First Blog

Hi there! I am starting this blog to document my trip to Vienna which I leave for in 28 days. Needless to say, I am super stoked. In celebration of my first blog, I will take a page from Jillian's book and do the 100 facts about me. So, here goes:

1.I am a movie buff. My mom has basically raised to be a prodigy of the movie trivia variety. Let me tell you, that skill comes in handy.
2.I was born in Lubbock, Texas home of Jimmy Dean the Sausage King.
3.I moved to Limestone, Maine when I was about one year old. Look it up on a map and you will see how I basically lived on the Canadian border. In fact, we used to have to go to Canada to go to church.
4.I moved to Spokane, Washington when I was 5 years old.
5.I moved to Sacramento, California when I was 8 years old. I had been visiting Sacramento since I was little to visit Grandma and Grandpa McCoy.
6.My immediate family consists of my mom and dad and my two brothers, Ryan and Dylan. Ryan is 18 and Dylan is 15.
7.I have never broken a bone in my body or anyone else's for that matter.
8.I attended three different schools during my year in kindergarten and four different classes.
9.When I was five my aspiration for when I grew up was to be a bus driver. Most kids want to be a princess or a cowboy, but I wanted to be a bus driver. In all fairness to myself, my bus driver was really nice.
10.I prefer to eat my vegatables frozen. No, not frozen as opposed to canned, I mean actually frozen. It is like a healthy popscicle. I prefer broccoli and corn.
11.My friend, Danny, and I once made a bet as to who could memorize the words to "Baby Got Back". I won, of course, but must now bear the burden of knowing all the words to "Baby Got Back".
12.I have read Pride and Prejudice 11 times.
13.I love to wear skirts and dresses and DressBarn is my secret weapon.
14.I have music ADD, where I will listen to a song or artist for a week or two and wear it out and then move on to something that is usually completely different.
15.I love the show "The Office" and that covers both the US and the UK version.
16.I was in 8(?) plays in high school, but my first experience with the stage was in 3rd grade when I starred as the Head (that is right, I said Head) Cherry Blossom Dancer in the China segment of our Children Across the World assembly.
17.Whereas Jillian is a fan of the elipses...I find that use parentheses a lot (yes, these parentheses).
18.I am a rambler. No, not the car. I get talking or even writing an email and I cannot stop. I am sure most of you have experienced this with me. My dad says that I would sit in the car and have conversations with him, but in all honesty have no use for him.
19.I bit my nails until I was 10 and now in place of that I click my nails in between my nails. Jillian and Adrienne love this.
20.In high school, our fantastic foursome was Jillian, Adrienne, Krystal, and myself.
21.When Krystal and Adrienne got boyfriends, Jillian and I became BFF. (Jillian and I are totally the type of girls to use the term BFF. Ha.)
22.Jillian and I have known each other since we were 6 or something, but didn’t start hanging a lot until high school.
23.We have never fought about anything, which I base solely on my ability to put up with Jillian. (Apparently, it is truly a talent. JKing, Jill.)
24.I realize that this next fact is going to make me sound like a crazy person, but it is a fact. After reading all of my British books, which I would read with a British accent in my head, I realized that the voice in my head speaks with a British accent. Like I said, I am not crazy.
25.My favorite vacation I have taken was when I went to New York City with my mom, Jillian, her mom and her sister, Morgan. It was super fun.
26.When I was little, I hated having loose teeth and would not let my parents anywhere near them. My mom always said that if I didn’t just pull them out, I was going to swallow them and then the tooth fairy wasn’t going to be able to visit. I swallowed one when I was eating a cob of corn and didn’t tell her about it for a few days. When she noticed it was gone, I broke down crying because the tooth fairy wasn’t going to visit.
27.I have a birthmark on my left eye.
28.I hate any kind of beans except for green beans. That grainy, mushy texture. Egh.
29.I was traumatized as a child at a zoo by a hippo and to this day, they creep me out. Besides, more people die from hippo attacks than lion attacks. They are just mean and useless. Anytime you see them at the zoo, they are just sitting there.
30.I have a beginner’s level in Spanish, ASL, and German, but hope to be better at German after Vienna (!).
31.My iBook is named “The Cracka” and it’s friend is Jillian’s computer, “The Brotha”.
32.My dog’s name is Buck. He is an overweight arthritic golden lab, but I love him anyways.
33.I cry all the time in movies, which I blame entirely on my mother.
34.First movie I can remember crying in was Bambi. I was wrecked for a week.
35.I have been told many times that I am very mothering. My mom would have to remind me who the mom in the family was and Starr and Jillian are always saying “Thanks, Mom” to me.
36.Starr is my other roommate besides Jillian in Apartment 130. Starr is living with my family and I this summer. (I am told my family is lot different than other people’s families. Hmm…)
37.I had a favorite backpack in kindergarten, it was pink with glitter hearts all over. Then, one day Ryan was sick in the car and my mom gave him my backpack to throw up in. I still haven’t forgotten that, Mom and Ryan.
38.My favorite candy is either Bottlecaps or Violet Crumbles. The fact that practically the only place in the country that carries Violet Crumbles is the BYU Bookstore is not a good thing for me.
39.My first crush that I can remember was on some kid named Colin in 3rd grade.
40.My first celebrity crush was Jonathan Taylor Thomas, but what eight year old girl didn’t love him?
41.I have many nicknames in my family and friends circle. First one is Ellen Melon Head. My parents have been calling me this since I was born, because I have a huge head. There are some variations on this name. I get Melon, Mels, Ellen Melon, etc.
