50 Things About ME, Part 1

My neighboor Kate started a blog last month and wrote this great entry called 50 Things about Me. I thought it was hilarious and so honest that I wanted to try it myself. But I'm going to post my 50 things in two installments. Part 1 and Part 2 coming in the future.

50 Things about Me:

1. I was born in Maine and have lived in Maine my entire life, except for two years in Canada when I was 2, but I don’t remember it.
2. I have two kids.
3. I’ve been married for almost 16 years, and got married when I was 20. 20+15.5= EEEGADS! Yes, I’m 35, in two months I’ll be 36. And no, I wasn’t pregnant when I got married, as many people think I was.
4. I had my first child at 30, so there!
5. I’m 5’and ½" tall
6. When I was 6 I told my brother, 4, that the mud pies I was creating were really yummy...you can guess what happened next.
7. I love tortilla chips, salsa and sour cream. It’s deadly on a Friday night.
8. The first thing I threw on the wheel in eighth grade looked like some animal climbed up and took a dump. I even glazed it brown for some reason as well and my Mom still has it somewhere in her house.
9. T he second thing I threw on the wheel, at age 19 in ceramics class in college, was amazing and beautiful, then as I stood up to get the pot scoopers, I stepped on the pedal making the wheel spin uncontrollably and sent my creation flying across the studio room, smashing in a muddy mess on the wall.
10. The third thing I threw on the wheel looked like an animal climbed up and took a dump. But this time I glazed it white.
11. When I was pregnant with my daughter I craved banana bread. When I was pregnant with my son I craved everything!
12. My first grade teacher told my mom that "Becky can’t draw her way out of a paper bag!" My mom saw her at a conference 15 years later and told her I was in art school, then proceeded to tell her off. Go Mom!
13. When I was 9 I told my brother, 7, that chewing gum was good for your jaw muscles. Several cavities. Oops!
14. I drive an escort wagon. Very sexy let me tell ya! But it’s paid off!
15. My studio is in my basement.
16. I love living in Portland, Maine.
17. I still have not put my sons baby book together yet. He turned 3 last month.
18. I met my husband when I was 14 on the first day of school in of course...art class.
19. Rob and I didn’t start "going out" until a week before prom.
20. I moved in with him when I was 19 and almost gave my parents heart attacks and ulcers.
21. I played clarinet all through middle and high school. I almost majored in music in college, but chose art instead. Good choice!
22. I think the sound of a clarinet squeaking during a middle school performance is close to the most horrible sound in the world, besides the sound you make while your giving birth.
23. I was not one of those parents crying at the bus stop when my daughter started Kindergarten last fall. I was excited that she was beginning a new phase in her life. And I was also very happy not to pay for childcare anymore. My son starts Kindergarten in 2 years. I’ll be VERY VERY happy then!
24. I wear 30 spf facial lotion year round. Why wouldn’t I?
25. My shoe size is 5. I’m not kidding.