playing tag

carrieb tagged me, asking me to share seven RANDOM facts/habits (aka: idiosyncracies) about myself. There is so much to choose from but...here goes:

1. No one ever really thinks I am as old as I am.....I do color my hair, but just back to its natural color....I have had gray hair since I was 19 or so, so back to the black but-not-goth-black it goes. It doesn't help that i have a two year old and a three year old....also, I am a bit older than Mike, so.....again, few people realize. I remember my friend's husband saying at my 30th birthday..."You don't act 30".....not you don't LOOK 30. Oh well.......(Yes, Rick, I am talking about you!)

2. I am organized clean freak in almost every area of my life. I used to be a bit more rigid...but two kids sixteen months apart will break one of that. It helps keep me sane.

3. I used to be a special ed teacher before kids. But then they wouldn't let me off to go my sister-in-law's wedding (hey Jen and Stephane)...so I quit. We were moving the next year anyway. So it just came a year early. I never thought I would be a SAHM, but I love it!

4. I have moved from Oklahoma, to Alaska, back to Oklahoma, to the east bay of California, to the cornfields of Kansas, to Texas in the last ten years. Before that, I had lived in Oklahoma most of my life! Sooner born and Sooner bred....Go OU! I always swore I would never marry a soldier...they are hitting on you when you are 13 at the mall.....Little did I know one New Year's Eve I would meet the man of my dreams!

5. I met my husband while cleaning up empties at a New Year's party....see the organized clean freak #2.....It wasn't even my house that I was cleaning up empties.....yeah, see ....used to be much more rigid.

6. I am very crafty and creative. I can reproduce almost anything I see. But on the whole I am not the just pull it out of the air creative........

7. I agonize over every single move we make. I have managed to make a lifelong friend at every place we have lived. In some places (Alaska) I have made more than one. So like a wise Army wife told me at the first place we lived..."You never know who is going to be your new best friend." So I take that to heart and open myself to new friendships where ever we are. We have been here almost a year, and I have developed a few friends. I am trying hard to get out and do things since Mike is not here. I know those girl friendships are so important. I value them and will take the time to nurture them. I don't have 5-10 years to develop friends. I need them here and I will make new ones. I do keep in contact with all those people who have made an impact on my life and maybe we our paths will cross again.

Okay, now this is getting sappy.....

I don't really know if I know seven people that blog....so if you read this and you blog....consider yourself tagged.

happy wednesday