ok so i’ve been tagged to do this a bunch of times on facebook and am juuuuuust now getting to it! let’s all meet your friendly neighborhood steph!

1) i just had a cup of coffee, that is pretty important. it was delicious and i want another one. it had some of that flavored creamer in it, i believe it was “spiced vanilla rum” by international delights. and i agree, that crap was a delight!

2) i’ve always been a very casual swearer, i have no idea why. like this has been going on since grade school.

3) i was gonna put this first but coffee and swearing is more important – i started going blind in my left eye back in 2000, and finished going more blind by about 2002. it started with central serous retinopathy that happened twice in different parts of my left eye, and then all kinds of other wacky crap that snowballed from the scar tissue from the laser treatments. it was a really scary time in my life because they weren’t really sure what the eff was going on with some of it, and i was tested for all kinds of things from syphillis to brain tumors. the start of it was unclear but most likely stress-related, and the end of it was a pretty large blind spot in my left eye. i still have peripheral vision in that eye so wearing an eye patch is unfortunately not an option because i can still sort of see outta that eye, which leads me to:

4) i heart pirates and eye patches!

5) i also LOVE trashy tv, some favorites include: bold and the beautiful, americas next top hobag, wifeswap, boston public, 90210, the bachelor, clean house, uhhhhh whut else did i forget OH YES also real housewives of atlanta is freaking awesome.

6) i should’ve met my huzzzz josh like years before i actually did, because he’d been friends with my sis michelle for ages beforehand!

7) i’ve had braces for almost 2 weeks!

8) i’ve been self employed for aaaaallllmost a year and it’s the best and i am so grateful for it. commuting and corporate environments are not necessarily the best fits for me

9) i met my bestest buddy jenn when i moved to wisconsin to work at oshkosh bgosh, and once we got in trouble for work for being too loud and jovial about having gone to work dressed as pirates. (see number 4)

10) my favoritest movies ever include the life aquatic and zoolander. and i saw pulp fiction 6 times in the theater when it came out. i also hated no country for old men.

11) i learned to knit in the winter 2003 because i was bored as heck in wisconsin, but have continued with it and love it! i’ve picked up a little crocheting here and there but knitting is definitely my yarny weapon of choice

12) when i was like 3 or 4 i danced with my dance class in a HORRENDOUS ruffley pink costume at dodger staduim during the 7th inning stretch. if my photo albums weren’t packed up in storage i would totally show you that crap!

13) i miss savannah georgia like crazy and cannot wait to move back there someday soon.

14) i can’t handle eating kraft macaroni and cheese without having apple sauce on the same plate – it just seems sick and wrong.

15) i like to shoot a lot!!! i’d never been around guns and stuff before meeting my rad husband josh, and have picked up a lot since we got together, and totally like shooting! everybody freeze!!!

16) i have an idea for a book that’s been rolling around in my head for years and i think it could be really cool but i have yet to write it or even start it. i just know that someone like cameron diaz would be perfect for the lead should they ever take my unwritten book and make it into a movie.

17) i almost joined the oc rollergirls about a year ago, but the distance to practice coupled with the money involved made it not really an option for me… i am still entertaining thoughts of skating as scary poppins, because the savannah roller derby team practices about 15 minutes from where we’ll live and is only $25 a month as opposed to the $65 the oc league charges.

scary poppins totally isn’t my first choice in names; i really want helen killer but there’s already someone skating under that name and there can be only one. it’s like highlander with shorter skirts and more rearkicking.

18) i went through a phase in high school where i was REALLY into the band queen. to the point where i think at last count i had like 13 cds of theirs…

19) i heart karaoke like no ones business, because i am a huge fan of making an rear of myself in public.

20) i buzzed my head twice in college – twice because i didn’t learn the first time around. as a girl, when you buzz your head it looks awesome at first, but then because all of your hair is the exact same length as it grows in it’s very puffball and stupid looking!

21) don hertzfeldt is my animation hero. except for his newer experimental stuff… i remember watching “the meaning of life” and going uh… what happened to this dude?

22) 2 of the worst jobs i’ve ever had: working at mr. wok at the oglethorpe mall handing out samples and scoopin chinese food (and cleaning their bathrooms which perpetually had pee EVERYWHERE), and cleaning houses. cleaning houses SUCKS.

23) i caused a ruckus in 8th grade when my class went to the white house – i had one of those combs that looked like a switchblade in my purse and when it went through the xray scanner, security went apecrap and searched the next bag that came out of the scanner and found nothing. because they weren’t looking in my bag. aka i got to keep my comb. aka AWESOME.

24) an email i wrote got read live on good day wisconsin once – i wrote in to pete petoniak’s weather whys feature saying “please explain the phenonemon of raining men and predict when it will happen again”. and they did a whole feature on it about how it rained frogs somewhere once and how presumably that means it could quite possibly rain men someday. and they played the it’s raining men song a lot, and had an awesome animation of raining frogs and i have that crap on vhs in storage and i wish i could put it on youtube for you. PURE COMEDY GOLD!

25) i stole a fire hydrant once and it sat in my living room for about a year before my friend brian gruhn helped me lug it outta there because all the plans i had for making it into a table or a lamp or something never happened.