25 things about me...

Taking a cue from Erin's posting on her blog, I am also submitting a list of 25 things about me. Enjoy!

1. I am deathly afraid of squirrels and lightning. More specifically, being attacked by a squirrel or getting struck by lightning.

2. I collect shot glasses. I have a lot from different colleges my friends have attended, states, places. They're lined up on a shelf above my kitchen sink.

3. I have a mild bordering on moderate obsession with the color pink. Any and all shades.

4. My new favorite color to wear is green. Like classic, Crayola green. One of the women at work calls it my signature color.

5. I want to dye my hair this really pretty, shiny burgundy color.

6. I have loved Gone With the Wind and Grease for more years than I can remember.

7. I would have loved to have met Janis Joplin, more specifically go see her in concert. I love her music.

8. I am coveting high priced Britney Spears and Keith Urban/Sugarland tickets. All over $100. I can't justify that kind of money for one night, even though I would give my eye teeth (where does that expression come from, anyway?) to see Sugarland or Britney.

9. I have a major chocolate obsession. Peaked during pregnancy and still trying to wean myself down to a reasonable amount.

10. I watch Hannah Montana even when my daughter is sleeping or not home sometimes.

11. I watched Finding Nemo obsessively when I was pregnant. I would daydream about watching it with my own daughter and yesterday, I did.

12. I have a brilliant and marketable idea for a magazine, but am not sure the first step to getting it published.

13. I can't watch a movie based on a book without reading the book first.

14. I have never left my daughter with someone other than family, her daycare or a close friend to babysit her. I wouldn't even know what to pay a babysitter. The thought panics me.

15. I had a dream about the new VW Bugs that came out, the green one, about a year before they introduced them. I have preminitions and deja vu frequently.

16. I know maybe three state capitols and lack a knowledge of geography almost completely.

17. I was named after an Allman Brothers song, Melissa.

18. I was a teenager when my grandfather took our childhood playhouse out of his yard, and I cried like a baby and threw a fit.

19. I love Boston. Everything about it. I would live there in a second if it wasn't so expensive, and I didn't have Kayla to raise.

20. My sister, my nephew, my daughter and I all have the exact same blue eyes.

21. I can't say the word industry.

22. When I want to feel close to my mom, I eat Yodels.

23. I work with children. All day. Every day. Its never boring.

24. I wish I could hit the lotto and take a year off to write my book. Books.

25. Being a mother is the only thing that makes me feel alive sometimes.