7 Things About Me + The Bathroom Renovation

7 Things About Me:

1. I was a radio DJ while at Saint Joseph’s College. I did regular format and had my own radio show with one of my best college friends Amie. The radio show was called Rock of Ages (after the Def Leppard song) and featured hit songs from two years in classic rock.

 


A picture of Amie and me from our freshman year in college. I know I have a picture of us at the radio station, but I can't seem to find it.

2. I was supposed to have a twin brother or sister. My mom told me when I was around 12 or so which helped my world make a lot more sense.

A picture of a young me with some awesome saddle shoes! I didn't know what else to put as a picture for this one.

3. I’ve always been really interested in psychology and even minored in it. I’m working on going to graduate school for either mental health counseling or school psychology.

Graduating from the Joe. Hopefully I'll be wearing a similar outfit again in a few years with a master's degree.

4. I’m a little bit of an artist (or at least I used to be, I haven’t done anything in a while). I prefer pencils. I used to enter art projects every year in the fair (4-H fine arts).

I drew this in 8th grade for art class. If you can't tell, the assignment was about textures and I tried to fit as many different ones in there as I could.

 

5. I’m a Claymate. As in someone who likes Clay Aiken. If you don’t know who he is, he was one of the finalists on season two of American Idol. I don’t listen much to rat pack/crooner type music, but for some reason I like to listen to Clay sing it.

 

 

6. I love to read and have read many “big, bad, scary” books that most people don’t want to read. In high school we had to read Atlas Shrugged, and I actually liked it enough to buy a copy and reread it. I also read Les Miserables in high school and am probably the only one who has checked it out. I’ve also read War and Peace which is my husband’s favorite book.

 

My copy of the book which my husband bought me for Christmas one year. He has his own hardback copy.

 

7. I met my husband on an online dating site. That was a while ago when people were first getting into that. I signed up for a free profile just for fun to see if anyone would respond. I didn’t expect to actually meet anyone, but I found my husband!

 

Here is the first picture of us together which was taken probably a couple of months after we first met. For those of you who didn't know me that long ago, yes I was skinny!

 

The Bathroom Renovation

 

With the beginning of the school year started for me, the bathroom renovation slowed down. We have been able to get quite a bit done so far this weekend though. I painted the ceiling and it looks so much better being a crisp white. Andrew had to paint the walls around where the tub surround was going, because I hurt my neck/shoulders/upper back. Andrew and his dad finished the plumbing work for the tub and were able to close it back up. On Saturday of this weekend, the tub surround and some fixtures for the tub went up. So here are the pictures of the progress.

 

 

Another A to Z Survey

Another A to Z Survey

Age: 28 (29 on the 29^th of November- finally my golden birthday!)

Bed size: Full. Yes I am married, so I have to share this full sized bed. This is the same bed we got when we were first married and living in a 500 square foot studio apartment. If that isn’t bad enough, we share the bed with three miniature dachshunds. I can’t wait to get a bigger bed!

 

Here's the bed that we are still using (although without the leopard print comforter) and what it looked like in our studio apartment.

 

Chore you hate: I actually like cleaning, so I don’t mind most of the chores around the house and do most of them. I’m not fond of weeding. If I did it more often, then maybe it wouldn’t be so bad.

Dogs: Three miniature longhair dachshunds:

Sebastion our six year old black and tan

Benjamin our one year old black and tan dapple- and yes that is me under the covers with Benji taking over my pillow

Lilly our two year old red brindle

Essential start of your day: I always take the dogs out to go potty right away. Then I get to cooking myself a healthy breakfast that usually involves egg whites.

Favorite color: I like a lot of colors, but my favorites are pink, green, purple, and black.

Gold or silver: Gold. That goes against what most people say, but it is the most flattering to my coloring.

Height: 5’6”

Instruments I play: Since you are asking an instrumentalist, my primary instrument is flute (in which I’m sorely out of practice). My secondary instrument in college was sax. I never had one to actually keep and play after college, but I think it would come back to me. I can also play a little bit of piano, but am sorely out of practice on that too.

 

One of my senior pics had to include the flute!

 

Job title: Elementary music teacher

Kids: I have fur babies for now. I would like to have kids in a few years- probably two kids.

Live: Northwest Indiana

Mom’s name: Cindy

Nicknames: I don’t really have a nickname now, but some past nicknames were Kam, Sunshine, and Kaiser.

Overnight hospital stays: None as of now

Pet peeve: People who are disrespectful.

Quote from a movie: There are many movies out there that I like and have great quotes, but I rounded up a few of my favorites for you.

            My favorite book is Gone with the Wind and I love the movie too.

 

            I also love movies that are more on the stupid funny side like Mel Brooks and Monty Python movies.  There are tons of good lines in Spaceballs, but here is a short one to watch.

 

Spaceballs- Mog's intro

 

 

Monty Python and the Holy Grail- The Black Knight. I did this with one of my friends for oratorical contest in high school. I believe we got 2nd place for humorous dialogue.

 

 

 The last clip is from a Mystery Science Theater 3000 episode. The movie they are riffing is called Space Mutiny and it has some the best lines in all of MST3K. Here’s a video featuring quotes and nicknames for the main character of this movie set to music.

 

Right or left-handed: Right

Siblings: One sister who is three years younger than me. Another interesting fact is that we are both teachers (although I’m a music teacher and she is an elementary/special ed. teacher).

 

Here's a picture of us from her 8th grade graduation.

 

Time you wake up: Sometime between 5:00-5:30 when I’m working and whenever I please in the summer.

Underwear: Well, I wear underwear that is appropriate for the outfit I’m wearing. Isn’t that all anyone needs to know about my underwear?

Vegetable you dislike: Asparagus

What makes you run late: I’m not the run late kind of person. I’m always early for just about everything.

X-rays you have had done: Teeth, wrists, left ankle

Yummy food you make: I’m not a big cook, but I’m working on that. My friends said my roasted green beans were yummy. I also like my “healthy” pizza and breakfast cookies.

Zoo animal: I haven’t been to the zoo since I was a kid, but I do get to see animals at Animal Kingdom when we go to Disney World. I’m not so interested in having a favorite animal as much as trying to get a good picture of one.