get to know me

Wayyyyyy back in the day when LiveJournal was the place to be, I remember spending hours of my undergrad avoiding doing work by instead incessantly filling out & posting silly 'get to know me' style internet surveys - so when I stumbled on this one over at Carrots & Cake I got immediately nostalgic (newsflash: I am really well and truly the biggest sucker in the world when it comes to basically anything that gives me that nostalgic feeling) & had to fill it out at once.

Four names that people call me other than my real name:

1. Steph
2. Yates
3. Red
4. Maroon 5

Four jobs I’ve had:

1. Supply Chain Managment / Materials & Releasing Analyst at RCO Engineering
2. Tim Hortons Store Manager
3. Athletic Facilities Staff at Western Michigan University
4. Church pianist at St. John's Lutheran

Four movies you’ve watched more than once:

1. SLC Punk
2. Battle Royale
3. Bon Cop Bad Cop
4. Drive

Four books I’d recommend:

1. Saul & Patsy / Charles Baxter
2. The Time Traveler's Wife / Audrey Niffenegger
3. The Years of Smashing Bricks / Richard Katrovas
4. Everything is Illuminated / Jonathan Safran Foer

Four places I’ve lived

1. Shelby Township, MI
2. Kalamazoo, MI
3. Praha 6, Czech Republic
4. Washington, MI

Four Places you have visited:

1. Japan
2. China
3. Hong Kong
4. Canada ;)

Four places I’d rather be right now:

1. At a new brewery!
2. Toronto (my favorite city in the world)
3. Somewhere warm and/or tropical - I'd love to go to Mexico!
4. Kalamazoo with my college besties

Four things I don’t eat:

1. Bell peppers (especially the green ones, UGH).
2. Pop of any kind except ginger ale and the very occasional root beer.
3. Milk chocolate (ew - but dark chocolate: very yes).
4. Raw onions (I can do them cooked if they're small, but raw - no.)

Five of my favorite foods:

1. Nut butter (and nuts!)
2. TRAIL MIX
3. Sushi
4. A good bar burger + fries with malt vinegar

Four TV shows I watch:

1. The Following
2. The Walking Dead
3. Supernatural
4. Scandal

Four things I’m looking forward to this year:

1. Christmas!
2. 2015 Toast of Hockeytown with my wifey Alyssa
3. February trip to COLORADO!
4. Next October's Canada Tour with Tom

Four things I’m always saying:

1. I got this!
2. Fuck
3. I'm cold
4. Is it 4:30 yet?

On that note, I'm going to peel myself away from my warm couch, warm kitties and the book I can't put down even though I'm not really well and sure if I even care for it (I've finally deigned to read through the Game of Thrones novels - I'm on the third, and I'm not sure how I'm feeling about them but yet I can't stop reading, so I guess that's a victory for George R. R. Martin), and get in a morning workout in my new beautiful completed-at-last studio!