward and insecure.  I still struggle with overanalyzing everything I say, wondering what people think of me, and am easily bummed if I feel like people don’t like me.
  9. Swinging on a trapeze is a life-long dream I’m determined to make happen one day.  If I could jump off another bridge tomorrow…I’d do it in a heartbeat!  But you couldn’t pay me enough to sky dive.  You could die, for pete’s sake!
  10. Many moons ago, during my first big Media meeting {while working in radio}, I was recovering from some mega chest congestion.  I coughed into my hand and without realizing it, spewed a “glob” on my wrist.  It was long after I had introduced myself and shared expressively {I talk with my hands} that I looked down and thought, “how did I get mustard on my arm!?”.  We were eating breakfast.  I wanted to die.
  11. I hate scrapbooking.  Despite being a creative soul, the thought of having to literally print, crop, glue and embellish photos gives me hives.
  12. No matter how hard I try, I cannot bring myself to recycle my Richard Marx, Ace of Base, No Mercy or Michael Bolton CDs. 
  13. I am in love with the ocean {and large bodies of water in general} and all the beauty, life and mystery it encompasses, and oddly enough, am equally Derangedenamored with – and terrified of – sharks.  They give me happy heeby-jeebies.
  14. I’m a picker.  Zits, scabs, cradle cap, jagged nails, you name it…if I can see it, I want at it!  This drives my family nuts!
  15. While I supported {okay, encouraged} the selling of my husband’s motorcycle when our first child was in utero…I long for the day we can purchase another.  Vrrooom!

 

{just 16 days to go until I plan to eat this with a spoon!}

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