Ten Interesting Things About Myself

To be honest, I don't consider myself to be an interesting person. I want the simple things in life: a happy and healthy family, a job I love, a home of my own and to share my life with people who deserve to have me in their lives. I think I am actually pretty boring. I am a single mom precariously walking the fine line between sanity and having a total mental breakdown. I work too much. I am always stressed out over something. And I cry entirely too much about the things that I have no control over. However, I have had some very interesting experiences over the last 42 years, 51 weeks and 1 day (for those of you trying to do the math, I turn 43 this coming Sunday LOL). Here are ten interesting things about me:

1. I'm not the crazy cat lady, even though I do own two of Satan's furry minions. Instead, I am the crazy recipe lady. I have two book shelves dedicated to cookbooks, cooking and food magazines, recipes I have printed from the internet or cut out from magazines and collected from product packages. I also literally have several hundred bookmarked on my laptop and even more spread out through the internet. Need a recipe? I am your go-to girl!
2. When choosing my children's names, I was sure to include names from other family members. My sons share names with their grandfathers and uncles. My daughters share names with a grandmother, an aunt and a cousin. 
3. I suffer from borderline personality disorder. 
4. My cats are named after my two favorite styles of beer: Stout and Porter.
5. I am extraordinarily clumsy. If there is a silly way to hurt myself, I have probably done it. Cut myself on granola? Check! Tripped on the bottom stair and broken three toes? Check! Burnt off an acrylic nail lighting a cigarette? Check!
6. Three of my all-time favorite movies are animated ones from Disney: Fantasia, Beauty and the Beast and The Little Mermaid. In fact, Fantasia is the main reason I have such an affinity for classical music. 
7. My eyes are grey, but depending on the makeup and clothes I wear and my mood, they will change color ranging from sapphire blue to gun metal to almost black. If they are close to black, you better run!
8. Once upon a time, in a lifetime far, far away, I worked as a stripper. For nearly 8 years of my life I was known as Aimee by day and Katt by night.
9. I am a beer geek through and through. I am writing a cookbook where every recipe includes a craft beer and I am working to become a cicerone.
10. I suffer from what I call creative ADD. I write, I paint, I draw, I craft, I love taking photographs, and I work as a chef. My mind is always in a creative jumble, which often results in insomnia.