So you know I play basketball, I’m from Maine, and I’m 26-years old, but I saw this on another blog the other day and I thought it would be fun. I’m sure some people know some of these things but I can’t imagine anyone besides maybe some family members know all of them.

I am/was very musically inclined.
I was in the chorus and show chorus in junior high and I played the trumpet all the way until my senior year. I was a part of the marching band, pep band, and jazz band. At one point in my life we had a saxophone, guitar, piano, flute, and a trumpet in our home and I could play all of them a little. I am the musical definition of “Jack of all trades, master of none.”

I have three tattoos
All of them mean a lot to me but the one that started it all is a dedication to one of my best friends that died in a snowmobile accident our junior year in high school. It’s a sleeping elephant with a halo and Mandi’s favorite number, 5, above it.

I have applied for Big Brother… three times.
I used to love Big Brother when it first came out back in college and thought that was the only reality TV show I’d like to be a part of. I’m not exactly proud of it and I sure hope my application videos are buried deep in Hermon hill.

I absolutely love soggy cereal.
Most of the time I even wait for it to get soggy before I eat it. All cereal is good when it’s soggy but the best ones? Frosted Flakes, Rice Crispies, and Fruity Pebbles. Yum.

I drove cross country two summers ago.
Best decision of my life thus far but I don’t know if I’d ever do it again, at least not with my car again. I went with a friend from home and a friend from college for three weeks. We met in Boston, drove across to Seattle, south to San Francisco, and then back across through upstate New York and home to good ol’ Maine. My favorite city was Chicago… or Seattle… or San Francisco… can’t say for sure.

I watched both of my nephews being born.
I thought I would be scared and/or grossed out by it but I was neither. It was absolutely amazing.

I was president of the National Honor Society
I don’t know how that happened considering when I was inducted I could NOT stop giggling like a little school girl– in front of everyone. Graduated seventh in my class, though, and proud of it! (And for all you funny people out there, there were about 175 kids in my class)

I am afraid of heights
Ironically, I feel like most tall people are afraid of heights. I keep trying to overcome it; hiking, cross country flights, jumping from trestles, but it just won’t budge.

I had braces in junior high
And a white-girl afro: yikes. Luckily I didn’t have them at the same time and the braces were only for eight months or so which would explain why I still don’t have perfect teeth.

My first job was on a farm
Happy to say it was just a vegetable farm but I loved it! From about age 11 until high school, every summer I got to pick strawberries, corn, green beans and the like with my best friends, not a bad gig. Shout out to Thunder Road Farm in Corinna!

What’s something interesting I don’t know about you?