7 Things You May Not Know About Me

Thank you to Marianne for the tag! You may or may not know these things about me.

1. In my prior life (a.k.a. before Reagan was born) I worked at Jelly Belly. My degree is in Food Science and I pretty much get to play around with food and formulas for a living. It was the best paid job ever and I worked with the most amazing people who are my friends for life. I was a Regulatory Compliance Technician, meaning I got to do a lot of fun random stuff, but mostly I helped to translate the candy formulas into an actual process and also did ingredient statements and nutrition labels. Plus I got lots of free candy. I did not like sugar candy until I worked there. Now I like it.

2. I have a temper when it comes to watching my loved ones play sports. I always struggled when watching my siblings play in their soccer and baseball games. I usually ended up yelling out mean comments to the opposing players such as "Keep your hands off my sister!" Then when Matt and I were engaged, he played intramural soccer and I almost got kicked out of his game because of my yelling at the annoying freshman team they were playing as well as the blind refs. For this reason, I usually do not attend his current baseball or basketball games. I am wondering how this will play out when my children are playing sports. Sorry, but everyone better hope that their children are not on the opposing team.

3. Matt and I almost died on our honeymoon. This sounds so somber and crazy, but we seriously saw our lives flash before our eyes. We were driving back to Utah from Southern California and we were almost to Baker. It was pretty much the middle of the desert. A semi truck on the lane next to us either didn't see us or pretended not to, because he started to merge into our lane, while we were right next to him. We honked our horn, but he didn't stop merging. We had to use the shoulder of the road which was luckily soft dirt because we were going so fast. We tried to get the license plate number because that wonderful temper of mine had flared and I was ready to put his you-know-what in jail, but he TOTALLY slowed down once he saw that we were trying to get it. Jerk.

4. I was in love with the Backstreet Boys when I was younger. I was 18 and on my way to college. I got my friend Lori hooked on them. We were convinced I was going to marry Brian and she would marry Nick (ironically she did marry a Nick, but one much better than the BSB Nick!) My dorm room was decorated with pictures and posters of them. Stacy must have thought I was crazy! I owned every video and cd. In my first semester at BYU, they came to Salt Lake for a concert and Lori flew up from Southern California so that we could go to it. We ended up going and taking about 5 rolls of film each (our seats were nosebleed). I wore a blue shirt (Brian's favorite color) and Lori wore a green shirt (Nick's favorite color). We followed the band bus to their hotel (Hotel Monaco) and waited outside with all the 13 and 14 year olds to see if they would come out. Of course, they never did. They had a second show the following night, so we bought some tickets from scalpers and went again, a second time. We had so much fun!! One of my favorite memories from college.

5. I have 5 siblings and every one of our names starts with the letter L. When my oldest brother was born, Lorenzo (Loren for short) was always going to be his name and then my next brother was Lance. Both were names they liked and didn't mean to do L's on both, it just happened. Then I was born and my dad was all about naming me Robin, but my mom put her foot down on that one. Since I would "probably be the last" child, then they figured they ought to go with another L-name. They got my name from Lacy J. Dalton, a singer. Then my brother was born just a year and a half after me and they must have decided that the "L" thing was cool because it stuck: Landen, then Lindsey and finally, baby Loni. As a side note, my baby sister graduated high school last friday. We are all growing up too fast, I want to cry! :(

6. I am scared of fish. I love being around the ocean, but I really don't venture out in it much because of how scared I am of these funny looking creatures. When Matt and I were dating in college, we went down to Zion National Park with his ward and hiked through the narrows. Some parts of these narrows are shin to waist deep and I was fine until I saw these little white things flashing through the water. I made him carry me almost the rest of the way. Two and a half years ago, we were in Hawaii and it took 30 minutes of coaxing to get me to put my face in Hanauma Bay.

7. I am in love with roller coasters. I don't know what it is about the thrill of being on one, but I literally crave it and dream about it. I remember going to Magic Mountain for the first time when I was like 8 years old and there was a roller coaster that had a loop that, if I wore my hat high enough on my head, I could barely be tall enough to ride. It was the best! Then Loren and Kelly took me for my 11th birthday. I have been numerous times since, the most recent time was in August of 2003 and my parents rode X-treme, the newest ride at MM and the first 4-dimensional roller coaster on the planet. It was insane and I really feared that the parental units just might have a heart attack. I am going to embarass Lindsey by saying that she chickened out at the last minute, after waiting in line for like 3 and a half hours! Matt recently bought me RollerCoaster Tycoon for the computer and I can't wait to open it up and design my own park!!!!!!

If you are reading this, you are tagged! But if you are Matt, Lindsey, Loni, Melanie, Jeff, and Selly, then you are REQUIRED to do it!!!! :):):)