A fiver:
…as in Five for Five
…or Five for Friday
…or a super duper blog post idea totally stolen from long-lost (but-found!) blog friend Nichole over at Live for the Run (if you don’t know Nichole, you should, she is amazing. ❤ her).
Five things you don’t know about me:
- I’ve never blogged with a glass of wine in hand. Last night was the first time and it was glorious. Must repeat this method asap.
- My sisters and I were once thisclose to being on TLC’s “What Not To Wear” – but not because we dressed poorly (we are quite stylish, thankyouverymuch!), but because they were doing a special on twins or triplets. The *only* reason we weren’t chosen was because they ended up with another set of triplets who just happened to be turning 30 around the time of taping. Um pshaw! They were boring-city! We would’ve been way more entertaining to watch!
(not that I’m bitter)Footnote: this is the one and only time I successfully kept a secret from my sisters, I was the one in contact with the producers and it KILLED me not to tell them until after the fact. - I used to have a lazy eye. Had surgery to repair it about 12 or so years ago. Best decision I ever made. (you can imagine the torment the kids at school put me through <sigh>)
- I have god-awful handwriting. I think I’ve literally lost the ability to write properly. Trust me on this one. You don’t want to see my attempt at a thank you note, a “just because” card or my signature on those little debit slips at the gas station. Illegible doesn’t even begin to describe it.
- I cannot stand when my clothes smell like food. It happened just the other day. I made dinner before a barre n9ne class and little did I know that the chicken sausage stir fry I had before class had seeped into the hoody I had on. Of course, I didn’t notice this until I got to class and then was so annoyed and hoped nobody could smell it. Yes, I’m weird.
Five things I’m good at:
- Cleaning! I LOVE to clean the house. I love the way it smells when it’s all neat and tidy. Latest obsession – any Mr. Clean product with the scent of Gain infused. It is A-mazing. Yes, I’m weird (which we just discussed in #5 above)
- Friendships. I give, give, give to my friends. I’m sure I could always do more, be a better friend. But I hope they know how much they mean to me. Sister-friends, to say the least.
- Being a wifey. It’s my favorite “role” to play. I love everything about it. Lately, I particularly love to pack Scott’s lunch for him in the morning, often sticking a special little treat in his lunchbag for him to find when he pulls out his lunch during a hectic day.
- Writing. I love to blog for so many reasons. One reason is that it gives me a creative writing outlet. I write so much for work (which I do like, too), but it’s not for “fun.” Blogging gives me that fun, creative writing source. I was that chick in english class that LOVED writing research reports, book reports, you name it. I rocked those papers.
- Motivation. I’m a great self-motivator, it’s somehow become ingrained in me. I almost don’t even need to motivate myself anymore, it just sorta happens. I never really thought about myself as being a good motivator though until my husband mentioned it the other day. Said if not for me, he’d be 5,000 lbs (which I find impossible to believe).
Five things I believe in:
- God. And the power of prayer. I don’t often talk about my faith here. But trust me, I’m a huge believer.
- Love. The adoration I have for my husband is proof of that. Love conquers all (ups and downs, curveballs thrown, obstacles faced) <—and I mean that in the least cheesy way possible, I swear
- My sisters. They are both equally amazing and wonderful and beautiful women. And together? The three of us? Well – we could take over the world if we wanted to. Never doubt the power of three-strong.
- Comfortable isn’t always good. Getting uncomfortable – in all areas in life – prompts growth and change and evolutions. Ridiculously important in my book.
- Wine. It’s good for the soul.
So there you have it – five for five; things you didn’t know about me; things I’m good at; things I believe in.
Much harder to jot down than you’d think. Give it a shot, prove me wrong. 😉
Wanna come over and clean my house??? I hate it and I’m bad at it. I pay in baked goods and cocktails. K, thx. 🙂
Sure, baked goods and cocktails sounds like more than a fair trade to me 🙂
oh me too! i love all your things are good at. I think I can relate. And i have never blogged with a glass of wine in hand. Maybe I should. tee hee.
love you!
I HIGHLY recommend it 🙂
Love you too!!
