Someone asked me to make a list of 25 random things about myself on Facebook. I figured I’d post it here, too, in case you were wondering…
1. I’ve been to China. I’ve been to the Olympics. It was wonderful.
2. I love lists more than anything. I make at least 2 lists a day. It keeps me sane.
3. Any band that you heard one hit from in the 90s is my fave. Third Eye Blind, Lifehouse, Gin Blossoms, Train, Sister Hazel, Better Than Ezra, Matchbox Twenty, etc., etc.
4. I’ve had stints of loving yoga, the elliptical machine, lifting, and Pilates. I love Billy Blanks, and I love kick boxing. However, despite all this, I always have a problem working out. But this year, I’ve decided if President Obama can work out every day, so can I.
5. I went to the Galapagos Islands once, and I loved every minute of it. I swam with sea lions, and with penguins. Wild ones.
6. Penguins are my favorite animal. Pandas are my sisters. We love the black and white together.
7. I love The New York Times and reading the news in general.
8. Crosswords are my love. I must start doing them more often.
9. Scrabble is my favorite board game. Sophomore year of college, when I went to Europe, I memorized all the acceptable 2 letter words. AA is one of them.
10. To go along with Lauren’s thinking, all my names have a double. JeNNie LyNN. And my confirmation name is MicheLLe.
11. I love hanging upside down from monkey bars. It’s great, and I’ve been able to do it since I was very small, and I hope to never NOT be able to hang upside down from monkey bars.
12. I love OnDemand, because I can watch programs about Hitler’s secret city under Berlin, and 17 minute NatGeo clips on the magnetic poles of the Earth and how they are reversing.
13. I love riding the train. I love fall colors, the ocean whizzing by, going through Gary, Indiana, and arriving at exciting places such as Chicago and New York City. I love train stations, too. Union Station with its gold benches, and Grand Central with its beautiful ceiling.
14. I bite my nails, which is a problem, but I can’t stand having any. They get in the way of cooking, cleaning, typing, playing piano, pushing buttons on my iPod, turning book pages…
15. I love reading. Love it. Mostly NatGeo, but also historical fiction, and recently the Twilight books, because sometimes you need a teen love story.
16. Speaking of reading: I dog ear. I make notes in the margins. How else am I supposed to remember what I loved? And I love reading other people’s books with notes in them. It is always exciting to know which part of a book someone else loved.
17. I organize my bookshelf by color. A friend had her books like that, and I saw them, and immediately knew that was the best way for me to organize my passion.
18. I love politics and history. I love presidents. I love world leaders; I love war novels, movies, and anything to do with cultures that are unlike my own. And I love to argue.
19. Photography is my creative outlet. I photography everything and nothing, and I love seeing other people’s pictures, and wondering what they were thinking and feeling when they took them.
20. I am an amoeba person, not a pie person.
21. I have crazy dreams a lot. Ask my sister. Or my BFF. Or Jeff. They happen all the time. Who knows why?
22. I like arts and crafts, knitting, sewing, and pretty much anything involving some glue, paper, crayons, and color.
23. I hate when people use “they’re” and “their” and “there” wrong. Same with “your” and “you’re.” C’mon, people. It really is easy to learn. I also detest Internet lingo. For this reason, I always type things out in text messages.
24. My favorite line of a song is, “Your best friend always sticking up for you even when I know you’re wrong.”
25. I am also always late.
Jeff’s
1. I’m obsessed with the color blue
2. I fear loneliness, yet sometimes all I need to do is get away from everything and think.
3. I rarely if ever get sick and when I do it’s for short periods of time.
4. When I was younger I used to play tennis and basketball.
5. I did inhale.
6. I was told I was breastfed, whatever that means.
7. As a kid I was a very mischievous child, just ask.
8. I love big boy toys
9. I’ve been to China, Mexico, Italy, Canada, but not England, France, Spain, Greece, Germany, Japan, or any of a number of places on my list of “to go before I die”
10. I hate chain letter lists like this one, but it’s ok cause it’s Jennie’s
11. I’m a neat freak
12. I was a boy scout as a youth, and as such I’ve gone on hundreds of camp outs, I’ve hiked from the south rim of the grand canyon to the river and back, and i subsequently know a lot of first aid and CPR.
13. I love to rock climb but I haven’t done so in eons
14. My favorite cartoon as a kid was Ren & Stimpy
15. I was obsessed with Legos as a kid and my entire basement was once a giant lego town
16. I had braces for 4 years
17. I love good movies, ones that remind me why I want to be a film maker.
18. I’m a fairly good handyman when it comes to repairing things around the house, electrical, dry wall, construction, plumbing, gas, etc
19. I want to travel, a lot, I don’t like America as much, I feel we’re a group of very stubborn egocentric imbeciles and I should like to experience more of my life outside of the country.
20. I have a lust for life, I believe the answer to ‘why are we here’ is simple, to make the best of every moment and be happy doing it
21. I have atheist tendencies but I wear a gold cross on my neck given to me by my very conservative mother, I wear it for good luck and for her
22. On two separate occasions I shaved my legs just for fun.
23. I have a ton of gray hair and I’m convinced I’ll be fully gray before I hit 30
24. I’m an excellent multitasker especially in fast paced environments
25. I love my friends and my family and while they don’t know it I think about them a lot, especially my close friends and family.