10 Things Not Many People Know About Me

This post originally appeared on my Paper Swallow Events blog. I've been divvying up my personal and business blogging, so I'm transferring the personal posts over to this site.

A weekend post?! WHAT? Yep! Today I'm popping in as part of Alex Beadon's #feelgoodblogging challenge to share 10 things that a lot of people don't know about me! Are you ready to learn some fun facts?!

1. I have never actually read Little Women or Anne of Green Gables, which is ironic because I am a HUGE Louisa May Alcott and L.M. Montgomery fan! I've read all of Alcott's books outside of the Little Women storyline, Eight Cousins and its sequel, Rose in Bloom, are two of my very favorites, and Montgomery's The Blue Castle was pure magic for me in high school.
2. The reason why I never read either Little Women or Anne of Green Gables was because, back when I first expressed interest in reading them (somewhere around 8-9 years old), the font size in the copies I was given was too small for my liking and stressed me out to read so I put them away and never picked them back up even though now the font wouldn't be a problem. (Which does mean that I own them, yes. )
3. My mom always made me and my siblings the most awesome Halloween costumes. When I was really little I requested to be Christine Daae from Phantom of the Opera (I grew up on musical soundtracks) and she made me the most awesome dress that I wore for dress up so much that it's literally in shreds now. There was one year that I was Tinkerbell and my little brother was Peter Pan, but my favorite costume from our family's archives is the year my sister was a bird's nest. It was seriously the best.
4. I was homeschooled through high school.
5. In highschool, I was in a production of Fiddler on the Roof and played a bottle dancer during the wedding scene (we had run out of males to play all of the male roles, so all the dancing roles were done by girls dressed up as guys.) I got a beard and we did the whole dance actually balancing the bottles on our heads. No tricks.
6. Because of my experiences with the beard in Fiddler, whenever I smell spirit gum, I get a little nauseous and my face hurts from memories of getting all my peach fuzz ripped out. 
7. When I was 5 or 6 I got my first cat and named her Duchess Odete Rosebud Ruby.
8. In high school, I learned to juggle for a production of My Fair Lady. 
9. My family has incubated chickens, button quail and desert tortoises. I think the tortoises were the most fascinating to me. We still have them and they are so much fun!
10. When I was 4 or 5 my mom took me to a book signing by Mr. Rogers. I remember waiting in line for hours in hopes that he wouldn't leave before he got to sign my book, which he did, but as he was leaving he gave me a hug and that's still one of the highlights of my life. Recently I learned that all of the cardigans he wore in the show were knit by his mother. Isn't that just amazing?!

What is something not many people know about you?
xoxo,
​Stacia​