Oh I love this so much! It’s so fun getting to know things about you that we might not know. I knew about the handwriting and I remember the TLC thing from a post Jo did eons ago. And never blogged with wine? Um…obviously I do not know you at all 😉
I LOVE that you already knew some of these things about me, guess you really were my sister in a previous life 🙂
Haha – I know, I can’t believe it’s taken me over two years to blog with a glass of wine in hand, it was glorious!!
This has been a very hard week for me, and this post just made me cry, laugh and feel good. Love it! Thanks Jess!
((HUGS)) my friend! I’m glad I could make you LAUGH, but wish there no tears to go with it!! Have an awesome Friday, my dear!
You can clean my house for me. I am awful at cleaning. And my handwriting is really bad too. I have to write super slowly for it to be legible at all. When I got married, I didn’t even change my signature because you couldn’t read what it said anyway!
Sure, I’ll clean anyone’s house that wants it – hell, I should’ve become a cleaning lady, I apparently missed my calling 😉
I LOVE that I’m not alone with the handwriting thing – my signature is horrendous, it’s just a bunch of scribbles. Even my husband is shocked by how bad it is. LOL
I love this sis!! So great. I am going to borrow it 😉 What about your hatred for vaccumming…hmmm?? I love it and while I love to clean *almost* as much as you do, I love that there is one cleaning activity you actually DO NOT like 😉 I believe in you too sis…xoxo
Yes, caught red-handed. There is ONE chore I really don’t like and that is vacuuming (why can I never spell that right the first time btw). I really don’t even know why I hate it, I just do. I’ll do it if I must but chances are, it’ll get assigned to Scott to do as his one chore for the weekend. hehe
You are definitely great at writing, being a friend, and motivation. Hope you have an awesome weekend!
Thank you my dear, I hope you do too!!
You are a great motivator…I feel motivated from you with each post of yours I read! ….and the food smell on the clothes! I HATE that too! HAHA:-)
SO glad I”m not alone on the food smell on clothes, drives me BONKERS!!
I totally agree with your comment that comfort isn’t good. Finding new goals and pushing ourselves keeps life interesting and most importantly fun! : )
I couldn’t agree more 🙂
Oh my goodness, I LOVE reading this and learning more about you! I might have to copy your idea for a post on my blog. I love what you believe in – I concur on every single one! Can’t imagine life without my amazing sisters. 🙂
PLEASE DO steal away – I’d love to hear your five for five list!!
I knew about the obessive cleaning lol I’m married to an obessive cleaner who, and I’m not kidding, could not go to bed if something isn’t cleaned.
This was a great post. Its kind of funny because you can see how much people have in common and its pretty cool.
I had to laugh at your comment – apparently your wife and I have very similar tendencies in the cleaning department, no?
I did love writing this post and reading other similar posts, it’s so fun to realize how many commonalities we find out we share with our friends without even realizing it! Very cool, indeed
First time finding your blog (through L.C.)…love it so far! Am looking forward to reading more, especially since you said writing was one thing your were good at. 😉
Hi! Nice to “meet” you! LC Is the best, isn’t she? Any friend of hers has GOT to be a friend of mine 🙂
…off to check out your blog!
I’m stealing this survey for my blog next Friday–l love it!
Do it! I’d love to read your version!
I’m blogging and wine-ing now – it’s quite fabulous 🙂
I really don’t know what took me so long! It’s glorious, isn’t it?
LOVE LOVE LOVE This post, I feel closer to you and that I already know you better.
I am SO going to do this post on Friday! Thanks hun!
I can’t wait to read yours – I have learned a ton about other blog friends who have done a post like this. It requires a lot of thinking, but it’s totally worth it!
I love these types of posts and you’re right it has to be hard to come up with, hence why I haven’t done one!
It really was hard to come up with, you’re right!!
I’m coming back to this post…I have SO much to say about it!!!
Ohhh can’t wait for your thoughts 🙂 Hope you’ll do one of these posts sometime soon!!
LOOOOVE! This is awesome. It’s great getting to know you more, so much I didn’t know. You are quiet the woman.
Awesome, awesome! This made my day.
YAY!!! 🙂
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