First Things First, The Rules:
- You must post the rules.
- Post eleven fun facts about yourself on the blog post.
- Answer the questions the tagger set for you in their post, and then create eleven new questions to ask the people you've tagged.
- Tag eleven people and link them on your post
- Let them know you've tagged them!
Eleven FUN Facts:
1. I've only ever sen the movie "The Goonies" one time. For our Christmas party in 7th grade, we got to vote on a movie, and then all go see it at the theater down the street. The whole 7th grade chose the movie "The Goonies" which I'd never even heard of before. I watched it and thought it was ok, but I think you have to grow up with it (like the rest of my generation seems to have done) to really appreciate it. Also, I remember telling my mom what movie we were going to watch, and based on her response, I think she was getting it confused with "Gremlins."
2. One of my celebrity crushes is Jeff Goldblum. Not in "The Fly", though. That movie was gross. More the "Jurassic Park" Jeff Goldblum. Also, when he guest starred on Friends. I guess I just like the awkward nerdy types.
3. I've auditioned for Star Search. I blogged about it too.
4. When I was a kid, I used to narrate my life in my head. As I walked across the playground at school, there was a running commentary in my head saying things like, "She walked across the playground, feeling slightly nervous that she may have forgotten her milk money..." I thought that some day I would somehow remember it all and write it all down. Even though 99% of it was mundane and boring. Oh, and when I'd say something, after I said it, in my head I'd think, "she said." Occasionally I'd slip and say out loud something like, "Please pass the milk, she said." I'm glad I stopped doing that... or did I?
5. I've been to 37 of the 50 states. The ones I'm missing are mostly the southeastern states. I still need to hit Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, North Carolina, South Carolina, West Virginia, Maine, North Dakota, South Dakota, Wisconsin, and Hawaii.
6. I can say all 66 books of the Bible in one breath of air. Well, maybe not right at this moment, since a certain tiny baby is taking up a large portion of my lung capacity. But on a non-pregnant day I can do it.
7. I sleep with earplugs and a mask over my eyes at night. I'm a super light sleeper, and it's amazing how well I sleep when I've blocked out all sound and light. I started doing it when Grace was born and slept next to me in the pack and play. I could not sleep through all of her baby goat noises, so I started sleeping with earplugs. I've slept with a mask over my eyes for years, though. What I really need is a Sensory Deprivator 5000.
8. I'm obsessed with drinking ice water. Rarely am I farther than arm's reach away from my glass of ice water. And when it starts to run low (like less than half a glass), I start to get nervous and antsy and have to go fill it up. I can't let it run out. I'm positive I drink at least 8 glasses a day.
9. I still have two baby teeth. My two bottom two-year molars don't have adult teeth behind them to push them out (they should be bicuspids, by the way, which would feel SO weird since I'm used to them being little molars), and since they're healthy, they've been hanging out for approximately 27 years. My dentist says he's seen people as old as 40 with baby teeth, so keep on brushing! I'm not terribly worried about losing them since I have healthy teeth. I've only ever had one cavity in my life.
10. One time in high school, I thought I had telekinesis. We were standing around at the end of yearbook class, and I moved my hand over a table that had a piece of paper on it, and the piece of paper moved. I did it again, and the paper moved again. I stood there for about 10 minutes, moving the paper from about a foot away, getting kind of freaked out that I'd developed super powers. Eventually I realized I was just pumping air out the end of the sleeve of my Letterman's jacket and that I was, in fact, just blowing the paper around. At that point I was glad I hadn't yet revealed my superpower to anyone.
11. One of my favorite flavors is peach, but you don't find many peach flavored candies and such.
Now it's time for the questions that Candice posted for me to answer.
1. What is a book that you just couldn't put down? Most recently, The Hunger Games series. I read them after they were all out, so I could just devour one right after the other.
