The Beginning in Life

99 Facts about Me

1. I used to hate my middle name, Frances. A few years into dating Alex he adopted the pet name "Fran" for me. To this day he calls me Fran...all the time. I respond to it like it's my real name lol So, Frances has grown on me. I look at it lovingly now :)
2. I am 27 years old. I'm turning 28 in June; growing older is a source of anxiety for me. But at the same time, I like the way 28 sounds.
3. I live in Canada. And I'm proud of it!
4. Alex and I have been together for over 10 years. A decade.
5. Alex proposed last July, on our 10 year anniversary. He brought me back to our high school, where we met. He got down on his knee and proposed on the exact spot on the sidewalk outside the school where everything started. Our wedding date is set for September 27th 2014. :)
6. I can honestly say that through it all, the good and the bad, I'm still very much in love. I am so blessed to be marrying my best friend this fall.
7. I graduated from University of Guelph in April 2008 with a degree in History and Sociology (with Honours). Those 4 years were filled with some of the best moments of my life.
8. I absolutely love history. I didn't even know it until I started university. I find it fascinating. My grandfather was obsessed with history also. He fought in WW2 (his ship was actually torpedoed- and he survived!). He used to talk about history and tell stories constantly. He passed away in 2004; I was 17. One regret in my life is not truly appreciating him and his stories when I had him around to hear them. It's funny how you perceive things so differently as you grow up.
9. I graduated from York University with my Bachelor of Education in 2009. In late December of that year I was hired onto the current school board I work for. My career was set in motion on December 4th 2009.
10. I have learned so much about myself during the past 4 years of teaching. It has taken me until now to actual say to myself, "you rock as a teacher!" I truly believe I have made a difference in some student's lives...and that's an amazing feeling!
11. While I have developed confidence in my career, I am actually a very insecure person. I always have been...and probably always will be to a point.
12. My favourite colour is purple. It's going to be our main accent colour at our Wedding.
13. If I could only eat one meal for the rest of my life (and not get sick or fat from it) it would be cesar salad, garlic bread, roasted potatoes and some sort of parmesan breaded chicken. Drink would be a chocolate milk shake and desert would be moose-tracks ice cream.
14. I absolutely LOVE music. I need to make more time for it these days.
15. The bands that I could listen to over and over are: Nine Inch Nails, Our Lady Peace, Mumford and Suns, Moist, The Beatles, Tea Party, Korn, and a perfect circle. Interesting mix!
16. I have seen over 30 bands play live; concerts are amazing! I haven't been one in far too long.
17. I do have minor hearing problems because of all these concerts. No regrets :)
18. The day I got my G license was one of the best days of my 20s!
19. I think I am a pretty good driver- but I really dislike winter driving.
20. I love scrap booking.
21. I love taking pictures.
22. I want to start making more albums to document the past couple of years.
23. I believe in god, or some sort of high power. But I believe more in the power of thinking and energy. It's an area I want to explore more.
24. I think organized religion has fallen off its proper path. I think they fell off this path like 400 years ago!
25. I respect religion. I respect people who believe in a higher being and have faith. But I do not think that if there is a "God" he cares if we dress up every Sunday and "worship" him. Nor do I think he created "one" religion to follow. We're all human. I think people who find faith in themselves and find their own ways to speak/pray to a "God" are more "good" then any church going Christian.
26. People who pump out babies really bother me. In a logical sense, our world today cannot sustain our ever growing population.
27. I like conspiracy theories.
28. I love documentaries.
29. I like cereal a lot. For a meal or a snack. When I was living on my own during school I'd usually have 3 different kinds at all times.
30. I worked at Shoppers Drug Mart, a pharmacy, for 8 years. I started working there at 15 as a cashier, was promoted to supervisor at 18 and quit at 23.
31. I absolutely LOVE Christmas time.
32. I used to love Winter....but I hate it now. It's pretty looking, and that's it.
33. Autumn is my absolute favourite season.

