I've been tagged!

I have been blog-tagged... I'm supposed to come up with 10, yes 10 facts about myself and post them here. This is a tough task to write about myself... and I'll try to keep the girls out of it as they are my main topic of choice to write about! Okay, here goes... maybe 10 things you didn't know about me...

1. I am a word nerd. I can find a spelling or grammar error in just about anything and everything. Its so annoying... I can't watch the news without checking the ticker scrolling along the bottom of the screen... looking for errors. And there are always errors.

2. I have a huge aversion to feet. Always have, even when I was little. My mom once told me that someday when I had kids, I would let them touch me with their feet. I told her she was SO wrong about that... that's how bad I hated feet. Well, many years later she is right... my girls are the ONLY feet I will touch or let touch me. Not even Jeff's. Ewwww.

3. Even though I'm a math teacher/tutor, what I've really always enjoyed doing is writing. I went to regional every year in high school for feature writing. My weakness, though, is always in the closing of a story. I use all my energy in the opening and body... I get lazy on the ending.

4. I graduated with 10 people in my high school class. There would have been 11, but one guy didn't make it. Two girls, 8 guys. It was so much fun going to a school so small, but looking back, that was TOO small! Definitely didn't prepare me for college, but I adjusted. :)

5. This is probably not the best fact to follow up with after sharing how small my high school was, but I was a two-time homecoming queen (yea me!). Jeff just loves to tease me that I won by default because of the lack of female population, but truth be told there were about 30 girls in high school, so there! And in addition to this fun fact, being homecoming queen got me nowhere when it came to dates. All prom/homecoming dates were with guy friends (who were all great dates by the way.) I was the girl the guys would call to see if I could set them up with my friends. So, not the most popular when it came to "girlfriend" material I guess, but I did have lots of friends!

6. I am the biggest bargain shopper. I'm not cheap, just refuse to pay full price! Nothing makes me happier than finding the perfect expensive outfit for cheap, cheap, cheap! And on that same note, I love to shop. Its ridiculous how long I can walk up and down the aisles at Target, or make circles around the mall. My shopping habit is the reason I have to tutor. Bargain shopper or not, I shop way too much for someone without a full time job!

7. I am a loser. Meaning I lose EVERYTHING. My current possessions I lost just yesterday are my wedding ring and the ring Jeff got me for my birthday. (Safe to post that on here... hopefully by the time he reads this (if ever) I'll have found them.) I'm stressed about it, but they've GOT to turn up. Anyway, if not my rings it would have been something else. I lose at least one thing a day.

8. I am a list-maker. And I lose the lists. I like to make lists of things to do, things to buy, etc. Problem with the list-making is #7. If its not on the fridge, I will lose it. But they're still fun to make anyway!

9. I cannot stand seafood. I don't like to see it, smell it, and definitely not taste it. A couple of years ago, I took a sample off a little oven in the grocer store thinking it was chicken. Took one bite to realize it was fish, and I gagged. I quickly walked to another aisle and spit it out. Then went straight home to wash out my mouth. That's how bad I hate it.

10. Semi-related to #9, Jeff made me get certified to scuba dive before we got married. I say he made me, but really just persuaded me. My biggest hesitation was the possibility of fish coming within 10 feet of me. Now, I'm so glad I did it and the very few times we've gone, I loved it. However, when we were testing in Lake Travis I was surrounded by the biggest, ugliest catfish ever. I almost didn't pass because all I did was try to stear clear of them. Nastier than feet even!