So, here is my list
1. Just to start out, I dislike things like this. I don't like talking about myself. I just don't think I'm that interesting. Job interviews are the worst because you just sit there and talk yourself up. That is really hard for me to do.
2. I love running. (this coming from someone that used every excuse in the book to not run in school, and I was on the track team) I find it so relaxing, for as weird as that sounds. When I'm stressed, I can just go out and run all my thoughts and frustrations away. However, I can only do that if I run outside. It is just so different on my treadmill.
3. (sorry, you get the whole story on this one) When I was on the track team in high school, I went to the state meet when I was a Junior and took 4th place in the Shot Put. That was MY event and I was sure the next year I was going to take state. I worked so hard at it all year long along with the Discus. My Senior year at the state meet I took 4th place again and was so upset. I called my coach, who was in Arizona, and he said to forget it and concentrate on the Discus event that I had the next day. I was just there to be there for that event and didn't really care. My very first throw was my best of the day and was enough for 1st place. I was so shocked. (this is Zach's favorite fact about me. He brags to other people all the time)
4. I don't like to go to the bathroom in public places. I e\either have to be alone or it has to be noisy or it is just embarrassing. If it was quiet, and the other person is out washing their hands (for a small bathroom), I wait until they have left to go out of the stall. I just can't face them.
5. I love waking up in the morning, and going to sleep next to Zach every day. I can't believe I've been married for 4 years to my best friend.
6. I was big my whole life, especially during high school, and just blamed it on genetics and big bones. Since I've been married I have lost 56 pounds. See it can be done :)
7. I am just getting to really like reading. I never really liked it in school. The only problem is that it takes me so long to read anything that I don't read a lot. It took me exactly one year to the date to read The DiVinci Code (the only reason I know is I used the receipt as a bookmark)
8. I love having a big family. When I was little I wanted 4 sets of twins so I would have 8 kids. I don't want this anymore, but I still want a little bigger family of our own than Zach does.
9. Zach's mom's side of the family reminds me so much of my mom's side of the family. It is kinda scary
10. I love being the youngest in my family. It came with all the perks of being spoiled :)
11. I'm a very adventurous eater. I will try anything once and if I don't like ti the first time, I will try it again, but not at the same place. (I have my dad to thank for this one)
12. I am paranoid about what people think about me. I like to be liked.
13. I like to watch reality tv of almost any kind.
14. I love that I have 17 nieces and nephews. (ranging from 10 to newborn) If I lived closer to them, I would spoil them rotten all the time. I was Katelyn's first name she said (she's the oldest). I was so happy and was Aunt Nonie for a long time. It makes me sad that some don't even really know me now.
15. I love to travel and hope to be able to do it more in the future.
16. I am a very competitive person. Board games are bad but it is mostly in sports and other competitions. Just stay out of my way because I will work really hard to be #1.
17. My dream vacation is to go to Japan. That is where Zach went on his mission. He calls it home so I would like to share that with him.
18. I love to cross stitch and crochet. If you want anything done just let me know and give me some time :)
19. I am totally obsessed with Hello Kitty. I have figures on my desk at work and I am going to make my girls room all Hello Kitty.
20. I have terrible road rage. No one will really know the extent because I hold back if someone else is in the car with me.
21. I am totally not against plastic surgery. If I could afford it, I would have it even before I have kids. It doesn't last forever anyway so when I am don't with kids I will have it again :)
22. I broke a growth plate in my right foot in the 5th grade playing red rover at recess. I limped around on my foot the rest of the day and when I got home my mom took me to get an x-ray. I only ended up in an air cast.
23. I am a total worrier. This is an inherited trait from my mom. Zach hates it.
24. I have honestly thought about going vegetarian but decided I like meat to much to give it up.
25. Zach was my first kiss. He is also the only person I ever dated.
Thursday, February 12, 2009
Monday, February 9, 2009
25 Things About Me (Zach)
This has been going around Facebook, but I thought it would be fun here in the blogosphere as well. :) I have changed the rules a little in order to fascilitate the blogging world.
