About Me

I’m Beck. I married Superman in 2005 and have been (mostly) loving the adventure ever since.

Email: beck [at] superbeck [dot] com

110 things about Beck. Proceed with caution and only if you have nothing else to do.

  1. Body piercing saved my life. (Isaiah 53:5 for those of you who haven’t seen my shirt.)
  2. I have extraordinarily good balance.
  3. I hate brushing my teeth but love to floss. Don’t worry, I do both regularly.
  4. I can’t spell correctly to save my life. I constantly second guess myself to the point of switching to a smaller simpler word that I do know for sure how to spell.
  5. My handwriting isn’t much better than my spelling.
  6. I’m terrified of drowning.
  7. I love heights. The higher the better.
  8. I enjoy telling stories, especially to kids. When I was 11 or 12 I created an ongoing series of stories that I told my brothers and sister. It lasted quite a while and we still reminisce about the story line sometimes.
  9. I crack my knuckles and joints and knees and elbows and back and neck and wrists. I’m trying very hard to stop.
  10. When I find something exceptionally funny I have been known to literally collapse into a heap of laughter (mostly the silent, unable-to-breathe kind.) This has been termed the “string donkey effect” because of its similarity to those toys with buttons you could push to make the donkey “walk” or, if you pressed all the buttons at once, as in my case, fall over completely.
  11. I can write backwards with either hand, in print or cursive.
  12. I have always wanted to take gymnastics but never did.
  13. I would rather do dishes than cook.
  14. My ears are crooked. The only time I wear sunglasses is in the car or while playing volleyball.
  15. I want to learn Greek.
  16. I’ve totaled a car.
  17. I resist doing things “just because.”
  18. I’ve never seen The Titanic or Jurassic Park.
  19. I purposely changed the way I signed my maiden name to copy my dad’s signature.
  20. I’ve performed surgery on a rat.
  21. I’m one of those crazy nuts who race through the empty end-of-the-day roller coaster lines in order to ride them over and over and over and over again.
  22. I’ve seen and heard lightning strike less than ¼ mile away from me.
  23. I enjoy driving. Especially stick shifts.
  24. I chose my high school track team number to be 13.
  25. My favorite color is blue.
  26. Lots of times I want to know “why?” but lots of times I am too shy (or stupid) to ask.
  27. I come from a musical family on both sides, but have failed to inherit the skills of perfect pitch, playing by ear and sight-reading, much to my dismay.
  28. I am a bookworm.
  29. I like to argue.
  30. I never had to rely on molecular models for any of my chemistry classes.
  31. Love Potion 31 (available only during the month of February at a Baskin Robbins near you!) is my favorite ice cream flavor.
  32. I am perpetually cold.
  33. It is very very very hard for me to apply myself to something if I find it entirely uninteresting. Conversely, I can spend hours researching something I’ve decided is captivating, no matter how useless a topic it might be.
  34. I type fast.
  35. I am an ex cat-hater.
  36. I think way too much.
  37. I’m an unconventional hopeless romantic.
  38. I was home schooled for 9 years.
  39. The name of the city I lived in during college is also my favorite fruit.
  40. Only a few things really make me furious.
  41. I didn’t have a curfew during high school.
  42. Without a dog, my life is substandard.
  43. I used to write lots of poetry and songs. I don’t anymore. I think it’s better that way!
  44. I have never broken a bone.
  45. I battle an inferiority complex. I’m never, ever good or smart enough. Sometimes this causes problems with how I think God sees me.
  46. I think people-watching at the airport would make a great date, which is probably why I’ve been on a very few number of dates.
  47. I think it would be hilarious to name my future son Boyd.
  48. My hand can span a 10th (interval) on the piano.
  49. Someday I want to sky dive.
  50. I fear over-studying, so I don’t study at all. A huge character flaw.
  51. I’ve been in a plane that was flying upside-down.
  52. I delight in a good bit of sarcasm.
