Here are some fun facts about me that you didn't ask to hear and might not even care to know...so here we go. (Thanks Sunnie for the idea.)...I also want to take time to note that that was my first link creation...so take a moment to say yeah for me.
PET PEEVES
I hate hearing people eat. The worst is cereal. If I am not eating also I absolutely have to leave the room because it makes me want to throw something...preferably the cereal bowl. Also hearing people take huge gulps. There is a lot of other stuff that grates on me but I'll spare you the list.
RECURRING DREAM
I have (in less frequency these days) dreams all the time that I have to go back to high school or college because there is a class that I didn't finish. I know that I have a husband and kids but I have to just leave them and go finish...usually I can't find my locker.
YOU WOULD HATE LIVING WITH ME BECAUSE
I like to sleep diagnonal in the bed and I whine when I am tired...I also get very grumpy and irrate when I hear people chew (in the morning especially.)
My FIRST KISS was a boy named Clark, but it wasn't my husband.
I also KISSED a boy in college that my sister kissed too...she really dated him, I didn't...and it wasn't near the time that she dated him...however, it was NOT a "non-commital make out" (that's another pet peeve--sorry, I don't approve of making out with people that you don't even like, I think its dumb)
ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
Once I followed the wrong friend home from school. I somehow mistook her for someone else, got on her bus, got off at her stop and stood in the front lawn while her mother asked who I was...my Mom had to come pick me up.
MIDDLE SCHOOL
I had short, permed hair.
We moved mid-sixth grade and I developed obnoxious anxiety problems...I sat out in the car during 8th grade graduation while my parents attended...I had a new dress and everything.
HIGH SCHOOL
I was a runner. I did cross country and track, the 4 by 4 relay, high jump and triple jump. I also did an AP art portfolio and got a 4, not bad...not amazing, but not bad. I still like to draw and illustrate.
COLLEGE
I used to take naps under the stairs in the JSB and developed a disturbing taste for the tuna sandwhiches out of the vending machines (I know, scary...maybe thats why I didn't date and marry someone from BYU)...and contrary to my dreams, I did graduate.
POST COLLEGE
I had a long distance relationship and engagement. We dated for a year, then engaged for an entire year. He proposed on top of the Empire State Building in NYC.
I have had really short hair...and my brother called me Peter.
Before I hit puberty and discovered metabolism I was a really good rock climber.
My favorite color has always been blue.
I wish that I could breathe underwater.
I was born in Sweden.
I love making lists, for everything...I'm like my Dad but I look like my Mom.
I have three girls...I secretly want all girls but I'm sure that I would love a boy too.
I had mono in college.
I have a c-section scar, and its ugly.
I love love love art history but I have a horrible memory...my favorite painting is Starry Night by my favorite artist, Van Gogh. A couple of years ago an exhibit came to Houston that included a bunch of Van Gogh paintings...when I walked in the room and saw the actual Starry Night it took my breath away and made me cry.
I can play the piano but I'm not very good at hymns.
I know sign language but I'm too shy to use it much.
I love my parents and siblings and all of my in-laws.
I do like myself but I don't think that I would be friends with me.
I love Houston in the winter.
I was a really good roller skater when I was little.
I came in third place at a BYU polka competition...I didn't polka on a regular basis.
I still have my baby blanket.
I am a Navy wife and I love it...I love doing something hard that is totally worth it...I believe in my husband's job and I respect the people he works with.
I don't like seafood (except salmon, and apparently tuna sandwhiches from the BYU vending machines.)
I'm a pretty good cook.
I am spoiled.
I spoil my children.
I've seen my parents do the Electric Slide...but don't judge them, it was a long time ago.
I once had a crush on a boy in college because he knew all the words to "Parents Just Don't Understand".
I love my life and feel so very lucky every day.
My kids are funnier than me and my husband combined (which is funny because they are my husband and me combined!)
I like caramel.
Thanks for joining me on this journey of me...I'm sure you have learned a lot and wasted a good 10 minutes. It was a pleasure.
14 comments:
i am so happy you shared your life, too! but you did better than me because you used pics. i really should have found some old ones. it would have been good for a laugh. i had some great bangs!
