Tuesday, July 8, 2008

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....

3 comments:

No Big Dill said...

You like carob?

Great list! Can't wait to read the rest!

Ann said...

I'm learning some new things about you. Keep them coming!

No Big Dill said...

I am waiting for the "more to come"
RD