Getting to Know You...

I am stealing this from Nicole, Angie and Alexis, but thought it was a great idea and quite frankly I'm procrastinating at work!

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A
- Age: 36
- Annoyance: Ignorance
- Animal: Ooh, this is hard since I have a dog and a cat, so I guess I'll say tiger.
- Actor: Jonny Depp

B
- Beer: Haven't had one since July, but Corona
- Birthday/Birthplace: December 22, 1972 Mesa, Arizona
- Body Part on opposite sex: Eyes & arms
- Been in Love: Yep
- Been bitched at: Yep
- Believe in yourself?: Absafrigginlutely!
- Believe in God: Yep
- Before weight: 314 lbs highest (2002) 283lbs start of pre-op diet (July 20, 2009)

C
- Car: It's this lovely yellow and black thing called a taxi
- Candy: Snickers!
- Colour: Purple
- Cried in school: Yes
- Chocolate/Vanilla: Mint chocolate chip...such a rebel. ;-)
- Chinese/Mexican: Both. Although I don't see Chinese anywhere in my near future since I like General Tso's, but Mexican...absolutely. 
- Cake or pie: Red velvet cake
- Country to visit: Netherlands. Amsterdam is my absolute favorite with Prague a close second.

D
- Day or Night: Day.
- Do the splits?: Not yet, but maybe with lots of yoga

E
- Eggs: Over easy or poached
- Eyes: Blue

F
- First crush: Jimmy Mancuso...oh so so cute!
- First thoughts waking up: Will I be skinnier? (I'm sensing a trend on this one)
- Food: before the band-PIZZA! Now: Chili

G
- Greatest Fear: Snakes
- Goals: to remain myself on the inside throughout this journey. To be someone that I'm proud of.
- Get along with your parents?: Absolutely. My mom is the BEST! Miss my Dad like crazy.
- Good luck charm: don't really have a good luck charm. But my dad gave me a winnie the pooh statue for christmas one year that will be with me for life.

H
- Hair Colour: Blonde
- Height: 5'8
- Happy: Yes!
- Holiday: Christmas
- Health freak?: I wish. I feel like I'm significantly healthier with food, but I'd love to be one of those exercise freaks that I currently hate. ;-)
- Hate: Weight loss plateaus


I
- Ice Cream: Swensens sticky chewy chocolate, or edy's mint chocolate chip
- Instrument: Oh wow. Singer, piano, viola (for a year), flute, all percussion instruments

J
- Jewelry: Silver
- Job: VP of Consulting at a Change management firm in NYC


K
- Kids: Someday
- Kickboxing or karate: Umm...neither
- Keep a journal? I write a blog...

L
- Longest Car Ride: Don't remember, but I traveled around the U.S. in a bus with drum corps in 1992 and 1993 so LONG.
- Love: Should be a right for everyone
- Laughed so hard you cried: One of my favorite things
- Love at first sight: More like Lust...there is an IT guy here at work...MY GOD!



M
- Milk flavour: chocolate
- Movie: Empire of the Sun and Milk
- Mooned anyone?: Never.
- Marriage: Someday....maybe with the hot IT guy
- Motion sickness? Umm...ALWAYS. Cannot read or look down in a car.
- McD’s or BK: McD's (but haven't been in about a year!)

N
- Number of Siblings: none
- Number of Piercings: one in each ear
- Number: 3

O
- One wish: To meet the man of my dreams and have him fall in love with me!

P
- Place you’d like to live: On a beach in orange county, california
- Perfect Pizza: NYC pepperoni
- Pepsi/Coke: Diet Dr. Pepper (but I haven't had one since August 6)

Q
- Questionaires: Rarely do them, but anything to avoid the pile on my desk right now!


R
- Reason to cry: Oh pretty much anything. I'm the girl who cries at the AT&T commerical with the lost dog and can't watch Marley and me.
- Reality T.V.: The Biggest Loser, The Hills, The City and my fav So you think you can dance
 Roll your tongue in a circle? Yep


S
- Song: September by Earth, Wind and Fire
- Shoe size: 9.5/10
- Salad Dressing: balsimic vinegarette
- Skipped school: only on senior skip day
- Smoking: a little too much mary jane in college; damn drumline!
- Sing well?: I was a voice major in college, but don't like to sing in public
- Strawberries/Blueberries: Strawberries

T
- Time for bed: In bed by 10:30, asleep by 11:30ish
- Thunderstorms: Love them.
- TV: Too much of it

U
- Unpredictable: life!

V
- Vegetable you hate: peas
- Vegetable you love: Asparagus
- Vacation spot: Laguna Beach California

W
- Weakness: Carbs.
- When you grow up: a mom and a successful leader
- Which one of your friends acts the most like you: Jenny
- Wanted to be a model?: Oh, what little girl doesn't want to be

X
-X-Rays: Might have had something to do with the thyroid cancer

Y
-Year it is now: 2009
-Yellow: the color that I want my house to be


Z
- Zoo: Place to see TIGERS!!
- Zodiac sign: Capricorn