35 Things You Might Not Know

Well, they say the mind is the first thing to go.  Today, for some reason, I thought I had a dentist appointment at 7 am.  I got up, got ready, and THEN turned on my phone to find a message from my dental hygienist that I DIDN’T have an appointment.  Crap.  Now, I am awake.  I decided to take myself to breakfast.  The reason I said the mind is the first thing to go is that today is my 35th birthday.  For 35 years I have been on this earth.  Damn, I’m getting old.  I thought today, in celebration of my birthday, I would do a fun thing and share 35 Things You Might Not Know about me.

1. I am a die-hard Steelers fan
2. I love mint chocolate chip ice cream
3. I hate gold jewelry
4. My dream job would be a professional drag racer
5. I would love to see the pyramids in Egypt
6. My favorite kids’ movie is Cars
7. I am allergic to fresh cut anything– grass, flowers– if the liquid from the cut gets on me, I get hives
8. I love to laugh
9. I love I Love Lucy
10. I love dark chocolate and white chocolate
11. I have a secret ingredient that I put in my brownies (and no, I’m not telling)
12. White tequilla makes me sick
13. My drink of choice is a Jack and Coke
14. I am really good a forging my mom’s signature– it came in handy when my brother and I would skip school or order pizza
15. I once met David Hasselhoff and kept calling him Michael Knight
16. I once spent 15 minutes talking to Frank Hawley in a concession stand line and had no clue who he was
17. I have been thrown to the ground and handcuffed by a Cincinnati police man
18. I used to play the clarinet and the tuba in band
19. I used to power lift and could leg press 650 pounds
20. I could squat 425
21. I hate shopping
22. I usually have an on-going commentary in my head all the time
23. My favorite place to be is in Amish Country
24. I love penguins
25. Every time I see clover in the yard, I always stop to see if I can find a 4-leaf clover
26. I have driven a Porsche in excess of 120 mph on the interstate
27. I lost by 1/100th of a second at bracket finals in 1996
28. I forgot to get professional pictures of my kids when they were 3
29. You can’t talk to me in the morning and expect a logical answer before I have some soda
30. I am allergic to racing fuel
31. I hate math, but I am an accountant
32. I love dirt racing
33. I love jade plants
34. I read a book to understand football when I was dating the Hubs– I was in the band, I didn’t pay attention
35. I complain about my freckles all the time, but I secretly love them

Okay, there you have 35 Things You Might Not Know about me… how many did you truly know?

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Julia wants to live in a world where Hogwarts is real, dark chocolate is packaged with good books, and houses clean themselves. Until then, she is the divorced mom of twins, blogger, sometimes crafter, traveler, napper, cooker, snail mailer, geocacher, and corporate bean counter.