25 Random Things About Me

Honest to goodness. I've been tagged to do this approximately 47 times, so I'm going to get it over with. Then I'm going to tag 25 people to do the same and hope that they haven't already done it on their page. I can't promise I'm going to check all 25 of them to make sure. If you do get tagged and haven't done it. Take the plunge. And tag 25. If you have done it, ignore me.

Twenty Five Random Things About Me:

1) I married my teacher. We were both graduate students, so it's not as scandalous as it sounds. Yes, of course I got an A.

2) I always unlock my car doors when driving over a bridge. I keep hoping that someone is going to get me one of those little things that shatters a window when you touch one with it but I don't think anyone I know wants to feed my phobia anymore than it is already. The new bridge in town is delightful, but is much, much too high. Just more velocity for the car to pick up on the way down...

3) I wanted three children for as long as I can remember but thought we would only have two. I got lucky (and have a tolerant, wonderful husband who trusts that I am smarter than he is on topics that count.)

4) I am not a picky eater at all. But, I feel really funny about strange, not completely identifiable meats. Bacon- good. Sausage- bad.

5) I used to own a snake. A ball python named Jake. This makes me sound all granola-y and hippie and alternative. But I'm not. At all.

6) I used to be extremely shy. Painfully. Didn't talk to anyone. No one who knows me now quite believes me when I say this. Thank God for college.

7) I am still happy I married the man I did and can honestly say that I know with 100% certainty that he feels the same. It will be 10 years in July. It is not always a cake walk, but it is always worth it.

8) I think I have excellent taste in food. I'm not promising to be a fabulous cook (although I am pretty darn good) but I can tell a good recipe when I see it. I have found that not everyone can say that.

9) If I had unlmited funds and time and was better at chemistry, I'd go to medical school for fun. I absolutely don't want to be a doctor. The stress and hours sounds miserable. But, I think it would be fun to get all that knowlegge.

10) The best job I ever had was as an adjunct professor at a jr. college. Dream Job. The worst job I ever had was as an assistant in a botany lab. Terrible. I walked out after a few weeks and just never went back.

11) It takes a while for people to make it into my "friends for life" circle. But once they're there, they don't get out. I have tons of "friends" but a very small group of GOOD friends. They are a very ecclectic bunch and I adore them and many of them don't know each other. They live all over the country and I talk to some of them every day, some of them once a month and some of them a few times a year. You know who you are...

12) I hate reading directions. Secretly I always suspect that I am smarter than the people who wrote them anyway and would probably do just as well figuring it out myself. I'm usually wrong.

13) I had my first two children without an epidural (and a combined 25 hours of hard labor between the two of them). I had an epidural for the last one since I was induced and thought that pitocin would be a little much. I highly recommend going without the epidural if you can. They suck. In a different way than labor pain, but they suck.

14) I taught public middle school for 4 years and will probably not return. Loved the kids. Loved teaching. Loved the administration. Liked most of the parents. Hated the official paperwork, senseless meetings and all the crap we expect our teachers to do when they should be educating children. Also hated that bad teachers are so hard to get rid of.

15) I will be happy never to move from our current home. Not because I love it so much (although I do) but because moving sucks ( I should know) and I don't want to sell a house. It sounds really complicated and time consuming and as though it will require an extensive amount of cleaning and patience and disruption of my life. None of which sound appealing. We'll just build an addition. At some point...

16) I am a fanatic about nutrition for children. Don't get me started on school cafeteria lunches...

17) I have the best ideas. I am a great planner. I am not a good follow-through-er.

18) I am afraid to fly by myself. I've done it enough, but it's easier to fly when my children are with me. My rationale is that God isn't likely to take all my children out at the same time. Sort of my own spiritual equivalent of the terrorists buffering themselves with women and children. Traveling with only one of the children makes me not know what to think, so I try not to do it.

19) The relationships in the family I grew up in (my parents, my sister and myself) are totally functional. Parents are married and love each other. My sister and I talk at least once a day and adore each other. We adore our parents and love being together. Sadly, I find this unusual.

20) I have had "bad knees" since high school.

21) I attribute my total abhorence of running to number 20. I may be lying to myself.

22) I love to read and lose myself in books. My sister and I once had a completely serious and rational debate about which Hogwarts house we would have been in. After lengthy discussion, we determined that we would have both been in Griffindor. Duh.

23) I have never colored my hair. The Scientist has said since we met that he hopes I never color it to cover grey. The jury is still out on that for me.

24) I love travel in all forms. International. Local. Cross-country. I think nothing of loading the kids up and setting off on an odyssey. They are all good travelers. They have no choice.

25) I have gotten much more religious with age.