Friday, March 23, 2007

• Ok ok, the peer pressure is too much for me. I want to be like my fellow bloggers. I want to do a list of 100 Things Mostly About Me.

  1) When my mom was potty training me, I pooped in my pants one afternoon while we were in the garden. Flies started to flock to my butt, and I started crying because I hate bugs of any kind, and my mom calmly kept watering and let me suffer. Pretty sure that was the last time I pooped my pants.

  2) I hate the sound of people clipping their fingernails.

  3) I got in trouble in kindergarten because every morning the teacher would go around the room and ask us to say good morning to her. I refused to say “good morning Mrs. Mitchell” because I was the most shy kid ever.

  4) I went skinny dipping on Bel Canto tour my freshman year.

  5) When I’m in line at Starbucks, I repeat my order over and over in my head to make sure I say it right. Except when I get up to the counter I usually say “Um, yeah, grande nonfat… um, iced… grande nonfat… mocha… only 3 pumps of mocha… yeah. And no whip. Did I say nonfat?”

  6) I had a solo at church in 5^th grade. I sang one note into the microphone, got so freaked out because I thought my voice sounded really different on the mic, and I ran off the stage.

  7) My biggest and deepest and somewhat debilitating fear is the fear of failure. I compensate by pretending that what other people think doesn’t matter to me, when in reality, it matters more than anything.

  8) I rarely studied in college and I graduated with honors.

  9) I am addicted to pedicures. I think my toes look ugly without one.

  10) I am the most ridiculously hopeless romantic to walk the face of the planet.

  11) I started playing french horn my junior year of high school after never touching an instrument before because I wanted to take another period of music. It was one of the best decisions I ever made.

  12) Sometimes when I am in the car by myself, I have conversations out loud. I like talking through the way I want conversations to go before I actually have them.

  13) I am a control freak. See #12.

  14) I wonder if I will dress badly when I am old. I don't think I will, but look around. Most old people dress horribly. Why should I be any different?

  15) I used to never ever fart, until my roommates in college taught me how using a method called the fart machine.

  16) Guys usually love me. Just not in the way I want them to.

  17) My last relationship taught me everything I need to know (mostly about what not to do) about being in a relationship. I haven’t been in once since because I have a very clear picture of what I want and need, and wasting my time is not something I am interested in doing.

  18) I got really drunk freshman year of college the night before wind ensemble tour and I slept the entire bus ride to Arizona. (Ah, Manny and his Triple Zip Flip mixology…)

  19) Doing little things for people (sending a card, bring them coffee, giving a compliment) makes me happy.

  20) I type too fast for my own good. I’ve already fixed like 15 typos because my fingers are moving faster than my brain. I actually am a very good writer and speller, although it doesn’t always seem that way.

  21) I love cool old people who do things like tell the same jokes they have been telling for years that still crack them up.

  22) There is one bathroom downstairs in the house where I grew up. For years (and I mean years), there was no door on it. So whenever anyone was using it, they would yell “don’t come down the hallway!”

  23) I did a lot of toilet papering in high school.

  24) I secretly want to be a famous performer, even though I get terrible stage fright. I very often (well, more often when I lived alone) crank up some music, grab something that is the same general size as a microphone, and give an amazing performance… to no one. (See #7)

  25) I don’t show up places late. I’m usually early. Sometimes way too early. Which is why I keep several books of logic puzzles and Sudoku in my car.

  26) I am an amazing bargain shopper.

  27) I still have not read the Bible all the way through.

  28) I think too much. At any given moment, my head is filled with scenarios, ideas, problems I need to figure out, things I need to do, etc.

  29) I joke a lot about people spelling my name wrong, but I actually really hate when people do it. For real.

  30) I love going to the beach in cold weather.

  31) If I get married, I’m 85% sure that I am going to elope. Either that or have a small ceremony that doesn’t cost very much, doesn’t stress me out very much, and only invite like 20 people total.

  32) I go in purse phases. I will carry one for like 3 months (even if it doesn’t match what I’m wearing), and then buy a new one and use that one for 3 months. It’s a vicious cycle. Thank God there is Ross.

  33) I would rather sit and stare at the TV as it is paused, because I know I’m going to catch up to live TV before the program is over, instead of watching commercials.

  34) My parents used to do really fun things like have really elaborate board game tournaments when my sister and I were young.

  35) If I have kids, I don’t want to work when they are young. I want to raise them myself, not send them out to daycare.

  36) I am really interested in real estate. I think I would be really good at flipping houses (in the right market, of course), but I just need some money to start off. Anyone want to finance me?

  37) My favorite place that I lived in college was Bowles. A bunch of my friends lived in middle court and we all had a blast. Which is funny, because I lived there junior year, and junior year was a pretty rough year for me.

  38) I have a hard time spelling calendar and separate.

  39) I love text messaging.

  40) I hated Mexican food until I moved to Azusa. Probably because Oakhurst didn’t have any good Mexican food. Or Mexicans.

  41) My mom used to give me Kahlua when I was young and I couldn’t stop coughing at night.

  42) It brings joy to my heart to see my friend Deanna doing her famous “silent laugh.” I can even tell when she is doing it while we are on the phone.

  43) It’s hard not to be judgmental when you believe with every fiber of your being that you are right.

