Thank you Patricia Cornwell Miller for giving me 7...I have successfully dodged this up until this point. Remember, you asked for it! Here goes: 1. I was born in Auburn, AL in the same hospital that my husband now works in every day and by the same physician group of which he is now a partner. Dr. Chase labored my mother. We thank his daughter, Meredith Chase Jenkinson, who Rob and I met though the Lowcountry Auburn Club that we helped charter in Charleston, SC. She is responsible for us moving back to The Lovliest Village on the Plains and I cant thank her enough!! 2. I met my husband as a Freshman at Auburn but we didnt start dating until my Junior year when we ended up as Microbiology lab partners. He took my seat in lab. I kicked him out. He convinced the GTAs to let him stay in that lab as my partner even though the lab was technically full. He ended up setting my desk on fire with a bunsen burner and I was hooked! Five years of long distance dating later - we were married. Unfortunately, I drive with a heavy foot. In October of 99 I had to go in and meet with a State Trooper to convince him NOT to take my drivers license away for accruing too many points due to speeding tickets. I donned my best little conservative teacher dress, pearls and a head band (just picture THAT one) and armed myself with a sound logic arguement. Dating long distance from Auburn to New Orleans means you spend a LOT of time on the road, more so than most people-->you are more likely to speed-->you are more likely to get tickets than most people. I explained that I was getting married and moving to New Orleans in 2 months and needed my license to turn in to the LA DMV. He literally asked me if I promised I would NOT be moving back to the state of Alabama anytime soon!!! Through my tears I quickly nodded my head...uh huh! and he let me go. 8 years later....we returned (muwahahahahah). 3. I am waaaay supersticious and can often be seen fussing at my children and other people for splitting poles as they walk down the sidewalk. If you are one of those people....I got nothing but love for you humoring me all this time! My supersticious nature is magnified a thousand fold during Auburn Recruitment and Auburn Football season where you arent even allowed to change seats during games (thank you Emily Doucette for reminding Heather Haroff of this!). Even numbers hold a special place in my heart. Odd numbers are just....well...odd. I even had serious reservation about purchasing our lot because the address ended in an odd number! 4. For better or worse, I am a Scorpio through and through. Im not an avid horoscope reader. But when I do, there is rarely a time when its wrong. I wont bore you with the details....dont believe me? Read for yourself....see zodiac-signs-astrology/zodiac-signs/scorpio.htm 5. I am HORRIBLE with dates and numbers. Dont get me wrong. I can do math and actually really like math. I was awful in history and will be the person most likely to forget your birthday - but not because I dont care. So thankful for the birthday reminder function of Facebook!! Joe Gotthelf makes fun of me because I can never remember how old I actually am without doing the math. When Drew and Sophie were younger, I filled out their preschool paperwork with the wrong birthdates (one is Jan 4 the other is Jan 27th) and no one caught on until my kids protested that Anna Jolley Allen and Paige Hibbard Pearson were trying to teach them their birthdays wrong (based on my incorrect paperwork). At the time, I totally blamed this on post pregnancy brain...but 4 years later and it STILL happens! 6. That being said - ironically - I have a killer memory for details. Ironic right? I can remember things in explicit detail all the way back to when I was in Pre-K at Smallworld Playschool. Who my teachers were, classmates, where I sat in class, where my locker was, etc. This now comes in handy in our house with 3 kids who NEVER know where anything is!!! 7. My father, Lou Gotthelf, taught me to spell the words loquacious and verbose when I was in the 3rd grade. He then made me look them up and told me to commit them to memory because these would describe me for the rest of my life. He couldnt have been more right. So many words....and I am notoriously guilty of typos. Who says God doesnt have a sense of humor?? I have reread this thing like 6 times to try and catch them and I am SURE that I have missed something. But I am lucky to have sweet friends like Emmy Martin Sorrells to catch these for me!!! I really could just kill two birds with one stone by cutting back on the number of words--->decreasing the chances of having typos?? Naaaaahhhhhh :)
Posted on: Tue, 19 Nov 2013 19:46:31 +0000
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