[21 things about a 21 year old]

everyone is writing these kinds of notes on facebook.
i trust this group with my "things" way more than i trust my larger community on facebook.

1. I enjoy cleaning the lint trap. There's something satisfying about getting that whole layer off, and knowing that it won't be spread around on my new load of dryer clothes.

2. I take really fast showers. And I get ready really quickly. I also eat really quickly. Why? I grew up in an impatient family. Thus, I don't see the value in long showers. I would rather be out than getting ready. If you didn't eat fast...you didn't eat much at all.

3. I have made several soundtracks of my life. I have specific reasons and memories for why each song is apart of it. I recommend putting one together for yourself.

4. I have seen every single episode of the following tv shows: "Friends", "Lost", "The Office", "Sex and the City", "24", and "Grey's Anatomy". I also talk about the characters of these shows like they are real people.

5. I am obsessed with movies. I read reviews, I read summaries on Wikipedia before and after I watch them, I look up "Trivia" on imdb.com.

6. My alternate life that I day dream about leading is a gynecologist. I mostly just want to deliver babies. I would want to do this profession on all the continents, living there independently for several years at a time.

7. I love Africa. I've been there once, I want to go back again. I want to go teach in an orphanage, help education as a whole in a country. I would like to do this in several countries.

8. Children are my heart. I love them. I could name at least 20 kids who have personally touched my life if you want to hear it.

9. I watched a lot of Food Network over winter break. I enjoy cooking, I suck at baking. Sometimes when I cook, I pretend like I'm on my own Food Network show, and I narrate in my head.

10. I am a Music minor. This does not mean that I know a lot of stuff about music. It means that I can kind of play a few instruments, I've done some theory work, and I can pick up children's songs easily.

11. I would love to marry someone of a race different from my own.

12. My Enneagram is a 9, the Peacemaker. I'm an ESFJ. I'm a reluctant yellow. My strengths are Connectedness, Empathy, Activator, Input and Developer. My love languages are Words of Affirmation and Physical Touch. There you go.

13. I love hands. I have a mental picture catalog of everyone's hands, everyone I have seen more than once.

14. I trust too easily. I'm working on it.

15. I used to not have any hair. Seriously. I had soft, wispy hair that only grew to my shoulders, after me not having a haircut until I was 10. After that haircut, though, it grew into the thick mass that it is. Now, when I get my haircut, hairdressers spend about 5 minutes running their hands through my hair saying "Wow. You have perfect, amazing hair." I just smile and nod, and usually say something stupid like, "I grew it myself."

16. I make jokes when I get nervous.

17. I'm a good public speaker. A really good one. As in, on the spot, I can come up with believable points, make jokes, give eye contact and say at least one memorable thing. It runs in the family.

18. I'm one of the fastest test takers I know. I don't second guess myself...on tests.

19. I don't really care about the cleanliness of my car. Sorry. I wish I did.

20. It's hard for me to hide how I truly feel about something from showing on my face. People either love or hate that fact about me.

21. I have been a "gymnast", a "dancer", a "soccer player", a "cheerleader", a "volleyball player", and a "swimmer". I put them in quotes, because I'm a crappy athlete.