tagged

i have been tagged by my sister kathleen. i am not going to really follow all of the rules of being tagged i don't think. but i will share eight facts about myself. i will not probably be tagging eight other friends with blogs to post THEIR eight facts. that is mostly because i only have about .2 friends with blogs. so now that all of that business is out of the way...

FACT 1: sometimes i talk in my sleep. but apparently i seem very awake and am capable of carrying on full, two-sided conversations. here is a dialog from a couple of nights ago. brad gave me a recap the next day.
Sarah - "What the heck? What the hell?!"
Brad - What's wrong?"
S - "I had a dream, and I threw the candy bar on the ground. I had to just throw it down."
B - "You threw the candy bar on the ground?"
S - "Yes. I'm a factory."

FACT 2: something is wrong with my sense of smell. i think it is degenerating. my nose always seems kind of stuffed, i SNORE (in addition to talking in my sleep), and i can't smell half the things brad can. it didn't used to be this way - i think i should probably go to the nose doctor and see if i have a deviated septum or something. the thing that worries me is that i might smell really bad sometimes and have no idea. for example - i know my running clothes smell a little because i sweat in them. but what if it's far worse than i realize and everyone at the gym at my work is like, "OMG - have you SMELLED sarah hauge??? she is disgusting and her locker STINKS. i hate working with her." stuff like that. little kid things...

FACT 3: when i was little i was obsessed with the movies the parent trap and the sound of music and went through phases of watching them almost daily. just this morning the song "Let's Get Together" from the parent trap burst into my head. and i burst into song. also - fact 3(a) - i used to think it would be a good idea for me to get a haircut identical to the one haley mills wore in the movie. one adorable short blond semi-curly haircut atop my round pink head. i'm probably very lucky the desired haircut never materialized but those would have been some funny pictures.

FACT 4: i think i have switched into the kind of person who really, genuinely likes to eat healthy food. fruit, vegetables, soy products of all sorts, whole grains, high percentage of cacao chocolate, homemade everything to keep out the random fats and salt and preservatives...that's me! and i'm slowly transforming brad too, much to his chagrin. except - my vice - a daily diet pepsi. what could be more wholesome??

FACT 5: i am a mega lightweight. one drink is all it takes for me to "feel it in my legs", as i like to describe it. i can seriously feel a little something after about two sips of wine. but i don't like to drink much so that's fine me.

FACT 6: i'm a bigtime reader. i read quite a bit. i love novels, more theological/spiritual-based things, blogs, forums, cooking books and magazines galore, money and fitness articles, magazines of all sorts, short stories...etc. one of the best things about my life right now is that i take the bus to work and have about 25 glorious (sometimes frustrating, because let's face it, the people on the bus can be shockingly loud and obnoxious) minutes each way to spend reading whatever i please.

FACT 7: i've written since i was very little. someone gave me a diary for a present when i was three or four years old and i started writing in it right away. it's really funny but also kind of amazing (does that sound conceited? maybe i think i was a prodigy) to read it now and see that i actually sat down to journal about real things at about age four. but then in the same journal it progresses on to kindergarten-esque writing to early elementary school writing and on and on. the letters get smaller and more legible. but i was a writer all along.

FACT 8: some i've nevers - i've never broken a bone. i've never had braces. i've never played on a sports team. i never saw star wars until sometime in high school and i still haven't really seen it since i fell asleep. i've never eaten a twinkie or a ho ho or a snowball or any of those other bizarre hostess products. i've never smoked. i've never cooked a thanksgiving turkey and likely never will since i'm a new vegetarian. i've never been in a car accident or gotten a ticket.

some i haves - i've missed the bus many times and have to run to the bus stop at least twice a week. i've learned to be a fairly good cook and a decent but inexpert baker. i've traveled to many states and a few countries and am looking forward to my first european excursion in the fall. i've learned a lot about contemporary music and gotten myself up to speed remarkably well (in my opinion) in the past 12 or so years, especially considering that my formative years were spent mostly listening to whatever was playing on KOMO am 1000 in my mom's station wagon and then KXLY in my mom's forthcoming minivan. i've become a major dog person since getting our dog emmy as a puppy a little over a year ago. i've become one of those people who gets really restless when they're not doing something - if you make me sit still all day i start to go crazy (whereas once i would have been content to read a book, totally stationary on the couch, each and every day of summer). i've grown in my love of ice cream with each passing year. i've had the same best friends for over 10 years, since junior high.

that was fun!