I still have my blanket, but I don't use the descriptive term "baby."
I'm totally with you on the chewing thing. I have to leave the room, too. And we must be related, because I have the same recurring dream - at least once a week!
Your 8th grade graduation story makes me want to cry. I love that you were a runner (I'm currently wearing the same Klein CC shirt Natalie is wearing in that picture!... what was that? 12 years ago?!) And I didn't know you did an AP art portfolio! Why didn't I know that? I got a "4", too!
I liked your short hair. You should use sign language more often. What a gift!
Your family and in-laws love you, too. And I think you would be friends with yourself. You are very likeable. And cute. And funny. Polka?
I love your engagement photo - always have. You both look like super models. Its like the kind of picture that comes in a picture frame at the store. No, prettier.
Do you PREFER caramel to chocolate? Cause I just wouldn't be able to understand that.
I just had to comment on everything... sorry. Was this supposed to be about YOU? :)
That was very interesting, actually. I knew most of the stuff because I have lived it with you. I didn't know about the polka thing. Really? I like to polka...I'm sorry about the electric slide. It was a ward party and I was compelled by peer pressure. Actually, it was almost as fun as the polka and a lot more steps to remember. I think you would like you, if you met yourself. Everybody else does! Your girls are very funny but they get a lot of that from you. You are very funny--especially when you and Big Abby get going. The dream thing must be genetic.That is my recurring bad dream, too. Weird! I have seen your baby blanket and it is really in bad shape. Why are you still holding onto it? You are so good at throwing things away. Why? Anyway, you probably didn't want that much of a comment but it was a good post--thought provoking and interesting with the right touch of jocularity.
Sunnie, its never too late to add pictures...gotta love the bangs.
Mike, How about "adult" transitional object". And if I recall, your blankie, er, transitional object is blue too, no?
Caramel smothered chocolate sounds mightly fine...and caramel apples...mmmm.
Jocularity is a funny word.
I loved reading this! It was sheer pleasure. and I am still laughing that you followed the wrong friend home. what must your mother have said to the other mother? I wonder if I chew loudly? You would hate to talk to me on the phone, cause I tend to snack while I'm talking.
xoxo
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I loved this, A LOT. THank you
If you visit I promise not to serve seafood and I would like you as a friend. I like you as a niece. Fun post
I loved this entry. You are so funny, I always laughing at all the funny things you say. Loved the pictures.
Forget the Elctric Slide, I once square danced with your Father-In-Law, and the Bishop. Exciting times.
How intriguing is that to get engaged in such a romantic place? Hector and I had our first date at Pancho's Mexican Buffet. I think he proposed right after a Pancho's meal too. We're so fantastically gourmet.
I liked the take on "Emma Jo......This Is Your Life" feel to the entry. This makes it so much easier for me to write your unauthorized biography one day when you become famous.
Go for it Elastic...can I be paid royalties in nachos and caramel apples?
Miss Lemasters, deleted comments make me crazy...just what did you want to say??
PS I can't believe I forgot to tell you all this...I always floss before I brush...I feel more thorough, clean through and through that way...but sometimes I leave my makeup on overnight and get a good second day out of it.
YES! The recurring dream! It is the same. It is always a calculus class or a history class. I don't realize until term's end that I was supposed to be attending. By then, I am totally lost, behind, and can't even make it to the building. I actually had this dream just a few days ago.
Now that I am a teacher this dream is intensified--it is not that I'm supposed to be attending the class; it is that I am supposed to be TEACHING it. I always show up in some horrific outfit. Then, the class always has twice as many students as there are desks. And, the icing on the cake, is that the class is always a collection of the most troublesome students I have ever known.
What does this say about us? Probably that I too am very concrete sequential.
I still have my baby blanket, too. I also developed quite the taste for the tuna sandwiches out of the BYU vending machines, and I usually ate one before going to the testing center. I was not born in Sweden, but I was born at Swedish Hospital, which is the same hospital where my husband now works. My recurring dream is that I can breathe under water. I also love your parents and your siblings and your inlaws. My first kiss was also a Clark, but it was not the same Clark as your first kiss, nor the Clark you married. :-)
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