All About Me Survey

You know those emails your friends send out, telling what all their favorite things are, so you can get to know them better? Then you're supposed to answer the questions and send it back to them so they can learn more about you. Well, my friend Amy Naseath took it to the next level and filled one out on her blog. Then she - of course! - challenged everyone who read it to do the same on their blogs. Well, I think I've sent one of those surveys back twice in my entire life - once in high school, and once in college. But I couldn't resist this time, it seemed like such a fun blog idea! So here we go!

6 Favorites
Favorite Person: Todd Floyd
Favorite Color: Blue, any shade, although I most love to decorate in deep reds and sage greens.
Favorite Food: lasagna (also ice cream!)
Favorite Book: My old journals. I get a kick out of reading them. When I write, I am a drama queen! It's interesting to see how I've grown through my trials, and to piece together how choices I made affected opportunities I was given and led somehow down the trail that has become me today. It helps me keep my bearings about me, and gives me perspective for whatever my current situation happens to be at the time. I've always been a journal reader - I used to read my entries to my little sister Emily like it was a romance novel. Ha ha!
Favorite Animal: Cats, especially wild cats. I love leopards the most. A house cat hung out with me for a while this morning while I read on our deck. He was orange, and it was fun.
Favorite Movie Star: Denzel Washington. He's an incredible actor!

Currents
Current mood: Content. It's been a perfect Saturday.
Current Taste: Milky Way. Todd needed chocolate. Who was I to deny him???
Current Clothes: Pink t-shirt with silver stars across the front, jeans, thin black jacket (it's finally chilly here!)
Current Desktop Picture: Turquoise blue waves crashing against jagged black rocks. Todd risked his life to take this shot in Hawaii. We had it blown up and it hangs over our bed. It's very cool.
Currently Hearing: Todd whispering to himself. He's studying for a flight school test he's taking on Monday. He's got tons of info written on 3x5 cards that he's trying to memorize.
Current Refrigerator Items: Leftover chicken and broccoli rollups, milk, orange juice, beef stroganof sauce, old lettuce, about twenty water bottles, several dressings and barbeque sauces, soy sauce, uhh. . . Do you really want to know this?
Current Thoughts: Getting tired, but I'm plugging away at this while Todd studies. It's been a great day. I'm really blessed.

Firsts
First Best Friend: Christie Winder, lived across the street, met in kindergarten, had a random dream about her the other night, that she got engaged to a boy I knew in college, Brendan something-or-other. Very random, as I haven't seen or talked to either one in over a year.
First Pet: First and only, as it turns out. Third grade, we had a homework assignment to write about our pet for a week. I didn't have one. We drove to the pet store and got me the cheapest thing - a goldfish. It lived about a day longer than the week needed for the assignment.
First Crush: Nick Zackman AND Danny Fast, 3rd grade, Mrs. Robinson's class at Jim Bridger Elementary. All the girls loved both of these boys, as they were the first and second cutest boys in the class. They were also best friends. Once, they chased my shadow at recess. Ooooh!
First Date With Todd: October 10, 2003. We ate Panda Express Orange Chicken on a beanbag at the Provo Library while they showed the movie "Arsnic and Old Lace" with Carey Grant. Then we went to the BYU Homecoming Dance at Thanksgiving Point. There was a live jazz band playing (my top dream date criterion, actually). It was a great date.

Lasts
Last Drink: Water, from one of the many water bottles in my fridge
Last Television Show Seen: The Office - we had friends over to see it on Thursday and laughed and laughed. It's a new favorite for Todd and me.
Last Phone Call: Activated a Visa gift card so I could use it to purchase something online

Have you ever?
Dated one of your best friends? Yep.
Broken the law? Yes, but usually by accident.
Been arrested? Nope, let's keep it that way!
Skinny dipped? In the bathtub, yes.

Things
Things you've done today: Drove to a Farmer's Market which turned out not to be happening. They had a sign up saying they were open on Saturdays until 10:30; it was 9:30 and there was not a table in sight.
Cleaned the bathrooms - not my favorite thing, but it was satisfying.
Watched clips of "The Office" on youtube.
Ordered a duvet cover set and a bathmat online - yay!
Went to a Fall Festival that turned out to be a Methodist Church Halloween celebration. Had my face painted, "chunked" a rubber chicken to see how far it would fly, enjoyed a dinner of sloppy joes (they explained to me what it was in case I didn't know - apparently they think they only exist in the South), French fries, salad, and brownie sundaes. Didn't get invited to church, but our friend Troy Wykle did seven times. Helped Todd study.
Things you can't live without: Todd, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, a daily shower, toilets that flush, Ibuprofen at That Time of the Month, water bottles at my disposal, a room without ticking clocks when it's time for bed, my family.

One Thing You Want to Do Before You Die
Have kids.
Can I also say, go to Italy with Todd. I've always wanted to go to Italy.

This turned out to be rather long! I hope it was interesting for you. It was fun to write, but I think Todd's crawled into bed to catch his REM and I'm feeling guilty that I'm still down here. Goodnight!