30 THINGS ABOUT ME //

1. Pizza is my favorite food – followed closely by cheese.
2. I am obsessed with dogs but due to my travel schedule can’t own one. I feel it would be unfair to the lil furry one.
3. Green is my favorite color.
4. I loathe cold weather, but ironically like cold weather fashion more than warm weather fashion.
5. Hillstone is my favorite restaurant. **or Brazen Head in San Francisco
6. I have run a marathon in the past and hope to run another in the next year or so.
7. University of Florida is my alma mater. I was living in Virginia and couldn’t decide where I wanted to go so I decided to attend the only school I had not visited (my parents were thrilled).
8. I love fast food and chain food restaurants in general. Especially on road trips.
9. I don’t talk much about my personal life, but I am engaged. My fiancé’s name is Andrew. We have been together over ten years.
10. I studied political science in college and after graduation applied to only one fashion related job. All of my other interviews were for government contracting jobs.
11. I wanted to look and dress just like Avril Lavigne in high school. Knee highs, ties, studded belts…the whole look.
12. I have two brothers and I am the middle child. Andrew also has and older brother and a younger brother. In fact, we are the same distance in age from each of our brothers.
13. I worked at Gap Inc. in San Francisco for five years and then worked at the corporate offices of Tory Burch in NYC for another five years before focusing on Atlantic-Pacific full time.
14. I hate drinking water (but don’t worry I do).
15. I did not leave the country or have a passport until I was 28! China was the first place I visited outside of the country.
16. Asia is my favorite place to travel.
17. I live in NYC permanently but also have a home in Florida.
18. I took sign language in high school as well as college.
19. I took a very different career path than both  of my parents. My mother was an Occupational Therapist and my father is an Oceanic Engineer.
20. My younger brother is a graphic designer and helps a lot with Atlantic-Pacific.
21. I have never broken a bone or gotten stitches.
22. I love what I do, but could also picture myself re-entering the corporate world someday.
23. I don’t have a driver’s license. I used to, but it expired and I haven’t renewed it!
24. When I first moved to San Francisco after college I did not have a computer, TV, internet access, or a cell phone. I wasn’t much of a ‘technology person’ – my how things have changed.
25. I am 33 years old.
26. Growing up we always had lots of animals – dogs, fish, hamsters, snakes, birds, iguanas, bunnies…the list goes on and on.
27. I am terrible at spelling.
28. I really don’t enjoy movies of any kind (don’t @ me). I think I have been to the movies about five times in the last ten years. I will watch movies at home here and there, but it isn’t typically a top activity choice.
29. I prefer non-fiction books, particularly memoirs.
30. My first job (W-9 job/non-babysitting) was at Wet Seal.