25 Random Things About Me

1. I truly try to be "Green". I recycle everything down to the plastic thing on the cap of the milk jug and I clean my floors with vinegar and water.

2. I do not dye my hair (anymore). Not since the day I found out I was pregnant. And once, knock on wood, did I find a grey hair while I was pregnant, and ripped it out and taped it to the bathroom mirror, and none have appeared ever since.

3. I am hair style deficient-I am the daughter of a hairdresser, and I have no idea how to style my own hair. I cannot straighten my own hair without a third arm, and I have accepted that.

4. I miss working full-time. I miss all the amazing people I worked with and the people I would meet every day. I miss those friendships I made and I will always hold them close to my heart.

5. I am mortified, and I mean deathly afraid of snakes and spiders. And living where I do, it is very common to see a snake a day during the summer in my back yard. And I am not ok with that.

6. I truly believe that my cat, Stewie Antonio Banderas Figueroa, speaks with a British accent.

7. I, like my grandmother did, clip coupons. I clip to extremes. I am a part of a coupon train and I have shampoo and shaving cream stocked in my closet to last me the next 2 1/2 years. I never pay for toothpaste, ever.

8. Since becoming a mother, I have also become a self-proclaimed germophobe. Not to the John & Kate extreme, but I skeeve. I clean doorknobs and light switches daily and wash my hands too many times a day.

9. I always wanted to be a member of SNL. I am that funny.

10. I belive that if Justin Timberlake ever met me, he would love me because I am that funny.

11. I am easily skeeved by carpeting, especially other people's carpeting. You never know what's in there, especially after seeing that commercial. You know which one I'm talking about.

12. I always wanted to be a wine drinker, but I just can't do it. I hate wine. It's dry, and gross, so stop giving it to me for Christmas. Unless, of course, it's Maneschevitz, then I love wine. Concord grape.

13. If I feel I have to throw up, I just sit at the toilet and take a deep breath, that usually does it for me. Even if I clean the bowl daily, the "toilet aroma" will still be there.

14. I think it's ok to get ripped with your old friends once in a while, especially if we all have kids. It makes us feel young again.

15. I love to read cookbooks, but I don't cook. I fantasize about being a good cook, but it doesn't work out that way.

16. I have a bit of OCD when it comes to my shower towel--the tag on the towel must be facing the bottom left before I dry myself off. Otherwise, I would have butt on my face.

17. When the clock says 9:11, am or pm, I stop whatever I'm doing for fear something bad will happen, like if I'm eating, I'll stop chewing until 9:12 so I don't choke.

18. I LOVE The Muppets, LOVE, Love, LOVE! At my wedding, I danced with my father to "The Rainbow Connection" and I brought the house to tears.

19. I LOVE my daughter more so than I could ever have imagined. I kiss her at least 100 times a day and tell her the same. My heart melts when she says I lub you mommy or thank you mommy. I don't know how I could ever love another child the way I love my firstborn, but one day I might test it out...

20. I had a scheduled c-section on the 9th Anniversary to the day my grandfather died. Mike had blue eyes and I hear they called him Sonny boy when he was young, and Alessandra has blue eyes and is called Sunny.

21. My neighbor directly across the street and I gave birth the same day, same hospital exactly 3 hours apart. The girls were 3 hours, 3 inches and 3 ounces apart. We were in the newspaper twice documenting it.

22. I have a strange tooth pattern on my bottom teeth-if you count your teeth, you may have 6 teeth straight across, 2 pointy guys and 4 smooth, but I, as well as my mother and daughter, have 2 pointy guys and 3 smooth.

23. I have hairy arms and I am aware of that. That is my Indian gene and there is nothing I can do to change it, so I deal with it. Alessandra had hair on her ears and a triangle of hair above her butt when she was born, but she's pretty, so she'll get over it.

24. I am a notary public, but I have never charged for a signature.

25. I still have the metal retainer on the back of my bottom teeth from when I had braces in 10th grade, I have never gone back to the orthodontist to have it removed, and it's not a bother to me.