So I am in general opposed to meme’s, forwards, quizzes, etc.

With that being said, I’m totally doing one today.  Two of my favorite bloggers wrote posts this week with a few little snippets of information about them no one (or very few people) would know.  It was really fun to read both, and learn a little more about them.

It’s always so great to learn more about people online, to glimpse a little more into their worlds.  To see who they are in real life, when they aren’t typing away at a keyboard.  Sometimes you are lucky enough to email back and forth, to set up a Skype date,  set up an appointment to chat on the phone and then there’s the times you meet up with them or fly across the country to finally slumber party IRL.

I love meeting new people and learning new things about them.  Thing is I’m pretty shy and don’t put myself out there near enough to meet people.  At least meet them on a level more than pleasant niceties and perhaps one or two exchanges of chatter.

Photo Credit: Getty Images – Hutch Axilrod

Now, for what you are all here for, as promised at the beginning…5 Things You May Not Know About Me:

1.)  I was in the emergency room last summer and almost had emergency gall bladder surgery.  Instead, I spent the night in the ER and I was the only one there on a Friday night with BAC under .10.  I did some research on my own before going under the laproscopic “knife” and discovered with MY doctor I had a rare condition where a yeast infection forms in your intestine.  And they wanted to take my gall bladder!

2.)  I have secured a bib for the past 4 years to the Beach 2 Beacon 10K Road Race hosted here in Maine by Joan Benoit-Samuelson (first Olympic woman’s marathon gold medalist.)  For the prior three I have seriously sprained my ankle 1-2 months before the race.  To the point where the physical therapist recommends against running on it.  I’m registration # 1743 this year…and plan on NOT spraining my ankle.

3.)  I joke frequently about how I don’t like to cook, yet I’m learning to like it more and more (can’t ask my roommate to cook EVERY night, and take out gets expensive!)  Baking, however, I love to do.  Cookies, coffee cakes, brownies, bread…if it’s a pastry or dessert I’ll give it a whirl.  I’m partial to my peanut butter chip chocolate cookies and orange cranberry quick bread.

4.)  I got my tongue pierced when I was in college.  I told the guy I was allergic to iodine but it was all he had to “sterilize” so I went with it and my tongue was swollen up so much I could barely breathe for spring break during my sophomore year.  I “took it out” about 18 months later when I accidentally dropped the ball from the barbell into a sink drain while traveling and didn’t have a spare with me.

5.)   One of my first “jobs” in college was as an inter-library loan specialist.  Which means I pulled folios from the archives, photocopied them in a tiny closet of a room, and mailed them to people who were requesting them from the University.  I left when I got a job with the Student Government.  Three months later my best friend was laid off because they determined that the working conditions with all the toner and fumes in the un-ventilated closet-like space were toxic.

I’m gonna throw in a bonus as well, cause it’s been rocking people’s world lately (though I didn’t realize that people “may not know”)

I am turning 30 this May (like in 2 months.)

I’m not sure if I “feel” 30 or what that means exactly.  I’m pretty happy with where my life is so I’m not going to have a “post-quarter life crisis” or anything.  I don’t think…

Well, I won’t as long as people stop acting so floored and shocked whenever they find out that I’m “old.”

I mean really people, it’s not like I’m OLD old.  I don’t think…

But I digress.

Now I’d love to hear more about YOU.  Please leave comments below or links to similar posts on your own site/blog.  Let’s get the sharing started!

Listening To: I’ll Be There For You by The Rembrandts

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