Daily Venting & Exclamations…

Updated: August 2007 – I figured a lot has happened since I started blogging and my about me page was a little dusty!

My first name is Hanna – born September 13th, 1977, I’ll let you do the math! I’ve blogged since 2000 in one place or another. Looking back now I wish I had screen prints of my past profiles to see how I’ve changed over the years. In the beginning, as with any young blogger, there were lots of animations and stuff that made your eyes cross! I must say things are a lot cleaner around here these days!! I started with blogger, then moved to pMachine, then to DNN, and now am happy at home with WordPress!

I use the online name MishMish b/c that is what my father has called me all my life. MishMish is the Egyptian word for Apricot – yes, I’m Egyptian, so I guess I’ll get into that part of me now…

I am half Egyptian and a native of Texas. I grew up and graduated from HS in a one horse town in East Texas. After HS I moved to Waco, Texas where I completed my freshman year of college at Baylor University. Upon completing those first two semesters I realized that Waco wasn’t the place for me and I moved back to East Texas to Nacogdoches where I finished my college education at Stephen F. Austin State University. After three years in Nac I graduated from college with a Bachelors in Business Administration and a minor in Art. (Yeah, quite a difference, huh?)

While I was in college my parents moved from our little hometown to the big city of Houston, so after graduation that’s where I set up house. After working several years and getting married (I’ll get to that) I decided it was time to go back to school, so in May of 2005 I started working on my MBA. I’ll be finished in Spring 2008! Yay!!! **update** I am now done with graduate school and have my MBA!!!

So, back to the hubby part! In January 2003 I met a man that I totally didn’t think was right for me…but he was pretty sweet and after a while I realized as opposite as we were that he was the man I was going to marry. We were married October 2nd, 2004 (btw, that’s my Grannie’s wedding anniversary & her parents’ wedding anniversary!) You can read up no our wedding here. Upon returning from our honeymoon we immediately set out looking for a house and ended up building. We closed December 29th of 2004 – just in time to ring in the New Year amid piles of boxes!

About a year and a half later of adjusting to married life (whoa nelly) Michael (that’s my husband) and I decided we were ready to have a baby and on December 3rd, 2006 our beautiful baby girl Emma was born! It’s so hard to believe we ever made it without her!

Outside of family my interests are pretty eclectic. I played basketball since I was in the 4th grade so I have always had an interest in sports. I also loved art/drawing while I was growing up, which prompted me to study art in college. That is where I found a passion for photography as well. I love to travel also and I have tried to make at least one international trip every year since my senior year in college – though since getting married most trips have been domestic.

Since starting my professional life I have been employed in the oil & gas industry here in Houston – pretty hard to escape it living here honestly! I’ve worked as an offshore accountant just about all my career up until November 2007 when I transitioned to a Financial Analyst – still in the same company, tough. It has to be one of the most interesting jobs in the world! It’s amazing what these guys can do and on such a tremendous scale! Anyway…I just get to add up all the numbers, but it’s fun to visit offshore and get to see this work being done!

So…that’s me in a nutshell. You can view my pictures and such through the links on my sidebar. If you’re dying to know more facts about me, here are 100 more!!