{"id":66,"date":"2009-07-22T17:44:15","date_gmt":"2009-07-22T22:44:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/beth\/?p=66"},"modified":"2009-07-22T17:47:36","modified_gmt":"2009-07-22T22:47:36","slug":"10-random-facts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/beth\/2009\/07\/22\/10-random-facts\/","title":{"rendered":"10 Random Facts"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today’s Top Ten List is 10 Random Facts.\u00a0 By the end of this post you will probably know more random facts about me than you bargained for.\u00a0 Some of you may know some of these, but hopefully you will learn something new about me.\u00a0 Ready or not, here we go!<\/p>\n

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  1. Evens OCD<\/strong> – Most people are semi-aware of this one.\u00a0 Everything I do has to be in evens.\u00a0 This was worse in college, but still exists today.\u00a0 When I eat, I eat two of everything and if I am only eating one (like a piece of chicken) I take an even number of bites.\u00a0 I don’t even realize I am doing this half the time.\u00a0 If I touch something, I have to touch it twice (for the most part).\u00a0 It is an obsession I know, but I manage it!\u00a0 I mean in some way we all have our little OCDs<\/li>\n
  2. Alarm clock<\/strong> – There are only certain numbers I can set my alarm clock to.\u00a0 I can’t really explain the madness, it is just that way.\u00a0 Obviously odd times are out (see Random Fact Number 1).\u00a0 Then when it comes to even certain numbers are out as well.\u00a0 Times ending in zeros and eights never get set (i.e 3:00 or 3:08).\u00a0 That leaves 2, 4, and 6 (i.e. 4:06 or 4:14).\u00a0 Six is by far the most common time to set my alarm clock, but two and four are acceptable as well!<\/li>\n
  3. Cutting split ends<\/strong> – This was a favorite pasttime in college.\u00a0 When I got bored in class I would search my hair for split ends and cut them or break them apart.\u00a0 I ran a contest against myself to see how big of a split I could find!\u00a0 I think my biggest split was 10 on the same hair.\u00a0 Again, I know it is strange, but this list is Ten Random Facts.<\/li>\n
  4. Picking things (scabs, scalp, sunburn, you name it) <\/strong>– Who doesn’t like to pick scaps and sunburns?\u00a0 Oh wait, is that just me?\u00a0 As a child my sister and I would take turns putting sand in each others hair so we could pick it out.\u00a0 It was a challenge to find all the grains of sand.\u00a0 Even today I love to pick at things.\u00a0 Just ask Ben!\u00a0 I have to restrain myself from picking at the scratches Mikayla has made from her fingernails!<\/li>\n
  5. Nostril sizes<\/strong> – This is probably Ben’s favorite flaw to pick out on me.\u00a0 My nostrils are two different sizes.\u00a0 One is short and fat and the other long and skinny.\u00a0 If he hasn’t already shown you, next time you are with us, just ask him about it.\u00a0 I think it comes from all the years of him picking my nose (ask anyone we hung out with in highschool and they can explain), but I am not sure!<\/li>\n
  6. Birthmark <\/strong>– This one is a little personal, but hey we are all friends!\u00a0 My birthmark is located on my bottom.\u00a0 I think Mikayla has one on her eye (we can’t tell if it is going to stick around or not), she is much luckier than me!<\/li>\n
  7. Name sake <\/strong>– I was named after my Great Aunt Ann Elizabeth.\u00a0 My parents named me Elizabeth Ann.\u00a0 My daughter is named after Martin Luther King, Jr.\u00a0 Both are pretty cool if you ask me.<\/li>\n
  8. Nephews <\/strong>– I have two nephews that I adore!\u00a0 I don’t get to see them very often, but when I do it is priceless.\u00a0 Tyson, or T-bone as some call him, is two and full of energy.\u00a0 He makes me laugh.\u00a0 He is talking up a storm these days too.Tanner, on the hand, is almost one and lazy!\u00a0 He isn’t really lazy, he just seems it compared to his big brother.\u00a0 Tanner just learned to crawl.\u00a0 I can’t wait to see it!\u00a0 My sister has her hands full!<\/li>\n
  9. Great Grandparents <\/strong>– When I was born I had six great grandparents that were living.\u00a0 I only really knew four of them, but thought this was a fun fact.\u00a0 Sadly, I have since lost all of these great grandparents.\u00a0 I spent many days with my Great Granny Carew.\u00a0 Lillian was her first name and we used it for our daughters middle name.\u00a0 Granny Carew would make us grilled cheese sandwiches when we came to visit.\u00a0 She would also make yellow cake with homemade chocolate syrup for us to enjoy.\u00a0 These are still two favorites of mine today.\u00a0 People think I am funny when I make a yellow cake and put chocolate syrup on it instead of icing, but this is the way that Granny Carew used to make it!\u00a0 My Great Granny Clark (fondly known as Leila Belle) was a collector.\u00a0 Two of her most famous collections were corn husk dolls and a stuffed doll (I am not sure of the exact name of these).\u00a0 Both of these collections were passed down to grandkids and great grandkids when she passed away.\u00a0 Mikayla has 7 great grandparents alive today!<\/li>\n
  10. Fingernail wart<\/strong> – This last fact is really random, but I am running out of ideas!\u00a0 I have a massive wart under my ring finger on my right hand.\u00a0 I have tried to put wart remover on it to get rid of it, but it always seems to come back.\u00a0 I have had warts in some capacity forever it seems like, I actually think I passed this on to my loving husband unfortunately.\u00a0 In high school I had a planters wart that was so bad I had to have it dug out by a dermatologist.\u00a0 I couldn’t condition for basketball (bummer \ud83d\ude09 ) and had to walk around with socks on one foot and bandages on the other.\u00a0 It was attractive!<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Well, that ends my ten random facts.\u00a0 How many did you already know?\u00a0 Is there anyone besides my husband who knew them all?\u00a0 What about you, what are some random facts about yourself?<\/p>\n

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    Today’s Top Ten List is 10 Random Facts.\u00a0 By the end of this post you will probably know more random facts about me than you bargained for.\u00a0 Some of you may know some of these, but hopefully you will learn something new about me.\u00a0 Ready or not, here we go! Evens OCD – Most people […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[9,12,7,19],"class_list":["post-66","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random","tag-ben","tag-family","tag-mikayla","tag-top-ten"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/beth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/beth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/beth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/beth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/beth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/beth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":203,"href":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/beth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66\/revisions\/203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/beth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/beth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/beth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}