About

1. I am married to H.

2. I am in my late 20s.

3. Yikes, that sounds old.

4. The Sound of Music is probably the best movie ever.

5. I was in my high school’s production of The Sound of Music.

6. I played a nun and had no lines.

7. I got a speaking (and singing) part in Oklahoma, but I had to give it up because the rehearsals interfered with my debate practices.

8. I made the All-State Choir my junior and senior years of high school, and was even ranked second in my district my senior year. I wasn’t that good, but I practiced way more than everyone else.

9. Seriously, I am not a very good singer.

10. Other movies I love: Elf, Knocked Up, and the Bourne movies.

11. TV shows I love: The West Wing, 30 Rock, The Office, Project Runway, House, and Arrested Development.

12. Gossip Girl is my guilty pleasure. I have also gotten into The Hills in the last few months. Sad, but true.

13. I live in Minnesota now, which I swore I would never do. I said it was too cold.

14. It is too cold, but I still like living here.

15. I have lived in five other states: Kansas, Nebraska, New Jersey, Tennessee, and Texas (not in that order).

16. I only lived in Texas from ages 2 through 4, but I went back for college.

17. My sister went to college in Texas too, but she went to a different school that was in a different city.

18. I have one sister. She is two years younger than me.

19. When I was younger I wished that I had an older brother who would introduce me to cute older boys.

20. There was a boy who kind of (harmlessly) stalked me in the 8th grade, and it freaked me out, so I convinced him that I had an older brother who would beat him up if he didn’t leave me alone.

21. The imaginary older brother was named Eduardo.

22. I used to have a lot of kind of freaky boys that liked me. I think it was because I was probably one of the only people who was nice to them.

23. I have never been to Canada or Mexico. Or Hawaii or Alaska.

24. But I have been to Ireland, England, France, and Italy. Also, both the airport and the train station in Brussels.

25. My favorite alcoholic drink is a White Russian.

26. My favorite non-alcoholic drink is Ocean Spray Cranapple.

27. I don’t like Coke or Pepsi or RC Cola.

28. The only brown soda I will drink is Dr Pepper (or Diet Dr Pepper).

29. I rarely curse. Not for any reason other than it’s just not me.

30. The phrase “my bad” disturbs me.

31. I wear contacts and sometimes glasses. But not at the same time.

32. I am not an outdoorsy person. I have no desire to ever go camping.

33. I did get a bike this last summer and rode it several times a week during the summer and fall. That’s about as outdoorsy as I will ever get.

34. I am allergic to cats.

35. I used to think I was much more interesting before I started trying to write this list.

36. My favorite board games are Pictionary and Taboo. I have never played Cranium, but I think I would like it.

37. I don’t mind cleaning the bathroom, but I hate vacuuming.

38. Serious, I am telling you about my cleaning preferences. Am I really that boring?

39. I have been to Disneyland and Disney World, but I am generally not a big fan of amusement parks.

40. I like spinny rides (like the Scrambler) but not rides that make the riders go upside down (like that Viking ship thing).

41. I got hit on once by a carney. It was not really a highlight of my life.

42. My two favorite actresses are Allison Janney and Tina Fey. I am not sure who my favorite actors are.

43. I have never been a morning person. Except when I was under the age of 4, when I used to wake up my parents at 7 am on Sunday mornings to watch a cable access religious puppet show. My parents have both said that the puppet show was the worst thing they had ever seen. So I am not sure how I even knew it existed. Maybe there were commercials for it during Sesame Street?

44. I got a Cabbage Patch Kid for Christmas when I was 6. It’s name was Wanda. My sister got an identical one named Beulah. Those are some serious old people names.

45. My sister wanted to mark which doll was hers, so she wrote her name on the doll’s butt in permanent marker. Except she wrote it on the wrong doll. I was very angry.

46. I wish I had more artistic skills.

47. I don’t like any of the capital cursive letters, so I print capital letters but use cursive for lowercase letters.

48. I can play the piano, but I haven’t played regularly since I was in high school.

49. I did not go to my ten year high school reunion, but I did go to H’s high school reunion.

50. I was bored at his reunion, so I accidentally got really drunk.

51. I am really bad at most video games. Like if I try to drive a car in a video game, I usually go really far left, then really far right, and run into everything. H gets very frustrated when I attempt to play a video game.

52. But I am awesome at Guitar Hero. Well, awesome in a relative sense.

53. I can’t play any songs on the Expert level, but I think that is because I actually have a life.

54. I have very little coordination and fall down somewhat frequently.

55. I bruise pretty easily, which does not go well with my lack of coordination.

56. I was born with red hair. Then it turned blonde, and when I was about 11 it started turning brown. It is medium brown now, I guess.

57. I have blue eyes.

58. My great-grandparents were Irish, French-Canadian, and Norwegian.