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Welcome to my blog! My name is Mallory. I am 24 years old and today, it is exactly one week before Christmas 2018. I had a lot of lofty 2018 resolutions that I did not accomplish. It is my goal to not let the same thing happen to my 2019 resolutions. This website was one of my 2018 resolutions, if not a watered down version. I set out to create a website that would show off my web development skills, creating custom CSS and coding in PHP. Alas, this was not meant to be, as my skills are more maintenance based than creation. But that said, a website has been created with the intent to move forward into 2019 with a head start!
To kick things off, let’s KISS … I mean Keep it Simple, Silly! Here are ten facts about me:
- I currently work as a web support specialist for the Golf Channel, owned by one of my favorite companies in the world… NBC (xylophone jingle in the distance). I help other people with their websites, making them look pretty and updating things that golf course employees may not know how to do. It’s a fun job, and my coworkers are always full of positive energy.
- I live in Orlando, but can’t wait to move! I love being so close to Disney that I can hear the fireworks, THAT part is magical. But there’s traffic, everything else is far away, and the HEAT! My goodness, the heat. I’m ready to move to a bustling city (THE bustling city, where I will avoid the traffic by walking and taking the subway), or somewhere blooming and idyllic, like Austin or Denver. The ultimate dream would be to move back to Burlington, Vermont, where I went to college and fell in love with autumn colors. They don’t really have the job market for my return, yet. In time though, who knows?
- My favorite color is purple, but I always wear black.
- If you couldn’t tell from fun fact 1: I love NBC sitcoms. I can talk your ear off about “The Office,” “Parks and Recreation,” “30 Rock,” “Scrubs,” and premiering this spring, “Brooklyn Nine-Nine.”
- My favorite movie is “Almost Famous.” Other movies on my top 10 list include “Inglorious Basterds,” “Psycho,” “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off,” and “The Devil Wears Prada.”
- Music makes me happy! My favorite song is “Tiny Dancer” by Elton John, and my favorite band is Panic! at the Disco. The first Beatles song I ever heard was “Here Comes the Sun,” and I’ve loved them ever since. I’m currently experiencing a love of lo-fi music. Some chill tunes while I start and end my day keep my head on straight.
- I’ve got a genetic case of wanderlust. My mom has traveled the world and back, and I’m just a few decades behind her! I was lucky enough to study abroad in England in 2015, and while in Europe I visited Wales, Ireland, France, Germany, the Netherlands, and Spain. Switzerland and Italy are at the top of my list right now! I want to visit every continent before I die.
- I love food. It feels weird to spout this as a fun fact about me, considering the my weight loss journey, but I should embrace every part of me. While I love to eat, I also love to bake! I’ve got a great chocolate chip cookie recipe, and one time I used a brownie recipe as a jumping off point and somehow created the greatest peanut butter brownie you’ve ever had. Now I just gotta remember how I did that.
- I’m a work in progress. I want to be a hardworking woman, who tops the Forbes List and gets her face on the cover of Vogue for doing it (the headline I have in mind is “Having it All: Mallory Joy’s Journey to Completion”). I feel like my mind is cloudy now, and I’m hoping for clear skies to brighten my way.
- Okay, I get it– why “Mal Like Maple”? I don’t know why the name occurred to me on the treadmill this morning, but it did. I put maple syrup in everything! I’ve gone down the vegan path and thus avoid honey nine times out of ten, which makes maple my sweetener of choice. It starts with an “M,” as does my first name, and like maple syrup I’m thick and sweet.
Sorry, I had to throw that one in there.
Post one complete! I spent $90 on this. That’s a good investment in my future, right? Branding?