Awhile ago I began my 100 things, only to lose focus after the first 60. Turns out, it is really hard to think of that many things to say about myself! Here's the worst part--I took all day to type this post, to fill out the last 40 items, and when I finally finished, when I clicked SAVE . . . my network connection had timed out, I got the "Page not found" page, and my post was gone! Argh! My cry of despair scared my baby and made her cry. I don't want to try to do it again! Aww, but now I have to . . .
61. I have no memory of most of what I listed here earlier today.
62. I am afraid of the dark.
63. I like beer, but it has to be good beer, like a good red ale, or a wheat ale.
64. I love The Gilmore Girls.
65. I love board games, especially Trivial Pursuit.
66. I don't highlight my hair because I can't keep them up. I only go to a salon twice a year.
67. I think milkshakes are the perfect cure for heartburn. Especially when you're pregnant.
68. I've been pregnant three times, and I'm still carrying around some milkshake.
69. My milkshake doesn't really bring all the boys to the yard.
70. I love my DVR. In California, all my friends who had it told me it would change my life, and I laughed. But it has! I can watch less late-night mindless crap, and more Gilmore Girls!
71. We visited several National Parks this summer, and my favorites were Yosemite and the Grand Tetons.
72. My husband got a souvenir tshirt at the Grand Tetons. I did not.
73. I can spell souvenir because I took French for 4 years.
74. I am generally good at spelling. In Cranium, I always get the backwards spelling questions ("gnilleps") right.
75. I enjoyed diagramming sentences in sixth grade.
76. I was an English major in college.
77. I guess you could say I was a little nerdy in high school. (If by "nerdy" you mean "smarter" and "more mature." :-p)
78. I took violin lessons for two years when I was kid. I quit right after my parents bought me my own violin.
79. I will make all my children take some kind of music lessons.
80. I never played a sport, but I took dance lessons, and I twirled flags with the marching band. I was captain, in fact.
81. I love autumn. My favorite season used to be spring, but when we lived in Florida, it was so nice to look forward to cooler weather. And then my husbands first deployment had him returning in autumn. And both my children were born in the fall. Pumpkin patches and chrysanthemums. School supplies and drumlines. I love it all.
82. I hate cleaning the kitchen more than any other household chore. If it just didn't have to be done every single day!
88. I love Miss Manner's books, I think they are fascinating and amusingly witty.
89. I let my kids watch too much TV, and I feel guilty about it. But I get all bent out of shape if my husband tells me that I let the kids watch too much TV.
90. I have the ungracious habit of always correcting my husband when he's wrong. And he has a compulsive need to correct me, too. I hate that we do this. I'd bet our family does too.
91. I love my in-laws. They are such a fun and loving family.
92. My husband and I have been married for almost 10 years, together for almost 17, and I am still totally in love with him, I miss him when I am not with him, and he lights up the room when he walks in. (He also instantly makes it messy.)
93. The above gushiness might be due to the fact that my husband is out of the country for some pre-deployment training.
94. When he called on his second night away, I asked him, "So, is your heart growing fonder yet?"
95. One of my favorite novels is The Age of Innocence. I also like the movie.
96. I've never read any of The Lord of the Rings, but I have read all of The Chronicles of Narnia, and I love Harry Potter, can't wait for the next one.
97. My husband and I got married in '97.
98. I have one nephew who was born in '98.
100. We always need more bookshelves. Someday we will have a wall of white-painted built-in bookshelves surrounding a fireplace, and then I will never move again.
That's it, I'm done! Try doing your own "100 Things," it's not easy!
