- I don't eat (much) meat.
- I got an orange belt in karate when I was a kid.
- I have three kidneys.
- I'm terrible at managing money.
- I played the trombone for eight years when I was in school.
- I have
five seven eleven tattoos.
- I was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis three days before my twenty-fifth birthday.
- I met my husband online and didn't meet him in person until the day I arrived in Sweden to live with him.
- We paid the same price for our house as for our car.
- I love shoes.
- I drink too much coffee.
- I haven't been back to the States since I came to Sweden in January 2001.
- Fresh produce gives me the creeps.
- I am afraid of heights.
- My favorite band of all time is Counting Crows (Adam Duritz is a genius).
- I taught myself to read Braille when I was nine or ten, but I've long since forgotten how.
- I was bitten by a brown recluse spider when I was three years old.
- For years I wished I had been named Rebecca.
- I thought Forrest Gump was a stupid movie.
- When I was 17, I filed a lawsuit against my high school to stop prayers at graduation.
- I am not a morning person.
- I had my tonsils taken out when I was six.
- I have a master's degree in early modern European history and hope to get a Ph.D. one day.
- I have two younger brothers.
- I have prayed at the Western Wall in Jerusalem.
- I'm a great baker but only an average cook.
- I'm very competitive.
- Patience is not one of my virtues.
- I'm a great gift-wrapper.
- I recycle a lot.
- I wouldn't mind being a professional student.
- Before I moved to Sweden, Olof and I used to talk on the phone for four or five hours a day, every day.
- I have been an Atlanta Braves fan for more than thirty years (yes, since way, way before they were any good).
- I like to take pictures but hate to have my picture taken.
- I like soap operas.
- I don't take criticism well.
- I'm pretty sure I'm done having babies.
- I don't like carnival rides.
- Bread is my favorite food.
- My worst character flaw is laziness.
- I enjoy being a housewife.
- I have never lived alone.
- I sing a lot ... to myself, to my kids, to my dogs and cats.
- One of the things I miss most from home is swimming in the south fork of the Clearwater River on hot summer days.
- I like country music.
- I usually feel very awkward in social situations.
- I grew up in Idaho but never saw a potato field until I was in college.
- I have to be covered up in order to sleep well.
- I like to mow the lawn.
- I have a bad temper.
- I have been married three times.
- I've always wanted to learn how to play the piano.
- I can listen to the same song over and over and over without getting tired of it.
- I hold grudges.
- I love school supplies.
- I bruise very easily.
- I am deeply religious.
- I can crochet well but can barely knit.
- I am a dog person.
- I don't like slapstick.
- I am a very light sleeper.
- I love grocery shopping.
- I hate repetitive noises.
- My favorite holiday is Thanksgiving.
- I'm a good speller (in both English and Swedish).
- I am very clumsy.
- I'm a good driver.
- I don't like zoos.
- In college I minored in religion.
- I talk to my mom on the phone every week.
- My house has more than thirty clocks on the walls.
- My favorite pizza is Domino's Thin 'n' Crispy with onions, green peppers, and black olives.
- I like snakes.
- I have an excellent memory.
- I almost never get sick.
- I am a "hobby-sleeper."
- I don't feel safe in a house without a cat.
- I tweeze my eyebrows almost obsessively.
- I swear a lot.
- I'm Chapstick-dependent.
- I quit smoking in April 2001.
- I started again in May 2013.
- I'm not afraid to cut my own hair.
- I never kill spiders.
- I love miniature things.
- Scary movies give me nightmares.
- When I was 18 months old, I had my four top front teeth pulled due to "baby bottle tooth decay."
- I hate snow.
- I wish I were more like my mother.
- I prefer showers to baths.
- Black licorice is my favorite candy.
- I am very shy, and I worry that it makes me appear stand-offish.
- I collect teapots and cream pitchers.
- I am superstitious.
- I love thrift stores.
- Greg Camp, guitarist/songwriter for Smash Mouth, once licked my hand.
- Public speaking doesn't bother me.
- I have the world's best in-laws.
- I like red houses.
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