The 25 List

Here's that ubiquitous 25 Random Facts list that's making it's rounds on Facebook Notes/Tags

1. I rode a camel in Africa. what now?!

2. In third grade, I formed an elite club with my eccentrically silly friends Eva and Tara where we made up songs and dances and dramatically 'fired' people who didn't get the words/steps correctly. One girl we fired moved to Belgium shortly thereafter and we never saw her again- true story.

3. The first snowfall of the first time I lived in snow (Helaman Halls freshman year), I asked my upstate-NY roommate if it was a blizzard. She laughed at me.

4. I've never seen the movie Clueless.

5. My hands and feet are always cold.

6. At 5'11" I am the shortest one in my immediate family. My parents and siblings are all over 6 feet tall.

7. I am studying journalism, and I want to go to grad school and potentially get a Ph.D.

8. A part of me wants to live the sexy NYC magazine writer life reporting women's foreign issues, another part wants to be a history professor, and another part wants to be a kick-a mom who loves the insanity out of her children (and husband) and writes columns and books on the side.
All in due time.

9. Around age 8, I copiously studied real estate guides and wrote my own 'home for sale' descriptions (i.e. 'Lavish 3 bedroom, 3.5 bath Monticello-style home...')

10. At age 10, I knew more about the San Diego Padres than probably most of the players themselves did.

11. I lived on the beach for the first 11 years of my life- we had lemonade stands on Labor Day and one time made $30. My survival instinct, even at that age, seriously considered it as a career, and in this recession, it's no wonder why I am thinking about it.

12. I have lived in California, NYC, Spain, New England and Utah, but never in a cul-de-sac.

13. I am a terrible artist (drawing, painting, etc). I once dug up a kindergarten report card and saw the teacher had been seriously concerned.

14. One of these years, I want to run off to the jungle (Thailand, Costa Rica, Bali, etc) and become a certified yoga instructor.

15. I can imitate almost anyone... Boston, Middle Eastern, Mexican, Utah accent or a specific person-- you name it, I can imitate it/them.

16. I have never broken a bone, and have an amazing immune system that has been sick only a few times in my life.

17. I'm not that competitive. I don't really like playing team sports, and I don't like watching them (as much as I used to).

18. I am far better at snowboarding than I am at surfing, and I'm from SoCal. Go figure.

19. I want to do humanitarian work/teach English in Eastern Europe/Asia and do foreign correspondence work on the side. Probably the fact of the area's enormity alone intrigues me.

20. A good way to describe how my brain works would be Grand Central at Rush Hour. I have had to learn how to calm down over the years.

21. I tried being vegan once but it only lasted a week- I had to take daily 2 hour naps because I was so tired and plus, it got boring. I am a major foodie.

22. I have studied Spanish on and off for 6 years but I could tell you more about my Spanish discoteca experiences than what I ever 'studied' abroad.

23. People who knew me from my childhood recall me as being tense, rigidly uptight, and unusually mature-- Until I got to college, I always had more to talk about with adults than I did my own age group. In that sense, a part of me thinks I never had a childhood.

24. I cry about cities (their absence in my current life). Last night, I was thinking about how much I miss New York and I started bawling.

25. My worst fear in life is being bored.