Ok, so #1 I am bored….#2 I haven’t done a post like this in a while, so props to Ginny, here ya go….

In Random Order…..70 things you may have never known about me


1. I have a Tennessee license plate, I have an Alabama address on my driver’s license, and I live in Texas.
2. When I was in high school, I would sometimes get Otis Spunkmeyer chocolate chip cookies during lunch and I would put ketchup on them…somehow it made the best taste to mix the salty with the sweet.
3. In high school, I was in National Honors Society, Beta Club, and Mu Alpha Theta.
4. I have been to England (twice), Scotland, Wales, Germany, and China.
5. I started snow skiing at the age of eight.
6. I fell off of a horse and into a barbwire fence on Thanksgiving Day when I was seven.
7. I love olives….black and green!
8. Until, I went away to college, every home that I lived in had a swimming pool in the backyard.
9. I love four-wheelers!
10. I played golf on the varsity team in high school and I almost decided to pursue a collegiate career in golf.
11. I had six different roommates over the course of 3 ½ years at Auburn.
12. I am scared of snakes. I almost ran over a snake one time when I was younger. We had a dirt road in the woods behind our house and I was riding my bicycle on the road. I came across what looked like a big stick in the road, but as I drew closer, I realized that it was a snake. The snake was so big that I couldn’t see its head or tail because the only part of the snake that spanned across the road was the middle part of its body. Yuk!
13. My middle name is DaShadra. My mother made it up when I was born. She combined her parents names, Dolly and Shadrach, to make my middle name. I used to not like this when I was younger because it wasn’t like everyone else’s name, but I like it now for the exact same reason.
14. I love to swim and I love to lay out by the pool (what girl doesn’t???).
15. Like Ginny, I did expose myself accidentally! I was laying out with Emily and Jacki last summer and I exposed myself and didn’t even know it! Luckily, no one else saw!
16. The best time of my life was when I was in college, especially my last year and half.
17. I didn’t have my first date until I was 22.
18. My earliest memory is of a couple of my sleeping spots. First of all, I had a gigi, which was my security blanket. The first sleeping spot was under our coffee table. All of the corners on the bottom of the coffee table were connected, so it pretty much mirrored the top of the coffee table except that it was open in the middle on the bottom, does that make sense?? Anyway, I would lay in the middle under the table and be surrounded by the edges of the table. My second sleeping spot was on the floor in between my night stand and my bed. I think that I liked to be closed in and surrounded by things when I slept.
19. I like to alphabetize.
20. My mother was the youngest of 12 children, so I have like 30 first cousins. It has been ten years since I have spoken to any of them.
21. My grandfather was older than my dad’s grandmother, figure that one out!
22. My mother taught 8th grade English and Spanish.
23. When I was in third grade, we had an exchange student live with us from Barcelona.
24. Whenever I would hold my aforementioned gigi, I would suck my thumb, which led to a terrible overbite. So, I had braces from the 5th grade to the 8th grade.
25. When I was in Elementary school, my mother bought a bedroom suite from a friend of hers and refinished it. The bed was a canopy bed, every little girls dream! It was covered in pink!
26. I will do most anything for a laugh, which has gotten me in trouble a time or two. I was at youth camp one year and it was the type of camp where many churches come together. So, we had a talent/entertainment competition. Some folks in our youth group decided that we would do a skit called the “human milkshake”. Basically, we use the human mouth as the blender. So, one person had a egg in their mouth, one person had the ice cream, one person had the chocolate syrup, etc. Then, they all spit their portion into a glass and had someone drink it at the end of the line. Guess who drank it?? Yours truly. (maybe this is why I didn’t have my first date until the age of 22).
27. I don’t like pulled pork barbeque.
28. But I do LOVE ham!
29. I am a University of Tennessee fan and an Auburn University fan. How can this happen?? Well, I grew up in Tennessee, so all of my family are UT fans. I actually still have the ticket from my first UT game that I attended at the age of two. Then, I moved to Alabama, and I went to visit Auburn with a friend and fell in love instantly with the school.
30. My favorite pastime: sleeping, ahhh the sweet bliss of ultimate surrender.
31. I am not sure that I really have a favorite food, I just love food, but here are some of my favorites: chicken fettuccini alfredo, a good juicy steak, ham that my dad cooks for me especially on Thanksgiving and Christmas, chicken croissants, mac and cheese, broccoli and cheese soup in a bread bowl, shrimp cooked in all ways, lobster, a big fat juicy cheeseburger that is made to order (not the kind you get at McD’s), chocolate cake, chocolate brownie, chocolate cheesecake, chocolate pie, chocolate ice cream, chocolate in general.
32. I am so excited about Valentine’s Day this year. This is the first time that I will actually have a valentine! I know this holiday has become so secularized, but I look at it as a day to celebrate that special person in your life.
33. I actually went to Auburn as a chemistry major but ended up getting a degree in behavioral sciences. How did that happen?! Oh yeah, it was the LORD!
34. My dad used to be a football official for the Southern Conference. When I was younger, I would travel around to all of the colleges where he would have a game. So, I was able to visit many different universities and many wonderful city.
