100 Things...Part 1

So I'm sitting here watching my all time favorite Christmas movie...Merry Christmas Charlie Brown. I'm probably the only person who tears up while watching Charlie Brown, but can you get any more innocent than the love of Charlie Brown? The last 5 minutes of that movie make my heart smile.
I was talking to a good friend of mine (and someone who I look up to dearly) tonight at dinner and she mentioned that she finds out what is going on with me through my blog. So on the way home tonight it hit me, many of the people I work with really don't know all that much about me. I started thinking, what are 100 things that I think people should know/might get a kick out of knowing about me? Here are the first 50 that I came up with (in no particular order)...

1. I have lived in 3 different places (Montevallo, Mobile, Calera)
2. My favorite color is blue
3. Seafood is my favorite thing to eat, with ice cream in a close 2nd
4. I HATE hot dogs and mustard.
   
5. I collect Peanut's Gang memorabilia as in Charlie Brown and Snoopy stuff
6. I change hobbies with the seasons. Some past (and reoccurring) hobbies include: photography, painting, tablescapes, cross stitching, jewelry making
   
7. I met my husband at my cousin's wedding. I caught the bouquet and he caught the garter. I was there to serve the wedding cake and he was a groomsman.
   
8. I LOVE to cook especially bake. I enjoy teaching others to cook.
   
9. I am painfully shy and blush very easily.
10. I have always dreamed of being on tv. I have been on 1 PBS special, 2 news reports while in Mobile, 2 commercials (Mobile), and two on air interviews in Birmingham.
    
11. I hope to one day have my own tv show. I used to joke that it would be a soap opera (oh I have some crazy story lines) but now I would love for it to be a cooking show.
12. When I was in 5th grade, I was on the game show Nick Arcade. Nickolodeon came to Birmingham and chose people out of the crowd to participate. I was chosen for the show Nick Arcade, a game show that made the participants look as if they were playing inside of a video game.
    
13. I was a cheerleader in high school (Go Bulldogs!)
14. I was the mascot my senior year and received the UCA All Star mascot award
    
15. I was Miss MHS my senior year
    
16. I was Miss MHS Congeniality my freshman year
    
17. My first job was as a babysitter. I kept 3 kids that through the years expanded to 6 kids. I loved babysitting for that family. I soon established a group of families that I regularly babysat for.
    
18. I was a Pharmacy Tech for CVS pharmacy in Pelham, Columbiana, and Helena
19. One summer I worked as a behavior specialist for a little girl who was autistic. My job was to work with socialization. When she was working with another specialist I was the nanny for her 3 year old sister.
    
20. My first summer in Mobile, I was the public relations intern for America's Junior Miss. My job was to coordinate all of the news reporters who were coming for the program. I also coordinated all of the press passes, parent passes, chaperone passes, and back stage access. I was the assistant to the assistant who helped with the band--which was a boy band from Ireland.
    
21. I worked at Kirklands for almost 4 years. I made it all the way up to a supervisor position. I loved getting to decorate houses all over Birmingham.
    
22. I was a 2002--2003 USS Alabama Crewmate. I served as an ambassador for the state for the Tourism department. I traveled all over the state promoting tourism to Alabama. I was the first person in 20 years chosen outside of the Baldwin/Mobile area. It was one of the best years of my life.
    
23. I served as a hostess of Mobile's Bicentennial celebration. I helped host parties during the Tall Ship celebration
24. I am a member of Alpha Omicron Pi, Gamma Delta Chapter.
    
25. I am very sensitive and get my feelings hurt easily.
26. I am terrified of snakes
    
27. I love sending Christmas cards
    
28. I hope to one day write a children's book
    
29. I have seen the musical Rent (not the movie) 7 times
30. I used to dream of being on Broadway (but I don't like singing in public)
31. I don't like to pray aloud
32. I'm a MAJOR pack rat. I keep everything
33. I have a very sensitive sense of hearing and smell. I hear things before most people (at lower volumes) and smell things that most people don't.
    
34. I was born 6 weeks premature
35. I was on the newspaper staff in high school
36. I have changed my major 7 times (undergraduate and masters) Pre-med, nursing, sports and even marketing, occupational therapy, child life therapy/therapeutic recreation, elementary education, library media science, educational leadership/administration
37. I love the show Secret Lives of Women
38. I am allergic to milk but have learned how much I can tolerate before getting sick (hence my ice cream addiction)
39. I collect movies (my video collection is 200+, my DVD collection is 150+)
40. The summer before my senior year in high school, I spent 16 days in Houston, Texas participating in the National Youth Leadership Forum on Medicine. I got to observe an open heart surgery, experience an autopsy, hold a human brain and heart, and meet some of the top doctors in America.
    
41. Spring Break my junior year in high school, I spent the week in Washington DC and New York city doing volunteer work and learning about citizenship in America
42. My favorite candy bar is Milky Way Midnight Dark (the dark chocolate version of a Milky Way--heavenly!)
43. I hate to clean
44. Merry Christmas Charlie Brown (the first part of A Charlie Brown Christmas) is one of my favorite movies
45. I love music and associate songs to different events and people in my life
46. I am a perfectionist to a fault
47. My favorite author is Jodi Piccoult
48. I am an avid reader and get it from my Dad
    
49. I am allergic to cats
50. Fairhope, Alabama is one of my favorite places to visit
    

So, there is Part I. Did you learn anything new? I have a random life don't you think =) But I have lived, loved, and learned through every minute of it. Part II will come before Christmas hopefully. I leave you with a clip from A Charlie Brown Christmas. Can you tell that I love this movie?