Fifty Fun Facts!

1. My name is Liz. I never went by Liz until I came to college and someone started calling me that and I didn’t mind and after all, it is shorter than Elizabeth and possibly easier to remember so there we are.
2. However, I like it a lot when people call me Elizabeth. It makes whatever they’re saying sound a little more sincere to me. That, or indicate that they’re mad. If you are mad, you might as well go ahead and say Elizabeth Michelle. That’s what mom does.
3. I am the oldest child of three. I was their guinea pig (no offense to you, Wilmadean). This is evident by the fact that my youngest brother gets to do WHATEVER HE WANTS.
4. You’ve Got Mail is possibly my favorite movie of all time. When I’m in a feel good mood, that is. I can quote a good portion of the film and it will probably get annoying if you hang around me too long. I remember the first time I saw it in the 8th grade and thinking Online love, *sigh*. Haha…no.
5. One of my dreams is to own a bookstore.
6. I would also like to be in a Broadway musical, be a successful novelist, a wife, a mother of four (ambitious, I know), a high school English teacher, a college professor, and a soap star.
7. I have been in a beauty pageant. Never again.
8. Pumpkin Spice Lattes make me very happy.
9. I really like to cook and pride myself in being domestic.
10. Both The Sound of Music and Anne of Green Gables (the whole series) had a profound impact on my life.
11. I have a late night crush on Craig Ferguson.
12. It’s because he’s Scottish. Other Scottish crushes include Gerard Butler and Dougray Scott.
13. I grew up in a very, very small town.
14. The town where I attended school was the inspiration for Footloose.
15. I was born on November 14, 1984.
16. I am a Christian.
17. My family and I have been attending Bethel Assembly of God since February 8, 1998. Before that we went to Gospel Beams Church (both in Duncan, OK) where my parents met and were married.
18. My religious background is non-denominational and I think it will always stay that way. 19. I love ballroom dancing.
20. My right foot is one inch longer than my left. The reason for this is that apparently one of my legs was longer than the other and it made up for the difference by dropping the arch in the foot that’s on the long leg, thus spreading my foot out somewhat and making it longer. And I know what you’re thinking, because everyone asks. I just buy shoes big enough for the big foot.
21. I’m pretty sure that I know all the words to all the songs in all animated Disney movies (that matter).
22. I have never really wanted a sister.
23. I still have my blankie.
24. I have never been on a date.
25. The plan wasn’t ever really for me to go to OU. It just happened.
26. I think Kate Middleton needs to step off.
27. I want Lionel Ritchie to perform at my wedding.
28. David Carr is my cousin.
29. I’ve never seen The Wizard of Oz. I know, I know. Someday I’m going to make a list of the movies I haven’t seen. You might question whether or not I’m really an American (or human) when you see it.
30. My former roommate Heather (who is also my cousin) and I have made a little tradition of going to Branson, Missouri for a weekend during the fall.
31. I spent my 19th birthday gazing into the eyes of John Mayer. Okay, so I was a few dozen yards away from the stage. But. Still. It was my birthday and I got to see JOHN CLAYTON MAYER.
32. I hate The Goonies.
33. But I really liked The River Pirates.
34. The Princess Bride is another movie that you’d better not make me watch. Bleh.
35. I was the Halloween Carnival Princess/Queen candidate three years in a row.
36. I have two cats (Ears and Timmy), one beagle (Eddie), one mouse (Mimi), one guinea pig (Wilmadean), and two fish (Blaze and Bullet…they’re really Kyle’s).
37. I was born with a head full of black hair.
38. I went 19 years and 2 months of my life without putting any color on my hair. Since I started, I haven’t stopped. However I am having a lot of trouble with the color now. It won’t stay brown. It comes in black at the roots and turns auburn. Looks pretty much brown in regular light, just not the brown that I want.
39. When I was 4, I met Tom Lester. Keep Manhattan, just give me that countryside…
40. I saw The Notebook five times while it was in theaters.
41. I never go anywhere without my Moleskine.
42. In the 8th grade I wrote 100 pages of a novel. It’s still sitting at home somewhere.
43. I’m currently working on a novel and as always I have short stories scattered all over.
44. I am quite certain I will live overseas at some point in my life.
45. I have seen Phantom of the Opera performed twice. I intend to see it in New York and London.
46. Other favorite musicals include Cinderella, Jekyll & Hyde, Evita, The Scarlet Pimpernel, The Civil War, Beauty & the Beast, Fiddler on the Roof, Yentl, Movin’ Out, Hello, Dolly!, Whistle Down the Wind, Sunset Boulevard, and Joseph.
47. Mythbusters is one of my favorite tv shows. I want to be on that show and blow up stuff and wear fun goggles. What can I say? I was thrilled as a child when our cable started carrying TLC and yes, I loved Shark Week on the Discovery Channel.
48. When they called out my name during the Senior Night football game at my high school, my future plans were to become the first female governor of Oklahoma.
49. At wedding receptions, I am a bouquet magnet.
50. I am a Girls State alumna.