  44) I can’t decide what I like more, traveling or making travel plans.

  45) I have probably only made my bed 75 times in my life.

  46) My friend Karen Long is my soul mate (in a non-lesbonic way). We have the exact same brain. It’s bizarre.

  47) I don’t really mind being tall.

  48) I really don’t like gum or mints, but I also do not like bad breath.

  49) I used to be a pretty good dancer.

  50) I can sleep anywhere.

  51) I am super self-conscious, although I try not to let it show, because it would make me self-conscious if people knew I was self-conscious.

  52) I have a lot of different groups of friends.

  53) I have a hard time trusting most people.

  54) I fall in love very, very quickly.

  55) I think my personality has changed completely in the past 10 years.

  56) I can’t figure out what to do with my hair for the life of me. Curly or straight? Short or long? Up or down? I still haven’t figured out what it wants to do.

  57) One of my top strengths is Developer, which means that I recognize and cultivate potential in others.

  58) I want to learn to play the banjo.

  59) I am deathly afraid of the dentist.

  60) I recently started wearing my watch on my right wrist again, because I think it looks weird when you have a wedding set AND a watch on your left hand/wrist and nothing on your right hand. Not like I’m about to get married. But hey, a girl’s gotta be prepared.

  61) I think roulette is the most fun game to play in Vegas, even though it has the worst odds.

  62) I really want to buy the perfect leather jacket, but I haven’t been able to find it yet.

  63) I hate talking about myself. I don’t mind writing about myself, however.

  64) I have wondered at least once about most of my single guy friends if they like me or not, which is why I enjoy being friends with married men.

  65) I always run out of stamps.

  66) I own at least 20 different kinds of lip gloss, but I wear it maybe 20 minutes a day, if at all.

  67) I want to learn how to play frisbee golf, but I am terrible at throwing a frisbee.

  68) I love camping.

  69) I am scared that the man of my dreams is going to have a terrible last name. I don’t want to have to love him a little less just because his name is so awful, but it just might come to that.

  70) I plan to publish a book by the time I am 30.

  71) I have never had a professional massage. I think I would enjoy it, and I’m sure my back could use it, but the idea of someone rubbing my naked oily body for money just seems unnatural.

  72) Water that is super cold tastes so much better than it does at room temperature.

  73) I wish I could be more honest with people. I value honesty, so I should practice it.

  74) I’m sorry, but I just don’t like animals. They are gross, and not that cute, and totally annoying. Deal with it, future children. Go pet the neighbor’s dog. Or pet the neighbor’s fish.

  75) Whenever I go out to eat and I order a pop, I always ask for “diet” so I don’t have to figure out whether they serve coke or pepsi. 9 times out of 10, the waiter will ask “diet coke ok?” or “diet pepsi ok?” Yes, clearly either is fine. That’s why I just said diet.

  76) I make really good potato salad.

  77) I started listening to country music the day after I met my ex-boyfriend, who was southern in every sense of the word, because I wanted to have something else in common with him. And I love it to this day.

  78) I hate 99% of breakfast breads and pastries. Waffles, pancakes, danishes – yuck.

  79) Al Clifft taught me how to worship God through music.

  80) I haven’t changed 2 of the clocks in my room since Daylight Savings a few weeks ago.

  81) I am amazingly fast using the number keypad on a computer keyboard because of all of the ID numbers and course numbers I have typed over the past few years.

  82) I took three years of French in high school but can barely speak it at all. Languages aren’t really my thing, although I would really like to learn one.

  83) Bad grammar is a turn off.

  84) I have no problem going to movies by myself. I will not, however, go out to eat by myself, unless I have a book to read.

  85) I am somewhat fascinated by plane crashes.

  86) The only wedding I have ever been in was when my mom married my stepdad. It was outside in the evening, and there was this bug that kept buzzing around my face, so I don’t remember any of it because I was focused on not freaking out about the bug.

  87) I don’t really like going to concerts.

  88) I can’t be friends with people who don’t get my humor.

  89) Sometimes I think I’m really pretty, and sometimes I think I’m really ugly.

  90) I’m pretty sure I was clinically depressed part of my senior year of college and at least the entire year afterwards, but the thing about being depressed is that you don’t care enough to go to the doctor to get diagnosed.

  91) Deep Thoughts by Jack Handy bring so much joy to my life.

  92) I think all restaurants should serve smaller portions.

  93) I cry a lot. You probably didn’t know that.

  94) I really like those rock climbing walls. So fun.

  95) I love, love, love to laugh.

  96) My mom used to be the most recommended wedding florist in Yosemite park, and I have worked at countless weddings. I’m pretty good with flowers.

  97) I am very afraid to bring children into this world. I had amazing parents, and I was a really good kid with very strong values, but even I ended up in some sticky situations that I wouldn’t want my kids to be in. And this was years ago – I can’t even imagine what kids go through now.

  98) I love old movies. They just don’t make them like they used to.

  99) When I was born, my mom tells me that she was in the hospital bed praying her heart out because she didn’t think she could raise another baby because my sister was so difficult. She said that Jesus himself stood right beside her and told her that he loved her, that he wanted to give her the things that she wanted, that he had wonderful things in store for her, and not to be afraid. She always tears up when she tells me that story.

  100) I have never been able to do a cartwheel.

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