Today, It’s All About Me

Today is my birthday (woohoo!), and since I haven’t done an introduction in awhile, I figured that today is a perfect time to share some random facts about myself and let you get to know me a little bit better. So, here are thirty-something tidbits about me to celebrate my thirty-something birthday…

• My favorite color is yellow.
• I hate pickles and mustard.
• I love donuts.
• I have a strange OCD obsession with putting things in rainbow color order – clothes, paints, books on the shelf, whatever…you name it, it’s probably arranged by color in this house.
• I collect coffee mugs (all arranged in color order, of course!).
• I want nothing more than to move to the country and live life on a small farm (or to win the lottery and buy a house on the beach…either one!).
• I have had insomnia for as long as I can remember.
• I can only fall asleep in a reasonable amount of time if I’m using a hypnosis app (which I use 99 out of 100 nights).

• I love vintage items, and I hoard vintage sheet fabric like nothing else.
• I used to perform on stage and have a background in theatre.
• I can’t sing.
• My favorite albums of all time are Green Day’s American Idiot and Sarah McLachlan’s Afterglow. I’m super eclectic in my musical taste.
• I have two tattoos.
• I initially went to college to study photography, but a financial aid mix-up forced me to switch schools and led me to get my BA in interior design instead.
• I much prefer Urban Outfitters to Anthropologie (ooh, blog world blasphemy!).

• I have three younger sisters and no brothers (but I do have two brother-in-laws now!). Our parents have been together since high school.
• I love the beach, redwood trees and bright green grass {I should totally move to the Oregon coast}.
• I have a celebrity girl-crush on Zooey Deschanel (who doesn’t!?), but I can’t come up with a single male celebrity crush. Seriously, I’ve tried to think of one, and I just can’t. Mostly I just look upon other people’s celebrity crushes with confusion…Channing Tatum? Zac Efron? Really? What am I missing here?
• I think that all books purchased from Amazon should come with a free Kindle edition…and it should be retroactive to cover every book I’ve ever bought from there in the past 15 years.
• I have an extreme fear of heights and rattlesnakes. Actually, all snakes.
• I might be a craft supply hoarder. It’s just SO hard to cut into perfect fabric or that ONE lone sheet of amazing paper that I have. What if I mess it up?
• I have a crazy good memory.

 

• My favorite artist is Kurt Halsey.
• I am a list maker, and I always have at least two notebooks at arm’s reach. I’m a notebook-aholic.
• I really don’t like chick flicks. I’m much more likely to reach for a suspense or horror movie than a girly comedy.
• One of my greatest professional achievements was being published 15 times in local magazines, mostly because it made my grandparents SO proud of me. Now they’re expecting me to write a book. 😉
• I really want to write a book.
• I’m a sucker for polka dots.
• I love Diet Coke more than I should. We’ve tried to break up a few times, but we always seem to get back together in the end.

• My family means everything to me.
• It’s taken me a long time, and I’ve traveled through a lot of dark places to get here, but I’m finally at a place where I am confident and happy with who I am.