After Greg’s I’m hesitant to post this because his was so good. But since I already had it started I guess I’ll go ahead. This is in response from a tag from my blog-i-liscious sister-in-law Stacy. I don’t usually do these things but there really is value in this one. I think it’s a great way for people who don’t see me all the time to get to know me, and perhaps for me to get to know myself a little better. Here goes:
1. I REALLY like rainy days. (Maybe that’s because I live in the desert?)
2. I’m a daddy’s girl.
3. I seriously hate feet. My own included. My baby’s excluded.
4. My husband was my brother’s mission companion. (That’s how we met.)
5. I have no problem with reptiles, but I’m a major baby with insects. (Sorry Greg!)
6. I feel like because I teach English I should read every book known to man. And checking them out at the library is not ok…I have to own them…even if I don’t like them…Why do I care?
7. My hands and feet are smaller, slightly more feminine versions of my dad’s.
8. If I was born a boy my name would have been Cameron.
9. I have a cousin named Cameron.
10. I LOVE TLC! What Not to Wear, Trading Spaces, Flip That House…yum!
11. I played volleyball at Dixie State College. One year. Kind of crappy situation. Not very glamorous.
12. I still LOVE volleyball!
13. The fact that Greg played volleyball in high school was one of the reasons that I kept writing him!
14. I am 7 years apart from my older sister,
15. And we didn’t get along very well when we were kids, (nothing crazy. I was just annoying and liked to steal from her and spy on her…)
16. But she is one of my closest friends now and I don’t know what I’d do without her in my life today. I love you, Sarah!
17. My mom is one of the smartest people I know.
18. I love coloring.
19. I like to think I’m a very organized person, but the reality is that I seem to get less and less so as I get older and busier. Shouldn’t it be the other way around?
20. I always wear earrings.
21. Rocket Dogs are my favorite brand of shoes.
22. I love sticky notes!
23. I have some spider veins. The curse of the Cook long legs.
24. I’ve never broken a bone.
25. I can’t stand Shania Twain or Celine Dion.
26. I have a really hard time with mouth and spitty noises.
27. I collect notebooks and pens. Okay, not really, but I have a really hard time throwing them away.
28. I wish I were a better photographer.
29. I used to want to be a ballerina.
30. I always loved English but said that I didn’t want to be a teacher.
31. I love being a teacher.
32. I was blond as a kid.
33. I like to watch Greg and Emmy when they don’t know it. Is that creepy?
34. I outgrew my older sister when I was 10 or 11. She’s 5’4’’, on a good day! I’m 5’11’’ all day long!
35. I hate when Christmas lights are crooked or awkwardly placed.
36. I daydream a lot.
37. Orange is my favorite color. Not construction orange but a warm one.
38. I used to go to car and airplane shows with my dad.
39. Greg and I have the same length of legs.
40. Greg is 4 inches taller than me.
41. I loved being pregnant other than the balloon feet.
42. I think that my dad looks like George Harrison.
43. I Love the Beatles!
44. I know how to weld.
45. I went to State for High Jump all three years of high school.
46. I have no clue what my personal best height was. Maybe 5’?
47. I was on the student council in 9th and 12th grade and I have the sweet @$$ sweater to prove it!
48. I honestly love Greg’s arms. Weird, I know. But I think it’s the strong protective thing.
49. I love that Greg makes me feel small and petite at times.
50. There are not many people who could possibly make me feel small and petite.
51. My first concert ever was Reba McIntyre.
52. I have an irrational fear of blood clots. See #23. I think that’s where it roots from.
53. I wish that my eyes were greener.
54. My awkward adolescent years were from about 11-21. Okay, they probably ended around 17.
55. I love Scottish, British and Irish accents.
56. I seriously crave nectarine flavored snow cones.
57. My birthday is 3 days after Christmas.
58. I have a total complex about by birthday being lost in the holidays and being forgotten. Not that it ever was; my parents did a good job with that.
59. I choose chick flicks to watch when I feel like I need to cry because I’m not naturally much of a crier and it’s a good outlet for me. Is that a little crazy?
60. I have never played Monopoly.
61. I didn’t think that I could love Greg more, but seeing him with Emmy overwhelms me sometimes.
62. I got busted yesterday when I was trying to listen in on the baby monitor while he was changing her. He’s just so cute and funny with her. She just loves her daddy! (So do I!)
