Sarah’s Seven

Hey thanks, Garret! To repeat: My task is to share seven things about me that not many people know, and then choose 7 people to go and do the same. Here we go!

1. My career in design started early. My first award-winning design piece (above, left) was created when I was in 3rd Grade (ha-ha). There was a school-wide contest to design the cover for the band concert. I guess the judges didn’t notice that I spelled “spring” wrong, because they picked mine and printed about 500 of them. It’s inevitable that when you draw bubble letters, you’re going to spell something wrong (Aaron, EJ, am I right?). Due to embarrassment, I abandoned my design career for a while (see #6).

2. I’m allergic to raw bananas and nickel. Nickel is in most jewelry, which is torture for me, because I really like earrings and rings, but they just kill me. So I don’t usually wear much bling. The raw banana allergy kicked in when I was 17. It makes my throat annoyingly itchy, but at least I can still eat banana bread.

3. I have eight grandparents. Lovely, lovely grandparents. Mom’s mom, mom’s dad, stepdad’s mom, dad’s mom (she blogs!), dad’s dad, dad’s stepmom, stepmom’s mom, stepmom’s dad. At one point I had 16. I’m a lucky girl!

4. I get anxious about filling out forms, especially if they are confusing and I don’t know if the directions are specifying for the line above or the line below. I get so anxious—especially if there is a line of people behind me or if someone is watching my hand write—that the letters sometimes get blurry, and I often have to scratch things out or ask for a new form. I’m also like that about simple tests (like taking the vision test at the mva when there is a line behind me). I didn’t admit this to anyone until about a year ago, and since I can admit it, it’s gotten a little better!

5. I was an actress in junior high science videos. If you could call it acting. I was really bad. But I learned a lot about biomes. What’s it like where you live?

6. I chose my undergraduate major through an odd mix-up. I went to a pre-college open house, prepared to go to the Communications/Journalism interest meeting. I received Erin Rosenthal’s itinerary by mistake, and I didn’t notice because my name is Sarah Erin Rosenthal. So I headed to Erin’s meeting, about Visual Communications. By the time I realized what happened, it was too late to back out. And frankly, Visual Communications sounded more interesting than what I thought I wanted to do, anyway. I just never knew you could major in such a fun thing!

7. I’m particular about desserts. I love dark chocolate so much that even as a kid, when I got a foil-wrapped milk chocolate Santa in my stocking, I would give it away to my brothers. Now Santa knows better. I’m also particular about pies. My mom always made her own pie crust, and she taught me to do so. I’ll only make a pie if I have time to make the crust. (Homemade strawberry-rhubarb pie pictured above).

I’d love to read about these fine friends:

EJ Hall
Ande Campbell
Anna Forbes
Brody Letson
Grandma Peggy
Sam Merrick
Haley Smith

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