25+ random facts

If any of you want to read my 25 random facts I did for Facebook (it's all the rage these days) but aren't on Facebook, here they are.

1. I love, love to read blogs. However, I think my writing, grammar, and spelling skills have deteriorated as a result.

2. If I could relive any 12 months of my life, it would without hesitation be June 1999 – May 2000. And I wouldn’t change anything except for appreciating my family more.

3. Some of my favorite people to hang out with are my family and my husband’s family, and I love living close to them (except Mark is kind of far away).

4. I get scared easily, and I don’t like coming home to an empty house, especially after dark.

5. I have discovered my love of cooking. Now if only I had a love of kitchen clean-up…

6. I love movies, books, and songs that make me cry. The first memory I have of a book that made me cry was Where the Red Fern Grows. We read it as a class in fifth grade, and I got to the sad part during in-class reading. My desk ended up all wet, and some of my classmates made fun of me. I remember having a fun fifth grade class but don’t remember everyone who was in it. Yay for fifth grade with Mrs. Honas! The last movie that made me cry was Grace is Gone, which I watched yesterday. The last song that made me cry was From the Depths in church on Sunday.

7. I cry easily.

8. My most major injury resulted in more than seventy-five stitches.

9. Remember the lawyer from Seinfeld, Jackie Chiles? Once when I was a Student Ambassador to the Newton City Council, a lawyer just like that (in looks and manner) presented to the Council.

10. I watch almost every dvd with the subtitles on.

11. I care about being a good steward of the earth, but I much prefer the way coffee tastes out of paper to-go cups than a plastic or metal travel mug and will always opt for this even though I could save ten percent using my own mug. I even buy paper to-go cups to transport coffee I make myself (I recently purchased a ceramic to-go mug, though, and have been using it instead).

12. I believe my cat to be the smartest, cutest, and softest, and I will miss her like crazy when she’s gone. If I had a lot of disposable income and felt like it would be a good use of the money (which I never could since that money could be so much more useful), I would pay the $50,000 to clone her. I would likely be disappointed, though, since the new cat could very well be nothing like the good Dr. Nibbert.

13. If I had slightly less but still significant disposable income, I would buy a full set of Wüsthof kitchen knives.

14. If I had even more disposable income, I would pay for someone to come wash and style my hair every morning. I love to get my hair cut because it is so relaxing.

15. I am very sentimental, sometimes to the point of absurdity. For a long time I had a sack of broken truck parts from when a high school boyfriend had an accident at my house. The worst thing I’ve ever saved is some Dr. Pepper from the can I was drinking the night before a boyfriend broke up with me. Those items long ago went to their proper place (trash), and I am less absurd with my sentimentality these days. I do still have the first note I got from a boy about a date, and I do still try to record in writing special conversations I have with friends/people I admire.

16. I sometimes realize I take for granted that I’m married to a human encyclopedia/history book/dictionary/current events catalog/fix-it person/knower of pretty much all things. Whenever I have a question about something, I always ask Brian, and he basically always knows the answer.

17. I love Kansas.

18. It was not without its frustrations, but I loved my job at VideoMax in high school. (Yes, that was the one with the plane sticking out of it.) Also, I’ve already had my dream job – bookkeeper at Camp Mennoscah – but there is probably another dream job waiting out there.

19. I played the violin for about six weeks prior to fifth grade. Not continuing with it and switching to the clarinet is one of my regrets. Another regret is not caring about history until after I was done with all history courses.

20. When I was two or three I could name by sight all the players of the Wichita Wings. The only names I remember today are Chico Borja and Fast Eddie.

21. I have been taken to the ER by ambulance twice.

22. Though I later found out students from the other six elementary schools called it “Stinkin’ Lincoln,” I loved my elementary school, the teachers, and the experience I got there. I do not wish I had gone anywhere else!

23. One favorite memory I have from elementary school is singing Eternal Flame by the Bangles at the top of our lungs on while swinging during recess.

24. In addition to Eternal Flame, other favorite songs of mine from my youth include: Stand by REM, End of the Innocence by Don Henley, of course some NKOTB songs, and Sara by Starship.

25. I’m surprised my parents let me do this, but Saturday mornings as a young girl I loved to sit in our Datsun in the driveway and listen to the radio. I would always try to get to stay out there long enough for Sara to come on.

BONUS!

26. I've had the same hairdresser my entire life.

27. I always romanticized farm life and wished I had grown up on a farm (though I probably wouldn't have enjoyed all the work and being tied there and all the stress that comes with being farmers). I'm glad I married someone who grew up on a farm and whose parents still farm so I can get a taste of it. Steering the tractor and combine for like 30 yards still excites me. I still think it might be fun to farm someday and I definitely still want a horse.