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I'm 33!


Technically I'm 32 years, 11 months and 29 days in this picture...

Today is my birthday!! So in honor of that here are 33 fun facts about me:

1. I am an only child, but my girlfriends make me feel like I have real sisters.
2. I met Matt on Match.com and wouldn't admit it for a year because online dating was taboo at the time.
3. I'm a spirit-filled Christian, but I have a potty mouth.
4. My first kiss was with a soccer player with one of those half-shaved head, half-ponytail hair-do's. I was 13 (he was too) and I remember he had food in his braces.
5. I have never been a Seinfeld fan, not do I ever plan to be.
6. I danced competitively from age 6 until high school.
7. My bad habit is picking at the skin around my nails.
8. I've dyed my hair brown, black, red and blonde - all in the span of 18 months. 
9. When I get really, really nervous, I sweat. It's totes gross.
10. I've had 10 different jobs in the last 10 years.
11. If I had to choose between food or coffee, coffee would win every time.
12. I'm a news junkie.  
13. I have to work really hard to stay "thin". And I'm not really thin. I watch every. single. calorie. to not be 200 pounds.
14. I took a wine sommelier course and still can't taste "black currants" or "oak" or whatever the heck the bottle says I should taste. It just tastes like wine to me.
15. I wish I was real life friends with Tina Fey.
16. I believe in salvation through faith, not works. But I also know that what you do with what you know matters.
17. I am not a good road trip companion.
18. I am prone to adult temper tantrums; but only in front of my husband and parents.
19. I could watch "The Holiday" and "Love Actually" every single day.
20. I don't understand the appeal of Bruce Springsteen. And it's not a Jersey thing either cause I totally dig Jon Bon Jovi.
21. I love my cat and dog the way people love their children.
22. I want another tattoo.
23. Passive aggressiveness, blatant disrespect and the misuse of may vs. might are my 3 pet peeves.
24. Writing is like therapy. It's my passion and the reason that I am a somewhat well-adjusted adult.
25. I dream about living just steps from the ocean. The beach is my happy place.
26. I have been off birth control since I was 28 - that is five years of zero prevention and still no baby in my uterus. Infertility is stupid.
27. If I could do any job in the world, I'd be a book editor.
28. I'm really proud of my hair.
29. Post-apocalyptic movies give me nightmares (like I Am Legend, A.I. and Children of Men).
30. I have an unfinished novel in my file cabinet.
31. My husband is my better half.
32. I don't believe that everything happens for a reason, but I do believe that God can use anything for His glory.
33. I actually love my thirties!

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