My Silly Habits, Quirks and Facts!

So Heidi Hiller and Alycia Nelson both tagged me a while ago, and I still haven't done it...until now! The rules are:
A. List seven habits/quirks/facts about yourself.
B. Tag seven people to do the same.
C. Do not tag the person who tagged you or say that you tag "whoever wants to do it".

1. I hate Cold - if any of you have gone out to eat with me you know that I ask for no ice in my water. Drinking water is best when it is room temperature (unless you've been out working really hard or running then ice cold water is good). I get cold really easy too. When I came home from my mission to the Philippines it was in July and I sat in front a little heater for two days because I was so cold. I love it when houses are nice and warm too, I hate bundling up to be warm in a house - i feel like the house should just be warm. And last of all, I cannot fall asleep if it is cold. Some people like it really cold, some people like it to be warm when they sleep - but I think it would be best to just have it be a normal temperature when you sleep. The worst is being so cold when you are sleeping that you have to put socks on - i can't wear socks to bed because they annoy me - if I put them on, I usually wake up with them on the other side of the room. So good thing we have lots of blankets in the house - the fuzzy ones are the best because they are so warm.

2. I really LOVE food - I love eating it, cooking/baking it, and taking pictures of it. I love cooking, lately I'm into making up my own dishes and get frustrated using a recipe, I just make stuff up with what I have around. It's like a contest with myself to see how creative I can get. Sometimes I suprise myself and make something pretty good. I also love baking desserts - not your normal desserts like cake or cookies, but the desserts that people usually don't think of making. My favorite is a Molten Chocolate Cake you have to bake in a Ramekin. I have intentions of making a food blog soon - I have the background picked out for it already, and I finally have a camera now, so I should be starting it soon if I can just remember to fit it into my plans!

3. Other drivers scare me! I love my car and I love me driving it. But other things on the road scare me so much I start imaging a lot of crazy things in my mind and make it worse! The worst thing you can do is put me on a road with water on both sides. I can't handle passing semis either, I stay as far away as I can. I also feel like every time I pass a gravel truck I will get a dent in my windshield (you are guaranteed to pass at least two each commute here in utah). Curvy mountain roads also make me really nervous. I think the worst drive I've ever been on was my visit to California last year. Jesse and I went for New Years and had to drive through the Bonneville Salt Flats. There were only Semi's to pass you (#1bad thing), salt on both sides of the road (which looked like quicksand, which is comparable to driving with water on both sides of you #2bad thing) and VERY high winds. Every time you passed a truck you really would have blown right off the road, my steering wheel was shaking (#3bad thing). So after that was over and we had a place to pull over my knuckles were so white I made Jesse drive. He had to drive home too because we went through the mountains by Lake Tahoe - nothing between the road and the cliff to stop you from going over the edge, it was icy and we were so high up, it felt like the top of the world. I really thought I was going to die.

4. I can be pretty meticulous about certain projects sometimes. I stayed up till 2:00 am tuesday night carving a pumpkin so I could win $50.00 - but it was worth it since I won. I wish I could be this way with important things though, like homework. But it's more with unimportant tasks like the pumpkin or even cleaning is hard for me because if I start I will be doing it for hours - because I have to not only clean what I intended to clean, but everything has to be clean, down to the floorboards and grit in the corner. It's not that i'm OCD - I can handle dirty things, I just like to be meticulous when I do things.

5. Touching is a great thing. I love to be cuddly with people - if I'm sitting next to you and start to snuggle up to you (girl or boy) i'm sorry, I probably don't even know that I am doing it. Take it as a compliment though, because I usually only do it to people I feel very comfortable around. I also love to touch things that are really interesting to look at, like nice materials, or pins or jewlery - I usually always ask to touch peoples neclaces and I LOVE to press buttons and touch plants - they are the best!

6. Memory - I will not even claim to having a great memory - I just have an odd mind. I will forget really important things, like peoples birthdays or that I have to take a bathroom break, but I can remember conversations and can recite almost word for word what was said and remember the non-verbal parts as well like facial expressions, connotations and the ambiance of the situation.

7. People - i think i'm obsessed with them! I love learning about people: why each person is the way they are, their reasons for doing things, how they handle life, what they wear, how they are shaped, their quirks, their feelings and their thoughts on life and most importantly, if I find someone I think is really admirable I write down how they have affected me and why I would like to become like them, and i'll find a scripture or quote related to it. I think the greatest thing from this is that I learn from people what is really important in like by their values. I love their uniqueness and that everybody has something good in them - my favorite is when I find a soft spot in someone that is not a very soft kind of person - it makes me like them even more. It's like an adventure for me.

I tag:
1. Sally Cook
2. Nathan Sellers
3. Erica Zaine
4. Megan Shakespeare
5. Marci Ward
6. Laura McIntyre
7. Shauna Dennis and Sherie Echols