Happy Birthday.... To Me!!!!!!!

Today is my 34th, ahem, I mean 6th 29th birthday.

I've come along way. Here I was as a little tike.
In honor of my 34th birthday, I will attempt to tell you 34 things about me. I've done this in the past, & this gets harder each time to think of new things. I'm not making any promises; some might be repeats. Here I go:

1. I had these rules from my dad about dating: No boys with vans. No boys with long hair or who wore their hats backwards. And, preferably no boys who drove foreign cars (Dad worked at Chrysler).
2. I can remember when school buses where stick-shifts and I'd sit in the front seat watching the driver shift gears while driving.
3. I've held a scorpion.
4. My recent purchase of an electric griddle has changed my life.
5. I was born at 10:48am.
6. In middle school, I babysat a devil child who tried to attack me with one of those pitch fork tools from the fireplace.
7. My middle name is Dawn.
8. I took microwave cooking class in 4-H.
9. When I was potty-training, I pulled the toilet paper from one end of the house to the other just to ask for help tearing it.
10. I secretly love to play laser tag and wished my adult friends would go with me.
11. I like to grocery shop (alone, that is).
12. I wanted to be the clown on kid's night when I worked at Ponderosa in high school, but they wouldn't let me.
13. I took Reader's Theater in 6th grade and had to snort really loud on stage for our performance.
14. I gained 60 (I know, *gasp*) pounds with my last pregnancy. I've lost 43 of it so far.
15. I never had a graduation open house.
16. My college nickname was Naked Chicken.
17. I'm always early wherever I go. (am I turning into my parents?)
18. Growing up, I told my mom that I wanted to be a person who sold bouquets on street corners out of the back of a van when I grew up.
19. I've been pulled over in Mexico by police with large automatic weapons.... more than once.
20. I ate grass once as a child because my brother told me it tasted like mint.
21. My elementary school art was chosen to represent a calendar for the entire school township.
22. I cannot do the 'worm' dance, but I certainly gave it my best shot at a wedding reception when I first starting dating Nathan. Much to my surprise, he still dated me after that.
23. My mom has Multiple Sclerosis. Technically, that's about my mom but I'm counting it.
24. I went skiing one time and never left the kiddie hill.
25. My Wii character looks JUST like me. It's a little freaky.
26. Is anybody actually reading this?
27. My senior year of college I started a class wave and yelled, "Whoo-hooo!" whenever my teacher walked into the room. You'd be surprised how many people will join a random wave.
28. I taught a college class on the side when I became a stay-at-home-mom. M420- Healthcare Planning & Information Systems. That's right, call me Professor Amber.
29. My friends, Sarah & Chelsea, and I spent most of our playground days pretending to be Olympic gymnasts. I played the role of Mary Lou Retton.
30. I once wrote a rap to advertise for an event and performed it on stage at church. I'm still not sure what I was thinking. I'm the one in the middle.
31. I own a dishwasher but I hand wash all my dishes.
32. My mom made me keep my hair short from Kindergarten through 6th grade. I'm pretty sure I looked like a boy. I'm still a little traumatized.
33. I'm right-handed..... but I eat left-handed.
34. It's my birthday!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!