This will probably be boring, but even if you know me, you might learn something new.
I'm the youngest of three kids. I have two older brothers--8 and 10 years older than me. Yes, I was an "Accident." I'm not too close with my brothers because of our age difference, but it's interesting to get to know them better now that we're all adults. My mom is a typical mom. I had to promise to call her every week when I moved to Oregon. I guess I'm still her baby girl.
I was born in Columbus, Ohio, but we moved to Michigan when I was 3, and I don't really remember my first home. After 3 years in MI, we moved to St. Louis, where I went to 1st-3rd grade. Then we moved to Florida for 4th and 5th grade. Then to Kentucky, where my dad promised that he wouldn't move me around anymore. True to his word, my mom and I stayed in KY while he moved along to Ohio, Texas, Wisconsin, and then Ohio again. By the end of my junior year in high school, I'd decided that we should all live in the same place again, so my mom and I moved up to Cincinnati for my senior year, and within a month of us moving in, my dad's company got bought by a company in Kentucky, and he moved right back where we had just come from. Nice timing. I finished up high school in Ohio, then went to college at the University of Kentucky. I loved watching the basketball 'Cats, and it was awesome being a student when they won the national championship in 1998. (I was visiting on campus in 1996 when they won--awesome!) I spent a semester in Orlando as part of the College Program working at Walt Disney World and then came back to finish up school. I took school pretty seriously, as I do with most of the things I commit my time to, and got an exclusive internship with a Big 5 accounting firm which turned into a full time job after college.
After I graduated from UK, I moved back to Louisville and married my high school "sweetheart"--the only guy I'd dated since I was 14. It seemed like a good idea at the time, but it all fell apart little more than a year later. Live and learn. I think we're both better off.
I met Marc online. Better yet--We met on a message board for Nissan Xterra owners, which we both drove at the time. I could tell from the very start that there was something about him that filled a void I'd always had. It wasn't long before I moved to Oregon. After a few months of searching, and two failed attempts to pass the "test" to get an interview with Washington Mutual as a teller (I'm not smart enough to be a teller?! That's crazy!), I got a job with what was then called Timberline Software. I'm still working there, even though our company name has changed a couple of times. I have a job I really enjoy, and I work with a bunch of great people, so I have no complaints in that department.
I can be a quiet person, especially if I'm around people I don't know well. I think most people don't realize just how much I enjoy their company. I don't have many close friends, but maybe that's a remnant of my childhood. I think I learned not to get too close to people in case I had to move in a year or two. I'm loyal to the friends I have and generally expect the same from them. I'm not a "wild partying, go out clubbing every weekend" kind of girl, but I love spending time with friends, whether by a campfire, at a pub, or in someone's living room.
So that's the short story of my life. Hopefully you're still awake by the time you read all the way down here... :)
