23. Post 15 facts about you
1. My eyes, though blue can often look green. This is because I have some nifty yellow striations that expand and contract…. When they expand my eyes look blue. There is not one instance in my school photos of two consecutive years when my eye color matched.
2. I grew up being bounced back and forth between farm life and (little) city life. When my parents divorced, I was four-years old, my mother continued to live in town and my father moved out to a house on my grandfather’s farm. With joint custody, I spent a lot of time at both places and also spent time on my grandmother’s (mom’s mom) farm.
3. I can’t abide people who feel the need to make themselves seem special. Be yourself.
4. My favorite way to eat mashed potatoes is with peas mixed in.
5. Per Jenna: I had long curly hair (that looks red when the sun hits it) waaaay before Bella Swan did.
6. If I stay on schedule (aka: don’t get too distracted by the holidays) I will have “completed”* 5 novels this year.
7. I don’t like change. What I do like? Plans. I’m a planner and a list maker. No ifs, ands or buts about it. Also Excel is my best friend… that is, it would be if you could be best friends with a piece of software.
8. I have seven piercings. Three in my left ear, two in my right, my nose and my navel. The most painful getting pierced was my rook, the least painful was my nose ring. The easiest to heal was my navel; the longest to heal was my industrial. I only have plans for one more piercing – the helix on my right ear.
9. I am an amateur photog. I love taking pictures (of places and things, not so much people) and I would love to have a kickass camera and adobe photoshop… but the whole amateur part of this pastime means I’m not able to spend much money on it :(
10. The boyfriend and I are one of those couples that… when no one else is around… are completely stupid silly at times. We try to convince ourselves that we are not the only ones who partake in the strange noises and odd conversations that we do… even if no one else does it… it makes me feel a little more sane.
11. When I was 18, I moved from Coos Bay, OR ( a place that gets 350 days of rain each year and is terminally “chilly”) to Phoenix, AZ ( a place that gets much less rain – and when it does rain it smells like mold – and generally has 100 days over 100)
12. Sometimes I think that people think I’m crazy when I talk about the characters in my novels as though they’re real.
13. I have four tattoos, one of which encompasses my entire left arm. I wanted a tattoo from the time I was 7 (my mom often got mad at me for drawing on myself – freshman year of highschool I drew an entire sleeve of spiderwebs during 2nd period.) I didn’t get my first tattoo until I was 20.
14. I bake like nobody’s business. Some have hunting seasons… I have baking seasons. You want a good cheesecake, talk to me, I’ll hook you up ;)
15. I’m so boring that thinking up 15 facts about myself took forever!
* Completed does not exactly mean finished. It means that the first draft of said novel is done.
