20 facts about you.

TWENTY, you say? TWENTY? Doesn't that seem a tad excessive? If we're gonna do this, we're gonna do it an unconventional way.

1. My book is free on all digital platforms today and I'd love you if you downloaded it.

2. I one time blew a bubble this big.

3. When we were growing up my brother and I had this many stuffed animals. And one of these is not a stuffed animal at all.

4. I was a nun in The Sound of Music and the first time we ever sang Climb Every Mountain completely through was when we were on stage that night. And it was a hot mess. But after that my friend and I had a lot of inside jokes about nuns. Anyway here I am with the other nuns and the Von Trapp kids.

5. One time I shopped at Target like this

6. Our local newspaper (years ago) ran this happy birthday message for this lady and look at those numbers.

7. I used to go to music lessons every Thursday afternoon which is such a homeschool thing to do.

8. I haven't aged since 2008.

9. I had a horrible phase (around 2012) where I had really long hair and wore a long-sleeve surf shirt to go swimming. And my mom begged me to change my ways and said I looked like a fundamentalist Christian homeschooler and that it made us look weird (hey, these were her words, not mine).

10. I eventually changed my ways and last summer my hair was this short. I talk about growing it out but every time I see this picture I remember how good it felt.

11. A long time ago my brother and I played Apples to Apples with a teddy bear because our family is too small.

12. Also I one time caught the yard on fire.

13. We used to have a shih tzu who was adopted from animal control.

14. One time my Funko Groot's head came off so I popped the head off a Ken doll and replaced it with Groot's.

15. My grandmother had this maltipoo for eight years but she had to rehome her.

16. My room is this big because it's actually a bonus room above the garage.

17. I rode this Ferris Wheel two summers in a row and I sent this picture to my German online friend. And Ferris Wheel in German is "Dad Riesenrad"

18. Legos, specifically Lego minifigures, were my special interest for YEARS.

19. I used to think pictures like this were a good idea. (News flash, they WERE NOT.)

20. We have a pool in our backyard.