35 Things About Me

On this, the day marking the 35 year of my life, I give you: 35 random and mostly entirely useless, but very true and perhaps a little awesome, facts about me.

1) I was born on April 29th, 1974. That would make me 35 today.
2) I cried last night in bed. Turning 35 has left me a bundle of mixed emotions.
3) I have been married twice.
4) My second husband has been, and continues to be, the most amazing person I have ever known.
5) All of my friendships are very long term. My best friend and I have been friends for 15 years. Another friend, 20 years this fall.
6) I have some newer friends, I look forward every day to knowing them this long.
7) My mom died when I was 26. Saddest day of my life.
8) I have had two miscarriages. Second and third saddest days of my life.
9) The above mentioned best friend is moving in 4 months. I feel that this will rank #4.
10) I love my job. When I don't hate it. I discovered today though, that it's not the job, or the people that I've been upset with. It's been the tension. It's been killing me.
11) I am a very straight forward person. Sometimes telling it "like it is" gets me into trouble. I should learn to shut my mouth.
12) I can watch hours and hours and hours of "Angel" and "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" and never tire of it.
13) Sometimes just looking at my husband takes my breath away.
14) My favorite song is called "New Way Home" by the Foo Fighters.
15) My favorite band is the Foo Fighters.
16) My favorite movie is "The Princess Bride".
17) My favorite color is Turquoise and Teal. And every color in between. It's the not green/not blue colors I love.
18) I like American Idol and many other realty TV shows and I'm not afraid to admit it. Just because I buried this information in the middle where no one will probably read it means nothing.
19) I like Chardonnay.
20) I am diabetic. I don't get to drink much Chardonnay.
21) I actually just found out I am diabetic last week. So this is all new.
22) I am still going to eat my birthday cake. Take that diabetes!
23) For my birthday Mark painted me a picture. It's the two of us. It's actually my very favorite picture of me. I think my eyes look super pretty in it.
24) I love sewing and scrapbooking and painting and pretty much all things crafty.
25) Some day I would like to travel to Spain. I can't tell you why Spain, it just always looks so pretty in the pictures.
26) I have one tattoo. I want another one. Mark is less enthusiastic.
27) I just had surgery on both my hands. They are healing nicely, but they still hurt sometimes.
28) There is hardly a better time than curling up on the sofa with Mark and taking a long nap.
29) My husband has the worst gas problems. And what's more, he's proud of it. He says ALL guys are like this. I'm not sure he's right.
30) I have a dog named Thor and Two cats: Sable and Charlie.
31) If I ever get pregnant and have a girl, I will name her Elizabeth Jewel. The boy's name is up for grabs.
32) I'm not sure if I'll ever be happy if we don't have kids.
33) Mark says he doesn't care if we don't have kids.
34) I have a room full of books. It's awesome.
35) I think my 35th year is gonna be the best yet. Here's to hoping. *Cheers*