31 Days With ME: 25 Things you Didn't Know About Me

 6 days into my series can you believe it? I really appreciate you stopping by everyday.

Sometimes, as you probably know, the internet has a way of presenting one's life that is usually far from reality. So when I read blogs, I know that they are just like me. Have down days, soaring high days, good hair days, wild kids, pet peeves, dry skin, arguments, messy living rooms, unmade beds, bad grammar, high expectations or fill in the blank here:_____________. It's just not displayed on the internet and I get that. Honestly, you will rarely (if at all) see pictures of  my "messy living room", every one has one, do I really need to show it? It's there, believe me...I don't need to prove it. For me, it has nothing to do with perfection, it's just logic. We are all human. We are not perfect. It's life and it is messy. It just is. Which brings me to today's topic 25 things that you don't know about me. You  might like me more, or less. I'm not sure here. I'm going way back here people, the way, way back...talking about school, and growing up and throwing in some of my present quirks. I am real. I am here. I narrowed down the list. Big Time.

   This picture was taken this month last year, before the cancer came back. Not that it wasn't there, I just didn't know it yet.

 This is a picture this year, a week ago. The cancer is back...and 6 months of chemo has taken it's tole. But I don't want to talk about cancer, but I am bald under that cute hat, and there is a reason. 

25 things that make me tick. Let's talk about that.

1.) I am a Gemini, so I either love something instantly, or things have to grow on me. It is a nightmare to live with me.

2.) I still remember the teacher that turned my butt around in the 8th grade, Mrs. Corbett.

3.) Both of my parents are gone. Not everyday, but I cry for them either early in the morning when I've just woken up or right before I go to sleep. I guess when I stop and my mind isn't whirling...I think about how much I miss them in my life and the life of my children.

4.) I am constantly trying to figure out what my purpose is.

5.) I don't make friends very easy. I still miss my friends in North Carolina, and have only a handful here in Missouri and it's been over eight years that we've lived here. I've always wanted to be that person that has gaggles of friends.

6.) I like my coffee light and sweet and drink one cup in the morning every day. I drink Folgers and love Dunkin Donuts coffee. Unfortunately,  Missouri does not have Dunkin' Donuts and the stuff at the grocery store is NOT the same.

7.) I think my biggest dream is owning a home decor store. There is an old closed Burger King building in Webb City that I think I could do wonders with.

8.) I like to drive, however, if I'm going somewhere new, I need a navigator. I've been known to get lost in neighborhoods.

9.) It takes a lot to make me angry, but when I am, all hell breaks loose.

10.) I am an Army brat. My family has lived all over the United States and some overseas tours including Italy and Germany.

11.) I had long hair that I could sit on my entire life, my father refused to let me cut it until I was 18. At 17, I whacked it off to my shoulders. He was not happy.

12.) My first vehicle was a Charcoal Grey Ford Ranger. I made the monthly payments on it, a whopping $147.00 a month.

13.) I have made things for as long as I can remember. The first thing that I remember actually crafting with my hands that wasn't out of paper, was a doll made out of my mother's pantyhose. She was not happy.

14.) My Mother wanted to name me Regina Lynn, they went with Michelle Lynn...I never liked my name and always wondered why my parents didn't get more creative when naming me.

15.) Keegan hates his name because I got too creative.

16.) My husband is 6'5 and it's one of the things I love about him. I can wear heels and he's still taller than I am, at 5'9. Like I wear heels anymore.

17.) I have a fear of falling down in public.

18.) After having 1 boy, and 8 years later having another, you would think I would have some clue about raising boys. I do not...they are as different from one another as night and day.

19.) I am a very light sleeper.

20.) I love my sisters children and miss them all the time. I wish we didn't live so far apart.

21.) I love my sister and miss her all the time. I wish we didn't live so far apart.

22.) I love music. I can't sing, but love to and it's not just in the shower either. I listen to all sorts of music, but my favorite decade is the 70's. I like to shake my groove thang.

23.) My grandmother was an amazing women. She owned her own business, was an amazing cook, excellent sewer, and raised 8 children. I wish I was more like her (except the having 8 kids thing).

24.) I do not like grocery shopping, and I wait for the last possible reason to go. "We're out of toilet paper??? Dang it. Alright, I'll go."

25.) I love watching reruns of Murder She Wrote, I am not ashamed.


Tell me one thing about you, I'd love to know. Talk to you tomorrow.