If You Don’t Know Me By Now . . . Read This
  1. I’m 44.
  2. My friends call me “Mel.”
  3. I have four kids–three boys and one girl.
  4. I’ve been married for 22 years to Mr. Safety.
  5. I have never made a list of “100 Things About Me.”
  6. I hate domesticated birds, particularly those who fly into my hair.
  7. Kraft Macaroni and Cheese disgusts me and always has. Yet, I feed it to my kids.
  8. My left eyelid twitches when I’m stressed out or exhausted. It’s twitching now.
  9. The summer I was fourteen, I rode my bike from Seattle to San Francisco.
  10. I admit it. I like reality television shows. Even “The Hills.”
  11. I still miss the television show “thirtysomething.”
  12. I started my original blog when a message board friend suggested a bunch of should keep journals to show each other what our lives were like. Thanks, Brandie!
  13. I didn’t date until I was a college freshman. Don’t ask me where I want to college. (Okay, fine. Central Bible College.)
  14. I started playing the piano in second grade, but I still can barely play by ear.
  15. When I was a child, I wanted to be a veterinarian, based entirely on my love for James Herriot’s “All Creatures Great and Small” book.
  16. I worked on a goat farm as a teenager and am still traumatized by the goat farmer woman who had me assist her as she sheared the sheep in her kitchen. While wearing her granny underpants and a t-shirt. My eyeballs were seared that day.
  17. I’ve never been stung by a bee. A stupid bee crawled into my slipper and stung me last summer.
  18. I’m addicted to Diet Coke with Lime.
  19. If I had to do it all over again, I never would have attended a Bible College, but would have applied to hoity-toity East Coast universities.
  20. I am an introvert.
  21. I have been known to ask wildly inappropriate questions while making small-talk. NOT ON PURPOSE.
  22. I say regularly, “Let’s go, Joe,” and my new favorite, “Make it snappy, Pappy.”
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