25 Random Things About Me....

This little game is all over FaceBook so I thought I would also post it here for fun. I'd like to tag a few blogger friends that I don't have as facebook friends. Let's hear from you guys.

1. I am not really a people person. I’m a homebody and love it that way. I love being at home and enjoy my own company of silence and quiet. I love silence and miss it some days as I don’t get a lot of quiet anymore. I was an only child and think that is one reason I like being alone and quiet.

2. I collect “smiley faces” anything. Cups, pictures, stuffed toys and all kinds of things. If there is a smiley on it, I just might buy it. I’m not a crazy collector but I do probably have 25 different items of smiley’s.

3. I love buying new shirts. I love to shop but shirts seem to be one of my “bad” habits. I can only have a few pair of pants but I love buying new shirts, new colors, styles, and new patterns. I can go to Wal mart and most likely find a new shirt I must have. My shirts reflect my mood for the day. Sometimes I change 3 times before I get the “right” one for the day. LOL My closet is once again full of shirts, only this time there size smalls! Oh yeah!

4. I’m one of the most honest, caring, loving, kindhearted souls you will ever meet. I feel for others more than myself. I’d do anything I could to make someone feel better. But…don’t let that fool you as I do have red hair. I have a grouchy, and a mean side too. J I get grumpy just leave me alone for a bit and I’ll get over it. But the more you push the more I blow.

5. When I get upset with someone or they do me wrong I cry before I get mad or angry usually. I’m a lover not a fighter. I’ve never been in a fistfight.

6. I love, love, love coffee. I’ll give up the food but coffee I love. I drink green tea now too but coffee I love the taste of. I’ve found an acid free coffee at the health food store that is yummy & good. Hoping it good on the tummy. Not a lot of coffee but I do like to my cup.

7. I hate my house being a mess. It drives me crazy when the toilets, floors and laundry need my attention and I can’t get it all done. I also know “my men are pigs” and it’s my job to clean up after them. But that’s ok cause I get a “satisfaction” from a clean house and a job well done.

8. I almost always fall asleep during an evening time movie. Play scrabble or keep me entertained and I can stay awake late, but put me in front of a TV at night and I’ll fall asleep every time. I usually fall asleep usually by 9pm but I’m always up and awake by 5ish.

9. Every single morning I drink an iced OJ, yogurt protein drink. It’s got OJ, orange yogurt, ice, orange powder protein, benifiber, creatine and glutamine in it. Keeps me healthy and it’s great for the stomach. And it sooooo good. I love my morning drink. I drink this instead of coffee. I don’t wake up and have to have coffee any more; I gave that up 2 years ago. This is my morning coffee now.

10. Derrel and I rarely fight and spend most of our time together and just being together. He still drives me crazy some days but I’m lucky to have him and I know it! After all this time I’m still in love.

11. I am a good mommy. Still wonder what I’m going to do with myself once Jonathan is grown. I’m thinking I might just be a little lost without someone hear to push my buttons each day and drive me crazy.

12. I’ve lived in Oregon, Idaho, Missouri and now back in Oregon for the past 16 years. (Wow, that made me feel old)

13. I’ve got ONE good friend that loves me for me. I don’t have a lot of friends but after all this time I feel lucky to have her in my life and all we have been through. Were 2000 miles apart and have been for years, but we talk like we live next door to one another still. She’s been my friend for 20 years and I love her more than anybody. Good friends are hard to find, but I found mine. LULAS Shelly!

14. My favorite TV show is Two and a half men. Funny shit!

15. This is the year I’m getting my ass on a horse. Getting on a horse is something I’ve never been able to do along with many other things in my past life because of my weight. Getting on a horse is just one of many goals on my list since losing 145 pounds. There is so much I missed out on being obese for many years and so much to do. It’s time to start checking off things from that list this year.

16. I absolutely hate anything that flaps like birdies. I know…laugh. It’s not the birds it’s the flapping. Keep you wings off me and don’t get to close or you’ll scare me. I was brave this summer at the zoo and went into the bird room to feed them. Ug We snapped a picture of me with the birds sitting on my shaking arms, it was funny- but I did it!

17. I love my houseplants. I’ve had some of them even before my son was born.

18. I always order the same thing when we go out to eat. Different restaurants, different places but I always order the same thing off the menu. I’m kind predictable and not very daring.

19. I love to take long rides in the forest and in the trees. Here in Oregon there are many back roads through the woods and trees. Taking the back road and the long way home is all-good with me. Give me trees over people.

20. I love to dip my chips in ketchup if were having hamburgers with ketchup. Strange, but I do. Also- baked potato dry or sometimes I put cottage cheese on my baked potato- never butter. I put cottage cheese on my salad rather then dressing.

21. I love Facebook. I’m addicted. My Space sucks, as I always get “page can not be displayed” on that site. I love Face book’s games, photos, status updates and my friends there.

22. I love candles. I almost always have one burning or many burning. It rains a lot here in Oregon so it soothes me I think. My dad loved candles too, so it reminds me of him.

23. I’ve already lost most of my family members to death. My mom and dad are gone and have been since my 20’s. Heart attack and breast cancer. Grandparents, uncles, all gone but a few…I’m pretty much alone here in this world and out of family- except Jon and Derrel. That’s another reason I had to lose my weight…for my future. I don’t want to leave my son here alone. I want him to have a grandma for his kids. It’s hard not having anyone left and I don’t want to do the same to him if I can help it.

24. I wear glasses. Dorky ones pink ones, blue ones, cheap ones. I wear contacts some days too. For years I've had to put glasses on to read. And every year I can see a little less. I can't see anything anymore clearly. Even at the store if I don't have contacts in or glasses on my face I can't see the price or read it at all. I still don't want to admit that, but I put on my glasses and I can see how dirty everything is and I can see so much clearer. I have 20 pairs of dollar store glasses all over my house.

25.I could write more much darker, deeper facts- but I didn’t want to scare you off. He he