• When I was younger I had an imaginary identical twin sister. Her name was Mary Frances and she lived in the world on the other side of my bedroom mirror. Of course that meant that she was left-handed. I remember as a kid thinking that was totally obvious. The flaw in this reasoning was that for some reason, I mean I really can't believe this, it was not intuitive to other people that I had an imaginary identical twin sister. My parents were a little skeptical when I told them that Mary Frances broke my canopy bed when I was 5.


• Almost two decades later, I met a guy who had his own imaginary country where he was president. When he ran for reelection, his cat beat him in the primary. He managed to eek out a victory in the general election as an independent. We immediately started dating. Although that didn't work out, we eventually became friends, and he had been friends with the Big Giraffe before I met either of them. Unfortunately he passed away from colon cancer. We named our older son after him. This should count as three things about me.


• I was a vegetarian for ten years. I still don't like a lot of meats.


• I cannot sleep at night unless I have a heavy blanket. It makes no difference how hot it is outside. I found out when I became a parent that it's a sensory issue. So is the fact I hate celery in chicken salad, soups etc.


• When I have any sort of big project to do, I like to get it done right away. Sounds good, right? Sure sometimes. It was great for schoolwork or for projects at work. Not necessarily when handling things though in my personal life. Many, many times, I wished that I had just stopped to calm down and think about things before I delved into them. I get into the mode where everything needs to be done yesterday and thus totally stress myself out and anyone who happens to be around me. I can see my husband nodding his head in agreement. In fact he may have even said a "Here! Here!" out loud.
  
  Need an example? I found out on Friday that I need to have an area of our sunroom repaired. Here is what went through my mind: What? I'm going to have to sell my kidney to pay for this!!! It's going to snow, and then we will have ceiling and wiring damage, and Oh my God it's going to snow and it's the end of October and it's going to snow in a few weeks and I need to call roofers and did you see the market today, and it's going to snow in three days and what if the roofers futz around with coming by to give me an estimate and did you see what happened with the stock market today and surely it will be snowing in five minutes and our sunroom needs to be fixed. Has it already started snowing? By Friday afternoon I already had two roofers and a handyman out to give me an estimate. I also felt like I might have diarrhea. The good news is that at least in this instance my tunnel vision was productive and my stomach calmed down. The better news is that the fix is relatively inexpensive and not of significant consequence to the house.


• I absolutely love Greek yogurt. No, seriously I eat it every day. Hmm...I think I need to re-stock tomorrow.


• I love napping. One of my favorite things to do is nap on a hot summer day. I love getting all cozy under a heavy blanket with the air conditioner on. To me it's absolute luxury to be able to have nothing else to do so that I can nap.

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