1. I’m obsessed with all things Twilight and Boondock Saints. Yes, the two obsessions CAN co-exist!

2. I grew up in a jungle in Guinea, West Africa. Really. My dad worked in bauxite mining.

3. I write (and obsessively read!) Twilight fan-fiction.

4. Six years ago, I was morbidly obese. I lost more than half my body weight through gastric bypass surgery and have not regained. I’m the same weight now that I was at 10 years old!

5. I speak Italian, French and Spanish (besides English).

6. I have mad cooking skillz! I’ll try to make anything once!

7. I collect and restore vintage dolls.

8. Amaretto Di Sarrono is my arch-nemesis. Very bad super-drunk, puking-everywhere experience with it when I was 17.

9. I smoke. Keep quitting and starting back up again every few years. Bad me.

10. I met my husband when I was 19 and got married at 21. Trust me, 21 is ENTIRELY too young to get married! We’ve made it work for 18 years, but wow, if I knew then what I know now … ‘nuff said!