- I have run the Marine Corps Marathon four times and I never properly trained. Someday I’d like to take the training seriously and see how well I can do.
- I once walked 100K (62.2 miles) in one day.
- By now you are beginning to realize I love extreme challenges. I have climbed Mt. Rainier and Mt. Kilimanjaro. Someday I hope to climb, Mt. McKinley in Alaska, Mt. Aconcagua in Argentina, as well as Mt. Fuji in Japan. I have no desire to climb Mt. Everest, however I would like to hike to base camp and look up at it (maybe I’ll change my mind after that).
- I’m a dog lover, well animal lover actually, but dogs just have a special place in my heart. My best friend is my collie, Tenzing. He’s named after Tenzing Norgay, the Sherpa who was first to summit Mt. Everest back in 1953 with Sir Edmund Hillary.
- I have an huge sweet tooth. I usually have a cookie or some type of desert after lunch and dinner. I once ate 10 Snickers bars in one day. My favorite candy is gummy bears. My favorite ice cream flavor is coffee. My favorite cookies are homemade chocolate chip (fresh out of the oven). I’m drooling on the keyboard just typing this.
- In 2000, I started playing inline street hockey with some friends in a parking garage and now I play on 3 different hockey teams.
- Growing up I took classical piano lessons for 11 years Due to lack of practicing I’m pretty rusty these days.
- I was Student Council President in high school. Dork.
- I once wrote and illustrated a children’s book titled, “The Wishbone.” Maybe someday I will try to get it published.
- I love salsa and merengue dancing even though I’m incredibly uncoordinated.
- I love going to dive bars, especially ones with jukeboxes.
- I’m a beer girl. I will almost always choose beer over wine or spirits. My favorites are Purple Haze, Guinness, Old Speckled Hen and Berkshire Brewing Co.’s Coffee Stout.
- I love, love, to travel. I try to travel as much as I can afford (or not). After all you only live once, so you might as well live it up! So far, I’ve visited over 20 countries: Austria, Belgium, The Bahamas, Dominican Republic, England, Ethiopia, France, Iceland, India, Ireland, Italy, Germany, Mexico, Morocco, The Netherlands, Peru, Puerto Rico, Switzerland, Tanzania, Turkey, and Tunisia. Traveling and documenting the trips is one of my favorite things and really inspired me to do more with my photography.
- I love fashion and I believe the key a good outfit is how you accessorize. I probably own over 100 pairs of earrings and necklaces.
- I hate hearing the sound of my voice on voice recordings. It never sounds like me.
- I secretly like watching cheesy reality TV like American Idol, Apprentice, Real World etc.
- I have to read US Weekly every Friday. It’s my weekly ritual.
- I love taking bubble baths. (even better if I’m reading US Weekly, too!)
- I never leave home with out my camera or my phone.
- I still have my teddy bear, “Teddy”, that I’ve had since I was one year old.
- I hope to live in a different country at some point in my life. Not forever, but just long enough. Maybe a few years.
- I have very large hands for a girl.
- I’m pretty good at making funny faces.
- I’m a creative person at heart. All my life I’ve enjoyed creating whether it was drawing, painting, creating layouts on the computer, making clothes, purses and jewelry, or decorating my home.
- I’d love to be your photographer! Taking photographs is one of the things I enjoy most in life and I’d love to share that joy with you.