25 Things About Me... 11:33pm
Rules:Once you've been tagged, you are supposed to write a note with 25 random things, facts, habits, or goals about you. At the end, choose 25 people to be tagged. You have to tag the person who tagged you. If I tagged you, it's because I want to know more about you.(To do this, go to "notes" under tabs on your profile page, paste these instructions in the body of the note, type your 25 random things, tag 25 people (in the right hand corner of the app) then click publish.)


This is the first time I have EVER done one of these survey things but since I have been tagged several times today AND I am looking for a diversion from this insane grant I am working on here goes...
1. I used to eat mud pies. I mean I actually ate them- not once but frequently. I knew where the least sandy dirt was that made for a smoother mud pie and I must have had an incredibly strong imagination because I could trick myself to believe they were lovely!
2. I had an appendix attack in 4th grade. I was up all night at the hospital and got home in the morning and then snuck on the school bus even though my mom told me I had to stay home.
3. I decided to stop drinking alcohol when I was 2 years old. Have been clean and sober since. However I continued mixing drinks at my grandma’s bar into my mid teen years when they sold the bar. - I was known as a pretty good bar-keep!
4. I have/had 5 brothers. 1 full, 3half and 1 adopted. I have/had 3 sisters 2 half and one step. So if you are counting that means there were 9 of us! -Now there are only 7.
5. I spent summers at my grandparents in the Trinity Mountains of northern California. It was very hot there and when we couldn’t talk an adult in to taking us to the swimming hole my friends and I would sneak down to the creek and go skinny dipping so we would not get caught with wet clothes! – hey Shanna remember that!
6. My friend and I devised a brilliant plan in 8th grade to stay the night at the vacant house behind my house. We had found the door unlocked a few days before while playing in the back yard and had kinda moved in. We thought we were so cool we had our own house it was sweeet. Somehow her mom found out and we were busted- thank goodness because it turns out there was a serial rapist hiding out there! That is the last time I remember being spanked and one of the only times I might add.
7. My childhood dog George was a one eyed 3 legged chocolate lab that had frequent violent strokes (or seizures). I am not really sure but my mom called them strokes.
8. I was not allowed to have bangs until I started middle school my first haircut- other than a trim was in 9th grade. Needless to say my hair was very long.
9. I am very afraid of bats. There are 8 experiences that have developed that fear.
10. I was forced to watch Poltergeist and that other movie where the girl is watching the fuzzy TV and says “There Heeeere.” When I was like 10 or 11 and I still have nightmares! I do not like horror movies.
11. When I was in 10th grade 26 people lived in my 3 bedroom 1 bath house.
12. My friend Shanna and I thought it would be cool to have polka dot hair so we hole punched our hair! It did not work but we kept trying- then we hid all the hair behind her dresser.
13. I used to love to jump off of high places and land in the water- like cliffs and bridges and large stumps on hills. It makes my heart race thinking about it now. Being a mom has changed my fear threshold.
14. I hate running. I love swimming, hiking, climbing, dancing most other forms of exercise but I hate running.
15. I am eating cottage cheese Triscuts and a banana for dinner at 10:45pm.
16. I am half Scottish and half Irish. My husband is Scottish he immigrated to the USA as a child.
17. I have probably really irritated my friend Mary with my grammar in this post. I missed learning basic punctuation skills in school. So now I do not- (I wanted to use don’t but was not sure if it was correct) know how to correctly use comma or a semi-colon or other such punctuations. I can usually figure it out for work documents or have someone help me. On personal writing it stymies me.
18. I love being outside. I have to go to the Coast or the Gorge at least once a month and just take in the beauty and grander of it all. In the spring and summer I usually spend a day a week hiking in the gorge.
19. I love traveling. I want to go so many places.
20. I love singing. I am not good at it but that does not stop me.
21. I love every part of my life. Family, friends, work it is all so great.
22. I did not know my name until I started kindergarten.
23. I still love playing hide and seek, sardines, kick the can, steal the bacon…. Pretty much any game! Bonus that I get to do that for my job!
24. My biggest fear in life is that I am somehow going to mess up my kids. Or that I will allow them to do something and they will die in an accident.
25. I am actually pretty shy. I do not initiate conversations or friendships outside of work. When it is part of my job I push past myself and just do it, but for some reason I cannot be brave enough to be outgoing outside of work.