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Nancy<\/a> challenged breast cancer bloggers to post 15 random facts about themselves. So here it goes:<\/p>\n

1. Some may know it, some may not, but I love art and I spent many years studying art and creating a variety of pieces (most of which I left in the basement of an apartment I moved out of, never to be seen again). Lately I have been trying to get back into creating more things and giving them away so that my friends and family.<\/p>\n

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A recent finger painting<\/p><\/div>\n

2. I used to live in an apartment full of lizards (2 over 3 feet), snakes, tarantulas and scorpions. Many many years ago my ex-boyfriend loved reptiles and I helped him start a business doing reptile shows – which meant the stars of the show lived with us, along with my cat. I learned how to feed a boa constrictor chickens, rabbits… ICK.<\/p>\n

3. When I started college I planned on becoming a surgeon. This later evolved into a marketing degree and eventually an MBA. I developed arthritis when I was 18 and I was paying for college by myself, and I decided that I didn’t want to be in school that long or\u00a0in debt that long. I had the opportunity to take over some of the marketing responsibilities at\u00a0a\u00a0company I was a receptionist at and discovered my passion for marketing, so I decided to go into marketing.<\/p>\n

4. Based on number 3, I don’t have any student debt and I\u00a0paid for my bachelor’s and master’s degrees by myself. I did go work at a university while working on my MBA so I could get a deep discount though (and I still work there, 9 years later).<\/p>\n

5. I used to be a cat person. Mike doesn’t like cats and got me a small dog after my cat passed away. Now I am a dog person who loves her little fuzzy wuzzy wooferkins. We are looking at getting a 3rd fur child here soon.<\/p>\n

6. I love to cook. I set a goal for myself after my early stage breast cancer adventure to learn how to cook, and learn how to cook well. Ever since then I have spent a lot of time and energy learning how to be a good\u00a0cook. Now baking is a completely different story…<\/p>\n

7. I live to travel. My goal has always been to travel the whole world. Experience different cultures and try different things. My life has always been about experiences and memories.<\/p>\n

8. As a graduation present to myself for my bachelor’s degree I bought a house. I was single and silly, but I did buy a house at 24 all by myself… I was raised by a CFO and learned to be financially responsible at a young age.<\/p>\n

9. I like to take photos. I am not great at it and plan on taking a class sometime soon. I don’t like to be anywhere without a camera as I like to capture everything because the photos trigger happy memories for me. Whether it was a perfect cup of coffee or the way the sunlight shined on Mike’s cheek while we were out exploring somewhere.<\/p>\n

10. I suffer from\u00a0depression and anxiety. Specifically I have seasonal affective disorder. Winters are really hard for me, yet I still live in Utah where we have pretty long winters. I am probably going to get a semicolon tattoo<\/a>.<\/p>\n

11. I hate exercising. I try to make sure I do it because it makes me feel better (right now I can’t because it could injure me, but hope to be able to soon). It is work for me to get motivated to do it though. Aggghhhhh.<\/p>\n

12. My family didn’t think I was ever going to get married (neither did I). Until I met this wonderful dude named Mike when I was 27 and suddenly marriage didn’t sound like such an awful idea. I am stupid in love with Mike, he is the best thing that has happened to me.<\/p>\n

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The young and happy couple. Almost 8 years ago.<\/p><\/div>\n

13. I am not very handy. My mom is good at building things, painting, fixing – everything, but somehow I didn’t get that gene.<\/p>\n

14. I come from a gigantic family. My extended family is Mormon. My mom was the youngest of 7 kids and most of her siblings had 7+ kids and their kids had many many kids. My dad was the youngest of 4, so not quite as big, but I have over 80 cousins.<\/p>\n

15. I love a good book. I love to get myself lost in reading a great book cover to cover and many times will stay up all night to finish a book that I am into – just because I have to know what is next.<\/p>\n

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