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10 Tidbits About {Imperfect} Me

July 2, 2013 by Ami 20 Comments

I like to be in the background. Not because I'm this amazingly humble person; it's just that I'm not an all-out-there kind of gal. I like a low profile. I never even tell some of my homeschooling friends about this blog or my secret operation. Incognito is fine with me. 

So, I don't usually do these kinds of posts, but I've been blogging for 7 years now. Maybe it's time you learn a few of my secrets. 

1. My name, on my birth certificate, is spelled Amy. In Jr. High school I had some kind of name crisis (there were only 972 other girls with the same name in our county), and my mom told me to change the spelling. I did. It stuck. So now I'm Ami. Unless I'm signing a legal document.

2. I was a bad little girl! I got in trouble often at school. I was always losing recess or being spanked for something: not completing homework, being impulsive (throwing things at people I didn't like), reading instead of doing my math worksheet, laughing during music class, talking during art class, not completing my sentences, getting three check marks by my name, and on it goes.

Bad girl gone good (by God's grace). That's my story.

3. My socks {almost} never match. Here's the thing: I don't have the time or drive to be a professional sock-matcher. And really. Really. Who cares?

4. I love to listen to the same song over-and-over-and-over again. It drives everyone in this house insane. But I love it. 

5. I don't keep a calendar. No homeschool planner. No blog planner. No watch. Nothing. While I'm on a no-roll: No cell phone. No texting. No television. Yep. 

6. My neighbors can't stand me. Jason says everyone likes me. This isn't the case with the folks next door. They claim I murdered their beloved 30-year-old lilac bush last summer with my all natural weed killer. I don't think I did. Even though I apologized through tears, they reminded me about 20 times before they stopped talking to me altogether. Now they just glare at me. {I hide from them.} 

7. I am random. I am easily distracted. I'm living the If-You-Give-A-Mouse-A-Cookie life. I usually have 50 tabs/windows open at one time on my two monitors. However, I also have the ability to focus on one project for a very.long.time. Like sit at the computer and work on one project and not get up to pee or eat or anything for 8 hours. It's a strange life to live.

8. At any given time I may have 6 empty cups or water bottles on my desk. Drives Jason crazy. That's probably why I do it. Speaking of Jason, here's a hidden fun fact for ya: we met online in 1998.

9. I don't love top ten lists. I mean, really. What if I don't have ten? Do I just make something up? What if I have more than ten? Combine two? I rarely, if ever, actually have ten. I just fake it. 

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  1. Tristan says

    July 2, 2013 at 9:16 am

    Too funny Ami/y!

    I have to keep a calendar because of all Mason's medical appointments – it's insane! Add in regular checkups/dentist/eye doctor/allergist etc for the other six kids, my pregnancy appointments, and honestly we have multiple appointments each week, often multiple each day.  LOL!  I miss my quiet, doctor-free life!

  2. Heather @ Cultivated Lives says

    July 2, 2013 at 3:23 pm

    Oh Ami or is it Amy…  This not top 10- list made me laugh.  I am random too and it drives my hubby nuts to see so many windows open on the computer.  But then again, it also comes back to bite me when I have too many deadlines looming at the same time.

    And I love the 'bad girl gone good {by the grace of God}.  That's my story too.

  3. Vanessa says

    July 2, 2013 at 10:51 pm

    Thankyou!  It was so nice to read about *you* Ami šŸ™‚  

    I hope you are having an awesome day!  

    from Vanessa in Oz

  4. Gina says

    July 3, 2013 at 8:11 am

    Hah, you could be my introverted twin (I would be the extroverted one).  I am just the same except I don't like loads of cups everywhere.   I get mad ideas in my head and take my family on harebrained schemes with me.  It is great but short attention span once it is ticked off my list. Lol.

    My neighbour hates me because we fixed our hedge really well.  Now when her poor dog escapes it isn't in my garden bouncing and peeing on everything.  It is a massive, lovely dalmatian but it breaks stuff.  So, now when she loses her dog, she has to go look for it.  I am still not sure how this makes me the bad one but there you are. 

