Tagged by Elise!

1. I am the biggest impulse shopper…and I almost always regret my purchase and end up returning it! I don’t know why I do this, but anytime I want something, I just buy it and then once I get home and think a little more about it, I am like “why did I buy that…” and then I return it the next day. I do it ALL THE TIME! I am ashamed to admit that sometimes I even wear the item of clothing once and then decide to take it back… : ) And most places will still take it back and at least give me store credit, even if the tags are ripped off. I guess the good thing about this problem of mine is that I don’t end up spending as much money on shopping…since I end up returning 75% of the things I buy!

2. I am deathly afraid of grasshoppers, crickets, or anything that remotely resembles one! I don’t know why, but they just hop so fast and make scary noises…they freak me out! When I was in college I lived in a house in Mesa with a bunch of friends and the washer and dryer were in the garage and in the summer time there were always TONS of crickets in the garage. I HATED taking my laundry out there and my roommates knew it, so sometimes when I went out there they would lock me in there and turn out the lights so I was stuck in the pitch black garage and all I could hear were crickets all around me!!! I would freak out and start banging on the door for them to let me in and I could just hear them laughing on the other side of the door…I have hated Foush and Michelle ever since…HA HA, JK! LOVE YOU GIRLS! : )

3. I am not a morning person…I dread getting up in the morning and I do this weird thing where I always set my alarm clock for way earlier than I actually have to get up because for some strange reason it makes me feel like I got more sleep. LOL! I don’t know why…maybe it’s all in my head…but I swear it works! When I hear the horrible noise of my alarm in the morning my first thought is “oh no, I have to get up,” and then when I roll over to turn it off and see what time it is, I remember that I get to go back to sleep and I am SOOO happy! And then when I wake up again I feel like I just slept for like 3 more hours, when I really only slept another 30 minutes! : ) I swear it works…if you don’t believe me, you should try it!

4. I get really mad when people scare me! Seriously…like, REALLY mad! And it’s weird, ‘cuz I actually kinda like getting scared and I love watching scary movies. But for some reason if someone scares me, I just get PISSED OFF! Randy has had to learn this the hard way…he once snuck up behind me in Best Buy and scared the CRAP out of me and I wouldn’t talk to him for like 20 minutes. Luckily he just laughs about it and continues to scare me anyways. : )

5. I get really strong cravings all the time! And no, I am not pregnant…I have just always been like this! I always warn Randy that if I crave things this bad when I’m NOT pregnant, I can’t imagine how bad it’s going to be when I AM pregnant! And my cravings are so random too! Once I woke up from a Sunday nap with Randy and just immediately told him “I want brownies.” The past two nights in a row I have been craving macaroni and cheese and even though Randy doesn’t really care for it, I still make it for myself every night and I can pretty much eat the whole box myself! And just today on the way home from work I was craving a Thrifty’s Mint Chocolate Chip Ice Cream cone (it had to be Thrifty’s ice cream!) and I stopped and got one even though it is super windy and cold outside. LOL! Crazy, I know, but I just had to have one…: )

6. I am extremely organized in my kindergarten classroom, but for some reason I am not nearly as organized in my own home! It’s not that I am messy at my home, cuz I am not. But I am just not as particular about where things go and once in a while there is definitely shoes left in the front room or clothes thrown on the floor of my closet. But for some reason, in my classroom, I am SUPER ANAL about it being clean and everything picked up off the floor and put it in its proper place! This is a little difficult, since I teach kindergartners and 5 year olds are messy and could care less if there is a crayon on the floor or a cup of pencils knocked over in the baskets at their table…but I will walk around the room and clean everything up myself if I have to because it drives me insane! Co-workers always compliment me on how neat and clean my classroom always is…and they always seem so shocked to find a Kindergarten classroom that clean… : )

7. I tell the longest stories ever…(which probably explains why this post is so long!) My family has teased me about it for as long as I can remember! When I was younger and my family would make fun of me, I would seriously get my feelings hurt about it and I was really insecure about it, so I would try SOOOOO hard to make my stories shorter….but it was impossible!!! I just can’t leave out important details! It ruins a good story! And I don’t even realize I am doing it! I just tell a story the only way I know how, and then someone always makes a comment about how long it was or how detailed it was. Luckily I married someone who doesn’t care or ever tease me about it : ) But my family still to this day will make comments about it. I think Amber is the first person who ever complimented me on my stories and said how much she loves my long, detailed stories…Thank You, Amber! : )

I tag Briana, Michelle Harries, Michelle Bodily, Michele Cloward, Summer, Cara and Marianne!