7 Little Known Random Things

OK, so a few of my friends recently posted 7 random/little known facts about themselves, which I found entertaining — so here I am. Another combination for you: Quiet Friday night + Jodie home alone + Jodie reading blogs + Inspiration of little known randomness posts = This Post.

1. I loved Little House on the Prairie as a girl. Being the oldest of 3 girls I was, obviously, Mary, in my imaginations. I even went as far as thinking I was going blind in 1st grade. Seriously, my parents took me to a specialist because I was claiming that I couldn’t see the chalk board at school anymore. It was a while later that they realized that my “condition” (Pretend Eye Failure) was brought on by watching the LHOTP episode where Mary went blind in the middle of the night….

2. The first (and last) time I wore a bikini was when I was 16 years old. I was on vacation with a friend’s family and we went to a water park where I busted out my new $5 triangle-topped bikini and white virgin stomach skin. We were 16… and we were dumb… and didn’t wear sun screen… and we laid out for 2 hours. I spent that night in a cold bath and was laid-up in the hotel room the next day.
3. I sucked my thumb as a child… and struggled against it as a young adolescent…. and even had reversions in COLLEGE, which I realized only when I woke up in the morning with teeth-markings in my thumb.

4. I have a very rigid routine when I get ready for bed and get myself ready in the morning. Meaning, for example, at night I start by brushing my teeth, wash my face, floss teeth, blow my nose, apply toner, apply chapstick, pin hair back, lotion hands, go to the bathroom, check on the kids (which is a whole different routine within this one), adjust our sound machine volume level, crack our door, turn out light, sigh heavily when I lay down my my pillow. good night. (wow I’m tired all of a sudden) It all must happen in that order so I don’t forget to do anything.

5. I have PCOS. Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome. In an effort to keep it light here, I shall just say that this has greatly affected my life in many ways.

6. I do a good Jar Jar Binks (Star Wars) impression. And a pretty darn good Ann McMullen impression.

7. I think my dream job — if I were living another life sans family and any sense of stable community life — would be reporting for NPR and doing human interest stories. But I do not want another life other than this one, so my job of reporting human interest stories will remain a line item on a list.