I unknowingly spent my precious "last hour before the kiddos get home from school" typing this up. I didn't know I was taking that long. I thought I was flying through it and would still have time to sneek in an online episode of "The Mentalist" before 3:00.
Wrong. So - I feel that the fruit of my "precious hour spent" should be viewed in more places than one.
Behold and beware. After you read this you will be my best friend (because nobody should know this much about someone NOT your best friend) and with that obligation comes great responsibility.
Just kidding. I think that line is from a movie. Cassy will know which one. My guess is Ever After. Here are the rules:
Once you've been tagged, you are supposed to write a note with 25 random things, facts, habits or goals about you. At the end choose 25 people to be tagged. You have to tag the person who tagged you. If I tagged you, it's because I want to know more about you.
1. I love chocolate.
2. I love to read anything good.
3. When I was in grade two (second grade) we moved from Calgary, Alberta to Littleton, CO. I had a red knit toque with a pom pom on top. (In Canadian English, "toque" is also a common alternative spelling of tuque (IPA: [tuk]), a knit woollen winter hat, originally worn by French-Canadians but now a staple of the Canadian winter wardrobe.)My second grade teacher couldn't understand what I was talking about when I said I had to get my toque and she made me spell it for her and she wrote it on the chalk board and I felt very special and super cool - you know cause I was from another country and all. Then the next morning a kid at the bus stop grabbed my toque off my head and when I tried to get it back he pulled my pom pom off. I ran home crying and missed the bus.
4. I have two sisters and 1 brother and 3 half brothers. They are all very funny and awesome and skilled and I love them terribly. I wish I knew one of my half brothers a little better and that we all lived closer so we could spend more time playing. So fun. Their spouses are fabulous too.
5. I have 4 kiddos that are very entertaining.
6. I met my husband playing basketball. My roommates in college told me to stop studying and carried me off to this dudes house to play a game of b-ball in the gulch. I was SO not into sports and never really played basketball. I got the nick name "cricket" that night because I just jumped around all over the place trying to look like I knew what I was doing. That's the first time I met Brian. All he remembers about that night was that he made some kind of an awesome dunk over some other guys head. Whatever.
7. I served as the women's basketball coach for our church team when I lived in Michigan. That was a funny calling. I felt pretty cool thinking that maybe I played better than I thought I did and 'someone' was impressed. I was told that it was because they needed someone who could make a lot of phone calls and get people there. So. You know...I bought myself a new clip board and made a lot of phone calls.
8. uh...25 is a lot. K- number 8: My front teeth are quite sensitive. I don't like ice cubes in my water. And I'm also not really a fan of the lemon wedge.
9. I like to watch T.V. My new favorite show is The Mentalist.
10. I'm pretty social. I need to have close friends.
11. I am SOOOO excited that my family can be together forever. That it's not 'till death do us part. It's for all eternity.
12. I have had many close friends named Heidi. Here are 4 of them listed by the city in which I met them:
Calgary - dark hair and she had warts on her fingers.
Denver - She was great! Fun times. She had a pet pot bellied pig, fabric covered bedroom walls, got paid, by the bag, to mow her lawn, and ended up going to a different high school than me.
Michigan - The most energetic fun girl. Loves to read and is so good with kids!
Alabama - great cook, wonderful to talk to and heaven sent.
13. I don't like cleaning my house. But love having a clean house. Constant inner turmoil there.
14. uh...hmmm...I became lactose intolerant shortly after my third child was born. Thus putting an end to my nightly bowl of ice cream. ugh.
15. I love the color orange. And I love owls. and chocolate.
16. I would love to become the "world's leading expert" on something. Like feta cheese or dung beetles. Something that I wouldn't be bothered too often about, but every once in a while would be quoted or interviewed. "According to Corrie Dewsnup, the world's leading expert on purple pansies, (insert something tremendoulsy interesting about little purple pansies that nobody really knew before but will definately be talking about for the next few days.)" and I can wear a white lab coat once in a while. That would be cool. Do some research and experiments...
17. One of the best feelings is to climb into a well made cozy bed with clean soft sheets and a fluffy pillow at the end of a long day. Mmmmm...
18. AND another best feeling is when one of my kids sits on my lap and snuggles right in. Perfect fit. Love that.
19. I don't really like deep water. Like in a lake and especially NOT the ocean. So spooky. It is so crazy to be out in the middle of a large body of water with nothing but a jet-ski or canoe under you. Just hard to wrap my head around all the space under me until solid ground. Oh man, I'm feeling a little queezy.
20. Brian and I think we may end up living in North Carolina one day. I've never been there, but it seems like a nice place.
21. The one Star Trek invention I wish was for real is the transporter. Could you imagine. How AWESOME would that be! Not that I watch Star Trek. Well, all right. I do. I actually really like Star Trek. But don't ask me any specifics. I'm in it for the entertainment and the cute bald captains. I don't really wish it were true. Well, mostly.
22. I really like walking in the woods. So fun. I NEVER imagine I am helping Frodo get to Mt. Doom with the ring, dodging the crow spies and throwing magic pine cones at the pesky chattering sneaky squirrel spies that seem to be following our every move!
23. Whenever I say "I NEVER" I usually mean "sometimes I do, but so what. Don't be a judger, beam in your eye." But sometimes I do mean never... 'cause I never eat after 7 pm. Just kidding. Not that one. Let's see. I never...uh, really want to clean my toilets. And I never will dye my hair blond. And I never drank alcohol. And I never want to be a race car driver or a gastrointestinologist or meet Dr. Gregory House - I think he'd make me cry or I'd feel so sad for his pain and hug him and he'd say something mean and I'd cry. Or I'd stick my tongue out at him. But I never do that any more.
24. I secretly wish I was a mom of four(check) with a cute dark haired finance guy for a husband(check), a world leading expert that can transport where ever I feel like going that day and could step on a calorie burning button placed just inside my pantry door that would activate a 'whole house cleaning mechanism' that never misses the corners. And that I could eat ice cream and creamy soups without any major repercussions to myself or others who may be in near proximity to myself.
25. I am a happy girl. Thanks mostly to the gospel of Jesus Christ, my family, and a little bit to chocolate.
I am tagging everyone because I want to be your bestest friend. And I want to know if you watch Star Trek or have lactose problems. Thanks.
My Mom got me a new sewing machine for my birthday and I have been using it! My first curtain panel wasn't too great. So I was a little (a lot) discouraged (and cranky), but when my second panel turned out fabulously I felt a lot better. I lined them with this real life liner fabric. I have four more panels to sew for the little windows on the side. Yea! It's fun to make stuff that actually turns out well. 
