5 Things

I blog a lot about other people & sometimes I think it’s fun to write about myself!
Of course – that’s the most challenging topic! But, without further ado, 5 things you probably didn’t know about me:

1. I really love a good cup of coffee, but there’s a catch: it must be cold – like freezing-packed-with-ice cold. I remember when I was a little girl, tasting my Grandma’s coffee & hating it and she told me that it was an acquired taste & she didn’t like coffee until she started working. So, at my big girl bank job, I tried coffee again. We weren’t fast friends. One day, I was in the “attempting” mood again [everyone else drinks the stuff, why don’t I like it?] and I just wasn’t enjoying drinking it – so it sat on my desk all day long. That afternoon, I took another sip of the cooled down coffee & actually kind of liked it. Thus began my love affair with iced-cold-coffee.
2. My celebrity crush is Tom Hardy. I’ve never been one to super geek out over an actor or actress, but lately I seem to really be digging Tom. He’s in one of my favorite chick flicks: This Means War – and since Chris Pine is my #2 celebrity crush – it’s about the best movie ever.
3. I’m officially back down to my pre-baby weight! Which is incredible because whenever I would envision myself getting pregnant & having a baby, I always assumed I would gain about 100 pounds [okay, just a little exaggeration] while pregnant and then never lose it. I’ve never been the thinnest girl on the block, so I just figured that was my lot in life. Somehow though, I got on my Mom’s scale over the weekend & the number was the same number that I hovered at before Braelynn came along! Something to celebrate? Absolutely! Let’s celebrate with cake, okay?
4. I really love DIY projects. My favorite is seeing something I really love online and then figuring out how I can duplicate it at home. I’ve made Braelynn 3 pairs of shoes, a teething necklace, crocheted myself little animals and hats – it’s the most fun! YouTube is amazing folks, you can learn absolutely anything from YouTube! I’ve yet to figure out how to make t-shirts [I keep seeing all these amazing shirts with such fun quotes!] but I’ll figure that out sometime!
5.  My favorite flowers are peonies. I want fields of them to be planted outside of our new house. Funny story: the first year Derrick & I were married & moved into our first house – a whole patch of peonies came up along our driveway. I was so excited! My favorite flower at my first house – and I didn’t even have to plant them! They grew up and got to the point where they were almost ready to burst into bloom, when I came home from work & they were gone. GONE. Derrick had weed-wacked them all down. I was devastated. I confronted him – why did you do that?! Those are my favorite flowers & they were just about to bloom! He had no clue – he thought they were just really tall weeds with ants all over them & so he chopped them all down. Needless to say – the following year I protected them with my life & they produced these amazing white blooms. And now, Derrick knows what peony plants look like.