Because I’ve been blogging in some form or fashion since I was 17 years old, It’s hard for me to surface 25 bits of information that aren’t already well known by the people that read SarahThe/Check my facebook.  That being said, if you want informations, you can have them:

25 bits of SarahThe informations: 

1.) I have a disproportionately large shin muscle.  I guess this a result of the way I expressly lift my toe when I walk, but I’m not sure.  When I run/take long walks with Scout, my shin muscles always hurt badly, and I can’t figure out how to make the pain go away, because I don’t know how to stretch them.  This is the case right now, as I just walked back in the door from a walk. 

2.) I read books over and over again.  If I read a book once and I like it, I add it into my rotation.  As a result, I can draw up fairly detailed outlines of a few books from memory.  The Poisonwood Bible and East of Eden are two of the books I’ve read over a dozen times.

3.) Because I don’t know if I’m going to get into nursing school, I am constantly creating elaborate back-up plans for myself.  Occasionally a back-up plan will be so appealing, I wonder why it is that I’m killing myself to try to get into nursing school.  Inevitably, that feeling is closely followed by a stark wake-up call where a hiccup in the road-to-nursing school will help me realize how much I want this dream, and the insane lengths that I will go to in order to obtain it. 

4.) One of my greatest regrets in life was never learning how to play a musical instrument. 

5.) My other greatest regret is how poorly I have maintained my ability to speak Spanish. 

6.) I’m moderately obsessed with the color Grey right now. 

7.) My decorating style is Modern/Mid-Century/Earthy/Bohemian.  Chew on that. 

8.) From the ages of 11-16, I raced Bicycle Motor-Cross, or BMX.  My family was beyond involved with racing, and every one of my brothers and sisters, as well as my dad, competed on local, state, and national levels.  We even went to a World Cup race on year, where my dad and I both placed 3rd (in our respective divisions). I was Texas State Champion for a good handful of those years, and I was ranked nationally when I was 14 and 15 years old.  Zack thinks that this is one of the weirdest things about me.  I quit racing a month before I turned 17, since I knew I would be unable to finish the season because I would be leaving for college.  I haven’t talked about it much since then, but my history in cycling has followed me and my life with surprising tenacity, and been helpful more often than not.

9.) I wear size 7 shoes.

10.) I recently removed all the ‘weird’ earrings from my years, except the piercing in the basin of my right ear, called a “conch.”  I didn’t remove the Conch because it hurt like hell, and I’m wearing it longer to validate the pain that it caused me for 6 months.  This reasoning makes no sense.

11.) Though I always feel better about myself when I am tan, I choose to be white my family has a proclivity towards skin cancer. 

12.) I really thought I would still be craving Cokes 5 (or so) weeks after quitting, but I’m not.  Every once in a while I have a mood where I’d like one, but they are few and far between.  That’s really surprising to me. 

13.) I’m a tosser.  I love to throw things away. No matter how much stuff I get rid of, though, it seems like there’s always something else for me to clean out.  Zack, despite what he’d have you think, is not a tosser.  This has not caused any strife in our relationship.  Yet. 

14.) I love a well organized fridge.  After grocery shopping on Wednesday, Zack and I put away an entire refrigerator’s worth of produce.  It made me visibly happy that my fridge looked “like a fridge should.”

15.) Once in my life, I could do 6 back hand-springs in a row. I loved that time in my life, but can’t imagine going back to a gymnastics class.  Maybe someday?

16.) I can shoot the bird with my toes. 

17.) I am self conscious of the way I walk in heels.  I always wonder if I’m one of those people who walks funny, but nobody will just be honest with me about it.  If I am one of those people, for Christ’s sake, tell me. 

18.) I never thought I’d get along with another girl named Sarah as well as I get along with my sister-in-law, SarahI.  She has become one of my very best friends, and I love her dearly.

19.) Aunthood is incredible, and I love days when I get to go be with Abbie and Kate.

20.) I talk to my dad on the phone almost every day.  He calls me at work because: a.) he knows I’m always at my desk, so he can always get a hold of me when he wants to, b.) I don’t mind listening to his daily rants about politics/drivers/jobs/life, and can let them roll off my back after we’re done talking, and c.) we have very similar senses of humor, so he generally knows when I will think something is funny.  I wouldn’t consider myself overly attached to my parents, but anyone from the outside looking in might think I’m a little hung up still.

21.)  I have real-life friends that I met on the internet.  I don’t consider this to be strange at all.  

22.) I love to study different generations and their collective mindsets.  

23.) I’m way more feminist than I ever thought I was. 

24.) I love me some Hookah. 

and 25.) Zack and I have known each other since I was 15 years old.  This year will be our 10 year anniversary as friends.  Every once in a while, a memory of something we did together years ago will float to the surface of my brain, and I’ll ask him about it (or vice versa).  I am constantly shocked at the selectiveness of our brains–he often remembers conversations or encounters of which I have no recollection.  I can remember entire outings that he swears never happened.  One of the things I’d like to do (but that will likely never happen) is to sit down and try to draw an accurate timeline of our relationship together, to see what we can come up with.  Our history as friends turned lovers is fascinating to me. 

#26, a bonus.) If someone were to create for me A Perfect Mexican Meal, it would require a lot of driving.  I would want Bean soup from La Familia, queso and corn tortilla chips from The Blue Mesa, a margarita and an enchilada from Campuzanos, and rice, a chicken taco and a bean tostada from The Red Cactus.  If I could ever eat all of those foods at the same time, I might die from the Pure Delight.