100 Things About Me.

It's finally time to do my 100 Things About Me post! Actually it's past time, I've posted 109 posts, so you can guess the first thing about me:

1. I'm a procrastinator
2. I'm a Christian (this is actually the first thing I hope people know about me.)
3. I'm a wife
4. I'm a mother of three daughters
5. I'm a daughter (my mom is still living and my daddy is in heaven)
6. I'm a church secretary
7. I'm a Sunday School teacher
8. I live in the midwest
9. I grew up in Florida
10. I hate it when my toes get hot
11. I struggled with infertility for 10 years
12. I work for two churches
13. Twice I worked at a bank
14. I once worked for a dentist
15. I once worked for a lawyer
16. Twice I worked for the county clerk (in different states)
17. I once played the violin
18. I broke my arm three times
19. I love to read
20. I have ambitions to write
21. I like to scrapbook but don't have time to do it very much
22. I like to cook
23. I enjoy collecting recipes
24. Also I like to collect angels
25. And figurines of houses
26. I'm an early bird
27. I get silly after my bedtime (which used to be 10 p.m. but is getting closer to 9:30 p.m.)
28. I'm a very positive person
29. I love to laugh
30. I often get tickled at solemn occasions
31. I love game shows
32. I love word puzzles
33. I love Scrabble
34. I hate confrontation
35. I'm not good with finances
36. My worst fault is my #1 - procrastination
37. I'm grouchy when I get tired
38. I have good intentions but have trouble following through (see #1 again!)
39. Usually older people love me
40. I'm not good with older kids because I can't be firm with them (see #34)
41. I love babies
42. I did not go to college because I never knew what I wanted to be when I grew up. (See #12-16)
43. As a child, I wanted to be a spy
44. As an adult, I am very unobservant
45. My husband was once broke down on the side of the road and tried to flag me down. I drove right past him without seeing him.
46. As a child, I also wanted to be an animal doctor (mainly because of reading books about animals)
47. As an adult, I am afraid of touching all animals
48. My favorite drink is sweet tea
49. If I was taking the Pepsi challenge, I would choose Pepsi over Coke
50. My favorite food is pizza
51. I love cheese - any food tasts better with cheese, unless it's a dessert and then it can be improved with cream cheese
52. I also love chocolate
53. I medicate myself with M&M's
54. My two favorite colors are blue and burgundy
55. I wear a lot of black
56. I like to wear jackets
57. I love purses
58. I love earrings, especially hoops or dangly ones
59. I love the smell of honeysuckle
60. I also love to smell orange blossoms
61. I adore scented candles
62. I'm a good listener
63. I never tell secrets
64. I like to set my table with pretty dishes, candles, and matching place mats.
65. It's important to me to have my family dressed nice when we go out in public
66. I hate when my children write notes or draw on their skin
67. I took French for two years in high school
68. I cannot speak French
69. I do recognize some French when I read it in literature, so it was not a total waste
70. I am very sentimental and have been known to cry at movies -- or even commercials
71. When I find a clothing item I like, I buy one in every color
72. I've worn glasses since I was 17
73. I cannot tell jokes because I laugh hysterically through all of them
74. I've told the joke about Bubba and the pope so many times that I don't think it is funny any more
75. One of my husband's friends crashed our first date and I thought he'd never leave
76. When working in the kitchen I love to sing and dance, and sometimes I skip
77. When it's bedtime, I say, "I'm going to my office."
78. My dad would not let me pierce my ears until I was 18.
79. When I was 12 my grandmother dyed my hair blonde - without asking my parents.
80. When I was 16 that same grandmother bought me a wig -- just for fun. Clearly, she did not like my hair!
81. I say there's always time for lipstick, and put it on in the car before backing out of the drive
82. I wheeze when I laugh
83. I'm the oldest child in my family
84. I'm also the oldest grandchild
85. I am the slowest texter in the cell phone world
86. My first dog was named Gypsy
87. I had a parakeet named Butchie
88. I like to read mysteries
89. I used to do cross stitch
90. I used to plastic canvas
91. I used to paint t-shirts
92. I used to make ceramics
93. I used to make victorian bears
94. Every time people take pictures of me, my eyes are closed
95. Every time I take pictures of people I cut their heads off
96. I drive a Mitsubishi Galant
97. I'm allergic to red wasps
98. I was once in a car wreck and had to have stitches in my head
99. I've been referred to as a walking dictionary.
100. My grandma introduced me to the love of my life, we dated through the mail, got married 7 months later, and have stayed married for 32 years.