Day 1--Blog Challenge

A recent picture of you and 15 interesting facts about yourself

 Me and Amanda.  She teaches with me.  This is the day of our 6th graders vs. teachers kick ball game.

1.  I hate cheese.  I'll only eat things with cheese if I can't taste the cheese.  I think this is caused by the fact that when I was little I would eat A LOT of cheese all the time.  My mom would put cheese in a cup, melt it in the microwave and I would eat it with a fork.  Ewwww...I think I just vomited in my mouth just thinking about that.

2.  I am a super huge wuss about most things.  I don't do anything even remotely dangerous.  If there is a chance that I will break a bone/die/receive a head injury/need stitches, I just don't do it.  The other day when I went to Seven Peaks water park my friends talked me into going on a really tall water slide.  After much nagging I finally manned up and went on a the slide.  This slide to be exact:

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 This was a huge deal for me.  I have NEVER done one of these slides even though I've been to a lot of water parks. But here's the funny/interesting thing about this: see how there is a tube at the top of the picture?  This section is completely horizontal.  If you don't give yourself a HUGE push, you stop in the middle of the tube and then have to pull yourself along.  I had to push myself along for quite a while.  When I finally got to the end of the tube my legs were uncrossed and I started falling.  Oh geez.  I have never had so much fabric up my butt.  Lesson learned: when people tell you to keep your legs together, it's for your own good.

3.  If I had the confidence and the ability, my dream job would be stand-up comedian.  What a great job, right?  Getting paid to make people laugh?  I do that for free now.

4.  My toes look like they were spare parts from other people and when I was made all those parts were just thrown on my feet.

5. My favorite show is How I Met Your Mother.

6. I describe things by how they smell.  Things usually smell like holidays.  I often come into a room and say something like, "It smells like Halloween in here."  I know, weird.

7.  I am very sensitive to strong odors and most scented things (lotions, perfume, body odor, lake stink) make me sick to my stomach.  I will only use unscented lotion because of this.

8.  When I was about 3 years old, I thought my whole name was Ashley Murray Park because I would  go to a park called Murray Park with my grandma almost every day.  My actual middle name is Marie (which kind of sounds like Murray if you're 3 years old).  My grandma also had a friend with the last name Park so this name made complete sense in my 3 year old mind.

9.  I had never broken a bone until I was an idiot last year.

10.  I really like working out but I like sleeping even more.

11.  When I was in 2nd grade, my favorite TV shows were Full House and Saved By the Bell.  These shows were on at 5 and 5:30 on different channels.  One day at 5:30 I switched channels to watch the other one and all I saw were the ending credits.  My little 7 year old self died a little that day.  I had to make a choice  between my two favorite shows.  My life would never be the same.

12.  When I write blog entries I read and re-read them until they sound perfect in hopes that someone laughs at the things I say.  It makes me way too happy when friends comment that my blog made them laugh.

13. I have completely forgotten how to go to bed before midnight.

14.  I love crafting blogs, especially sewing blogs.  I keep finding amazing things that I need to make and then I remember that I don't have the patience to sew.

15.  I have a love hate relationship with being tickled.  I love the feeling but I hate the fact that I can't breathe and the feeling that I think I could die at any moment.  But then the tickling stops and I start thinking, "That was actually enjoyable."