8/30/06

Well that explains it all...

So here are 100 random things about Me. As if you didn't know. My favorite food is stale “Flamin Hot Cheetos” As a child, I wanted to become a Criminal Defense attorney. I have ADD, so I get extremely bored, extremely fast. I am proud I was born and raised in Mississippi and Arkansas, although I hope to never live there again. I am told I am a loud talker. I am sarcastic and sassy at times. I try to be good at everything...I am not. In eighth grade, I was featured on KTVE 10 news for writing a song for my middle school choir(BMS) titled “Another Falling Star”. I still like writing songs. My mother named me after a Soap Opera actress. I still call shopping carts “buggies”. I want to do EVERYTHING…so I am constantly saying things like “I think I want to learn guitar, Hey I want to speak French, I think I could build that table myself, Let’s live in Tokyo…and I never know what I want to do from one minute to the next. If a telemarketer calls my house, I tell them I am the babysitter. I believe everything tastes better fried. My favorite store is Wal-Mart…no matter where I move, it feels like home! I was the lead singer of a band in college...briefly. I love taking "people" pictures. I overanalyze everything! I don't eat red meat...often...enough. My stepfather adopted mewhen I was 7. I am someone who says "I hope I turn out like my mother". I was told when I was 16 that I may never get pregnant...but I did...twice in two years...and we named our first son Jaden...and then found out it meant "God has heard". Indeed. We can not have anymore children. I have two step siblings and two half siblings…thus my thirst for attention! The thought of living in the country in the middle of nowhere depresses me.(sorry but its just not for me). I didn’t have a single “boyfriend” until age 19. Neither of my parents graduated high school. I hate cats. When I was in fourth grade, there was a bully girl who used to call me “pancake butt!”...when I was in high school I was called "ghetto butt". The irony. At age 19 I moved to Utah without a plan, apartment or any friends or family, but I made it. Sometimes my children have hot dogs or cereal for dinner. I write in my journal...all the time...often...sometimes. I am constantly trying to write in my journal more. I am always hungry, always cold, always bored, always thinking. My nickname growing up was “Hollywood” from my dad. I get my singing voice from my mother. I have taught voice, dance, and Sunday school and I still adore teaching. I watch Oprah, Heroes, The Office, 30 Rock, and Dr. Phil religiously. I usually don’t wear anything from the year before…maybe jeans...maybe. I am an amateur everything...interior designer, painter, writer, photographer. I hate hospitals. I wear headbands 3 out of 7 days of the week. I don't like to wash my hair everyday. My daughter wears headbands 3 out of 7 days a week. I don't like to wash her hair everyday. I was poor for most of my life, but didn’t realize it until I was about 16, and then I didn’t care. I became a Mormon at age 17. I have an amazing ability to tell when someone is lying. I hate my nose…(I broke it once and its never been the same). My first roommates were two lesbians and a gay guy...I learned a lot about fashion. I love ‘black’ comedy! And hate ‘british’ comedy! I believe that my family was the inspiration for one too many “you know you’re a redneck if” jokes. My music is contemporary, my house is contemporary, and my paintings are contemporary. I am thinner now than before having kids and I am always trying to explain to people that I had a bacteria that ruined my body for 3 years and thus the reason for why I am smaller now. If I could afford to have someone clean my house, I would. I love to eat chocolate chip cookie dough WITHOUT the chocolate chips. I am the only woman I know to have smaller breasts AFTER having two kids. I love to "create" things. I love to watch how something is made and try and do it myself. My first book report was on Diane Sawyer and now I want to be a journalist. My must haves are (again headbands), lip gloss, bobby pins, my iPod and Coke. I am the happiest when I am dancing. I am known for...being loud, being the artsy one, my headbands, my pictures, my writing. I met my husband when I was in High School but didn’t marry him until 3 yrs. later. I love reality television, it makes me feel normal. My favorite smells are laundry detergent and comet cleaner. My favorite colors are blue and brown. I love tabloid magazines. I love making people laugh. I eat every two hours...or Im grumpy...really grumpy. I believe my family to be the most funny people ever. I prefer heels over flats (with the exception my ballet flats) For years, the missionaries have called us the "cool" family in the ward. We love it. My first car was a red Honda Prelude with illegal tinted windows and two twelves in the back (If you don’t know what twelves are, nevermind) When I was two, I broke both of my legs. I love to cook, and do so well, but hate to clean up. I have struggled with acne for years and “you don’t grow out of it”. I now use Proactiv. I am always late. Always! I tend to be the center of attention… and if Im not, Im not happy...jk...well kinda. I am extremely impatient except with children, we have the same attention spans. I don’t know how I survived without Tivo(DVR)…I am so obsessed that when I am listening to the radio and I miss something, my first instinct is to rewind it. I actually get dressed to clean my house. I am a huge procrastinator, but work best under pressure...and late at night. Busy streets, loud people, are my therapy. I respect people who follow a dream and not money. When I was younger, I had a terrible phobia of Tornadoes. So much that I decided to do a research paper on them. BIG MISTAKE! Even if my house is a mess, I take the time to play with my kids. I hate socks and Im probably barefoot 75% of my day. In college, I was addicted to alchohol and still am. However, I have not drank in 4 years and don’t plan to every again. I despise people who think the way they live their lives doesn’t affect their children. If I don’t get enough sleep, my brain shuts down completely and I start to cry. I believe in raising my children with substance not possessions. My biggest fear is dying young. My biggest wish is buying my moma a house. When I got married, my husband Skyler and I eloped due to wedding drama, and we were married in front of a pink heart wreath, on our lunch break, and we then returned back to work, in some groups, this has made us the "fun" couple. We took our "wedding money" and put a down payment on a house.

4 comments:

KB said...

WILSON

There's some very intersting stuff there, but I must say, "You have too much time on your hands."

Posted by Wilson on Friday, September 29, 2006 at 10:33 AM
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KB said...

NIKKI from Myspace:

hey girl yes pretty interesting !! we have a few things in common i giggled at a few bacuse i guess i thought i was the only one type of thing ha,ha like the cookie dough without the chips i also like to make cookies with less chips in them there is a such thing as too much chocolate in chocolate chip cookies lol my theory anyway i am way too picky...

Posted by ~NiKKi~ on Saturday, September 30, 2006 at 10:35 PM
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Shealynn Benner said...

You and I have quite a bit in common! I was pretty surprised! By the way, I LOVE chocolate chip cookie dough without the chocolate chips too! ;)

Anonymous said...

I just discovered your blog. I am a 46 year old mormon convert (our family converted 8 years ago!). Love the church and the gospel, but as a family we are square pegs in round holes!

I was married in black and had a gay man as my man of honor 18 years ago this June. I used to MC drag shows in college although I was never gay nor did I aspire to be, but I loved the drama and the makeup tips. LOL

We are a very active LDS family and I have 4 daughts 15 to 5 although at one point in my life I was a raging feminist and did not even want children. So....isn't life amazing? Change and growth and progress is amazing.

I want to learn and know everything and I am a master of nothing, although I did teach middle school for 14 years and prefer not to go back to classrooms now as I dealt with loaded guns, lsd drug overdoses and 11 year old pregnant girls!

Anyway, just wanted to share about me and how we are all unique and that is OK. Matter of fact? That is GREAT. Good luck to you.

Carrie