Getting to Know Me


I figured I would expedite the introduction process by doing one of these ridiculously long question answer thingies. There are too many questions. My advice- don't do it all at once, you'll be sick of me before you get to #38. So perooze at your own convience. Here we go...

1. I am the oldest of 6 kids
2. I am very organized
3. Animals (house pets specifically) and I have an understanding... we are civil with each other. You might say we're acquaintances. We don't go out looking for one another but when forced to spend time together we make it work.
4. I wanted to be a teacher when I was growing up and started out on the path in college. Then my sophomore year I took and interpersonal communications class and absolutely loved it so I changed my major to speech communications. When I transferred to BYU they said they had a Speech Comm. program but when I went to register and declare a major with them Speech Comm was nowhere to be found!! I was misinformed and had to choose a new major in a few hours. The Linguistics dept. would accept the majority of my credits so I signed up for that. The linguistics professor I spoke with told me not to do linguistics...I should have listened to him. Cest' la vie!
5. My favorite shows are Grey's Anatomy, 24, anything on the food network/TLC/HGTV or discovery.
6. I would like a new wardrobe picked out by Clinton and Stacy from What Not to Wear.
7. I am fluent in American Sign Language. I took four years of Spanish which means I can conjugate with the best of them but my speaking abilities are limited to "I don't like butter" (not true I love butter), "the fries are cold", "hello my name is___", "where is the bathroom" "how do you say_", and a few other useless phrases.
8. I love bargains not as much as my mom or grandpa matern but I still love bargains.
9. I am so in love with my husband. He's very patient, kind, and funny(this is not an all inclusive list). He's awesome!
10. I have a license plate frame that said "legs like barbie, chest like ken". It fits me and my car.
11. I am a bad speller. Thank goodness for spell check!
12. I have a tender heart. I once cried during an episode of family matters.
13. I don't mind earthquakes, I don't look forward to them but they aren't that scary for me.
14. I love living in southern California.
15. I have lived in Lawndale, Anaheim, Fullerton, Provo, Spanish Fork, UT, Pleasant Grove UT, Hawthorne, and El Segundo.
16. I have been in 11 states: CA, NV, AK, HI, AZ, UT, ID, MT, WY, GA, FL.
17. I have a pet peeve when it comes to toilet paper. I think it should fall forward like a waterfall. I can't stand 1-ply toilet paper or the toilet paper squares. Utah does not have toilet seat covers in their public bathrooms! I was appalled, luckily I'm good at hovering.
18. I have many best friends.
19. I love musicals!!!
20. I try to stay in contact with people.
21. I do not like mayonnaise/miracle whip, sour cream, or ranch.
22. I love dessert. I always have room for dessert. One of the Adams girls once wanted dessert but hadn't finished her dinner and came up with this response which I use often, "I have two stomachs. A dinner stomach and a dessert stomach. My dinner stomach is full but my dessert stomach is still empty."
23. I thought Jonathan was the cutest from NKOTB, I even had a pillow case!
24. I love Disneyland and Disney movies. Especially the ones from the old days that had songs.
25. I can still recite the words to almost any Disney song.
26. I love amusement/theme parks.
27. I love roller coasters.
28. I have been in four car accidents. The most recent was June of last year.
29. I love being an aunt.
30. I'm excited and nervous about being a mom (no I'm not pregnant right now)
31. I wear glasses and I have contact but I can't touch my eye.
32. I've always wanted to take a photography class.
33. I really enjoy helping others.
34. Someone once misspelled my mom's name (Lynell), she sounded it out and came up with LeeElle. She like it so much she decided to name her first daughter it. Many people make comments about the spelling but let me assure you I saw the other options and this was the best one.
35. I've always liked my name. It's so unique. I am constantly having to explain it to people. My name is one word, two capitals, no space. Yes I know there are only two letters in my name and I love it!
36. When I was little I would pretend my name was Stacy.
37. I am LDS.
38. I graduated from BYU. I majored in Linguistics and minored in TESOL (teaching english to speakers of other languages).
39. I enjoy cooking, if only I had more time and financial resources.
40. I love to read children's books.
41. I don't have a favorite color although I'm partial to reds, greens, and browns.
42. One of my favorite memories of John is when his eyes got a little watering on our wedding day. He denies this but I know what I saw.
