THINGS ABOUT ME: I turned 30 last year and I am super excited about what this decade will bring. I’m a full-time writer, something I always wanted to do but was afraid to try. I love to travel and fully intend to slowly but surely cross countries off my list until I’m 107. I met my husband online, and the rest is history. I always said I’d turn 30 before I had a baby, but God had other plans (and now I can’t imagine what I thought I was waiting for). We live in the exact neighbourhood I have always wanted to live in – and I secretly love that it shares a name with Nancy Drew’s hometown. My chronic illnesses have helped to turn me into a more positive person. We didn’t have a back-up name for our daughter, and started calling her Briony the moment we found out we were having a baby girl – there was never another option. I believe that doing crazy fabulous things is the key to having a crazy fabulous life – the best things in my life are the direct result of decisions that other people saw as unrealistic.
THINGS I LOVE:
- Thunderstorms
- Early 90s power ballads
- Princess camping
- Exploring new cities
- Jon Stewart
- Greatest hits CDs
- Having a goal to work towards
- Clever ads
- Packing for a trip
- George Clooney
- Having a favourite mug
- Using a red pen
- A really fabulous cup of tea
- Impractical footwear
- Movies about spies
- Starbucks
- Reading an entire book in one sitting
- A house full of friends
- Buying presents
- A perfect manicure
- Warm modernist architecture
- People who are nice (even when they don’t have to be)
- Getting flowers for no reason
- Mary Poppins
- Making lists on Post-It notes
- Decorating for Christmas
- Having a brilliant middle-of-the-night ‘aha!’ idea and then actually remembering it in the morning
THINGS I HATE:
- Whining
- Wearing sweats in public
- 2-in-1 shampoo and conditioner
- Birds
- American tourists in foreign countries
- People who are mean
- Taking down the Christmas tree
- Poems that rhyme
- The misuse of semicolons
- Being lied to
- Unpacking after a trip
- Having a closed mind
- Naming your kid something common but then spelling it stupidly
- Cowboys
- Overly cautious drivers
- Fake curse words (though I’m changing my tune on this a little bit since becoming a mommy)
- Ridiculously long surnames
- Unsolicited advice about raising kids
- Strangers who start awkward conversations with you in places you can’t readily escape