I've Been Tagged!

So now that I have been trolling various digital scrap booking sites, I often will leave a comment to thank the designer for sharing their scrap kits. I was talking to Charmaine tonight and she laughed and told me, "You've been tagged!" I was tagged by the designer of one of my favorite digi-scrap sites. By the way, if you like to digi-scrap, check out her site, the link to Stolen Moments is to the left. :)

So here I am writing 7 Interesting things about me. Tee hee, I asked Travis to help me and he said, "does it need to be printable?" I told him it did and he is still quiet. This does not bode well for help from the spouse.

Okay, here we go:

1. I only eat M&Ms and Reese's Pieces in even numbers. I don't know why, but I do and it has to be color matched pairs. Two red, two green, you get the idea.

2. I am a baking fiend. I am really good at it, but I cheat and used boxed brownie and cake mixes because I have never had a from scratch recipe that was as good as a boxed mix. I will make my own butter cream frosting though, because homemade is far better than the stuff in the tubs.

3. Believe it or not, I used to run track in high school. I was decent too and even ran hurdles a few times. There was something so satisfying about flying through the air even if it was just for two seconds.

4. Okay, this is Travis's contribution. I fold my underwear in a very precise pattern. Crotch up to the top of the undies and then each of the two sides over that. I thought everyone did that. IS there another way to fold underwear?

5. I was on a reality TV show. When Alton was born, we were on Bringing Home Baby on TLC.

6. I am a Secret Shopper. There are some valid companies out there. I secret shop for a large family theme park in Anaheim, Best Buys, Targets, and some restaurants and the occasional fancy hotel. I don't make a lot of money doing it, but we get to go to DL free twice a month and I get reimbursed for stuff I buy at Target. Who doesn't want free stuff from Target?

7. I am secretly (or not so secretly) anal retentive. My MIL is always impressed when she sees my tupperware cupboard. It is ALWAYS organized and we can always find the lid to the container.

Now I'm supposed to tag 7 other people...

Kate
Charmaine
Katie
Maggie
Andrea
Kayt
Linda

8 Random Things About My Kitchen

I have been tagged by Andrea to post 8
random things about my kitchen.

1. We have the loudest 70's lime green and yellow daisy wall paper. Shown here:

My mother in law swore when we moved in that she would change it and paint the kitchen whatever color I wanted, and that has not happened yet.

2. As you can see in this photo, I love Classic Pooh. I have towels, I have trivets, I even had a cookie jar that looked just like the Pooh his nose in the honey pot trivet up above, but Travis broke it. Twice. Sadly, it is time for a new cookie jar.

3. I love all things Americana. I got the giant apple serving piece that is on the wall at Apple Farm in SLO. Once I have painted my kitchen the colors I want to, my kitchen will have an Americana theme.

4. We have two full sized refrigerators in our kitchen. Our house came with one and a family friend gave us their practically brand new one when they were moving. They gave it to us right before Thanksgiving, and because we had so much food and drink to store for Thanksgiving for 20 people, it came in handy. We keep them both plugged in because we need the freezer space for meat from Costco. Someday, I will just buy a separate freezer and let go of one of the
fridges. But for now we have our everyday fridge and the "entertaining" fridge.

5. We have a trash compactor. While this is not normally noteworthy, it is always a drama when he have Trav's family over because we keep the dogs' kibble in two small trashcans with a lid and our recycling in a trash can with a lid. Travis's uncle and cousin James have not learned in the two years that we have been living here that trash does not go into the recycling or dog food.

6. I have red appliances. Travis bought me a Kitchen-Aid stand mixer after I hounded him for years while we were dating. So when we got married, I registered for and received all of the matching appliances.

7. I am anal about my Tupperware storage. Everyone I know has a drawer with all of their ziplock containers just thrown in willy nilly. All of mine is neatly stacked with the corresponding lids stacked on top. I can always instantly grab the properly sized container for leftovers.

8. Travis and I are a toast eating people. We always have peanut butter and jelly toast with breakfast and we are never without at least three different types of spreadable fruit in the cupboard and fridge. We currently have Strawberry, boysenberry, raspberry, and blackberry jam in the cupboard.

I tag Maggie, Kayt, and Samantha to post about their kitchens.