25 Things About Me. . .

1.  I don’t ever go barefooted – even in my own home. Socks aren’t good enough – it has to be shoes!

2.  My fingers are double-jointed.

3.  I played 1st chair flute in jr high band and moved to the drum line in high school [band geek].

4.  I LOVE pickles [dill].

5.  I’m afraid of ‘heights’ or falling [maybe the pain that comes from it].

6.  I grew up on a street called “Monkey Bottom Road”, in Welcome, NC.

7.  I only ‘dated’ my husband 4 weeks before we got married – met him 3 months before that [and only saw him the weekend].

8.  Got married by a justice of the peace and celebrated with a wedding 3 months later.

9.  I have never been out of the country for real [Bahamas don't count].

10. Can’t pick a favorite color because there are too many neck-in-neck races.

11. I love Mac computers and will not get another PC for myself! [my MacBook Pro is my baby!!!]

12.  I used to be a pack rat but those tendencies are leaving – quickly. . .along with the stuff!

13.  I have a dog that will only sing with me!

14.  I ran away from a boy when I was twelve because he wanted to ‘french kiss’ me. I was mortified!

15.  I coerced my friend Tabitha into 1st stealing my grandfather’s Lucky Strike filter-less, FULL flavor cigs, and 2nd – inhaling.

16.  I unashamedly laughed so hard at her when she turned green [ See #15] and started pleading with God to ‘let her live and she’d never smoke again’, that I peed on myself.

17.  My nervous habit is laughter. Once it starts, it is uncontrollable!

18.  I was Little Miss Muffet in the school play [4K]!

19.  When quoting a bible verse in front of the whole church as a teen, I proceeded to say dot dot for the colon [:] instead of just saying the passage.

20.  I love cotton candy, but blue is my favorite color of cotton candy.

21.  I backed my mom’s car into the ditch when I was three.

22.  I am highly competitive – to a fault!

23.  I traumatized a childhood buddy with the ‘rat-men’ under the bed. [It was the characters that were the rats in the play, The Nutcracker. They scared the mess out of me! To this day, she nor I can let anything extend over the side of the bed!]

24.  My favorite candies are “peach rings” or “apple rings”!

25.  A boy knitted me an aqua sweater when I was 12 [same boy as #14].