A little about me

In recognition of my new signature (and the trip to Chicago), I thought I would share a little about me.


As you see in my sig below my name is Tracy Jo. Except for a couple family members everyone calls me Tracy, but I always sign things with my first and middle name. As you probably guessed the TJ comes from this – and yes some family members called me that too as well as Teeg and Trace. I was named after my great grandmother Tracy (everyone that her name was really Theresa until she died – including her own daughter) and my grandmother whose middle name is Josephine.

As I mentioned a couple times before I am an introvert. That doesn’t mean I am shy – in fact people who know me laugh their heads off at that thought. It becomes really evident when I am in large groups since they really wear me out. I need alone time to recharge. I also tend to hold myself back until I get comfortable. People have told me that they thought I was arrogant or thought I was better than them – which is soo not me. Luckily, these same people said that they realized later that it wasn’t true and it just took me a while to break out of my shell.

I am an Adult Child of an Alcoholic and it has affected my life. Most obvious is that I don’t drink – the risk for me is just too big, but I don’t judge people who do. Sad to say this stops me from being invited to many things – even by my own family. But then if drinking is that important to them that I would bring them down maybe I don’t want to go anyways :) But after reading Joey’s post  I realized that other characteristics I have are linked like my overdeveloped sense of responsibility. I kind of knew this, but I am still digesting everything and may do a post later.

On a lighter side, I love the outdoors. I have been camping with my parents since I was a toddler and some of my best memories are at the campground. I also have in a canoe since I was little and today one of my favorite things to do is to kayak. I haven’t been able to do this very often over the last few years, but actually bought a kayak of my own last year. The only sad part thing is I bought the kayak because I was too big to be comfortable in the rentals and I didn’t want that issue to be evident when I went out with the extended family. Now I don’t have that problem and am looking forward to enjoying my kayak as much as possible this year.

I have many more things I could share, but I will hold myself back and save some for later ;)