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30 Days of Me: Day 17

30 Days of Me

Day 17 — 10 things about you people don’t really expect. okay this is both hard and easy so I will start with the things that are fairly easy and go from there. As I am working on this list I am finding it harder and harder to come up with ten things. Isn’t that odd? You would like that 10 things would come to me right away but they don’t.

  1. My Southern Accent: People are always surprised when they hear me on the phone or in a video
  2. My Honesty: Some people are really put off by the fact that I can be overly honest at times and they take it as me being hateful
  3. My Temper: No one ever expects quiet little me to ever blow and when I do it really shocks people.
  4. My Intelligence: Many people assume that since I am a blogger and stay at home all day that I have little to no education. They are always very surprised at how educated I actually am and that I can carry on complex conversations.
  5. My Sense of Humor: Unless you truly know me my sense of humor may shock you. I don’t mean for it to but it was how I was raised (which shows in number 6 as well.) I will laugh at my brother passing gas or even silly faces the kids make. We all laugh at things that we probably shouldn’t but that is just us.
  6. My Openness: I will talk about anything with people I know, although I do try to tame myself a bit here. Things like  sex are open conversations at our house. I grew up in a home where if we had a question then we asked it. It didn’t matter what it was about.
  7. That I Sing: This is the one thing that always seemed to shock people. I was once asked to fill in for someone at church in a play and when I sang my part everyone was so shocked. No one even knew that I could sing let alone sing well. It is just one of those things that I keep to myself.
  8. My Mechanical Skills: I learned early on to fix whatever was broken and not wait or depend on someone else to do it. If there is something that I can fix on my own I will.
  9. My Optimistic Outlook: My aunt always says “You believe in Santa too huh?” My response is yes I do because I believe in good and that things will only get better.
  10.  My Southern Hospitality: I grew up all over the place and people never expect that I am truly a Southern Girl at heart  No one comes to my home without having a meal, drinking sweet tea, or having pecan pie. While we eat foods from all over the world my Southern foods have a dear place in my heart.
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I live in a small Georgia town that you most likely have never heard of and I LOVE it! My house is more than full as I am a single mother of four & caregiver to my aging mother and uncle. Lover of all things Outlander. Goes to the beat of her own drum woman.

Comments

  1. I’m with you on the honesty-to-the-point-of-bluntness. To me, it’s just being direct. To others, it’s like you’re an attack dog. Where in the South are you? I’m a native Californian who now lives in North Carolina…

  2. Wow. Thanks for sharing this. I am a little too honest sometime, but I say why beat around the bush.

  3. I’m blunt too alot of people think i come off as mean because of it. My sense of humor sounds like yours me and hubby share the same sense of humor that may shock others but its why we get along so well. I was surprised to hear your southern accent on a review video a while back….. I’d love to hear you sing!!!

  4. Hmmm
    1. My LACK of southern accent, I’m from texas, and a lot of people assume we all have country accents, but I’m from Houston, so that’s a big city, no accents really.
    2. My allergy to metal
    3. My allergy to my own sweat and tears, I’m being completely serious
    4. My allergy to chocolate, yea I’m allergic to things
    5. I have no colon, Had chron’s but all cured!

  5. I don’t think I can come up with more than a few, as I’m fairly predictable:

    1.) My tendency to say “dude” a lot, due to my California upbringing.
    2.) My ability to pick up foreign languages.
    3.) I’m a decent cook.

    That’s all I could come up with… 🙂

  6. WOW, I am having a hard time too, and very nearly NEVER at a loss for words.

    I am like you in that I learned to not be afraid to fix things. I am not a big person or all that tough, and seeing me hike up a ladder and get up on the roof to shingle, take a sledge hammer to our glass block basement windows, changing the oil in our vehicles might have been a shock for our neighbors to see.

    Many people do not even know that I was married before and it did NOT work out. They assume my husband is my only hubby. Boy if ONLY!

    And that he is 8 years younger than me.

    Most don’t know I suffer with a few chronic illnesses and am down for days or weeks at a time, because when I do get out I put on a “face” and act pretty normal. That I almost died at age 3 of a childhood illness and again almost lost my life in a car accident when a teen and it changed my life in so many ways.

    That my biggest dreams in life financially is to give each of my kids and grandkids SOME type of post high school education if they choose. That I went back to school as a divorced mom of 3 when 30 years old and was SCARED to death!
    And my other dream is to fix my teeth to movie star status. They have been terrible since I was a kid and is the only “ME” thing I have ever, EVER wanted.

    I’d love to hear you sing! One of my favorite parts of life has been music…any kind really.

  7. This one is a hard one. Like you I can be to honest at times. Most people don’t realize how shy I am. I have a very strong personality, but that is only after you get to know me. Once I am in my comfort zone, I am a take charge person.

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