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Rules: Once you've been tagged, you are supposed to write a note with 25 random things, facts, habits, or goals about you. At the end, choose 5 people who you would like to know more about to be tagged.
1. I love anything and everything about Japan, with the sole exception of fish. I know it's weird, but it's true.
2. I like to get a good deal. I will price compare almost any purchase over $20. The only way to get me to pay more for something is for a good cause or really good service. I'm also a sucker for gift cards.
3. I like to play video games, mostly RPGs. Sadly, when you grow up you have less free time, and my gaming time has suffered. I even quit World of Warcraft because I couldn't stand playing for a few hours and watching my wife sit on the couch and watch TV all alone.
4. I can't watch movies alone. I used to be able to, but there are so many other things I could be doing with my time, that it has to be a social event for me. Same goes for TV unless it's the news.
5. I love Japanese Animation. I love the style, the stories, and the characters. Sadly, my wife isn't the fan I am, (but she tries!) and she can't keep up with subtitles as well as I can, so my viewing has been cut very short. That, and again, I can't watch stuff alone.
6. I -LOVE- to travel, and have a personal goal to travel completely around the world in my lifetime. I have gone as far as Istanbul, Turkey one way, and Tokyo, Japan going the other. I have visited 8 countries and 3 continents.
7. Carrying on from #6, I hate to come home from a vacation. I truly do not feel you are home until your feet touch the ground, so I am technically never off vacation until I step out of a car on Utah soil.
8. I love to try new opportunities in managing something or being in a position with responsibilities, but
after about two months, I usually am ready to move on to the next thing.
9. The only exceptions to #8 so far has been when I have a job (I guess knowing I have to make a living suppresses the urge to move on) and when I was president of the anime club at Weber State University before I got married.
10. On the subject of the anime club, it had a handful of members when me and my friend JB first showed up to it, and the club president at the time offered me the position of president that same night we first went. I declined, but after about a year I took the position and increased attendance about 700% during my tenure.
11. I love basketball, and follow it as regularly as I can on the internet, but really only watch a game if it's important to me (playoffs), or if someone else is watching.
12. I like to read, especially good fantasy books. My favorite series are Lord of the Rings and The Sword of Truth novels. The latter are currently on TV as Legend of the Seeker, which is vaguely similar to the books in some aspects. :) The books are a million times better.
13. I went to Japan on foreign exchange for a month in 2009 with my best friend, JB. I still remember the dates, as I was so excited. July 10 - August 9. JB almost didn't go, and I was really excited when he finally decided to go with me.
14. My favorite food is supreme pizza, but with no black olives or mushrooms. When I was in Japan, me and JB went Odaiba (an island full of theme parks, shopping, and other fun stuff) about 2-3 weeks in, and had the best pizza we've ever had in our lives from a Pizza Hut. It was about $5-6 a slice, but it was so good I think I bought 2 slices.
15. I love to save money. I don't mean in the same vein as .10 off of yogurt; that is very nice and I like a good deal, but I love to save and have something to show for my efforts, as opposed to watching it all flow out to other people. It's just so rewarding to watch it grow.
16. I stabbed myself in the neck with a steak knife when I was about 6 years old. I loved to play with knives, and always found where my parents hid them. I was playing He-Man on the bed in my grandpa's house while my dad was outside working, and I tripped on the sheets and the knife that was supposed to be Skeletor's went in my neck. I missed my jugular vein by ~1/4". I went screaming to my dad; he asked where the knife was, I didn't want to tell him, but I did, and because I wasn't having blood spurt out of my neck, he just gave me a band-aid.
17. I married into a family that feels almost exactly like my mom's side of the family. Then I found out Dawni's grandparents and my grandparents were friends.
18. Me and my wife found out after we were married that we were "cousins" through a marriage on my mom's side. Nothing blood-related, just through some other people. I sometimes call her "my favorite cousin" just for fun.