42.Second name is Ells Bells or Ells, not sure where this originated, though. Apparently that extra syllable is a real drag.
43.My dad has called my Peanut since I was a baby or occasionally Neaput.
44.I was hit 73 times in the head with a ball (on separate occasions) throughout the course of my sixth grade year. One of the yard duties made me a helmet that I was supposed to wear, but it was way more embarrassing than getting hit in the head.
45.I am LDS.
46.Fact: I am a Mormon girl, but I cannot scrapbook. It is not as if it is physically impossible for me, it just never looks as good as it should.
47.I can suck my upper lip into my nose.
48.I am probably the least coordinated person you will ever meet.
49.I am a hopeless romantic. Jillian makes fun of me because I can be reading a gruesome mystery novel and it is the sexual tension between the detective and the victim’s sister that really gets me.
50.I would pick to live in the city over a small town any day.
51.My favorite colors are green and yellow.
52.My guilty pleasures include Disney Channel stuff (dang you, Jillian), ABBA, and Anne of Green Gables.
53.I have recently been told that I inhale a lot when I laugh.
54.I grew up in a different environment than I would think most LDS people did. I am not saying that it was evil or anything, but whereas a lot of kids watch Disney movies and sing-alongs (which I did watch), I was watching Saturday Night Live and Young Frankenstein at age 4.
55.My first concert was the Beach Boys on the Fourth of July when I was 4.
56.I like pretty much any genre of music except for hardcore gangsta rap, most country, and my brother’s screaming music.
57.I love bookstores. There is something about them that just brings me a sense of serenity.
58.I currently own approximately 280 movies. (Movies are my weakness).
59.This weekend will mark my second time being a bridesmaid.
60.I am a Leo.
61.I share my birthday with Alfred Hitchcock.
62.Ever since I watched Stephen King’s It when I was about 9, clowns have creeped me out.
63.When I am really pissed off about something I do one or all of the following: listen to Alanis Morrisette’s “You Oughta Know”, box, or do archery.
64.I love to go camping. My family has gone to Santa Cruz on Memorial Day weekend every year since we moved to Sacramento.
65.Jillian and I both got stuffed penguins when we were at Sea World for part of our senior trip extravaganza. My penguins name is Earl, as in Duke of.
66.If I could improve on any one trait it would be to have more confidence.
67.My favorite food is pasta and popsicles. No, not together.
68.I have a fish named Mozart. Jillian and I each bought a fish last summer at WalMart. Her fish was named Butch Cassidy (we came up with the names from the Office), but he unfortunately passed away which I think really annoyed Jillian because I do not take car of Mozart at all.
69.I can safely bet that my embarrassing story is more embarrassing than yours. For those of you that know, it involves a chain link fence. If you are really curious, ask me and I may tell you.
70.My porno name would be Skye Andrews. (Dylan’s is the best: Ace Dickman)
71.My first CD I bought was the Spice Girls. Yeah, I know I was cool.
72.I have been to Disneyland six times.
73.I was arrested outside of an Olive Garden when I was 11. I know, I am so hardcore.
74.My Jamba Juice of choice is Orange-A-Peel.
75.My first roller-coaster was the Giant Dipper at the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk.
76.My number one quality that I am attracted to is sense of humor.
77.The movies Kindergarten Cop and Mary Poppins will always make me think of my Grandma’s house.
78.The most I have ever cried was when she died.
79.So far, the only countries beside the US that I have been to are Spain and Canada. Plus, I could see Africa from the Rock of Gibralter.
80.Besides Utah, I have never lived in a non-coastal state.
81.At the moment, I am thinking my major will be Print Journalism. That is subject to change, however.
82.I have seen three shows on Broadway.
83.I have never been very good at making decisions. When I do make a decision, I usually stick by it, but it is the actual deciding process that throws me through a loop.
84.My mom says that I would actually break down in the middle of the cereal aisle when faced with the choice between Lucky Charms or Fruity Pebbles.
85.I can suck in my nose (I am not sure how best to describe it, but I end up looking like Michael Jackson when I do it).
86.I lost my retainer three times (at the bottom of the garbage can at Woody’s, at the beach, and at the bottom of Folsom Lake), but I still have it.
87.When I told my mom that I thought I needed glasses, she didn’t believe me. Thanks a lot, Mom.
88.I am good at baking but need to improve in my cooking skills, because I basically just eat Pasta-A-Roni at school.
89.My favorite flower is the daisy.
90.I have been told many times, that I was born in the wrong decade or wrong country.
91.Very little known fact: I write stories in my spare time.
92.I ski but have never been snowboarding.
93.I have worked in the food industry once and hope to never again. (I do make a mean pizza and sandwich, though)
94.I don’t like Red Vines and for some reason I always forget this.
95.I could probably quote the movies Tommy Boy, The Sandlot, Empire Records, That Thing You Do, The Little Mermaid, and Happy Gilmore word for word.
96.The only videogames that I am any good at are Guitar Hero and DDR. Although, I can kick some serious trash at Guitar Hero. (Not as much as Jillian, though.)
97.Favorite TV shows include The Office, Coupling, Da Ali G Show, Scrubs, Stella, Arrested Development, Veronica Mars, Mystery Science Theatre 300, Psych, Extras, and The Soup.
98.I can pretty much kill at Scene-it. Challengers welcome.
99.For some reason, I usually give DVDs as presents. I can’t think of why that is, though.
100.Ice cream flavor of choice is English Toffee.

I wanted to end on a bang. Well, there it is, 100 facts about me. Compelling stuff, right?