All About Me

1. Someone forgot the “E” at the end of my name when they were filling out my birth certificate. I have been Jami all my life (duh), people mis-pronounce and misspell my name all the time. I am not Jamie, Jam-e, Jaime, Jaimie, Jayme or any other weird spelling. Growing up, I wanted people to call me James, because I thought it was cool to be a girl with a guy’s name.

2. It really gets on my nerves when my name is misspelled by people that know me.

3. I love animals, I always wanted more pets, but I am finally happy with what I have. We have 1 cat that is a little kooky (she grew up with a beagle that she always tried to nurse on, and a great Dane that liked to carry her around by her head, so she is pretty cool around dogs), 1 beagle that thinks he needs to eat as much as the hippos at the zoo, and at one point he even looked like a hippo, and my little chihuahua. He is a circus freak in a tiny dog’s body.

4. I really want to teach my chihuahua all sorts of awesome tricks, but I am too lazy to take him to obedience school.

5. I like cooking, but get angry when I make dinner from scratch for my boyfriend and I, and he is too lazy to even rinse off his dish, let alone help with the dishes.

6. I am not your mother, clean up after your own damn self!

7. I gave birth to an awesome little girl 5 years ago. My ex-husband has done a wonderful job raising her.

8. I have never told my ex-husband that I think he is a great dad.

9. I hate my dad. I hate how he goes through life using people and discarding them. He acts like a selfish kid when he doesn’t get his way. And has left a path of destruction through his family. He is an addict. Alcohol, drugs (legal and illegal), and treats kids like shit are in his repertoire.

10. I am terrified to end up like my dad: broken and broke.

11. I have never told my dad how I really feel, I just stopped talking to him last Summer.

11. I have a great relationship with my mom, even though I rarely get to see her.

12. I worry about my mom all the time. I worry about her health, and I worry about her happiness.

13. Both my sisters are freaking awesome. And one has made me an aunt to a niece I have never met, but looks exactly like my sister when she was a baby.

14. Pretty sure I have ADD, and I used to be addicted to drugs and alcohol, but I turned my life around with a lot of help and encouragement from my boyfriend.

15. I am 120% sure my boyfriend is my soul mate, and no one will ever change my mind about that. I have never loved anyone more than I love him.

16. I don’t do well with kids, loud noises, sugar, caffeine, white flour products.

17. I have never broken a bone.

18. I was in the army, a phlebotomist, and have worked as a temp.

19. I was discharged from the army after almost exactly 11 months due to a stress fracture in my foot that made me undeployable.

20. I had a temporary stint as a waitress that ended with me dumping a martini down a man’s back, and a glass of wine in a woman’s purse. They were both in the same night, and both at the same table.

21. My sister and I once tried to make an entire dinner out of tofu. It was horrible, our whole family laughed at us, we ended up with take out for dinner, I never really liked tofu after that, and it is one of my fondest memories from when I was a teenager.

22. I am, to quote Homer Simpson, a rage-aholic. I have anger issues. I think it is because I am normally such a doormat, that I get overloaded, and blow up. Kind of like a tea kettle, all this pressure builds up inside, and then it all tries to come out at once. I am trying to be more like a pot of simmering water instead, gently letting off a little steam consistantly. Biking is helping with that a lot. I peddle out my anger, rage, and frustration.

23. My chihuahua is 7 months old, and went for his first real walk ever this morning. He did pretty good.

24. I know I already said it, but I am really noise sensitive. Any loud noise can throw me into a fit. My tv is barely audible to most people, and I am constantly asking others to please turn it down. I hate noise, I much prefer silence.

25. I swear like a sailor, much to the chagrin of my boyfriend. @#$%^&!!!!

26. When I am stressed, I tend to engage myself in repetitive soothing motions, for lack of a better description. I will do things like rub my earlobe, rub a barefooot on the carpet, twirl my foot, twirl my hair…but never jiggle my leg, it drives me crazy. It’s too much stimulation.

27. I like my hands to be in tight places. I will sit on them, put them between my thighs when my legs are crossed, or sleep on top of them. Never figured out why, I guess it’s just a wierd quirk.

28. On the subject of hands, I can’t wear gloves in cold weather. I can only wear mittens. If my fingers aren’t near each other, they get cold. Right now I am working on designing a special pair of mittens that I can wear for biking. I have seen them in the store, but no pattern for knitting yet. So I am going to come up with my own.

29. My Myers Briggs personality profile is INFJ.

30. My favorite punctuation is the exclamation (!) point!

31. I like the smell of wet pavement, dirt, patchouli, and mushrooms. I also like the taste of raw potatoes, and the smell of freshly washed russet potatoes.

32. I have scoliosis.

33. I want to start the first women’s cycling club in Omaha.

34. I want to be Omaha’s first custom bike builder, specializing in bikes for women.

35. I will be learning how to ride a motorcycle starting in May

36. I will be finishing my first knit sweater for myself soon. I am almost done with the first sleeve.

37. I have found pubic hairs in two different meals at two different restaurants in the last 5 years

38. Not surpisingly, I really don’t want to eat out in restaurants any more

39. I am bipolar and have ADD, but am not currently taking meds for either condition, even though I know I should be

40. The last time I took meds for being bipolar (Wellbutrin XL), I was feeling so suicidal I almost stepped in front of a bus. This scares me away from wanting to chemically treat my bipolar disorder.

41. I enjoyed meing pregnant and giving birth more than I enjoyed being a mother, but in retrospect, i am sure that I had a pretty severe case of PPD that never got treated

42. I am afraid of hangnails, people seeing my feet under the bathroom stall and recognizing me, water where I can’t see the bottom, hospitals, doctors, answering the phone, checking my voicemail.

43. I can visualize, very graphically, bad things happening in ordinary situations. Example: if I am standing at the top of the stairs, I can see exactly what it would look like to other people, if I fell down the stairs. This makes me very cautious.