11 Interesting Things...

So my friend Liz tagged me in a fun little game of questions a few weeks ago that involved passing along and "tagging" other bloggers with a similar round of questions. I loved learning a bit more about Liz through her answers and found that we had a lot in common: limited eyesight, Phish love, influential siblings, unpleasant feelings towards Keanu Reeves... Unfortunately, Liz is really one of the only bloggers who I interact with on a regular basis (although I'm sure I could send this to the Pioneer Woman—do you think she would respond?) so this is my attempt to do justice to her fun little game, plus I really do dig these kinds of things. So first things first, I'm supposed to share 11 things about myself and then I'll answer Liz's 11 questions (and she came up with some really good ones).


Here goes...11 random facts about me:
1. The majority of our family and friends watched our wedding online—Augie (the Bacon) and I got married in Las Vegas. 
2. In high school, I marched in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade with our band. We were nestled between Joey Lawrence (singing) and Santa. 
3. I weighed more in 9th grade than I did when I was 9 months pregnant with my kids. 
4. I used to eat instant mashed potatoes tinted with food coloring every day after school (see #3).
5. I pretend that my favorite movie is Love Story, but really it is Clueless. 
6. I was caught shoplifting Little Mermaid collectors cards (like baseball cards) from G.C. Murphy Mart...in Jr. High. 
7. One of my fondest childhood memories was playing "The Tasting Game" with my parents and siblings. My dad would blindfold us and make us taste new and different foods and we would have to guess what they were. 
8. When I was 10, I had a mullet. 
9. I can tap dance. I tapped for eight years, I still want to find an adult class. 
10. I played Mary Magdelen in my college production of Jesus Christ Superstar. 
11. I once wrote a letter to Tom Hanks and when it came back return to sender, I hid it in my closet so my siblings wouldn't make fun of me. 


So those were my 11 random facts. Now I get to answer the questions that Liz passed along to me. 


1. What is your favorite place you have visited? I don't gamble and I'm not a fan of crowds, but I will always say Las Vegas because it reminds me of my wedding.
2. If you could name only one favorite band who would it be? Simon and Garfunkel.
3. What's sitting on your nightstand right now? A journal book called Listography that gives you list topics & favorites (mostly top 10) and you get fill it in slowly as your lists progress. I like to update it once every few months as new things make it to my "lists" and Mindy Kaling's "Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me (and other concerns) which makes me *whisper laugh* at night so I don't wake anybody up!
4. Name one tv show you love and one you can't stand. Parks and Recreation is on my LOVE list, it is one of the few shows I seek out to watch on Hulu. I cannot stand the children's show Caillou.
5. What's the most adventuresome thing you've done on your own? I'm not so much a do things on my own person. I was well into my 20s before I even went through the drive-thru by myself, I've never been to the movies on my own, I'll order room service before I dare eat alone while travelling for business...and although I wasn't totally alone when I did this, I'll have to say labor, because that was all me.
6. If you had the chance to rename yourself what name would you choose and why? I love the name Jane, I have always loved the name Jane. It is classic and timeless and lovely.
7. What is your dream job? Being paid to write my thoughts on Facebook and Twitter. I'd love to write for a television sitcom, I'm not a great writer, have no ability to develop characters or plot lines, but I'm really good with one-liners.
8. What's your favorite workout? If you don't workout what would your favorite workout be? I like classes. I find that I am most successful when I take a class (see #5). I'm starting Zumba tonight and I'm really excited.
9. If you could live anywhere in the world, where would you live? Vancouver, B.C. - I've never been but I've never heard a bad thing about it.
10. What do you picture yourself doing 20 years from now? Hopefully Augie (the Bacon) and I will be old and careless; wearing matching track suits, drinking coffee, travelling through space, writing our memoirs...
11. What is your favorite style of art (contemporary, surrealism, cubism, impressionism, ect.) Admittedly, I had to look up my favorite artists to figure this one out...I like Matisse and that is Fauvism, I like Dali and that is Surrealism, I also like Pop Art and Garfunkel.

So that is it! Now you know a little bit more about me. Feel free to comment, answer the above questions and pass them along to me, send me 11 random things about yourself, sit back and wish you had the last five minutes of your life back, or start your own list!