25 Random Things

Catching up on some tags. I got this tag from facebook, so maybe I'll put it on there, too, when I have a minute to figure out how!

1. I have a nutritional science degree, with a chemistry minor (but don’t ask me about either subject because I probably won’t remember the answer).
2. I’ve run the Moab half-marathon twice
3. I love to snowboard, but my board has been neglected the last few years, and I’m probably way wimpier on it than I used to be.
4. The only bone I’ve ever broken is my tailbone. That hurt.
5. Have always loved sports - was on soccer team, swim team, and cross-country in high school, also played lots of softball and volleyball.
6. Bad at making decisions - example: even like at Cold Stone creamery, I spend a while trying to come up with a great new concoction, and then usually wish I'd ordered whatever John got.
7. Once I put gas in my car, then drove off with the pump still in my car. They had to shut off the gas spraying everywhere, I had to pay for a new hose/pump. I was pretty proud of myself.
8. I also once drove the car through our garage door when I was like 17.
9. I love hiking, camping, outdoors.
10. I won the scholastic achievement award in the Junior Miss Pageant my senior year.
11. I once had a 4.6 GPA. (Not sure why I’m admitting that - I guess only because I don’t always feel too smart anymore).
12. I used to be mistaken for Hispanic all the time (AZ sun, swim team – I had a good tan).
13. Now, instead of a tan, pregnancies have left dark spots on my face (pregnancy melasma or something like that).
14. I had about 18 different jobs before taking on the greatest job of being a mom.
15. Natural childbirth – I’ve done it twice! (Not really by choice).
16. I was induced with the 3rd because the doctor wanted to allay some of my fears of childbirth left over from the first two deliveries . . . or maybe because it fit into her schedule better, not sure.
17. I love ice cream, chocolate, about any baked treats.
18. When I’m breastfeeding I can eat and eat, and still lose all my pregnancy weight plus more. So I eat lots of the above, using the excuse that I must need the calories. (Except that the effect isn’t working quite as easily the third time around)!
19. I went out with most of John roommates before going out with him (and I guess a little after some of our first dates, too).
20. I have lots of pink in my closet and lots of red in my house.
21. Sometimes I start to say something and can’t finish because I’m laughing too hard at my own joke.
22. I was called “Lar Lar” through most of college.
23. I’ve swam in muddy waterholes on multiple occasions.
24. I know it’s past my bedtime when I start laughing during a prayer. If I stay up too late, John has to be the one to pray when we pray together. Horrible, I know!
25. I like projects, but if I have lots going on (which is pretty much all the time these days) I know I can’t start a book or sewing project, because my housework slides until I finish, and then have to play catch-up. Never enough time to fit it all in!
26. I'm flying by myself with 3 kids next week, and I'm not even scared. Too much. I've taken them all to church w/out husband plenty of times (call days, not inactive days), lots of nights on my own, etc. so I’ve had practice. How bad could it be? I guess I’ll let you know.

I tag anyone who wants to do this!