After being tagged on Facebook by my high school boy friend’s then best friend, I added 25 Random Things About Me to my Facebook Notes. This is lifted from there. I am taking after LSMwho thought to turn her list into a blog post. Like her, I do not plan to tag any one, but I would enjoy reading 25 things about you.
- I tend to follow the rules and am often bothered when others do not. Perhaps it is an occupational hazard.
- I began learning how to play the violin at the age of 38, when my then 4 ½ year old son decided he wanted to take lessons. I am now in Book 2 of the Suzuki violin repertoire. (Do not look for me in an orchestra any time soon!)
- I was the first member of my family to get a post graduate degree.
- I am a Florida Bar Board Certified Real Estate Attorney.
- I can operate a lift truck. (It is always good to have a back up plan.)
- I won my first (and only) golf tournament (low gross and low net) the first year I learned to play in the summer before fourth grade by scoring a 31 for 3 holes!
- My favorite dessert is the Melting Hot Chocolate Soufflé at Roy’s.
- If it were not for good friends who were there for me and my family in our time of need, I have no doubt my Mother would have died in June of 2004. I am thankful to them everyday and repay the favor by being there for others when they need me.
- I was a resident assistant in college.
- I rarely buy clothes or shoes that are not on sale.
- Being on a boat in the 10,000 islands with my family relaxes me.
- The first thing I do after I check into a hotel is fill up the ice bucket in my room.
- I listen to a lot of talk radio. My kids say that is why I get stopped at so many traffic lights.
- I had my first child when I was 34, and my second when I was 36.
- My Dad grows pineapples in his yard and they are the best pineapples I have ever tasted.
- I got married on a sailboat at sunset.
- I miss my Grandma.
- I am a keeper, but I hope to wake up one day and throw or give almost everything I own away and live a minimalist life thereafter.
- I have lots of friends that are older than I am. They teach me so much.
- I helped coached the under 12 Georgia State Champions when I was in law school even though I had never played soccer before.
- I am a free market fiscal conservative and a social moderate. The closest label for me is probably Liberatarian.
- I have been asked to run for public office, but have no interest in being a politician.
- I love playing cards.
- Without my girlfriends, I would probably be nuts.
- My family means the world to me.
Unfortunately, I cannot move my 25 things to my blog since my mom reads it and there is stuff there she really wouldn’t want to see
And now I am really craving pineapple!
By: tpgoddess0103 on February 4, 2009
at 10:34 PM
Not too many shockers there, but the violin thing was a bit of a surprise.
I am so trying to give the “new kids” the benefit of the doubt in D.C., but “change” looks like the same thing, just in a different color suit!
By: morethananelectrician on February 4, 2009
at 11:09 PM
I just realized my google reader has not been updating your blog — so I’m getting caught up.
What a coincidence: I was an RA in college too!! (And after I finished my master’s, I was a hall director for 6 years.) Small world, eh?
By: Ms. H on April 20, 2009
at 8:19 AM
I envy you, being able to play the violin! That is the one instrument I’d most like to play. I remember picking one up at a flea market, and getting gooseflesh at the feel and sound of the bow across the strings. I couldn’t afford it. But I’ve never had the patience to learn any instruments, anyway.
Still, I can sing very well. I took voice in college. I’m a baritone, with a double-octave range. And though my car radio works, I usually sing when I drive–I have a whole repertoire of memorized songs I love to sing–most frequently Johnny Cash’s “Folsom Prison Blues”!
By: Scott on February 22, 2010
at 11:00 AM