Wednesday, April 20, 2011

R... Random

  • I love to make lists
  • I bite the sides of my fingers when I'm bored, or nervous
  • I drove a 66 Mustang in high school
  • it was light blue
  • I visit Starbucks for a treat when I go to town
  • I almost always order a white chocolate mocha
  • I have one little brother
  • actually, I have one younger brother
  • I will add things to my list that I've already done just so I can scratch them off
  • I sometimes chew on the neck of my sweatshirt without even noticing
  • I had braces for TMJ in high school
  • I now wonder if it would have been helped with chiropractic instead
  • my teeth were straight before the braces
  • I took piano lessons for 10+ years
  • I feel like I should be able to play a lot better than I do now
  • I played tennis in high school and college
  • I took an English Lit class in college that I hardly remember and rarely attended because of tennis
  • I got a B
  • I have no idea how
  • I'm sure my mom is thrilled with that. (hi mom!)
  • If I try a new burger place and they have a mushroom burger, I will try it
  • my sister in law HATES mushrooms (hi Lace!)
  • when I drive by this building, I can feel the pit in my stomach

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  • it kills me if there's a light on in the far left, second from the top, window
  • Stella was born in the room four window to the right
  • I'm 5'4"
  • not 5'3"
  • I was accepted to a college that I never applied to
  • I live in the home that my great grandparents built
  • I have a pair of boots that I bought 10 years ago!
  • and they're still the most comfortable things around
  • I had to hold my baby girl down for four shots yesterday
  • I then had to hold her still while she had a head ultrasound through her fontanel

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  • I let my kids throw pennies in a fountain any time they ask (as long as it's "legal")
  • my older two are 21 months apart
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  • at one point we had 9 cats here
  • they were supposed to be outside cats
  • we now have two cats and one dog
  • a photo of me hangs in the museum in the town were I grew up
  • taking photos is my hobby
  • I think saying it that way carries less weight than "photography" is my hobby
  • I've an eclectic collection of jobs on my resume'
  • I have no idea how I'll get back into the workforce when I choose to
  • I have my bachelors degree in marketing
  • I've never worked in fast food
  • my current job offers a lot of job security ;)
  • many of the people I consider close friends, I've never met in real life
  • I have received one speeding ticket in my life
  • I deserved it
  • it was in Montana
  • it was for less than the speed I was going
  • the ticket was almost $100
  • I believe in ghosts
  • not GHOST ghosts but that there are things beyond our perception
  • one dark snowy night, while Jim and I were parking our car in our lower field (because we couldn't get into our driveway) there was a man who walked out of the woods and diagonally across the field and our yard
  • he never said a word to us
  • we live on 90 acres
  • I have no idea where he came from or where he went
  • that still creeps me out
  • I have never been to Disneyland
  • I have been to Disney World
  • I am a horrific speller
  • I grew up on an island
  • I . LOVE. SLEEP!
  • I do crazy amounts of thinking in the shower
  • I usually forget it all by the time I get my hair dried off
  • I sing out loud in the car
  • and dance like a crazy person when home with the kids
  • they think it's hilarious
  • I tend to be a jack of all trades, master of none
  • I kind of like that - low pressure
  • I hate grocery shopping
  • I feel guilty about the amount of water necessary to rinse out my items before I can recycle them
  • I live in Washington and our waste water is nearly immediately returned to the ground
  • I should not feel guilty about using the water
  • I can't remember the last time I didn't wear my diamond earrings
  • I broke my leg in high school
  • I was going down stairs
  • because of it, I had to wait to get my driver's license unless I took the driving test in a standard
  • it was my right leg, not my left
  • I'm still confused by that rule
  • I used to have great vision
  • then I got contacts in college to help me see the white boards
  • my vision got progressively worse, quickly
  • it turns out I was allergic to the contact lens solution
  • my prescription has finally stabilized. Sort of.
  • I have a hard time finding glasses I like
  • it's too bad because I get a free pair every year
  • my husband works in the eye care industry so I can pick pretty much anything
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  • I'm a Gemini and if I believed in that stuff, it would explain a lot about me ;)
  • I love the smell of fresh cut grass and the sound that hummingbirds make
  • I felt sick to my stomach when I realized that I hadn't prayed before we started Stella's ultrasound yesterday
  • I prayed during
  • today Karleigh asked me why I never took her to any baby ultrasounds
  • I was honest and told her I was afraid
  • I'm kind of angry that she understands why
  • Faith is a big part of my foundation
  • I have a hard time "getting into" organized religion
  • I have been married to my best friend for almost 12 years
  • there is a cat snoring in my ear right now
  • and a husband snoring to my left!

11 comments:

Erica Rinella said...

Love this post! It's nice to see that I am not the only person who "rewrites" a list just to cross things off :)

B's Mom said...

^^I do that too!

Heather said...

great stuff and i do that with my lists too

Kaylee said...

I love this post! I could have read a couple more pages! :) makes me re-think my ideas about not really writing about myself on my own blog. hmmmmm....

Anonymous said...

Love this... it is so... you!

Jamie P said...

Great post, Kristi! I have to say, I really, really enjoyed reading that! (and add me to the list thing, too) :)

Misha Gerrick said...

Hehehe that's ALOT of information about you. ^_^

Please to meet you.

Claire Goverts said...

Wow, that was quite the list of stuff, impressive how much you put into this post.

I love lists, it's nice to check or cross off things when they are done.

Mrs. Henry said...

You are the coolest.

Jennifer said...

I love your randomness. I write things on my list just to cross them off too. I didn't realize that there were other weird people like me. :)
I've never been to the museum in town, so I have to ask - what is the picture from??

Kristi said...

@Jennifer, they have pics of all of the Forest Festival Queens ;)