About Me

Because I don't really like Blogger's built-in "about me" profile questions, here's my own "About Me" page.

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I Like...

• They Might Be Giants
• REM
• Indigo Girls
• Elitist humor
• Hostess chocolate cupcakes
• Biting the edges off the sides of Kit Kat bars and Reeses peanut butter cups
• Taco Bell
• Expensive fancy flavored coffee drinks
• Dark chocolate
• Red wine
• Libraries
• The first four seasons of Gilmore Girls
• The Simpsons
  
• Target
• Movies
  
• Knitting
• Yoga
• Finding ways to make things for less money than I could buy them
• When people spell my name correctly without having it pointed out to them
• Board games (especially Balderdash and Catchphrase)

I don’t like…

• Traffic lights that are on timers, rather than sensors
• Toilet paper put on the roll facing back
• When people call me on speakerphone
• People who can’t figure out how to use an apostrophe
• When people say “I could care less” when they really mean “I couldn’t care less”
• Wal-Mart
• Mushrooms
• Eggs
• Artificial cherry flavored anything
• Beer
• Stupid people
• Most bumper stickers
• Bad concert etiquette
• PT Cruisers
• Making big decisions (and little ones, when I know I have to live with them for a while)
• Scary movies
• Most radio morning shows
• Bad grammar
• Cooking
• Cleaning
• Presidents who think that God speaks through them (or who polarize the nation and then somehow have the arrogance to think they have a mandate)
• People who use religion as an excuse for bigotry and closed-mindedness
• Organized sports

I am…

• A Wisconsinite, transplanted in Minneapolis
• A single female home owner
• A technical writer and editor
• A self-professed grammar geek
• Taller than most women
• Addicted to lip balm
• Horribly uncoordinated
• Fairly stubborn
• Rather opinionated
• Often way too analytical
• A very fast talker