30 random things

There's something going around on Facebook (a social networking site that I belong to) where you're supposed to list 25 random things about yourself. I hesitated to do this for several weeks until my brother did it and, well...then I felt compelled to join in.

Here were my 25 random things:

1. The most spontaneous thing I have ever done was quit my first job to travel on an event marketing tour for five months. It was the best experience of my life.
2. I moved to DC for two years. Seven years later, I’m still here.
3. I am so fortunate that all of my grandparents are living. I wish I saw them more often.
4. It scares me that I have no idea what I want to do with the rest of my life.
5. I have kept an Excel spreadsheet of our household expenses for the last seven years. Yes, I can tell you how much we spent on gas in 2002 vs. 2006.
6. I would be happy living in the middle of nowhere.
7. If I wasn’t in PR, I would write children’s books.
8. Somehow in the last year, I have accidentally become a dog person.
9. I would rather be interviewed live on television than speak in front of 50 co-workers.
10. I have learned to appreciate good wine, good cheese, and a good pair of running shoes.
11. I wrote my first story in the third grade. (I still have it.)
12. My uncle tried to convince my now-husband to ask me to his prom. He didn’t. Six years later, we started dating.
13. I appreciate good vegetables and fruit more than good meat. I could be a vegetarian and be perfectly happy. [Side note: I think this is because I was so spoiled with good meat as a kid that I really can't appreciate what I get now.]
14. I would rather have a big yard than a big house.
15. My first memory is of going to the dentist with my sister. I was three years old.
16. I don’t ask God for things. I just ask Him to help me figure life out.
17. I am not a morning person but I go to the gym at 5:30 a.m. four days a week.
18. I worry that I will not be able to raise my kids as well as my parents raised us.
19. We eat dinner really late at our house. As in, 9 p.m. most nights.
20. When a long relationship ended after college, I made a specific list of what I was looking for in my next guy. And I married him.
21. The only people who read my blog religiously are my dad and Chad’s grandma.
22. If both of my sisters didn’t live in DC, I would be more open-minded about moving.
23. I was a “surprise” baby.
24. I have never broken a bone, but I did get twenty stitches in my eyebrow two days before my tenth birthday.
25. I spent the summer after high school working at our local newspaper, writing up engagement and wedding announcements, among other things. Therefore, I can type faster than anyone I know.

Believe it or not, most of the comments I received were about #21, from people who said that they, too, read my blog. Who knew I had such a following? For those of you who read both and for which this was redundant, here's an extra five "things". Consider it your cherry-on-top:

26. I taught myself to like tomatoes, coffee and sushi. I am trying to like celery and cucumbers but it isn't working yet.
27. Even though I work in the retail industry, I really don't like to shop, especially for clothes.
28. I am a saver and Chad is a spender. If it were up to him, we'd have no savings. If it were up to me, we'd have no fun.
29. One of my least favorite things to do is flip through channels. If I turn on the TV, it's for a purpose.
30. I love to play practical jokes. Several years ago I spent $12 on a three-year subscription to Parents' magazine just so I could see Chad's face when it came in the mail. (The reaction was so priceless, I'm still laughing.)