35. Out of all of the cities that we traveled to Charleston, South Carolina was my favorite and I always used to say when I was younger that I wanted to live there when I grew up.
36. The ring that I wear on my right hand is an heirloom that I inherited from my great-grandmother. I was named after her (my first name).
37. I am a secretary, so I sit at a computer for 8-9 hours a day.
38. I love to bake and try new recipes.
39. My last semester of college was an internship that I did at my church back home in the youth ministry.
40. About a month after I started my internship, the youth minister resigned and the week that he left, we found out that our pastor had cancer. The Lord did amazing things in my life and the lives of others through those two traumatic events.
41. I like the Harry Potter book series.
42. I am in love with a man named Chris!
43. One of my closest friends in the whole world lives over a thousand miles away from me. She and I only lived in the same town for one year but we have been friends for over ten years. That is what happens when the Lord is the center of your relationship.
44. I am afraid of heights and one way that I am trying to overcome this is to sit on the first row in the balcony during chapel.
45. I love to go out on a boat on a river in the summertime. I don’t like to water ski or swim in the river, I just like being out on a boat.
46. One time when I was in college, some friends called me and my roommate in the middle of night to see if we wanted to go muddin’ in the woods, and we were like “heck yeah!” Does that make me a redneck?
47. My mother passed away from cancer when I was ten years old. It was the hardest thing in my life to experience and still is, but the Lord has done so many amazing things through that experience.
48. I have a brother who is nearly nine years older than me.
49. I have never gotten a speeding ticket.
50. I have never broken a bone or had a cavity.
51. My favorite beach is Pensacola Beach in Florida. It used to be so peaceful and not really crowded, but now I think it is destroyed because of the hurricanes.
52. I think that I could definitely live overseas if the Lord called me to do that.
53. I wish that I could play the piano or had a descent singing voice.
54. My spiritual gift is the gift of helps. I am training to be a counselor to utilize that gift the best way that I know how.
55. My co-counselor and I have five clients that we counsel every Tuesday night. The counseling center owns my soul until August.
56. Right now, my favorite color is pink…..humph I am girl.
57. I hate it when people lie. Because I feel like I have been lied to a lot, I have a trust issue, I am working on that.
58. I am relatively passive, nearly to the point of letting people run over me, I am working on that too.
59. I want a dog, a chocolate lab. Chris tells me that if I get one, I have to get up at 6am on Saturday to take it for a walk, maybe one day I will have enough energy to do that.
60. I hate it when someone “talks out of both sides of their mouth”. Like when they basically tell you what they think you want to hear, but then totally tell someone else something different. I think that is cowardly and it only embarrasses you.
61. I think that I am good judge of character and sometimes that is a curse. I can usually tell when someone is playin’ somebody else or a group of people and so I sit out there alone not buying into that person’s garbage, but soon enough that person will show their true colors and will be recognized for what they truly are. If you cannot tell, this has happened before.
62. I want to adopt a little black baby.
63. My birthday is in 12 days.
64. I think that I have my mother’s eyes, which are my favorite feature. Every time I see family or friends who knew my mother, they say that I am really beginning to look like her. Yeah!
65. I used to fall a lot, no really, physically fall. I can remember when I was elementary school, and we were standing in a line, and I was standing still and I just fell over. I didn’t grow out of this. One summer when I was in college, we were in the woods at a retreat center and I was walking along a flat, smooth path, but yet I just fell. Nothing to trip me up, no rocks, sticks, or roots, I just fell.
66. I remember my first day of school. This was unlike any other day to follow because my mother was a teacher, so she was never able to take me to school. I always had to ride the bus from her school to my school, but on the first day she took me to school. I remember we sat in the car together in silence for a long time before she took me in. I think it was hard for her baby to be in school.
67. Some of my favorite times in college were the cookouts that Jessalee and I would have. We lived really close to campus, so after every home football game, all of our friends would come over and cook out. She was the perfect hostess and we always had so much fun!
68. I used to call water “sky juice”.
69. When I was living in TN, we had very good neighbors. Our neighbors to our right had two children. The boy was around my brother’s age and the girl was about two years older than me. Both of the families had swimming pools, so in the summer we would constantly be at one another’s house swimming. Well, I like frogs, they don’t scare me or gross me out, but they did scare the neighbor boy. So, I thought it would be funny if I would chase him around with a frog. Imagine if you will a six year old girl chasing a around a fourteen year old boy with a frog. It was classic.
70. I have a couple of favorite TV shows: All time fav would be “Friends”, but I am also really into “CSI:Miami” and unfortunately I am into “The Bachelor”, don’t hate me!


Ok, that is it….wow lots of stuff. That isn’t the entirety of it, but it will do for now!