    I enjoyed your post and I am delighted to discover that there is another home schooler without a calendar, I think we may be alone…..

     

     

     

  5. Amy says

    July 3, 2013 at 8:19 am

    That's great!  I love your honesty, simplicity & realness!  Thanks for making me smile this morning….

  6. Donna in OKC says

    July 3, 2013 at 10:25 am

    Ami thanks for your list it really brightened my day. Glad to know I am not the only "tabber" and cup/bottle hoarder around : )

  7. Ami says

    July 3, 2013 at 10:35 am

    Four cups on my desk right now! HA! šŸ™‚

  8. Ami says

    July 3, 2013 at 10:36 am

    The funny thing is that I don’t like loads of cups anywhere. Visual clutter is my enemy (because my brain is so cluttered). But, when I’m working at my desk, I only see the monitors and not the cups! I go downstairs to get a drink and inevitably forget I already have an empty cup on my desk. I am such a mess! šŸ˜€

  9. Ami says

    July 3, 2013 at 10:36 am

    Thanks, Vanessa. šŸ™‚

  10. Ami says

    July 3, 2013 at 10:37 am

    Hi Heather!

    My computer freaked out on me yesterday and was moving at a snail’s pace! I had to concede, and shut down every open window and reboot. Sigh. My husband is going to fix me up a faster/better computer so I can really go wild! šŸ˜‰

  11. Ami says

    July 3, 2013 at 10:38 am

    You are such a good mama, Tristan, and you take such good care of your boy! šŸ™‚Ā 

    My schedule will probably be a little more complicated, too, someday. šŸ™‚Ā 

  12. Marcy @ Ben and Me says

    July 3, 2013 at 11:39 am

    why I adore you — we are so much alike (except for the introverted/extrverted part and I really wish you would get a cell phone). 

  13. Jessica Nunemaker from little Indiana says

    July 4, 2013 at 7:42 am

    Ha! I too wear mis-matched socks (ain't nobody got time for that!) and leave cups around the kitchen. My husband teases me that I am that girl from the movie "Signs." I also have way too many tabs open at any given time. šŸ™‚ 

  14. Tristan says

    July 5, 2013 at 10:51 am

    Yep, can't wait to see the children God brings to your home!

  15. Ticia says

    July 5, 2013 at 11:15 am

    The cups collect in my bedroom.  Did you watch the movie "Signs?"  I now defend myself saying, "I'm preparing for an alien invasion."

  16. tereza crump aka mytreasuredcreations says

    July 5, 2013 at 3:20 pm

    Loved this post, Ami. I would love to meet you in person and be friends. You are a hoot! šŸ™‚

    I don't have a homeschool planner or calendar either. I just can't do them. There will be so many things left undone that I just don't bother writing them down.

  17. Ami says

    July 5, 2013 at 8:55 pm

    Ticia, I haven’t seen it, but at least I know I’m ready for an alien invasion! I am a be-prepared kind of girl!

  18. Cheerful Learning says

    July 23, 2013 at 4:25 am

    Oh, I can so relate to those cups (mine are all over my nightstand since I work on my laptop in bed after my kiddos are down and I'm too tired to be upright another minute) and also to the gobs of open tabs. My husband is constantly telling me that my computer would be so much faster if I'd just close the 100+ tabs I have open!  (See you aren't so bad!) And I don't know why, but it is refreshing and encouraging to know I'm not the only one! Thanks for sharing, and thanks for keepin' it real! šŸ™‚

  19. Cheryl Devine says

    January 21, 2020 at 9:10 am

    Good Morning. We are wondering if we could use some of your suggestions on your web page in a Christian school that we have opened in Cape Sable Island, Nova Scotia, Canada. We have 55 students this year and are struggling to have a health curriculum that is academically sound and Christian/Biblically based. Thought we could take some of your suggestions and work with them. We just wanted to make sure that was all right.

    Thank you,
    Cheryl Devine
    Principal, Oceanview Christian Academy

  20. ami says

    January 28, 2020 at 9:27 am

    Yes, that’s fine. šŸ™‚

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