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.
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!
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.
Thankyou! It was so nice to read about *you* Ami š
I hope you are having an awesome day!
from Vanessa in Oz
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…..
That's great! I love your honesty, simplicity & realness! Thanks for making me smile this morning….
Ami thanks for your list it really brightened my day. Glad to know I am not the only "tabber" and cup/bottle hoarder around : )
Four cups on my desk right now! HA! š
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! š
Thanks, Vanessa. š
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! š
You are such a good mama, Tristan, and you take such good care of your boy! šĀ
My schedule will probably be a little more complicated, too, someday. šĀ
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).
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. š
Yep, can't wait to see the children God brings to your home!
The cups collect in my bedroom. Did you watch the movie "Signs?" I now defend myself saying, "I'm preparing for an alien invasion."
Loved this post, Ami. I would love to meet you in person and be friends. You are a hoot! š
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.
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!
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! š