100 Things About Me

• I like to eat saltines with the salty side face down on my tongue.
• I take much better care of my vegetable garden then my flower garden.
• When I was 11 I was the only girl on my basketball team.
• I love containers, boxes, bottles, etc.
• I've been to Tonga three times.
• I've gone 7 days without showering.
• I was working out in the West desert of Utah with troubled youth at the time.
• I had some embarrassing hairdo's growing up.
• I hid my brothers toys and then told them if they gave me a quarter I'd find them.
• I failed my driving test twice.
• I've never wanted pets, they stink and just cost money.
• I had a blue wedding dress.
• I am a go, go, go, multi-tasking sort of person.
• Becoming a mom has slowed me down and surprisingly I'm enjoying it.
• I research things thoroughly before I buy them.
• Half of my wardrobe comes from my mom and sister. (I was the oldest so I didn't have hand-me-downs as a child)
• I like to plan...trips, meals, the day.
• I like grocery shopping.
• I'm a realist.
• I like the anticipation that comes with using film rather then using a instant gratification digital camera.
• I was the jump-roping queen of my kindergarten and...
• the pogo stick queen of elementary school.
• My grade school coach instilled in me a love for obstacle courses.
• I'd rather have cookies then cake any day.
• I'm more an observer then a thinker.
• I just look at magazines, my husband reads them.
• I am the oldest and I am bossy.
• I am a pleaser.
• I floss my teeth every night due to the example of my husband, but I do it twice as fast as him
• I love discovering new music.
• I wash my hair every third day.
• I like to be on time.
• I met Brian on a blind date.
• I've hiked Utah's three tallest mountains: King's Peak, Mount Nebo, and Mount Timpanogus.
• I'm a tomboy.
• I made my own longboard.
• My friend Emily Owen Manwaring and I painted the rival mascots in our high school gym.
• I worked a summer in Glacier Bay Alaska with friends from high school.
• I saw a cow's throat slit on the streets of a small town in China.
• I've eaten horse, dog, chicken feet and pigs blood.
• I'm a morning person.
• I love to go backpacking in southern Utah.
• I like to make Brian laugh.
• Because I love his laugh.
• I'm starting to have a hard time thinking of things.
• I don't like talking on the phone.
• I like to go skinny dipping.
• I don't like cheap ice cream.
• That's one thing I splurge on, a pint of Haagen-Dazs is just the right size for Brian and I.
• Sometimes I stutter.
• When I give a talk in church I have to write it all out.
• One of my favorite restaurants is Veil in Seattle Washington.
• I've always wanted to go hang-gliding.
• I like comfortable shoes, no high-heels please.
• I'd rather have my back rubbed then scratched.
• I've been dinosaur bone digging.
• It's not hard to make me cry.
• I like carob.
• I make smores in the microwave often.
• I speak mandarin chinese.
• I've forgotten a lot of it.
• I don't remember my dreams.
• 38 more to come....