Archive for September, 2010

The 3 of us at my sister's wedding.

15 interesting facts, huh?

1. I have 3 sisters and 1 brother. And if you asked most of the people I knew all through elementary and high school, they would know I had sisters but would not know I had a brother. Probably at least one person that reads this will be surprised to learn I have a brother. His name is Josh, he is about 2 years older than me, and he is awesome. Just so you know.

2. I use this one all the time in those lame icebreaker games, but it will work here too; my parent’s house (the house I grew up in for the most part) is closer to Canada than to any town in the US. Also, the nearest mall is 2 hours away. I grew up in the definition of small-town USA. Except for the being so near Canada part.

3. My eyes are generally green, but look kind of yellowish depending on the light and what I’m wearing. Occasionally they look almost brown, I’ve heard, but I’ve never seen that.

4. It is still weird for me to say this, even after 5 years, but I am a licensed insurance agent in the state of MN. However, you should never take anything I tell you over the Internet as “licensed insurance agent” advice. Always talk to your own agent. Always. Now that the legal disclaimer stuff is out of the way…I work on insurance for businesses (like Workers Compensation, Property & General Liability stuff). I really like it most of the time. I know that’s weird. It’s ok. Mostly I like it because I don’t have to sell anyone insurance.

5. I played flute all through high school and my freshman year of college. But starting my sophomore year, I taught myself how to play trombone by watching the people next to me. Specifically my friend Rob (thanks, Rob!). I’m not very good, but it was enough to play in the pep band at UMD, and I loved it. I still can’t read bass clef music, though. I read it as though it’s treble clef. Whoops!

6. I was a crossing guard when I was in elementary school. There were 2 of us that were Catholic, and we had to do crossing duty every Wednesday morning because almost everyone else was at religious education at their (mostly Protestant) churches. The Catholics had religious ed on Wednesday nights.

7. I do not usually buy music. I like listening to the radio, or to Pandora or NPR. It’s not that I don’t like music…I just like the way I hear things I would never think to buy myself when I listen to Pandora or the radio. And NPR is awesome. Obviously. Also, I am cheap.

8. I watch entirely too much television, and I don’t feel bad about that (most of the time). We have a DVR, and it is one technology invention that I could NOT get rid of without suffering serious withdrawals. We record House, Bones, The Office, The Closer, Gossip Girl, Fringe, Dr Who, American Idol, Next Food Network Star, & Next Design Star (although I think we might be dropping that one).  We also record Jeopardy, Good Eats and Iron Chef to have around during the slow TV times (between seasons especially). Other shows we watch if we happen to catch them, or we go in spurts watching them from Netflix (Dexter, Arrested Development).

9. I have a TERRIBLE memory. It’s actually a standing joke among some of my high school friends. One of them will say, “Becky, remember the time [fill in the blank with some major event that should stick in your memory]?” I will say, “No, I don’t remember that,” and they will go on to describe the event to me in detail. This happens with almost every single memory they bring up of high school/elementary school. I have a general memory of these times, and there are some things I remember specifically, although their relation to a certain year/time is not strong. I do not know why this is.

10. I am a fiercely loyal friend, and it takes a LOT for me to defriend (unfriend?) someone. I tend to be someone that just gets along with most people. Either that or they don’t tell me that we don’t get along and I just go forward in my ignorance. I like people, and I like being liked by people, sometimes to a fault.

11. I’ve known my husband for 10 years (approximately). We were friends for the first 5 or so of them, and only started dating seriously after we had both graduated and moved away from Duluth (we met in college). He’s one of my best friends, which I think is a good quality in a mate.

12. I didn’t know any of my roommates when I started college. I took the advice of all the college advisor types and sent a letter to all my roommates introducing myself (this was before e-mail and facebook were so prevalent). Based on that letter, one of my roommates (Alyson) who knew another woman that was going to live with us (Kate) thought that Kate might kill me before the first semester was over. We ended up all getting along really well, and I lived with Alyson for the rest of my college carreer. I just saw her last weekend, actually. I love her. I like Kate too, but she’s crazy and I haven’t seen her in years.

13. Alyson still spells my name BeckEy. Because for a couple years that’s how she thought it was spelled.

14. My nickname to my small group of friends in high school was Pami, because my dad wanted to name me Pamela when I was born, and my mom wouldn’t let him. My friends thought it was funny.

15. If you talk to me for any length of time you will notice that I love to read and that I read a LOT of blogs. Some days I feel like every sentence I say starts with “I read this blog the other day that said….” Other than at work, of course. Although, that would be awesome. “I read this blog that says you should increase your deductibles and add Inland Marine coverage for those tools in your truck.” Somehow I don’t think people would take me seriously. I have about 66 blogs in my Google Reader, and that’s after removing some of them when I got back on the computer after having James (I had to prioritize; I couldn’t keep up with them all).

So, that’s some info about me. Note to self: don’t claim you are going to start blogging daily the next day when you are leaving town for the weekend. It does not put you off to a good start!