Will You Still Like Me After Knowing This Stuff?

What a great weekend of friends, fancy meals and football! Karly Kim tagged me for an “11 Random Facts About You,” post. Aye yaye yaye!!! I write about myself through stories so this is a challenge. Please humor me by adding something revealing about yourself in the comments!

1. I once vacuumed my sister (as a “joke”) and she is to-this-day slightly afraid of vacuums. I am forever guilty. I am also sensitive to people with vacuum phobias.

2. I only wash my hair a few times a week. It is super dry!

3. Once I watched Home Alone in Spanish just because it was on and that’s such a great holiday movie.

4. Speaking of movies, some favorites (not limited to) are Night at the Roxbury, The English Patient, Atonement, Elf and Big Momma’s House. Big Momma’s house brings me to tears every time.

5. My parents just told me that if I was going to be born a boy, I would have been named Christopher. How crazy, my husband and I would have had the EXACT same name!

6. I sneak a spoonful of Bonne Maman (the red gingham jar top) blueberry jam from time to time. It has real little baby blueberries. Total fan of mixed textures.

7. Once filling up my entire girl scout sash with merit badges, I demanded that my mother remove the sewn on badges and reattach them more tightly to make room for more badges. She obliged. No wonder a friend once nicknamed me Napoleon.

8. I need a redemption fact so…in grade school, the principal called me into her office and asked me to befriend a new girl at school who was having a hard time fitting in. We became great friends and she starting smiling. Her name was June. I adored her. Does that even out Napoleon? Probably not. OK.

9. I have severe trust issues with manicurists. I am convinced I can do a more intensely perfect job. That doesn’t mean that I have perfectly done nails all the time by yours truly. It means that once every couple of months, I come home from a manicure going, “I could have done better than that.” Then I finally find that one manicurist who is better than me. Then I move out of that city for other reasons unrelated.

10. I have 2 piles of books by my bed at all times. I am reading 7 out of 10 of these books at a time (2 pages at a time or so). When I pass by them every morning, I look at the piles with a hunger and longing. Then I head into the bathroom and start the day. 

11. I get a big kick out of pointing out celebrities (to those I’m with) when I spot them. I saw “Zoe” from House of Cards yesterday at the football game. Kewl. 

Hopefully, I’m not coming across as a total jerk from this post! Ok, share with me and lift the shame!