20 Things

I've done this once before and it's been some time, but decided to follow suit of a blogger that I follow and do it again. 
It's always fun to read about other peoples quirks, hangups, and preferences.
I don't know why but it is.
We are all individuals and though some of us have similarities...
We are still all unique.

Here are 20 things about me.

 

1

Aside from the common pet peeve of people who chew their food and gum insanely loud...
I hate the sound of buttering toast.
A snow shovel on cement is a close 2nd.
That sound to me is like nails down a chalk board and it's been that way since I was a little girl.
If your looking for a way to make me crawl out of my skin...
There ya go.

 

2

I don't believe I actually have one favorite color.
I have a tendency to hop and no one in my family can really seem to keep track.
Was blue, then red, then pink, then purple...

Now I'm pretty sure it's teal even though my yarn choices have been gravitating towards pink again. 
Ask me next week and I may have more of a definite answer...
but for now my favorite color is... Rainbow

 

 

3
I've always claimed to love scary movies and I do but at the same time I don't.
Demon possession and violent ghost movies scare the crap out of me and especially when children are involved.
I avoid those at all cost.
I get extreme anxiety around those and I think it's because I'm a mom of 2 and I have a hard time disconnecting from the characters... even if they aren't my children and its fiction.
But what's worse is if its a movie based on the supposed actual, real life, events.
No thank you.
Don't really think I'm a fan of scary movies after all.

4
I'm a sucker for movies like "High School Musical".

I'm pretty sure a part of me stopped maturing past junior high because I love those Disney Channel movies that are clearly aimed towards girls that are 15 yrs younger than me.
Now that Zac Effron is a little older I don't feel so bad for thinking he is cute.  My teenage me and my adult me had a moral conflict so I'm glad that has passed.
Teen drama is usually what I'm drawn to on Netflix,
I seriously don't know what's wrong with me.

 

 

5

I still love the boy group Hanson.
17 years later and MmmBop is still fresh in my head.
Granted they have newer tracks but my heart will always belong to those long haired, roller bladers that had many of us stumped if they were guys or girls when that music video first came out. 
I think it's pretty cool that they are all married and have kids now but still continue to tour.
I dream to see them in concert sometime. :)
I plan on wearing the Hanson shirt that my grandma got me when I was 12.
Yes it still fits.

6

I am incredibly far sighted.
I've had glasses since I was 9 and contacts since I was 12 and seriously can't read anything without them.
I also have astigmatism so even with things held far from my face, I still can't focus on what I'm seeing.
You'll rarely see me in glasses because the lenses are so thick and my eyes look HUGE.
Seriously.
It's comical.

 

7

I suffered from a MS like attack when I was 15 yrs old.
They called it Transverse Myelitis.
It's been described as the prelude to MS but a recurrence is rare.
I'd lost feeling from hip down on my right side and mid ribcage down on my left side.
MRI and spinal tap results showed nothing.
Chiropractic work had to be done to realign my hips and decompress the vertebrates in my lower back due to injury from my inability to properly walk or turn.
I wasn't allowed to sit as part of my treatment. 
Only stand or lay down.
I wasn't allowed to shiver or chill so I had a space heater in the bathroom for when I got out of the shower.

Pretty freaky right?!
Looking back at that now, I can't believe that happened.

 

8
I've only had one broken bone in my life which was my radius, right below my elbow, on my left arm.
I fell while getting off a trampoline to kiss the neighbor boy on the cheek.
Yup.
Wasn't doing anything cool or special.... Just trying to get my clumsy self off of the stupid thing and tumbled right over.
Maybe I should tell people that I beat Chuck Norris at a back flip competition and he retaliated.
That sounds much cooler.

9

I learned how to tie my roller skates before I learned how to tie my shoes.
I went to daycare at a roller rink and have been skating since I was 3 yrs old.
I still often times dream of that roller rink and when I do, I'm usually some awesome skater that is fluttering across the rink, doing triple axles and what not.
I'm not that good but I can at least stay upright.

