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Showing posts with label 100 things. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 100 things. Show all posts

January 22, 2009

100 things about me....

My friend Sara challenged me to try this, so here goes.......

  1. I don't know if I am interesting enough to list 100 things
  2. I would like to be more interesting
  3. I am going to work on that! :p
  4. I learned something new about my husband last night
  5. he likes cucumbers
  6. I would have never guessed that
  7. this list is about me....stay on topic!
  8. I am learning to blog and love it (thanks Cheryl!)
  9. I put my families needs ahead of my own
  10. I am trying to remember what I like to do
  11. I have forgotten.....
  12. I like to be home alone
  13. I love flannel pajamas...the old granny kind I never thought I'd wear
  14. my feet are cold a lot of the time
  15. once my feet are cold I can't get warm
  16. I take baths in the dark
  17. I love bath products...
  18. I have more bath products than I can use
  19. but I still buy more
  20. I line them up next to the tub so they look pretty
  21. I really like makeup
  22. I should wear it more often
  23. it makes me feel good when I do
  24. I get really worked up at water polo and yell when I probably shouldn't
  25. I didn't realize I was so competitive
  26. I hope I don't embarrass my kids
  27. I enjoy curling up with a blanket to read
  28. sometimes I read to escape my life
  29. I can finish a good book in a day
  30. sometimes I don't do the things I should (especially flossing)
  31. I love the feeling of a cool, crisp day with the sun on my back
  32. I love being in the sun
  33. I love the smell of rain
  34. I should be more diligent about wearing sunscreen
  35. I love the beach
  36. the sound of the waves relaxes me
  37. I love to swim,whether it is the ocean, or a pool
  38. I don't love to swim in lakes....the bottom is yukky
  39. I don't like when the water is murky, I worry about what is under me
  40. but then it scares me when I can see
  41. I worry about more than I should
  42. mostly I worry about things I can't control
  43. I try to remember what I can control
  44. a lot of the time it doesn't seem like much is in my control
  45. sometimes I worry about things that are probably irrelevant (but not to me!)
  46. I worry about my children
  47. if I am teaching them all they need to know
  48. I don't want them to get hurt
  49. I want them to be happy
  50. I am proud of the people they are becoming
  51. I am glad they aren't scared like I was when I was their age
  52. I think I have a skin cancer on my face
  53. I know I should take better care of myself
  54. I am already thinking I should edit this list
  55. Mike and I planted a rose garden
  56. I get great pleasure looking out my kitchen window at my roses
  57. I used to think only old ladies had rose gardens :)
  58. I am NOT an old lady
  59. I feed humming birds
  60. they are like drug addicts
  61. I like to garden
  62. I wish my yard looked like the gardening magazines
  63. I realize I don't have time to make my yard look like a magazine
  64. I still want it to look that way though
  65. I enjoy taking pictures
  66. I take more pictures now that I blog
  67. I wish my kids liked me taking their picture
  68. the dog doesn't seem to mind
  69. I need to lose weight
  70. I should stop talking about it and do it
  71. I want it to happen without having to work at it!
  72. why is everything so hard?
  73. I wish everything weren't so hard
  74. I wonder what it is that I am supposed to be learning
  75. I consciously don't do things I know I won't be good at
  76. I will never jump out of a plane
  77. I am basically a scaredy cat
  78. I used to ice skate
  79. I was good
  80. I wish I could still be that good
  81. I want more friends
  82. this is getting hard.....I still feel compelled to go back and edit
  83. I want to be on a deserted island with my husband for at least a week
  84. he is my very best friend
  85. I don't know where I'd be without him
  86. I would love to go houseboating with my family
  87. chocolate ice cream is my favorite
  88. mint chip is a close second
  89. I don't drink soda (well occasionally)
  90. I am not sure what I will do with myself when my kids are grown
  91. maybe that is when my garden will be featured in a magazine
  92. I would like a piano for my living room
  93. I tell myself I would play it, after I learned
  94. I want to add a room to the side of the house
  95. I sometimes get rid of things I probably shouldn't
  96. I wonder if my kids will be mad I didn't save more things for them
  97. I don't like clutter
  98. sometimes I clean because I can't think of anything else to do
  99. I should make a list of other things to do
  100. if I were a millionaire I would put frech,clean sheets on my bed EVERY night! Actually I'd have someone do it for me! :O