1st Annual Birthday Trivia Post

My friend, Susan from Cheerios in my Shorts, a inspired this post. She celebrated her birthday a few days ago and I think her annual useless trivia is just the thing I should post on my 35th birthday. So here goes! 35 useless things that you didn't need to know about me.

1. I love to travel. My passport as dust on it. I really am dying to dust it off, but am afraid it is going to expire before I get a chance. Guess I'll have to apply for another one!

2. I can't use a pen if the cap is missing.

3. My first car was a 1984 Dodge Omni. I paid 200 dollars for the car and 200 dollars for a transmission to put in it. I paid for it with money that I earned at my first real job.

4. My first real job was working at McDonald's. I was 16 and I was saving money for a trip to France.

5. In college when I was desperate for money, I took a job telemarketing cemetery plots. You haven't had a job as bad as this. No one likes to be interrupted to be talked to about death, especially during dinner time.

6. I drove myself to the hospital when I went into labor with Ian. My husband was out doing field exercises and I was scared. When the hospital staff finally decided to check me, I was dilated to 8cm already.

7. I love to host playdates, but I loathe the nerves that come trying to make sure everything is great.

8. I have a very melancholy side to my personality that most people don't know about. My sensitive side gets the better of me more than I care to admit.

9. I am super competitive and love to "smack talk." I especially love going to work on the days after the Cowboys lose! LOL

10. Motherhood is by far the most humbling experience in my life.

11. I only dislike 2 foods. Olives and beet roots. I'll try anything else.

12. I love shoes and handbags. Forget the jewelry. Bring me a new handbag and shoes and I'll love you forever.

13. I met my best friend in kindergarten. Nothing beats a lifelong friendship and we can pick up right where we left off every single time.

14. I would rather have a pumpkin pie for my birthday over a birthday cake even as a little girl. My mother has plenty of pictures to prove this fact.

15. I can speak enough Hebrew to get around Israel pretty well, understand enough Arabic to be dangerous and can speak French well enough to make some believe that I know what I am talking about. LOL. I get rusty, so I like to brush up these skills occasionally.

16. I am a girl who loves math and science. It thrills me when I see girls pursue careers in these areas.

17. I grew up in a very small town in Indiana. The sign outside the town really says this. "Welcome to Hillsboro, the town of 600 Happy People and a Few Old Soreheads." 600 people don't even live there anymore.

18. I am a Bulldog. A Butler Bulldog.

19. I met my husband via the internet though not in the conventional way. I like to say it was seredipity. He randomly instant messaged me and I had a lapse in judgment and responded. The rest is history.

20. My outloud voice has a name. It's Frank. If you know me, you know why.

21. I hate to be told that I can't. I will do just about anything to prove you wrong if you say it to me.

22. My shoe size has increased with each pregnancy. I wore an 8 before Ian. And 8.5 after Ian and now am the proud owner of size 9 shoes. UGH.

23. I sing in the car to the radio and know that people have to think I am nuts when they pull up next to me.

24. I only had 3 wisdom teeth. I wonder what else is missing sometimes!

25. You will never get me to skydive or bungee jump. Quit asking. It's NOT happening!

26. I sometimes wish I had just gone on to medical school and then I have someone show me their nasty boob rash and thank God that HE kept me from pursuing that path.

27. I have an uncanny eye for details. My mom used to get so annoyed with me when I would point out something new in the house that she hadn't told my father about yet. My grandmother had that same knack.

28. I love witty puns.

29. I snore and talk/eat in my sleep. Fair warning if we ever have to share a hotel room!

30. I hate when I don't have the complete "set" of something and it drives me insane until I find every piece.

31. I do not like sugary cereal at all. Blech.

32. I hate having my toes touched. My feet are just way too ticklish.

33. I ran a half marathon when I was 9 weeks pregnant with Ian.

34. I was the first girl from my high school to run cross country.

35. I can't believe I am 35. I feel like I'm about 25!