 

10
I use to sleep with this scrap of fabric that once was a tiny pillow.
I was the only one that could smell this special smell of it and would fall asleep at night with it up to my nose.
My husband had me put it away when I was 21 yrs old.
It's in my sock drawer and every once in a while I'll pull it out to see if it still had that special smell.
It doesn't which is probably a good thing or I'd sneak it into bed at age 28.

11
I have a total of 13 tattoos.
Most of them are easily covered and a couple are too small to really notice.
I've got a vine cross on my foot.
Music note with wings on my right hip.
tiny cross on my left ring finger.
treble cleft on my right wrist.
bass clef on my left.
Sleeping baby bunny with to daisies on the inside of my right forearm
The Scream on my upper left arm and shoulder.
1 Corinthian 13;4-7 in a spiral on my right shoulder.
"K2TOG" in tiny red letters on my right collar bone.
A daisy on the back of my neck.
Psalm 139 on my right shoulder blade.
My son's footprint and name on my left shoulder blade.
My daughter's footprint and name below my son's.
I would very much like to get more but I am very particular...
after all, it's going to be on my body forever so I better make sure that it has meaning and placed properly.

12
I absolutely love Mother's Day.
I think I look forward to do that day more than my birthday.
It's the one day a year that I get to share and celebrate with my mom and sister.
It's a day recognizing the hard work I put into my children day in and day out.
And now that I'm a mom, it is a day when I can show my mom just how thankful I am for the things she did for me when I was little.
It's hard work being a parent and it's definitely something worth celebrating over.

13
Id have Christmas lights hung in my home all year round if I could.
Unfortunately my husband does not find them to be near as magical as I do and I respect the fact that this is his home too enough to take them down after Christmas.

14
I once sang in Carnegie Hall when I was 18 with my High School choir.
The top 7 high school choirs in the US were chosen to learn the same music and meet in NYC for a concert.
One of the coolest experiences of my life.

15
I am quite fond of thrift stores.
I usually go in them when I have something in mind though otherwise I end up purchasing things I really don't need.
I have found beautiful quilts,
a cafe table for our kitchen (actually that was my husbands find),
picture frames for refurbishing and re purposing,
vases,
beautiful Pyrex,
and my favorite pair of sunglasses among other things.

16
 I'll share something a little embarrassing here...
I found out a few months ago that Pickles were actually cucumbers.
I had just assumed that Pickles were a thing of their own because on the container it says "Pickles".
Not pickled cucumbers.
and why would I think to look at the ingredients because, hey, the container says that they are pickles.
And yet so many people have learned this when they were little and some how I missed that tidbit of information.
You could imagine the mind blow I had when I asked my husband about pickle juice and if he thought they juiced pickles to get juice to put in the jar with the pickles.
Not my proudest moment but hey... whatever.

17
Every year on Christmas day my husband and I eat at a truck stop restaurant right off the interstate.
Our first Christmas together was spent there late night after a day of movie watching and spending time with family.
We have made it a tradition and though it does not sound like much of a tradition...
It is for us and one of my favorites.

18
I had braces when I was younger to correct an over bite and straighten out some crowded teeth.
It's been 11 years since I got them off and I still wear my retainers to bed.
Braces aren't cheap and I enjoy my straight teeth so I'll wear them for the rest of my life if I have to.

19
I'm allergic to cats and yet I still own 3 of them.
I just can't touch my eyes after petting them and keep their kitty kisses to a minimum.

20
I've always thought of myself as socially awkward.
I have a hard time socializing with a group of people I do not know and so it takes effort for me to engage.
I think some of that is based off of a fear of rejection or maybe insecurity or something stupid like that.
I look different compared to some of the people I'm surrounded by, don't have fancy clothes, metal shoved in my face, and am usually accompanied by two tiny people that become quite the distraction.
When I start feeling comfortable you may find that I have a dry sense of humor that somehow comes off as witty, have some what inappropriate jokes, and occasionally struggle with volume control.
But I'm genuine and a loyal friend.


Well I did it.
It was actually really hard for me to think of 20 things to share.
you'd expect that it would be super easy to talk about yourself like this but for me it was incredibly time consuming and thought provoking.
If you have a blog and decide to do this...
please comment on this blog with where I can read yours. :)

Hope your week is splendorful so far!

-Caren