25 Things...Part A.

I seem to be stealing a lot of post ideas lately. I'm not sure if this speaks for the interesting topics of the blogs I read or my own inability to come up with blog material, but right now I'm not going to try to figure that out. I'm just going to steal Sarah Forgrave's topic from earlier this week! Well. Sort of. Her post was about 25 favorite things...and she had all of them start with the letter F, in honor of her last name. Mine are not all favorites, but they do all start with the letter F, in honor of my last name! :) So here you go. Randomness, courtesy of the letter F. (I feel like I'm on Sesame Street.)

1. F - The letter. My LEAST favorite letter to write in the cursive alphabet. (Well, that and T because in proper cursive, they're the same letter.) I've always been anxious to change my name so I can kiss that cursive letter GOODBYE.

2. Frankenmuth - Michigan! Have you been there? It's a Christmas town, so as you might imagine, I'm never happier than when surrounded by its goodness. Mark and Lynnette took me there right after Thanksgiving a few years ago and I adored it so much!

3. Floppe - is what the lady at the McDonald's drive thru window called a frappe when I ordered it the other day. So now I call them floppe's. And one day, that is going to get me in a whole lot of embarrassing trouble. (Much like my use of the word skabetti instead of spaghetti. My niece called it skabetti when she was little, so I started saying it too and now I don't know how to say the correct word without concentrated effort.)

4. Farapithia - was the name of the imaginary land I created with my friend Amber...after we read the book Bridge to Terabithia. (Her imaginary land was Carapithia, because her last name started with a C.) I'd forgotten all about Farapithia until Lynne interviewed the author of Bridge to Terabithia a couple of weeks ago. I got to talk to her the day before the interview, and while I told her I loved her book, I was too chicken to admit to the creation of Farapithia.

5. Frizz - is what my hair does (with much gusto) in humidity. You've seen the episodes of Monica Gellar in the Bahamas, right? Yeah. That.

6. Fish. I hate fish. ALL fish. (Although I was very brave the other day and tried some Tilapia and I dearly hate to admit it wasn't as awful as most fish.) Shrimp - yes please. Crab - yes please. Fish - No thank you.

7. Fifty states. Kind of a little secret dream of mine is to one day (you know, like after I'm married and I can turn this into a big long date) visit all 50 states. Not all at one time, of course. But to get to all of them at some point with my husband. My grandparents made it to 49 of the states before they died, and I thought that was pretty cool.

8. Forks. I'm with Vivian in Pretty Woman on this one. (And therein the similarities to her END, thankyouverymuch.) I never know what fork to use. This may be why I so love restaurants with dollar menus. You don't even GET a fork there.

9. Frightened - I don't have nearly as many fears as I used to but since I admitted this one on the air this week, I might as well admit it in print, too. I'm scared of the dark. Yep. It's true.

10. Frogs - are icky. There may or may not have been an incident within the last week where I saw a frog approximately the size of a nickel and nearly had to have CPR. It's that they jump....And I don't want them jumping anywhere near me!!

11. Free stuff - I LOVE!!!! Some of the blogs I read are so good at reporting on free (or nearly there) deals. Love that! Case in point. Last year I scored this vinyl banner for 1 penny plus shipping. I used it at my baptism and LOVED IT.

12. Fact about me - that you may not know...ooooh. Harder than I thought since I pretty much tell you everything...but you might not know this. I don't care to be a mom. I used to think life wasn't complete until I was married and had kids, but my mind has changed over the years. I still really want to get married, but if I never have kids, I'm fine with it. I've watched too many of my friends have kids and live the life of a married single mom and it just doesn't appeal to me. So I'm a-okay without a kiddo to call my own!

13. Fad I wished I could have caved to. Ready to laugh? I wanted nothing more in life (in the sixth grade) than to peg my jeans. Oh my goodness. Did I seriously just write that? It's true! I wanted to. But I wore skirts (per my dad's wishes) until I went to college, so there wasn't much that could be done to fall into the pegged jeans crowd. I felt I'd been cheated. Looking back I see it wasn't that great a loss. :)

To be continued tomorrow...