Fun Facts About Me

• I started a blog primarily to entertain myself…and it’s working (haha).
• I had foodstamps for about a year and it rocked; I miss those days when I was happy to go grocery shopping.
• I drool when I nap.  I’m a pillow flipper now and I propose to be a husband flipper when the time comes.
• I think it’s both wrong and hysterically funny that a sign said that fat kids are harder to kidnap.
• I own the best of New Kids on the Block and have a secret dream of setting “Cover Girl” as my alarm clock.
• I took Swahili for a semester…I don’t think I remember much.
• I’ve broken my left arm twice, my right arm once, one of my legs, and my thumb.
• I’ve been skydiving.
• I’ve been on Disney’s Hollywood Tower of Terror 50+ times.
• I have a weakness for cookies.
• I have two deadly ticklish spots that cause me to lose all bodily control.
• I still play the hippest girls’ game of the early 90s “Dream Phone” and  I dream of having a real life version to play.
• I answer to many names.  I’m Lil’ Shep in my family (many have discovered how fun it is to say, “Look at what you did you lil’ Shep!”)  My grandpa used to call me dipsh%#.  My dad calls me Pooh.  I like it when friends call me Linds.
• I once created a wedding website as a prank.
• My real musical talent is singing, but I can also play a mean right-handed piano, an off-centered flute, and a squeeky violin.
• I can blow up my stomach with air and look pregnant.
• I once ate 8 full bowls of cereal with milk to beat a friend who threw up after 7.
• I ate boiled pig skin, pickled watermelon, and fatty meat Jello on my mission in Romania.
• I’ve been to Africa.
• I’ve had an entire conversation in Bon Jovi lyrics.
• I sporadically break into song.  And I’m known for making up lyrics when I don’t know the real ones.
• I’m fluent in sarcasm.
• I think cussing is both wrong and funny.
• I’m a little OCD with organizing and purging belongings.
• I Love Lucy…I really do.  And I want to stomp grapes in a fatty wine vat in Italy before I die because of her.
• Either Zooey Deschanel or Joan Cusack would play me if there were ever a movie about me.
• I learned to play backgammon on my mission in Romania and I’m really good.  It was only unhealthy when Ortron and I started showering every other day so we could have more play time…and when our unity was off-balanced from my 17 game lead…
• I wish my life played a soundtrack.
• Sometimes I marvel at the spectacular invention that is: the sandwich.
• I’m light-pattern addicted to Spider Solitaire; it’s a game of organization!  How awesome is that?
• My current goal in life is to get to a point where I can have a puppy!
• I think Fireball Island is the BEST GAME EVER!
• I was part of a rowing crew of 8s for my college at Oxford.
• I’m an Anglophile and I miss living there.
• I’ve had five cars: Hooptie, Molten Lava, Crown Vic!, Suga’ Suga’ (ie the sugar plum fairy or shugs), and Jelly.
• I say “morning!” in a very shrill, high-pitched, and excited voice.
• I hate it when people hear you but say, “what?” and make you repeat yourself.
• My worst fear is to find out I have an identical twin (how annoying!  Get your own personality and looks, witch!).  This fear probably stems from my slight phobia of identical twins (shudder)-oooo, creepy.
• My dream car is an ole’ school Rolls Royce with a paid driver to chauffeur me around everywhere.
• I’m personality type ESFJ or ENFJ (it fluctuates) according to the Myers-Briggs!  I’m “the helper” or “the teacher.”
• My first memory is from when I was 4 and my dad and I stopped on our walk back to our vacation condo from the pool to watch the Disney light show.  I just remember sitting next to my dad on the curb and admiring the show with the innocent oos and ahs of a child…yeah, that was me being innocent, not my dad (stop laughing!)
• I rode on the top of the Orem City Fire Engine in the 4th of July Provo Parade along with my friend Anne.  We were the one’s dressed up in formalwear waving like queens!