1. I am a complete sucker for infomercials. They draw me in EVERY time. OK, so I have never, ever bought anything from one... but I will sit and watch the whole thing and think "How cool! I really have to have that!" To see the current item I am drooling over, click here.
2. I cannot stand seafood. I hate it. I've tried. Yes, I've even tried "the good stuff." Everytime, I can't even choke it down.
3. I have recurring dreams about my teeth falling out. One after the other, as if they're barely even attached. Sometimes there's blood everywhere, sometimes not. I'm always wondering in my dream how I will eat. I don't know if this stems from my disdain for my own crappy dental genetics, or I saw on Oprah once that it means your worried about your appearance. Who knows?
4. Speaking of sleeping, I tend to be a sleepwalker. I guess it was worse when I was a kid. Once I walked right out of a hotel room into a snowstorm. (Don't worry, my dad caught me right at the front porch.) Since I've been married, mostly I just sit up in bed and yell random things that get Jason all panicky for no reason. It's funny, but I swear I don't do it on purpose. Most recently, I woke up in the middle of the night and felt wet all over my shoulder. After a minute I realized there was a water bottle snuggled up in bed with me and it kept sloshing all over when I moved. Never figured out how it got there!
5. You kinda already know about this one from my "Robo-snot" reference. Ya, glad you liked it. Here's the whole story: When I was in 9th grade my mom saw me running around in a swimsuit and said, "Amy, one of your hips is higher than the other one!" Soon enough, we were off to an orthopedist in downtown Phoenix. This is not my personal x-ray, but it's almost exactly what mine looks like:
Not only does my spine curve in an "S" but it also twists a little like a corkscrew. You can feel it, ask to run your hand down my back sometime. So just as I was to begin high school, I was sentenced to wearing this sexy bad-boy 23 hours a day.
This photo IS my actual brace.
It's about as comfy as it looks. Imagine an already-dorky girl worrying about boys, popularity, and appearances and all that 15-yr old teenage obnoxiousness. Hard, plastic underclothes! Just what I needed! It is very sweaty under there in August.... aka RASH. It took about a week before I learned to sleep in it. My family liked to "knock" on me. I had to buy all new clothes to fit over my new "hips." And trust me, that was not the fun kind of shopping. Let's not even talk about going to the bathroom or other times of the month. (Big velcro straps in an echo-y public bathroom.... rrrrrrip!) Awesome.
6. Sorry if many of you already know this one. I'm running out of ideas. I have a collection of paper napkins. They are from restaurants, weddings, parties, even temple cafeterias! Anything as long as they have printing on them. I starting doing this when I was 6 (don't know why) but, uh.... that's a long time. So I have a ba-zillion of them. I haven't counted them in years, so don't ask for a total. The picture doesn't even begin to show how many. This is a huge under-the-bed tub. There are BA-zillions. Some are from far away cool places. Some are from businesses that don't exist anymore. It can be fun to look through them. Mostly though, I'm just weird.
7. I really, really, really miss working with teenagers. From my teaching days to the ever-elusive YW calling in my life.... I miss it.
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I knew about the napkins and the brace, but the rest was "brand new information." Cool!
Okay, napkins, never seen a collection like that. And the brace: my friend had to wear one that went up to his neck and he had a metal bar behind his head. Everyone knocked on his too. But the most exciting thing is I HAVE A "PUFF PANCAKE" PAN! It is really an aebleskiver pan. Aebleskivers are Danish pancakes and are SO good. We've had them for breakfast and dessert. Anyway, mine is from William Sonoma and was more than your version, but you can also get some of the cast iron ones for I think like $9.95. I turn them with a toothpick. You'll have to come over sometime to try them out. Wow, that was a long comment. But I LOVE my aebleskiver pan.
1. I like infomercials, too. And, I also have one of those pans. I've used it once, but have big, big plans to use it again. (sure...)
2. I LOVE crab legs and coconut shrimp at Red Lobster. The rest, not so much. I can handle a little fish here and there, but it isn't my number one priority.
3. Teeth falling out? Wow! I've never heard that one before.
4. I can just picture you sitting up in bed saying something that scares the heck out of your husband. That one made me laugh. :0) My sister-in-law sleepwalks, too. She once ended up out at their apartment dumpster "looking for a kitty" with a fairly interesting (and scary) gentleman from their same complex.
5. That brace would be totally miserable. What a pain in the BUTT! You poor thing.
6. At least you have enough napkins under your bed to have been able to clean up all that water you were sleeping with.
7. You know you're going to get a new calling, right? Something with the youth in the ward. I'm just sayin'...
I love reading these tags. They're so fun!
I love reading about your BA-zillion napkins. I can totally hear you saying it by the way you wrote it.
That is an interesting collection. And a long time to still have it.
And I didn't know about your sexy back brace. How sad. Teen years suck anyway, no need to add more to it!
I have the teeth falling out dream too! ALL THE TIME!!!
1. I also love infomercials and have been suckered in to buying from them more than once.
2. So sad. I love seafood.
3. I used to have the teeth dreams all of the time, but not for a while now.
5. We all had to have something to humble us in school right? Ian's was really bad acne. I won't share mine.
6. Collecting napkins is very quirky and funny.
1. Never been one to watch infomercials, but apparently I've been missing out! Now I want one of those cool pans too...not to mention one of your cool "As seen on TV" cake-dome pans!!
2. I'm with you ALL the way on seafood...no matter how many times or varieties I try, I just can't get the stuff down! The smell is enough to turn my stomach!!
3. My recurring nightmare is always finding myself looking for a bathroom, and I usually find one...just the ickiest, grossest, non-private public ones...yuck!
4. I don't recall any unusual night waking episodes from our days at the Blue House...you must have been too tired!
5. Oh the back brace, I do vaguely remember hearing about it.
6. LOVE this quirky collection...I'm always on the look out for interesting ones to send you. : )
7. Somehow the YW calling always manages to elude me too...I think the Primary must be where I belong.
P.S. It was SO good to see you today...thanks for making the trek out my way! Sorry you've only ever been out here to paint! The next time will be for some fun in the pool--I PROMISE! Sorry too that we didn't get to catch-up too much...I will call you soon! Thanks again!!
Yay!! I love this!
1. I am NOT a sucker for infomercials at all. In fact, I pride myself on being a tough sale no matter where. BUT that puff pancake thing looks awesome. I found myself thinking "I want one!" LOL.
2. I hate fish, but I like shrimp and lobster.
3. Dreams are crazy sometimes aren't they? My yucky recurring dreams involve the bathroom. Ugh.
5. That would've sucked. Like Deb, I'm keeping my childhood agony to myself. ;)
6. How cool! I must be weird too cuz I'd actually like to see that. If I ever go anywhere interesting, I'll have to remember to get some napkins for you. :)
7. I was released from YW over 4 years ago and I STILL miss "my girls."
This was so fun to read. :)
I loved your seven items. I think the napkin thing is so original.
Plus, I have also had dream about my teeth falling out. I can't say I regularly dream about it but it has happened more than once. Are we long lost sisters?
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