If you thought you knew me...think again!!

Rules: Once you've been tagged, you are supposed to write 25 random things, facts, habits or goals about you.

1. I knew I wanted to marry Jeremy very quickly after we met. We were engaged three months after we'd started dating, and it felt like he'd never ask!!
2. One of my worst fears is giving talks or speaking in public. I am painfully shy around people I've just met and it takes me a very long time to be myself. I still get shy around Jeremy's family (I think it's because we don't get to see them very often) and we've been married almost four years.
3. I will not under any circumstances put syrup on my pancakes. The only way I can eat them is with jelly or peanut butter. However, I love syrup on waffles and french toast...it's a mystery!
4. Moving to Louisiana has been one of the hardest things I've ever had to adjust to. I am very close with my family, and it's been extremely hard to be so far away from them. Although I don't see myself ever really loving it here, I'm finally starting to realize that I need to embrace the differences here and try however I can to make it a positive experience. I'm also realizing that maybe moving here has been a blessing in disguise. Being able to see Jeremy every night is a blessing in and of itself, and it has brought us closer together (in my opinion anyway), plus I don't think I ever would have had the opportunity to go back to school for a nursing degree if we were still living in Utah. For those reasons I am so grateful that we are here.
5. I am a complete girly girl, and I spend way to much time getting ready and being concerned with how I look...I'm sure Jeremy would agree!
6. I shed like a dog! Seriously, my hair falls out in big clumps on a daily basis. It's actually pretty amazing that I even have any hair left.
7. I had a pet turtle growing up named Gavin Skeet that I got while on a vacation in California. He was so little and cute that I just had to have him! When we went to the airport to fly home security told me that I couldn't take him on the plane, but I decided to sneak him on anyway...that's when I knew I was a true rebel! When I started dating Jeremy and found out that he had a turtle I knew right then and there that we were M.F.E.O.
8. I prefer cold weather any day over heat. I think this is because I have an albino like skin tone that causes me to burn even when I stand too close to the oven.
9. Becoming a mother is my number one dream and goal. In fact, I secretly hope and pray that Jeremy and I will someday have twins...one boy and one girl, just like Brad and Angie.
10. I am a very emotional and sensitive person, and although I hate to admit it, I often cry while watching reality T.V. The fact, and the painful truth is that I watch way to much reality T.V., but back to being emotional and sensitive, for whatever reason I just have a lot of emotions that run pretty deep.
11. If I could drink diet pepsi and diet pepsi twist (whatever happened to that by-the-way??) day and night and night and day I would, but the truth is I'm off soda, so I guess that's not going to happen.
12. Carbs in many forms are my one true love (J/K it's you Jer), and even though I love me some meat (especially a good steak), I could not ever give up the sugars. Guess Atkins is out of the question for me.
13. Along those same lines, growing up I hated eating any type of red meat, but now that I'm older I love it...in moderation of course.
14. All this talk about food makes me remember how I was overweight all through my late childhood and adolescent years. I didn't start to thin out until after I graduated high school.
15. I get embarrassed very easily...I'm sure my dad could share a few stories.
16. I'm not very domestic. I don't cook as much as a wife should, I hate doing dishes (refer to Jeremy's blog with the dishes calendar), I don't sew (but I do want to learn this trait someday), and Jeremy does his own laundry...I'm a keeper!!
17. If I could go anywhere in the world it would be Ireland...Far and Away my friends, rent it!! Second choice would be Australia so that I could visit Bindi Irwin (the late crocodile hunter's daughter) at the Australian Zoo.
18. I don't particularly enjoy animals (minus Homer of course), but my dream is to someday swim with dolphins and have them push me through water with their nose.
19. Listening to Jeremy laugh when he thinks something is really funny always puts a smile on my face...even if what he's laughing at really isn't that funny.
20. Growing up I always wanted to be a news anchor woman...not sure this would have worked out too well since I have a phobia of public speaking.
21. One of my greatest fears is losing Jeremy. Everyday that he goes to work I worry of the possibility that something could happen and he may not come back. Morbid I know, but I'm sharing my thoughts here people!
22. I have a very hard time remembering names, but for some reason I can always remember people's birthdays...unexplainable really. Oh, and this might be two-in-one, but I think I have a slight case of adult ADD. I can tune people out in a matter of seconds and they don't even know it...it blows when I get caught though.
23. I love shoes, and the fact of the matter is that I own way to many!!
24. I have a mild case of insomnia. Not sure when exactly this started, but I have big problems sleeping at night! I usually stay up really late to tire myself out, but even then I almost always lay in bed for at least an hour (on a good night) before falling asleep.
25. I think that my mom is the greatest example of a wife and mother, and although I am not even close to being as amazing as she is, I hope that one day I can be the kind of mother and wife to my children and husband that she has been to our family.

I know it's a stretch, but I tag Jeremy (please please), Corey, Allie, B & E (another stretch), and anyone else who wants to give this a shot...it's fun, I promise!!