Lord help me - blogging is HARD! I'm having such a hard time keeping up with it and it's only the 13th day of the year! Wah-Wah!
I have been doing the Project Life 365 Photo Journey and have kept up with that daily on my Instagram profile. Follow me and you can see what I'm doing on a daily basis - Melanie Wright Photography!
OK - NOW TO THE RANDOM FACTS...
So I'm having a terrible time getting people to follow my blog - they will "like" my pictures on Facebook and "like" my page on Facebook but I can't seem to get people to look at this blog.. I'm thinking there's not enough "me" in it so I'm going to try and incorporate more
Melanie into the "Melanie Wright Photography Blog"... Enjoy.
P.S. HIT me back with some comments - I feel like I'm "typing" to my wall most of the time. {tear}
(Oh snap - the "S" from P.S. in front of the word "HIT" looks like a naughty word! Eek!)
Fact 1 - I drink way too much Diet Coke.. every year I say I'll drink less... and every year I still find myself putting the 12 pack in my shopping cart on the weekends. I'm fairly certain they've put crack in it b/c it's so addictive.
P.S. HEB I'm on to you with your new double wide shopping cart size - I have successfully bought more the last few trips b/c of your mind game of filling the shopping cart to full capacity! Bigger cart =more stuff to buy! If I didn't have a baby I'd be only using your mini- carts and be showing you!
Fact 2 - I sometimes will drive a little farther than necessary to avoid making a left turn. I'm weird. There's something that freaks me out about crossing traffic in my car. I don't know why - I don't do it every time, but I've done it. Feel free to make fun!
Fact 3 - I'm currently doing this as I type. If I cross my legs then I've definitely crossed my second toe over my big toe as well. I don't know who I inherited this genetic gem from but alas, I cross my leg, I cross my toe. Gifted.
Fact 4 - Teaching makes me laugh on a daily basis. (Cry on some, but mostly laugh). I have a student who informed me this past week that she sleeps on a crouton. You know those couches that fold out into a bed?? Yep, a crouton. (I did hide my giggle.) Oh and on a not so mature note I also had a student let a toot out which shockingly everyone remained quiet about, but then seconds later heard a kid say, "It smells like muffins in here." On that I had to step out in to the hallway and laugh. Muffins? Really?
Fact 5 - I survived a brown recluse bite around my 10th birthday. Awful. I have a nasty scar to prove it on my side - please don't ask to see it.
Fact 6 - I ran the Disney Marathon in 2002. I have slacked on the running post baby but I hope that 2013 is the year I get my rear in gear - literally.
Fact 7 - I come up with weird mnemonic devices to remember things like my license plate number, account numbers, birthdays, etc. My wedding anniversary is 2/6/10 so I say in my head "Two plus four is six plus four is ten = 2/6/10". "Ben plus 10" is a birthday. It doesn't have to make sense to anyone else, it's just what I do.
Fact 8 - Though I'm a goofy, silly, sarcastic gal I was inches away from working for the government not too long ago... I was just too slow a runner. I can run for days - I'm just not fast! Everything works out the way it is supposed to though - I'm a firm believer in that!
Fact 9 - Currently if I'm not thinking of anything the song from that dang "Sweet Brown Autotuned" gets stuck in my head. I don't know how many times I've busted out "Oh Lord Jesus it's a fire" to my husband but I'm fairly certain he thinks I'm going insane. Search it on Youtube if you haven't seen it. {You're welcome.}
Fact 10 - I get butterflies and excited tummy every time I go out and take pictures for people. It's such an honor and rush to get to go and do something that allows me to be completely in my creative zone -
I love it - but it still makes me nervous!
Fact 11 - I have really thick hair that sometimes gives me a literal headache when I wear it in a ponytail because of it's weight. I love it long though so that's why I leave it. I bought some new hair bands last week that I'm going to have to give away b/c they are too tight for my hair.. b/c I have SO much of it. I can only get the band around twice and it feels like I've got a bun like the girls from the Robert Palmer video in the 80's - TOO tight!
Fact 12 - I stopped eating red meat in college. Not for any particular reason I just don't ever crave it. A few years after college my Dad doubted my "phase" and had me eat a burger. I threw it up later - I didn't have the heart to tell him. I'll eat it these days out of politeness if someone is serving it, but I just don't ever want it. God bless my husband though b/c I don't think I've ever cooked him a steak - not sure I could successfully!
Fact 13 - Despite the craziness and hectic-ness of being a wife, mom, daughter, sister, aunt, great aunt, teacher, photographer, friend and second mom to my students I'm blessed and grateful for all of it. My goal this year is to improve in all of those aspects AND still find some time for me. For all of that I thank God every day for allowing me to do what I do with the people He's put in my life. Life may have its moments (like having to put make-up on today to go to the store to attempt to cover the accidental headbutt bruise my 1.5 year old daughter gave me that left both of us with marks) but life is good. Crazy. Funny. Loving. GOOD.
So there you have it... just 13 of the million little facts about me. I hope to continue to put more "me" into this blog and that it will help people to get to know me better and to encourage others to share back! (You know you want to put a random fact about yourself on here now!)
*This is me on New Years Eve shooting a friend's wedding.. the picture frame sideways behind my head just made me laugh..
