For Those Who Don't Facebook ... 30 Random Things

Stacy's 30 Random Things

1. I have been accosted by gypsies in Eastern Europe after buying large quantities of crystal, not that one has anything to do with the other as the crystal was with my friend, not me at the time.

2. I have 1 angel sister, 2 biological sisters, 2 biological brothers, and too many siblings that I don't share blood with to count (I kept this one Bekah, and made it my own)

3. I went to the State solo competition my Sophmore year of HS and only took a I- my Senior year .

4. I worked for a person who forced me to type lengthy papers for them about pothole ecology ... um yeah, you don't even want to know what that did to my brain.

5. I am prejudice ... I don't like stupid people and racist bigots.

6. Chocolate is my third love. Doug is my second. And God is my first.

7. I secretly want to give up teaching for a few years to write, but I don't have a brilliant enough idea to do it.

8. Spiders love to bite me. I have no idea why, but they seek me out. I am like a Spider Disneyland.

9. Which reminds me, I hate Disney movies. Since Walt died they have gone to H E double hockey sticks. (but I kinda love Disneyland, except the Small World ride .... how I LOATHE that ride).

10. I want to live in a Scottish cottage with a summer castle ... ok, maybe not owning the castle, but I want to sleep in one before I die.

11. Eleven is my favorite number in the whole wide universe.

12. God doesn't have me do anything the easy way. And no it isn't because I am not listening to Him :)

13. I have traveled all over the world, but I have never been to Hawaii

14. I think St. Mattias church in Budapest is one of the most amazing building in the world.

15. I lived on a farm growing up, spent my teenage years in Moab, UT, and have moved 18 times since graduating from HS, and that is if you don't count the 7 moves on my mission, and the continuous returns to Moab between college years of school.

16. December is my favorite month. My b-day at the start, then one of my best friends shares her birthday with my wedding anniversary, and of course Christmas; it also ends with New Year's Eve, and whether good or bad, New Year's Eves have always been life changing for me ... my whole world was changed because of one seemingly uneventful but very vital New Year's Eve spent cleaning out a closet.

17. Blondes always have more fun .... Believe me, not smart ones. I have always wanted to be a green-eyed red head.

18. My dad was my hero, and still is.

19. I am myself, blonde and random. (Versus I am myself dark and morbid, which is also true ;)

20. I have loved singing ever since I was tiny, and it is one of my greatest sorrows that my health problems have changed my voice, and now I don't know what to do with it ... voice lessons again perhaps ... silver lining in the murk ... yippee, I like that plan. Sorrow averted.

21. I love bookstores, especially old British ones. Old, new, books are my drug of choice. And the smell of a bookstore is like catnip for me... if I was a cat, and unlike many people I adore cats, they remind me of me ... stubborn and self assured (smiles like a Cheshire)

22. I love cooking, baking, and I desperately want a KITCHEN (trumpets play, and a large curtain sweeps to the side revealing a LARGE room with two ovens, two dishwashers, and enough counter space to make a spread for all the people I know and love ... Stacy exits stage left) ... no more tiny kitchens for moi.

23. I want a story to walk into my head ... and since that doesn't seem destined to happen I want all of you who write to finish the various projects in your head before I go mad from wanting to know what happens next ... Please!!! Work with me people :)

24. I have never dyed my hair ... I am a chicken, and blonde (if you aren't blonde you won't understand the fear of destruction in quite the same way)

25. My favorite part of the coming season is sitting in a dark room with nothing but Christmas tree lights to see by, a cup of cocoa or egg nog, and my Douglas, and for a few minutes, at least, the world is whole again.

26. I really hate the way ferrets smell ... gag reflex time... blah

27. Plane crashes are infinitely more interesting than anyone gives them credit for being. If you survive you have a great story and a knowledge that God loves you because you didn't die in Minneapolis.

28. I was "hit on" this week by a 17 year old student, and a 65 year old bus attendant ... oh my how I hate this awkward time in life where being hit on is just obnoxious and not really flattering in the least. (No my friends, I haven't forgotten to mention my annoyance as a happily married woman, who both of these guys knew was happily married, being hit on at all ... yeah, it was stupid, and as I said earlier about stupid people ... see #5)

29. I love watermelon. I want to have it all the time; good, nummy, Greenriver watermelon. The kind I remember, not the crap from this last summer.

30. I am a poet, crushed within, stunted in silence, seeking release.

31. I don't like rules. Yeah I obey them when they are really important, but I am inwardly cocky and very, very stubborn, so forget the 30 ... I want one for each year of my life ... sticks out tongue at the Facebook's rule makers.

32. I have tons of acquaintances, several people I could call friends, but only have a very few, choice best friends that I call kindred spirits. You know who you are, and I love you to bits.

33. I have dated and loved a lot of amazing people, but I have only ever fallen deeply in love with three men all of whom gave me a penchant for having foreign languages whispered in my ear. One took me to see the world, one was a fleeting dream of foreign shores, and the third is my husband. So it really is true; three IS the charm. Hungarian, Arabic, Turkish, German, Italian, and French. I'll take the French please.

34. I am a strong woman. People constantly tell me I am, but I have to fight to believe it everyday.

35. The hardest thing I have ever done is something that I am going to be doing later this month ... not something I did before now.

36. I want a pug and a Siberian cat, oh yes, and a house to go with my cat and dog.

37. I love all flowers, but roses are my favorite ... there are too many reasons why to list ... but here is the oddity . . . I do not like to be given roses unless they are red on red and given by my Douglas on Valentines Day. Otherwise they need to smell like a rose should smell and be growing in a garden, preferably mine, or one of my friend's.

38. Teaching English is what I do; it is what I love, and I hope I get to do it for as long as I can stand, talk, and think. My students are my joy, and my frustration, but they are also what makes me get up in the morning to face another day.

39. I hate mornings. Yeah, yeah I know, I am not 39 until December, but like I said, I don't like rules and it is close enough :) Besides 38 means more if you know how much I loathe mornings.

PS Oh and I hate that Facebook won't let you tab. (See what I mean) I had to clean this up after making it look pretty with tabs, and then finding that I couldn't publish it without a mess afterwards. ** raises fist to sky** Curse you Facebook.

And I love Blogger since it does let me tab!