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So I guess I could have been born into the Kardashian clan. Instead, I was born to some Irish people:<\/p>\n (That’s five generations, with me in the middle, swathed in the itchiest lace Jo-Anne Fabrics can supply, fully assuming a lifetime of Catholic guilt).<\/p>\n And some people as\u00a0Russian as Vladimir Putin shirtless and riding a bear while complaining about how nobody has it as rough as he does:<\/p>\n (I’m the teenager on the far left.) (If you follow me on twitter, the man on the far right is the Russian gentleman known as the grandfather who routinely lets himself into my house to yell, “Jenny! I’m having a donut!” before taking said donut and leaving.)<\/p>\n As a child, I enjoyed nature:<\/p>\n but now I’m more of a “you absolutely can’t make me go outside and if you ask I will scream so loud and so long that a whole nation will hear me and rise up in force to drive back your evil and also allergies and mosquitos.”<\/p>\n I love dogs:<\/p>\n Cats are okay.<\/p>\n (Why didn’t anyone help that poor cat?!)<\/p>\n As I grew into a teenager, I began to develop my eccentric sense of humor:<\/p>\n I thought\u00a0Beavis and Butthead<\/em> was the pinnacle of hilarity:<\/p>\n I’ve been through a hippie phase:<\/p>\n A musical theatre phase (I’m the nun in the middle):<\/p>\n A goth mom phase:<\/p>\n A successful author phase:<\/p>\n and a not-so-successful, incredibly jaded, sad author phase:<\/p>\n But my amazing husband has been with me through the good and the bad:<\/p>\n I’ve got an awesome family, who don’t mind that I ruin all our vacation photos by blinking:<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n