Cord tagged me earlier, and I’m finally getting around to 8 random things you may or may not know about me:

1. If I weren’t in advertising/marketing, I would be a chef. I love cooking…just hate cleaning.

2. In the months before my daughter was born, I weaned myself down to four hours of sleep per night. After she was born, this turned out to be a disaster, because while I was sleeping about five hours, they weren’t in a row.

3. At age 11, I was traumatized during an airboat ride in Everglades National Park. The tour guide fell out of the boat into the water at least once, and the boat ran out of gas in the middle of nowhere (and this was before cell phones). There’s something about the sun setting over the sound of alligators’ mating calls while you’re floating helplessly through a bug-ridden, grassy river that will haunt your dreams forever.

4. I have the worst penmanship on the planet.

5. Throughout my childhood, I was forbidden from watching the following shows:

· Sanford & Son

· WWF

· G.I. Joe

· The A Team

· Mama’s Family

Apparently they glorified violence and/or gross stupidity. Surprisingly, my mom didn’t seem to have a problem with “Good Times”…Dy-No-Mite!!!

6. The day I received my driver’s license, I mixed up the gas and brake pad and was two inches away from scratching a Ferrari with dealer plates in the parking space next to me.

7. I eat chocolate of some variety/quantity everyday.

8. My first job out of college was renting extra crappy apartments. The maintenance crew fumigated for insects in an apartment where a family was set to move in within a week. The next morning, a carpet of MILLIONS (this is not an exaggeration) of cockroaches was all throughout the rooms. I’m not ashamed to admit that I puked everywhere.

The ninth random thing is that I really hate perpetuating chain-letter type activities, so I won’t burden anyone else with being tagged. If it’s poor netiquette, I’ll live.