86 things you may or may not want to know.

Here are 86 things about me...

1. I much prefer fountain pens to gel or ballpoint. I don't know why, makes me feel fancy and old fashioned I guess. 

2. I still love and miss the old Saturday morning cartoons from the late 80's. The ones now are mindless drivel.

3. I don't like watching movies twice, unless it's Robin hood Men in Tights. Just not a movie person, although I watch them all the freaking time with my husband. 

4. I'm lazy. If I don't feel like doing something, 99% of the time, I procrastinate until the last second. 

5. I really really with a passion hate accounting and book keeping and money, but its just my nice-guy nature to have taken over my in laws books, and our bills. This is the last year I do the books though. I abhor it.

6. I never went to college because I wanted to be too many things, however my dream job is to become a stay at home wife/mother/homemaker. Although I'll probably end up get a teaching degree.

7. I tear up and get a homesick feeling when ever I see pictures of Ireland. I've never been there. 

8. I didn't do crap in high school. Senior year everyone thought I fell off the face of the earth because I sequestered myself in the art lab all day long. By senior year, I couldn't stand all the stupid people and high school politics.

9. I am not a people person. I have to force myself to be in crowds. I start to get anxiety if there are more than 6 people in the room that aren't family. I deal with it though.

10. I don't understand politics, but I can give you 15 different ways to run the country.

11. I have been dancing classically and in other mediums since I was 4. I teach classical ballet now. 

12. I am still a bundle of insecurities, though slowly getting better, still have to fake that confidence sometimes.

13. I always wanted to be a cowgirl and be able to get away with the silver jewelry and flannel shirts. There's just something romantic about that whole western ideal.

14. I hate chick-flicks, but yet am a hopeless romantic. The only love stories I like are bonnet-movies. 

15. The first thing my husband ever gave me was a punch to the stomach. He was play fighting with my best friend at the time and she moved and he hit me. We've been together ever since. 

16. My husband and I have been together for the most of 8 years. This upcoming February will be marriage anniversary number 3!

17. I am the exact opposite of my husband in almost everything. It works great.

18. I'd take seafood over any chocolate, steak or sweet thing any day. 

19. I am the biggest worry-wart that has ever walked the face of this earth. Then when things work out, I kick myself for expounding so much dang energy worrying over nothing. 

20. I am the oldest of 2 kids, and only just started to get along with my sister 6 years ago. And now she lives 6 hours away and I keep kicking myself for not enjoying her presence sooner. 

21. My husband was the only boy I ever dated.

22. I have travelled a lot of places a lot of times, but have only been to Disneyland once.

23. I would like a house of our own to call home and to keep up and to decorate. I hate apartments. 

24. I am a horrendous driver. Not like I've totaled my car or anything else for that matter, I just freak my husband out when I drive.

25. I am also horrible about my cars upkeep.... I can hear my engine clicking from needing oil. See #4.

26. I am the biggest bookworm ever, but I haven't read a book for 3 years due to lack of time.

27. I never, ever skipped school in high school. I was too afraid of what punishment would be at home when mom and dad found out. 

28. I have a ton of scars, but they are all tiny ones from wrestling with my cats throughout the years.

29. I was always "Teachers Pet" in elementary school, got made fun of quite a bit. Didn't help I had THICK, LARGE coke bottle glasses and a perm with fluffy bangs.

30. Even though I hate accounting and such, I love math like algebra and trig. I also love English courses. This year helping my husband with his college math papers were the highlight of my day. 

31. I had a ton of cats through the years and still remember every name and color pattern. Here they are: Darling, Sparkle Shine, Skittles, OC (outside cat), Little One, Itty-Bitty, Porky, Curious, Harvey, Sadie, Roscoe, Squeaky, Buddy, Fuzzy-Butt and my current furball is named Stinky. 

32. Nicknames from family: Punkin, sweetpea, court, Torqwrench. Nicknames from husband: Too embarrassing to say to anyone but him.

33. I hate the news with a passion unless I know someone on it who did something stupid. Then I turn it off because that stupid person I probably knew in high school is still the same stupid moron for making the news.

34.  My husband proposed to me over a pile of dirty laundry in his bedroom the day I got back from France. He was going to do it at the airport, but my mom talked him out of it because my cat had died while I was in France and no on freaking told me until the day I got back. So we went to his mom's house to say hi and he went back to his room while I was talking to his mom and he called me back. I went back thinking nothing of it, and he was there on one knee, shaking like crazy. It couldn't have been better!

35. The worst injury I have ever had was a hernia. My next to worst was a fractured wrist.  

36. I don't really ever get bored. 

37. I like all kinds of music except for mainstream stuff and opera. 

38. I can count the times I have been pulled over on one hand, but 2 of those were by the same cop in the same spot in the same month. Yes, he remembered me.

39. I hate being frugal. I hate pinching pennies and making food last, although I am proud of myself for making $20 in food last for two people for 1 month. 

40. One day I am going to be able to afford to buy everything I write down on my shopping list!

41. I love grocery shopping. New food is like clean laundry, wonderful to enjoy.

42. If I had a choice between an awesome looking boob-job and lasic eye surgery, I would choose eye surgery. I'd rather be able to see my small boobs than to go blind later in life. 

43. I've only had one calling in my church, and then we moved. I don't mind one bit. 

44. I hate to sing in Sacrament Meeting, but thoroughly enjoy it in Relief Society.

45. I LOVE cold rainy gloomy weather, but I hate being cold. I want to hug the person who invented warm husbands, sweaters, blankets, and tea.