43. I love kids!
44. Tulips are my favorite flowers.
45. I love to laugh, luckily I married a very funny man.
46. I know how to drive a stick shift car.
47. I love to sing. I've been told that my voice is not suited to rock n' roll. That's fine I'll stick to musicals and church music:)
48. I had some pretty bad awkward years starting in jr. high and ending my sophomore year in high school. I didn't realise the poofy bangs were out of style. I have the pictures to prove it.
49. I like going out to dinner.
50. I love Mexican food.
51. I love going on dates with John
53. I like board games some of my favorites are: balderdash, loaded question, blockus, mad gab, and taboo.
54. I love water activities be it water polo, swimming in any body of water i.e. beach, lake, or pool. boogie boardind, snorkeling, skiing...you name it!
55. I have monkey like toes. They are long and when I stand up they spread out pretty far-I'm okay with it.
56. I play the piano, clarinet, baritone, and trombone.
57. I love my family both immediate and extended (including my in-laws of course). I love spending time with them. Family makes me happy.
58. I love good quotes. One of my favorites is by Nelson Mandela, it's too long to write but it's about our greatest fear is not that we are inadequate but that we are more capable then we admit, anywho it's a good one.
59. I believe there is more good than bad, sometimes you have to look harder to find it.
60. Kindness goes a long way. You get more with honey than you do vinegar.
61. I like watching movies. I have too many favorites however I do not like violent &/or scary movies.
62. The jobs I have had: Babysitter, house cleaner, lifeguard, swim instructor, hostess then server at Ruby's Diner, phone rep. at quickdown.com, sign language interpreter at BYU, UVSC (two days), the U of U, El Camino College, Sorenson VRS, Adjunct Faculty at Salt Lake Community College.
63. If given a choice between the mountains and the ocean, I'd choose the ocean, however I still love the mountains.
64. I enjoyed living in Utah.
65. I have always wanted to go to New York.
66. My favorite family memories are going camping in Pine Valley and Carlsbad. We still go every year.
67. I would like to travel abroad.
68. My feelings on video games-eh. I do enjoy busta move, and most of the old school Nintendo games but I'm horrible at them. I actually move my controller when I try to jump.
69. I have more cavities than I'd like to admit. Can I just say I love the new white fillings!
70. I love specialty drinks (non-acholoic).
71. Naps are wonderful.
72. I like staying up late if I get to sleep in.
73. I love BBQ, especially my dads tri-tip.
74. I picked out by brother collin's name.
75. I have just recently started to eat cheesecake and even then I'm very picky about it.
76. I don't like the food on my plate to touch.
77. I like my house to be clean, I'm kinda a clean/neat freak.
78. Two of my friends names were Lael and Leanne. It was very confusing for people when we were together.
79. I don't like traffic although it's a necessary evil here in LA.
80. I wonder what my children will look like.
81. I'm opinionated, loud, and at times over bearing. I'm working on being more tactful.
82. I'm goofy but fun.
83. I can't stand it when people chew with their mouth open. I'm not talking about 1 or 2 chomps but the majority of chewing. I also do not like it when the chewing is loud i.e. gum chewing.
84. I love Target. I find it therapeutic to walk the store.
85. I'm taking a yoga class and I love it.
86. I love a good massage.
87. I enjoy reading, I don't do it as often as I would like. I'm able to put down a book even if I really like it, there's things to do!
88. I've been stung by a bee once, not fun. I don't like bees, snakes, or flying rubber bands.
89. Sunsets are pretty.
90. I want to make my home a place where my kids want to have their friends over.
91. I care too much about what people think of me, but I'm working on it.
92. I like the sound of running water.
93. I enjoy gardening, or at least what little I've done I have enjoyed. That will be another great thing about having a house is the ability to plant beautiful and yummy things.
94. I love that we have the power to change ourselves.
95. I love decorating shows, candace olsen is great (most of the time) and vern from the old school trading spaces.
96. I can't wait to own a house and decorate it.
97. I think snow is pretty and fun to play in. I'm not a fan of driving in it though.
98. I like Dr. Suess books. In 4th grade I won an oral interpretation contest. I memorized Oh Say can You Say. It's a book of tongue twisters. I still remember most of them.
99. I am a firm believer in communication, it was almost my major, so many misunderstanding could be avoided if we suck up our pride and talk to each other.
100. I like to read the comments people leave on my blog.
and we're done!