7 Things

I’m going to try and write a post about 7 things you probably don’t know about me. Mom, don’t comment on this post and say, “I knew all that already.” because I’m pretty sure I don’t even know something about me that you don’t.

I stole this idea from http://cfhusband.blogspot.com/2008/09/7-more-things.html, but don’t worry, he said I could.

1. My favorite comfort food is that shell macaroni and cheese with the velveeta style cheese. I know it’s terrible for me. I don’t really know what gets into me, but when I make a box of it, I usually eat the whole thing unless somebody else is home. It’s like chocolate… only cheese.

2. I am highly motivated by money. I don’t know if that means I’m greedy, but it’s true. In order to keep this drive in me from taking over my psyche, I find small money-making schemes to keep me out of trouble. So far, I am not really making enough money reselling baby clothes out of our office, but every time I count my little pile of dollar bills, that hoarding side of me is fed and goes back to sleep for a little while. I get grouchy when nobody calls to come look at the clothes for over a week.

3. I can’t take personality quizzes. Well, I can and I have and I would take one again, but they rarely come out very accurate. I think. There has got to be a personality where the description describes me as, “You take too many personality tests and overthink the answers until you can’t decide if you’re answering the questions for what you think you are, what you really are, what you think the right answer should be, or what you think the best kind of person would answer it as.” I don’t know if I’m an introvert or an extrovert, but guess I lean more towards the I. I don’t know if I’m laid back or the opposite. Weird.

4. I love bubblegum ice cream. At Baskin Robbins, I pick out the bubble gum and save it til the end to chew. It looks nasty in a yummy sort of sugary way.

5. Sometimes I dream about “my” horse Wikkit. I dream that he is still at the last barn we boarded him at, that he has been stuck in his stall all these years, that I’ve forgotten to clean his stall or set out his hay for feedings. I then sneak into the barn to set out the hay and wonder if I can get Wikkit out into the field without the barn owners seeing me. Generally, I am trespassing on the property, because some part of me knows that my horse is not boarded there anymore.

6. I used to love bugs and snakes. Anything creepy-crawly, slimy, scary or not was fascinating to me. I played house with garter snakes! Now I am scared of many things bug-like or snake-like. I found myself hesitating to catch a grasshopper the other day. I’m pretty much useless. I just hope my kids don’t want to play house with them…

7. I have fainted twice in my life. Once cuz I was sick and went downstairs to get tylenol without sitting down when I should have. (I didn’t faint on the stairs, thankfully!) The other time was because somebody was getting staples taken out of a surgery incision. Fainting is embarrassing.

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