1. I am not quite 5 feet tall.
2. I dislike tomatoes but I like spaghetti sauce, bruschetta, ketchup, sundried tomatoes, and just about any other tomato-based item you can imagine.
3. I used to break horses when I was around 12.
4. When I was little I would tell people that I wanted to be the fastest runner in the world.
5. I was homeschooled from kindergarten until 1oth grade.
6. I was born close to one month late but I am a fairly punctual person.
7. I rode English for many years, and I trained my 14.3 hand Morgan horse, Bailey, along with the help of my Olympic-level trainer. We won first place out of 11 horses at a dressage schooling show. College got in the way and I sold him. Not sure where he is today, but I learned a lot from him. I hope that I could someday find him and buy him back.
8. When I was about 3 or 4, I got mad at my mom. She said to me, "If you're so mad, why don't you just hit me?" I did.
9. I once got my hair cut short because I wanted to look like two other people that I admired with short hair. A little girl I was babysitting came up to me and asked if I was a boy or a girl. Have never cut my hair short again.
10. I like the number 10.
11. I played piano very well when I was younger. At my second recital, I played a 4-page version of Fur Elise to a standing ovation. The 20 other students played one-page hymns.
12. If I've been wearing socks all day, I can't wear them to bed. If I've had bare feet all day, I can wear socks to bed.
13. Before I was born, my mom had to be rushed to the hospital because I had the umbilical cord wrapped around my neck. When I was born, I was already staring at people, eyes wide open.
14. I didn't try hard enough in college.
15. In 1993 and 1994 I took Russian ballet at the Flint School of Performing Arts. My instructors name was Ms. Margaret Mead Finizio. I was selected as one of the top 3 in my division for a performance and I had an opportunity to be in the Nutcracker as one of the "party girls". I turned this down for some reason and quit within a few shorts months. This is one of the biggest regrets of my life.
16. When I was 5, I took one bite out of a granny smith apple, flushed it down the toilet and blamed it on my little brother. I finally told him about three years ago.
17. I only applied to one college.
18. The reasons I went to that college would not end up being the reasons that I would stay.
19. I'm the first person in my immediate family to graduate from college. I won't be the first to go to graduate school.
20. I met the band 'NSYNC when I was 13 while staying at a hotel for a youth group trip. The non-English speaking maid let us into their empty rooms after they left to grab whatever souvenirs we could find.
21. I didn't declare my major until my senior year.
22. I was the opening shortstop my first year playing varsity softball as a junior. I held back too much, and was quickly relegated to left-field. I took a grounder to my face that year and had to get stitches. This only added to me "holding back" and only added to me staying out in left-field.
23. In 2006 I interned for a Circulation department at a company in Chicago. At my exit interview, my boss said to me "Well, it doesn't seem like you have much of an interest in working in Circulation again." I now work in Circulation for an international magazine.
24. I was the last person to talk to my grandfather before he passed away.
25. Sometimes my horoscopes are dead on; Still don't believe them.
