I am really just putting this on here for my mom. This was a survey I did on facebook the other day but I knew that my family would enjoy reading it.
Here are 25 random things about me:
1. I was born in Lexington, KY! Even though I consider Raleigh my home, Lexington will always be a really special place to me.
2. I love to laugh!!
3. I am 1/4 German.... my grandmother was born in Germany and she met my grandfather while he was over there in the army, then she moved to Kentucky!
4. I am a movie fanatic. I love watching movies!! And I love movie stars. I have a subscription to People magazine, an extensive movie collection and I am always renting movies. Sometimes I become obsessed with certain movies stars and want to know everything I can about their life. I never go a full 3 days without checking out something on imdb.com (internet movie database). I am full of random facts of movie stars. Certain movies that I own, I have watched over and over and over again.
5. Tornadoes are my biggest fear.
6. Once when I was 5, I ran away from home with my friend who lived down the street. I think all I packed was chalk and magnets. I was gone for about 3 hours or something and then ran back home when I heard my parents calling my name. Yes, I got in a lot of trouble!!
7. The attic was connected to my old room at my dad's house via a tiny door on the back wall. I truly believed that an old man lived in there and was waiting to come out to get me the entire time I lived in that room. Sometimes, the door would creak open in the middle of the night. I then used to put pillows in front of it at night thinking this would block him from coming out. Sometimes the thought of this man would keep me up late at night......No such man has ever been found.
8. I am probably one of the most sensitive people you will meet. I think people are mad at me all the time and my feelings get hurt really easily. This is something I try very hard to control but sometimes silly things just get the better of me. I also cry very easily at movies.... and even sometimes corny commercials on the television!
9. I played soccer for a long time and I really miss it!
10. While I LOVE the beach SO much, I love the lake even more. I grew up with my grandparents having boats at the lake.... they are some of the best memories I have from my childhood. Warm summer nights sitting on a dock by the lake with a pina colada watching the fireflies and listening to the cicadas..... that is like heaven to me!!!
11. I love to read but only when it's something that I really want to read. If something doesn't interest me right away, I won't ever finish it.
12. I LOVE rollercoasters!!!!!!!!!!!!
13. I am a very pick eater. I will absolutely not eat cream cheese, sour cream, mayonaise, mustard, mushrooms, hot dogs, olives, seafood (except crab and flounder) and most cheeses. It used to be a lot worse.... I didn't eat tomatoes, hamburgers, steak and most veggies! I have branched out a bit and I am still trying!
14. I hate feet! I think they are gross and disgusting..... even my own. If you touch me with your foot, I know it. I cringe, get chills and am thoroughly disgusted. If someone's feet smell bad, I seriously become nauseated. And I don't think it's funny when other people touch me with their foot because they think it is funny.
15. I believe in Karma.
16. I got a half day of In School Suspension (ISS) in the sixth grade for lighting matches in the girl's locker room and making the entire school evacuate. I only got a half day because I turned myself in!
17. I am currently obsessed with Fried Green Tomatoes (the food)!!!
18. When I was a freshman in college, I had this huge thing on my lip that my friends and I believed was a brown recluse spider bite. Poison control confirmed that it sounded like it was. Lots of tingling and two dots in the middle..... My two suitemates (Laura and Ashley) and I ventured to the ER to find out it was just a really bad fever blister! The doctors all had a laugh.... in front of us! It really was huge and hurt so bad!
19. Whenever I come back from Kentucky, I have a different accent.
20. I cannot handle scary movies. I will always think I can but then I spend most of the movie behind my hands and then have trouble going to bed for the next few nights!
21. I went to Kenya when I was 18. I became very ill when I was over there and I had double vision for 2 months after I got back! I found out that I was allergic to the malaria medicine that I had to take and maybe a few of the others. I am not supposed to travel to 3rd world countries anymore!
22. I can recite about 80% of the movie Titanic..... while watching it, of course!
23. I used to wish with all of my heart that my name was beth or taylor and I had dark brown hair.... i have no idea why.
24. I hate seafood but after a long day on the beach, I LOVE to go out to dinner at a seafood restaurant. I usually end up getting chicken fingers but I guess I just love the atmosphere so much!
25. I cried when my pet beta fish, cordelia, died! she lived over a year and was so beautiful.
So, as everyone should know, I am obsessed with all things having to do with movie stars. The Academy Awards is like a Holiday for me. And probably my favorite holiday besides Christmas. I look forward to this event all year long. I had it in my planner as soon as they released the date for the 2009 ceremony! Well, this year my other movie fanatic friend Kathryn and I had a little party for the Oscars. There were only 5 people total but I couldn't of handled any more than that because I needed total concentration to watch my favorite stars.
Here is my favorite picture of the night! Two of my favorite actresses. If Emma Thompson and Kate Winslet were in this, I would have it blown up and hung over my bed.
And Kate won! I actually wanted Meryl to win the Oscar since she hasn't won one in 26 years. BUT Kate was the only other one nominated that I was okay with beating Meryl. Kate has been nominated for 5 others so I am definitely glad she won too. And she thanked Emma Thompson in acceptance speech!!! 
I LOVED Penelope Cruz's acceptance speech too. I was rooting for Viola Davis to win but I assume this is just fine!