  53. I make all sorts of mental and written organizational plans and promptly don’t follow them.
  54. I don’t cry very often.
  55. I’ve ridden a horse bareback.
  56. I love to climb trees and have fallen out of a tree only twice (to my knowledge.)
  57. I have a big nose.
  58. There is a distinctive dark freckle on the left side of my big nose that has been there my whole life.
  59. I don’t particularly enjoy talking on the phone.
  60. I prayed for a baby sister and I got one.
  61. I’m the second oldest of 19 grandchildren (oldest granddaughter.)
  62. I can’t dance but try to anyways.
  63. I’m not allergic to anything.
  64. I hardly ever wear make-up.
  65. I’ve been to the top of Pike’s Peak. It was raining sleet and there was snow/ice on the ground but I wore shorts and sandals like a true Californian.
  66. I get déjà vu all the time.
  67. I am obsessed with good pens.
  68. I like everything about true stories.
  69. When I was 5 I wanted to be a missionary in Africa, like my grandma. Then TAB and I planned to drive around in a UPS truck and sing for various churches. Then I wanted to be a veterinarian (like James Herriot) in Alaska. Now I just want to help people.
  70. I am a pessimistic procrastinating perfectionist. Not a good combination AT ALL.
  71. I come from a very long line of blue-eyed women.
  72. I like to tuck one (or both) of my legs under me when I sit.
  73. Though naturally somewhat wavy, my hair does not hold a curl AT ALL, no matter what method is used.
  74. I have been (unintentionally) locked in the trunk of a Ford Taurus. Since the only key to the trunk happened to be in Boston at the time, a locksmith had to come to get me out.
  75. I hate answering the door or the phone.
  76. With me, there is no such thing as a pair of pants that is too long and I cringe whenever someone speaks of hemming up a pair of jeans.
  77. I enjoy photography.
  78. The only man I’ve ever kissed is the man I married on May 21, 2005. (We kissed before then, in case you were wondering.)
  79. I won a “make-noise-with-your-instrument-for-as-long-as-you-can” contest in band. My clarinet and I beat out the whole band, including the loud-mouthed saxophonist.
  80. During childhood I spent many a naptime standing on my head (on my bed) and singing.
  81. I don’t like small talk.
  82. I burst the sac of fluid beneath my left kneecap in a dirt-biking accident. I never again mistook the clutch for the front brake.
  83. Scott Joplin is one of my favorite composers. I can play several of his songs on the piano.
  84. I can roller blade backward (and forward.)
  85. I do not tan. My body skips straight to a burn followed by peeling and a few more freckles.
  86. I could never be a successful vegetarian. Bacon is essential.
  87. I know true love.
  88. I went to the same summer camp every year for 22 consecutive years.
  89. Big downtown cities make me claustrophobic.
  90. I am not now nor ever have been anorexic.
  91. I should follow my own advice more often.
  92. I’ll try most things once, provided they aren’t illegal or immoral.
  93. I have vivid, detailed, intricate dreams.
  94. I wish the human voice were capable of producing more than one tone at the same time. Wouldn’t it be awesome if you could yell at someone in a D minor chord?
  95. I don’t like the color pink at all.
  96. I think beer of any kind is disgusting.
  97. I am a firm believer in good, clean fun.
  98. The only shape my legs have is KNEE.
  99. I don’t like shopping for clothes.
  100. I have a total of five piercings in my ears.
  101. My mind wanders constantly, and then returns suddenly to interrupt myself. That’s why I talk like I do.
  102. I like to sing hymns, especially with other people and especially in four-part harmony.
  103. The only B I ever got in high school was for Bible class and I graduated as salutatorian because of it.
  104. I don’t mind being alone except on long car trips.
  105. I enjoy almost any kind of music.
  106. Instead of suturing a wound closed, the doctor put staples in my scalp.
  107. I enjoy spending time outdoors, especially hiking and camping.
  108. I have a vivid imagination.
  109. My skin is pretty much translucent.
  110. Unconstrained, I sneeze like a banshee.