Okay, I have not done this yet, because I feel like I'm too boring to come up with 30 random things about myself, but I'm going to give it a shot. I may have to save and come back later to do it, but I'll give it my best.
1. I LOVE getting in bed when it is freshly made with a clean pair of sheets. Anthony & I actually count to 3 and jump in at the same time so we can share the wonderfulness!
2. I was in the World Trade Center shopping August 11th, 2001, exactly 1 month before the attacks. I bought a pair of underwear from the Gap which I actually happen to be wearing right now. How do you like that? I am 9 months pregnant and wearing a pair of underwear I bought when I was 16. It sounds disgusting but I actually didn't wear them for a while until my belly started interfering with my regular underwear. TMI? I had to steal this one from Laura since it is such an interesting fact that we share. The WTC thing, not the underwear. :)
3. I will eat popcorn shrimp but not the regular, big, unbreaded kind. I don't like their "bouncy" texture.
4. My knees pop when I bend down. They have done this as long as I can remember and my dad's knees do something similar. When you hear it, it sounds painful, but it's not at all.
5. I love playing school when I was a kid and would make up names and keep a grade book in a spiral notebook.
6. My all-time favorite toys were the
Magic Nursery Dolls. Please tell me someone else remembers those?
7. Anthony and I went on our honeymoon to Caesar's Pocono Resort, Cove Haven in Pennsylvania. We had a heart shaped jacuzzi tub and had breakfast in bed almost everyday. It was an amazing time and I would love to go back sometime.
8. Alias is probably my favorite show of all time. Amanda and I used to cuddle up on her bed to watch it in college AND we gave ourselves spy names to match Sydney Bristow's initials.
9. I ALMOST took piano lessons when I was younger, but the plan was thwarted because we couldn't get the piano from my aunt's house in Georgia because we didn't have a hitch on our vehicle.
10. I have been on missions trips to New York City, the Bahamas, China, and South Korea.
11. My first job was cleaning the school part of my church. Bathrooms and all.
12. I only got in trouble one time at school, when I was in 8th grade because I got smart with the teacher. Funny part - now that teacher and Anthony work together at WHS!
13. I love Harry Potter. I have read all 7 books and am anxiously awaiting the release of the next movie. I don't like it when people judge it as "evil" before they have even read any of it for themselves. If you've read it and then don't like it, then fine. But don't knock it before you try it, as they say.
14. We gave away personalized Shasta daisy seed packets as favors at our wedding and I have them planted around our mailbox.
15. I once broke the head off of my sister's Jasmine Barbie Doll when I threw her across the room because I was mad about something. I shoved the head back on and stuff her back into our Barbie box. Later when my sister's friend came over to play she grabbed Jasmine by the hair to pull her out and the head came out while the body did not. I allowed Ashley to believe that her friend broke the doll for years before the truth came out! (I sound like a terrible person!)
16. I have a really good memory for people, and remember almost everyone I went to school with, even if we weren't friends. I feel like none of those people could possibly remember me for some reason.
17. My niece Zoe was born on November 17th, 2004, and came home from the hospital on my 21st birthday, November 19th. My best friend Amanda's niece, Ava, was also born 2 days before her 21st birthday.
18. My goal in life is to be a mom. I don't really care if I ever have a career again. I just want to be an excellent wife and mother.
19. I have the equivalent of a minor in math from Liberty. It's not called that because of the way the teaching program is, but that's basically what I have. It makes me feel smarter than I really am.
20. I wouldn't marry Anthony before we were both graduated from college, so he took overloads almost every semester so he could graduate at the same time as me. I think I got a good one. :)
21. I went all the way through the
Awana program at our church and received the Citation award, and a scholarship to Liberty. That means that I learned and recited more than 700 Bible verses.
22. Anthony and I completed Dave Ramsey's Financial Peace University this summer and because of what we learned in that will have our Jeep paid off sometime early in 2009, about 2 years ahead of our loan schedule.
23. During our first year of marriage, we won the chance to buy Red Sox/Yankee tickets, and we did purchase them, but instead of going to the game, we sold them. We made somewhere around $500 I think but I wish now that we would have gone to the game.
24. I already have my first "project" lined up for after Bailey is born and I am staying at home. Our office is in complete disarray, and has been the room we've paid the least attention to since we have lived here. I plan on doing some serious organizing!
25. I love the movie Dumb & Dumber.
26. I am the daughter AND granddaughter of breast cancer survivors!
27. My first car was a 1983 Buick Century. My parents bought the car new right around the time I was born, so we went way back. :)
28. My sister and I used to sit in the tiny linen closet at the end of our hallway, close the door, and I would read books to her by flashlight.
29. I love visiting my in-laws and having the entire family together. Anthony & his 3 brothers are crazy and hillarious when they are all together.
30. Right now, I am 25 and Anthony is 23. I am about 1 year and 3 months older than him.
Wow - I made it! But it took me close to an hour, so I sure hope you learn something new about me!
