20 random facts…

got tagged by jenny.  so after thinking long and hard…

20 random facts about me:

1.  i have never been issued a speeding ticket or ever been pulled over.  before last year, i’d never even received a parking ticket!  darn expired registration sticker.  but i have to admit that i’m a sneaky speeder, not always a law-abiding driver.

2.  i cannot wear socks to bed.  they’d keep me awake all night.  i also always have to have at least one foot out of the blanket at all times (even when it’s 10 below outside!).

3.  my first crush was on a blonde boy named andy in first grade.  me and another girl liked him so we used to chase him around the playground at recess.  he broke both his legs (not because of us!) and the other girl and i would each take one of his arms to help him back to the classroom after recess.

4.  my best friend in fifth grade was named maharisha.  my best friend in sixth grade was named delcheana.  they were both black.  i was afraid of both their moms cuz maharisha’s mom once yelled at me on the phone (she actually just said, ‘girrrl, why you callin so early?!).

5.  i was so shy growing up that some kids in junior high actually thought i didn’t speak english.

6.  i was the top student of the three high school senior ap english classes.

7.  i have a habit of twisting pillowcase seams around my index finger.  i limit myself to one certain pillowcase so as not to ruin all our pillowcases.  that one pillowcase has holes in it because of me.

8.  i have a half-brother and half-sister who i’ve never met.

9.  i didn’t learn how to swim until i was in fifth grade.  even though i went to swim school every summer since i was little.  my dad finally threw me in and yelled, ‘sink or swim!’

10.  the only time i was ever in the hospital (besides being born and giving birth) was when my brother dared me to balance on a two-person swing which resulted in me falling off and landing under the swing as it (with my brother still on it) came down on top of me.  i got a cut on my eyelid.  my brother cried the whole time in the hospital and kept asking, ‘is she gonna die?!’

11.  i’ve been to hawaii, mexico, colorado, utah, nevada, iowa, wisconsin, south dakota, illinois, new york, florida, and minnesota all after marrying phil.  before that, neither of us had traveled much.

12.  i’ve eaten deep-fried candy bars, deep-fried twinkies, deep-fried alligator, deep-fried green tomatoes, and deep-fried cheese curds since moving to minnesota.  over the span of four years, not all at once.  i’ve yet to try deep-fried oreos and deep-fried macaroni.

13.  i never got pimples until i was pregnant with mikey.

14.  we have yet to meet john piper even though we’ve gone to his church for over two years.

15.  john piper dedicated mikey at church.  but we still didn’t introduce ourselves to him.

16.  i have two trophies.  one was for being ‘outstanding spanish student’ in eighth grade.  the other was for getting third place in a DARE essay writing contest in sixth grade.  my mom still has them displayed in her living room.  to my GREAT embarrassment.

17.  i used to love reading in the car.  i would read for 4 hours straight when my mom would drive us to la.  must be why i wear contacts/glasses now.

18.  my freckles are the bane of my existence.

19.  i get much too competitive for my own good while playing any kind of game.

19.5  i used to suck on the third and fourth fingers of my left hand until i was four years old.  mikey sucks on the same fingers of the same hand now.  who knew it was genetic?

20.  i was in the ucla gospel choir.  we went to a recording studio to sing a song for an album.  they passed around a clipboard for you to write your name down as you wanted it to appear in the cd jacket.  i have yet to find and own that cd!