This is post 101.
But still, I give you...
100 Things About Me
- I’m not a morning person. Left to my own devices I would sleep until 9:00am. This is not sloth. I can’t put myself to bed before midnight no matter how hard I try.
- I don’t cook. Do not mistake this for ‘Can’t Cook’ or ‘Cooks Badly’. I can follow directions like everyone else. I choose not to cook. I take very little joy in it. Too messy.
- When I do cook – it’s awesome.
- I’m adopted.
- I grew up on a farm.
- I rode horses all my life until I left for college.
- I competed in 4-H rodeos. My favorite event was Barrel Racing.
- I’m naturally thin. This does not mean I am fit.
- I’d rather not have curtains. I love sunlight and a view and I could never understand why people are shocked if they can see inside someone’s house after dark. Especially if the people inside are not naked.
- I hate pulp in orange juice and lemonade.
- I love any food that comes from dead pig. Bacon is nature’s candy.
- I can sew. I would do it more if I had a spare room to dedicate for sewing and the mess that ensues.
- While I can sew clothing quite well, I mostly sew crafty baby gifts. Sewing clothes is not cost effective like it was when I was in high school.
- I want to be a great photographer one day.
- I want to be a wife and mother one day. God seems to have other plans.
- I live for summer. Heat and humidity are my friends.
- I’ve had stitches twice.
- Only one broken bone. My scapula. Car wreck. They can’t put a cast on your scapula.
- Favorite color? Can’t pick one. I love orange. I love green. Several shades of brown. Blue is fun. Yellow is cheerful and spunky. Orange rocks.
- I love the smell of fresh cut grass and band-aids. Separate, not together.
- I am completely mesmerized by the sound of a trickling brook or babbling stream.
- My favorite sound is the sound of babies and children laughing. From the gut. Love it!
- I started mowing our lawn when I was about 10 years old. I like mowing the lawn.
- Until college, I thought mowing the lawn was ‘women’s work’.
- Growing up, I never got an allowance.
- I didn’t have a checking account until I started college.
- That was a mistake.
- A clean and shiny bathroom sink makes me very happy.
- I get hives due to allergies. This does not make me a nerd.
- None of my best girlfriends know one another. They are scattered all over the country so they have never met.
- I’ve told them all to save up for a spa weekend somewhere (I think Seattle) for my 40th birthday. It’ll be great to have all my girls together and have them finally meet!
- A very high percentage of my friends are named Kim or Kelly. This started with my cousins who are twins – the others kept showing up throughout my life! Kimberly, Keli – all of them!
- I have two nephews and two nieces. They are all gorgeous.
- I have been abstinent for more than 11 years. What is God waiting for?!
- I love shopping at TJMaxx.
- I have two pair of sexy high heels that I love so much that I actually tell them so.
- I love cleaning and organizing in my friends’ homes. Not so much when cleaning my own.
- I’m really horrible at math. Math is a 4-letter word.
- I can still turn cartwheels.
- I butter my toast on both sides.
- My first job was at Hardee’s.
- I cannot have chips in my house because I will eat the entire bag in one sitting.
- I have monkey toes. I can pick stuff up with them.
- I hate turtlenecks. Can’t stand them around my neck. Even seeing them on others makes me feel a little strangled.
- I performed in school plays in high school. I was always the wise-cracking maid.
- I cannot play an instrument even though I had guitar lessons, clarinet lessons and organ lessons.
- I’m sarcastic. and loud.
- I sneeze so loudly it scares people.
- I’m starting to see where it might be hard to like me!
- As a kid I would climb anything with a firm foothold. Grain bins, abandoned farm equipment, trees – anything. Mom hated this.
- I once stood atop each presidential head on Mount Rushmore. Not everyone gets to do that.
- When I did, (with permission) the Park Ranger freaked out and tied a rope around me because I was too close to Roosevelt’s forehead.
- I love heights, obviously.
- I make burgers with English Muffins rather than hamburger buns. Much tastier.
- I have a good singing voice. Not great, but not offensive.
- I grind my teeth. Have for at least 30 years. Now I wear a nightguard. Ith tho thexy.
- I don’t like beer.
- My friends are mad that my natural hair color (at age 38) does not include any grays.
I can’t whistle. - I can’t swim. I know how to… but I can’t.
- I love dry wit and sarcastic humor.
- I’ve never seen a single Star Wars movie in its entirety. For this offense, I am at risk of losing my Generation X membership card.
- Personified animals, in cartoon or actual form, amuse me to no end. Dogs reading newspapers? Hilarious. A chicken wearing glasses? Unholy riot. One of my friends has a dog that sits like a human. I can’t stand it!
- I have never tried any illegal drug. Nothing. Smoked clove cigarettes once in college – that’s as hard as I ever got.
- I have never had a one night stand.
- My worst fear is growing old alone.
- After 6 semesters of Spanish, I can’t recall much beyond “Donde esta el bano?” I figured it was the most useful phrase.
- My first car was a 1979 Buick Park Avenue. We called it ‘The Enterprise”.
- I totaled that car on 08-08-88.
- I totaled my last car on 08-08-08.
- I can roll my tongue.
- I can roll my Rs.
- I can’t wiggle my ears.
- I can never remember the body of jokes… only the punch lines.
- The songs at church usually make me cry.
- I don’t like BBQ’d food. Grilled sure – it’s the BBQ sauce that creeps me out.
- I can’t paint my fingernails or toenails. Yeah I can reach ‘em but the results ain’t pretty. That job is outsourced.
- People who bring their dogs everywhere, annoy me.
- People who dress their dogs make me want to see them institutionalized. The humans, not the dogs.
- Some people think I don’t like dogs. They are wrong. Usually it’s the dog owner I don’t like. (Can’t blame the dog for not being trained/socialized.)
- I didn’t like Cherries until well into adulthood.
- My family opens gifts on Christmas Eve.
- I can’t flirt. Haven’t the faintest idea how.
- Once I decide you are my friend – you can’t get out of it. No way no how.
- I would do anything for my friends. Anytime of the day or night. Need me? Call me.
- I think I’m a little addicted to the internet.
- Idid not know the great pleasure of high thread count sheets until this past year. Now I'm spoiled!
- I have never successfully balanced my checkbook.
- I think my dad is the smartest man who never finished High School that you’ll ever meet. He has a unique wisdom.
- I choke on food – a lot.
- My two longest romantic relationships have lasted a year and a half. I think it’s pretty clear by then if you belong together or not.
- I once ate a mudpie prepared by my big sister. I told her it was a little dry.
- I once hiked behind a waterfall where I smooched my then boyfriend.
- I learned to ski at age 27.
- It was the first sport I could actually DO. I was thrilled.
- I secretly wish I were more athletic.
- I am satisfied with my very small chest. But I would take bigger boobs if it came by magic and not surgery.
- My brother and I grew further apart after our sister died. We are not close.
- I never really liked school.
- I skipped all but my 10 year High School Reunion. (We have them every 5 years.)
- I trust God’s plan for me but I wish I trusted Him even more.
3 comments:
Are you interested in being on my Gen X blog roll - 50 Gen X bloggers from 50 States? I like your list of 100 things about you. Abstinence is a good thing. Have you read the book, "Choosing God's Best." ?? You seem to be on the right path. Please take a gander at my blog and see if you'd like to be on the roll for Colorado.
I have never watched a full Star Wars OR Indiana Jones. I wear a retainer at night. Altho tho thexy.
And there's more.
We could so be twins.
;)
Well, you can come play with my kids and clean and organize my house any time you like! :) I've never watched a full episode of Star Wars or Star Trek or whatever, either. I really like your Public Service announcement, too!
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