Weddingbee Blog

I couldn’t think of one big shocking secret to reveal to you (yeah I know, I’m so boring), but I thought it might be fun to use this post to tell you some things about myself ( a la Cupcake and Espresso) that most people don’t know about. I’ve narrowed it down to the five least-boring I could think of, just for you:

1. I have eaten snake.

Not this exact snake, but the same type: Burmese Python

Long story short, we were staying the night with some Karen refugees in Thailand (near the Burmese border) when I was 14 and the biggest snake I have ever seen in my life (and I have seen quite a few) woke us up. It was over 2 metres long (I measured). The people we were staying with made some kind of meatballs out of it…the dish wasn’t my favourite, to be honest. Spicy, and full of tiny bones. But hey, it makes a good story, right? Now that I think of it I have eaten a few weird and wonderful things: camel (yum!), crocodile, water buffalo, bat, grub, cicada, etc. But I think the snake is the most interesting of them all.

2. I’m bird-obsessed. Ever since I was about 11 I haven’t been able to get enough of them. I started off with pet budgies, graduated to cockatiels, and then I even had some Eclectus parrots, and a fig parrot or two. Take a look at two of my gorgeous babies, Walter (the green one) and Ruby (the red and blue), both Eclectus parrots:

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I even wanted to be an avian veterinarian at one point. I have so many magazines and books on bird care that it isn’t even funny. Sadly, I’m birdless at the moment, but hopefully in the future when we get more “settled” that won’t be the case.

3. I’m afraid of escalators. Isn’t that the most pathetic thing to be scared of ever?! Yeah well, I hate them and think they are evil. I’m forced to go on them occasionally when there are no stairs as an alternative, but the whole time I’m imagining accidentally missing the moving step, falling over, getting my leg ripped open and bleeding to death right there. When I have to hop on an escalator I even wait a few seconds and count to three before making the step just to make sure. Silly Miss E.

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4. One of my little fantasies (no, not that sort of fantasy!), is to own a small homemade craft and sweets shop. One of those places that is filled with random but gorgeous trinkets and what-not, where brides or anyone can come in to find something special…and eat cupcakes and have a cup of tea with me of course. Then I could wear fun aprons like this one all day long:

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That would be the life….unfortunately it doesn’t really jive with my grand PhD and professor-ing dreams, but hey, a girl can dream of other things.

5. I have yet to come out of the closet about my blogging.

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Believe it or not, hardly anyone, you know, in “real life,” knows I blog. Mr E knows, and my mother and sisters know. That’s it. For some reason I just haven’t told anyone else because I’m not sure if they would be interested and I kinda like the freedom I have with relative anonymity. Plus I don’t want our guests to know every single detail about our wedding.

There you have it: five things not everyone knows about me. Anyone else out there who has eaten snake, loves birds, has a silly escalator fear, fantasies about craft shops, or is a closet-blogger?