Here are 10 random facts for a short introduction:
1. I was born and raised in Venezuela as the 5th out of 6 sisters. Dad is Italian, Mom is South Korean. We moved to the US in 2007. Since then I have lived in Illinois (Undergrad), New Mexico (Worky Work Work), and California (Grad School).
2. I was lucky enough to meet the best boyfriend in the world a couple of months before leaving Illinois. Alexei puts up with my silliness, knows how to fix everything under the sun, and makes me want to be better every day (He also makes me amazing breakfast every day, including fresh baked bread!).
3. Since I can remember I've been a nail bitter. BUT, during the whole year I spent in New Mexico I stopped bitting them instantaneously and completely. That also happened to be my first time not attending school since I was 3. Do you see it!?
4. I crave having babies. All. The. Time. I always have. I'll try not to mention this too often on this blog, since I can just go on and on about it. This may have something to do with having lots of nephews and nieces. I'm always thinking that it's my turn already.
5. Sad movies, commercials, documentaries, books, magazine articles, ....Actually, anything sad makes me cry like a baby.
6. Being #5 out of 6 kids I had to get creative to try to be different. One thing I used to do is refuse to have the same favorite foods as my sisters (kids don't make sense). With 4 older sisters you run out of the good options. My favorites were things like brussel sprouts, raw radishes, raw garbanzo beans, raw mushrooms. Additionally, their ultimate favorites would make it to my LEAST favorite list. Tomatoes and strawberries? yuk.
7. Oh man, I'm running out of things... Lets see... Funny story: Venezuela has the tiniest amount of koreans. The only korean I knew was my mom. When I was little I visited the US a couple of times. Whenever we went to a public place I would go around holding EVERY korean woman's hand thinking it was my mom. They all looked like her!
8. There is a video of the first time I heard a fire alarm. We don't have them in Venezuela, and we had just moved to Illinois. My niece and I were bored and pretending to interview each other on camera while my little sister cooked. Then the alarm went off, and I must have thought it was a nuclear bomb alert or something, because I jumped in the air with every beep. Then I realized what it was, and while shaking, I took a chair, got on it and started blowing stupidly at the alarm. I continued to blow even after it had stopped beeping as everyone laughed hysterically. Needless to say, they still make fun of me about that, and they have the video to keep the memory fresh. I will not show the video here, because it was a mere 5 years ago, and I'm still traumatized.
9. I've eaten 5 grilled cheese sandwiches in 24 hours. I get obsessed when I learn to do something new. (Remember when I learned how to knit and made 5 hats, 2 scarfs and a headband in less than a month?)
10. I grew up being convinced that I was a "mixed child gone wrong". My family said my lookalikes where E.T., Droopy, Olive Oyl, Dopey from the 7 dwarfs, and the crocodile from the Lubriderm commercial. Thanks family.
Wow! this was hard. But now you know a bunch of random things about me! Tell me about you...
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