Thank you so much to Julie Beeks of Coffee, Crime, and a Whole Latte More for nominating me to do this! I’m excited to share a little about myself with my followers and think the original writers did so well, that I’m not changing the design. 🙂
Below are questions & answers for all of the nominees
- What are my strengths?
- I am very loyal and love wholeheartedly if you become part of my “family”.
- I try to have a good impact on someone, in some way, each day.
- I can laugh at the strange and stupid things that my illness causes, even when my illness makes life incredibly difficult or I’m scared of being judged as being “less than”.
- I absolutely love to learn new things. Too bad they’ve never been really practical things, like how to change a tire or something. 🙂 I can give you a list of natural uses and benefits for honey or vinegar, though.
- What are my short term goals?
- To continue to blog regularly. I need to keep pushing to share about the things that matter to me.
- To find and meet Kiddo, even when the path is hard.
- Get back to making product and utilizing that creative outlet.
- What are my long term goals?
- To adopt and advocate for adoption.
- To go on adventures with L and Kiddo.
- To learn to accept progression of my illness with grace instead of anger. I need to finish grieving the abilities and life I had before my relapse, and focus on accepting my new self without fear of judgement.
- Who matters the most to me?
- God
- My husband
- My “family”, the biological and the emotionally connected
- My fur babies
- The shadow of a future daughter. Once I finally get a chance to love the real her, this will be a harder question of ranking.
- What am I ashamed of?
- That I forgot to focus on my character instead of my looks. I allowed the weight gain from my illness to mean more to me than being a good person.
- That I get lost in my emotions and have trouble handling them sometimes.
- What do I like to do for fun?
- I love hanging out with my family, in person or online, whether we are watching television, playing games, finding adventures across the grid online, or sitting in camp chairs late into the summer night while remembering the “crazy old days” of our youth.
- I am a massive nerd, so I love researching, reading, using gadgets, and exploring the wide variety available on streaming media (movies, clips, podcasts; you name it). It’s most fun when I can bring L over to the nerd side. The days he joined the Eureka™ fandom and became a partial Mythical Beast both made me so happy.
- Being creative – writing, creating bath products, painting, or even decorating my fairy garden.
- What new activities am I willing to try?
- Parenting.
- Zip lining
- Riding in a Zorb™
- What am I worried about?
- My illness progressing aggressively before we are able to be parents.
- What are my values?
- I’m a hodgepodge of faith, The Golden Rule, empathy, and trying to help anyone or anything that is in need when I am able to.
- If I had one wish, it would be…?
- to have a home filled with biological and chosen children.
- Where do I feel the safest?
- with L and/or my mom
- in our little town. After growing up in the Bay Area it’s amazing to be able to sit on the back deck at night, just watching the sky and thinking, without worrying about my safety.
- What or who gives me comfort?
- I am a practical person, so I have to admit that it depends on the situation. L, my mom, my SL family, my therapist…they all do, but in different situations.
- Being informed and in control, even when it’s out of my hands.
- If I was afraid, I would…?
- Go to L
- If he’s unavailable, I’d grab the closest weapon and protect my family. I’d give my life to prevent them from ever being victimized.
- What is my proudest accomplishment?
- My Presidential Literary Excellence Award.
- Surviving attempted murder and learning how to stop being a victim.
- My Victim’s Advocacy Certification.
- Being able to use my careers or knowledge to help others. I was able to help some amazing patients as a Medical Billing Clerk and as a Spoonie I was able to help a few people.
- Am I a night owl or early bird?
- A night owl all the way. I may have a few one-sided feuds with groups that wake me while I’m trying to sleep vampire hours. *grin*
- What does my inner critic tell me?
- That I am a failure. I lost a lot of my physical abilities, my career, and some of my identity due to becoming disabled. I don’t make nearly as much money as I used to, so I feel like a financial drain for L. When you vow in sickness and in health, you don’t think you’ll have to hold them to the sickness part until you’re in the later seasons of life, so I feel like it was unfair, when I’m being most critical. *Please note that this is also part of my current topic of therapy. I’m learning to let go of and grieve my former life, so it’s not as bad as it sounds. I’ve always been my harshest critic, but I’m learning how to cut myself some slack. 🙂
- What do I do to show myself self-care?
- A bath with a good book or Pinterest™, with floating candles and anti inflammatory bath salts.
- I love losing myself in a book or SL.
- Am I an introvert or extrovert?
- I am a massive introvert, but if you hurt my family, I’ll step outside of my comfort zone and you’ll see the dark side of a Virgo. 😉
- What am I passionate about?
- helping and raising awareness for Spoonies, our adoption journey, and advocating for adoption.
- What do my dreams tell me?
- That I could make a lot of money if I could make them into a Eureka-type show. They’re weird enough to fill that niche very well.
- What is my favorite non-fiction book?
- Rhett and Link’s Book of Mythicality
- What is my favorite fiction book?
- It depends on the genre. lol I will re-read Kristen Painter’s Miss Frost Solves a Cold Case: A Nocturne Falls Mystery© and Julie Garwood’s The Secret© and Ransom©. Pies and Prejudice© by Ellery Adams will always have a special place in my heart, because I got to actually chat with her after reading that.
- What is my favorite movie?
- Sleeping Beauty© for Disney®, Robin Hood: Men in Tights© for comedy, and Phantom of the Opera© for romantic.
- What is my favorite band?
- Celtic Thunder™, Elvis™, or Rhett & Link’s Song Biscuits©, depending on the mood
- What is my favorite food?
- Most anything chocolate or sweet, although fried shredded beef tacos and Mei Fun are pretty high up there, too.
- What is my favorite color?
- Glittery Hot Pink
- What am I grateful for?
- That L loved me enough to get a ring tattoo. My disability after coming into the marriage relatively healthy wasn’t a deal breaker for him and he decided to show me for the rest of his life that he’s committed to loving me.
- That I was helped to escape, so I could then survive and have an incredible “family” across the nation.
- My Faith
- The support during our adoption journey and the opportunity to take this journey.
- When I am feeling down, I like to?
- Listen to Damian McGinty or Celtic Thunder™
- Boxing
- Organize something. It’s oddly therapeutic for me to sort and label things. *laugh*
- I know I am stressed when?
- My shoulder trigger points tighten into hard knots
- I suddenly start to cry while watching a sappy commercial or video
Thanks for nominating me Julie Beeks of Coffee, Crime, and a Whole Latte More!
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