Day 4 of My 30 Day Challenge

Day 4: List 5 things you would tell your 16 year-old self if you could.

1)  Driving isn’t all it’s cracked up to be.  Don’t get me wrong, I would be sad if I didn’t know how to drive, but you’ll be driving for the rest of your life (God permitted) so why rush things?  You suck at it at first, even though in your mind you’re fan-freakin’-tastic at it, but really?  You’re not.  Hopefully, you’ll learn from mistakes and get better.  Some won’t. 

2)  College will come soon enough.  In fact, it will come next year.  I was always friends with people a grade or two (or three) older than me.  My most memorable friendship in high school was actually my ASL lab partner at the U of M.  She was a senior at the University.  My high school only had Spanish classes up to level five, which I completed my sophomore year, so I was able to study it at the University for my junior year.  Most of my classes the second half of my junior year and all of my senior year were at the U of M.  I only had English and Psychology at the high school.

3)  Money doesn’t grow on trees, so quit spending it stupidly.  Having been in financial trouble and trying to get out of debt, this one is important for me to get into my children’s heads.  I don’t want them to get into the same financial issues that I have been through.  In the end, I do acknowledge that it was entirely my fault, but it sure would be nice if stores and credit companies would stop pushing credit cards down young people’s throats.

4)  Your metabolism will stop being good to you.  After being 135 pounds for all of my high school and college careers, standing at a short 5’2” and 169 pounds is a kick in the @**.  I like food.  I will not stop eating to get skinny, but I do need to loose around forty pounds…someday…

5) YOU’LL GET OVER HIM!  I dated this guy; with who I was madly in love with.  He was my first love.  When he broke up with me, I felt like my life was over.  Now, this break up was probably the worst in my life.  I had to see him most of the school day because almost all of our classes were together.  Then, about a week later, my Grandma died.  She was the person in my extended that I was closest with.  After her death, the relationship with my Grandpa was never the same (probably my only BIG regret in life was how our relationship was when he passed, it wasn’t bad, it just WAS…).

Life is hard as a 16 year old, why do we make it more complicated?  It’s simple.  Life goes on.  While we think it is ending, our elders know better and as they say, “hind-sight is 20/20”!

Day 3 of my 30 Day Challenge

Day 3: Describe your relationship with your parents.

Currently, I have a great relationship with my parents.  It has been tumultuous at times, but we are in a good place now.

I was adopted when I was 5 months old, from South Korea.  My parents had tried for several years to conceive, but it did not work out.  Some people say that adoptees cannot possibly be well-adjusted individuals, not knowing who their biological parents are.  I say those people are out of their minds.  I am as adjusted as the guy next to me (who happens to be my husband, and I suppose he’s well-adjusted).  When I was little, I used to say something mean and hurtful to my parents about needing to “find my REAL parents”.  Now that I’m a parent, I see how hurtful that was.  At the time, I just wanted to get my way and that was the best way to get it.  I have apologized to my parents for all the hurtful things I said and did about wanting to find my biological parents.  I no longer have the desire to find them.  I have no need.  Understand this, I know that could change, but realistically, there are billions of people in South Korea and a random two are my biologicals…yea, ‘cuz that would be easy to find (talk about a needle in a haystack).

Anyhow, the basic point is that all children and parents go through rough patches; it’s how it all turns out in the end.  Right now, we are going on a fantastic track.  To me, we are heading down the right road.

Day 2 of my 30 Day Blog Challenge

Day 2: Describe 3 legitimate fears you have and describe how they became fears.

1)  Spiders. I have no idea how they became a fear of mine, but I cannot stand them. I actually made my at-the-time 3 year old kill one in the bathroom because I was too scared. I called her in from playing with her toys, told her to get a tissue and smash the black thing crawling on the wall. Poor little thing did it… 

2)  Clowns. Have you ever seen the movie Clown House? Well, if you have, the opening scene, where they are playing poker, one clown cheats and the other literally rips the cheating clowns jaw off…need I explain more? ICK!

3)   People touching my feet. Gross. It actually grosses me out SO much that I fear my children will touch them all day long. I flinch when someone brushes against my feet. I shudder when someone THINKS about touching my feet.

30 Day Blog Challenge...Jumping on the Train

Well, it seems the new trend is to do the 30 Day Blog Challenge.  So, from my cousin, Kate, I'm here to start my challenge.

Day 1:  List 10 Random Facts About Yourself

1)  My favorite food is cheese and I am lactose intolerant.  Yes, this makes for a not-so-pleasant time after eating the cheese, but most of the time, it's worth it.  Take last night for example; we had stuffed baked potatoes.  I had vegetables, chicken (cherry flavored, way good), cheese and ranch dressing on mine.  While I was adding the scrumptious, finely shredded, sharp cheddar cheese in two layers--one under the vegetables and one over--I thought to myself, you should stop.  Well, I didn't and boy was that a kick @** stuffed potato!  I think the second layer of cheese is really what did it, but I'm going to blame the peas :)

2)  There is a mole on my face that keeps growing, and I'm fairly sure the part that is colored keeps moving.  I think it used to be a beauty mark, right smack on my face, but for awhile now, I think it started to grow.  I have asked a few medical professionals about it and they all say, "if you want us to biopsy it, we can, but cancer doesn't usually grown there."  Seriously?!?  There's a place cancer USUALLY grows?  Please, tell me more.  I would like to have this place looked at not and every time I go to the doctor's office, just to see if this magical place has procured cancer...Well, I have decided that it isn't growing enough to warrant the pain of a biopsy, but if it did, I could guarantee, cancer COULD grow there.

3)  Purple USED to be my favorite color, but I think I'm partial to blue now.  Everyone gets me purple for Christmas and my birthday and any other occasion that they are buying something for me, so I think I'm just "purpled out".  I still really like the color, after all, it was one of my wedding colors.

4)  I would like to marry Justin Timberlake, Matt Bomer and Stephanie March.  Yes, all of them, and yes, my husband knows.  The are commonly known to my closest of friends as my 2nd husband (Justin Timberlake), my 3rd husband (Matt Bomer) and the gal I would have an affair with (take a guess as to which one).

5)  Twitter is something I don't think I'll ever learn.  Not that I want to send a statement or anything, it just doesn't make sense to me.  I fb all the time, have a phone to text with and email people.  I hardly have enough to say on fb, why do I need to tweet I have no life?

6)  On one hand it's extremely funny that my kids can't say Band-Aid, on the other hand, it's quite annoying.  Bam-baid isn't a word and both halves of the hyphen came up as spelled wrong.

7)  Measuring the dry ingredients is for dummies.  Only a handful of recipes are staples for my family.  I have about four totally memorized.  Any other, I need to look up.  Even then, they always turn out different, because I don't measure the dry ingredients...well, like if it said 4 cups of flour, I'd measure out the 4 cups and most or more would make it into the bowl.

8)  Starting each number with a different word was the hardest personal task I've done in a long time.  I didn't want to start each number out with "I".  There just isn't that much fun or interesting about me.

9)  This is harder than I thought it would be.  I thought this would be a piece of cake, after all, I know myself better than anyone else...right?

10)  I have 3.5 kids.  3.5 you ask?  Yes, 3.5.  I birthed 4 children, the first, I placed for adoption, hence the .5 kid.