Been Tagged

OK, so I've been tagged several times to blog about random facts that you might not have known about me..(Yah right? Like you guys don't know everything about me already!?) So, due to obvious time restraints...I have decided to copy and paste a previous post from like 2 years ago...with some much needed modifications. I tried to leave everything how it was, and also went back through and commented in BLUE beside the old parts. (added a couple too)...

(For example: one of the things I had written was that we wanted 3 children...obviously for them to be healthy, but if we had a choice, Joe would like at least one boy and I would like at least one girl! Hahahaha)

For those of you who are die hard Steece's Pieces blogger fans, I apologize for the redundancy:

I can't fall asleep cuddling & I am a very light sleeper...once I wake up, I'm up for good! (I like to cuddle, just can't fall asleep while cuddling)

I do not like mushrooms or tomatoes

I love sushi (the cooked stuff-so that probably doesn't count) & edamame (soy beans)

The first place I gain weight is in my face (the one place you can't really hide it!) and yes, I've got some newly acquired LOVELY baggage in the tummy department as well!

I absolutely HATE working out...HATE it...but make myself do it (hmm...yah, not as often lately! i wonder why? haha)

Nursing school was the absolute hardest thing I've ever gone through in my life! (Thanks, Harding U)...hmm...yah, lets go ahead and change that to carrying quadruplets in my body for 30 weeks and one day!

I was a member of the Waco Girls Choir for a couple of years (Sang Alto) I still remember all the songs...such a dorky thing to do, but I LOVED it!

My brother used to put live green locust and hard, crunchy, brown locust shells in my long hair when I was younger....I am afraid of them to this day (Thanks, Col!)

I am also afraid of mascots...actual people dressed up in mascot uniforms that cover their face. As long as they talk, I'm okay...but the ones that just use their hands to talk or walk up behind you at theme parks FREAK ME OUT. (SOOOO weird, I know)

Pet Peeves: when people don't return their shopping carts to the bins in the parking lots, bad tipping for good service...hmmm...I'm sure there are more, but lets move on...

I tore my ACL on our church ski trip when I was a senior in high school, the MDs told me it was just a bad sprain, I went on to college where I played extremely competitive sports in flag football, basketball, etc. I re-injured it doing a cheerleading toe-touch for spring-sing--which is when I found out it was an old tear. I took off my semester right before nursing school to come back home to Waco, have surgery, and be a youth intern for a semester...(which I absolutely LOVED!...wouldn't have changed it for the world!)

I absolutely LOVE roller coasters & roller skating

I've never had a cavity in my life (but its about time for a visit to the ole dentist, so that might have changed!)

I never wear shorts, unless working out...I hate shorts/love skirts

I have a photographic memory

I am TERRIBLE at history & geography...it is SOOO sad and embarrassing. I actually just recently bought the books "Don't know much about History" and "Don't know much about Geography" so I can learn in my spare time (haha) but seriously...its pathetic.

I hardly ever watch the news or the weather...I have no idea what is going on from day to day unless people are talking about it at work (Dad is so disappointed! ;) )

I can play the piano by ear, no lessons--I would love to take them now (yah, I don't really see that happening any time soon!)

I absolutely LOVE to cook, the Food Channel, and Paula Dean "HEY YALL!"

I am a Surgical Registered Nurse who can see gory, bloody, nasty, bone crushing surgeries...but cannot take it when patients throw up...I start gagging and must leave the room...same thing w/ "code browns" (when someone soils themselves) and I must clean it up...I am physically GAGGING! I also HATE throwing up..I fear it. (However, I can stand all the spit up and poopy diapers you can imagine...funny how its a mom thing)

I kill any plant/flower after about 2-3 Days...I'm terrible

The only books I like to read are true stories (like the one about Aaron Ralston, the climber who cut off his arm to survive and hiked his way down a mountain!) or baby books ;)

I am BAD at keeping up long-distance relationships and am not a big phone talker...but I'm GREAT at texting! ;)...this is part of the reason I started this blog in the first place!

It takes a LOT to hurt my feelings...I've got a hard shell, a little too hard sometimes (you have to when you work with doctors all day long! ha)

When I or my brother eat anything with garlic in it, we will reek it out of our pores for about 24 hours...it is SO weird (no matter how many showers I take or how many times I brush my teeth and gargle w/ mouthwash)--needless to say, I stay away from it! ;) Ewwwww

I'm a very loyal friend to have & I'm extremely protective of those I love (extremely...I cannot stand watching people get "bullied")

I almost drowned when I was 5 (?) years old in Concan, Texas on the Frio River: family reunion, everyone was watching my granny go down the rapids and laughing, then my mom accidentally got caught in the current and went down the rapids w/ no innertube and everyone was looking at her and laughing...no one saw me going down the rapids w/out an innertube, 5- years old,- head down- sinking down into a drop off...but my uncle saw me and dived in and saved me! and its all on tape! (Thanks Stoneman! You probably don't remember, but I sure do!)

I'm very good with computers (ONLY BECAUSE my bro is a computer genius)

I'm almost 5'8 and wear a 6.5 shoe (its ridiculous!) Pregnancy bumped me up a half size in some shoes...so I almost look normal now! ;)

My weakness: chips & queso...& pizza (LOOOOOVE QUESO! and sweets)

My entire life people have said I look like Kimmy Gibbler from Full House (in high school AND in college)...thanks alot! (She's the one on the left)
I was a cheerleader from 4th to 12th grade (also at some point played basketball, softball, track, and flag football)

I am borderline diabetic (my dad is, and my brother became diabetic in his early twenties)!..yikes...henceforth, the working out...(I had gestational diabetes which puts me at an even greater risk than before! Gotta stay away from those sweets!)

My grandfather, father, father's sisters, bro, and myself have all had the same initials at one point in our lives: "SCH"

My middle name is "Claire", named after my grandmother, "Clara"

I was Valedictorian of high school (it was a very small school) & graduated Magna Cum Laude from nursing school, yet am TERRIBLE at simple math AND still count on my fingers! (embarrassing) (yah, don't ask me to figure out the tip or try to round out the bill to be an even number...it is ridiculous! We'd be there for hours!!)

I think I would die if I had to live anywhere cold (I am such a weenie when it comes to cold weather! It is pretty pathetic...)

One of my favorite Bible verses: John 16:33
"I have told you these things, so that in me you may have PEACE. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I HAVE OVERCOME THE WORLD!" (-Jesus) ;)