16 Random Things About Me

I saw this tag on someone else's blog and thought it would be fun to do. 

1. I have been with my boyfriend for 6 1/2 years and still no ring.  We have lived together for 5 years and have been talking about getting married for even longer.  He's the love of my life, my best friend, and the most wonderful caring guy I could ask for.  He wants me to have everything including a diamond way out of our price range which is the hold up.  He's a romantic and I am much more practical.

2.  I work for a large global office supply company during the day.  I get to work from home which makes this one of the best jobs in the world!  I started working there 4 years ago taking my older sister's job as an administrative assistant when she got promoted.  Two years ago, I was again promoted to the position she took when I started with the company.  Some say "it's not what you know, but who you know" and while I agree that she is the one that got my foot in the door, I have worked my butt off to be where I am now.

3. I have a dog named Bailey.  He's almost 2 years old and is a Japanese Chin.  He is the cutest and funniest little dog and I am so in love with him.  He follows me around all day long and sleeps on my head at night.  We are inseparable. He's currently curled up at my feet keeping them warm.  I also have 2 cats.  Sammie is a 12 year old long haired black cat.  He is the luckiest cat in the world. He has run away 5 times since I've had him for several months each time and has somehow managed to stay alive and well through all of that.  Onyx is my good luck charm.  I was bummed out one day when Sammie ran away and adopted this tiny black haired kitty.  An hour after we brought him home, my boyfriend spotted Sammie and we caught him.  Sammie has not run away since.  He is best friends with Bailey and is in love with my sister's cat, Valentine. 

4. I am from a big family.  I have 2 older (half) brothers, 2 older sisters (1 half, 1 full blood), and one younger sister.
 
5. I work part time for 3 cruise companies on the weekends with my parents. 

6. I am really good at putting together furniture.  I put together my vanity, my makeup storage, my wardrobe, 2 of my dressers and my kitchen table.  My boyfriend is awful at it.  We were building a dresser together a few years ago and I finished 3 drawers in the time it took him to do one and he did it incorrectly.  I had to fix it.

7. I'm naturally a blond but have been dying my hair red since I was 17.  I have blond eyelashes, blond eyebrows, blond body hair.  Occasionally I'll switch it up and go back to blond but everyone has always told me that red is the color my hair should be (except my mom.  She likes the blond).

8. Although it was not always the case, I love my parents more than anything.  Growing up has made me realize that they are actually really fun people.  We like to go out for happy hour and go on vacations every chance we get. 

9. My first makeup job was with MAC.  I applied at a Nordstrom for holiday work hoping to work in the housewares section.  During the interview the woman asked where I wanted to work and I told her that I'd love to work in cosmetics not thinking that there was an opening.  Turns out, MAC was hiring for part time.  The interview process was insane.  I think I had 5 interviews and 3 months before I finally started working.  It was the most rewarding experience ever.  I learned more in 4 months than I had in 10 years. 

10.  I knit and crochet.  I'm good at it.  I like making scarves because they're easy but I've been working on a blanket for my dog for the past year.  I'll probably be finished by the time he's 12.

11. I love YouTube.  I think the beauty community is just amazing.  I didn't even know what MAC was before YouTube.  Now, the majority of my collection is MAC products.

12.  I am a slob but I'm trying to get better.  In previous apartments it used to be that you couldn't get through a room without tripping over something.  I don't work well without checklists so my boyfriend and I have chores that we're supposed to do every day.  We don't always stick to it but I can tell you that there has not been a time when you couldn't walk through the room without stepping on something in the past 6 months. 

13.  No one else in my family is remotely interested in beauty products.  My mom and younger sister don't ever wear makeup and my older sister hardly does either.  I don't know why I got the makeup dork gene but I'm the only one that has it.  My older sister taught me how to properly apply makeup when I was 14 and I have been doing her makeup for special occasions ever since.  

14.  I am a nail biter.  It's disgusting and painful but I can't stop. I'll try to stop every few weeks but when my nails get even a little long they start breaking and I end up biting them.  They're currently in a disgusting painful short phase right now. 

15.  I smoke.  It's gross, expensive and killing me.  I'd quit if I didn't have to go into the office every once in a while but all of my friends at work smoke too. 

16. I can't fall asleep unless I'm listening to an audio book.  I like the Harry Potter series (Jim Dale's voice is soothing) and the Twilight series.  I find it hard sitting through meetings and conference calls because people talking for an extended period of time makes me really sleepy.