To celebrate the debut of my new cookbook, my labor of love, my magnum opus, my baby (except that human babies take only nine months to happen and this one took two years – oh, the agony), I’m sharing 25 things you don’t already know about me. I know, I know, you thought that by now I’ve told you everything, and I have – almost. The upcoming book is my most personal yet – filled with episodes of my life that seem larger than life; diary entries; pictures of my kids; my innermost thoughts, dreams, wishes, goals; my best recipes and crazy moments between Hubby and me.
But there’s so much more to tell. So why not share it, right here, right now? (I mean, besides Hubby’s objection that I’m nuts to divulge all this.) I call it fearless. He calls it folly. And when I’m finished, it’ll be your turn to whisper a few of your secrets to me.
1. While falling asleep, I decorate imaginary houses. And so does Brooke Shields, so there!
2. I share my English birthday (May 29) with Bob Hope and JFK, but not really because they’re no longer alive. But if they were alive, doubtlessly I would exchange hilarious birthday cards with Bob and tasteful ones with Jack.
3. I cry a lot. Sad, happy, doesn’t matter. The first time she met Hubby, my sister (whom I usually love very much, except at that moment) told him he was marrying a cry baby. As soon as she said it, I burst into tears and blubbered, “am not!”
4. I pay for spinning three times a week, but I usually make it to class only once a week. I wonder if my bike misses me.
5. I love dancing (with inexplicable passion!) I’ll dance to anything – Jewish music, rock, waltzes, the pulsing of my kitchen blender.
6. I was a professional dancer at age five. At least, that’s what my mom says. She also says I was the most brilliant child ever born.
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7. I taught hip hop classes until I was eight months pregnant. I only stopped because my students looked so worried.
8. The view from my office window looks like one of those Israel tourist brochures – a landscape of gorgeous, colorful rock formations and mountains covered with cool, green trees. Just seeing it makes me cry, or dance, or both.
9. I love one-floor living, but I dream of that floor being a sprawling penthouse apartment with crazy incredible views of Israel. I’d give it all up for a little place with one small window facing the Kotel.
10. Black is my favorite color – after white, scarlet and baby pink. So I guess white is my favorite color. No, red. No, pink.
11. I was nervous about having sons, since I only have a sister. Couldn’t imagine how on earth I could be mother to a boy. Now I know that I can have foolish concerns.
12. I have a really serious, spiritual side to me. As Hubby says, you just have to look to find it…and look…and look…
13. Long ago, I decided that when I grow up I want to be a nutritionist, an exercise teacher and own a gym. Did I mention that I miss two out of three spin classes?
14. I love fusion in both food and design. But not together. In other words, Mommy is not happy when you spill supper all over the couch.
15. In my dreams, I would have a white kitchen, with whiter than white Carrara marble countertops; the living room would have white leather couches, with white mohair rugs, and all in all I’d live in a fluffy white cloud of a penthouse apartment with stunning wraparound windows overlooking the best views in Israel.
16. In real life, my couch is brown and we go for a lot of hide-the-dirt earth tones.
17. My mother doesn’t like to see me cook, do dishes, or do any kind of housework. She doesn’t really want to see me work at all, just “do” lunches for a living. Did I tell you that I was the most brilliant child ever born?
18. I worry about lots of silly little things; then I worry about being so worried, until I work myself up into a big emotional tizzy. If someone asks me why I’m so stressed out, my answer sounds completely ridiculous – even to me.
19. I don’t think that I am a good enough mother. Maybe I am. No, probably not.
20. My husband makes the lunches in our house.
21. I have dreams of putting sweet little love notes in my kids’ lunches – but I have yet to get around to it. See confession #20.
22. I love going on class trips, far more than the kids do.
23. I get really attached to my kids’ teachers and babysitters – especially the good ones who really love them. When the kids move on or graduate, I’ve been known to hug the teacher over and over and cry, while the kids tug gently at me, saying, “Let’s go, Mommy. You have to learn to let go…”
24. I would like to make my bed every day. ‘Nough said.
25. A toasted whole wheat everything bagel, literally dripping with butter, accompanied by a hot, sweet latté is a guilty pleasure of mine. I usually get one on my birthday, and I always tell the guy behind the counter that, so he shouldn’t think I’m some kind self-indulgent epicurean. Okay, so sometimes it’s not my birthday. I just need a pick-me-up. Or I want to celebrate something. Or I want to share this rare delight with a friend. And each time I order it, the counter guy gives me a skeptical look and asks, “Your birthday – again?”
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I have an obsession with Buffalo Wild Wings
I have twin daughters =)
I love the taste of water
you aint the only one honey 😉
I 2nd that!
I’m studying holistic nutrition and I love the challenge of making yummy desserts without white sugar and, preferably, without any baking. Since I live in Israel, dates and date syrup are the best local-sourced as well as traditional sweeteners.
Three cheer for crybabies!!! (and came in second place at a beauty contest at age 5 with a rocking nautical 70’s style bathing suit)
Im a middle child
I am scared of werewolves
I’ve had 3 dogs named Tammy.
I’m a grandma nanny to 5 grandkids…a Mom to 3 dauthers, with the oldest “2” being twins
I’m a Lesbian
I love cooking and baking but hate cleaning up.
I’m an award-winning international author. *blush* 🙂
Won 10K from survivor and love to enter sweeps!
I drink a two-liter of Diet Mt. Dew everyday
I moved to Philly only 5 years ago. When I heard you were from here too, I immediately felt a real connection. Thank you for being so warm, personable and human. 🙂
I have a JoK account, I just don’t log in with it here. That’s my juicy info.
I’m left handed
I have cooked for years, but am know getting serious about getting creative and having fun with the cooking.
I have brown eyes my husband has green and 3 of our 4 sons have blue and the other has green. But they are all my husband’s children.
No matter how old I get (43 a couple of months ago) I still feel a hidden exhilaration when I have the opportunity to make a new friend.
I speak four languages fluently.
Purple is my favorite color. I wore my purple suede
fitflops under my gown at my daughter’s wedding. What a shanda, the Mom of the Bride makes the rules.
My husband sent me flowers anonymously on Valentine’s Day and then 4 yrs later to the day we got engaged.
me and my husband have the same birthday
I play guitar.
LOL, I always put away ingredients as I use them too, can’t stand a cluttered workspace.
I’m a school teacher and native New Yorker
I hate beets.
I love singing everywhere, in the car, shower, waiting on hold..
I let my challah rise overnight.
I just died my little dog Sophie’s hair pink
I am the youngest of three children and my sister was 16 and my brother was 12 when I was born.
I cook not because I like to, but because I really like the end results 😉 …and I put away ingredients as I use them
i like to drink coffee!
My alter-ego name is “Marvellah.”
I only write in print-never in cursive.
I go to sleep way too late at night, so I can have the house to myself
I once saved someone from drowning.
I have twins =)
I love to sing and especially love singing Jimmy Buffet songs to my grandchildren (my son to daughter-in-law: she’s singing to the baby…in French).
I ordered the cookbook before it came out!
I’m a mommy to 5 kids.
I’ve always wanted to play the violin but I am not musically inclined and I’ve never even had a lesson.
I always blank when asked to share a random fact.
Legit.
I refuse to sing in front my boyfriend.
when he is not around our dd and myself put on concerts. lol
I had a Darth Vader poster in my closet for something like seven years.
I majored in film, drama and communications in college and made student films.
I’m freaking out about my oldest son going to college and being able to afford it.
i love quince — chutney, marmalade, quince paste, jams, conserves, savories, pies, cake filling…
sadly, my family doesn’t share my love of all things quince and just assume i’m completely crazy.