Week 16

From Facebook

1. I am so anal retentive that I wrote a draft version of this list in a separate word document to check for spelling and then pasted it here after three edits.

2. My career goal for most of my life was to go to seminary and enter religious service. By age 25 I realized that I was lacked the necessary compassion for the job and went to law school, if I could go back and change that decision I might.

3. Although I wholeheartedly love my husband and would go through it all again to be married to him, I hated planning a wedding and being a bride and so forth.

4. I am very excited about being pregnant with my babies, but the best thing that anyone has said to me since I found out that they were twins is, “it’s okay if being terrified outweighs being thrilled. It doesn’t mean that you won’t fall completely in-love with them it means you aren’t brain-damaged.” Of course that person is the mother of two-year-old twins.

5. I prayed for a sister, until it was clear that it was never going to happen, and then married someone who has seven.

6. I am not sure if I will ever be able to get out of bed again when my dog dies.

7. I always hate how my hair looks, even when I have tons of time to style it, and never know what to ask for when I get it cut.

8. I don’t have a single friend today that I met during my college years who actually attended college with me. All of the people who I met during college, who I still know, were co-workers from Chili’s. After I moved to DC and until Facebook I lost touch with them. I am now remembering what great people they are.

9. I still adamantly believe that my father can fix anything and believe whatever he tells me.

10. I feel sorry for people with mother-in-law issues because mine rocks.

11. I am suspicious of people who sanctimoniously report to me that alcohol suddenly disgusted them after they became pregnant. Being pregnant has done nothing but whet my appetite for tequila.

12. One of the biggest contradictions that I face on a daily basis is reconciling my deep faith in Christ with my tremendous annoyance with the vast majority of people who profess that they are Christians.

13. Sometimes I wish that I still lived with Mrs Ole and that Mr. T. still lived with Mr. Ole. Then I feel guilty. Then I realize that the other three people in this scenario occasionally wish for the same thing too.

14. I honestly fear where I'd be right now if Jerry Garcia lived.

15. I have been blessed with the same best friend since the 8th grade.

16. I am more scared of not losing the baby weight then any other aspect of pregnancy and every time I admit that to myself I feel shallow.

17. I always suspect that people who report that law school was hard are stupid. In my opinion law school was both easy and boring. Making law school interesting and a worthwhile way to spend three years was hard.

18. Right now I can only feel the babies move when I lie down in bed before I go to sleep. I look forward to that that time now every day. I feel like I’m hanging out with them. I realized the other day that when I rub the area over where they are hanging out they will push against my hand and follow it because it feels good. I have no idea why, but it made me cry.

19. I constantly worry that I am too self-centered and whether or not I am a good friend. Then I worry about whether worrying about this is self-centered too.

20. I am a Dallas Cowboys fan because when I was a kid I wanted to be a Dallas Cowboys cheerleader; I thought they were cooler than rock stars. (What do you want from me? Until I was 7 my parents called me a name that end in -y.)

21. I failed Algebra I twice and then took it a third time and got As. As a result I am still an awesome Algebra tutor. The problem with most math tutors is that they don’t understand the thought process of people who don’t get math, so they never reach them. I don’t have that problem.

22. My first boyfriend and my husband have the most in common and everyone in-between was an exception. I think that this is the complete opposite of almost all of my girlfriends who seemed to follow a progression.

23. I love arguing in court and think that I am a pretty good oral advocate. I don’t even mind watching myself argue on tape. BUT I hate reading my briefs after they are filed, it makes my stomach hurt.

24. I am perpetually certain that I don’t deserve all of the wonderful people in my life.

25. Every night before I go to bed I pray that I figure out how to be a good mother and thank God that I have such an awesome husband to help me.