My friend over at ReadEatWriteRun tagged me last week – love it! I’m supposed to provide 10 random facts that y’all may not know. But since we all know I’m a big blabber mouth, it is doubtful that I’ve kept anything interesting to myself. So, sorry for the repeats and/or lameness that is forthcoming (I thought about just making cool stuff up – “I used to be a gangsta” and “I’ve always wanted a tattoo on my neck” but I knew you would see right through it.):
1. My name is spelled with an “i” because my mother’s name is Marilyn. She thought it was cute. For the first 24 years of my life, I did not – no toothbrushes or backpacks with my name spelled correctly to be found. Then I married someone with the last name of “Johnson” and I was very happy to have an odd first name. There are a lot of Carolyn Johnsons in the world.
2. If I wasn’t a lawyer/writer/runner I would be a chef.
3. I speak three languages – English, Spanish and French. Spanish because I grew up speaking it – I live on the border, and French because I went to school in Montpellier, in the south of France.
4. My parents just celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary! And my dad is still hitting holes in one on the golf course and my mom is still a firecracker and the center of our very large family.
5. I love school. Law school was one of the most interesting times of my life. I was one of the few people who didn’t want it to end.
6. When I quit running all the time, I will go back to swimming, my first love.
7. My sister, Linda, is my best friend.
8. Coffee makes me sleepy. I’ve heard that this means I’m ADHD. If that’s true, it never affected me in school, thankfully. But I’m definitely “On” of “Off” – moving or sitting, running or working – not much in between.
9. I’m allergic to shrimp, which has caused me some embarrassment at dinner parties. It is very difficult to turn down a dish without appearing rude – and shrimp is very popular.
10. Diet Coke gives me really bad headaches.
Now, TAG! You’re it!
Mom, ultrarunner, four-time US 24 Hour National Team member, adventure athlete, food writer. Graduate of the Pro Cooking Program at the New School of Cooking, Los Angeles. Will run for food.
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Thanks for the tag!!!
So cool that your parents have been married 60 years – amazing!!
And, I’m with you – I love school. I keep thinking that I will get my PhD just to have one more degree that I don’t use:)
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I could totally see you being a chef! Wish you were my neighbor. I’d live right between you and Char. Wouldn’t that be fun?
I love it! You’re a very interesting woman. Is interesting the right adjective? How about eccentric; or random; or confusing? Hmm?
I did this some time ago on Facebook. I’ll see what I said there, as it got a lot of attention.
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Found it!
1) I haven’t played a video game or computer game in 20 years, because I get addicted to them easily.
2) Though I love animals, I have never purchased a pet.
3) I once squeezed my entire body through the head of a tennis racket on a bet.
4) I think the Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show is hilarious.
5) I’ve been in the contestant pool of “Jeopardy” twice, “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?” four times.
6) I still have the gifts I received on my 6th birthday.
7) I’ve “unfriended” only one person on Facebook; he shares 82 mutual friends with me.
8) 95% of the women I’ve dated have been artistic Catholics who smoke. This baffles me to no end.
9) I once did stand-up comedy and worry that video of it still exists somewhere.
10) I don’t like avocados. There, I’ve said it. Guacamole tastes like lard and grass clippings. Stop pretending it’s good.
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My husband has had to spend his life spelling his name too. He was born in the middle of the cold war but his parents wanted to call him Ivan without appearing to have a communist bent. So they spelt it with an E instead of the A. Yeah, that made a huge difference.
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I don’t think there is anything left that somebody doesn’t know about me by now:) Not only I blog and FB a whole lot (sometimes I think a whole lot more than I should be), I’ve been tagged about 4 times too. But I loved your name explanation! So, are you full time in London now? Is the sweater useful there yet? 🙂
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