Random Things Part Two:

Alright, let us continue with the riveting (ahem) discussion (one way) about myself.  

11.    I procrastinate like no one I have ever met.  Classic example:  1^st day of class in college, the professor (side note: he was an arrogant son of a gun) gives us our assignment.  It is to be done over the course of the whole semester.  It is our only assignment and has to be good. It is our WHOLE grade.  It is a 20 page paper (single spaced, little margins).  When did I start mine?  The night before at 7:00.  When did I finish?  About 8 minutes before class started.  What was my drug of choice to help me accomplish this feat?  Dr. Pepper. 

12.    I don’t, or actually didn’t, like soda (Utahans reading this sub “soda” for “pop”.)   Ryan has turned me on to Dr. Pepper and now pizza and Mexican food just aren’t the same without it.  Other than that, I drink water.  I can’t get enough. I love it and one of my biggest fears is being with out it.

13.    I have a severe phobia of bees.  There are multiple times that I have made a fool out of myself trying to stay away from them.  (rolling down a hill at Lake Pleasant because I had lost all control of myself and was flailing like crazy, weeping in my sister’s front yard because there was one on my leg, mooning Ryan’s extended family because one flew up my pants and stung my butt/thigh (it’s a fuzzy line between butt and thigh post children).  Just to name a few.  Believe me there have been more. 

14.    I blush really easily.  I hate it.  I am not even embarrassed and my face turns red and it makes people feel uncomfortable which makes me redder.  Or the best is when someone says (and someone always does) “oh my gosh, look how red you are…”  HATE IT.

15.    I don’t like finishing things.  For example:  I don’t like having the last bowl of cereal.  I feel like if there were bug eggs in the cereal, they would be at the bottom of the box.  I saw a Dateline or something once in my youth that said that all grain foods are chuck full of bug eggs.  I don’t like to finish bottles of shampoo or conditioner.  I feel like I am washing my hair with dregs.  No Dateline for that theory.  It’s all my own.

16.    I love law television.  Nancy Grace (while she is one of the more annoying people to grace this earth) is one of my favorite shows.  I love missing persons cases.  Natalee Holloway, Shandra Levy, Caylee Anthony, …I could go on.  I am completely into analyzing them.  I also love Unsolved Mysteries, Cold Case Files, Dateline, 20/20, American Justice…Just a side note:  Joran Vandersloot totally was responsible for the disappearance of Natalee Holloway.  I said it from day one.  Way before the confession.  I am also boycotting Aruba.  They have a corrupt judicial system. (I wonder if they will comment like the Harkins lady did and invite me for a vacation. I think that i might have to go. Just to witness the corruption first hand.)  And one final note, I am happy that Beth Holloway Twitty is (or was for a brief time) dating Jonbenet Ramsey’s dad.  It’s nice. 

17.    I hate hate hate eating noises.  If you are going to enjoy a banana, don’t do it by me.  Thanks. 

18.    I’m really good at rhyming but in question is my timing.

19.    I took to spitting when I started running in high school.  While I don’t run much anymore, due to bad knees, I still find occasion to spit.  Ryan loves that too.

20.    I hate onions.  Although, I have to say, I have become much more open minded about food in the last couple of years.  I have tried mushrooms (still hate them), avocados (love them), olives (still hate them), peppers (love them a lot), hummus (love love love), and many, many more things that I can’t think of right now. 

21.    The rain makes me so happy.  I have always loved it and still do.  The best is waking up to rain.  I just feel cozy, happy and ready to have a happy day.  I wish that it rained here more. 

22.    I love looking at baby animals.  Their mannerisms always remind me of my babies.  We have baby tortoises right now.  I do love them. 

23.    I don’t like watching the Food Network at all.  It makes me hungry and frustrated.  I can be totally fine, get one glimpse of a veal cutlet and my stomach growls.  I haven’t ever tried veal and I never will because I think that it is inhumane what they do to those poor babies.  But show it to me and I feel like I might die of starvation if I don’t get some beef right away.

24.    I don’t like to have bare feet while walking around.  While am stationery, I have to have bare feet.  Sleeping, bare feet. Watching television, bare feet, computer, bare feet.  But up and walking around, feet have to be covered.  October through March, slippers.  April through September, flip flops.

25.    I used to aspire to be a meteorologist.  I love all things weather.  In junior high I used to get up at 5:00 a.m. just to have time to watch the news and especially the weather.  Sean McLaughlin is my favorite meteorologist.  Al Roker, not so much.  Brad Perry makes me shiver.  Not in a good way.  In an annoyed way. 

 

Well, I did it.  25 fascinating tidbits about the mysterious Natalie Kidd.  If there were a 26^th thing, it would be that I wish sometimes that I were a little bit mysterious.  But alas, what you see is what you get.  If I have a feeling, I wear it on my sleeve, if I have something to say, I usually say it.  Anywho…thanks for humoring me.  It’s been a fun 25 things.  Now I am off to shower on my tippy toes and eat.  Just thinking about the beef got me growling.