46. I love to get dressed up just as much as I love to be a scrounge. Its fun.

47. I would love to act in musicals on Broadway.

48. I am scared to death to have children, more about losing the weight than anything else. I also want 2 kids. Already have names picked out.

49. I always wanted to be a chef, but vowed that after working at Subway and Papa Murphy's I'd never work in the food industry ever again. So I just cook at home. 

50. I once told my sister when she was 4 years old that if she didn't fold her toilet paper on the perforations  and score them before using it, the toilet paper police would come and take her away. She believed me until she was about 9 years old. She can beat me up now. 

51. If hubby and I could move anywhere, it would be Sitka, Alaska, although Vancouver looks to be the next place we will be put. **more on that later

52. I am a soda fiend!! I can drink a 2 liter by myself. Its dangerous to have it around me, unless its Coca Cola...then I don't touch it. Icky.

53. I tried to be anorexic for 2 years in high school. It backfired, I gained weight and now cant ever imagine not eating more than 3 time a day. 

54. I have absolutely no desire to go to the South. Or the mid-west. Too dang hot for starters...

55. No desire to go to Mexico or South America. If the trip was offered, I'd take it, but wouldn't go on my own accord. I wouldn't go to Africa if you paid me. I'll watch National Geographic and the Travel Channel instead.

56. Sometimes I wish I was tall. (I'm 5' 3/4") But then I remind myself I wouldnt be able to find cute shoes and I wouldn't fit so well in my husbands arms. 

57. I don't particularly care for hot chocolate. I'd rather have tea. 

58. I used to wish we still dressed in dresses from 1100AD, the comfy ones before they figured out corsets. So pretty. I still wouldn't mind.

59. Before I became a member of a church and started going, I made it a point to never ever wear a dress on Sundays, unless it was Easter Sunday. I didn't want anyone associating me with Christians.

60. I love babysitting because I get a chance to be a kid again. If I had a sidewalk, I'd still have sidewalk chalk. When we lived with the Halls, it was so tempting to have all that driveway and not to get sidewalk chalk and draw away. 

61. My husband thinks I'm fragile and is extremely overprotective of me, and even though I protest sometimes I secretly love that he wants to keep me safe and is so concerned about me. 

62. I used to make it a point to look the best I could, to dress up and make sure I was put together, and within the past 2 years, my sweats are my favorite thing to be in. I get made fun of by my mother inlaw (who is very into looks) for wearing PJ pants or sweats and flipflops to the store. I think its cute. And dangit, Im comfy.

63. Sleeping is one of the top things on my favorites list. I am definetly NOT a morning person.

64. It took me forever to get used to not carrying my cell phone 24-7. I still get a little anxiety sometimes when I dont have it. 

65. I love clothes and shoes but hate shopping unless its at Ross. I just cant justify spending more than $9 on a shirt.

66. I love going out to eat. I love the atmosphere, the food (most of the time) and being with my husband. Maybe it just caters to my inner rich-girl. But then again, a solid home-cooked meal blows restaurants out of the water completley.

67. I hate spiders, crawly things, flies and mosquitos. (insert spine shiver)

68. I'm not large by any means, but I fear bathing suit season. Shopping for swim suits is up there with jean shopping. Miserable.

69.  Im the biggest cheapskate I know, but only when it comes to myself. Theres an issue there I am sure I need to work through... I can justify a $25 pair of headphones for hubby but cant wrap my head around why I should spend $12 on a new purse for me. 

70. I'm horrible at keeping a diary. So I blog. It's a godsend. One day I'll print everything out and bind it and call it good. 

71. My most favorite cherished book of all time is Catherine called Birdy. I bought it in 5th grade and still read it.

72. I speak present and future tense French. Even though I lived there and worked there, I still cant tell you something has already been done. Freakin hard.

73. I hate Curry. I refuse to use it. I also hate acorn squash. Yes, even with brown sugar and bacon. Give it up already.

74. The most fun I have had this past year was when my husband and I went to Salt Lake City for the weekend, and went to Lagoon. It was like we were both 10 years old again. 

75. I'm mostly Irish, with English, Welsh and German roots. Somewhere up the family tree, someone married a Cherokee Indian, but that doesnt seem to matter. I'm Irish dangit.

76. I look like my moms side of the family completely. My sister looks like my dads side of the family completely. And yet everyone says we look alike. My mom doesnt even say that. We dont even resemble eachother. It's like we were orphans.

77. My best friend died when I was 16. I knew her from 4 years old. I still miss her.

78. SInce 6th grade, I've had 7 classmates die. Most of them were suicides.

79. I've only had 1 close family member die since I've been alive.

80. I only have 3 cousins. I am the oldest.

81. The best vacations I ever went on growing up was the yearly couple weeks spent in the Bay Area at Grandmas with my 2 cousins (at the time). 

82. The best vacation with my husband was our honey moon camping out in Alaska. 

83. I never ever get zits. And on the rare occasion I do, I get 5 little glowing red ones in the most horrible places that no amount of makeup can cover. 

84. I really really really hate waking up in the morning, but I absolutley love being up in the mornings. I also prefer to wake up early and get off work early.

85. I've been many different hair colors, but at heart, I will always be dark brown. (watch for a post on this)

86. Winter is my favorite season.