63. Most days I feel inadequate – as a teacher, as a mother, as a wife…
64. Telling me that you’re disappointed in me is MUCH worse that yelling and screaming.
65. I’m a good listener most of the time.
66. I’m not so good at sharing, (which might be why this list has taken me 3 days…)
67. I still have to look at my hands when I type.
68. I’m a hugger. Greg’s a tree-hugger! ;)
69. When I was 8 I set up a rock stand. You know, instead of a lemonade stand. They were very nice rocks. It was not a very profitable business venture.
70. I have a mini-me. (D.F.S) We used to show up to high school wearing the same shirt or matching colors all the time – with no premeditation.
71. My sister has a mini-her. (M.H.G.) And she lives in Cedar and makes me dinner sometimes.
72. I enjoy easy crime novels every now and again. (Janet Evanovich, the Stephanie Plum series; Sue Grafton, alphabet series…)
73. I always knew that I wanted to be a mom, but I am still surprised at how much I love it. I’m especially surprised at my new-found patience, because that is something that has never been one of my better attributes. Should my competency as a mother surprise me? I don’t know. I guess that beforehand I just had all these doubts and then as I’ve gone along in this journey I’ve gained a wonderful confidence. (Not that I don’t doubt myself all the time.) It’s just that I have my wonderful mother and my sister, super-mom, to compare myself with, so I’m glad that I feel like I’m doing ok.
74. I have called the cops on people who don’t have children in car seats.
75. I can’t pick a favorite book or song because I like too many.
76. I hate talking to sales people and such, which is weird because I was in retail for a long time and it never bothered me when people asked for things.
77. I’m fiercely proud of Greg – who he is as a man and father, and his accomplishments with school, work and church callings.
78. I think that my first CD was Boyz II Men. And the last CD I bought was…the new Boyz II Men covering Motown classics album.
79. Guilty pleasures: cookie dough from The Pizza Factory, (guilty because I know there’s raw eggs and a lot of fat and I disregard that),
80. the O.C. (television show), (because I know that it’s sleaze and mostly teenage drama, but I can’t help it),
81. pedicures, (because I know that the money spent there could be put to better use),
82. long, hot showers, (because I know it’s a waste of water but I just can’t help it!)
83. I think that Greg is a better writer than me.
84. I had a crush on one of my high school English teachers. (Devyn, if you tell Beeson this I will kill you!)
85. I think that I always appear more confident that I really am.
86. I didn’t get any stretch marks during my pregnancy. (Don’t worry, I got a bunch more spider veins and still have the linea negra.)
87. When we were teenagers my brother told my dad how many guys I had kissed, (which I had told him in confidence!), and I thought I saw my dad’s heart break a little. I was probably 17 or 18 and Dad still thought I was VL. Sorry, Pops. I can’t even remember the number now because the only one that matters is Greg! ;)
88. I like to read adolescent literature: Twilight series, Harry Potter, Gateway to Foo, Eragon…
89. I used to make forts in a side turned hamper and fall asleep there with my head stuck in and my gangly legs poking out.
90. My mom and I used to stay up late watching Shakespeare movies or masterpiece theatre.
91. Mom and I also used to watch “Pinky and the Brain” together.
92. My dad once rented a movie called, “A Pyromaniac Love Story.” We’ll never let him live that down.
93. I am grateful everyday for the Savior in my life.
94. I love Oldie’s Music and Classic Rock. The Monkeys, The Mamas and the Papas, The Beach Boys, The Righteous Brothers, Bob Dylan, Simon and Garfunkel…too many to list!
95. I really enjoyed most of my college experiences and think that I got a pretty liberal education at a pretty conservative school.
96. I can’t keep a plant alive no matter what I do.
97. I know that my optimism annoys Greg, but I can’t help it! (Sometimes it annoys me too because it causes me to get my hopes up and I get disappointed a lot. I think that’s the real reason Greg doesn’t like it - he hates to see me disappointed.)
98. I love the old “Abbot and Costello” movies. I even have a poster with the whole “Who’s on First” dialogue.
99. I LOVE to people watch.
100. I’ve been trying to teach Emmy to say Daddy. Greg thinks it’s a competition, but I think it would just make his heart swell for her to say his name first. So, I’m working on it. So is he.
101. I can’t believe that I made it to the end of this list! For those of you who stuck with me, you are true friends. I feel like I should go back and edit it all, swap things out, and change things…but I was being honest the whole way through and I’m too lazy to edit.
