25 Random Things About Me

1. I don’t like direct air hitting me unless it is well over 100 degrees. I hate fans.
2. I play the flute, or I should say I played the flute – I don’t play it often anymore. But I can still – just like riding a bike.
3. I love all things sweet (I just ate ice cream followed by junior mints – bad Jen…)
4. I don’t really like pets and definitely do not want to own one – too messy. My poor children….
5. I love to be organized. Really, I love it. I love reorganizing closets, pantries, etc.
6. I long for best friends who live close – the kind of friends who you don’t have to clean your house before they come over and you can hang out in your PJs playing games. The kind of friends that know you inside and out and still love you. I miss having those kinds of friends who don’t live a flight away.
7. I have a strong work ethic and have worked since I was in 7th grade with an early morning paper route. I feel strongly that children should work to gain life skills, people skills and understand the value of money.
8. I love my children, but enjoy working also. I feel I have the best of both worlds right now working from home with a nanny.
9. I like to decorate my house and believe that a home is a reflection of the people who live there. So, I like mine to be organized, clean and look cool.
10. I absolutely love my parents and enjoy hanging out with them on a regular basis.
11. I need to talk to my mom once a day. It is just a need I have. She is my best friend.
12. I believe in the saying “No one made you mad, you made you mad.” I believe that you choose your attitude in life and I choose to have a positive one.
13. I believe that loosing my first child made be strong enough to endure what I have to be pregnant. I have been on bed rest for almost a year of my life, collectively.
14. When I was growing up, I thought that anything without fat was ok to eat. So, I ate a ton of Licorice, Fun Dip, Hot Tamales, fat free cookies, etc.
15. I LOVE to make lists and I love to check things off my list even more. My “TO DO” list is currently 14 pages long. OK, only 5 of those are real action items – the rest is info. I have short term action items, long term action items, Jason’s action items, action items I know I should do some day, but probably never will - you get the idea.
16. I love to water-ski and snowboard and plan my pregnancies around these sports and vacations.
17. I love Hawaii. We have a timeshare in Kauai and have been there six times. I have been to Oahu twice, Maui twice and the Big Island four times
18. I don’t read……I just don’t. I wish I did. While I am at it, I wish I was a runner too.
19. I think John Mayer is really cool and talented – not in a stalker way, but if he is in town, I wouldn’t miss a concert.
20. I watch too much TV – especially reality TV.
21. I went to 4 different major colleges and still graduated in 5 years – not too shabby.
22. I love roller-skating. I have a $400 pair of skates that I never get to use because no one will go with me.
23. I keep an excel spreadsheet of baby names I like and when I have another baby I just review the list to pick a name.
24. I have worked at the same company for 13 years (OK, technically the original company was been bought three times)
25. I have hiked Half Dome at Yosemite twice. The first time my brothers were going to chicken out of climbing the cables to the top – but I mocked them and started running up until they followed. The running then immediately stopped.

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