5 Unknown Facts About Yours Truly!

I've been tagged by my dear Aunt Susan, and I'm supposed to share unknown facts about me. I don't think of myself as a super private person, but I'm not exactly an open book either. Here goes:

1) When I was younger, I always wanted curly hair. I was totally jealous of cousins, friends or anybody who's hair curled. Then somewhere between 12 and 18 (the glorious years of puberty) my hair underwent a drastic transformation. It went from being smooth and straight to really uncontrollably frizzy to wavy to curly. I'm still in awe sometimes that I have curly hair. You wouldn't think it would still be surprising as it was pretty slow going to get to the end results, but it is.

2) My dream job is to be a floral designer. I took a floral design class my very last semester of college just for fun, and as a way to de-stress from the other 18 credits I was taking. I ended up loving that class, and if it hadn't been my last semester, I would have changed my major and done the floral design program. I don't know if it would have changed where I am now, since I'm not using my psych. degree at all, but it would have been fun to work with flowers each day!

3) I want to have a baby. I can think of a million and one logical reasons why it isn't a good time right now, or why we can't afford one, or why we should wait etc. but it doesn't change the fact that that's what I want to do. I really have no drive to progress in the business world, but it looks like I'll be holding my own for a couple more years until Daniel is done with school. At least I enjoy my job. Who knew collections could be fun?

4) I have never had a cavity. This is pretty trivial, but I think it's all because I had an excellent pediatric dentist. We got to play Nintendo in the waiting room, and each appointment we'd get prizes, and every 4 appointments without a cavity we'd get a cool "look at me I'm cavity free t-shirt" It made a lasting impression, and I feel very strongly about oral hygiene.

5) My dream vacation is to travel on a private yacht around the remote islands of the South Pacific. I can't think of anything more relaxing and enjoyable than a vacation like that. Before college, I was saving all my spare change for this trip. I had maybe $20 in change, but then ended up using it for laundry money. I guess that's what college is about, and it really wouldn't have gone very far anyway. I think it's time to start over and save my pennies...which brings me to another unknown fact about me: I hate touching money. Especially pennies. They make my fingers smell dirty and feel gross. Certain types of keys do the same thing. I always feel like I need to wash my hands after touching things like that. Perhaps it's a touch of OCD or something...

I'm pretty sure that was a good selection of unknown facts about me. If you've got any questions feel free to ask...I understand that inquiring minds need need to know!

Zip Codes

So far I'm really enjoying my new job. There is still a lot to learn, but I like the people I work with, and it is a new challenge. I will have significantly less free time (which will hopefully make the day go by more quickly) once I'm fully trained, but for now, I've still got some extra time on my hands, which leaves me opportunity to play one of my favorite games. This is a made up game, but it is still fun. On MSN, there is a weather link. One of my favorite things to do is punch in random five digit number combinations and see which ones are real zip codes. When my random numbers actually locate a real city somewhere, I get to see where it is, and what the weather is like. I also find out about towns I never knew existed. Has anyone out there heard of Tom Bean, Texas? or Whatley, Alabama? I hadn't either, but now I have. Try it sometime...if you enjoy random facts, and trivial pieces of information, this game may be for you!

My Sister the Superstar, Cubscouts, and Pizza

My sister Rachel had a soccer game on Tuesday, and while I wasn't there (because I was at cubscouts...more on that later), I got to read about it last night. I will also be going to her home game tonight to cheer her on!

The Olympian posted an article all about the game. Here are a couple highlights:

"The Cougars also had multiple scoring opportunities as the game progressed, only to see them stopped by Olympia’s goalkeeper, Rachel Green."

"Prior to her senior year, the 5-foot-5 Green was a three-year member of the junior varsity team, and got her first varsity experience during the second half of the Bears’ state playoff game against eventual-champion Eastlake last season. She finished Tuesday’s game with eight saves...
“That game goes to her,” Effland said. “It should not have been a shutout, but Rachel stopped those shots.”

I always knew my sister was a good goalie, but it turns out she's proven herself capable of a lot more! (She isn't however 5-foot-5, but you didn't hear that from me!)


Now, about cub scouts. Daniel and I were asked to be Den Leaders for the Wolfs (8 year old boys) in our ward's cub scout program. I always hated going to pack meetings for my brothers, and couldn't believe we had to do cub scouts in our ward. I kept dragging my feet and complaining while Daniel was a surprisingly good sport about it. Well, on Tuesday night, we had our first Den meeting. I went, I helped, and I even wore the shirt. Yes, Daniel bribed me, but I still wore the dreaded khaki shirt with who knows how many patches and emblems (This shirt was found in Daniel's parent's attic (I'm not sure who's it was originally, because I would never in a million years go spend money on a new presentable scout shirt!) Anyway, all in all, cub scouts wasn't nearly as bad as I'd worried it would be. It was actually kind of enjoyable. The kids played some get to know you games, and really the eight year old boys weren't nearly as sweaty/sticky/hyper/stinky as I thought they would be. They were actually kind of cute.

Lastly, we've been on a pizza making kick lately. Our best creation this far is our Pesto Delight. (I just made up that name). It has pesto (obviously) with mozzarella, Colby jack, Parmesan and olives on top. It's really quite delicious and it's fun making our own pizzas. Anyone who wants to try it can come over and we'll make pizza for you!

Wonderful Thursday!

A couple weeks ago I ordered a new mp3 player off of Woot! Since then, I've been waiting patiently for it's arrival and today it came. Daniel was home when it was delivered, and I gave him permission to hide it so it would be even more fun to get it. When I got home from work, he gave me a clue word. The word was "flower". All of a sudden, I realized how many floral things we have in our apartment. The couch we inherited from my grandma is floral, the quilt on the other couch is floral, and I have dried flowers and my wedding bouquet used as decorations all over. I started looking in the likely places but didn't find an mp3 player anywhere. I then noticed a couple things out of place in the kitchen and looked inside the bag of flour (really hoping it wasn't in there). I then checked the big cupboard under the sink, and this is what I found:














Apparently my subtle hints about the roses at Costco have paid off. It was a nice surprise and totally made my day. I love my mp3 player, and it came with some fun music already on it. It is refurbished, so I don't know if they forgot to wipe the hard drive or if it's sample music. Either way I'm pleased.

After much debate between my current office and the office I will be working for next, we finally established a start date. I'll start my new job on the 15th, so until then, I'll be enjoying my free time at work. After that, I may be a little busy, and won't have ALL DAY to look at blogs. We'll see how it goes. We're having a going away party for my boss at tomorrow, so I'm going to be making some cookies tonight. Happy Friday tomorrow!