CHALLENGE: Tell us about YOU!

OK I'll go first- This is me at work!

Fun Facts:

I can say 'thank you' in 16 languages (maybe 17?)

I nursed a chipmunk back to health after my cat brought it home as a (not so pleasant) surprise.

I know how to skateboard

I'm not an expert in anything. I make a mean margarita?

I cannot live without my friends and family (duhhhh)

1. that's me in my avatar (the one with the sunglasses LOL)

2. I hate birds and trees, I love to travel, I have two daughters

3. IRL, I'm a grammar Nazi. Working as a technical writer and having a masters degree in professional writing does that to a person.

4. toothbrush - can you even imagine? gag.

Hahahaha Paris, well done Your #4 is my favorite!

I'll play!

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Three fun facts:

1. I've swam with sharks!

2. I have no feeling in the top half of my right leg due to multiple hip surgeries. Hit me there all you want!

3. I have three ancestors that fought in the Revolutionary War.

I'm an expert in making lasagnas, according to FH.

I cannot live without buffalo sauce! Gotta have it!

1. Also me in my avatar.

2. There's like a bajillion people in my family that has a holiday birthday (mines July 4th), when I was young I thought the fireworks were for me (they should be), and I love brightly colored fingernails

3. I don't really think I'm an expert in anything...?!

4. I can't live without having a large purse. My life won't fit into a tiny one!

Leeor, I know we don't always see eye to eye, but I appreciate your patience, so I'm going to play today.

1) Took it down. I'm human, though, not Christmas ornaments.

2) I have a blog about my bucket list (essentially) and life:

http://rkisdead.wordpress.com; I love planning -- I'm currently planning my next birthday; I have the coolest curly hair you will ever see.

3) Expert? Eek. I'm a good line dancer and I can pick up new dances pretty well... I'm an expert sleeper, though.

4) Pizza. I married my husband because he works at a pizzeria.

1) Post a picture of yourself - that's me taking selfies in the car. Haha we were actually on the way to our epics and I wanted to see how my make up photographed.

2) List 3 fun facts

-I HATE AND LOATHE anything that even slightly resembles jelly and all cooked fruit

-I drink superfluous amounts of iced coffee

-I live on a tree farm

3) What is something you are an EXPERT in?

-Obesity management in spinal cord injury through leisure time physical activity. It's the focus of my grad research. I presented it at a conference this spring and got ask to present it at both a regional and national conference in the fall!

4) What is something you simply CANNOT live without?

-Books!

1) See my avatar... the one with the hair : )

2) I have 2 sons and 1 daughter - After 11pm I become extremely delirious - I have a Nike check on my leg from an accident when I was 4 JUST DO IT!

3) My husband and kids LOVE my chili.

4) I simply can not live without my children. Stressful or not, they are my reason to becoming a better me each day.

I grew up owning horses (and hope to own one someday again)

I live in Oregon, never been to Cali, but have been to Italy... make sense? lol

I love to sew.

I guess I'm an expert in DIY? I love it, and have been DIYing for a long time, well before I got engaged. Hence loving to sew

I could never live without chapstick.

1. A picture of me at my last Jets game at Giants Stadium. :-(

2. a. Our yard is a haven for squirrels and birds and we've even named some of them.

b. I've inherited my family's sick sense of humor.

c. I started posting "Real shit my kid said" and he's proud of it.

3. Coordinating. Which is why I'm terrified I'll mess up my own wedding. I coordinated the craft fair for my son's school for 5 years. It's their largest fundraiser and I exceeded the projections for each year. I only gave it up because he moved on to HS but they were trying to figure out how to keep me.

4. My boys. All 4 of them. The 2 two-legged ones and the 2 four-legged ones. They all drive me insane but keep me sane.

1] My I'm-A-Badass Picture!

2] · I'm starting my new job today!

· I have never dyed my hair.

· I use a lot of smileys in texts ;]

3] I'm an expert at sleeping for sure!

4] I cannot live without my phone [..that's an exaggeration, but you catch my drift haha].

1) Post a picture of yourself

- check! FH took the photo while on vacation in Missouri.

2) List 3 fun facts

1. I have visited 41 states (not including CA where I live)

2. I have hugged Shamu

3. I'm fluent in American Sign Language

3) What is something you are an EXPERT in?

- I'm not sure I'd call myself an expert in anything... but my mother has called me a music Nazi. I have a good ear for off-key singing and it drives me nuts. It's hard to listen to people sing the National Anthem at games sometimes :/

4) What is something you simply CANNOT live without?

- Music. Sometimes just singing really loud in the car makes everything better

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2) I love to scuba dive, I always try to surround myself by people smarter than me, and I love to read.

3) EXPERT ? lol, I am a work in progress I don't think I have reached expert on anything YET

4) What I can't live without? That's easy my family and friends.

1) my iPad wont let be upload a pic at the mo

2) 3 facts:

I know (and have done a million times) how to deliver a calf and a foal

I'm fluent in Latin (and my ancient Greek ain't half bad and I'm competent in Hebrew)

I'm a trained mechanic (which no one ever believes)

3) expert? Oh I don't know - watching telly (?)

4) a lot of things but food - especially sweet things I have a real sweat tooth.

1) I'm the one on the right in my avatar

2) I hate touching raw hamburger, I try to take the kids (& fiance') on a nice family vacation every year, & I plan to work in Hospice once I graduate

3) I'm an expert of sarcasm & honestly! I always speak my mind.

4) I could not live w/out MUSIC, ever! When I need my alone time I get in the car & listen to music that fits my mood.

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2. Facts

- I used to be a PAID musical theatre performer...now I perform on the rare occasion when there's a show I REALLY want to do...and I REALLY, really miss it.

- I wish more than anything that I had been there for my daughter's entire life, instead of just inheriting her when she was 5...it really makes me sad when I realize how much I missed.

- I have my Series 63 securities license

3. I am an expert at spacial organization, hence terrific at puzzles and tetris

4. Besides my family, my fur babies; especially my chihuahua Max because without him I think recovery from my last open heart surgery would have been much more painful.

Me in the avatar!

1) I am a huge sports junky and love the SF Giants, 49ers, Sac Kings, and USC Trojans

2) I've lived in NorCal, SoCal, Dallas, and Spain

3) FH was my first kiss and the only guy I have ever kissed...

Expert - Anything having to do with the SF Giants

I could not live without water!

Hello Monday Leeor!! And everyone else!!

I am the black girl cheesing in my avatar

1) I am fluent in English and Spanish...on my way to becoming quadrillengual in Arabic and French...

2) I have temporal lobe seizures and don't even realize I'm having them...Google my condition and you'll see what I mean...

3) I am a weird female: hate shopping even when I do have money...hate acrylics past a week...wear wigs because I hate doing my hair...

I consider myself to be an expert in life period...especially given all I went through...

I cannot live without my meds (hahaha) and my family (my parents, sister, and brothers)...and like Jenn a big purse because everyone says I carry a suitcase...my purse has a survival kit in it...

@Trena - I live in Cali but I've never been to Oregan...and I've been to Italy haha

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2. 3 fun facts - I'm a mother of 2 teenagers, FH and I are HS sweethearts, and I love to dance.

3. I'm an expert at talking! LOL

4. I could not live without sweets. I love my sweets!!