Since I will be moving there very soon, I have recently started hunting around for bloggers in the Twin Cities area.
Doniree is one of the first people I found and started following her blog and Twitter account. So far, I have been taken aback by the sincerity or her posts. I particularly enjoy
this one and
this one. Today, she posted about "The Cocktail Question." The fact that when you as asked what you DO you typically respond with your job title and that this is typically only a small portion of what you DO and what defines you as a person. She invited others to answer the same question as she did and really think about the answer. Below is my answer. Thanks Doni, for
posting the question... I definitely enjoyed this exercise and can't wait to turn it into a scrapbook page!
--------------------------------------------------------------------By profession, I am a Civil Engineer. I work with some incredibly interesting people who enjoy their jobs. For the last 2 years I have been designing roadway improvements for people with disabilities to be able to better travel around the city.
I carry my camera with me everywhere I go. I enjoy photos and wish that people weren't so squeamish about getting their picture taken.
I start projects and don't finish them. I start projects and stay up until 1am to finish them even though I have work the next day.
I love to create things. I have too much scrapbooking stuff but can't seem to stop buying more.
I also make jewelry and sew. I am always interested in new hobbies. I want to learn how to make my own glass beads. I scrapbook so that future generations will know what my world was like.
I travel, but not nearly enough. I would have to live to be 500 years old to be able to travel to all the places I want to go and experience all the things I want to experience. I wish I could speak a language in addition to English.
I welcome change. I enjoy moving furniture around my house or just moving... Whether it is across the street or across time-zones.
I miss people. I miss my family and friends when I am not with them. I crave to know how and what they are doing on a day-to-day basis. I wish everyone I knew had a blog so I could keep up with them.
I subscribe to too many blogs and follow too many people on Twitter. I love both and can probably be considered an addict.
I love seasonal food like gingerbread and pumpkin bread. I put vinegar on everything and crave it like I will never be able to eat it again. I love Italian food. I prefer beer over most alcoholic beverages. I love wine. I especially love trying new wines. I don't drink nearly as many Mimosas on the weekends as I would like. I don't drink coffee because I don't like the taste. I am obsessed with cupcakes.
I love my friends, new and old. I feel that the best friends I have are the ones I can not see for a long time and then when we finally see each other, pick up where we left off right away. Life sometimes gets in the way of spending time together and the people who understand that and love me anyway are the ones I want to be close to. My husband is my best friend. My sister is also my best friend. They get along great and I am so grateful for that.
I take pride in being from a small town. When I say 'small,' I mean
small. I grew up in a town with about 500 residents. There are more cows than people and probably always will be. I prefer living near a city than in rural Vermont, but I love going home too. I learned how to drive in a 1978 Ford Pickup and had my own horse when I was 10.
I am not a girly-girl. I hardly ever wear makeup and I would fall over within 2 seconds if I had to wear heels. My socks hardly ever match but I miss-match them on purpose because it makes me happy. I love wearing big, dangly earrings. I often loose track of hours of my life when I am in a TJ Maxx.
Well, there you have it... Instead of answering the question "What do you do?" I kind of answered the question "Who are you?" That's just how it turned out and I'm ok with that. :-)
I really love book stores. I 
I got this book for Christmas (my sister and I actually each bought a copy for the other, ha!) after I saw it in a museum gift shop. It's an amazing book which I have not wrecked yet but have every intention to destroy. I have been collecting fruit stickers on the page which says "collect fruit stickers here" but haven't done any other real destruction worth mentioning.
Apparently this 'book' is not a book, as it states right there on the cover. But wait, look at the bottom there: "By Keri Smith; Author of Wreck this Journal" EEP! I didn't know she had a new book out! * Sam then snatches up the book in record time and proceeds to the checkout at lightning speed. * Written in a similar manner as Wreck this Journal, this book encourages the owner to transform the 'book' into whatever he or she desires... you decide what goes in it and how it turns out. I am honestly very excited to start having fun with this book! Maybe it will even help me to get over my OCD tendencies and to actually wreck my journal. We shall see. :-)
