20 Facts about me

Let's see if I can do this. 20 sounds like a small number but I know it can be harder than you think.

1. I am a musician. And a pretty good one. I hate telling people who don't know, because I just don't like bragging. But I'm a really good trumpet player.

2. I went to school for it. I didn't finish school for it. It was a difficult time in my life and I wasn't as prepared as I needed to be when I started college. Ironically, today in fact, I was talking to a friend's nephew who just started playing trumpet.  And he is really passionate about it but lacks drive because he doesn't have a very good teacher. It's VERY important to have someone encouraging you when you start something new, like playing an instrument, and I was SO excited about it, I just had so many tips and ways that I thought I could help him. It would be nice in a way to be a band director to young children, but I don't think I'll ever go back to school for it.

3. I like to be the VERY best at almost everything I do. I procrastinate a lot, which hinders some things. But it's important to me to be the best wife I can. I try to make my husband happy. I like to cook, and try new foods, and plan. I'm very frugal with money. I always craft almost anything I can.
I like to give advice to my family, especially my sister, and be there for her always. I try to prepare her for anything I think will come her way. I had to be the very best musician when I was in school. I was always first chair in trumpet. And when I went to college, as a freshman I took second chair over quite a few upper class-man. I constantly do research and read blogs to be prepared and be the best wife and mother I can. I've ALWAYS climbed the ladder at whatever job I worked. I take a LOT of responsibilities, no matter where I work. I worked for Apple, as a technical advisor at a call center and I stayed number one on my teams, until I moved up to be a Senior tier 2 advisor and account and security specialist within 6 months, and I was working to being a supervisor when I left the job. I like to climb ladders with things I do. I don't want to just be a jack of all trades, I want to be a master-of-all-trades.

4. I sew. I've made quite a few costumes for my cosplays and my husband's cosplays. I've made pillows, blankets, clothes, repaired clothes and ripped seams, purses, hand warmers, children's play mats...just to name a few.  I hand sew and use a sewing machine. I hand sew for years before ever getting a sewing machine.

5. I also cross stitch. I'm currently working on a super cute cross stitch project that I'm going to frame, it has Luke's birth information and a cute baby green lantern cartoon. It's taking a lot longer than normal, because with a teething 3 month old, you don't get much done.

6. One of my goals for 2016 is to learn how to crochet. Its the only thing not in my arsenal with that department. I ordered an awesome crochet needle set off Amazon, back in November, but the seller decided to leave the platform and didn't go through with any of their orders and I just found this out 2 days ago....waited a REALLY long time to find that out. So now I have to order a set from someone else, and when it comes in I will get busy with that!

7. I've been with my husband for 11 years and 3 months. In a couple of weeks we will celebrate our 1 year wedding anniversary, but who counts that when you had so many years under your belt before that came along. haha

8. We celebrate our dating anniversary AND our wedding anniversary. One is in February and the other in October, so there's plenty of time in between. I wanted to get married on our dating anniversary but it just wasn't coming around to being on a weekend day and so we got married on the date that he proposed to me on.....so, kinda still an anniversary. lol And I'm sure we will always celebrate both. Both dates mean a lot to us.

9. I like to cook. I touched on this earlier but I'll elaborate, I really like meal prepping and when I have time I like taking a couple of hours to make delicious meals. I can seriously be the ultimate house wife. It's not all I want to do in life, but I really do pride myself in becoming and being an amazing mother and wife.

10. I hate HATE hate to not have nail polish on my toes. I don't really like not having it on my fingers either, but it's been like four months because I haven't had time to paint my finger nails AND let them dry since I had the baby. When Luke was born, I needed to do my toenails but didn't get a chance so I took off the polish I had on a few days after he was born and I didn't repaint them. It was AWFUL to me. I actually went a little over a month before I turbo painted them in the bathroom, but for that month I wore socks often. I don't think I have ugly feet, I just don't like how...plain it looks without the polish. It really enhances how beautiful my feet look. lol....might sound crazy and superficial but it's one of those things. When I go on vacation I ALWAYS take the polish with me, and usually I always have a dark color in my purse that I can use to cover any color, just in case it chips or something.

11. I LOVE to binge watch tv shows. I'm sure most people do, but I was doing it long before netflix and hulu became a thing. I will wait until series finish before I start watching them because I know I HATE waiting and cliff hangers are a must in television...it's how they get you back next week. I'm always scared I'm going to die in the middle of a series and never know how something finished....I know that's awful lol but it's a true thought.
I haven't watched any of The Walking Dead, because I know I will get hooked. I watched Sex and The City when the first movie came out. I bought a deluxe edition and enjoyed about a month of tv for MANY hours every day. I began True Blood the last season it had. So I had to start waiting weekly which sucked!

12. I do watch some tv shows weekly. I'm caught up in some reality series that you have to stick to weekly or seasonly (like, Dancing With The Stars)

13. I love to sleep. Lots of naps or even for like 12 hours at the time. I do nap a lot with the baby, which is nice...but also kinda required because he falls asleep by eating and if I try to sneak away he wakes up. Every. Single. Time.

14. I like to stay up through out the night. I'd rather be awake at night than during the day, most of the time. But Even with this and with sleeping a lot, I can sleep for only 4 hours or even forego sleep if I have to when I have to get something done.

15. I usually NEVER get any sleep the night before something big. It's a real problem. I've never had a "good nights rest" before an event. Tests, auditions, job interviews, doctors appointments, my wedding day, the birth of my son, moving, going on vacation, Christmas (duh)....things like this...I never get any sleep. I'm always too anxious.
I will try to stay up all night two days before or try to wear myself out and go to bed early, but it always just turns into a nap and then I'm up all night.
A slight headache in the morning, super sensitive to the sun, and a stomach full of butterflies.
It's tolerable though. I will just get good sleep the next night. It's something I've always known I do and I've come to terms with it the last few years so I'm never overly exhausted when it happens. I make it through just fine.

16. I read a lot. I'm always reading a book or series. There's never a time when I've finished a book and haven't started another. I always have a list of books to read.

17. I enjoy when books are made into movies. But not into tv shows.....Ain't nobody got time for that.
Of course I have lots of issues with things that are missing or left out, but I still like when you get to watch something you've had play out in your mind.

18. I HAVE to read before going to sleep. It's VERY rare that I don't read before sleeping. It's not always a novel, sometimes it's blogs or articles online, but it's the last thing I do before closing my eyes. I have a mental block. I can't push past it. Even when my eyes are super heavy...and sometimes it will just be a paragraph before I fall asleep, but I have to attempt it!

19. I've always lived in the future....looking forward to the things to come, until now. Now that I have Luke, I try to really live in the now and enjoy him. He changes SO much every single day and I don't want to miss it. In the past it was always...until I can move out and be on my own....and then until I get married or finish school or get a better job. I still look forward to the future, but I never really enjoyed life the way I should have because I was too focused on tomorrow. And like the old song goes, tomorrow never comes. There is only right now.



I made it! Whew....not that hard, I could probably come up with a few more. haha

20. I spent way too much time trying to thing of a 20th thing, it's like....hmm? What's the best thing for last or something super important I won't want to have forgotten? And I just don't know.

I have a light brownish eyes with a few blue spots and my father had blue eyes with brownish spots in the exact same places. I also have a small mole/freckle on my collar bone that my mother, grandmother, and great grandmother all have/had in the exact same place. It's pretty cool, I think.



Until next time,
XXOOXO