One Hundred Things About Me

Once again my sister-in-law Trista (team-meat.blogspot.com) has inspired me! She posted a list of 100 things about herself that others may or may not know...so I thought I would try too. :)
1. I love "love stories"... books, movies, real life...
2. I can't whistle
3. I want to meet the kids that we sponsor someday: Jose from the Dominican Republic, and Jean from Rwanda.
4. I feel guilty sometimes for having so much
5. I must admit there are many times I think I want more.
6. I love hearing birds sing
7. I wish I didn't date so much in high school and college.
8. I pray that my kids will know that God loves them
9. I pray that they will love God
10. I recently read a book my mom gave me (Having a Mary Heart in a Martha World) that inspired me to pray about any thing I worry about instead of stressing over them...I think it will take practice!
11. I loved going to my parents Bible study with my parents and aunts and grandparents and a couple of cousins
12. I sometimes miss dancing
13. I really miss our friends and the times we spent reading and studying the Bible and praying together and encouraging each other.
14. I have always admired my big brothers for their creativity and artistic abilities
15. I am seeing how beautiful it is that God gives everyone different gifts and abilities that makes them special
16. I regret not being Rob's friend in middle school
17. I loved being his close friend in high school
18. I would love to go on a cruise with my hubby and best friends someday
19. I hate it when I am judgmental and selfish
20. I sometimes laugh and have to turn away when Lana is whinny
21. I love it that Lana talks to her food
22. I never drank alcohol until my 21st birthday (I was with Jeremy)
23. I have never wanted to smoke anything
24. I believe that Love Wins
25. I can't wait until Lana's (and David for that matter) potty trained.
26. I sometimes wonder what it would be like to be a teacher.
27. I like snakes and lizards
28. I am afraid of sharks and I get a little nervous in the ocean
29. I still like macaroni and cheese
30. I sometimes get German and Spanish mixed up
31. I buy Lucky Charms for me and have Lana eat Cheerios
32. I talk to myself
33. I like being short.
34. I love staying home with my kids
35. I really miss working sometimes
36. I love how much Jeremy makes me laugh
37. I like looking at the stars and looking at clouds
38. I like to sing (even though no one really wants to hear it)
39. I like playing spider solitare on the computer (pathetic I know)
40. I love flowers, especially daffodil's and Lilies, although I hate gardening
41. I like watching movies with my hubby
42. I laugh a lot with my kids
43. I enjoy veggie tales
44. I have been proud of myself for cooking good meals
45. I love Florida weather
46. I think I would enjoy moving back to Michigan
47. I love dessert! Especially ice-cream!
48. I would rather be a passenger than drive
49. I am afraid to downhill ski
50. I don't like my crooked nose.
51. I love wearing my flip flops (or as Alan would say: "thongs")
52. I want to make a difference in the world...like helping rescue children forced into prostitution. (sadly, this is quite common in South Asia-check out www.ijm.org)
53. It always makes me smile when Jeremy sings to me. :)
54. Skittles always make me think of my dad. He used to buy them for me to have when I was done with dance practice.
55. I am so proud of my parents for going back to school and for always encouraging our own educations.
56. I love it when my mom laughs!
57. I loved all of our camping trips growing up
58. I LOVE garlic bread!
59. I love it when Lana sings!!! it is so cute!
60. I love it when Lana and David make each other belly laugh!
61. I can't wait until my kids can play with their cousins again.
62. Journaling helps me focus my thoughts, and often helps me pray.
63. I love old movies...black and white...musicals...I love it that there isn't anything bad in them.
64. When I drive places I get lost pretty easily...which inevitably makes me cry.
65. budgeting and managing money and investing isn't very interesting to me...I don't understand a lot of it and it either makes me bored or...makes me cry!
66. I still like hay rides :)
67. I have never been to a concert that wasn't "christian"
68. I laugh at myself a lot
69. I say "I'm sorry" too much, but for some reason I haven't been able to make myself stop
70. I loved growing up with two big brothers
71. I prefer fiction over non-fiction
72. I am directionally impared. Example: yesterday someone asked me if we used to live by the west coast of Florida and I said "no, we were on the gulf side".....once again #68!
73. I got detention twice for laughing and "disrupting the class"
74. In middle school I told on myself to my dad. He thought I was acting guilty so he said he talked to my teacher, and I confessed everything. (laughing and disrupting the class minus the detention bit)
75. I was often referred to as a "social butterfly" to my parents during conferences
76. I was always one of the worst athletes in my gym class...I didn't try too hard, but I don't think it would have made much of a difference. (I admit, I am still afraid of "the" ball)
77. I ran track one year at school. I think I may have been the worst on the team. They couldn't find an event that I wasn't terrible at.
78. I think gross hospital stories are pretty funny
79. I think Dumb and Dumber must be the funniest movie ever. It makes me laugh more every time I see it!
80. I can't do math in my head very well.
81. I am not really creative, I am pretty good at copying things. (this list for example!) I have found that I can draw copies of things pretty well, but I can't come up with original ideas.
82. I have thought about publishing childrens books, but I worry about the creative thing
83. I still think it would be fun to drive a hummer. (it would be most fun if I could drive it right over parked cars)
84. I used to hang out with my college friends at a funeral home. (one of them worked there... we actually had a lot of fun!)
85. I love how much Jeremy makes me laugh...I remember eating lunch with him in high school and setting my empty soda bottle on his tray and he scowled at me and swung his arm and launched it across the lunch room...I am laughing right now just thinking about it!
86. I love how Jeremy's grandparents read something from the Bible out loud everyday after they eat dinner.
87. I love rollercoasters...I would love to go to Cedar Point a few times a year!
88. I don't know if I will ever have the guts to bungee jump or to sky dive
89. I am stubborn. I remember going to bed without dinner because I wouldn't eat my vegetables. Now, I wonder where Lana gets it from?.....
90. I once trimmed Lana's finger along with her fingernail and I cried harder than she did!
91. I don't mind blood and I am used to watching someone put stitches in, but I almost passed out when I watched my hand getting stitched.
92. I was trying to cook Christmas dinner when that happened...the night was spent in the er instead....it took forever!
93. I loved spending time at my grandparent's cottage growing up, and swimming in the lake and going on their boat and ice skating.
94. I like going to casinos and playing at the tables ($10 minimum, or it scares me!)
95. I loved reading Rob Bell's book "Velvet Elvis" It inspires me.
96. I have the greatest family!
97. I actually have a bit of a tan! (miracle of miracles!)
98. I love it that David likes me best (for now)
99. My biggest fear is not being on the right path... I want to have confidence, but sometimes I am afraid of not going to heaven.
100. I pray that I will make people's lives better.