Weird and Random

I was tagged to list 7 weird/random facts about myself and despite my initial "I don't think i'll do this one" response, I never have a good answer for those name-one-interesting-thing-about-yourself games and so I figured I would humor myself and try it.

Fact 1: I have sadly come to the conclusion that after you have a baby, you may be back to your pre-baby weight, but you will never have the same body. Period. And even though I know this is true I still tell myself that "I will start working out tomorrow and get back the body that I used to have and didn't appreciate." Never happens. My goal one day is to run a marathon, but I think you have to be able to run a mile without passing out first. Everything has it's season, right? Maybe I will start tomorrow...

Fact 2: My very favorite blog to look at is called Seriously So Blessed and it is pretty much my daily medicine. At first when I read this blog I was completely offended. Then I realized how hilarious and dead-on it is. If anybody is interested in a good laugh and Utah-girl humor, I highly recommend it! If you want to check it out, here it is.

Fact 3: I have always thought that October is the best month for a birthday, probably because I love October and that's when my birthday is. It always seems like I am meeting people with my same birthday. I don't know if I am just looking for it and so it seems to pop up everywhere or what. One of my friends growing up shared my birthday. One of Zac's old college roommates with whom we are good friends and I share the same birthday. I just found out that the twin girls in Jon and Kate Plus Eight have the same birthday too. Does anyone else feel the same way about their birthday?

Fact 4: Anyone that knows Zac knows how mellow and easy-going he is. He is probably the easiest person in the world to be married to. He always lets me have my way and doesn't complain about it ever with one exception: control over the thermostat. For the longest time we would constantly battle with that thing. I would turn the temperature to what I thought was comfortable. As soon as I would walk away, he would come behind me and change it in the direction that saved us money on energy - cooler in the Winter, warmer in the Summer. Then I would think "Geez, it feels hot/cold in here." And I would check the thermostat and sure enough it would be a degree or two hotter/cooler than what I set it at. I would ask him about it and he would tell me that he wants to save as much as possible on the energy bill in our house. Then I would say "But shouldn't we be comfortable in our own house?" And then he would smile and apologize and let it go, with a smug grin of course. And sure enough, the same thing would happen the very next day. And this happened for the longest time. Well I am finally letting it go. I figure that he has more than earned control of the thermostat with all that he lets me get away with. So this one goes out to you, baby. Thanks for letting me get away with a lot of worse things. :)

Fact 5: One of my biggest pet peeves is the positioning of the shower head. I am all about taking a shower away from the cold marble wall and so I always have to have the shower head pointed out. The problem with this is that if you forget to point the shower head down before you turn the shower on you get a very unpleasant surprise. Anyone who is weird like me and cares about this knows that when you first turn the shower on it shoots out a 1/2 second stream of cold water before the hot water comes out. A 1/2 second doesn't seem like a big deal, but every time I forget to point the shower head down before I turn it on I totally freak out. It mostly happens when I am staying somewhere other than my house, am out of my routine and forget about the cold stream until it's too late. Hate that!

Fact 6: If I could go back to school for anything in the world, it would be culinary school.

Fact 7: I was born with a big dark quarter-sized birthmark on my right calf. I always hated it as a kid and felt like that was the only thing that people could see if I wore shorts, which was probably true. I had it removed when I was 11 because it was pre-cancerous, not to mention ugly. So now I have a big scar on my leg, but it was well worth the trade-off. It's one of those things that I never think about, so when Harrison was born and I saw a big dark birthmark on his stomach I was like "Oh man, he probably going to hate that when he gets older." I love it on him. I totally think it adds character and I adore it, but I am sure he won't feel the same way about it when he is in a swimming suit and everyone can see it. Maybe boys don't care about that stuff. Does anyone know if birthmarks like that are hereditary? The older he gets and the more I learn about him, the more I realize he is a miniature Hillary, in boy form of course. The birthmark seems to be no exception.


Fact 8: I am pretty much the last person to board the Twilight Series train. I am currently about 150 pages from the end of Breaking Dawn, and I am so ready to be done with it. I am ashamed to admit that I am a book cheater. It is a huge book-buzzkill, but I do it anyway. I got about halfway through Breaking Dawn and was like "I can't stand it anymore!" I thought it was going in a really weird direction and got really bored and so I thought "I am going to find out what happens because I can't read another chapter without knowing if all this is worth it!" So I peeked ahead and found out what happens and 2 weeks later I am still not done. I totally ruined it for myself. I will read a few chapters every now and then but the thrill is pretty much gone when you know how it ends. Maybe one day I will finish. I probably should, because I really want to read The Story of Edgar Sawtell
and I won't let myself start a new book without finishing the last one. Sigh. I am making a promise to myself right now that I won't cheat on Edgar Sawtell. It's so not worth it.

Fact 9: I have a new found appreciation for Tina Fey and am now a devoted fan.

Fact 10: I just realized I should have stopped at 7.