20 random things about me, because January is boring

It's January. Nothing really happens in January (January is such a depressing month because it's after the holidays, and it gets dark early, and school has started up again, and there's nothing fun to do!).We're going to school, we're working, we're sleeping, we're eating, we're loving each other. Our past weekend was spent watching football and Futurama, sleeping in, and just hanging out. Same old, same old.

So without further ado, here is 20 random things about me.

1. I could be deemed "white trash" because I spent the first 12 years of my life growing up in a yellow and white mobile home. I shared a room with my brother Trevor and we slept in a bunk bed - me on top, Trev on bottom.

2. I used to rodeo, and be a rodeo queen. I stopped right before I entered 7th grade because I didn't want to high school rodeo - it was too competitive and serious, and I liked riding for fun.

3. I have a love for theater, and I love being up on stage. Learning songs and dances and bringing a story to life makes me happy.

4. I waited for a missionary, someone who I'd only dated for two months (and rejected countless times before that because he was a "different cat" as my dad would say), and then I sent him on his merry way to Alaska. I was a kick ass missionary girlfriend, and I made up a perfect fantasy in my head about me and him, even though our relationship was unhealthy and not right for me. I wrote him off for Trevor in May 2012 after Trev and I had been dating for almost a month (even though I should have wrote him off sooner, haha!), thus becoming one of those girls who Dear John's her missionary. Oops. My ex is here at SUU now, and it's always awkward when I run into him and his wife, who he met and got engaged to a couple months after he was home. (As a side note, I've determined girls shouldn't wait for missionaries, but to each their own. I've had a lot of friends who it's worked out for, and a lot of friends who it didn't work out for. I'm personally so happy, blessed, and lucky it didn't work out, and that I have Trevor.)

5. My first boyfriend, my "first love", is gay. He's still one of my dear friends, and we have a good laugh about our three week stint as boyfriend and girlfriend.

6. I wanted to be a nurse, a flight nurse on the Lifeflight helicopter, for years and years and years. Then I became a CNA my senior year of high school, got to college, and decided I didn't want to be a nurse. (Fun fact: 

7. I always told everyone I was going to marry an Australian man. HA HA HA. That didn't happen. From the time I was 16 on, I told people I wasn't going to get married until I was 25, then I told people I wasn't going to get married at all. HA HA HA. Obviously, that didn't happen either.

8. My favorite TV show is Pretty Little Liars. Hahaha, I know, I'm pathetic right?

9. I have an intense love for Mountain Dew. In high school, we would sneak out of ag classes or go in between class break to go to Hart's and get a 32 oz. Mountain Dew. Every single day. It got to the point the Harts' employees knew what we wanted when we would pull up to the drive-thru window. I still drink some sort of Mountain Dew every day. It's amazing I don't have kidney stones. Or diabetes.

10. I was a member of FFA in high school; yes, Future Farmers of America. I wore the blue and gold corduroy jacket for six years, proudly. It's a lot more than cows, sows, and plows, though. I raised and showed sheep, pigs, and steers at fairs and livestock shows, I was apart of their officer team, and I competed in many, many events on a local, state, and national level. A lot of my interview skills and communication skills come from public speaking events in FFA. Some of my best friends were FFA members. 

11. If I was ever to go back to church and get a calling, I would want to be Girls' Camp Director. Girls' Camp was always my favorite part of the year, and I looked forward to the crafts, the camping, the food, the memories, and my leaders who always made it enjoyable. I want to make Girls' Camp fun and enjoyable for other girls.

12. My favorite color in the world is orange. My prom dress was orange and it was my favorite thing in the world. Trev and I decided that orange and green would be good wedding colors, so that's why I didn't have orange in our wedding.

13. Someone once told me I have the fashion sense of an old woman. I personally think I have no fashion sense at all. I try to get on the bandwagons with jewelry, skirts, pants, shirts, etc., but majority of the time I buy clothes that feel good and have nice colors. I could give a shit less if they fit the latest fashion trend.

14. I love meeting new people and I love being around people, but when I'm around my friends friends', I get really awkward and usually leave. Don't ask me why, I just do.

15. I love taking pictures and documenting life through my camera. The most used app on my phone is Instagram. No, I don't have some nice fancy-shmancy camera and no, I don't call myself a photographer. I just take way too many pictures. But at least when I die (and everyone else dies who's been apart of my life), Trev and my family will have a lot of pictures to choose from to display. There's nothing sadder to me when someone has no pictures or outdated pictures of themselves and others.

16. I don't have a lot of "girl friends." About 95% of the time, women of all ages drive me up a wall, and I can't stand them. So, when I find a girl I can connect with and get along with, I stick with them. Those girls are rare. I have about 10 girls that I love and adore, can get along with, and stay in contact with, but other than that, I would rather hang out with boys. Mainly my husband. ;)

17. Speaking of my husband, he is my best friend in the entire world. No one knows me better than he does. Like seriously, he is the straw to my berry, the hot sauce to my taco, the ranch to my pizza.

18. I was born with blonde hair - like really, really blonde hair. (Dad says if I would have been born with brunette hair, I would have been named Natalie.) I hated it so much that I started dying my hair in 8th grade, and I've been dying it ever since. So far I really like being a brunette with a tint of red.

19. I don't know if I'll be able to have children thanks to my messed up, endometriosis uterus. But thanks to my many adventures to Guatemala and Mexico, I have become more than okay with adopting. Trev doesn't care where our children come from, whether they be our own or adopted, because his number one goal is to be a dad.

20. I am emotionally detached about 90% of the time, meaning I don't really show or feel emotions unless something really, really big happens, or depending on my mood. For example, when Trevor proposed to me, I was overjoyed and excited, but I wasn't bouncing off the walls. I freaked out because I wasn't feeling "overwhelming feelings of love" that people seem to have in the movies or that I've seen my friends have. I've been like this since I was a little girl.

So, there's my 20 random facts! (It was painful to come up with this list. Doesn't everybody already know these things about me? Therefore not making it random? Whatevs.) Happy Monday!!