1982 - 30 things about me

to be honest, i don't remember much about 1982. and, because i somehow let ryan talk me into storing some of our items - including my baby book - in utah for the next two years, i can't look it up.

 { 7 mos.}

my development, at first glance, was nothing to write home about. but i would learn a short 26 years later that perfectly normal, boring old child development actually is something to write home about. i digress.

 {the fam, july 1982}

i've been told i loved singing and reading. and singing and reading. and i liked to eat. {um...not much has changed?} and, i know i learned how to drink from a straw on my first birthday and wasn't happy on christmas morning until i - you guessed it - ate.

{my first birthday - ironically, i played with the same kind of fisher price people house with leah at school just this week}

so, since that information makes for a relatively uninformative and completely uninteresting post, i'll leave the year 1982 with a list of 30 things you may or may not know about me from all ages of my life. 

{october 8, 1982}

1 | i had a feeling from a very young age that i would have a child with a disability. i've also had feelings i will have twins. hmm....

2 | i love pinterest. love it. it feeds my desire to rummage up all sorts of ideas and inspiration {as i always have} but in a much more organized manner than in the past. 

3 |  i got in contact with the artist who painted me. i now have my own copy of a high-res image. 

4 | i love kate middleton and how she makes modesty look fabulous. 

5 | i love being busy. 

6 | my teeth are finally straight! after 29 years and some hard-earned money. my 13 year old self is beaming right now. let's be honest. my 29 year old self is beaming.

7 | i love the smell of freshly cut grass. and wet cement. 

8 | i love NKOTBSB. should i be embarassed? because i'm not. 

9 | i want to learn how to play the violin. and the accordion. 

10 | i have a weakness for fabric. it's an expensive weakness. 

11 | i love clean, cool sheets on my bed. 

12 | i have chubby toes. and i'm just beginning to be kind of sort of okay with them. i think leah's are already longer than mine.

13 | i love filling out forms. however, i'm beginning to hate filling out forms for miss ribbons. i always took checking that "does not apply" box for granted. 

14 | i love baths. 

15 | i don't like peanut butter or olives. never have. i've tried them both recently and i still don't. 

16 | i've never seen the original star wars trilogy or the indiana jones trilogy. it's nothing against harrison ford. i just have no desire.

17 | i've never had a broken bone. 

18 | i've never had stitches {other than my c-section with miss ribbons, which i'm not counting}

19 | i'm an introvert. but that doesn't mean i don't like people. it just exhausts me.

20 | in college, an article i wrote for the daily universe was picked up and published by the new york times. 

21 | i currently have a submission for a chapter in a book about children with special needs in the pre-publication stage. 

22 | i'm a tenor. 

23 | my ancestors came to america on the mayflower. 

24 | i was named after my great, great, great, great grandmother maren jensen. i used to hate my name. now i love it. 

25 | i've lived in 11 places and three states. 

26 | i've visited half of the 50 states and five different countries, but had never been east of jackson hole, wy until i was 25.

27 | all 10 of my siblings and step siblings have only ever been all together once. 

28 | i love refurbishing furniture and would love to learn to reupholster. 

29 | autumn is my favorite. 

30 | i can curl my tongue into three sections. can you?