1) My favorite color is blue, usually. I go through phases where I am obsessed with other colors but usually my fav color of the week has a blue base.
2) With the super bowl coming up, I have a confession. I don't really care about NFL football as much as college football. When I do pay attention, or if someone asks, my fav NFL football team is the Greenbay Packers. Really I only follow BYU football. I love the Cougars.
3) I use to be flexible. I had the dream of still being able to do the splits when I turned 60 (because I had a drama teacher that could). Some days it's all I can do to touch my toes. I use to be able to lay on my back lift leg straight up to my head and then have my toes touch the floor. It was awesome.
4) I miss dancing. And sometimes I even miss cheer leading.
5) I am a graphic designer. Here is my portfolio. I love designing, I still have so much to learn.
6) I like learning and I am learning, after spending most of my life in school, I seem to learn better in a classroom environment. I'll have to learn to learn a different way since I'm not rich enough to go to college for life.
7) I really enjoy cooking but I really hate the clean up afterwards, unless I have someone there helping me. I don't know why that makes all the difference in my attitude about dishes.
8) I hate cleaning showers. I'll clean the rest of my bathroom but for some reason I really don't like cleaning showers.
9) I feel awesome when I can name a typeface on something. For those that don't know a typeface fancy (and in my opinion correct term) for font.
10) I'm obsessed with polka dots.
11) Sometimes I feel like I was born in the wrong decade. I love most everything from around the 1950's. I have looked through old pictures of my grandma and thought that is a super cute dress I want one and maybe I could do my hair like that. You may wonder, could you live without all the great modern technologies? Well if I were born in the 1930's (so I could be a teens or in my twenties in the 50's) I wouldn't have a clue about them so you can't miss what you don't know about. Although on the other hand, I don't know if I could handle the strong encouragement to just grow up and be a mom and wife. I mean I haven't exactly studied every aspect of the 50's but college wasn't the highest thing for most girls. I mean looking at the movie Mona Lisa Smile, the girls went to college basically until they got married. Not saying I don't want to be a good wife and mom but I'm grateful that I went to college because I love the job that I have now.
12) I love movies. Not so much going out to the movie theater, I mean I will, but I would rather stay at home and watch movies. That way I can wear my PJ's and lounge across my couch without annoying strangers.
13) I'm not a huge chick flick fan. Probably 95% of the time I will pick an action movie instead.
14) I play the piano. I'm not that great anymore but it's tough to be good when I do not own a piano. I have an electric keyboard and it works fine but its nothing compared to playing a real piano.
15) I like to sing... in the privacy of my home or with the congregation at church. I don't think I am that great but it hasn't stopped me from doing it.
16) I play water polo during the summer. I am so excited for the season to start again, I should probably make my way to a pool to start getting in shape. I don't think I have been in a pool since last August.
17) I want to say I love reading. I mean I do but other things seem to get in the way, like movies, facebook or pinterest. Once I make myself start reading I love it and I think to myself, "why don't I do this more often? Well now I am going to." Then I start dreaming about all the books I am going to whip through. Next thing I know it's been a week since I last read the current book I am reading and I have to re-read a few paragraphs to remember what is happening. =/ So when I'm reading I love reading but when I'm not reading I tend to forget.
18) I am a runner. I think I have done enough running to classify myself as one... well maybe minus this winter. I have had a hard time finding the motivation. I've regained some of that motivation and now it has become a time thing. Also, I really don't like running on treadmills and since it has been friggin' cold this winter I don't want to run outside. Now that it is starting to get up into the 30 degree area I wouldn't mind running outside but the smog/inversion/crap in the air makes me shy away from it. I have become desperate enough that I have clocked a few miles on the treadmill within the last few weeks.
19) I love junk food. Chocolate, Pringles, cupcakes, candy, cake, cheesecake, etc. If it's probably going to clog my arteries then I probably love eating it. Therefore I have had to adopt a runners life to prevent the poundage from collecting. Yay getting older and metabolism slowing!
20) I LOVE BEING IN YOUNG WOMENS! And I will be sad to leave my young wimies in March when the hubby and I move. The new curriculum scared the crap out of me. Today I did my first lesson. I had my questions and stuff outlines on a paper. When I got to church I totally forgot that paper and kind of winged it. I feel like it went well but maybe it is because it was a lesson for me. Hope the girls got something out of it. Granted that's how I feel about them in general. I don't know that they are getting much from me but they are making such a difference in my life. =)
21) I have some awesome friends. Some of them have dropped of the map, for one reason or another, and we reconnected and they are just awesome people. One friend I've known for as long as I can remember, we lost contact in high school but ran into each other at a wedding and now we go get sushi once in a while. Another we met in 2nd grade, some things happened and we weren't friends anymore but she ended up being in my singles ward. There is even one that I have reconnected with in just the last year and the things that she is doing simply amaze me. It has been fun to have friends back from old times. Having people in your life that you can say, "remember that one time we...?" I don't know why it seems to make all the difference in my life.
22) I love dogs. I miss my Abby even after 3 years. Lets be honest I miss all the dogs I have had in their own little way. I think why Abby means the most to me is she was (this may sound weird, dog lovers will understand) there for me through some tough times in my life. She was my baby, that always made me feel better because even when it seemed like no one cared, she loved me and it meant a lot.
23) I love making things. I can sew but I'm not exactly good at it but at least I try. I've done some pretty craft things so that our newly wed apartment can have some decoration on the cheap. Yay Crafts and craftiness.
24) I love my husband. That's probably obvious since I married him. We have been through a lot in the time that we have known each other and I am grateful for him and all he has done for me. I'm glad he is so smart and patient. This probably should have been #1 fact but I wanted to put off stating the obvious as long as I could.
25) I made it to 25! How interesting it actually was is up for you to decide on your own. I guess I'll finish off with this, I am a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. I love it! I'm so amazed to see the little things that my Father in Heaven has done for me. I know there are people that think miracles no longer happen but I disagree. Miracles don't have to be some big grand thing, they can be small and it's the small ones I am most grateful for. I try to find them in each day. If you try, you can find evidences of God's hand in our lives everyday. Some days it seems we have to look harder than others. Today mine was my lesson. I shared this video because when I first watched it I just felt I had to share it with my young women. I love that my Heaven Father has given me the opportunity to communicate with him through prayer. I love my Heavenly Father and I am so grateful for the answers that He gives me, even though they aren't always what I want. I know He knows me. I know He loves me, more than I can comprehend. God is real. He listens to our prayers. He answers them and I know it!
Thank you for reading =0)
