Tuesday, January 22, 2008

5 things that make me unique are...

My writing prompt for my students today was "5 things that me me unique are..."
So, I thought I'd complete this for myself.

1. I am a complete and total homebody. My idea of an ideal weekend is to spend it in the house relaxing with my husband and my two dogs.

2. I am the complete opposite of a neat freak. If you were to stop by my house randomly, you would probably be shocked to see that my house regularly looks as though a tornado has just hit it.

3. I love cars. In the 3 years that my husband and I have been married we have owned 6 cars. We just can't get enough of them (and actually just bought a new car this weekend!)

4. Every time I leave the house, I convince myself that I have left the stove, hairdryer, curling iron, etc... on. or that I have left the garage door open. In order to avoid this panic, as I leave the house I say out loud, "I turned the oven off. I closed the garage door", etc.

5. I've been telling myself that I was going to start exercising and get myself in perfect shape since 8th grade. I have had a few short spurts of doing so, but nothing that lasts... but this year will be the year.... (or so I think!)

(and I don't quite think I'm finished at 5, so here's a few more)

6. I am one of those people who can change my hair to just about any color and it will look good. I never get nervous at the hairdresser because I know my hair will turn out fine.. no matter what color it ends up.

7. I am 100% addicted to chapstick. I start to panic if I get to work and realize I've left it at home.

8. I am wanted in the state of Arkansas for a speeding ticket that is 1.5 years old that I constantly forget to pay (I really have to do that!!)

9. I get teary-eyed when anything military-wife related comes on tv. I even teared up at Sea World's salute to the hero's before Shamu's big show. (thank God I had on sunglasses- how embarassing) -- Last night I watched Deal or No Deal and cried my eyes out because the player was an Army wife whose husband was deploying in a month.

10. I am sooooooooooo happy and at peace now that my husband is back from deployment. All of the memories of his deployment had seemingly disappeared until he began talking about a possible November deployment... at which point my stomach sank to my feet and I realize those memories are not gone.. just buried very deep.

11. I purposely do and say weird things to make my students laugh at/with me. I figure they're going to talk about me anyway, I might as well give them something interesting to talk about!

:O)

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1 comment:

Aimee Olivo said...

Sar, we have our webcam set up so just have to figure out how to do "calls" with you! You can accept and see our video even if you don't have a camera.