2. If you had a day to yourself, what would you enjoy doing? Hopefully "to myself" means I can bring someone along if I want. I'm assuming this means without kid or work responsibilities. If I had a day to myself, I would like to do something with Jim that we can't really do with the kids, like go skiing or kayaking. I'm excited for when the kids are older and we can all go have adventures as a family. But for now, I'd need a "day to myself" do do those kind of things.
3. What is a show that you always watch? Jim and I have a handful of shows that we keep up with. One that I really like is The Amazing Race. It would be so much fun (and stressful) to get to travel all over for free, and to get to do all the random tasks that they have to do!
4. Favorite Bible Verse? Colossians 3:12-14
5. Favorite Family Activity? I like when we can get out of the house and go do something silly like go to Chuck E. Cheese or an arcade. It's fun for the girls to get to do something new and different.
6. Best childhood memory? The one that popped into my head (maybe because I was just thinking about skiing) was one Sunday in high school (it was the day before President's Day) I mentioned to my dad that some of my friends were going skiing the next day since we got off of school. My dad spontaneously decided to take the day off of work (he didn't get it off) and take me skiing! It was a lot of fun to get to spend the day with just my dad... and to get to go skiing. :)
7. What is your favorite characteristic about yourself and your spouse? My favorite thing about Jim is that he's easy going, which is necessary to balance out my... not-easy-goingness. My favorite characteristic about myself is that I like to cook. I like eating good food, so I'm glad I'm able to prepare food that I like.
8. If you could have any job in the world and not worry about the income being brought in, what would it be? Well, considering my current job brings in zero income, I'm guessing that "stay at home mom" would top the list. But I know what you mean, so I'll have to think about it. Hmmm.... a lot of the jobs that sound fun and intriguing (wedding planner, chef, National Geographic photographer) would have terrible hours and schedules. I really do enjoy being a biologist, to be honest.... but maybe I'll go with barista. Getting to make coffee all day!? OK!
9. What is your favorite meal to eat/fix? Zuppa Toscana! I could eat it almost every day. Seriously. SO GOOD!
10. What website do you visit the most often? Well, when I turn on my computer in the morning, I open up 4 tabs: Hotmail, Gmail, Blogger, and Facebook and I just keep that window open all day. So those four for sure.
11. What is your ultimate vacation destination? Fiji! I would love to go to Fiji and stay in one of those little shacks that are out on stilts in the water. A very close second, though, is Vienna. I really really really want to bring Jim to Vienna some day and show him the city that I fell in love with.
Last but not least, here are the questions for the folks I tag:
1. Would you rather be in prison for the rest of your life, or stranded on a deserted island with your closest loved ones for the rest of your life? (Assuming this is a tropical deserted island with plenty of food and such.)
2. What was your biggest worry in high school? (Friends, grades, boys, acne, sports, something else?)
3. If you had to be a character in a movie, who would you want to be?
4. Would you choose an all-expense paid trip around the world (as many destinations as you want, for however long you want it to be, including your spouse and family if you want), or would you rather have $1 million cash here and now?
5. If you had to go a year and eat only 5 foods, what would you choose? (Let's assume your nutritional needs are taken care of by a vitamin of some sort.)
6. What is your favorite physical feature on yourself?
7. What is your very first memory as a child?
8. If you had to move to another country, which country would you choose and why?
9. What movie can you watch over and over and over again?
10. What is one job that you'd like to do, but can't or wouldn't because of circumstances? (circumstances such as: it doesn't pay well enough, the hours are bad, you don't live in a place where there's a great need for marine biologists, you don't have the body type to be a professional figure skater...)
11. What is your secret phobia? (I'm not talking spiders or being alone or public speaking, I'm talking about the weird and totally irrational one that you don't like to admit to.)
This is who I'm tagging:
1.Katrina
2. Mom
3. Shyla
4. Amber
5. Allison
6. Amanda S.
7. Amanda N.
8. Ann
9. Jen
10. April
11. Brie
Wow, now I feel equally guilty for tagging people who may not want to do this at all, and for not tagging other people whose blogs I follow. So if you want to do this and I didn't tag you, feel free!
1 comments:
Okay, I did it! Eleven
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