50 Things to know about me!

Okay!!! After reading Joanna and Dontia's lists, I felt like it was time for me to try and compile my own.. (plus it's Saturday, Joe is playing his guitar, Evie is watching "Snow White" quietly and I have free time!!!) Let's hope that thinking of 50 things about me doesn't take all day!

1. 50 Things about Me!

1. I love the color pink and wear it often.

2. I was a wonderful speed skater and backwards skating competitor in grade school all the way through high school.

3. Like Donita, I love lipsticks.. I usually wear browns but have been really liking pink glosses right now.. Red is not my color in lipstick.

4. The more weight I gain, the less time I take fixing my hair. It boils down to not likeing the way I look, so I have decided that fixing my hair is a waste of time.. you'll be noticing me in pony tails more!

5. My favorite movies are "The Lord of the Rings" Trilogies.. I simply love the acting and story.. and oh so many great looking actors!

6. I love 80s metal music.. Van Halen, Def Leppard, Ratt, Megadeth, Skid Row, Savatage.. you name it.. the bigger the hair the better.

7. I also love old school 80s rap.. (can't STAND the new stuff).. bands like Run DMC, The Sugar Hill Gang, and Grandmaster Flash are good ones that come to mind... before "Gangtsa" became popular.

8. I used to call up friends late on a school night and we'd leave our speakerphones on all night in case one of us woke up and felt like chatting.

9. I am a POGO.com addict.. but most of you know that!

10. One time, I bit my own arm and blamed it on my sister and even though her teeth marks could never have matched mine, she still got in trouble. (One of my finest tricks)

11. I love Oreo McFlurries (just finished one)

12. My best friend growing up was Coleen Murphy (now Mercilliott).. to this day, I would have to say we are still best friends.. from age 7 until now.. amazing.. but she lives in Florida.

13. I put about 15 Glade Plug ins in my house at a time (usually about 3 in each major room and one in each bedroom/bathroom) to keep the house smelling fresh

14. One time when I was a kid, I fell off of our pool deck backwards and passed out in a pile of red hot fire ants. OUCH!

15. My dream is to pay off my debts and live comfortably without having to worry so much.

16. I have a reocurring dream (since childhood), that my teeth are falling out.. like crumbling before me.. it's terrifying each time I have it.. yet I keep having that dumb dream.. about once every couple of months.

17. Sometimes I wake up from nightmares screaming bloody murder and my husband says that I almost give him heart attacks.. usually dreams about beetles crawling over me or in my hair.

18. I have always had long hair except one time in 5th grade, my Mom took me to get a short hair cut and I got mistaken for a boy so often that I swore I would never have short hair again.

19. I have had some bad perms LOL

20. I have been to Disney 4 times (2 of them since Evie has been born) and it never gets boring.

21. I have never been out of the country.. and have never been out far east or west.. just midwest to down south.

22. I love road trips and stopping off in small towns in Tennessee and Georgia for souvineirs or pecan logs!

23. I grew up loving boiled peanuts.. we used to have a fresh fruit and vegetable stand by our bus top when I lived in Florida and they boiled them fresh daily.. I couldn't get enough of them!

24. I am a lousy artist.

25. I love sunbathing at the beach or even just outside in the backyard on a hot summer day.. (not that I get to do that anymore :o( )

26. I wish we had 7 -11 stores here.. I miss SLURPEEs... other places carry slushies or icees.. but they are not the same.

27. I do laundry daily so that it never gets out of hand.. one or two loads a day will keep me organized.

28. I hate mopping and washing windows.

29. My favorite dessert is Tiramisu.

30. My favorite Jellly Belly flavor right now is 7-UP.. (this changes frequently)

31. I have always dated DJ's or musicians... really.. I can't think of anyone that I have dated that wasn't one of the two.. funny now that I think about it.. once a groupie, always one, I guess LOL Really, I think it's just because I love music so much.

32. My favorite Wiggle is Anthony, the blue Wiggle.. I got to hear him say Evie's name on stage last year when she was asked up to give Dorothy The Dinosaur roses... it was fantastic!

33. My best friends, Renee, Coleen, April and I used to steal Real Estate signs and plastic lawn ornaments out of peoples yards and started a collection in my closet.. then we'd go out the next nights and redistribute them into different people's lawns.

34. I used to love to sneak out of my window at night to meet up with friends but that was often a problem because we lived on a lake that was filled with alligators that would sometimes come into the backyard.

35. I love getting pedicures but haven't had one since after Evie was born.. (damn, I'm overdue!)

36. I have had the screenname "Tinajo" online since I met my husband, Joe, 12 years ago.. even before we dated, I idolized him and wanted his name to be part of mine.

37. I have 4 tattoos

38. I just love a clean closet but rarely have one!! When I do get one organzied, I am proud for weeks and love to look at it and show it off.

39. I never miss the shows "Survivor", "The Amazing Race" and "The Apprentice"

40. I am not a great cook.. I wish I was more inventful with my recipes.. I love to cook stuff out of the box that is easy.. but wish I didn't have to.

41. I am a good optician, know more about my job than I want to - but now that I stay at home most of the time with Evie, I wish I could quit.. I love being a stay at home Mom WAY more.

42. I only like ankle socks.. can't stand feeling socks up past my ankle bones.. must be because I broke my ankle a few years ago and don't like the feeling of things on it.

43. I always say that I hate chick flicks.. but I don't think that is totally accurate, sometimes I'll catch myself watching a movie that I would consider a chick flick and it becomes one of my favorites.. but only if I can watch it alone..

44. I am close with my Mom and Dad but have lived miles apart from them for years.. I miss them :o(

45. My sister has 5 children that I was always very close to growing up.. in fact, her oldest kids were like siblings to me growing up.. but I haven't seen them in a very long time.

46. I do not own an ipod or palm pilot.. (I feel so out of touch!)

47. I have 5 pairs of prescription eyeglasses right now that I switch off between.. and one of those are sunglasses.. (I LOVE GLASSES)

48. I just bought an awesome diaper bag on ebay that I saw at my salon the other day.. it's $95 brand new from the manufacturer and the salon, but I found it on ebay for $53!http://www.beijobags.com/bp_13.aspx

49. I love buying cheap jewelry from AVON (the Avon lady was just here)

50. I love getting together with friends during Evie's playgroups

You know.. that wasn't too tough.. in fact, I believe I could come up with 50 more pointess facts about myself, but I'll stop now so that Evie and I can play with Play-Doh!

Good luck with your lists!