GAG ME!!

So yesterday was my 26th birthday. I always LOVE birthday's, infact I usually refer to my birthday as my birthday month. If I buy my self a shirt, go to lunch, get a pedicure in the month of March...it's because it's my birthday month. I have never minded getting older...until now! 26 is such a terrible number. It's the downhill to 30. Yuck! I know to all of the people reading my blog who are 30+ are thinking how rude I am for bagging on 30 and thinking 26 is still young...but to those of you thinking that, I bet you hated 26 too! 25 is the last decent age. I think I would have liked to stay the perfect age of 23 forever, not too old, not too young. Never the less, I am 26, never to see 23 again. Here are 26 quirks about me:



1. I HATE Chinease food!

2. I've had 21 teeth pulled (13 baby, 4 permanent and 4 wisdom)

3. I LOVE red meat!

4. I like to cook.

5. Despite all my mom's best efforts to teach me to sew when I was young, I hated it; but now am learning to like it. I have even begun to look at things to try and figure out how they're made so I can knock off their version:)

6. I'm a reality TV show junkie.

7. I LOVE being a mom but the time goes by so fast I'm not in a rush to have the next one.

8. I like a clean house, some would call it un-liveable (because they are afraid to touch something for fear I might get mad at them for making it dirty, and there is a good chance I might get mad...unless your name is Cohen.)

9. 95% of the time I pick my house up before going to bed, waking up to a messy house starts my day off bad.

10. I HATE dishes in the sink. (you can thank my slob roommates freshman year at SUU for this pet peeve.)

11. I'm an avid believer that for almost everything there is more than one RIGHT way. And I look poorly upon the people who try and force their ways on someone.

12. My favorite sound is children laughing...specifically mine.

13. I don't really love to work-out just to work-out but I love being active moutain/road biking, running, mountain climbing, wake boarding and playing soccer...although I haven't played in a few years.
14. I'm only 5'3" and was a 400m hurdler/sprinter for SUU. Who says you can't be a good hurdler even if you're short?
15. I miss being a part of an athletic team.
16. I miss getting paid to work out...maybe I should become an aerobic instructor:)
17. Sometimes I stay in my pj's until the afternoon.
18. Most days I wear sweats around the house until I go somewhere, and then when I come home...I put them right back on!
19. I don't like to be touched when I'm sleeping, any one else's movements wake me up.
20. I am an ultra organized person, I believe EVERYTHING should have a place, and everyone in the household should know what the "place" is.
21. I need at least 8-9 1/2 hrs of sleep at night.
22. I didn't develop an appreciation for reading until about 4 months ago.
23. I love the SUN, I love to be warm, and I HATE to be cold. Utah is not my ideal climate.
24. My pet peeve since second grade is tapping and clicking.
25. In highschool I hated girl drama so all my good friends were boys. Subsequently I don't have many good girl friends from highschool and made most of my best girl friends in my adult life.
26. I'm sad that I won't get to spend the one-on-one time with the rest of my children like I have gotten to with my first.

Good job to the people who have been posting 100 things about themselves, I was struggling to make it to 26. Or maybe I'm just not as vain as you :)