100th Post

In honor of my 100th post, here are 100 things about me:

1. My favorite color is blue.
2. I am a zodiac weirdo, with a birthday on the cusp of cancer/leo.
3. I have a birthmark under my left arm.
4. I converted to Catholicism when I was 19.
5. By the time I was 23, I had stopped practicing.
6. I started again when Little Man was born.
7. Being at home drives me crazy most of the time, but it is the right thing for our family at this time.
8. That doesn't make it any easier to actually do it.
9. I am a slob.  I hate to clean.
10. I start hobbies and never stick with them, but instead just end up collecting all the crap to do them with.
11. I love to read.
12. Consequently, I have an English degree.
13. I finished my 5 year teaching degree in four years.
14. While working over 30 hours a week for most of it.
15. I have a 2-year associates degree, and I lived at home while earning it.
16. I transfered to a 4-year school to finish my English/teaching degree, and drove home almost every weekend to work.
17. I was a Camp Fire Girl.
18. I took ballet for 10 years.
19. I always took care of my toys because I wanted them to keep looking like they just came out of the box.
20. I just said "No firing cannons at the computer."
21. The comment my parents received most about me growing up was "Fishy is not working up to her potential."
22. I got detention only once in my life.
23. For yelling at the guy who sat behind me for pulling my hair.
24. In seventh grade math class.
25. His name was Kenny Campbell.
26. He went on to play the bagpipes.
27. Really well.
28. I can play clarinet and saxophone.
29. Averagely.  Which isn't a word.
30. I cannot for the life of me make a sound come out of a flute.
31. I hate the recorder.  I cannot make myself think of it as an actual instrument.
32. Little Man has a blue recorder.
33. My favorite food is pasta.
34. I miss my mom more now that I have kids than I ever did the first 10 years after her death.
35. I think Sunny looks just like her, with lighter hair.
36. I hate shopping for clothes because nothing ever fits me quite right.
37. I have never broken a bone.
38. I have gone ice skating in a car.  I don't recommend it.
39. In the ensuing accident, the sliding part was actually kinda fun.
40. The abrupt stop at the end wasn't.
41. I had back spasms for a week and could barely move.
42. My first job was in a children's shoe store.
43. I once fit shoes for a child who was being nursed by his/her mother.
44. It grossed me out.
45. Frankly, despite my feelings about breastfeeding, that same thing would probably gross me out today - just stop feeding the kid if it's time to get the shoes.
46. The kid was over 2 years old.
47. I was in marching band.
48. I had a few paid playing gigs in college and for a few years after.
49. I met my husband because his best friend played in one of those paying gigs with me.
50. I dated the friend first.
51. Somehow the friend doesn't hate us for that.  I don't quite understand this, but we are grateful.
52. He reads this website.
53. I love Christmas music.
54. I hate that my husband doesn't like the holidays.
55. Any of them.
56. I tend to be a "skin of the teeth" "seat of my pants" kinda girl.
57. That said, I am rather risk averse.
58. I hate flying.
59. Petrified of it.  Really.
60. Was before 9-11.
61. Still am now, but I get more understanding about it.
62. I am glad that my father lives several states away right now.
63. He will be coming back in a month.  I am not glad about that.
64. I don't know what I want to be when I grow up.
65. I would make a great lawyer, I think, and I would like it, but I don't want to go to law school.
66. I am lonely a lot of the time.
67. I don't like many members of my family.  If we weren't related, we wouldn't be friends.
68. I love the Sierra Mist Cranberry Splash flavor that is out now for the holidays.
69. NASCAR is my guilty pleasure.
70. My favorite driver is Mark Martin.
71. I love having fresh cut flowers around.
72. I am a terrible gardener - a total black thumb.
73. I rarely have flowers around because I can't justify the expense of buying them.
74. I am sometimes jealous that my husband makes the kind of money he does without having finished his degree when I busted my ass to finish mine quickly and it will never be a big money earner.
75. If I had a million dollars I'd buy a 6 bedroom house near my husband's job and a brand new minivan and save the rest for college expenses.
76. Right now I have a favorite among my kids.
77. I won't say who it is.  I hope none of them ever figure out who it is.
78. I feel terrible about this.
79. I was the favorite among the grandchildren in my family growing up and I hated it.
80. I try my hardest to treat my kids equally.
81. I know I fail sometimes.
82. I think I'm a rotten mother most of the time.
83. I let my kids watch too much tv and I don't do enough activities with them.
84. I lack the patience.
85. Plus I find it boring.
86. But I don't find the kids boring.
87. On the contrary, there's never a dull moment around here.
88. I do read to them, a lot, and I am proud that they all love books.
89. I'd like to claim credit for that, but think it's probably just their natures.
90. I like to go camping, but I hate the bug bites I always get.
91. I can't have any caffeine due to my heart condition, and I miss having coffee.  (decaf still has too much caffeine)
92. My husband had longer hair than I did when we got married.
93. My hair was down to the middle of my back.
94. I miss his long hair - it was sexy.
95. I was a metal head in high school.
96. I was deaf for 2 days after seeing AC/DC in concert.
97. I lost my virginity when I was 13.  Voluntarily.  Just to get it over with.
98. That was much too young.
99. I pray every day that my kids don't repeat that mistake.
100. Despite the complaints, I recognize I have a damn good life, and I'm grateful.

So there you have it - more and less than you ever wanted to know.  100 posts later, I'm still just as boring as ever.

Comments

[hokgardner]

You definitely aren't boring.

And I agree about number 65. When I was in grad school my roommate was a childhood friend who was in law school. I had always thought about going to law school until I lived with her. Watching her go through it was enough to scare me off.

And I heard number 21 a lot when I was in school. The fact that my mom taught at my school didn't help things.