More About Me!

A Few Years Ago

I was tagged with one of those “Tell Us 100 Things About You” tags, so rather than make a lame, huge blog about it, I’ll just make a lame, huge page about it. More about my Hubby and Kid (and a decent pic) to follow.

1. I love scary movies. Really! Any scary movie that isn’t rated “R” I will watch. I also love all of M. Night Shamalamanramalammadingdong’s movies (The Villiage, Unbreakable, The Sixth Sense).

2. I can’t stand to blow my nose. I will sniff and sniff and sniff until I can’t sniff anymore. Only then will I force myself to get a tissue and blow my nose. Something about the snot and the blowing and the snot. Just. Gross.

3. My husband and I have been trying to get pregnant with baby number 2 for about 22 months.

4. I have two toothbrushes and I can’t use the same one twice. I.E. If I used the blue one at night, I have to use the green one in the morning, then blue, then green. I also can’t have a toothbrush for more than a month at a time. In fact, going for a month (FOUR WHOLE WEEKS, PEOPLE) is usually pushing it a little far. Needless to say, we buy our toothbrushes at Costco.

5. Ahem, I also alternate the toothpaste from a.m. to p.m. Hey, different toothpastes do different things!

6. For those who don’t know me personally, I have been married for 5 years to the most amazing man on this planet.

7. I will be 30 this year. Really! I think this means that I can’t wear my hair in funny, scrunched up pigtails anymore, huh? I had a friend who treated it like it’s the end of the world for me. Ahem…she is close to 40…(hey, 35 is closer to 40 than it is to, um, 18!).

8. We just bought our first home in January of last year. We LOVE it. It’s very fun to paint and decorate any where in the house any way we choose.

9. When I’m all alone and just doing stuff on the computer, I really like to chew my gum loudly. LIKE A COW. I chomp and chaw and smack and pop bubbles loudly and just make a disgusting pig of myself. I think this is because as a child I was not aloud to chew gum (or anything else for that matter) with my mouth open. My dad would even make my friends spit out their gum if they chewed it loud! Though at the time I was embarrased, I’m glad for the lesson, cuz, I mean, chewing with your mouth open and popping bubbles and all that stuff, totally rude! So, thanks Dad.

10. I don’t think there is any possible way that I can tell you 100 interesting things about myself and not bore.you.to.absolute.tears.

11. I LOVE to give talks in church. Many have found this to be a very odd quality. It wouldn’t be the first one.

12. When I am stressed or am having a bad day, I love to just sit at the table and color. Doesn’t matter what book it is and I don’t like to color with crayons, but with colored pencils and a sharpener handy to keep the points up.

13. See that header up there? The one with me and my brother duking it out on “Rock ‘em, Sock ‘em Robots”? He’s mad because I keep sockin’ his robot’s head off. It’s a wonderful Christmas memory to me because I could NEVER beat my brother at ANYTHING while we were growing up. He has always whooped my booty at sports, school, and just about anything else. I can’t tell you how good it felt to keep knockin that robot’s head off. Silly that something like that should give me a sense of accomplishment!! : )

14. I like to iron!! Just put a good chick flick on and I’ll iron all afternoon long!

15. I have two younger brothers; Richard is 28 and lives in Portland, Oregon, and Michael is 22 and lives in Tucson, AZ.

16. I wear flip-flops all year ’round. In December, I wear the fuzzy Oregon Duck flip flops that my little bro sent me, but they are still flip flops!

17. Hi, my name is Sarah and I’m a Dr. Pepper aholic. I count down the minutes until 10 a.m. every morning. I have to have a cut-off time or I’ll wake up and drink it in a mug!!! I even went to Dublin, TX and toured the ORIGINAL Dr. Pepper plant and brought a Dr. Pepper shirt, hat, koozie, and Dr. Pepper beef jerky. I didn’t share with my husband.

18. I’m trying to convince my husband that the color pink is a trendy and cool color. It’s not working. I hope we get pregnant with a girl.

19. Um…now I’m 30.

20. My dad was in the big CA earthquake of ‘89 and I thought for sure that he was never gonna come home. It was scary.

21. I don’t like the dark.

22. I own a gun.

23. I’ve owned lots of guns in my life. Including a mini-14. It was cool.

24. I’ve been married before. No kids. Just a lot of heartache.

25. Since I’ve been married, I have ruined EVERY surprise Christmas, Birthday, Anniversary, or other holiday by guessing what my gift is going to be. I cannot rest until I smell, touch, sniff, weigh, shake, rattle and other wise maul my gift until I have figured out what it is. And if it’s not tangable, I only need 3 clues and it’s OVER!! I have yet to be surprised….

26. I like women’s gymnastics.

27. I have been deeply hurt and betrayed by close family members. I still love them. And I even like them.

28. I have a disease. It’s rare and rather scary…it’s called Animalitis. I just can’t get enough. Especially when I get baby hungry…you can tell that I’m specifically yearning for something to nurture when the animal count is up past 4…right now we are at 5. Better get crackin’!

