50 Random Things About Me

I saw this on Friend's blog and thought it was fun and surprisingly informative, so here I go with 50 Random Things About Me:

1. I don't like to be the center of attention
2. I can't go out of town and leave a messy house behind
3. and yet my kitchen is currently a wreck
4. I use soap or conditioner when I shave
5. I've organized my craft room several times, but have only made a few things in it
6. I typically don't know what we're having for dinner until about 30 minutes before eating it
7. I love to cook but I don't always do it
8. I work with the 5 year olds in my ward--
9. Other than a 6 month self-appointed sabbatical, I've been in primary since we've been married
10. Just in the last two months I have started to love junior primary (it used to be on the "dreaded callings list" right below nursery
11. I have to get 8 hours of sleep, minimum, and that's when I'm not pregnant
11.5 I don't need as much sleep now as I did when I was teaching
12. One of the best lessons I learned from in college was to cut corners ((Jen, you might notice that I copied your first 9 things-- because hey, I relate to them and that will save me time and thinking)
13. Oh my goodness, my new favorite restaurant (as of last Friday) is The Cheesecake Factory--Yummy, yummy, yummy!
14. I love Thai Food--and I ate a ton of it when I was pregnant
15. I could live in England--I think. I might miss the blue skies.
16. I am a blog addict. I love to blog. I love my blog. I look at it daily. I admire it. I love the pictures on it and I love that cute little boy all over it. I sometimes have to refrain myself from adding more entries because I feel I have already met the quota for the week. I thrive on comments-- the more comments in my day the better...
17. I crave junk food when I am menstruating-- like, ravenously
18. I blame swimming for my big shoulders--Mike says they're genetic. They're just fat.
19. I swam a 1250 meters in 25 minutes today (that's actually really slow but my point is still on the big shoulders--James was in the day care at the Rec. Center
20. James had me up feeding him every 2 1/2 hours last night--you'd think I'd use this time to go to bed, but oh no, I'd rather blog
21. 21 is my lucky number
22. I married into an awesome family! I always wanted to have 8 kids when I grew up, now I'll just enjoy that in siblings-in-law
23. I always wanted to marry a Utah boy--and am so glad that I did
23.5 I am married to the most wonderful, loving, fun, hilarious, playful, hard working, smart, tender, caring, thoughtful, unselfish, sweltering hot boy in the whole world and I love him!
24. To marry a Grand Junction Boy was my worst nightmare
25. I'm halfway through and am wondering how else I can cut corners (go College Degree)
26. We named our cat after BYU's mascot
27. I am a Sarah Brightman fan-- 1/5 of my iPod Playlist is her
27.5 We got our iPod for free
28. Nacho Libre and Thoroughly Modern Millie continue to be my two favorite movies
29. I don't like Jane Austen, I don't like Pride and Prejudice, and I do not relate to Elizabeth Bennett (did I just admit that in public?)
30. I got my first pedicure a month ago and loved it!
31. I wish I were more of a girly-girl
32. I have the best family ever. My parents are the nicest and most accommodating people you'll ever meet and my siblings are some of my best friends
33. I'm anxiously awaiting my acceptance letter into the Master Gardening Course at Thanksgiving Point
34. Don Aslett, Larry Sagers, and of course, Sarah Brightman are all referred to on a first name basis in our home
35. Sometimes I wish I were a blonde
36. I'm a wannabe dancer and singer but not good at either
37. For the last year I've been saving every receipt of ours telling Mike and myself that I am going to start logging our spending
38. I have ziplock bag full of un-logged receipts
39. I like to make up words, over-use commas, and I love parenthesis--oh yea, I love hyphens too. My sentences are wordy and I'm inconsistent when it comes to using periods to end phrases.
40. I love to canoe down the Brule River
41. All my cousins live far away and I miss them
42. I thrive on de-cluttering. I get a high off of throwing things away. I love trash--as in I put every possible thing in it. Some might say that I'm Anal
43. I do collect books and have way too many of them
44. I was so glad that Joshua won "So You Think You Can Dance!" I voted for him on three different phones and I'm convinced that's why he won.
45. I don't like projects and yet I have a huge one engulfing our whole entire family room
46. I'm an FHE nazi and Mike Loves it!
47. We're reading the BOM in Bislama right now. We're in 2nd Nephi 6. We started it like 3 years ago.
47.5 Bislama is the language that Mike spoke on his mission to Vanuatu
48. I know Mike would love it if I were his personal secretary--and I try, I do.
49. Though I love to organize, I'm not so precise nor am I detail oriented
50. Remember? College taught me to cut corners-- aka laziness not precision.

And that, my friends, makes 50 random--very random things that you all wish you had known much sooner.