Five Things About Me

Andy tagged me in this meme so I guess I have to do it Here’s my five:

1. One thing people are always surprised to learn about me is that I did my degree in Urban Planning. In the middle of 3rd year I realized I didn’t want to do that for a living, for various reasons (too political, among other things). At the same time, I started doing web design as a hobby and spent my last two co-op work terms in web design and there was no going back after that.
2. I grew up on a farm. I loved it when I was a kid. I spent most of my daylight hours playing outside. Mom used to have to holler out the back door to get us to come in for supper. In the winter we made all kinds of great snow forts and climbed around on the piles of snow dad shoveled up from the driveway. There weren’t any hills around there to go sledding on (unless down the side of the ditchbank counts), but if there was enough snow you could run and jump into a ditch and wind up chest deep in it. It was great!
3. I can be particular about the way things are done. I’m not obsessive compulsive or anything, but I like it when things are in their place. I don’t alphabetize my cans, but I do sort them by type. In fact, anything that can be sorted or ordered is sorted in the most logical way. I also have quite an elaborate grocery shopping scheme. Liam won’t even write anything on the grocery list in case he does it wrong. It’s genetic – I get it from my dad’s side of the family.
4. When I was in high school my friends and I liked to talk in fake English accents. Yes, we were very strange and geeky. The even stranger part was that we got it from watching the show Art Attack (which I still kind of enjoy). It’s very ironic then that I ended up marrying an Englishman. Liam says that my fake English accent sounds like Dick Van Dyke in Marry Poppins.
5. I can never think of a fifth thing. Put me on the spot and I can’t think of anything. I espeically hate signing cards for people in the office. Just what am I supposed to say when everyone has already said “Happy Birthday”. Okay, I’m going off on one now…

I’ll tag Adam and Adam, to include all the people who regularly comment here. Three regular commenters … jeez, I gotta work on promoting this site better!

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