I shouldn't do this. I should use my being not yet quite caught up on Jerusalem as an excuse not to do this. (Speaking of, Travis, would you just edit that last post already so I can post it?!) I don't do the whole tagged thing. I think I've caught myself being tagged about 3 times now that I've tactfully ignored. I have no idea why I'm doing this now. Manna, I blame you. But oh well, here we go.

10 Years Ago
Let's see... I would have been 14. That puts me as a Freshman in high school. I probably just got my first letter or two from Sterling, the boy from Teton High. Y'know, the one I met at a district basketball game just a few months prior (February) when I got his autograph. I was just getting into Scholastic Bowl and loving being in the pep band. I'm convinced I was only third chair (out of 3) because I was a freshman girl and they were senior boys. Oooh... this is probably around the time that I slapped the one of them at a game, too. I was very feminist at this point in my life. All boys were considered jerks, and no one could convince me otherwise. This was helped along by Richard Norman, the biggest male chauvinist I have ever met. Though, looking back, I think he just did it to get a rile out of girls... not because he meant it. And he sure succeeded. I had the greatest friends ever. I still miss all of you, my high school friends. Sometimes I wish I could just go back and spend a day with you all in Mrs. Packebush's classroom, stealing (with loving permission) her Altoids. Or perhaps in Bro. Toone's classroom turning beet red as he teased me about some boy or another, or watching The Bell Show. (Which, btw, I bought. So if any of you want to watch it again...) Or maybe with Mrs. Freeman, making her really mad at us. Or with Coach Andreason, laughing as the boys' had their heads slammed into the wall, sometimes with a guest appearance by Mr. Gardner with his ring or stapler.

Oh, also, I got my drivers license. Watch out world.

5 Things on my To-Do List

1. Finish the quilt I started making 2 summers ago.
2. Attach my bookcase to the wall. Then transfer books from the old bookcase and put the old one in my closet for my shoes.
   
3. Clean the kitchen from the crazy mess I made Saturday for Conference meals. (Oh, but the syrup was good.)
   
4. Wait for it to stop snowing, then go prep my ground for my garden.
5. Buy the complete Jane Austen series that PBS has been airing. Anyone have an extra $175 they'd like to spend on me? I'll even give you the A&E Pride and Prejudice that comes with it, since I already own that one.
   

3 Bad Habits

1. Blogging at work.
2. Dishes. Or rather, not doing them.
3. Over-analyzing situations. Though, I'm getting much better at not doing that. Much easier when people are honest, leaving no room for guessing.
   

Places I have lived

• Ririe, Idaho
• Rexburg, Idaho
• Urumqi, China
• Provo, Utah
• Jerusalem, Israel
  

Jobs I have had

• American Greetings
• Waitress at Big Juds. (Y'all should print off that coupon and see if they'll accept it. I'll bet they do. Jud would hate me if I knew I was actually advertising using expired coupons, but hey--when you put up coupons on your website that expired a year ago...)
• Computer Science grader
• Math grader
• Social Pre-press Typesetter for ArtCo
• Making videos for a Welch professor at BYU
• Making phone calls at ILP.
• Digital Imaging Lab in Special Collections at BYU
• Digitizing Family History books for the Family History Department of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. My official title is Cataloger (which is ridiculous as I don't catalog) but my business cards say Digital Imaging Specialist. Which I like so much better.
  

5 Things You Don't Know About Me

1. I'm trying to grow out my hair. It's past my shoulders (barely) for the first time in many, many years.
2. I want to write a book. The Old Testament for Dummies or something.
3. I've taken up rock climbing and I want to go hiking. (Surprised, everyone?) But I can't do either right now because I tore my MCL and pulled the meniscus away from the bone in a snowmobiling accident a month and a half ago.
4. I love dressing up all fancy. Perhaps it's the little girl in me that still wants to be a princess.
5. I'm dating the guy I talked about in this post and am rather happy about it.

(Thanks for the pic, Stacie!)

Now for the Tagging

• No one! That's right. I'm not tagging anyone. Get over it.