A Meme-oir

I have about 7 difference blog posts started in my head and/or on my blogging platform, yet my brain doesn't want to cooperate and help me finish them. What I'd rather do is learn about people: who they are, what makes them tick, what kind of music they like, favorite ice cream flavor, current book -- you know, the really important stuff.

So I'm starting a meme-oir on my blog. I'm going to post 10 things about me. If you want to play along, take the same 10 things (or frankly, you can make up your own), post them on your blog and include a link in the comments section. I want to see what other people reveal about themselves (and being the blog whore I am, I always want to read other ladies' blogs!!!!!!)

Me: A Meme-moir

1. My favorite food on earth is mushroom and tomato pizza; closely  followed by Chipotle Mexican Grill Burrito Bowls with chips and guacamole. I'd sell my soul in exchange for eating Chipotle's Chips and Guacamole without caloric repercussions. Seriously. I have joygasms eating these foods. Dessert-wise, if you put a bowl of chocolate chip cookie dough in front of me, I'd have a hard time saying no to it.
2. My favorite color changes every other month. Some days I love red, some days it's green, other days it's blue. If you saw my house, you'd completely understand. Thank god for the color brown because it goes with all of my favorite colors. 
3. If someone made a movie of my life, I'd like almost everything The Fray has done and You Can't Always Get What You Want by the Rolling Stones to be played in the movie. Rickie Lake or Sara Rue could play me; Brad Pitt or Bradley Cooper could play my husband. I can totally see the movie opening up with the song "Under Pressure" playing while I'm busying getting everyone organized, cleaned up and where they need to go. (and yes, I'm aware, it's a little strange that I imagine a movie being made about me -- oh well, that's me. Ms. Strange)
4. To my family, I'm most known for being an organizing freak. Seriously. Organizing and purging my house, my desk, my cabinets, or my basement of clutter is cathartic for me. It's my drug of choice (next to Chipotle and pizza) and if I was more patient, I'd be a professional organizer. I don't have a lot of emotional ties to things other than pictures and jewelry of which I do collect (along with books). 
5. To my friends, I'm most known for being different. I took a different route to having kids, a different route with my marriage, and I have no shame when it comes to being boisterous, loud, fun or friendly. A lot of my friends are a lot more quiet and private than I am and couldn't imagine blogging or Facebooking about every thought that enters their head. Apparently I'm either fun or aggravating to go out with. I don't know any strangers and I'm really nice to waitstaff which I swear helps when you're hoping for an extra bit of salt on your margarita.
6. Things I collect include Wizard of Oz memorabilia, books, and jewelry (and apparently blankets if my living room and bedroom are any indication). When I was the 3rd grade, I was the scarecrow in the school play; my BFF was Dorothy. To this day, I've had a crazy fascination with Oz. I collect WoZ ornaments, lunch boxes, books, etc. I'm an avid book collector. There aren't enough shelves in our house for all of the books we have. I'm considering moving into a library and converting it to living space for my next home. My fascination with collecting jewelry came when I started traveling. I decided when I was 24 and went to the Bahamas by myself that I'd buy a piece of jewelry from every travel I went on. It's sort of cool to me to wear a necklace or bracelet and think of what country, city or state I was in when I bought it.
7. My Best Friends are my mom and my 16-year old sister. I sometimes think it's weird that my mom is my BFF, but she also knows me best and takes the best care of me (and vice versa) . My sister is the sweeter, more compassionate version of me so of course I'm going to be friends with her :-) I always wished my husband was a best friend, but he's not. I stopped trying to be BFFs a few years ago and recognize him for what he is: my foxhole partner. (which is not necessarily a BFF in my book)
8. My vices include diet cola, warm socks, cozy sweatshirts and Target. Put me in a warm sweatshirt, fuzzy socks, pajama pants with a Coke Zero in one hand and a Target gift card in another and you'd have the world's happiest person. Seriously. I can't tell which I love most: the warm socks that keep my always-cold feet warm, the warm sweatshirts that feel like a hug, the caffeine that keeps me awake or the store that has everything that is in my style. What's really crazy fun how much I could spend at Target buying said vices if money was no object. I get heart flutters just thinking of it.
9. My favorite books tend to be memoirs. I love learning about people and reading about their feelings and their histories. I may not like the person I'm reading about, but I try to read about what made them who they were. I tried writing a memoir last year. I discovered that in the process of writing about my experiences from my point of view, I was potentially hurting a lot of people's feelings. I didn't want to alienate everyone, so I decided to stop. 
10. I define myself by everything that makes me quirky: I love to laugh and giggle, don't mind being alone, am a good stepmom, can talk to just about anyone, will ride the cart at the grocery store, say "have a good day/evening" to almost everyone and am compassionate, cynical and forthright all in the same body. I love that I'm not like anyone else. 

Your turn ladies. I want to know more about you! If you want to do a meme-oir post something similar on your site and let us know where we can find it.

If you don't want to write a blog post about this, that's okay -- I'll weep a little and if you want to be responsible for my weeping than who am I to stop you :-) 

xoxo