50 Things About Me

As a person who doesn't care to "jump on the bandwagon" all that often, I have to admit that I like to read the lists of things about people. You know, "croutons or bacon bits?, Coke or Pepsi?" I just like to find things out about people. So here are 50 things about me if you care.

1. My hair color has been Brown #211 for the last six years and I am totally fine with that.
2. I crave the chicken green chili salad at Bajio Grill almost on a daily basis.
3. I love Survivor and the Amazing Race.
4. I love to sleep in but I also love getting up early and getting stuff done.
5. I think the fry sauce at Apollo, Crown, or Greek Burger is superior to all the rest.
6. I love to write creatively and technically but mostly I like to be snarky.
7. Makeup is fun to play with and I would work at Sephora if there was one in Utah. (Oh and if it wasn’t really retail—I just couldn’t do that.) So basically, I’d work in a Sephora dreamland where there were no customers or working weekends and holidays.
8. I love my family and I like it when people say we all look alike.
9. I have to wear orthotic inserts in most of my shoes because my feet pronate and cause major pain in my back, hips, and legs. (I am wicked old before my time.)
10. June 21st is my birthday and I love that time of year. First day of summer, longest day of the year, and 99.9% chance of perfect weather.
11. I secretly enjoy it when people at work come and ask me grammar questions. I revel in knowing the answer off the top of my head but it’s also really fun to look things up in the Associated Press Stylebook. I am a word nerd, through and through.
12. I majored in Communication because it really is what interested me the most at the time.
13. Now sometimes I wish I could be a personal trainer or a nutritionist.
14. I did a one-semester stint as a grad student in Professional Communication at Westminster College and decided that it cost too much and I should buy a condo instead. Totally the right choice.
15. Even though I am terrified of singing alone in public, I think I would rock the Star Spangled Banner at a Jazz game. At least in my mind I would.
16. When I was about 14 my dance teacher told me that my little sister was a better dancer than I. Subsequently, I quit shortly thereafter. Beej really is a better dancer and honestly, that double-D-cup teacher did me a favor.
17. I think I am finding that I have more talents as I get older. I am a late bloomer.
18. I love Hot Dog on a Stick. It epitomizes my childhood trips to the mall with my mom.
19. One day I was cruising LDSSingles.com and saw a picture of a guy looking through the top of a water bottle. The part of his face I could see looked cute, so I sent him a message and then we got married. Oh, but we dated for over two years in between all of that.
20. I hate going to, talking about, and being involved in weddings but I loved my own and would definitely do it again and again.
21. One time, while working in a call center, I tried to roll my chair backward and the wheels locked and I fell over on my back in front of about 20 people. Not to mention I was still lashed to my phone on the desk.
22. When Nancy Kerrigan was in the Olympics people told me I look like her. I sort of liked it. Now I look back and it’s not that great.
23. I like things clean. I like lists. I like organization.
24. I love to ski.
25. I love living in Utah.
26. Subsequent to No. 25, I hate it when I go places and hear people talk too loudly about “the ward” and “stake confurnz.”
27. My Bolivian Spanish accent got so good on my mission that people thought I was from there.
28. I like being married because there is always somebody to go to parties with.
29. When I was about 13 I was in Denver and I was in the bathroom stall at a McDonald’s. I must have not done a very good job locking the door because a homeless lady barged in on me and screamed, “Move it! I gotta take a sh**!”
30. My sister used to sew clothes for herself, my little sister, and me. My favorite item was a pair of cotton tie-dyed shorts with an elastic waist band. The colors were green, purple and yellow.
31. I thought Alyssa Milano on Who’s the Boss was the rage of the late eighties/early nineties and I tried to have big bangs like hers.
32. I love DVR and I love to fast forward through the commercials but there is also something satisfying about catching up to live TV. I guess I feel like people around the nation are seeing it before we are and that bothers me.
33. I can say all 50 states in alphabetical order.
34. The cops once caught some friends and me stealing letters from the Skyline marquee so we could put something funny on the Olympus marquee. They called our parents.
35. I like Ricky Martin and I shall not be embarrassed about it.
36. When I wake up at night I shove Ben just to make sure he is breathing. He never remembers it.
37. I get entirely cranky when I am hungry.
38. Zack Morris was cuter than AC Slater.
39. I like cheese curds.
40. Sometimes I find church boring.
41. I like to make homemade pizza and breadsticks. The trick is to put balsamic vinegar in the sauce and to put olive oil on the dough before putting the other stuff on.
42. In my opinion, less is always more.
43. When I was in 3rd or 4th grade, while studying different Native American tribes, my teacher always assigned worksheets with a lot of questions for us to find out about them. In the age of no internet, the questions were nigh unto impossible to answer. Luckily, my family had a brand-spankin’ new set of encyclopedias so my mom and I answered all the questions. And then she fielded questions from the parents of neighboring children who could not find the answers.
44. When I get to work I want to be left alone for the first half hour to 45 minutes.
45. I’ll be really happy when Ben finishes his MBA next week!
46. I like to sing along to the radio in the car.
47. Yesterday I was home sick and I honestly had a hard time deciding if I should watch Saved by the Bell or the Facts of Life.
48. I never fantasized about my wedding when I was young.
49. I left my heart in Florence, Italy last fall and I want to go back and pick it up.
50. People say Ben and I should go on the Amazing Race and if it wasn’t for total humiliation, the possibility of breaking down into tears on TV, and never getting any sleep, I might consider it.