Pretty Pictures by Rebecca Tillett

Sometimes, I have the tendency to just completely drift off in the middle of a conversation. Someone once told me I have the greatest laugh but I don't remember who. I'm terrible with faces AND names. I'll always ask for a new name at least twice. The first time's a courtesy, the second is to commit it to memory. I can be extremely unambitious. I'm lucky to have a husband that is the opposite or I'd be calling a box in someone's backyard my home. But that'd give me something to whine about. Because apparently, I love to whine. If you've fallen completely down, you have no where to go but up - I always say. I'm extremely organized but not extremely clean. If my DVDs aren't alphabetized, it's the end of the world but a sink full of dirty dishes? Shoot, I'll get to it tomorrow. I love quotations and am always looking for an excuse to use them. After all "When a thing has been said and well, have no scruple. take it and copy it." I display obvious signs of OCD with only a few certain things: Where I've left my keys when I get home (Are they in my purse or maybe I dropped them down a storm drain somewhere in never-never-land!!), Whether or not I locked the door (I didn't, I know I didn't. I better go back and check!), Whether or not I turned off and unplugged my hair-straightener (What am I doing sitting here at work when my house could be burning down?!), and stopping the gas pump in integers of 5 in the cents Amount display ($34.47?! Let's get that baby to $37.50!). Sometimes it's impossible for me to spend a day doing nothing. My husband calls me "Busy" (He shortened Becky to "B' which evolved to "Busy Bee" which has now evolved to just "Busy.") I'm an only child and developed quite an active imagination as a result. I'm very content being alone but not for long. I'm a citizen of two countries: USA and beautiful Australia. I'm not very close with my family. I don't have a large family. I will never be someone's aunt and will probably never be someone's mother. I own my own home. It's beautiful and colorful. I recently discovered I love crab cakes despite my aversion to shelled creatures (creepy!). Besides shrimp, I hate all other seafood. I've been with my husband 9 1/2 years and it literally feels like half that. I have 50% hearing loss in the mid-frequencies in both ears. I'm afraid that people think I'm rude when really, I just didn't hear them. I've gotten to the age where I don't remember it anymore. (26? 27? Let's see 2009 minus 1982....). I don't have much confidence and when I feign it, I'm always fearful someone will figure it out and send a memo out to everyone on the planet. I'm attracted to both men and women but am very selective over women (too short, too smiley, too fake, too pretty). I've never wanted a "house on the beach." I love the smell of rain in the desert. I love big cities but dislike people especially in large quantities. I went to college for 3 years and somewhere in there earned an Associate Degree. I'm one-year into a Bachelor's. That was 6 years ago. I love to listen to Billie Holiday and reminisce over times long before my own.
Oh yes, and I love to make pretty pictures.