25 Random Things About Natalie

So everybody makes fun of us because we're not on Facebook and therefore "lame." Proving that I am somewhat trendy, here are 25 random things about me:

1. I'm obsessed with Elvis Presley. In fact, some day I want to go to Vegas and have our vows renewed by Elvis. I also just bought our son a onsie that says "Hunk-a burnin' love"

2. My parents named me after Natalie Wood.

3. My middle name is Christine, named after my dad's brother Christopher that died shortly before I was born.

4. I had a lazy eye when I was little and had to wear an eye patch for a couple of years. No, you won't be able to find photos from this time period as they have all been destroyed.

5. The patch didn't work and I'm now 99% blind out of my left eye.

6. My pupils are different sizes. My mom learned this when I was 3, dancing on my great-grandma's stairs in new, very slippery Mary Janes and fell. She thought I had a concussion because my pupils were different sizes but they still were days later and then she realized that they must have been like that all along. Robert is one of the only other people I know that has different sized pupils.

7. I'm very good at rhyming and am constantly making up little songs that I sing to Robert, Gus and now the baby about whatever's on my mind or taking place at the time. I usually set my lyrics to well known tunes.

8. I hate hot dogs.

9. I love to read and become so involved in the books I'm reading I've been known to read at stoplights. (I no longer do this as my husband found out about it, became very concerned and made me promise to stop!)

10. The 4th of July is my favorite holiday.

11. I've only had 4 stitches in my entire life. Over my right eye, caused from a run in with a toilet seat. Yes, I think it's funny that a plumber's daughter got attacked by a toilet seat. No, I wasn't drunk when this occurred.

12. I have a scar between my eye brows from when my mom hit me in the head with the car door when I was 2. It wasn't child abuse, it was my fault.

13. I was never drunk until my freshman year of college. That first night I almost broke Robert and Keith's TV and wanted to play football. (Random, since I'm not athletic at all!)

14. The only organized sport I've ever played was TBall when I was 5.

15. I'm related to Dr. Mudd, the doctor that repaired John Wilkes Booth's leg he broke after jumping from the balcony where he assisanated Abraham Lincoln.

16. I love reality TV. Including Dog the Bounty Hunter. My husband hates this penchant of mine. LOL.

17. I'm proud to be a third generation CSU Ram. My mom's parents Bernie and Carol met at Colorado A&M when grandpa was in vet school and grandma went up to further her education. My mom went there also. And Sudsie I'm sure will go there too because as my brother Matt put it best "CSU is his destiny!"

18. I know way more about sports than I ever thought I would know thanks to my husband. I can name football players, Nascar racers, talk about sports gossip, etc. Talk about well rounded.

19. Robert and I were married in the same church that my Grandma & Grandpa Crandell were married in 56 years earlier.

20. I want to visit Italy and Ireland before I die.

21. With Valentine's Day approaching, I would much rather have a fresh loaf of french bread with butter than a dozen roses. Pregnancy will do that to you I guess.

22. My OCD is so bad, sometimes it takes all I have not to straighten up coworkers messy desks.

23. I hate waking up. I snooze like 15 times before leaving my bed. Sorry if you've ever had to live with me - Sarah, Robert, Jamie, etc.

24. I have musophobia. I am deathly afraid of mice.

25. If we could afford for me to go to Starbucks every morning I would have many more good days than bad days.