* I'm the fourth generation in this country.
* The women in my family, on both sides, all have names that end in "een"; Paternal Grandmother is Eileen, her only daughter out of seven children is also named Eileen. Materanl Grandmother is Kathleen. Her first daughter is named Kathleen, my mother is Colleen and the youngest girl is Maureen.
* My father is one of seven children, my mother is one of five children. My father's oldest brother, Jimmy, dated my mother's oldest sister, Kathy, for three years. One of my father's younger brothers, Kenny, dated my mother's younger sister, Maureen. My mother and father were the only ones to make it.
* My parents have been together since they were 12 and 13. They married at 17 and 18 and had me at 18 and 19.
* My father is exactly 19 years and 6 months older than me.
* My parents are the only ones who have left New York. My dad is a Marine. They're trying to get him to retire somewhere up there.
* I lived in Japan for 3 1/2 years ('89-'92).
* My parents and my little brother have lived in Japan for the last three years.
* I'm the oldest grandchild.
* My ex-boyfriend of seven years is a tattoo artist and I do not have a single tattoo on my body.
* I dated my current boyfriend in Japan, for a year and 5 months. Ten years later and we're together again.
* I'm a health nut.
* I speak spanish, not perfectly, but I can speak it.
* I'm a Clinique Consultant.
* I've always wanted to be a professional dancer/actress.
* I have a persian cat that I love with all of my heart. His name is Max. He loves to eat grapes, bananas, and french fries. Of course, I don't eat a lot of french fries and I don't let him have but one little one when I do have them.
* My father won the golden gloves, for lightweights, in Oklahoma (his first duty station).
* I was born in Oklahoma, my father's first duty station, and the hospital that I was born in is now a mental institution.
O.K. that's enough.