This was going around Facebook so I thought I'd post it on here since it took me FOREVER to write!
Rules: Once you've been tagged, you are supposed to write a note with 25 random things, facts, habits, or goals about you. At the end, choose 25 people to be tagged. You have to tag the person who tagged you. If I tagged you, it's because I want to know more about you.
(To do this, go to “notes” under tabs on your profile page, paste these instructions in the body of the note, type your 25 random things, tag 25 people (in the right hand corner of the app) then click publish.)
1. I ignored these notes for as long as I could before I succumbed to the pressure.
2. I have two blogs, not one.
3. I "went out" for my friend Regan's birthday the other day and the next morning I understood for the first time what my dad means when he says he is "too old" for something.
4. I think my mom is the greatest woman in the world and I wish I was more like her. She is independent, strong-willed, a true believer, she lets go when she doesn't have control, she lives her own life and doesn't care what other people think about her, she is sassy.
5. The thought of my Grandpa Oliver still makes me cry, even two years after his death.
6. I could watch Law and Order, CSI, Cold Case, and Without a Trace 24/7 (and I have)
7. When I cook chicken, I never think it is done, one time I cooked it for an hour longer than the recipe called for because I was convinced it was still pink. By the time I stopped cooking it the chicken had no moisture whatsoever.
8. I never asked my parents to teach me how to cook when I was growing up because I didn't want to mess up a perfectly good meal.
9. I make the best cookies in the world, I have my own secret recipe and cooking method, and no, yours are not better.
10. Speaking of which, I hate it when people make cookies from a box, bag, or tube. Making cookies from scratch is not difficult.
11. I've never broken a bone...knock on wood.
12. I've had stitches twice, once to sew my eyelid back on (gruesome isn't it?) and once to sew my chin back together. They both occurred before I was out of elementary school.
13. I plan to move to Italy, just like in "Under the Tuscan Sun" (minus the divorce)
14. I know my husband would do anything in the world for me, he thinks he's lucky I married him, but I'm the lucky one
15. When I was little and visiting my Grandma and Grandpa Steffes, I would walk to the cemetery and let my imagination run wild. I would read the names and imagine the lives that they lived, the secrets that the kept, the letters that they wrote, the sorrow that the felt, the lovers that they had. Even today I can't drive past a cemetery without my mind wandering to what untold secrets the decesed took to their graves.
16. I feel the same way about old buildings. I imagine what occured in those rooms, who sat on that furniture, what document was signed on that desk, what child hid in that corner.
17. I could have been a creative writer with the way my imagination takes off when I'm around old things.
18. Since I've gotten married, I've fallen asleep around 8pm more days than I care to admit.
19. I have clips of Wayside School is Falling Down stuck in my head. For example, when I come across the number nineteen I think of this: (excerpt from Wikipedia) The 19th story does not exist. The reason is that the building was inadvertently built with story 20 directly on top of story 18. The teacher of this class is the fictional Miss Zarves. In
Sideways Stories from Wayside School, the 19th chapter is omitted and in its place is a message stating that the 19th "story" does not exist. In
Wayside School Is Falling Down, Allison accidentally ends up in it.
20. When I walk into a classroom and all the students are sitting at their desks with the lights off I think of Wayside School again, when one student was assigned to turn the lights on every morning but she was late to school one day and the class sat in the dark the whole time. After reading that chapter I had nightmares about not showing up to school on time and my class having to learn in the dark.
21. I think I got my sense of style from the clothes my mom bought me in England and the Madeline doll I played with. I'm obsessed with black and white clothing and girly floral dresses.
22. I really want a dog. Really, really want a dog! But Eric thinks we are too busy, and we probably are. But we have no trouble taking care of Ruby Hubbard when she comes to visit.
23. I have always dreamed of getting my PhD and being known as Dr. Steffes, just like my dad. I went through withdrawl when I realized I would be Dr. Hasty.
24. I'm a bit boastful of the fact that I will be the first Dr. Hasty.
25. I love my friends and I miss them terribly. I'm really proud of everything they are doing with their lives, especially those in Chicago, NYC, KC, St. Louis, California, and even those who stayed in Columbia with me....you know who you girls are. We may not talk much but I think about you everyday.
