I thought it was a fun idea when I saw a few bloggers posting their list of 25 random details — that tagged-you're-it game circulating on Facebook. I think everyone I would tag has already done it anyway, (since I've been resisting writing my list forever), so I'm posting mine here. Pardon the interruption of posts on home + entertaining ideas. Here's 25 random things about moi.
1. I love wearing necklaces — they're my main form of jewelry. I rarely wear earrings so my holes have closed up (for a second time.) Oops. This is the next necklace I want (and it's only $10.)
Necklace with hand stamped pendant on ribbon by Auburn & Ivory. Be sure to check out her blog — one of my favorites.
2. I hate onions. Cooked. Raw. Touching lettuce. Poor Dan hasn't eaten a home-cooked meal with onions in years.
{photograph by jimforest}
3. I walked down the aisle (it was actually a 200-yard grassy path) for my wedding to the song Peggy-O by the Grateful Dead. Dan had no idea — our friend Dave played it on guitar as a surprise. It's a special song for us, and it was fun to see Dan's face when he recognized the song.
4. I'm afraid of heights. Immensely. I think it stems from my dad taking us to the top of the Eiffel Tower when I was three. Open staircases, nosebleed seats in Madison Square Garden, and glass bridges in malls are my nightmare.
{photograph by wallyg}
5. I never do the software updates on my Macbook. So maybe it's not random to say my laptop likes to churn every once in a while.
6. We put up special shelves in our apartment just for my collection of stationery. I have my cards categorized in drawers by images: hearts for love cards, martini glasses for party invites. And you wonder why I post a lot about stationery.
7. I have two older brothers. Our names in order of birth: Omid, then Steve and Jen. Go figure.
8. I've been doing yoga for years and I still haven't made any progress on the standing big toe pose (utthita hasta padangusthasana.)
9. I think blogger Josh Marshall is super.
10. A couple times a week I spend $4 on a drink with floating live cultures, otherwise known as kombucha. It's an acquired taste, but this drink seriously sets my stomach right — and helps me feel hydrated.
11. The top button of my overcoat popped off last week and I have no desire to spend time sewing it back on. I may just wait till next winter now that it's officially spring.
{photograph by sibi}
12. I'm smitten with the music of Ray LaMontagne (who played on SNL last night.) And it's pretty fun that he lived in Dan's hometown in Maine.
13. I graduated with 55 girls from a Catholic high school. And I'm not Catholic.
14. I like sour cherry pie more than apple, pumpkin, and all the regular ones.
15. I just learned last week that our farmer's market milk is not homogenized, and what homogenized means.
16. I've sat across from Keri Russell in a booth at a bar and met Will Farrell while he was wearing green track pants. My friend Josh is one cool, connected guy.
17. I'm a little upset that Conan is in L.A. now. I think he belongs here in New York, and I've been Letterman over Leno since the beginning.
18. I'm rather gullible.
19. I create more dishes than necessary for cooking any meal.
20. Dan calls me "the sheriff" when he sees me wearing my sunglasses, which are actually prescription sunglasses (my first ones.)
{sunglasses are Paul Smith for Oliver Peoples}
21. I think the Garbage Pail Kids were the best. I'm just saying.
22. My first job out of school was at a small magazine about online investing, based in Chicago. Five months after I started working, the magazine closed shop one random Friday (after the dot-com bubble burst.) The night before the magazine folded, my boyfriend and I broke up. We're now married.
23. I still have a green Hawaii T-shirt from Urban Outfitters (circa sophomore year of college) and wear it on occasion.
24. My drink of choice is sangria, which makes choosing a drink at most places quite difficult.
25. I went by Jenny through the third grade, and apparently it stuck with some family members who still call me Jenny. I don't feel like a Jenny, but I think it's sweet when my Nanny calls me by that name. I'm a Jen. Jennifer works, too.
p.s. If you've made it this far, you deserve a gold star. Oh, and one more thing, I am continually amazed by the photography of Andrea of Hula Seventy. And if you like lists, you should check out her blog as she is a master of entertaining lists. See this fantastic photo below by Andrea. (And I did get what I wanted for Valentine's Day — a gorgeous print from Hula Seventy's Etsy shop. Thanks, D!)
{photograph by Andrea of Hula Seventy}
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