Ten Things You Don’t Know (Yet) About Astrid

I have spoiled the movie Star Wars: The Force Awakens to friends under the assumption that everyone had seen the movie before me, and I had to bake cookies for them in order to receive forgiveness for this transgression

The last film that I saw in a movie theater was Star Wars: The Force Awakens. It was worth the effort of getting dressed and leaving my apartment. For those who have seen it, I should hope that that goes without saying. It broke records for a reason.

I pride myself in my baking skills. People actually rave about my chocolate chip cookies at parties. I also like to make chocolates around the holidays for friends and family.

I have never learned how to swim, and, as a result, deep water has become a bit of a phobia of mine. I don't think that I even own a bathing suit anymore. I'll go on boats, but I refuse to go into water where I cannot see the bottom. My boyfriend was a lifeguard all through high school, and even he can't get me into the water. I'm a lost cause.

Speaking of lost causes, I have also never learned how to ride a bicycle. When my father tried to teach me, I would just scream incessantly, so he eventually gave up. I don't blame him at all. I had a great childhood, I swear, I just never learned essential life skills like swimming and bicycling. However, I'm still alive, so who really needs to know those things anyway?!

Because of high school and college, I know both French and American Sign Language, but I have yet to apply either language in any real-life conversation. I need to travel more.

Other than New York, I have only ever lived in one other state: Florida. I worked for Walt Disney World in Orlando as an intern for an entire year. I was in the entertainment department of Hollywood Studios. I'll leave it up to you to figure out what I did there.

When I was young, I used to tell strangers that I wanted to be a "vegetarian" when I grew up. I meant "veterinarian", but I could never pronounce it correctly. However, here I am all grown up...as a vegetarian. Dreams really do come true!

One thing that I love to do on the weekends is to volunteer. It gets me into a lot of neat events around town for free. Sometimes you will even get free beer and food for showing up and working. I'm not even kidding.

My boyfriend brews his own beer, and I'm trying to learn how to do it myself, but for now, I am just a really great taste tester! We don't always agree on what styles of beer he should brew, or what beers he makes that taste good or not. However, I'm all about free beer, so I'll try everything that he brews.