34. I have very few close friends, but I like it this way.

35. Popularity or being popular has never appealed to me.

36. I find weirdness attractive
37. I love car rides, when I'm not the driver.
38. I love my computer.
39. I love the internet. A lot.
40. I want to travel one day.
41. I'd love to live in Europe. It has so much more history then North America.
42. I don't support the war; I feel sympathy for the soldiers.
43. I have a little sister (18) and an older brother (30)
44. My older brother Jason has a lot of mental problems, anxiety and extreme depression being two of them. I have had to pull myself away from him. I can't be around that toxicity. I know that sounds selfish, but I need to for my own mental health.
45. I wish I exercised more.
46. I love going for walks.
47. I absolutely love my fat cat Tarja. She was a Christmas gift from Alex in 2007.
48. I am very pale. I burn and then burn some more. I have never had a tan in my life.
49. I have had 2 second degree sunburns though. I experienced some of the worst pain in my life during these experiences.
50. I already have grey hair and have to dye my hair once a month. It's annoying, but I started getting grey hair in Grade 9, so I am sort of used to it now.
51. I love Degrassi High. It's a show that I can watch over and over and over. I often have it on in the background when I just want background noise going on.
52. I love reading. I am currently reading the first book in the Hunger Games series.
53. I love to dress up and look nice.
54. I still am not happy with the way I look. I wish I could feel more confident in my own skin.
55. I love chocolate.
56. I don't ever want to be a disabled old person. I want to take care of myself now so I can avoid this as much as possible.
57. I love hot showers.
58. Vanilla is my favourite scent. And one of the only scents Alex isn't allergic too.
59. I H-A-T-E spiders. I actually think I have an actual mild phobia to them.
60. I really enjoy teaching math, but hated it while in Elementary and high school.
61. I still get nervous around groups of teenagers. I don't even like working in intermediate classes because of this. The attitude gets to me and I just don't feel as confident around them as the little guys!
62. I don't care about drinking at all. I will have some beer when out at a pub or a cooler here and there, but it really just doesn't appeal to me.
63. I see beauty in ugly things.
64. I really enjoy watching "reality" based shows like Project Runway, America's Next Top Model and Dr. Phil. I am fascinated in people- their habits, stories, experiences.
65. I wish I didn't care so much about what other people think about me. I would do much more outside of my comfort zone if this was the case.
66. I would really love to have a dog. I hope we can get one when we move into a townhouse in the next couple years.
67. When we do buy a home, I want it to be small, but with a huge backyard.
68. I would never live in the city- ever.
69. I wish we as a planet on a whole weren't so wasteful.
70. I wish money didn’t exist. Or I at least wish it was more equally dispersed amongst people.
71. I don't want to go somewhere sunny for my honeymoon, I'd rather go somewhere historic and interesting.
72. I hate swimming
73. Big towers (like radio towers) make me feel nervous. I have no idea why.
74. I've never flown in a plane
75. I've ridden 2 horses before. Their names were Dolly and Rusty. They liked each other.
76. I love forests and their secretive nature.
77. I think its great to have high ideals, but rarely do people follow through.
78. I respect environmentalists more then I'd ever respect a politician.
79. I want to be involved in one protest before I die.
80. Death scares me. A lot.
81. I don't want to grow old.
82. I love earrings and necklaces and pretty things of that nature.
83. I love the feeling of your warm bed on a chilly day.
84. I'm not very good with computers. I know very basic functions.
85. I like being awake at night. The whole atmosphere of night time is far more appealing to me then the daytime.
86. I like ghost stories and haunted places. I scare really easily though!
87. My favorite outfit to wear is just jeans, a tshirt and a hoody on top. So comfy... and cute? lol
88. I really dislike skinny or too muscular men. I like my boy to be in the middle, a little bit bigger so I have something to actually hug.
89. I never want to be like my parents, in terms of their marriage or financial situation.
90. Taking bubble baths is one of my favorite things to do. I need to have one soon!
91. Alex and I have been living together for 4 years this weekend! The transition was very easy, I think because we had been dating for 6 years already.
92. I really really enjoy organizing things. I'm good at it and I find it therapeutic.
93. I want to try to document more of my life starting this year. I know I will love to look back on things when I'm older.
94. I love board games, but Alex doesn't. We have a nice collection of board games though. He just has to be in the right mood- but it sadly doesn't happen often!
95. I have learned a lot about being a teacher. One of the biggest- use humour!
96. I love bike riding.
97. I love baking!
98. I stay up too late too often, even though I recognize that I function so much better with at least 7 hours of sleep!
99. I am me :)