I didn't know I was so quirky! ...Okay, I lied, I did know that.

25 random things about me!

(I wrote this about 6 month ago on facebook but since my blog is going to be my journal I wanted to have it on record)

1. I love to play games and am very competitive. Some people don’t like to play with me. I hate when people only play for fun and don’t want to do important things such as, oh I don’t know … keeping score!

2. My idol is Mrs. Duggar, that sweet home schooling mother who never yells who just had her 18th baby. I always and still do want to be like that!

3. I am always way jealous and super jealous when I see pregnant people. Even if I just had my own baby I am jealous. My most favorite time of life is when you just have had a baby and you have those two days in the hospital alone with them. I love that. One time I took 7 rolls of film!

4. I worked at a pet store for 5 years. I had a great friend named John who worked with me. One day he says “Hey! Want to smell my snake?” They were vipers and supposedly smelled like cucumbers. So I say “Sure!” I smell his snake and get bit right between the eyes. Is that not the stupidest story you ever heard! A few days later he came to work with his arm swollen like 10 times the size. That could have been my face. Someone was definitely watching over me. I still do love reptiles a ton though. I can kill a mouse with my bare hands to feed to snakes.

5. I helped found a charter school that truly changed the course of my child’s life forever.

6. Must mention Glenn Beck! Got to meet him and get my book signed and stare into his eyes while we had this whole hand holding thing with all four hands going on. Very funny.

7. Hate camping. Corey and I always fight because I am stressed. I am scared of the wild or having an emergency or seeing animals or being lunch and I much prefer the city and people. Corey says the city is when I NEED to be scared.

8. I LOVE DOG THE BOUNTY HUNTER and his whole show. I truly honestly think he is a really special person.

9. I knew Hugh was sexy before People did!

10. I cannot, not dance when Neil Diamond is on. He rocks! I am a horrible dancer but I don’t care. Me and my kids…we dance.

11. I chat with my dad about nothing almost every day. It is fun.

12. I hate that part about me that has to tell people everything about my life that is on my brain. Why can’t I just keep some things private or lie a little, or make things sound better. I don’t know why I have to say too much.

13. I secretly want to be one of those super in shape people who are training for one of those things were you swim, bike, and run. Someday seriously I want to get all muscular.

14. I use to volunteer at a place that taught disabled people how to ride horses and have their therapy on horses. I worked with a man who had a brain injury and helped him ride. I loved it! Love the smell of horses and helping people. No one else wanted to work with the grownups so I did.

15. I love math! I can hardly do it but I love it so much. I want to go back to school and really learn how it works.

16. I am super proud of the fact that all my kids will eat a wide variety of fruits and vegetables (including beets) and like them! My toddler will eat a whole green pepper himself.

17. I am scared of everything the least bit scary! I can’t even sleep towards my husband because then my back is facing the door and I don’t want to be snuck up on. I had to quit watching scary movies because I would just be sick afterwards. (Why am I sleeping closest to the door anyways…Corey?)

18. I can’t stay up late. I get so tired and get super grumpy. Corey says Zelda (or some crazy name he calls me) has come out. When I stay out late with my friends he always wants to call them and warn then that I might get mean.

19. I love to plant the garden but then don’t want to do anything else with it.

20. My favorite thing about face book is my farm! Send more trees!

21. I stink on the computer. Corey has to show me everything. He says he has to come home from work and then work more with me.

22. Sadly, I must admit, I am an airhead. I hate it but I am ditsy. One time I was screwing in the drain stopper and was getting all mad because it wouldn’t screw in. I told Corey it was broken so he came to help and I was trying to turn it the wrong way even though I had done it a bazillion times. Stupid stuff like that happens to me all the dumb time!

23. I would love to be a labor and delivery nurse.

24. I want to open an orphanage or help start a program to help get orphaned kids adopted better and faster, or go do baby massage on orphans. Or go join the Peace Corps. I really want to go do something huge and meaningful and save part of the world. I always wanted to adopt older orphaned children. But now I am getting tired. For about 10 years now on my night stand table in a frame I have had a picture and a quote from Mother Teresa that I cut out from a magazine. It says “Maybe if I had not picked up that one person dying on the street I would not have picked up the thousands. Although I am not helping in that extreme it gives me hope that my daily (or weekly) acts are adding up and mean something.

25. I have a whole shopping for food ritual. Every two weeks I make a food menu of what we are going to eat for the next few weeks. I write down every ingredient I need to get at the store and approx how much it will cost so I don’t overspend. I clean my fridge and my pantry so I can put away the food in a clean organized fashion. I CAN”T STAND a messy fridge and I will not keep food around if it is the least bit old. I am not wasteful but I have this mentality it will give me food poison. Even though he hates it Corey always shops with me and bugs me to the hurry the whole time but it is worth it because he bags the groceries and carries them in the house.