7 Things About Moi

Fellow-blogger and high school French classmate, Amy, has passed on the fun to me of telling 7 things about myself.  Thanks Amy.  I'm not sure that mine will be as interesting as yours but here goes.

1. I am a ridiculous perfectionist, probably on the verge of undiagnosed OCD with how I like things to be done.  This includes housework, work-work, etiquette of myself and others, you name it.  It is good SOMETIMES but usually it just stresses myself and others out.  I am working on it!  This picture is an example how I have proudly refrained from cleaning my house ALL week. (I figure it's largely due to how I have been interviewing people all week at work and have come home even more exhausted than usual.)  Rachael, are you so proud of me?  Now, it's Friday, I'm off work and after this post is complete, I will be on a mad cleaning spree.  Watch out! :)

2. I really hate it when people don't like me and when I don't like someone else.  It bugs me!  I care way too much about what others think.  I want to "fix" everything to make everyone feel all warm and fuzzy toward each other.  I'm learning that life doesn't work that way, people don't work that way, and you just try try try to be the kindest person you can be, you fail sometimes, but you move on and get over it.

3. I am constantly wanting to redecorate my home.  I am obsessed with interior design blogs and wish I were rich enough to have an interior designer come help a gal out!  I also love fashion but never seem to figure it out for myself and make myself look like a fashionista.  I get lazy with the fashion thing and live vicariously through others' cute outfits.

4. I am addicted to reality tv...Real Housewives (all of them), Tori and Dean, The Hills, The City...the list just goes on and on.  It's mostly all the cable network reality shows, not the regular tv ones.  I am a crazy lady and will watch them, rewatch them, watch them on my computer when I am doing artwork or making diaper cakes.  My husband thinks I have lost my marbles.

5. I am a shy person.  When people first meet me, I am very quiet, reserved, and am nervous with meeting new people (I get sweaty pits, people).  Sometimes I am slow to warm up to certain people but when I do, I am surprisingly way more outgoing than they imagined.  I have gotten this confession of shock from many people!

6. I LOVE to travel but HATE packing and the actual tiring process of getting to and from my destination.  I get grouchy until I am actually there and have had a nap.  I enjoy new places and seeing, learning, exploring but then I realize that I miss home and am content to return to my animal children and my own bed...only to get home and then want to go somewhere else again.

7. I am a planner and dreamer.  I really have my whole vision of how my life "should" be all planned out.  I know it will never happen that way.  So far, some things have had better outcomes than my plans, others not so much.  This is opposite of how my husband is so I think it stresses him out.  I do not plan and dream to stress, only do it b/c it's fun to live in my own fairytale world sometimes.  Reality can be harsh, ya know.

Okay, that's 7.  There's a ton more cuz I am one complex creature. ;)

Passing this on for their answers to:

Stephanie at Truth In My Pocket

Melissa at Threads

Melissa at Design Delights

Hope everyone has a fun weekend!