26 Random Things

I love serial killers and believe in the death penalty (depending on particular factors or the crime and evidence).

I kind of regret not applying for the FBI academy. There’s only about a .025 percent change that I would have been accepted, but ever since I saw Silence of the Lambs, I wanted to be Clarice (minus the actual things that happened to her). I don’t know if I actually have the stomach to handle crime scenes, but I suspect it’s something you eventually get used to.

I was obsessed with plain M&M’s as a child. I remember being so excited when I got a 1 lb bag of m&m’s as part of my birthday present. Today I wouldn’t pick them as a top 5 candy, but I’d eat them if they were right there.

My whole family loves cheese, except one of my nephews. I always tell him that he’s weird.

We also like sweets and call my mom’s house Sugarland. We didn’t have a lot of sweets growing up, except for homemade chocolate chip cookies and brownies.

I usually need a snack when we’re driving to my parents for the weekend (3 hours away), and I sneak and eat it so Boof doesn’t know or else she’ll be up in my grill and try to sit up front in the car. As I’m unwrapping something, I keep peeking over my shoulder at her, and Lo just laughs about it.  I’ll be hiding food from Jenson soon too, I’m sure.

My favorite movie is Teen Wolf (MJ Fox original) and I know all of the words, but only to the tv version because we taped it from TV and I watched it every day after school in 6^th grade. My sister Summer watched it a lot too, and we still use quotes from it with each other

Summer and I also practiced the Saturday Night Live version on Salt N’Pepa “Shoop” dance (also taped from TV) regularly after school in 9^th and 10^th grade.

My friend Stacy and I used to know the Vanilla Ice “Ice Ice Baby” dance too, and we’d video ourselves doing it and do it for school talent shows. We never won.

I grew up on a farm. We didn’t have a ton of farm animals and weren’t that involved in their care, but I’ve plucked chickens before. My dad worked in a car plant and he’d get home and watch some tv, and always nap for a bit in his recliner. He’d suddenly put down the footrest on his recliner (usually after snoring and waking himself up) and jump up and say “Well, gotta go feed the cows”. My parents still live there and now only have a porch cat (who can’t meow). I loved growing up with all that land and would LOVE to have that much someday.

I own a TON of makeup. I wear very little each day (powder foundation, concealer, and blush)

I have a resting bitchface, but I’m actually very caring and people constantly confide in me

I used to rarely cry (or feel the need to), but I’m a super-softy now after having Jenson (but I still try to hide it if I’m upset- which is easy because of the resting bitchface). I’m especially soft towards babies and animals. I guess it’s my new mothering instinct. I want to roam parking lots for a living to make sure no one leaves an animal or kid in a hot car in the summer.

I can’t help but laugh when people fall, unless it looks super serious or they are in a fragile state (like pregnant or elderly). Sometimes I ask if people are okay first, but sometimes I can’t even do that. I know it’s so rude, but it’s a complete reaction. I try to hide it if I’m in public or I don’t know the person. I laugh when I fall too, so it’s fair, right?

I hate the crunch sound of stepping on a spider. I try to drop something that will make a lot of noise to kill it so I can’t hear it crunch (if Lo isn’t around to smash it). When I lived at home, I’d trap spiders under something so my dad could kill them when he got home. His reaction was usually “what’s wrong with you!” (um, I don’t like spiders)

I have a fear of stepping on and squishing worms or toads (usually in rainy weather)

I’ve been to a ton of concerts, but I can’t pick a favorite, nor could I ever remember them all to make a list. Some were more fun because of people I was with, others were amazing performances (but not as fun circumstances/company).

I don’t want to move out of the U.S., but after going to Howth, Ireland for several hours while in Dublin in 2010, I really, really feel like I’m meant to be there or lived there in another life. It was eerie how much it felt like home to me. I think about it all the time.  It’s just a little fishing village with nothing going on.

All my life I have reoccurring dreams of going up a really, really steep – almost vertical – mountain or hill in a car, and I’m sure the car is going to flip. I usually have it when I feel overwhelmed or stressed about something. The closest I’ve felt to that was riding up Wailua Canyon in Kauai, Hawaii in an open air jeep.   Sometimes this dream is a tidal wave instead.

I’ve never been on an all-inclusive vacation…and that needs to happen sometime when I’m not pregnant or breastfeeding.