19. I love camping, but don't like to hunt, and I don't like fish. So I need to bring all of my food with me. I also like to hike, but only under one condition, and that is that there are trees and shade. There is nothing worse than hiking in the sun on a hot day with no shade. Hiking through the woods in Japan? Heaven.
20. My favorite places in the world are: Southern Japan, California, and Florida. Sadly, the first has volcanoes, the second has earthquakes, and the third has hurricanes.
21. I have a Bachelor's degree in Business Administration. It's basically a major for those that like to run their own business, couldn't decide on a particular business degree, or management. Basically, you take a lot of classes from each business school but never go to all of the really hard ones in all of the schools. I like to say that it's a degree where I know if you're doing your job wrong, but I don't know enough to do it.
22. I am stubborn when I know I'm right, and always base my decisions on logic. It drives my wife nuts sometimes as she focuses more on emotion with her decisions, and when we are having an argument, if I know I learned something from somewhere or if her logic is messed up, I sometimes go overboard in proving my point.
23. I love animals, but I prefer the kind that can sit in my lap. Smaller dogs, cats, etc. I think having a monkey for a pet might be fun, but I'm not sure.
24. I can't stand paying money for cable or satellite TV, but when I am watching someone else's TV where they have more than broadcast TV, I love to watch the History Channel and Discovery Channel. I wish I could pay just for those two.
25. I can eat almost whatever I want and I stay at the same weight. My wife hates me for it, and my dad had the same metabolism when he was younger. He told me it starts to go away at 40. Even though I don't gain weight, I try to eat healthy, and don't like to eat things that are very sweet. I also don't understand people's obsession with food, especially dessert. Yes, it's good, but it's not as good as people play it up to be when looking at a menu or in a bakery. :)
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And like all good rules, they are meant to be broken. Instead of tagging 5 people, I tag all of Dawni's sisters, my mother-in-law (Now I'm in trouble!), and all my cousins. That's enough people, I think.
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Rules: Once you've been tagged, you are supposed to write a note with 25 random things, facts, habits, or goals about you. At the end, choose 5 people who you would like to know more about to be tagged.
1. I love anything and everything about Japan, with the sole exception of fish. I know it's weird, but it's true.
2. I like to get a good deal. I will price compare almost any purchase over $20. The only way to get me to pay more for something is for a good cause or really good service. I'm also a sucker for gift cards.
3. I like to play video games, mostly RPGs. Sadly, when you grow up you have less free time, and my gaming time has suffered. I even quit World of Warcraft because I couldn't stand playing for a few hours and watching my wife sit on the couch and watch TV all alone.
4. I can't watch movies alone. I used to be able to, but there are so many other things I could be doing with my time, that it has to be a social event for me. Same goes for TV unless it's the news.
5. I love Japanese Animation. I love the style, the stories, and the characters. Sadly, my wife isn't the fan I am, (but she tries!) and she can't keep up with subtitles as well as I can, so my viewing has been cut very short. That, and again, I can't watch stuff alone.
6. I -LOVE- to travel, and have a personal goal to travel completely around the world in my lifetime. I have gone as far as Istanbul, Turkey one way, and Tokyo, Japan going the other. I have visited 8 countries and 3 continents.
7. Carrying on from #6, I hate to come home from a vacation. I truly do not feel you are home until your feet touch the ground, so I am technically never off vacation until I step out of a car on Utah soil.
8. I love to try new opportunities in managing something or being in a position with responsibilities, but
after about two months, I usually am ready to move on to the next thing.
9. The only exceptions to #8 so far has been when I have a job (I guess knowing I have to make a living suppresses the urge to move on) and when I was president of the anime club at Weber State University before I got married.
10. On the subject of the anime club, it had a handful of members when me and my friend JB first showed up to it, and the club president at the time offered me the position of president that same night we first went. I declined, but after about a year I took the position and increased attendance about 700% during my tenure.
