My birthday was this past weekend and in anticipation of having a fun family weekend I prepped this post sharing 36 things you may not know about me. Now... this was HARD for me because I do feel like I've been an open book on here for so many years but I'm hoping the majority of this list will be things most of y'all don't already know. ;)
1 - Cereal is my favorite dessert. Seriously. I'll take a bowl of Cap'n Crunch or Froot Loops over a cookie pretty much any day of the week.
2 - I HAVE to have a heavy blanket on when I sleep. Dave can sleep on top of the covers with no problems which I just don't understand. I need everything to be covered by sheets and a blanket except for my face and MAYBE a foot.
3 - I had a cat growing up named Snowball the Snow Queen Snow Princess. And she wasn't completely white.
4 - When I get stressed out I clean/organize. Making one area of my life feel "together" somehow makes the rest feel more manageable.
5 - I'm a "sympathetic blusher". If something happens to someone else that's embarrassing my face will turn bright red.
6 - In the third grade my mom and I sponge painted my bedroom and I don't think I've ever been so happy with how a room makeover turned out. It was purple and turquoise and pink and SCREAMED 1993.
7 - My favorite chips are salt and vinegar. I'll eat them until my tongue hurts :)
8 - In the 8th grade I went to Hurricane Harbor (a local water park) and my bathing suit bottom got caught on something on a slide and RIPPED. I hit the water at the bottom and the lifeguard kept blowing his whistle for me to get out. I had to wait for a friend to bring me a towel and still have a hard time going down a waterslide without shorts over my suit.
9 - The only team sport I played growing up was soccer when I was about 5. My team was The Fraggles and I loved braiding grass on the sidelines :)
10 - I have a really hard time eating eggs that other people have prepared. Buffet eggs are a definite no.
11 - I won an art contest when I was young (like 4/5) and the prize was an armoire (seriously). That white armoire was in my room almost through high school :)
12 - My locker in 7th grade was #711
13 - I read A Tree Grows in Brooklyn no less than a dozen times in middle and high school. Cried every time.
14 - My mom and I used to knit scarves and sell them at craft fairs.
15 - I attended the '86 Olympics in Calgary (I was 2)
16 - My least favorite noise in the entire world is sniffling/snorting. JUST BLOW YOUR NOSE!!!
17 - When I lived in NC I used to ride horses and I competed in hunter jumping. I rode an ex-race horse who was almost 18 hands tall and loved every minute of it.
18 - As far as I'm concerned the only gum anyone should be chewing is Spearmint :)
19 - I'll pick a mechanical pencil over a regular pencil all day every day.
20 - I don't like ice in my water. I like it chilled... but not icy.
21 - I went to year-round school in NC and would switch to year-round school in a HEARTBEAT if it was offered here.
22 - I had no idea that tea could be "iced" until I moved to NC
23 - I don't eat anything that comes from the ocean. I've tried it all and I'm sorry... but it all tastes fishy. All of it. Everyone always raves about fish and I really wish I liked it, but I just can not.
24 - After an unfortunate "exorcist-style" incident my Freshman year of high school I can no longer drink red Gatorade. Even the smell of it makes my eyes water a little bit.
25 - I stink at bowling. Also, my thumb hurts every time I bowl.
26 - I had my appendix removed in the 5th grade.
27 - I went to a sleepover with a new friend in 6th grade and didn't realize until I showed up that her dad was the surgeon who had removed my appendix the year before.
28 -I once ate chicken foot stew in Jamaica.
29 - In college I got a job as a hostess at Rock Fish... I quit during training because it smelled too much like fish.
30 - I love the smell of coffee but can't stand the taste.
31 - I got banned from kayaking at camp after multiple tipovers and rescues :)
32 - I use the seat warmer in my car every day. Even when it's 100 degrees outside.
33 - I had my ears pierced when I was around 5 and they grew over. I had them repierced by a friend in the bathroom during a middle school dance. I know.
34 - I spent over a week on a boat on the Amazon river during college - the sky at night was UNREAL and is something I'd love to experience again.
35 - My middle name is Jean after my dad's grandmother Nana Jean who, from the stories I've been told, was a PARTY ;)
36 - I once made a model of the Colosseum out of a cheese wheel box.
HAPPY Monday, friends!!!
