- I’m two years younger than my sister but my birthday is the day before hers.
- My sisters and I were adopted.
- I have a s hypersensitive nose and can smell things that most can’t.
- I love Shakespeare. No really; I thoroughly enjoy all of his works
- I don’t like cooked cabbage of any kind but I LOVE homemade sauerkraut. Update: I recently discovered that I am a fan of brussel sprouts, but only when made by my husband (he uses bacon).
- I am a serial killer of plants and have killed cactus and succulents. Repeatedly.
- Buffy the Vampire Slayer was a great show (except for what they did with Kendra).
- Angel and Cordelia forever.
- Spike and Buffy forever.
- I have known my husband longer than I didn’t.
- I got married on my birthday- my husband gave me the best gift of him!
- I was a teacher, and while I enjoy teaching, I did not enjoy being a teacher.
- I learned web design by putting together sites on GeoCities.
- I was a member of the “Axis of Poetry,” a group of bloggers on the now-defunct platform Mo’Time that posted poetry once a week.
- I used to dream that Chaka Khan was my biological mom.
- I have a knack for dice games.
- I speed read and remember most of what I read.
- I’m a Virgo and was born when Mercury was in Retrograde
- I love Garlic. Raw, cooked, fermented… it’s yummy.
- I have severe stage fright.
- As a child, I wasn’t a great friend. I had to learn to trust myself and others enough to be a good friend.
- I have ADD
- And GAD and panic-induced agoraphobia.
- And MDD
- I was on the Charlie Rose Show when I was in 9th grade discussing Rodney King and the impact of the police officers who beat him being acquitted.
- I once participated on a blog-a-thon to raise money for charity and stayed up for 24 hours to publish a new post every hour.
- I played basketball as a teen and was good at it. I was offered scholarships to play.
- In fact, I was good at most sports I tried except for soccer.
- I sucked at soccer because my breast are too big and I could not see over them to watch the ball.
- Finishing graduate school when my daughter was one was one of my greatest accomplishments.
- Doctor Who for life! Give me 10 or give me death.
- I love lamb but lamb does not like me so I cannot eat more than a bite of it.
- My first personal computer was a IBM XT.
- My first experience coding was creating a game with C++
- I failed C++ in college because I could not understand a single word my professor said.
- I don’t eat unnaturally pink or green food.
- I’m an introvert with social anxiety.
- I don’t share creamy food with anyone not even my husband.
- Rice pudding and tapioca pudding are gross.
- Sugar does not belong in grits. Ever.
- I wrote a book and it
should come out soonis available via Amazon. - I used to run an online magazine called Epiphany: a celebration in writing. It was my baby and I learned a lot.
- I also ran a multi-authored blog called Moms of Hue.
- Kombucha is life.
- So is kefir.
- Homemade yogurt is a necessity.
- I have seen every episode of Frasier moreover than ten times.
- I have seen Les Miserable 22 times.
- The Hamilton Soundtrack is the best musical soundtrack since Wicked, which is the best soundtrack since Rent.
- And the Hamilton Mix-Tape is hip-hop perfection.
- I don’t like to fry food because I am afraid of hot oil.
- I have a huge burn on my arm from getting my arm stuck in a slotted radiator when I was a baby.
- I have brothers somewhere but adoptions ruin lives.
- Nas over Jay-Z
- No, I don’t like Beyoncé’s music. No, I was never a fan of Destiny’s child.
- My favorite piece of furniture in my house is no longer my Uplift Standing Desk. It is now the handmade bed that my husband commissioned as a gift.
- Three of the four dogs I owned in my adult life have died and it devastated me.
- I like arts and crafts of all kind and get very ornery if I don’t take time to create something.
- My favorite crafting project is making notebooks.
- I like planning.
- Music makes me feel in ways I can’t express. It soothes me and without it I would be an emotional mess.
- I cannot speak any language besides English but know enough Latin and Spanish that I can understand most Latin-based languages.
- I wish I had locked my hair sooner.
- I have longed identified as Queer; Pan-sexual to be exact.
- I dislike being called Kris and I will ignore anyone who calls me that.
- Except for my sister Caroline. I have always allowed her to call me Kris.
- I am often the Champion of the Underdog.
- New York Knicks fan even when they suck.
- Same with the Yankees.
- My dad was a Mets fan. I never understood why.
- My favorite color is Blue.
- My favorite movie is In the Line of Fire.
- My favorite book in Octavia Butler’s Dawn.
- My favorite song is “The Things You Do'” by The Temptations
- My favorite meal is Pizza.
- My favorite dessert is anything made with GOOD chocolate.
- I love coffee. Real coffee. Not Starbucks coffee drinks.
- I am afraid of heights.
- I am a practicing tarot interpreter.
- I love breakfast foods.
- I’m a good cook and at one point wanted to be a chef.
- My first cat was a Siamese name Camelot. I used to feed her Lays potato chips and American Cheese.
- The first guy I ever had a crush on broke my heart when he dated the first girl I ever loved.
- Prince.
- Monk was one of my favorite shows.
- Psych too.
- I tap dance.
- And play the piano (a little).
- I love to sing.
- But not in public.
- Homeschooling my child has helped me conquer my dyscalculia.
- I don’t have a driver’s license.
- I am working on a novel.
- And I published a zine in the past.
- I love board games like Settlers of Catan, Ticket to Ride, Pandemic, and Risk.
- I also play D&D
- DarkNet on the Oculus VR system is amazing and I play it for long periods of time.
- I enjoy popcorn with butter, Parmesan cheese, and hot sauce.
- Anthony Bourdain’s suicide broke my heart.
- My dream is to open a publishing company.