11. I love basketball, and follow it as regularly as I can on the internet, but really only watch a game if it's important to me (playoffs), or if someone else is watching.
12. I like to read, especially good fantasy books. My favorite series are Lord of the Rings and The Sword of Truth novels. The latter are currently on TV as Legend of the Seeker, which is vaguely similar to the books in some aspects. :) The books are a million times better.
13. I went to Japan on foreign exchange for a month in 2009 with my best friend, JB. I still remember the dates, as I was so excited. July 10 - August 9. JB almost didn't go, and I was really excited when he finally decided to go with me.
14. My favorite food is supreme pizza, but with no black olives or mushrooms. When I was in Japan, me and JB went Odaiba (an island full of theme parks, shopping, and other fun stuff) about 2-3 weeks in, and had the best pizza we've ever had in our lives from a Pizza Hut. It was about $5-6 a slice, but it was so good I think I bought 2 slices.
15. I love to save money. I don't mean in the same vein as .10 off of yogurt; that is very nice and I like a good deal, but I love to save and have something to show for my efforts, as opposed to watching it all flow out to other people. It's just so rewarding to watch it grow.
16. I stabbed myself in the neck with a steak knife when I was about 6 years old. I loved to play with knives, and always found where my parents hid them. I was playing He-Man on the bed in my grandpa's house while my dad was outside working, and I tripped on the sheets and the knife that was supposed to be Skeletor's went in my neck. I missed my jugular vein by ~1/4". I went screaming to my dad; he asked where the knife was, I didn't want to tell him, but I did, and because I wasn't having blood spurt out of my neck, he just gave me a band-aid.
17. I married into a family that feels almost exactly like my mom's side of the family. Then I found out Dawni's grandparents and my grandparents were friends.
18. Me and my wife found out after we were married that we were "cousins" through a marriage on my mom's side. Nothing blood-related, just through some other people. I sometimes call her "my favorite cousin" just for fun.
19. I love camping, but don't like to hunt, and I don't like fish. So I need to bring all of my food with me. I also like to hike, but only under one condition, and that is that there are trees and shade. There is nothing worse than hiking in the sun on a hot day with no shade. Hiking through the woods in Japan? Heaven.
20. My favorite places in the world are: Southern Japan, California, and Florida. Sadly, the first has volcanoes, the second has earthquakes, and the third has hurricanes.
21. I have a Bachelor's degree in Business Administration. It's basically a major for those that like to run their own business, couldn't decide on a particular business degree, or management. Basically, you take a lot of classes from each business school but never go to all of the really hard ones in all of the schools. I like to say that it's a degree where I know if you're doing your job wrong, but I don't know enough to do it.
22. I am stubborn when I know I'm right, and always base my decisions on logic. It drives my wife nuts sometimes as she focuses more on emotion with her decisions, and when we are having an argument, if I know I learned something from somewhere or if her logic is messed up, I sometimes go overboard in proving my point.
23. I love animals, but I prefer the kind that can sit in my lap. Smaller dogs, cats, etc. I think having a monkey for a pet might be fun, but I'm not sure.
24. I can't stand paying money for cable or satellite TV, but when I am watching someone else's TV where they have more than broadcast TV, I love to watch the History Channel and Discovery Channel. I wish I could pay just for those two.
25. I can eat almost whatever I want and I stay at the same weight. My wife hates me for it, and my dad had the same metabolism when he was younger. He told me it starts to go away at 40. Even though I don't gain weight, I try to eat healthy, and don't like to eat things that are very sweet. I also don't understand people's obsession with food, especially dessert. Yes, it's good, but it's not as good as people play it up to be when looking at a menu or in a bakery. :)
--
And like all good rules, they are meant to be broken. Instead of tagging 5 people, I tag all of Dawni's sisters, my mother-in-law (Now I'm in trouble!), and all my cousins. That's enough people, I think.
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