I've Been Tagged!

I was tagged by Barb--yahoo, thanks Barb! So here are six facts/habits you may not know about me...and as I was thinking about this I also came up with six embarrassing moments, so you get bonus stuff. :-)

Six facts/habits:

1. I really want to play the piano--play it well. So I got a keyboard about two years ago and practice "Hymns made easy." Someday I'll graduate to the actual hymn book.

2. When I was younger (the desire has short of tapered off now) I always wanted to be on the Price Is Right. I always said, "I want to be on the show before Bob Barker dies!" (I guess the reason my desire has tapered off is because I am not a big fan of Drew Carey). I even wrote to the show and asked for tickets on the day of my 18th birthday...I honestly think my parents would have taken me, but my birthday was getting closer and closer and I didn't get the tickets, so we made other plans for my birthday...well, it turns out the tickets came a couple weeks before my birthday...too bad.

3. Before I got pregnant I ate Wendy's allllll the time, literally. When Taylor asked where I wanted to eat, I'd say Wendy's...I even told him I would be fine with eating at Wendy's for VALentine's day, and when he didn't even have to ask what I wanted because it was always "the regular." Well, when I got pregnant, Wendy's GROSSED me out, and here is probably the gross part to you, I CRAVED McDonald's like there was no tomorrow. Now when Taylor asked what I wanted, it was for him to stop at McDonald's for me on his way home from work! Haha...I still haven't really gone back to Wendy's, McDonald's still hits the spot for me...hopefully the next pregnancy will revert me back to my old ways.

4. I LOVE LOVE LOVE pizza, I could eat it for lunch and dinner everyday. And the funny thing is...I only eat cheese or pepperoni and I only really like it from Domino's and Pizza Hut. I know...call me plain but I like to call it "sticking to the classics." :-)

5. I am the world's biggest worry-wart. For example, if Taylor doesn't answer his phone or isn't home when he usually is, I tend to think, "What if he got in an accident??" etc. I really freak myself out from worrying--I hate it...but I am getting better, a little. :-)

6. I LOVE cooking, I love math, I love decorating, I LOVE being with my husband and little boy, I love making crafts but I HATE HATE HATE scrapbooking. It just doesn't come to me and does not appeal to me...sorry sis. :)

Ok, now here are six embarrassing moments, just for you....

1. When I was in middle school I went through a period of only doing ballet. I was hard core ballet--three hours a day for six days a week. Well, a show, or recital if you may, came up where we were going to do Hans Christian Andersen stories. So, I was picked to be the lead in Ugly Duckling. It was really quite fun...when I was the ugly duckling I got to do everything that I was taught in dance wrong. I got to flex my feet, look incredibly ungraceful, and look totally uncoordinated. So, basically, if I messed up it looked normal. Well, when I "transformed" into the Swan it was the opposite--now I was supposed to be graceful. It came to the finale and everything was going great, we were doing the last segment, and I was right in the front and I had to do an arabesque (for those who don't know what that is, it's where you stand on one leg and the other leg is at a 90 degree angle behind you...make sense?) Well, we were on pointe shoes and since I had to have two pointe shoes (one for the ugly duckling, one for when I was the Swan) my "Swan pointe shoes" were new and not as broken in, so when I went to do my arabesque I knew I had to push harder to get on top of the shoe...well I definitely pushed, I pushed so hard that I went over my shoe and did an automatic FACE PLANT on the floor. Need I remind you that I was in the front and supposed to be graceful...it wasn't really funny at the time, but we have it all on tape and Taylor and I watch it occasionally and just laugh. It's really funny...especially if you watch it in slow motion. If you come over, I would be happy to show you, it's hilarious! But it was rather embarrassing at the time....

2. One night I got a ride home from a church dance from two boys, it was during the Winter, and had just snowed. Well, at our old house our driveway was kind of steep...well I get out of the car and figured if I just went quickly I would be ok...well I was in the process of closing the door and one of the guys asked me something so I had to grab the door again...well at the same time my shoes did NOT have traction, AT ALL. As this guy started to talk to me I just couldn't stand there and all of a sudden I start sliding down the driveway, on all fours. Literally the guy was like "Where'd she go?!" It was so embarrassing.

3. This one is pretty recent, which really makes me look dumb. Taylor and I were watching "Are you smarter than a fifth grader" one night and one of the questions was "What U.S. State has the smallest land mass?" Well obviously the answer was Rhode Island. Then there's a pop up giving a fact..."Rhode Island's land mass is approximately 1,348 sq miles." (Or a number close to it...) Well, not thinking, I say, out loud, "Our house is almost the size of Rhode Island!" Taylor just looks at me like "are you serious?" and my thought process goes as I look around our place "Wait a minute, you couldn't even fit a parking lot in our place..." and I look at Taylor and go "Oops...Rhode Island is square MILES, we're square FEET." BIG difference....

4. Ok, so this one was really embarrassing. Taylor and I went on a big group date last year to Thriller with a lot of his buddies. We were at some one's house afterwards just mingling and eating--well, Taylor and I sit at a table with some people I hadn't met before, so in efforts to be social and nice I start asking a girl about herself. (I should have resorted to being shy and quiet after this next moment). I ask her where she is from and what I thought she said was "Well you're Melinda right?" and I reply with, "No, I'm Valerie." And she just looks at me and starts laughing, what she really said was "Yorba Linda." Supposedly there is a place in California called Yorba Linda...I didn't know this, apparently. Then this girl decides since she is laughing so hard she should tell everyone else what just happened...embarrassing.

5. So, for my ENTIRE life, I thought the phrase was "playing it by year." Nope, it's "playing it by EAR." I still think that is so weird. And Taylor thinks it's weird that I think that is weird, but when you go through your whole life thinking it's "playing it by year" it's hard to make the transition. How this all came out is my mother-in-law would write me emails and say more than once "we'll play it by ear" and I always thought she just forgot to put the "y" on it. So I told Taylor this and he just laughed at me. Oops.

6. So we went to Disney World with my entire extended family on my mom's side a long time ago...I was probably 7. Well, we were in the huge Disney store at Downtown Disney for anyone who knows and I really had to go to the bathroom. Of course this is the stage where if you're at the bathroom and someone asks if you have to go you say no but then ten minutes later you do and they ask why you didn't go and you respond, "I didn't have to go then." Well, this was one of those times, and when I had to go, I had to go! So I told my dad I needed to go to the bathroom so he told me to go find my sister and have her take me. Well, for those who know, this store is HUGE! So trying to find her took some time! Then when I found her I had to convince her to take me and then once she said yes we had to find the bathroom. So I was dying, but we found the bathroom and I started running towards it. I was doing so well!! Well I open the door and there is a LINE! Go figure. Well, I'm standing there in line and totally peed my pants. I had done so well, I had even made it to the bathroom! Oops.

Well there you have it, six facts and six embarrassing moments. Now the game of tagging continues as I have to tag six people. So I tag: Kellie Black, Elizabeth Cramer, Heather Hill, Kara Noyes, Erin Richardson and Ali Stewart.

Here are the rules:
1. The player lists 6 facts/habits about themselves - try to find 6 you haven't already posted about! (And you can add the six embarrassing moments if you'd like!) :-)

2. At the end of the post, the player tags 6 people and posts their names, and then goes to their blog and leaves them a comment, letting them know they have been tagged and asking them to read your blog for the rules.