Dribble

If you have a Facebook account, I'm sure you've been tagged in the latest Note craze of listing 25 random things about yourself. I decided to go against the grain, boycott the Facebook trend, and post these fabulous tidbits of information on my blog.

(Mostly because my creative Blog juice is running dry... I am ashamed to post such Dribble... please forgive me, oh faithful readers).

1. My name has not always been "Skyla". My mother whom is very indecisive (even until this day) named me "Sarah" at birth. After living with this name for a year she decided that she didn't really like it, and came up with "Skyla". Perhaps this was around the time that she stole carpet from a dumpster and almost got arrested.
Oh... oops... this is supposed to be facts about me... right.

2. I love to eat dough. Cookie, bread, pastry, biscuit, dumplings... it doesn't matter.
I'm not sure if various types of batter would be included in the dough category, but I love to eat that too. Pancake batter is my favorite, next muffin, brownie, cake, cheesecake... I think you get the point and are probably gagging right now.
My favorite job when I worked at McD's as a youngin' was to fill the muffin trays with the delicious batter, and then lick the scoop.
You know you want a muffin now, don't you?


3. All I learned about cooking, I learned from Martha Stewart.
Ok, scratch that. 85% of what I know about cooking I learned from Martha and the Food Network Family... 15% I learned from my mother. 10% being of what NOT to do and the other 5% how to guilt-trip unwilling, picky eaters into eating what you put in front of them. Because I was such a goodie-goodie growing up I always ate what was put in front of me... (except Sunday morning mandatory oatmeal. *GAG*. I love oatmeal now, but there was something about that big pot of bubbling, lava-goo that I refused to touch as a child. I later learned that my mother never measured the dry oatmeal and water, rather just guesstimated.
We really understood the meaning of "Sticks to your ribs").

4. Even though my family CONTINUOUS groaned every time they would walk into the living room while I was watching the Food Network...
they NEVER complained about the food I was able to put on the table.
Ok... maybe the one time when I tricked them into eating Portabello Mushroom Meatballs, convincing them they were just a softer form of beef.
Didn't fly.

5. I will try anything once, or maybe twice.
For example.. I recently ate (or tried to) chicken feet. Probably won't do it again.
I have tried to like smoked oysters on many occasions... and have repeatedly tried to eat them.
Every time I feel like I have licked the bottom of the moldy, ocean floor.

6. I can taste/smell mold on food a MILE away.... and will usually just throw it out. Too many times I watched my mother shave the mold off the cheese. I cut chunks away, and sniff the orange out of it until I know that all spores have been eliminated.

7. I am a confessed slave to the expiration dates on food.

8. I've talked a lot about food.... perhaps this is why I go to the gym 3 times a week.

9. Pregnancy tests are the one thing I fear. It is so hard for me to handle the fact that this little strip that I pee on controls my future, my destiny.
It has the power to change my life forever in only 2 minutes, and for under $10.
There is nothing else in this life that can do that.

10. I really really really love having one child.
Yet I know for his sake that it would be good to have a brother or sister. I feel a lot of people's expectations would be let down if I chose to be done.
Ultimately, I am waiting for the "I am ready" moment, or at least an unexpected surprise...or the ability to accept and want change.

11. Ironically, for someone who doesn't want heaps of babies and was never one of those amazing "babysitter" type girls...My life has brought me to the place of teaching Childbirth classes and attending people's births as a Doula. Never in a million years would I have known this would be what I would "do".
But I LOVE it.

12. Recently I have thought a lot about over-procreation and its negative affects on our planet.

13. I love celebrity gossip and confess to be very shallow in that area.

14. At this point in my life I am very content with the amount of close friendships that I have.
If I was never to make another friend from this point on, I would be completely OK with that.
It has been a long time since I felt "un-loved".

15. Sometimes I wonder if I am a good kisser.
I've only ever kissed one man.... he says I'm good... but what if he has to say that because I am his wife? It's like the parents who tell their kids that they are amazing at singing, because they have to. Then those poor poor souls try out for American Idol and their whole world comes crashing in on them.
I wonder if I would get a golden ticket if there was a Kissing Idol?

16. I always wash, tone, and moisturize my face before bed.
I really can't handle sleeping with make-up on... at all. In desperate circumstances when my normal products are not available,
I have used hand soap and lotion, just to avoid the crusty morning face.

17. I think I have really nice teeth and am so grateful that I never wore braces.
My mother tells me this is because she ate egg shells while she was pregnant with me.
Why waste what the chicken gives you?

18. In a perfect world, life would begin for me at 11am and end at 1am.
I am a night owl and find the early bird to be extremely annoying.
Just go find the worm and let me sleep!

19. I have a high-maintenance Starbucks order. Rarely do I send anyone to get me something without having to write it down.
If I am going to pay over $5 for a drink, I want it to be complicated. Triple grande, non-fat, sugar-free vanilla, extra hot, Caramel Machiatto.
It's really not that difficult.

20. I am slightly obsessed about finding the best deal for my money, for anything.
I have been known to walk around the entire mall, checking out my options, before making a purchase. Somehow I am convinced that there will be something better, cheaper somewhere else. I will also shop at 3 or 4 different grocery stores because each one carries something that the other doesn't, usually for a better price.


21. In the past 5 years, I have lost over 40lbs... twice.
That's like losing both Paris & Nicole!

22. My favorite, all time movie is Empire Records.

23. The only person that can really make me mad/upset/disappointed is my husband.
Friends and family members don't cause such reactions in me as much as they used to. I feel like I have learned to always put myself in other person's shoes, looking at various situations from their perspective. Even if the husband does something ridiculous, I don't feel like I get mad as quickly as I used to.
Much more effective to just talk about it.
I know, I'm so mature.

24. One of the best sayings that I heard this past year was:
"If you think the grass is greener on the other side, it's about time you fertilized your own lawn!"

25. Sometimes I wish I was one of those uber cool people who don't like TV, Internet, playing on social networking sites, texting, or top 40 radio, and of course know all the hip underground music, knit their own beatnik hats, and have something smooth to say all the time.
Instead I love TV (mostly reality shows), spend too much time on the computer, love Brittney Spears and Rhianna, regularly lust after designer shoes and Lululemon hoodies while having an uncanny knack to be sarcastic a bit more than desired.

*Disclaimer: Even though my Mother may not have been the most naturally, domestically inclined, she was always the Mother on the block that was the most fun, crazy, warm and welcoming.