Stylish Blog Award

Thank You Magnolia for picking me for the Stylish Blog Award. As I commented on her page, clearly the blogosphere is a shallow pool if we're thinking me stylish LOL. You are too sweet! And since I hate to break with the tradition of the award I will follow the rules of blogging seven things about me:

1. Quitting my career in television advertising has made me happier then I could imagine. I worked for years (being a type A personality) trying to be the best sales person, climbing the ladder, and getting so stressed it effected my health. I quit to be with the love of my life and I think it's saved my sanity.

2. HOWEVER, I miss having a job that takes more than an IQ of 70. While I can be mentally challenged through reading & conversations I find that not having a career has given me less to talk about, and I fear I'm becoming dull LOL.

3. I have a bit of OCD but for *odd* things. For example, I only set my alarm clock to times ending in 1's, 3's, 7's & 9's. Like for some reason if it's set to even times or something ending in five it won't go off.

4. I take between five to eight bathes a week. To me there is nothing more fantastic then surrounding myself in the warm water while reading a great book.

5. You can tell when I'm really upset or mad because when my blood pressure goes up both my ears turn red, as well as a spot on my left cheek.

6. Because of my useless movie trivia knowledge - my husband LOVES to challenge me with the "Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon" game. I have gotten to Mr. Bacon in six or less steps on literally at least a hundred actors.

7. I didn't date a whole lot after college so when I was 25 I said if I didn't find someone by the time I was 32, I would look into IVF with a donor in order to be a mom. I started dating my husband when I was 29 and married him when I was 31. The irony is now we may need to go to IVF anyway. I guess it's a little easier for me to wrap my head around it since I had thought about it years ago.

I am supposed to pass the award onto others, but I may have to edit this...I believe all the wonderful Bump gals I follow have already gotten it and I don't think "stylish" is the right way to describe my cousin's personal blog on his Crohn's disease.

Out with the old? Goodbye & Good Riddance 2010!

As a whole, 2010 has been nothing to write home about. I am at a job that takes no brains or talent and does not challenge me on any level (except maybe it challenges my gag reflex!). Nothing major happened to me personally or anyone close to me. I spent much of the year in pain, either from my thyroid surgery or my tennis elbow. And almost every.single.day. I thought about ovulation, sperm, peeing on sticks, babies, fertility drugs etc.
So to 2010 I say "Good bye, and Good Riddance!"
Now, what to hear the ironic part? This was the happiest year of my life. Really. Since I blog so infrequently I'm sure you can't tell from the 'year in posts'. But I can't put into words well how much I love that I married a man that is truly my other half. I had always considered myself a fairly independent woman and hated people that made it sound like life was so much better because they were married. But now I get that they were not gloating. That true love is not something easily put into words. But it does fill a part of you, a part you didn't even know was empty. And that has made me happier than I've ever been. And so I look forward to this year knowing it will be more of this wonderful feeling. Happy New Year!