Tagged

So I've been tagged twice this week - and I'm supposed to tell little known facts about myself. I'm not very good at coming up with interesting things about myself so I've been pondering... I even asked my kids what they thought. They had trouble coming up with anything too, so I guess that I am officially a boring person - but I will do my best.

Current Obsessions:
1) Catching up on my stack of books accumulated over the last half of the school year
2) Finding time to be alone each day (usually about 5:30 or 6am)
3) Not thinking about the Twilight series until at least mid-July!

Goals:
1) Run three miles
2) Make my kids smile each day
3) Hope my kids still want to hang out with me by the time THEY have kids!

Joys:
1) Solitary walks
2) Time with Tim
3) Hearing my kids' laughter

Fears:
1) Something happening to one of my kids or Tim
2) Depression
3) Heights!

Little Known Facts...
1) I refused to go on a full-size roller coaster until my honeymoon! It took the blindness of true love to get me past my fear. Even so to this day I still have to talk myself into each and every one!
2) I've been doing speech therapy for 13 years and have successfully avoided having an intern all these years. That would require me to be organized and plan ahead (something I fake well but am really not)- But I was too nice to some college students that were working on a research project and now next fall I get my first intern! Yikes!
3) When I was about 12 I got tired of telling everyone how I got the scar on my leg so on a whim I told someone that my Mom had stuck my leg in a waffle iron... and they believed me! (Sorry Mom!)
4) I took German in high school because I wanted to go to Holland and German was the closest language. Almost 20 years later I think I remember exactly three phrases "Wie Langweilig!" ("How Boring!"), Du bist eine dum kopf! ("You are a dumb head!" - nice huh?!), and Ich Leibe Dich" ("I Love You!") - Hopefully I was somewhat close on the spelling!
5) Although it has been years since I have been there I have this fabulous memory of the chandelier in the Celestial Room of the Oakland Temple. There is a slight breeze and it causes the chandelier to make this light very soft tinkling noise. Just the thought of it makes me feel peaceful!
6) I once lit off a bunch of fireworks in the middle of a national forest in California with a couple of friends. One of them let off a flame that was a foot and a half high (at least that is what my memory says) and I was sure that we were going to burn down the forest! I never did that again!
7) I'm claustrophobic. I hate small skinny sleeping bags and being in the middle if my kids decide to crawl in bed with us, but mostly I hate crowded places. I'd rather stay home than fight a large crowd!

Wow I did it! I won't tell you how long it took me and I'm a little offended at one of the suggestions my kids had, but now maybe, you know a little more about me. Thanks Mindi and Jaqui for helping me not take myself so seriously!!!