50 things you may or may not know about me . . .

I'm taking a cue from my blogging cousin at mornin' sunshine and posting these "50 things you may or may not know about me".  I'm pretty transparent with y'all, so most of these will probably fall into the things you already know about me.

1. I am a very organized and some may say OCD person.
2. I am a big planner, I plan my outfits out for the whole month.
3. when I send clothes to the dry cleaner, I always send exactly 10 items.
4. my favorite weekends are the ones where I never leave the house.
5. I love to sleep when it's raining.
6. I wanted to be a ballerina when I was little.
7. I studied criminal psychology in college.
8. I love crime shows (criminal minds and law and order: special victims unit) and natural disaster movies (contagion).
9. my sons and husband are the best part of me.
10. I love being a mom but I get overwhelmed easily.
11. I can have tremendous "mommy guilt" sometimes.
12. I married my high school best friend's little brother.
13. almost 20 years later, we are still best friends.
14. my first kiss with my husband was at the altar.
15. mike and I never took a honeymoon.
16. I love living in waco and after almost 13 years here, it feels like home.
17. I am very hard on myself and my worst critic.
18. I have an irrational fear of escalators and only take them if I have to and I have to let the boys go behind me.
19. I have an irrational fear of movie theaters and very rarely go to them, but I LOVE movie theater popcorn.
20. lime green is my favorite color, but I like most any shade of green.
21. I am so girly and I always wanted a daughter, but hopefully I will have daughters-in-law and grand-daughters one day and I won't trade my boys for anything.
22. even though it is SO hot in texas, summer is my favorite time of the year.
23. I don't enjoy any sports (I tolerate baseball).
24. I love to watch bull riding.
25. I have an awful black thumb, I really wish I could grow a garden.
26. I have a potty mouth . . . but I really try to watch it around the kids.
27. I took latin for all 4 years of high school and I was latin club president for 3 years.
28. I went to UIL state in original oration in high school.
29. I LOVE driving trucks, when I was a kid, I wanted one that was so high you had to have a ladder to get into it.
30. even through I am my father's daughter, I never acquired a taste for beer (or coffee).
31. my father refuses to join facebook, so my sister and I made a facebook fan page for him where we share his wisdom.
32. I LOVE to shop and I am a sucker for cosmetics and anything kitchen related.
33. my nail polish collection is infamous in waco.
34. I have more cookbooks than I can even count and I read them like novels.
35. I love to cook and bake, the best thing I've mastered is challah.
36. my dream is to one day write a cookbook.
37. my boys, husband, and I are "the big bang theory" fanatics, we've seen every episode at least twice.
38. I believe that all the challenges that I've faced have made me into the person I am and I'm very proud of who I've become (I'm not the same person I was 20 years ago).
39. in high school I worked part-time at tanning salons.
40. I have a common name with an uncommon spelling, so my kids have very normal names, lee and ed, they won't have to spell their names to anyone.
41. my name (even with it's uncommon spelling), is more common than my sister's.
42. I love fried food, but I am scared to fry, so mike is my fry daddy.
43. I am not a good housekeeper.  I have a pillow and a sign that says "this house was cleaned yesterday, sorry you missed it"
44. I have always been a PC user, but I bought a mac book this summer and I love it.
45. this weekend, another caryn brown died and her husband was also named michael, kind of freaked me out!
46. I cook breakfast for my husband's office the last saturday of tax season and I have been doing that for the past 10 years (I've only missed 2 years).
47. my favorite part of christmas is cooking 25 different kinds of candies and cookies and sharing them with all our friends.
48. my parents have an open house every christmas day at their house for all their neighbors and family.  it is another thing that I look forward to about christmas.
49. I hate halloween.
50. my favorite quote is "put on your big girl panties and deal with it".  I have it hanging in my bedroom.