...on my 26th birthday.

1. I love the taste of cough syrup.
2. I never wear pantyhose (or nylons or whatever you call them). NEVER.
3. I hate the word panties.
4. When grocery shopping, I never take the first item on the shelf. I always reach back and get the second one.
5. I tend to be shy around people I don't know, although I'm getting better.
6. I have a killer intuition and often know, by my dreams or by my gut, when something is going on with a person to whom I'm close.
7. I sleep on the left side of the bed.
8. I judge people by their bumper stickers.
9. I am always late to work.
10. I love to write checks. You've never seen a person so happy to pay bills.
11. The quickest way to lose my respect is to make an insensitive or judgmental remark about mental illness. I absolutely cannot abide that.
12. I sometimes tell lies. I have never regretted one.
13. I love riding in planes. I like the feeling of being above it all and away from it all, and my spirits always sink a little when we land because after having the view from above, life on the ground seems trivial and small.
14. I still call my dad 'Daddy'.
15. I hold doors open for strangers.
16. It annoys me if I'm holding open a door and a man insists I go through the doorway before him.
17. In fifth grade, on a field trip to DC, I saw Jodie Sweetin. She was getting her own personal tour of the Capitol. That is the closest I've gotten to John Stamos.
18. I only buy tissues with boxes that match our décor. I will fill an old tissue box with new tissues rather than put out a box that doesn't match.
19. I visit dictionary.com probably fifteen times a day, on average, and most of those visits are to confirm the spelling of a word that I know I know how to spell. I'm a little OCD like that.
20. I once saved a little boy from drowning in a hotel pool. There was no lifeguard and his mom was around the corner talking on her cell phone.
21. I do my deepest thinking while driving. I do not recommend this as it has proven dangerous on numerous occasions.
22. I hate museums.
23. I hate Kasey Kasem's voice. And I loathe those stupid-ass sap-fest long distance dedications.
24. I say goodbye to the cats every morning when I leave for work.
25. I firmly believe Clorox Kitchen wipes should only be used in the kitchen. Yes, I realize they are the very same as regular Clorox wipes, but because the word Kitchen is written on the container, I cannot bring myself to use them anywhere else.
26. Sometimes I experience moments of elation so strong that I think my heart will burst and yet nothing happened or changed to initiate the feeling except that the sun came out from behind the clouds.