5 Not-So-Obvious Things About Me

Sounds like fun...here we go:

1. As a kid and teenager I was really bad at all sports, especially the team kind. I did have friends so I was never "picked last," but the captain probably wished he had after I got on the team. As a young adult in my first job I joined a "mainstreamed" softball team where half of the players had significant disabilities. I still sucked.

2. My brother and I could be twins if we weren't born 6 years apart. When I was a teenager I told my mother that I wanted to marry someone like my brother. Now, both my brother and my husband are the same height and the same age, and are both part of the military special operations. They know a lot of the same people, even though they are in different services, and now, even different countries. It was completely unexpected for each of them to join (and stay) in the military, it is so contrary to their personalities. (Ric joined long after we met.) Both are very successful and happy in what they do. They are, indeed, very much alike.

3. I often talk to myself out loud when I'm alone. It helps me process things.

4. My mother wanted me to be named Julianna. My father chose Kathleen.

5. I am a registered Democrat but addicted to conservative talk radio (Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Laura Schlessinger). Even though they drive me crazy and I disagree with just about everything they say, I listen almost daily.