About myself: 53 random facts

1. I don't have naturally red hair.
2. Everyone who meets me thinks I do, but it's just becuase the value is similar to my own only a different color.
3. I use words like value, hue, and shades as three very different meanings.
4. I'm a visual artist that actually uses the differences.
5. I'm Five feet 4 and a half inches.
6. In the uk I'm a size 14 and the US a size 12. I still havn't figure out the ratio difference because a size 0 in US is size 4 here..wouldnt that make me a 18 here?
7. I'm also a size five shoe in the UK. You work out the US version :)
8. I've been drawing since I could hold up a pencil, and for some reason I don't draw as often anymore.
9. I haven't seen my real father since I was 11 years old. I am now 21.
10. I am LDS, but semi-active at the moment.
11. I love peanut butter, but I miss the american kind.
12. I also love sausage, but I hate the english sausages.
13. I first introduced my husband to grits, and biscuits and gravy. No other english person will eat it now :( I think there's a taboo on scones being used with sausage and gravy lol.
14. I am obsessive about one thing about my appearance and that is my nails. I keep them long all the time and nicely filed. I have had many people ask if they are fake: and NO they are not.
15. I don't wear makeup to go outside, I only wear it on special occasions, birthdays, holidays, anniversaries ect.
16. I've been married for 2 years, 3 months and 7 days. I'm not converting the hours because of the time difference.
17. I'm a virgo and I love anything about astrology. There was even one time I got my horoscope done by an astrologist, and they didn't have anything to say bad about my future, instead saying that I was one of the few people they'd ever met with a big bright future. I attribute this to my religion and now religiously read my blessing instead. lol.
18. I am 2 months pregnant and I have a one yr 1 month old daughter.
19. My favorite LDS song is: Strength Beyond My Own- Tammy Simister Robinson
20. This is also followed by my favorite LDS CD: Doctrine and Covenants and Church History Video Sound Track.
21. I've never actually seen the movie. I just love the CD.
22. I went to college for one semester and got rather poor marks, and couldn;t stand being there. I hated the teachers, the teaching methods, and the fact it felt like a highschool rather than a college. It only had about 500 people total.
23. It was a snobby private art school. It doesn't help that I kept getting teamed up with a mormon turned anti-mormon and would take every oppertunity to slander me and everything I believed in.
24. I also still partially lived with my mother as she commuted to seattle from utah to work for 2 weeks then off 2 weeks.
25. *shudder* we even slept in the same bed.
26. Logically I married alex becuase I'm deeply in love with him, unlogically I needed to get as far away from my mother as possible. This worked. (i was a bit niaeve at the time and now do not actually need to be that far away from her..)
27.Our bishop ironically supported us, and gave us the sweetest blessing I've ever heard.
28. I sleep on my left side, on the left side of the bed, and can't stand sleeping facing my husband because i have a pet peve of having people breathing in my face. I don't know where that weird obsession came from- probably my first pregnancy.
29. I used to have sleep apnea and then I grew out of it.
30. I once had a sleeping disorder where I wasn't getting REM sleep. (this is the most important cycle of sleep) and was having reoccuring dreams of being killed, killing other people, and rape. This lasted for almost a year before I almost with crazy with depression from lack of sleep.
31. I got a blessing for it october of 2005 and I have never had a problem since. Apparently it had nothing to do with me and was completely unrelated to anything at all. That is the weirdest personal experience I've ever had.
32. I still think about the day my daughter was born, and how small and precious she was.
33. If I hadn't had someone break my water on the Tuesday she was born she would have been a c-section baby because she had such a round large head. She still does.
34. I have four female friends in England. My mother in law, Carol, Susanne, and Kate.
35. I am younger than all over them by at least 5 years.
36. I like to take a nap in the morning since I found out I was pregnant because I tend to get sick then, and if I sleep through it i'm more productive the rest of the day.
37. I have the ears of an elephant. I can hear a baby crying all the way down the street in someones house with the windows closed.
38. I'm not a busy-body though, I'm just senstive to noise. I cant listen to headphones becuase they give me a headache.
39. I've only ever been to one concert because afterwards I had ringing ears for over 2 weeks.
40. I hate loud noises but I love noisy cities- example Sanfrancisico.
41. That was the only time I ever wore headphones consitently, I wore them to sleep each night.
42. I prefer the countryside and quiet however.
43. My dream home will be a cottage in the english countryside with one or 2 horses.
44. If its too expensive to live in england we'll move to another country. We've already talked of this possibility.
45. I don't want to move back to america and given a choice I wouldn't.
46. I don't miss most things about america, but I sometimes miss seeing my family.
47. I am more patriotic to england than I ever was to America.
48. Most english thing I am canadian, which is half true. I am canadian, American, and English by law now. I hold passports for all three countries.
49. If I did move back to the North American continent it would be to Canada I think. Possibly Vancouver. They have wonderful art schools there.
50. I would prefer to raise my kids in England, and when they are older give them the option of moving to a different country, or at least visiting other countries.
51. All my kids are going to be dual american and UK citizens. If they wants canadian citizenship they'll have to claim through their grandparents. Which might not even matter if they are UK since Canada is still technically under the queen anyway.
52. I really want all my kids to have cute british accents. Is that vain?
53. I've mover over 20 times in my young life and I can't remmeber the actual total. I just know it's more than 20.