I was tagged by , one of the best men in 's and my wedding. Will repost to LJ, more than likely.


THREE NAMES YOU GO BY:
1. Sarah (duh)
2. Rena (on the interwebs)
3. Sweetiebutt (but only from Cody)

THREE SCREEN NAMES YOU'VE HAD:
1. RenaissanceGrrl
2. Rena_Librarian
3. RenaissanceGrrl_thelibrarian (I have another name on a certain site, but the whole point is I don't want the people on THAT site to find me on the other sites and get to know the actual me, lol)

THREE THINGS YOU'VE DONE IN THE LAST 33 MINUTES:
1. Read a few chapters of the Animorphs book I'm in the middle of
2. Poked my email and Offbeat Bride
3. Edited the wedding checklist (which is so much shorter since I quit using it verbatim from theknot.com...hm)

THREE THINGS YOU LIKE ABOUT YOURSELF:
1. Brains
2. Fashion sense
3. My OCD, lol

THREE THINGS YOU DISLIKE ABOUT YOURSELF:
1. I could be thinner
2. Procrastinator
3. I'm trying to decide if I've embraced my flaws or if I just have an unbearably huge ego, but really, I can't think of anything.

THREE THINGS YOU'RE AFRAID OF:
1. Anything bad happening to Cody
2. DOGS >_<
3. Catching my hair on fire

THREE THINGS YOU ARE WEARING RIGHT NOW:
1. pajamas
2. undies
3. uh...a hair tie

THREE OF YOUR EVERYDAY ESSENTIALS:
1. Lipgloss (from a comfort standpoint more than a fashion one)
2. My computer(s)
3. Snuggles and kisses from Cody (yeah, yeah, feel free to gag yourself on a chocolate heart)

THREE IMPORTANT OBJECTS:
1. My engagement ring & wedding band
2. My computer(s)
3. My grandma's dishes (they're orange and they KICK ASS) (though she'd wash my mouth with dish soap if she heard me say that)

THREE OF YOUR FAVORITE BANDS:
1. World Without Sundays
2. Avril Lavigne (Why don't these things say "musicians"? Because not all musical artists are "bands," per se.)
3. Screw overthinking this. Bloodhound Gang. I like music-as-humor.

THREE WAYS TO BE HAPPY:
1. Huggle Cody
2. Listen to music
3. Read

THREE OF YOUR FAVORITE SONGS AT PRESENT: (these change roughly every day if not more)
1. Get Over It by Avril Lavigne
2. Geeks in Love by Lemon Demon
3. She Will Be Loved cover by the Vitamin String Quartet

THREE NEW THINGS YOU WANT TO TRY IN THE NEXT 12 MONTHS:
1. [redacted]
2. [redacted]
3. [redacted] (...well, we ARE gonna be married soon!)

THREE THINGS YOU REGRET:
1. ...every guy before Cody, in a way (on the other hand I signed up for the dating site where Cody and I met in a fit of "screw him!" and another gave me the advice that led to me chatting with him)
2. Partaking of the Honors Program in college (if I hadn't done that I'd probably have a BA by now)
3. Not moving out sooner

THREE THINGS YOU WANT IN A RELATIONSHIP:
1. Cody
2. Cody
3. Cody (I have less than three months until my wedding, forgive me for being ridiculously full of sap)

THREE IMPORTANT THINGS YOU'VE GIVEN TO THE WORLD:
1. Important?
2. ...ME?
3. ...IDK.

TWO TRUTHS AND A LIE: (not necessarily in that order, muahahaha)
1. Much as I hate it now, pink was my favorite color when I was really little.
2. I had lots of trouble deciding on my wedding colors.
3. I don't own a single pair of plain white socks.

THREE THINGS YOU LIKE IN THE OPPOSITE SEX:
1. BRAINS
2. A sense of humor (by which I mean, they should be able to make ME laugh)
3. Politeness

THREE PHYSICAL THINGS YOU LIKE IN THE OPPOSITE SEX:
1. Nice hair (I had a woman stop me while Cody and I were out grocery shopping and tell me she and her friends eat at McD's on Sundays and they all covet his hair)
2. Killer eyes
3. Sexy arms

THREE THINGS YOU JUST CAN'T DO:
1. Change a diaper
2. Cartwheels
3. I'm with Michael, play an instrument (I srsly fail even at Cody's kazoo)

THREE THINGS YOU MISS FROM YOUR PAST:
1. DQ selling ice cream cake cupcakes.
2. Kinda sorta the house we lived in when I was little...though if I owned it now it would get majorly redecorated, lol...inside and out...
3. There was a Rainbow Brite book that I think I sold in The Big Move Yardsale when I was seven. (I think Mom talked me into it because she was never cool with the idea of Rainbow Brite, but I'm even more shaky on that memory.) I started looking for it once we got settled/unpacked but never found it.

THREE GIFTS YOU WOULD LIKE TO RECEIVE:
1. a MacBook
2. a free honeymoon
3. the last ten or so Animorphs books that I can't find on BookMooch

THREE REASONS WHY YOU ARE WHO YOU ARE:
1. I never had siblings in my house
2. I figured out that my parents didn't know it all, either
3. I read a lot and retain more than the average person

THREE OF YOUR FAVORITE HOBBIES:
1. Reading
2. Drawing
3. Wedding planning

THREE THINGS YOU WANT TO DO REALLY BADLY RIGHT NOW:
1. Get the Sims reinstalled
2. Get all this stupid debt paid off
3. Wake up (as in, oh hey, it's morning already)

THREE CAREERS YOU'RE CONSIDERING:
1. Bestselling author
2. Makeup artist
3. ...seriously? I'd be okay with sitting behind a desk and answering the phone forever. Above and beyond getting the bills paid, I just need enough money to sustain a shoe habit. I don't really need to be fabulously rich.

THREE PLACES YOU WANT TO GO FOR HOLIDAY:
1. England (for the irony, among other things, lol)
2. Chicago
3. honeymoon in New England

THREE CARTOON CHARACTERS:
1. Kenshin Himura
2. Brian Griffin
3. Bobby Hill (I wanted to hate King of the Hill but dangit he's funny!)

THREE THINGS YOU WANT TO DO BEFORE YOU DIE:
1. Extensive European travel, including a couple blocks away from the Tower of Pisa so I can take that picture where it looks like I'm holding it up.
2. Finish my reading list (HAAAAA)
3. Cody *wink wink*