Silly Things About Me

I've been tagged by my cousin Amber, so you now all get to know 5 new things about me that you may not have known before! Lucky you!

1. As has probably been evidenced by many many previous posts, I'm truly about 5 years old. I love to color (I recently purchased a Curious George color book - Target $1 rack!), I love toys (Sydney has a lot she isn't old enough to use yet - the Snap n' Style dolls are my favorites!), Games, Silly Putty, etc. This makes it very easy when purchasing gifts for me or cheering me up. Aaron once bought me a color book and princess crayons as a gift and I was totally stoked. Karen just introduced me to a new cartoon called "Charlie and Lola" (on Disney) and I'm in love with it. Cartoons just take me back to a simpler time I guess. Peter Pan had a good philosophy you know?
2. Many people have comfort foods, I have comfort places. Places that consistently calm me down or cheer me up when I'm having a rough go. Fabric stores calm me down, as do book shops. Also small enclosed spaces. Seriously, I am the opposite of a claustrophobe. When I'm upset I like to sit in closets because I feel safe. Weird, I know, but true.
3. I totally prefer gummy or chewy candy to chocolate almost every time! I go for Snickers and Goo Goo Cluster Ice Cream just as much as the next girl, but I get tired of them too and need something chewy like skittles, starburst, gummy lifesavers (currently in my cupboard), gummy bears, worms, apples, peaches, etc.
4. I am an overly social person. I seriously LOVE to be around people! This is one reason I like to have lots of friends - so they don't get too sick of me! ;) Seriously though I love to hang out with people VERY frequently (say multiple times a week?). In college we even had some fantastic friends (Kevin & Michelle!) that we did stuff with at least 3 days a week, sometimes more, and that's not including weekends! We somehow all still had part-time jobs and got our homework done, but we got a lot of round of Competitive Solitaire (aka Nerts or Snarf) and Rage in while we were at it!
5. I am a dabbler - Big time. I love to have my fingers in many many many different pots, which always means that I just do fairly well at all of those things, but I have fun with it, so it works! In high school I was on 2 ballroom teams, 1 choir, 1 showchoir, Honor Society, AP Classes (yes I was a nerd - proud of it too!), school and community musicals, piano lessons (please don't ask, I no longer play), and voice lessons. Talk about ridiculous. As if anyone has time to practice for ALL of those extracurricular activities and still maintain a good GPA? It just meant that I didn't spend the necessary time on any of them, but still had fun. I've now replaced all of those activities with hobbies: sewing, quilting, painting, jewelry making, blogging, scrapbooking, baking, cooking, floral design, reading, etc. The fact still remains though that I have a ton of hobbies and not enough time to do half of them, so I do them each in spurts.

I now tag Jane, Brittany, Alli C., Jessica M., and Adrianne.