Getting to Know Me

Stolen from Booktube because I don't have a channel, never will have a channel, I cannot watch or listen to myself, it would be torture, and watch too much of other people's channels.  I'm in awe that other people are able to put themselves out there, on video... 

1. What's your channel blog about? Um... me, books, me reading books. My quest for inner-peace and quiet?

2. How old are you? 44, maybe.

3. What's your relationship status? married with too many children.

4. Did you go to college/occupation? Yes. I majored in art and English. Current occupation: mom.

5. Where are you from/live? The Pacific NW.  I've never lived anywhere else. 

6. Looking back what would you have told your 10 year old self? So many things... mostly along the lines of hang in there! Maybe, don't take Spanish in 9th grade, just don't. Also, there's this girl who has lived two blocks from you most of your life, maybe go meet her now instead of on accident when you're fifteen. I was a lonely kid... it would have been fun to have a friend in the neighborhood...

7. Tell us about your family I have four kids ages 8-17, a husband, and three guinea pigs.  

8. What’s your favorite holiday? Thanksgiving. We don't usually spend holidays with family (it's complicated) so we cook everything ourselves and I don't have to cook again for three days, plus there's pie which is my favorite dessert.

9. You have no budget what is your dream vacation? I have never really been anywhere, so basically anywhere that is not the Pacific NW.  North Carolina is what popped into my head first.  Vermont is up there on the list... Alabama for genealogy reasons...  

10. Name your biggest pet peeve’s? Walking into a room and no one has bothered to open the curtains. It's daylight, open the damn curtains we're not vampires! 

11. What book changed your life? This Can't Be Happening at Macdonald Hall by Gordon Korman. It was introduced by the school librarian when I was nine or ten as, "this book written by a thirteen year old." And I thought I'd be able to have a published book at thirteen too, no problem. Ha ha ha. Friends and Neighbors (short story book for kids) because I'm 99% sure it's the book my grandma used to teach me to read.


12. What simple invention improved the world? I don't know but I'm always curious who thought "hmm I'll take two sticks and some string and make some loops over and over.' They must have been really surprised when all of the sudden they had knit a sweater...

13. Favorite movies/TV shows? Back to the Future, always. Fringe. The Office.

14. Describe yourself using three fictional characters? Umm... no idea. Molly Weasley? Overwhelmed mom with a crazy house... Chandler Bing? Humor/sarcasm as a coping mechanism--check. Chidi from The Good Place? Can't make a decision to save my life. Done.

15. What was your dream job? As a kid? Architect. Right now: I want a job that stays at work and doesn't intrude on my non-work time and I don't want to come home smelling like anything.  If you're currently hiring, and your job description fits these two things, let's talk.  

16. If magic was real what spell would you learn first? Houseus Cleanus.

17. Share a favorite Childhood memory All my best childhood memories are either at my grandma's house or at summer camp. Some kids get homesick, I didn't want to go home... 

18. What is your favorite social media platform and why? Instagram. I like photos... I'd like it even more if they'd get rid of the stupid algorithm.  

19. If you could pick any book character who would you spend the day with? Si Morely from Time and Again by Jack Finney. I'd like to hear more about time traveling to 1880s New York...

20. What's your spirit animal? I really like bees... but probably a hamster. Today, this wheel is going somewhere!

21. What "old person" thing do you do? Everything? My spirit age is an 90-year-old grandma. I wake up way too early in the morning, I knit, I cook, I feed hummingbirds, I'm sure there's more I'm not thinking of.    

22. Do you have a hidden talent? I have no talents, hidden or otherwise, whatsoever. If there was a talent show, I wouldn't be able to be in it, I am that untalented.

23. Where do you see yourself in 5 years?  I have no idea.  I'm just trying to get through this year...

24. Share an item and tell us its significance.  

Randomly scanning the photos on my computer...  and since I mentioned her two or three times in this post... This photo of me and my grandma.  She was my person... if I would have asked, she'd help me bury a dead body, and then helped me escape the country.  We just got each other.  If she were alive, she would also yell at me for posting this photo... sorry Grandma.  

25. Now tag some people No one reads this blog so I tag no one.