2 posts tagged “all about amy”
How do you feel about your birthday? Do you look forward to it and remind all your friends, or do you dread it and try to keep it a secret?
Did one of you suggest this question because it's my Birthday Month? And Jaypo's, too(morrow). You are so darn sweet.
I love celebrating my birthday. Maybe I'm just an attention whore. Maybe I just love cake. I enjoy celebrating everyone's birthday, especially when there is cake/booze involved.
As of yesterday, I was facing the sad situation of having nothing to do for my actual birthday *cough*this Friday*cough* because BDG canceled our plans. Sure, they were tentative plans but still. He's going to a Suns basketball game instead. I was not asked and although he said he wanted a raincheck, he was noncommital on setting something else up. Phooey on him. Over it.
So a good friend of mine cancelled her date with her douchebag ex-boyfriend and we're headed out for some fun and frivolity. She needs to not see that guy anyway, but don't tell her I said that. I'm proud of her for cancelling on him, because he always does that to her. She beat him to the punch this time.
Another friend took me out to dinner this past Sunday, another friend is taking me out tomorrow and Saturday is the big blow-out party with multiple birthdays to be celebrated (and non-scary cab drivers lined up already). Same goes for next Saturday as well. w00t!
It's been hard to come up with 10 things the peeps may not already know, and since my math is bad we'll see how many I actually have.
1. When I moved to Arizona and worked for Megacorp, I rode in the annual employee rodeo. A real rodeo. I learned how to run the barrels and poles, team sorting and team calf roping. I borrowed a horse every year, and sometimes rode two or three different mounts during the course of the weekend. The last year I competed, I didn't have any practice time in and met my horse that morning. My partner and I pulled out all the stops and we came away with the the Champion buckle for team roping. Of the five I have, that's my most cherished. Roping is the hardest and most dangerous thing I've ever done. Other than dating, that is.
One of the biggest compliments I ever had was one of the manufacturing guys come up to me in that last rodeo and say, "When you first started coming out here, we thought you were just a 'suit' in heels. You can ride the shit out of anything. It's been fun having you out here." (When I quit Megacorp, I negotiated my last day to be after the rodeo so I could still compete.)
2. I tried out for College Jeopardy once. I didn't make the cut, but it was a great experience.
3. Even though you all know me for my cows, I also raised sheep as a way to earn money for college. My two favorite lambs, back in 1984 were Chet & Huey. They were named after my favorite baseball player (Chet Lemon, Detroit Tigers centerfielder) and favorite singer (Huey Lewis of the News fame).
4. I may be the only child ever rejected for elementary school choir. My rendition of "Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star" just didn't cut it. To this day, my friends wonder how I can be so tone deaf for a musician.
5. I played the alto sax in the Spartan Marching Band at Michigan State. I also played in the bands for basketball and hockey. I still play in a community band on Wednesday nights.
6. My parents named me Amy because they didn't want me to have a hard time spelling my name when I got to Kindergarten. Honest. This was not even a concern as I could read halfway through my first year of school. I was given a book bag and sent up the hall once a day to read with the first graders. Do you know how scary that is to make your way up the hall (there was an incline), alone, to go into a room full of the Big Kids? Same with first to second, second to third and when I was a third-grader, I had a teacher that had me stay and kept me challenged.
7. I'm an easy going person most of the time, but I can be a fierce competitor. Almost obsessively so. Over the years I've been able to tone it down, but if I'm playing basketball and some chick shoves me a little too hard - it's on. Same with Puzzles & Games Night at church.
8. My dream vacation is to go skiing at Portillo, Chile. This will be especially when it's 100+ degrees here in Phoenix and I'm swooshing down the slopes in the South American snow. Someday...
9. The dress in my closet that receives the most compliments is one I made myself. My mom is the whiz with a sewing machine, but I now how to pull something together when I'm so inclined.
10. I am grateful every day for the miracle of LASIK. I had to have it done twice as my correction was so severe. My vision was -12, or approximately 20/800. What a normal sighted person could see at 800 feet I had to be sitting on top of in order to know it was there. Without the surgery, I would still be wearing expensive and uncomfortable contacts or breaking my nose with my thick glasses. (Using the copier: "Hey, I didn't know you needed safety goggles to work that piece of machinery." Hardy har har.)
