Fun Facts about me:
- I am a middle child. I hate competition (but I’m very competitive) and love when all is equal and fair.
- I live in ND, where our temperatures range from -50+ to 100+. Ridiculous.
- I have always loved writing. It found me when I started seeing a therapist and I haven’t put down a pen since. It’s gotten me through my darkest hours.
- I am terrified of dogs and pretended to like them when my husband and I started dating because he had one.
- I went to a counselor when I was in 3rd grade because I was being picked on so badly.
- I SUCK at cooking. Sometimes I wish I was handy and could whip up beautiful, elegant meals… but it’s just not me. I burn toast, but I make a mean bowl of cereal!
- I have one child. (Two if you count my husband.) (And three with the dog.)
- I LOVE food. When my child was born, after I knew she was OK I immediately demanded that my husband called for pizza before the pizza places closed.
- I’m obsessed with a good quote.
- I have a really hard time sitting and doing nothing. If I’m still, I’m not feeling well.
- I love Chinese food the most.
- I struggle with anxiety and depression. It was diagnosed when I hit rock bottom just before I got engaged. Medication and therapy are my saviors. I also had a nice round of Post-partum depression. No shame.
- I was in the 4-H program until my late-20’s. I started when as early as I could at age 5, was a 4-H Ambassador when I was in college, and worked for the Extension Service in the area of 4-H right out of college. I learned a lot but the connections that I made are priceless.
- I hate to drink normal water. I’ve been trying so long to get away from my pop and sparkling waters, but I’m a sucker for sweet and carbonated.
- I love lists. I’m terrible at following up, but making them is fun.
- I hate flying, but I married a pilot. One of the things I love about him is his desire to travel. My dad will not fly so we rarely went anywhere if we couldn’t get there in a car. Now all I want to do is travel… sans flying.
- I lost 130+ pounds in high school and kept it off through most of my 20’s. It was my badge of honor and my goal in life. Nothing else mattered but the weight.
- I walked a 10k when I was 6 months pregnant. It was hot and I didn’t want to drink anything because I didn’t want to have to pee so I almost passed out right before we started but kept it together and finished. Then I went home and sat on the couch the rest of the day because I had gotten so overheated.
- I HATE dressing up and wearing “real” clothes. My ideal life is me existing in sweatpants, all day, errrry day!
- I love lifting weights. I was a cardio addict for many, many, MANY years and terrified of lifting because I didn’t want to gain weight from it. But it’s fun to throw heavy shit around and see the muscles grow.
- I am a Licensed, Registered Dietitian. I originally went to college for teaching but couldn’t find my niche, so i changed to nutrition because I had already lost a ton of weight so I was the expert, right? HA!! I hate math and science… do you know what Dietetics is? The science of food. A ton of chemistry. Good times. Lots of tutoring and studying. And I graduated with honors!
- I connect with people quick and hard and like to believe that everyone is my friend. I like to have friends wherever I go. And I like to bring them all together to see what happens- like a giant puzzle.
- I love puzzles, and I try to do them without looking at the picture.
- I have a very creative brain and being able to use it is the greatest feeling in the world. I love to create.
- I hate odd numbers. If I’m typing a list I’ll try to come up with one more thing if I ended up on an odd number. The only “ok” odd number is 5- and that’s only for alarms.
- I love to clean and organize, but my house is usually messy. It’s fun to me to take a tangled mess and sort it out if I have time and space.
- I love nature. Nothing brings me more peace than being outside, especially if I can be walking or hiking.
- I’m a scaredy cat. I hate heights, the dark, big scary men, dogs, ice, food poisoning, not knowing the plan, bugs, death and dead things, small spaces, raw meat and poultry,
- I have a TERRIBLE memory. It drives my husband nuts. I like to think it’s simply because I’m always thinking of too many things at once so not all of it gets retained.