For those of you who are not my Facebook friends, I thought I would post this thing that’s been going around Facebook for a while. I knew you’d be sad if you missed out on learning 25 random things about me.

1. I really love music, and I will often play a song for someone that I think will mean something to them. It bothers me to no end when they don’t listen to the lyrics. My brother, Jason, is the same way. Just listen to our lyrics and we’ll be happy.

2. I never wanted a lot of kids, but I find myself now pregnant for the fifth time…awaiting the arrival of the fourth little baby to make her way into this home. I guess I didn’t know I would like my own kids better than other people’s. 

3. I don’t really like women’s Christian fiction. I love fiction. I like Christian books. However, this specific genre bores me. How many times can they write the same story and people still read them? I’ll take John Steinbeck over Janette Oak any day.

4. When I was a young teenager, I assumed I would go far away to a secular university, get a degree, start a career, and then meet the love of my life and live happily ever after. When I was an older teenager, I changed my plans. I’m now 25, and have been married for the last eight years. Plans change.

5. My current favorite musical artists are Caleb and Sol Rexius. I love them! You should check them out…http://www.facebook.com/pages/Caleb-and-Sol/27320564482?ref=mf .

6. I have five brothers and no sisters. One older brother, Aaron, and four younger brothers, Jason, Malachi, Lucas, and Seth. Two of those brothers are tied for “favorite brother” status. They go back and forth. 

7. I lead a Bible study small group for the teenage girls at my church. I really enjoy it, and I think my girls are awesome. They’re kind of my favorite people. 

8. I spent most of my life only allowed to wear skirts, dresses, or culottes. Turns out, I’m a lot happier in blue jeans. 

9. In reference to #8, the dress wearing didn’t make me any more feminine. I just showed a little more leg on the way up a tree than your average tomboy. 

10. In reference to #9, I am still a tomboy. When Amy came to visit the summer of 2007, I taught her how to catch crawdads in the creek at Frozen Head. (I did this while wearing a skirt.)

11. Sarcasm is my native tongue, and I appreciate it in other people. 

12. I hate labels. They rarely fit, and they mostly just make otherwise kind people act foolish and mean.

13. I love going to college. I find that college students get my humor, professors like me, and everyone is less judgmental. The social side of things is refreshing, and the academic side is stimulating. My world view and understanding of life in general has expanded dramatically since going back to school.

14. In reference to #13, contrary to popular belief, this hasn’t made me liberal. 

15. I find Reformed Theology and The Emerging Church very interesting. 

16. I am developing an allergy to people who treat people badly (either to their face or behind their back) in the name of Christ, and I’m sickened at the (many) times I’ve self-righteously done the same thing.

17. I spend a lot of my days cleaning pee (or worse) out of the floor. I think Dante should have included potty-training in his Inferno.

18. I have gotten a bad sunburn pretty much every summer for my entire life. I’m apparently a slow learner. 

19. I have a super sensitive gag reflex. I can barely take a Tylenol without throwing up. If I am the only adult in a group of kids and someone pukes, don’t expect me to clean it up. I can’t. 

20. I don’t talk baby talk to my babies. I think I’m incapable. My voice might get higher and softer, but I don’t do baby talk. I may not say anything to you (out loud) if you talk baby talk to my kids, but I will be a little weirded out by it. If you talk to them that way when they are four, I will lose a measure of respect for you.

21. I went skinny dipping one time. It was fun.

22. I’ve never drank alcoholic beverages of any kind, but I once got a little drunk off of prescription cough medicine when I was a teenager. Turns out, you’re not supposed to drink it straight out of the bottle. 

23. I almost ran away from home when I was fourteen, but I backed out at the last minute and told the boy that was going to pick me up at the end of my street at 2 a.m. to take me to the bus station that I changed my mind. 

24. Every time I drive onto a military installation, I cry a little bit.

25. I am both sad about and looking forward to moving away from East Tennessee for the Army.