50 Things You May Not Know About Me

(Inspired by Andrea…and Dad)

1. I got busted in High School for cheating in my Calculus class.
2. I always brag and elaborate stories to make myself sound much better then I am.
3. I am irrationally mortified of spiders.
4. I love watching the Disney Channel movies.
5. I eat the chocolate off of the outside of the candy bars before I eat the bar.
6. I want to skydive but I am afraid of heights.
7. I want to do international travel but I have only been to Canada.
8. My DREAM is to ‘teach poor kids to brush their teeth’; translation I want to do humanitarian service. 
9. I love to organize things- pantries, office supplies, ect.
10. I love to dance and wish I were better and more versatile.
11. I talk to myself when I am alone.
12. I think of morbid 911 stories or do interior design in my mind to help me fall asleep at night.
13. I am a ‘social’ person but I am secretly really shy and insecure.
14. I am not a neat freak but I am a clean freak (things must be deep down clean).
15. I love pasta.
16. I love my husband more today than I did the day we got married.
17. I have run down the Southern California beaches in my underwear.
18. I have never tasted alcohol, smoked a cigarette or drank coffee.
19. I was sucked into an underground water drain as a child-it was mortifying and I thought I was going to die.
20. I think I am slightly OCD- closed cabinet doors, toilet paper rolling the right direction, ect.
21. I have never had a job longer than 5 months.
22. I love the smell of a camp fire.
23. I got out of a Spanish Final in HS by throwing my teacher a surprise birthday fiesta.  I knew it wasn’t her birthday!
24. I have the best barfing stories- but I almost never throw up.
25. I have never read a Jane Austen book- but I claim to be one of her biggest fans.
26. I have a list of “CAN’T” goals I am trying to overcome; so far I have not checked off any of them.
27. My FAMILY is the single most important thing to me in the world.
28. I have dissected a human cadaver.
29. I like Tai food.
30. I have worked on a beef farm.
31. I am constantly listening to music- but I never know the artist or the song.
32. I have so many creative ideas and no way to express them.
33. My favorite season is autumn; I would love to see Boston in the fall.
34. I have driven into fences, through parks and through corn fields- all without involving the police.
35. I have eaten a meal worm- fried!
36. I have ridden in an ambulance twice- I don’t remember either time.
37. I have lived both on the east coast and the west coast.
38. My favorite animal is a moose- I have never seen one in the wild.
39. I am told I am too practical.
40. I do not like seafood- but I a trying to be open minded.
41. I like scary movies (not R rates).
42. I actually enjoy watching college sports with my husband; not golf and not on Sunday.
43. I love the outdoors- I could camp for days.
44. I am big on traditions and I am a nester.
45. I have been to Sacrament Meeting in Chinese.
46. I had braces for almost 7 years. I didn’t wear my retainers and now my lower teeth are crooked again.
47. I like the old 1940’s glam (Aubrey Hepburn) and love wearing pearls.
48. I love horseback riding but I don’t go as often as I’d like.
49. I don’t like hand washing dishes- the dishwasher is my favorite invention.
50. I love donuts. Really gooey fried apple fritters are my favorite.

Called Upon to Change

I have been serving in the Young Women’s organization in our ward for the last year and a half and this last week I was released. Combined with the stress of the rest of my month this feels like I am getting fired. I have been very upset and very downtrodden. I love these Young Women. When we moved here and I knew know one- I got to know them. When I had no job and no purpose- I had a call to serve and lead them. I planned projects for them. I organized activities for them. I taught lessons to them. All of which are things that helped ME as a person grow and in the process I was able to work with a great a great Presidency of sisters. I am sad, to say the least- but the new presidency sounds spectacular.


I have been called to teach the CTR 7-8 class in Primary. I have not taught a Primary class since I was 18 and I have not been in Primary since we lived in NYC. Yesterday was my first day I was nervous, still a little upset and honestly didn’t put the energy into it that I would have been proud of. But even in one day, I found that I loved those children. They were a little wild and talkative but attentive and sometimes interested. It was a new experience but one that I enjoyed and I am now getting more excited for this new era in my life.

(One other perk with Primary is I can 'hide' from most of the adults and I don't feel as overwhelmed all day  This was my first positive Sunday in weeks!)