About Me

It takes a village to raise an Allisun. This...this is my journey.

I love to read and I love a good chick-flick. When I watch a movie I think I’m a part of it so I have a hard time with one that drains me. I was on the plane coming back from Paris when I watched P.S.I Love you. I didn’t just sob, I fell apart. People all around me were popping up over their seats to see what the hell was going on over there. And then I hiccupped for half an hour after.

I crave a good cheeseburger like I would a chocolate bar. If you asked me right now about my favourite chocolate I would tell you it’s the Dark Chocolate Hazelnut Truffle Pig made in B.C. by Hagensborg. All my favourite cheeseburgers are made in California.

I play right striker in soccer and it doesn’t matter where else they try to start me I always end up back in my corner. I’m a sprinter and it took me a couple of years before I realised when we were at the face-off, when Lisen would yell “release the rabbit!” she wasn’t talking about the ball…I am the rabbit.

I had four babies. Our second son, Matthew, died the day he was born and then I went on to have the two girls. I had the epidural for two of the babies and didn’t for two. Given the choice I would always choose the epidural. Though just recently I decided with near certainty that I would prefer to not to be in a position again where I have a choice.

When I was pregnant with Kaillan we discovered I have two uteruses. Not long after that I found out I also have four fully functioning kidneys. What makes the situation cool is that there aren’t a lot of people like me in the world. I have a virtual list of people who I believe are deserving of my extra kidneys and I think anyone who picks a fight with someone who has extra organs they might need one day, is a fool.

Just when you’re questioning my anatomical anomalies I throw in this: I had my tonsils removed and they grew back.

One of the best creations of the 2010’s? White bread with more fiber than brown. There’s something about peanut butter sandwiches on white bread that you can’t beat, I love that it’s now very good for you.

Used to be men in uniforms but now I have a little crush on carpenters. It started with Carter Oosterhouse and come to think of it, I don’t know what happened to him. John from my show? He was the cat’s meow, a degree in English literature even. Not that I’d ever want any of my children to EVER ride on a motor bike but John would drive to the set on one. I’ve moved onto Scott McGillvary, host of Income Property… he had me with the dimples!

I’m allergic to cats, dogs and Kleenex.

I can rock climb and zip line like a monkey but I’m afraid to jump from anything higher than a window. I don’t see myself ever, ever bungee jumping.

I LOVED Satsuma everything from the Body Shop and was crushed when they discontinued it. Now what’s cool about this is I just looked online to see if maybe they have it in the States and they do! And by chance I just looked on the Canadian site and colour me shocked, they reinstated the smell!

I’m not a yeller. Since my kids were little I have been able to control them by counting to five on one hand. Whether they’re on the other side of the room, with their friends or I’m trying to get them to go upstairs to brush their teeth, I don’t say have to say a word, I just start counting with my hand. As tired, obstinate or frustrated as they may be, they do what they have to do before I hit four. I’ve never arrived at five, I don’t even know what would happen if I did.

I love my fuzzy sheets, having fresh tulips in the house and homemade cookies. I also love brick walls and built in cupboards. I watch the Bachelor, American Idol , the W and Food networks and HGTV. I feel better about watching TV if I jump up at the commercials to do things, because there’s always things that need doin’.

When we have McDonalds I eat a big mac AND a mcchicken. And everyone else’s French fries too if I can get my hands on them.

I don’t think I believe in ghosts but I have been known to make decisions based on some kind of a sign.

I’m afraid of creatures that come with families: mice, lice, cockroaches and bed bugs.

If I’m in a rush waiting in line makes me crazy but for the most part, I’m pretty patient. The one thing that does bother me is when someone is out and out mean. I’d write-off a game player in a heartbeat. People who make me laugh though? I’ll always tolerate a little more bad in them.

I don’t like carrying things, not even a wallet. I carry loose cards here and there and try as I might I haven’t been able to fix that habit… it’s been the source of many a grief.

I sleep six hours a night. Remo started snoring a year ago and it drives me insane. Thank God for the little pink ear plugs that saved my life. Though I had a panic one day when I thought I lost one in my ear.

Recently I watched an edition of Extreme Home Makeover and was so affected by the story of the mother with leukaemia and the fire that destroyed her family’s farm that I went immediately on the Hema-Quebec website and signed up to be on the bone marrow registry. It was the idea that someone might die when I might’ve had it in me to save their life that did it for me. Only afterwards I read about the procedure. When they called me six days later to go for blood tests, I felt a titch anxious but held firm in my resolve to do it.

I have about 30 favourite colours but I don’t like neon anything.

I can’t sing for beans. Although there is one song, Time after Time by Cyndi Lauper, that I believe I can nail. My all-time favourite musicians are the Bee Gees and Abba. When I have a favourite song I’m only too happy to listen to it over and over and over again. I wondered not long ago if maybe my inhibitions make me more tone deaf, so another resolution was to sing my head off in the car when a favourite song comes on. Though the other day when Dynamite was on and I told everybody in the car that they had to sing too, Lyanne, Emmie’s friend, told me it’s her world too and she didn’t want to listen to us.

I love every holiday and decorate the house for them all. The older I get the more sure I am that I’m a total homebody. Whether that’s who I always was or I’m just a victim of an over-packed decade, on a Saturday night, I’d always, always choose to put my jammies on and stay home with a warm fire and my family.

If I had to change my hair I’d go for red, curly Will and Grace hair any day.

I’ve never had a cup of coffee in my life, I don’t even know how to make it. In the morning though? I need my orange juice.

At work I’m on the emergency medical team and the bomb squad. Though when we were receiving our RCMP training I was the one who hypothetically blew up the Organization.

For several years at work I was actually a spy with a spy chamber and a computer that would self-destruct if anyone tried to move it. My boss called me 003 (not related to the work but because I can do three things at once). Moving into a different programme I had to give up the role that most impressed my children’s friends, but I’m still a back-up. Only five people in the world can do what we do.

I actually can’t do three things at once. Bit of attention deficit.