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25 Random Things

1. My birth name was Kathleen Lorene Wells, but my adoptive mom renamed me Katherine Frances
2. My heritage is 100% Haida from Northern British Colombia
3. My older brother is also adopted, but my younger sister is a natural child
4. In grade six, I got 100% on every spelling test that year, but the teacher didn't acknowledge it and I was mad about it.
5. My favourite shift of all time was when I was working in a pizza place alongside a night club in Edmonton - 8pm to 5 am. We'd get the bar crowd at 1 am and go for breakfast at 6am.
6. My love for shoes began in middle school with a collection of high topped sneakers
7. By the age of eighteen I'd developed a thing for knee high, high heeled boots.
8. My dad had money but after my mom left him he refused to pay child support and we grew up poor
9. I have a scar on my ankle that I got climbing cliffs when I was little
10. I envy people when they remodel their houses because I have such big plans for this place (all on hold until my business takes off)
11. I am usually attracted to men of Scottish/Irish descent
12. I make an effort to be kind, but rude and dismissive clerks or cashiers will make my snotty tone come out.
13. I was a waitress and bartender for fifteen years
14. I was a retail manager for nine years
15. I have been a life insurance salesperson for nineteen months and it's the hardest job I've ever had.
16. My 44th birthday is at the end of this month and it's freaking me out
17. I have Obsessive Compulsive Personality disorder, which is characterized by my need to count things and follow a similar routine each day
18. In my youth I was a Bar Star, hitting the clubs four nights a week and dancing and drinking til three or four am.
19. I have always been afraid to have a son because my friends all said they were harder to look after as toddlers.
20. My favourite red wine is a shiraz.
21. I'm afraid to cut my long hair because I have always had it.
22. I'm constantly attracted to people with addiction issues but wish I weren't.
23. I used to feel guilty that I love Bill with more passion and surety than I had with Dale
24. I wear skirts almost every day because I feel sexier and more ladylike than I do in pants
25. I'm afraid that my sex life will suffer as I get older.