34 Today

In honor of my 34th birthday, here are 34 random facts about me that you may or may not know.

1. I graduated from high school at 16.

2. I graduated from college before I could legally drink.

3. I want to take guitar lessons.

4. I honeymooned in Snoqualmie Falls, Washington.

5. I was born in Berkeley, CA

6. I know how to make quilts.

7. I was teaching 3rd graders how to square dance the morning the twin towers fell.

8. I'm always secretly afraid any boat/plane I am on is going to sink/crash.

9. I hate cheese-flavored crackers of any kind.

10. I've never attended a prom.

11. I've been to Stonehenge.

12. If you ask me not to tell anyone, I really won't. Secrets are safe with me.

13. My favorite candy bar is Twix.

14. Sorry, Texas, but I have never seen a prettier sky than in Montana.

15. I might like to be a school librarian one day after all my kids are in school.

16. I want to learn how to two-step.

17. I only use the iron about twice a year.

18. I vacuum only slightly more frequently than I iron.

19. I've read a lot of good books, and a lot of crappy ones. I want to write one sometime.

20. My favorite hymn is Christ We Do All Adore Thee.

21. If I could choose anywhere to visit, it would be Italy.

22. I used to hate my hair but now I love it.

23. I have more close friendships right now than I have ever had in the past.

24. I do a lot of things I would rather not do out of a sense of responsibility. (example- teaching the baby Bible class at church)

25. I need to have a root canal, but I've been putting it off.

26. One of my favorite parts of the day is getting the mail.

27. I can't swing a golf club anywhere even close to how it should be done.

28. I prefer rainy days.

29. I refuse to pay full price for greeting cards and will only buy them at the dollar store where they are 2 for $1.

30. I want to have the house where my kids and their friends prefer to hang out because it's a welcoming, fun place to be.

31. I used to write diaries in high school and boy are they shallow.

32. A picture I drew in elementary school won me a cabbage patch doll.

33. I can remember being boy crazy even as young as Kindergarten.

34. I truly feel that I have become more beautiful as I have aged. I bet that is much better than feeling the other way around.