29. I don’t feel pretty if my toes aren’t painted. I like to have a pedicure every 6 weeks cuz otherwise, I feel frumpy!

30. I have my degree in Early Childhood Education and I don’t do a thing with it except experiment on my son.

31. I used to work at Ace Hardware in the garden shop and I LOVED it.

32. I stared out my college career (and my new life without said loser ex-husband) by working at Burger King. It was really, really tough and I would recommend that all young people work at least one month in fast food so you can empathize a little with the people behind the counter.

33. I discovered that the managers who worked at BK were skimming money every night from the drive through register.

34. They gave me a heafty envelope full of cash to turn my head and keep working the drive through window in my own friendly fashion.

35. I accepted the money, turned my head and paid for another semester’s tuition at college with that money.

36. I have always felt guilty for this.

37. I turned down the next two envelopes of money.

38. But I watched lots of employees take boxes of whopper’s out of the freezer to use at their kids barbeque’s and never said anything about it.

39. Again, more guilt.

40. I was glad to move up and work at Golden Corral where there was no corruption. Oh, wait…during November and December, the money taken for those YUMMY rolls was never rung up on the register, it just went into an envelope under the cash drawer for the “Christmas Bonus” that we never saw.

41. I am incredibly long winded. I mean, LOOK at all that wrote up there! SHEESH!

42. I LOVE the smell of rain.

43. I’ve never lived in any other state than Arizona.

44. My very favorite band is Sister Hazel. They are from Florida but I got to see them once when they were on tour and on their way to Tucson. It was one of the most incredble concerts I have EVER been to, and I’ve been to lots! (they whooped DMB!)

45. I have been married for nearly 6 years.

46. I have a son with orange hair and glasses.

47. I am pregnant and having another boy.

48. I’m glad I’m having a boy and not a girl.

49. I just edited the first 45 things about me because they were freakin’ long!

50. I have been knock-me-out-I-don’t-remeber-what-the-heck-went-on-last-night drunk ONE time.

51. I used to smoke. Camel lights.

52. I used to drink alchohol. A LOT of alchohol. ANY alchohol.

53. I haven’t had a drink for 7 1/2 years and not smoked for 7.

54. I hate the smell of smoke and I will puke if stuck in a confined space with it.

55. I have relatives who I won’t miss when they die.

56. I have suffered from depression in the past.

57. I think it’s rude when other people say, “Oh, isn’t my kid soooo cute?” because usually, if I were to be honest, I would have to answer, “Uh, not so much”.

58. It’s very hard for me not to elaborate on my list of things. Keeping it simple just isn’t my style!

59. I really want chickens and a donkey in my backyard.

60. I get mad at my husband when he says that I cannot have a donkey, so we don’t talk about it anymore.

61. I really like almost all the songs by Regina Specktor. Gila Man can’t stand her (or Deirdre Flint).

62. I hate it when my husband knows more about something than I do. If he knows more about a certain car or country, I will go online and research and find out everything I can so I can talk about it with him and not just feel like a dumb girl. Except for motorcycles. I don’t know much about them even though my hubby totally loves motorcycles (and so do I). It’s kinda his “thing” and that’s ok with both of us.

63. I very rarely stop to think about what I’m saying if I see someone doing something stupid or doing something that could cause harm to themselves or those around them. Then they get mad at me for not minding my own business. Then are bitter wen things turn out to be hurtful for themselves or others. It’s a no-win situation.

64. When I worked at the hotel in Safford, AZ, a guest invited me to “visit” him in his room when I got off of my shift. I told him I couldn’t. He gave me A LOT of money to have dinner with him at the resteraunt accross the street the next evening. He proposed to me the next evening. I told him no. He was like 45 years old. It was weird.

65. I have always, always, owned animals. I remember mashing my face up against the back sliding glass door and seeing what I thought at the time was yellow ground – it was really a back yard FULL of little chicks my dad had got a “deal” on from the feedstore.

66. I helped butcher chickens, rabbits, turkeys, pigs, goats, and a steer. We raised our own meat and had a HUGE garden we ate out of. I remember our neighbors thought we were monsters.

67. I have never not owned an animal.

68. My son was diagnosed with Autism by a woman who runs a Autism spectrum intervention program. Our doctors told us that it was a load of crap and so did his pre-school teachers, but I still get knots in my stomach when I think about it too much.

69. We moved often as a kid, so I don’t have any childhood friends who I am still in touch with.

70. I didn’t get my driver’s license until I was 17.

71. My dad made me learn how to change the tires and change the oil on every vehicle we owned before I could buy my own car. At the time, my parents owned a huge, ginormous green 4-door Chevy truck, a Honda Civic, and a light blue VW bug. I got a little Nissan pickup and had to change the oil, check the fluids and change the tires on it before I could get my license.

72. I hated, really HATED high school until my senior year. I am embarrased to even look at my yearbook, that’s how much I resent what I did and who I was back then.

73. My first kiss was to a guy named Kermit during my freshman year (his real name was worse).

74. My favorite thing ever during high school was acting – I still think it’s so fun to do silly things in front of people.

75. I don’t like ugly feet. I try not to judge, but if you have ugly feet, there are cute tennis you can wear people!!

76. Is forthcoming.