Getting to Know Me
[Brought to you by the weekly SS blog challenge.]

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The challenge:
I love getting emails from blog readers, especially the ones who say, "I feel like I know you and your family." The world has become such a smaller place since Al Gore invented the internet! (bwahahahahaha!) You're challenge is to tell us 5 things about you that we don't know. Go!

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This one is kind of tough as, if you know me, you know that I'm pretty much an open book. There are very few secrets with me. (And those few are going to stay secret.) But here are a few things you might not know ....

5. I'm actually a pretty shy person. No, don't laugh! I mean it. I used to be painfully shy. I've grown out of that extreme phase, but I am still pretty shy in many situations. I can now go into any situation and talk to anyone and, usually, do it with grace and aplomb. It just doesn't come naturally.

4. I'm not as creative as you think I am. Yes, I've made some pretty amazing crafted items. But that doesn't make me creative. That makes me a skilled copier.

3. I'm not really as nice a person as you think I am. Oh, sure, you hear about all the things I do for my mom and my mother-in-law, amongst others. But I often do these things with a resentful heart (mostly at my siblings for their lack of help). In my mind, doing good works doesn't make one a good person. Doing them with a cheerful heart does. I often don't.

2. This one is mostly to my family. I think my friends already know it ... I'm smarter than you think I am. There are those of you who treat me like I'm an idiot. I think much of this springs from being a SAHM, and not having some high-powered job. News flash: My I.Q. didn't drop when my income did.

And the number one thing my friends probably don't know about me ....

1. At night, when the kids are in bed, the dishes are done and the dog let out for the last time I dress up in skin-tight leather and head out into a nearby forest. Once there, I slay rabid bears, which I then skin to craft my ever-improving set of leather armor. I defeat evil encroachers, defend innocents and escort messengers through this dangerous forest. A while ago, I actually learned to shape-shift into a bear. I recently learned to shift into a seal and a panther as well. All of these forms help me greatly in my pursuit of justice and loot (which I admittedly take off the dead bodies).