28

In honor of my 28th birthday, I thought I would post 28 weird-or I actually prefer the word "interesting"- things about me:


1. I absolutely hate the smell of down. I can't stand it. It invokes a gag reflex in me. Just awhile back I was in Costco perusing clothes and just as I turned a corner, I all of a sudden felt like gagging and immediately recognized the smell of down. Sure enough there was some down jackets for sale just a few feet from me. Yuck. Down pillows in a hotel room? Adios. To the closet they go!!


2. I almost always have a candle burning in my house when someone comes over. I am always afraid my house really stinks and I just can't smell it because I am "used to it". So I burn candles just in case.

3. I love to sleep with one arm thrown back over my head.

4. When I sleep like that, my cat Lucy licks my armpit. It is so gross. So I can't really sleep like that for very long.

5. I am not a big vegetable fan, but I do love carrots. Love them!!

6. All my life, I had never had cable television until David and I got married. Hello TBS, TLC, Oxygen, and HGTV channels...where have you been all my life?!?

7. My absolute favorite food is macaroni and cheese. Love it. And although I really need to try this recipe, I pretty much love it in any form. Even good old all American Kraft macaroni and cheese. (Although I do think the spirals taste better than the regular, anyone else find that to be true?)

8. I may not be the best driver in the world, but I can parallel park like nobody's business. Seriously.

9. If you want to see me go absolutely ape, talk to me during a movie and then turn to me a minute later and say "what just happened, I missed it". SO. DID. I.!!! YOU WERE TALKING TO ME!!!

10. I have a strange - yet very real aversion to odd numbers. I can't stand if the TV or radio volume is on 25, or 17 or something, I always have to click it one more time up or down to be on a even number. I also can not set my alarm to an odd number. You could check it at any time and it will always be set for 6:42am or 6:48am, or 7:04am or something. If Dave tells me he needs to get up at 7:15am, he knows that the alarm will be set for 7:14am. I simply can not have it any other way. Weird, I know.


11. I prefer mugs with rounded, shaped, or contoured sides. David pointed this out to me, I had never noticed it before, but given the choice between two different coffee mugs, I will always choose the more curvy one....
I wonder what that says about me... any psychotherapists out there reading this?


12. I heart sleeping. I pretty much could sleep anytime, anywhere. I love it. Only like 3 times in my entire life have I woke up feeling like it was "time to get up!" I could always sleep more.

13. I absolutely have to have a glass of water next to me before I can fall asleep. HAVE TO. Even if we are camping or something, I have to have a water bottle near me. It's a strange comfort thing. But it also has to do with the fact that I lllllooovveee water. I carry a water bottle (stainless steel thank you very much) with me everywhere I go. I freak out if I don't have it with me and immediately become parched just knowing it isn't there. *Yes I have been tested for diabetes and no I do not have it*

14. Every night before I go to sleep, going to the bathroom is the very last thing I do. If I get all ready for bed and then climb in and watch TV or read for a bit, then I have to get up and pee before I can go to sleep.


15. I can not stand to be wet in my clothes. Like if I am washing my hands and my sleeve gets wet, I have to roll it up so that the wet part is not just resting on my bare arm. Or if I running in to work in the rain and the part of my pants that my coat doesn't cover gets soaked - I am miserable until it dries. The odd thing is I LOVE a nice long shower or a bath, I just hate being in wet clothes...makes me feel like a drowned rat or something.

16. Hi my name is Kendra and I am addicted to hoodies. I currently own 9 (yup nine) hooded sweatshirts, 3 zip-up hooded sweatshirts, and that's in addition to several hooded sweaters. Think that's weird?? I can't even remember the last time I used the hood feature of the sweatshirt.
Camping summer of 08 I think was the last time.

17. I can not go to the movies and not get popcorn. It's like my eyes are unable to focus on the screen (albeit GIANT) in front of me unless yummy buttery popcorn is being ferried from a greasy bag to my mouth. The only time I can think of where I didn't get popcorn was when we went and saw The Passion. Excellent movie, but not a popcorn movie.

18. I wear socks to bed every night. Well, ok, perhaps there is like 3 times in the summer when it is really, unbearably hot, that I don't wear socks to bed, but the other 362 days it's a guarantee.

19. I am late everywhere I go. No matter what time I get up, or how much I plan ahead, I am always running late.
I hate that about myself.

20. I love chocolate chip cookie dough more than I like chocolate chip cookies.

21. I can not stand Kirsten Dunst. I don't really know why...I just don't like her. At all.

22. I have never seen SO many of the "classics"...I have never seen "It's A Wonderful Life", or "The Sound of Music"...but I have seen "Sweet Home Alabama" like 17 times.

23. Even the thought of tapioca pudding makes me gag.

24. I hate the feeling of someone else's bare feet touching me. EW. It took me a long time to even be able to stand David's feet touching me...and I adore him. It's nothing personal, it just gives me the heebee-geebee's. (Is that how you spell that??)

25. Ok...so apparently, I talk in my sleep. And not just adorable little comments or noises, and not even chatty conversation...no, apparently I like to FREAK my poor husband out by saying something completely off the wall, while sitting up, eyes wide open, and try and convince him that I am in fact awake while I am speaking nonsense at him. The first instance on the books was shortly after we were married, when he came to bed, I turned on the light, sat straight up, and told him to watch his step because there was a cactus on the floor right next to the bed. He froze -obediently- and stared at me saying "Uh.....huh?"
Usually during such events, I wake up to find my beloved spouse is staring at me with the most quizzical look on his face.
That is just the first instance. The others are an entire blog entry of their own...

26. I have a completely irrational fear of running out of toilet paper. I always make sure each bathroom has plenty of extra rolls, and I keep an extra package in the garage "just in case".

27. I am scared of parrots. Terrified. When David and I lived in Mexico, we rented a bungalow from a lady who had an enclosed property, and she would just let these little monsters roam around. Have you ever seen a parrot walk? It is SO. CREEPY. They have big, sweeping shoulder movements, and they lurch slowly at you. They could smell my fear, and they would literally chase me around the yard. I am quite sure if I would not have run, one of them would have pecked my foot until it had to be amputated. Currently at my gym sometimes one of the staff members brings her parrot in and lets it sit on her shoulder while she works. I am always practically hugging the opposing wall as I check in...especially because my hair is usually back in a pony tail and therefor my neck (and carotid artery) is exposed!!!

28. Even though I can not carry a tune in a bucket, I have the gift of being able to identify a song within a few mere seconds of hearing it. We discovered this talent at Dave's work's Christmas party a few years ago...they would play a clip of a song, and whoever guessed it properly first won a token. A few notes would play, and BOOM my hand was in the air "Africa by Toto!" or "Carpet ride by Steppenwolf!!". My hands were filled with tokens in a matter of moments, as my husband stared at me with awe and wonder...it was one of my finest hours.



So there you go. If you made it through this whole list, you are a trooper!!! Don't worry, I won't try and do this when I am 40. HA!!
Lacy, are you up for listing 26 strange things about you this weekend??