7 things about me
1. i shower once a week. usually a saturday (if we have a date or event) or sunday morning (for Jesus).
2. i am co-writing a book with a dear friend (she has three sons). it seems writing books is so now. so fierce.
3. i would really love to name a son Saint Alexander or Saint Mark Alexander.
4. i am obsessed with root beer. this has been going on for about two months. i really think that i have a root beer as lunch about three times a week.
5. i am anemic. this causes some oddities: i could probably live on sonic ice. i have consumed laundry detergent. i have also consumed irish spring soap and since forcing myself not to consume it, have, in desperate times, resorted to rubbing the soap all over my arms in the bath until a whole bar is almost gone so that i can smell it intensely. whoa. that probably crossed into scary for the reader, but still, it's a disease, and i can't help it.
6. if i weren't doing what i am doing, i would: steal ideas from doug's blog, be a photographer, write books, flip houses.
7. in high school, i won the title of "female class clown". i remember thinking, "that's weird". but then i realized that i can be pretty goofy. i can't tell you how many times in my entire life people have asked me if i am drunk (now they just accuse me of it, josh spears) when i had not even had a drink. if i am nervous or excited, whoa. i can be a little wild and just plain bizarre. not all people handle emotion the same way. chewy laughs when she is in pain, i laugh when i am nervous or scared. adrenaline just really does some funny things to me.
2. i am co-writing a book with a dear friend (she has three sons). it seems writing books is so now. so fierce.
3. i would really love to name a son Saint Alexander or Saint Mark Alexander.
4. i am obsessed with root beer. this has been going on for about two months. i really think that i have a root beer as lunch about three times a week.
5. i am anemic. this causes some oddities: i could probably live on sonic ice. i have consumed laundry detergent. i have also consumed irish spring soap and since forcing myself not to consume it, have, in desperate times, resorted to rubbing the soap all over my arms in the bath until a whole bar is almost gone so that i can smell it intensely. whoa. that probably crossed into scary for the reader, but still, it's a disease, and i can't help it.
6. if i weren't doing what i am doing, i would: steal ideas from doug's blog, be a photographer, write books, flip houses.
7. in high school, i won the title of "female class clown". i remember thinking, "that's weird". but then i realized that i can be pretty goofy. i can't tell you how many times in my entire life people have asked me if i am drunk (now they just accuse me of it, josh spears) when i had not even had a drink. if i am nervous or excited, whoa. i can be a little wild and just plain bizarre. not all people handle emotion the same way. chewy laughs when she is in pain, i laugh when i am nervous or scared. adrenaline just really does some funny things to me.
posted by courtney jewett at 8:38 PM
7 Comments:
I was class clown too. Like you, I often laugh in strange circumstances. Sometimes it is hard when I have to be serious with the kids about their sin/ discipline when I really just want to laugh at their foolishness.
I have laughed in some really really inappropriate circumstances, like death, or people crying in front of me. It is not good. But, I still consider myself a compassionate person, and now I am wondering if other people think I am not compassionate. Hmmm.
I was cracking up reading this list. I knew a few of these things, but not all. I've heard of pregnant women eating detergent and dirt but I didn't know it was an actual disease you could have when not pregnant.
Right after we got married, I bought Jake some shaving cream. We were both in the bathroom, and he opened the new bottle, squirted some on his finger, and tasted it. I was shocked, and thought that perhaps I had married someone that I really knew nothing about. How could I have known him all that time without him telling me that he sometimes tastes weird things?
Now I am wondering if he is just anemic.
Sorry for hijacking the comments.
so if you shower just once a week, does that mean you take a bath the other 6 days (or at least 4 or 5...or 3...2??) please say yes.
april, wow that is good stuff. perhaps jake should have his iron checked!
sometimes i do take a bath, but that provides little comfort since there is no soap involved and a bather is stewing in their own filth. i love baths, but for therapeutic reasons, not cleanliness.
courtney
isn't that pica? anemia is a blood disorder. just asking.
oh courtney, how i miss you
pica is caused by iron deficiency anemia.
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