About Me

Who I am: Sometimes blonde, sometimes brunette - born and raised in PA; overweight outside but a skinny person on the inside! I like to read, knit, bead, decorate, listen to music and be with my family. I do not like cleaning, doing laundry, grocery shopping or people who lie. When I grow up I want to be anything but an ACCOUNTANT! Maybe I'll be a gardener or artist...someday...when I grow up. What I love being is a mom and wife and daughter and sister and friend.

100 Things About Me

1. I am married to the most wonderful man in the world.
2. I have two sons – 24 and 19.
3. I recently became a MIL – and just love her to pieces. She is everything a mother would want in a daughter.
4. I went to college to become an accountant.
5. PSU is my alma mater.
6. I love PSU football but not basketball.
7. Dallas is our pound puppy – mixed Chihuahua/rat terrier who is the most jealous dog in the world but we love him anyway.
8. I’ve been married 25 years.
9. We will be empty nesters soon.
10. My favorite holiday is Christmas.
11. I also love Valentine’s Day.
12. Our oldest son was born on Valentine’s Day.
13. I use to own a gift shop that sold antiques and primitives.
14. I stopped that in 2001 so I would have a steadier income.
15. I now work as an accountant – which I loathe - ETA - working in a new office now - as an accountant - which now I seem to like doing again...hmmmm.
16. My dream job is to own a coffee/tea shop.
17. I love the way coffee smells but hate the taste.
18. I adore tea!
19. I love to cook but hate to clean.
20. I belong to a book club but can’t stand half the ladies who belong because they are snobs and like to gossip. ETA Left the book club - wasn't worth the effort.
21. My best friend is my sister. I can tell her anything.
22. She passed away from lung cancer on 1/31/07. She never smoked.
23. I am lost without her.
24. My favorite color is red and sometimes blue but lately I have been really into green.
25. I love to garden and have loved flowers and plants since I was a little girl. I inherited this from my maternal grandmother.
26. I learned to crochet and embroider from my great-grandmother and knit from my paternal grandmother.
27. My mother taught me to sew.
28. I usually only sew decorating items – pillows, curtains, etc – but I have the urge to make some clothes.
29. I want to buy a dress form to help tailor my clothes better. When I’m not using it I want to dress it up.
30. I love to change the colors of the walls in my house. I do all the painting in the house.
31. I also do all the landscaping.
32. My son and husband only mow the lawn and maybe trim shrubs with my supervision.