Welcoming myself to the Blogging World

I've been talking about starting a blog for a year and a half. Here I am. Welcome, SaraLyn, to the blogging world.

I named myself "The Brambler" because I'm a Busch and I ramble a lot. Well, I thought it was funny. I decided that for my first blog I'll do one of those 25 random things about yourself things so y'all can maybe get a feel for me and my life right now.

1. I went to Time Out for Women yesterday. LOVED it. I recommend all of you who will be near one this year to go. (http://deseretbook.com/time-out/)
2. I went to North Carolina this week to hang out with my brother's family. Had a wonderful time!
3. I don't mind packing for a trip, but I hate to unpack. I still have bags all over our floor.
   
4. I've had "Dancing through Life" from "Wicked" stuck in my head for the past nine days.
   
5. I hate spiders more than I hate cockroaches. (But not by very much.)
6. I can't stand the texture of laundry fresh out of the dryer.
7. Speaking of texture, texture is more important to me than taste when it comes to food.
   
8. I dated my husband for 13 days. (That's Morgan, by the way. You'll probably hear a lot about him.)
   
9. I go to sleep on my left side.
10. It takes me 17 strokes to type "ambulatory implementation management involvement" when I'm typing in Word on my computer. (I do transcriptionist work.)
11. My handwriting became messy on purpose because I dislike people reading over my shoulder. I guess I did a good job because many people have told me my writing is illegible.
    
12. I love spell-check.
13. I take yarn to movies so I can crochet afghans. It gives my hands something to do and keeps me warm.
14. I had literary crushes on Joe Willard, Mac Campbell, and Sherlock Holmes. (Can anyone name the books the first two are from?)
15. My husband resembles none of those men. (Boys?)
16. Despite playing the piano for about 24 years, I have five songs memorized on the piano. (And that's only if you count songs like "Heart and Soul" and "Chopsticks.")
17. I can use three different kinds of keyboards.
    
18. I saw an owl catch an eat a mouse three feet from where I stood on a sidewalk. (Okay, he actually ate it about 10 feet away from me, but caught it three feet away!)
19. I believe in using "he" as an all-purpose, general third person singular pronoun. None of this he/she silliness for me. I know that's politically incorrect, but I figure since I'm a woman, I can get away with it.
20. When I heard people talking about Madonna for the first time, I thought they were talking about my aunt.
    
21. I wanted to be a library page but was once turned down from the job for being too highly educated. I was kind of annoyed about that.
22. I drank orange juice nine parts water to one part OJ until sometime in college.
23. I enjoy grammar classes (I think I took 16 grammar-related classes in college), but bad grammar almost never bothers me. I use it all the time myself! (It does kind of drive me crazy when people hypercorrect and say things like "He gave it to him and I." That would be "to him and me," folks.) :)
24. I love the smell of coffee.
25. I'm sick of writing about myself.