I posted this note on my facebook account in response to one of those fun tags that have been making it's way around.
1. It took me about a month to find 25 *interesting enough* things to write here.
2. I am a food snob.
3. I am a people- pleaser. Right now I'm totally stressed out because I've offended the same person at least twice in the last six weeks or so.
4. I love running. . .on a treadmill. I have a favorite treadmill at the gym. I lip sync to my music while I run. My favorite running song of all time is Lose Yourself by Eminem. Running to this song makes me feel strong and emotional about running.
5. I love oatmeal raisin cookies and will never pass up Subway's oatmeal raisin cookies. Yum.
6. I like to gauge my health by comparing what I have in my grocery cart with the person checking out in front of me at the grocery store. I'm always shocked to see what people buy. The other day all I had was veggies *I was planning to make stir fry* and the lady in front of me had at least 6 candy bars, 2 bags of donettes, frozen dinners etc. I won that day! *that's not always the case*
7. I am compulsively organized.
8. I really disliked every formal dance I've ever attended.
9. I am THE QUEEN of returns and buyers remorse. Right now I'm in the process of cancelling a food storage order we made on Saturday.
10. I'm a Dooney and Bourke gal--I have two of their purses and already have my eye on another--though I know for sure I'll never get that one.
11. Last weekend Marc took me to see He's Just Not That Into You. I liked it. I realized that the only boy that has ever been into me was and still is Marc. I guess that's probably what happens--you find your one and stick with him the rest of your life.
12. Taylor Swift songs make me really happy.
13. I've only left the country one time *besides to Canada, which I don't really count since I grew up minutes away from the border* to go half way around the world to China.
14. In 2000, I went on two dates with a boy who just a few years later was accused and tried for rape. Scary.
15. I find chopping vegetables very theraputic.
16. I usually fold our clean laundry *or what's left of it in the baskets* the night before laundry day.
17. I haven't and won't read the Twilight series. *gasp*
18. I have a dirt phobia.
19. I've run two marathons.
20. I cannot live without the denim jacket I bought a year and a half ago.
21. I don't really like fluffy books. I get much more satisfaction from reading books that are deep and real and long--so that I can get attached the the characters. Jane Eyre and My Antonia are my absolute favorites.
22. I'd really love to run the Great Wall of China marathon.
23. My favorite color is green--the shade that is slightly lighter than shamrock green.
24. I'm hoping to learn how to garden this year.
25. I've become slightly high maintenance and I'm okay with it.
The Cheesecake Factory was a real treat. We haven't been in years. We made it to the game at half time, which I thought would disappoint Marc, but since they played one of the worst games they've EVER played *literally, Marc looked it up, they've only played one other game as badly since they moved from Minneapolis to LA in 1960, YIKES!* he wasn't too disappointed. 
We caught a matinee of He's Just Not That Into You. Cute. We ate dinner at The Blue Star--a trendy fine dining place downtown. We stayed at The Cliffhouse Inn overnight. I think the most romantic thing Marc did was make sure that since he was surprising me and we'd miss our church meetings on Sunday, he made sure that the sharing time I was supposed to give was covered. He thought of everything! 
