About Angie

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Hi!  I’m Angie Six.  Welcome to Just Like The Number!

Just Like The Number was created in 2006 as a way to keep in touch with the friends and family I’d left behind in Tennessee following a move to Indianapolis. What started out as a rambling journal with pictures here and there slowly morphed into a blog with a purpose. Just Like The Number is everything I love – motherhood, marriage, family, food, photography and my Hoosier home – reflected upon and written about honestly.

What’s Up With The Name?

Just Like The Number comes from a phrase I repeat nearly every time I meet someone new. When you have a last name as simple, yet as unusual, as Six, it tends to confuse people. So I’m Angie Six: just like the number.

Six, Party of Four

I may be the mastermind behind this blog, but without my cast of characters there wouldn’t be much material.  My husband, Mike, and I have been married for 14 years.  Without him, I’d never have such a clever last name to use in my blog.  Mike is a salesman by day, poker player and coach by night.  Well, he used to be, until the government yanked the rug out from under online poker.  Now we just spend lots and lots of quality time together.  Did I mention how much quality time we spend together?   We have two children, Elena, 9,  and Eli, 3.  In my previous life I was a medical technologist in an Immunology lab.  Now I stay at home with our children full-time and try my best not to conduct any laboratory experiments in my kitchen.

No, Really, Tell Me More!

  • For the average girl, I am an avid sports fan.  This probably has something to do with the 4000 hours of watching Sports Center I endured as a newlywed.  I have an especially unhealthy obsession with Peyton Manning.
  • I love to read and usually have books stacked precariously high on my nightstand.  In fact, I can’t stand just sitting and not reading something. I have been known to get engrossed in a 5-year-old copy of Car & Driver while waiting for an oil change.  I prefer to read the likes of Anne Lamott or David Sedaris.
  • Back in the good old days when the poker money was rolling in, Mike got me a Canon Rebel XSi DSLR camera.  I was scared of it for a year, took a class with Indy Photo Coach, and fell in love with my camera.  In 2010 I took a picture every single day for a year.  Two of my photographs have earned ribbons in the Indiana State Fair.  They’re not all ribbon-worthy, but you can see my photography on my Flickr page.
  • My favorite food in the whole wide world is a baja-style fish taco.  I’ve yet to find anything close to decent in Indianapolis.  When I do, choirs of angels will sing and I can focus my efforts on more serious things, like finding Indy’s best paletas.
  • I love craft beer (thanks to the dear ladies of Girls Pint Out, who took my Rolling Rock-loving self under their wings).  No need to impress me with fancy wine, just bring me a growler or a six-pack of your favorite ale and we will be forever friends.
  • Counter-tops and flat surfaces that are covered on every square inch give me hives.  The Container Store is my happy place.

I think that about covers it.  If you have any questions or would like to get in touch with me, here’s how:

E-mail:  justlikethenumber@gmail.com

Twitter: @AngieSix