You absolutely don’t need to know about me:
My favorite smell is ocean
I can not stand the smell of perfume. any perfume.
I don’t have a middle name
I am a creature of habit
I can identify most any dog breed (it’s a gift)
I don’t care for Halloween or Valentine’s Day
I love Thanksgiving
My grandmother once told me that I had ‘worker’s hands’ (I still don’t know what she meant, but I liked it)
I spoke at my grandmother’s memorial service while I was 7 months pregnant and opened with a joke
I am very (very) messy
I like things very neat
I count my husband, mother and ex-husband among those I consider my best friends
As a child I checked under my bed every night for years after seeing the movie Poltergeist
I don’t like talking on the phone
I use foul language. alot. (I blame my mother for this)
I believe in Karma
my cupboards are filled with mis-matched glasses and dishes
I put paper shades on the window of my new house eight years ago. they’re still there
I’m generally against shoes
I’m short (5’2″ to be exact)
I always come up with clever retorts to rude comments – the next day
I love a good medical drama on TV (and some that aren’t so good)
I’ve been to the Galapagos Islands, Israel, France, Italy, Greece and England
My favorite place is Home
I take my coffee strong with half and half and one sugar
I gained 48 pounds with each of my pregnancies
I have 3 tattoos
I don’t drink – never have
Every room in my house is painted a different color but I wear blue jeans every day
I am very sad that gays and lesbians don’t have the right to marry in our country
I wish I spoke Spanish
I collect ceramic pitchers (I have 6)
I can be a little cynical
I’m skeptical of cynics
I married a skeptic
I love eating salad but hate making it
I don’t believe in luck
I’m extremely superstitious (I hate this about myself)
I’m very friendly (I love this about myself)
Today is my 41st birthday
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Happy Birthday.
I just found your blog a few days ago and am looking through the archives. Love it.
happy HAPPY birthday!!
Happy Birthday!
I’m new to your blog and enjoying it very much. Next year, when you are 42, please add this as a forty-second thing: I am a very entertaining writer.
Happy birthday!
Happy Birthday. I hope you have a fantastic day!
I read this entire list going “me, too!” Have an amazing day.
You made me smile with your list. Happy birthday. Have a good one.
Happy Birthday 41 times!
Mazel Tov! Happy Birthday to a honest, creative woman and here is a superstition for you…
Poo Poo Poo ! (Not quite certain on how to spell that one…)smile
happy birthday. your blog is one of my very favorites, and it’s an extra treat to get the chance to learn so many things about you!
I think my favorite was the love eating salad but hate making it. That and the foul language.
Happy birthday with many very happy returns!
Love your list!
Happy Birthday!! I hope you have a great day!!!!!!!!!
Happy 41. It’s a grand ride, isn’t it?
Well Happy Birthday! I love your list …. you sound pretty cool.
Happy birthday! Great list, great idea. Have a wonderful day and say a few cuss words for me (though I don’t need any help with that).
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!!! What a great list Amy! you crack me up. Your thoughtful, creative, a great writer, great photographer, ambitious, clever and have gorgeous eyes! Happy celebrating every bit of YOU today. Hope the little guy feels better too.
hugs
Happy Birthday…I love reading stuff like this about people!
Oh I wish you the most wonderful birthday! Quiet and loud and beautiful and fun and, of course, cake. <3
Thank you for sharing the those things about yourself.
What a wonderful way to get to know someone.
One thing about me…short memory.
Happy Birthday! The 40′s are the best!
This is such a great post! Thanks for letting us know more about you
and Happy Birthday!
do you think that every comment i leave here from now on will say – how did we not know each other before? because i just don’t see how it’s possible. (superstitious, karma, blue jeans, i could go on.) happy happy happy birthday to you!
Happy Birthday Amy! We share many things in common, and I’m especially happy to hear that you don’t have a middle name either! I used to tell people my middle name was Peppermint.
Happy Birthday to you Amy!! Clearly many who follow you feel sooooo many things in common with your list! I’m thinking I’m with you on about 32/41. And you are so great for listing them, I love it. Your posts are always great, whether serious or not. I hope you have an absolutely wonderful day!!
happy birthday to you. loved your list, thanks for sharing.
Happy Birthday, Amy! And I might not need to know them, but I’m sure glad you shared… I can swear like seven sailors on shore leave. Hallowe’en and Valentine’s pollute the “good candy” waters with cheap crap (and they’re not all that fun.) Love to see how we’re all the same and all different at the same time….
Happy Birthday…I hope you have a magical day celebrating! I loved the list of random stuff. Quick confession…I put paper blinds up as a ‘temporary’ solution to new windows needing covering 7 years ago, I have actually grown to like them!…glad I’m not alone!
Happy birthday girl! you are very interesting. quite so interesting. enjoy your day!
happy birthday amy! i’m short too – though you’re two inches taller than me. i can’t stand perfume either and love eating salad made by someone else. there’s a lot more similarities in that list to be sure. i hope you have a wonderful birthday. here’s 41 hugs and kisses:xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxox
Happy birthday, Amy! I love your list!
Happy birthday!!!
Happy birthday amy! I saw you started a NY metro area branch of the modern quilter’s guild. Are you going to actually have meetings, or more of a virtual guild?
hope you had a great day!
Happy Birthday, Amy!
I saw Ani DiFranco last night, and she closed with a song I’d never heard: If you’re not getting happier as you get older… you’re fucking up.
Here’s to getting happier (and using some foul language to talk about it).
xoxo
Happy birthday, you spring chicken! (I’m 46.)
We actually have a scarily lot of things in common…
Happy Birthday! K x
happy happy birthday, amy!
Happy Birthday to you xxx
Happy birthday!
Everyone should admit to the inherent contradictions in our personality (messy/neat, no luck/superstitious). This list just make me wish we could sit down together because I feel like we have a lot in common, except maybe the height and my own love of scotch.
Happy 41st Birthday Amy!!! I love your list. I could relate to quite a few items on that list. Hope you had fun celebrating!
Happy 41st Birthday! I am so glad I came across your blog this weekend. I love this list. You sound like one super cool chick!
Happy, happy birthday!!
What a lovely list! Happiest of days to you and I hope you were well celebrated.
Happy happy birthday! I hope it’s a wonderful year.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY X41
HAPPY BIRTHDAY! Hope you have 41 surprises and joys on your birthday!
Happy Birthday! A fabulous list! I think I could add quite a few of those on my list of things you don’t know about me.
Happy b’day from a fellow love-to-eat-salad-but-hate-to-make-it
happy birthday, amy! savor it.
feliz cumpleaños! happy happy birthday! and thanks for sharing all those things about you! is very great know a little more about you!!!
Amazing list. Love it!! And a very, very, very Happy Birthday to you!
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