Random Facts About Yours Truly

I love this time of the month. It is time for ICLW! The blogs and posting always make me run the gamut of emotions, and I always walk away with a few more titles added to my favorites list. (note to self: update blog list on sidebar)


In honor of ICLW, here are some random things about me...

1. I married my high school sweetheart. We met when we were juniors and dated for 13 years before getting married. We've been married for 6 years.
2. One Christmas, after he gave me a small box just the right size for a ring, we broke up. He had really given me a pager. Yes. A pager. I cried for a week. He didn't understand why I was so upset. (we were 24)
3. We broke up one other time, eight months before we got married. I wanted to get married, he didn't. We went to counseling for three months, got engaged, and got married five months later. I am so glad we did. I do love him. (even though he has been driving me up the wall lately)
4. I have twin boys who are just over a year old. They were 12 weeks premature and were in the NICU for 14 and 15.5 weeks before coming home. I was pregnant two other times before I had them.
5. After my C-section, we found out that my tubes were wonky. They were fused to my intestines and surrounded by scar tissue. Wouldn't that have been nice to know about $30,000 ago?
6. We are now trying for pregnancy #4.
7. I would love a little girl because the testosterone level in my house is overwhelming.
8. Who am I kidding? Actually, I would love twin girls. (I know. I haven't learned my lesson the first time.)
9. I have two cats (my fur babies). They act a lot like spoiled children. In fact, I don't think one of them has any idea she is actually a cat. Not sure what she thinks she is, but I don't think it's a cat.
10. I am picky and eat only one food at a time. It drives my husband crazy, but I will eat all of something on my plate before I move to the next item. I have done it ever since I was a little girl. Every now and then I catch my husband doing it, too, now. HEE HEE...
11. I am happy with the same thing for lunch every day. (a ding dong, two hot pockets, a yogurt, and 1/2 a Pepsi -- in that order)
12. I absolutely hate to cook. I like to bake, but that is about it. Thank goodness my husband enjoys cooking. I am not sure I would ever eat otherwise.
13. My baking specialty is cinnamon rolls. I make killer cinnamon rolls.
14. I am a HUGE I Love Lucy fan. My husband will turn it to the show and let me see the screen for a couple of seconds. He'll quiz me on which show it was, and I am usually right.
15. I am very interested in meteorology. In fact, if I wasn't a teacher I would love to be a weather person. It might even be something I pursue after I retire. Who knows? People turn to me when they want to know what the weather will be at any given time. I am usually right.
16. I am what one could call a "Slot Slut." I like to gamble, especially on nickel slots. I once won $1000 on a nickel slot when I hit a jackpot. (and no, I am not compulsive about it)
17. I haven't been gambling since before I went on bed rest last year. Now that my dad is gone, I don't really have a desire to go.
18. I still haven't dealt with my dad's death.
19. Being in the car can now freak me out a little. Sometimes a lot. I must say I feel much safer in my Pilot.
20. One day, I want to get my pilot's license. I have always been fascinated with flying a plane on my own.
21. I am one of the few Californians who doesn't like the beach. I live less than five minutes away, and I can count how often I have been there over the last ten years on one hand! (It's too cold!)
22. I am a jacket hoarder. Some people buy lots of shoes or accessories. Me? I buy jackets. Funny thing is that I rarely wear them once I get them home. I tend to stick to a few favorites and leave the others in my closet.
23. I always wear a jacket. I have been known to wear a jacket on the Vegas strip in the middle of summer. In my defense, the hotels are very cold with all that air conditioning. I just didn't feel like taking my jacket off and putting it back on over and over again while we walked around.
24. I am very afraid of spiders. My brothers used to torture me with them when I was a kid. My brain understands that they can't hurt me and that I am bigger than they are. I still can't be anywhere near one without freaking, although I am getting a little better in this area. Brothers are so fun sometimes.
25. I would love to go to Times Square to watch the ball drop on New Year's Eve. Now, it would be okay if I was in a hotel room close enough to see it, too. Seeing how this happens in the middle of winter, I am a pretty cold person by nature, and this would mean I would have to travel across the country, I don't know when or even if I would ever do this. I still think it would be nice, though.

Okay. I think that is enough for today. (I got this idea from here, who I found through ICLW.) Welcome to everyone from ICLW!