(This bunny has a 'tude!) Meet Me Blog Party!
Bio:
My name is Amanda Rawlins. I was born Amanda Wynn McClure and have 3 younger brothers: Clinton, Chandler, and Sterling. I met my husband in our high school art class and we dated on and off in 2004-2005. After years of not seeing each other, we met for lunch in November of 2007 and we haven't been apart since! We eloped in August of 2009 and we will be moving into our first house in March of this year. This year I will also be graduating college with an Associates in Applied Science and will hopefully be getting a job in drug rehabilitation.
Q & A:
Q: What would you be doing if you weren’t a (insert your profession here)?
A: Well, I'm only a student now so I'm currently unemployed. But my dream job would definitely be a sex therapist. I'd love to work with teenagers struggling with their own sexuality and older couples who want to strengthen their relationships physically.
Q: What are your hobbies?
A: Cooking and meal planning is a huge passion of mine. I also play video games.
Q: When you were little, what did you want to be when you grew up?
A: I always wanted to be a scientist that studied animal behavior. I'm a huge animal nut and know a crazy amount about wildlife.
Q: What are your guilty pleasures?
A: I LOVE trash tv. Teen Mom, Jersey Shore, all the "Real Housewives" shows... the more mind-numbing the better!
Q: What is your biggest fear?!
A: People leaving me. I have to try harder than most people to be "normal". I haven't had the easiest of lives and I use to make very bad choices. Although I have improved my life ten fold since those days, the experience of it all made me very "hard". It's a double edge sword to be tough-skinned; on the one hand I can handle the most nastiest of things life can offer, but on the other it becomes very difficult to be naturally kind and gentle. Sometimes the fear that I will not be understood for the good person I strive to be and will be left because of it is overwhelming.
Q: When you’re on vacation, where do you like to go?
A: Seriously... ANYWHERE. We don't vacation a lot and the only real places I've been is the beach and Washington DC. If you told me "pack up, we're going out of town", it would seriously not matter where.
Q: What’s the best advice you’ve ever received?
A: I think Sarah Palin is the worse possible choice in the world for a leadership position in our government, but I do love her personality and her vigor. It is ironic, to say the least, that my favorite quote to live by is straight from her mouth: "Don't retreat. Reload."
Q: What do you value most in others?
A: Tolerance and maturity. The world has far too few people in it who do not possess either. I try to see the good in everyone, but the only thing I refuse to tolerate is intolerance. Immaturity breeds a lack of respect and anyone who doesn't strive for maturity doesn't deserve my respect or anyone else's.
Q: If you could choose one of your personality traits to pass down to your kids, what would it be?
A: A perfect balance of Chris' soft heart and my brazen exterior. Chris fills the gaps within me that I don't have on my own and vice versa. A child with the perfect combination of each other's greatest qualities would be my greatest wish for him/her.
Q: If you could have lunch with anyone in the world….living or dead…who would it be?
A: Lucille Ball. Growing up, my red hair stuck out like a sore thumb and made it hard for me to relate to other girls. Because of this, I always grew up making my personality the first thing people noticed. I always thought Lucy and I were kindred spirits in that way, ever since I was very, very little.
Now tell us something random about yourself:
1) I was born without tonsils.
2) I have a third nipple which I am totally not embarrassed to show to people (haha!)
3) I didn't kiss a boy until I was 17.
... and another random something is that I am an open book. Feel free to ask me anything else you'd like, no matter what it is, and I will answer it!
