11 things

It's been a long time since I've done something like this, and normally I wouldn't - however, Jamie found my blog a few weekends ago and she was just so sweet, when she "tagged" me in her own post I promised I'd follow through.

The Rules:

1. Post these rules.
2. Post a photo of yourself and 11 random things.
3. Answer the questions set for you in the original post.
4. Create 11 new questions and tag people to answer them.
5. Go to their blog/twitter and tell them you've tagged them.

Peter loves helping me blog

1.  I really love Star Wars.  I'm not an intense nerd about it, I don't claim to know everything  but watching the movies and reading anything Star Wars related makes me really happy.

2.  I also really love Disney World.  It's not something I'll really talk about here, aside from posting about the food I eat while I'm there, but I've been many times, and it's something I might claim to know everything about.

3.  I know I mentioned this in my last post, but I'm Dutch Indonesian on my mother's side, and Lebanese on my father's.  My Oma is 1 of 11 children, and my Opa was the eldest of 13 so I believe my mom has over 50 cousins.  Its strange to imagine being part of such a large family because...

4.  I'm an only child

5.  I don't like peanut butter.  As an adult I've warmed up to peanuts, and especially peanut sauce - but I still can't handle peanut butter.

6.  I have to hold my nose when I go underwater, no many how many times I've tried, if I don't hold my nose it gets filled with water.  every. single. time.

7.  In general, I only listen to NPR while driving - and I drive a lot, my car has 130k on it.  Sometimes I listen to music, or the A Song of Ice and Fire audio books but my auxiliary input broke so now my car is an official NPR only zone.

8.  I'm named after the song Amanda by our local rock band, Boston

9.  I used to do a lot of urban exploring.  Massachusetts, and the Northeast in general have a surplus of abandoned institutions.  I don't do it at all anymore, and I cringe when I hear or read people talking about it but I still hold on to a few master keys for memories.

10.  I've never tried beets, or okra

11.  I'm about to make myself Mickey Mouse waffles for breakfast with the leftover batter from when Tre made them for dinner two nights ago.

and onto the questions from Jamie...

1. If money, schooling or time was no obstacle, what career would you choose? I'd be a farmer

2.  What is the one thing you look forward to every day? Snuggling with my dogs in bed

3.   What is your number one, all-time, favorite blog? Probably http://corgiaddict.com/

4.   Biggest online pet peeve? Well, there's a lot.  Bad tweets (I'm guilty of this, but only in failed attempts at humor) Sexist humor, which is present IRL but it's seriously amplified by the anonymity of the internet; Fake nice-ness for the sake of sucking up to "cool" bloggers; bullies etc. etc.

5. What is your all-time favorite book?  This is some kind of evil test.  Obscure? Angsty? Witty? If I say The Bell Jar I'd be a typical alt girl, The Garden of Eden? ohhh I'm just trying to be obscure because it's not one of Hemingway's most famous works.  At one point I might've said The Giving Tree until someone told me he wrote it after divorcing his wife to be with a younger woman.  So for the sake of an answer, the book I've been carrying around to read when I have time to kill is Basic Buddhism Through Comics

6. Have you ever been in a fight and thrown something made of glass at someone, like they do in the movies? Yeah, I have a tendency to dramatically throw things when I'm really angry.  It doesn't happen very often.

7. Do you believe in love at first sight? No

8. What would your ideal Sunday morning consist of? Getting up early enough to make breakfast at home and get to Todd Farm before all the good stuff is gone.  The dealers usually set up between 3 and 5 am.

9. Why do you blog? Tre asked me this last weekend, and I'll be honest - I want people to think I'm interesting.  I want people to follow along in my life and enjoy reading about the things I do and the things I think.   I also want to promote my Etsy store.

10. If you had to choose one color to wear forever, what would you pick? Honestly, probably heather gray or navy blue.

11. What is your all-time favorite band? My knee jerk answer is Saves the Day, but the truth is at this point I don't like most of the music they (he) have made.  I do like both Mineral albums though, so I guess my answer is Mineral.

Cast of Characters

Troupe of Actors? Bit Players? Here is where I (hopefully) welcome new readers to my blog, with a little bit about me, and the characters that will come up often in writing about my life and adventures.  I apologize in advance.. I don't often let others take my photo, and when they do I don't ask them to send it to me.  Therefore, I was left with the awkward task of photographing myself, which is far outside of my comfort zone.  As to not give my neighbors fodder to ponder my sanity I chose not to take my camera outside and set up the self timer - so therefore you are stuck in a dreaded photobooth snap of me sitting in my kitchen, trying not to look posed (which of course I am)

So there you have it, that's me - Amanda.  I'll give you the first date bio - I'm 23, I'm a Liberal Arts major at Umass Lowell.  My concentrations are Philosophy and Psychology.  I plan to get my Master's in Social Work after graduation.  I live in a 170 year old house in Massachusetts with my two hairy roomates Holly and Peter.

Peter

Holly Hox aka Little Skipper

I have a boyfriend, his name is Tre.  ( I guess now our first date is kind of awkward, right?)  We've been together for a while.  He's pretty OK and he does a good job being my boyfriend.  He's also grumpy.

He has a dog.  She's a big white baby named Alabama.  I usually call her princess, or dog dog.  She works as Tre's secretary and sleeps on the floor of his office at work all day long.  

Bamaprincessbabybear (ps that pic looks pretty goo for an iPhone)

So, that's us.  We are mostly dogs, and some of us are humans and life is pretty cool.  I hope you'll follow along on our adventures, and my foray into etsy where I sell vintage articles with a New England flair in my shop Motif Number One.