10 Tidbits About {Imperfect} Me

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.