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I got tagged again.....I'm slow!

So, ya.....I got tagged again by none other than Heather (alisgravenil). She's just so on top of her bloggings and tagging other lowly bloggers who cannot keep up, but are trying! ;) So here goes on tag #2!

The assignment is to.....
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Describe 10 things about myself that you might not know.

2- Tag seven rockin' blog buddies to do the same. (I don't know if I have 7 to tag, but I'll try my best!)


10 Things About Sarah That You Might Not Know

1) This might just be as OCD as I get, but when I use the paper towel dispensers in public bathrooms I like to reel it out seven times so that I rip on "8". I think it comes from my dancing because it just feels right to pull down 1-2-3-4-5-6-7 and then rip on 8! You can't exactly use 3/4 time when you're at the paper towel dispenser, it doesn't work!

2) If I could go anywhere in the world and money was not a problem I would go to Australia! I wouldn't go to surf, or to snorkel, but I would just like to take lots of pictures and go visit Hillsong Church!

3) I don't have a favorite food. There isn't just one food that I would say is my favorite to eat all of the time. I like to try new things and I don't discriminate. However, there are a few foods that I will NEVER eat.....salmon (bad Norway memories), escargot (it's friggin' snails people, come on!), cow tongue (somewhere there's a cow trying to lick its baby and it can't,what a stupid thing to eat!), pork rinds (fried pork skin, blech!), frog legs (I may hate frogs, but I don't want to get back at them by eating their legs)....there might be more, but that's all I can think of right now!

4) I have a problem with people being in my "personal space". For example: For some reason whenever I'm at the grocery store the person next in line has to always stand withing a pinkie's reach from me. To avoid this, I try to put my shopping basket between myself and the freak whose invading my territory. I don't understand why they have to be so close to me, there's so much room for them far away from me! Listen! If I don't know you, but somehow I can manage to guess the perfume you're wearing, the size of your shirt and smell what you've had for dinner on your breath, then you're too dang close, back off! Phew!

5) My favorite place to be is Dallas, TX. I want to live there more than anything! I know a lot of texans in my neck of the woods don't particularly like the Dallas area, or the traffic, or even the people there, but somehow I feel right at home! It really has everything there and fun things happen there! If you've lived in San Antonio for a while and are used to having certain things available to you like a good deli, a bagel shop or even a bakery where you can just stop in anytime and have the best danish known to man, then Dallas is really like a Godsend! It isn't just one city either, there are oodles of other suburban areas like Grapevine, Southlake, Irving, etc. that have a lot to offer. It's a great place and I hope to live there one day :)

6) I do not like the number 6. I associate it with the devil and I just do not like it.

7) I lack confidence in my talents. I'm not exactly sure why, but I know that I am very aware of what others think of me. I know I've said I don't care what others think about me and I don't, but I do. I just want everyone to like what I do and how I do it whatever it may be. Perfectionist much? Sometimes......

8) I make the best mashed potatoes! I've been making Thanksgiving dinner with my mom since I was about 10 or 11 years old and she taught me how to make mashed potatoes and many other things. My mom is a great cook and baker! So is my dad too! And my husband....

9) I cannot cross my eyes completely. I have one eye that's nearsighted and one that's farsighted. I do wear glasses for reading and such. I don't need them for driving. You would think that I'd be more blind than I am, but my left eye is much stronger than the other, so it overcompensates for the lame right eyeball. Oh ya, I also have astigmatism!

10) I'm addicted to sweet tea, body waxing, pedicures, massages, Jason Mraz, The Office, So You Think You Can Dance, Sex and the City, the city of Austin.....and many, many more things!


And now for the tagging......

Dani
Mom
Elizabeth Winston-Williams
Jana
Michelle

sjr
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New Blog

I have been looking (unsuccessfully) for a journal that I would be able to write letters to my unborn child(ren). There isn't a day that goes by that I don't think about my future children, who they're going to be, when they're going to get here, etc. My friend, Jen, recommended to me that I start writing to my children. I want them to know how much they were loved and wanted. I want them to know that their mommy thought of them every single day and prayed for them and longed to hold them. So, I've decided that I'm going to start a journaling blog just for them. If you'd like to read it you can. The address is loveletterstoourkids.blogspot.com

Enjoy!

SJReed
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A long time ago......

.....I was tagged to post something on my blog by Heather. I have actually been tagged twice by her, but this is the first time I've been able to accomplish the first tag. Don't worry Heather, I will be sure to get to the second tag in say......3 months! Ha!

Here is my assignment (If I so choose...and I do!)

The Picture Tells the Story
So here are the rules...
* Open my first photo folder
* Scroll down to the 10th photo
* Post that photo and story on my blog
* Tag five friends to do the same

Um, ya.....I kinda tweaked it a lil' to suit my current situation a little better because I don't have access to all my photos at the moment. Here's the picture....



This photo is from exactly 10 years ago this month. I didn't actually realize that until I was thinking of when it was taken, so I guess I didn't choose the picture, but the picture chose me?! This is from my first year as a counselor for the Ballet Magnificat! Summer Dance Intensive. The others in the picture are Elyn Vanderende, Heather Partington, Angel Hilemon and two others that if I thought for a very long time would possibly remember their names too. We were all counselors for the Caldwell dorm on the Belhaven College campus. I cannot remember how many girls I was in charge of that year, but they were the younger girls since I was only 18, going on 19, it was appropriate for me to have them. I remember that I had Jessica Perham in my group....the first day we had small group time we were introducing ourselves to each other and she said her full name very quickly. The girls thought she had said her name was "Clara Para"....lol! (her name is Jessica Claire Perham) hahaha....this got them laughing and it gave her a nickname. Angel (bending in the front of the picture) was like the mother hen to all of us girls. I remember always meeting up in her room before we went anywhere and fun stuff like that. I was dating Mike, my ex, and I think I spent more time being concerned with him than with what my "campers" were up to. Not that I'm proud of the previous sentence, it actually makes me upset that I was so blind to what was going on around me. You do live and learn though, that's what your 20's are for....hahahaha! Which brings me to my next point, I CANNOT WAIT UNTIL THIS DECADE IS OVER!!!! I'm really looking forward to my 30's.

Anyway, there's my assignment. It's not too deep, but I think it's fun to look at that picture and reminisce. And now for the tagging....

Mom, Eawinstonwilliams, Daniella, Jana and Michelle

All y'all have been tagged. You have your assignment.....GO!