Domestic Psychology

1. I am missing the sense of direction gene.
2. I have five children.
3. Two girls and three boys.
4. My husband is my best friend.
5. My family is everything to me.
6. My parents are still married to each other.
7. I have two brothers who are younger than me.
8. They are much more fun as adults than they were as children.
9. I was born on May 12th as was my maternal grandmother.
10. Every few years, my birthday falls on Mother’s Day.
11. I have an online certification that allows me to perform marriage ceremonies in several states (including TN).
12. We eloped and I highly recommend it.
13. Hotels, yes. Bed & Breakfasts, no.
14. Car rides make me sleepy.
15. I want to go for a ride in a hot air balloon.
16. I am a homebody.
17. My house is stuck in home improvement limbo.
18. My oldest child has Asperger’s.
19. I used to work as a mental health social worker.
20. I have a double major bachelor’s degree in Sociology and Psychology.
21. I minored in Theatre.
22. I graduated college one semester short of an education minor because I was enormously pregnant.
23. My voice is too deep and husky. Think Dr. Girlfriend without the great body.
24. I left college one class short (world history) of a second degree because I ran out of money.
25. I like to rearrange the furniture.
26. A fresh coat of paint makes things feel new.
27. Bright colors, not neutrals.
28. I am a fast hunt and peck typist.
29. I love wordpress. I hate excel.
30. I love taking pictures.
31. I don’t like having my picture taken.
32. I like to read and write.
33. I want to apprentice under a real photographer.
34. And create a PowerPoint of my pictures set to music.
35. I cry when I am happy.
36. I NEED caffeine every day.
37. Coke Sweet tea (bad teeth) is my favorite but mocha and hot chocolate work too.
38. Coke not Pepsi.
39. I don’t like ice in my drinks.
40. I have a love/hate relationship with food.
41. Except onions and green peppers. They’re just nasty.
42. Dark chocolate is the best.
43. I rarely drink.
44. If I do it’s probably a margarita.
45. One drink makes me tipsy.
46. I like to keep my stress and anxiety inside myself.
47. It comes out in migraines and stomach aches.
48. My first real job was at a movie theater when I was 15.
49. I LOVE movies.
50. I LOVE music and concerts.
51. Except thrash and rap.
52. I like long, HOT baths.
53. I color my hair.
54. I started going gray in high school.
55. I have naturally frizzy hair.
56. I alternate between straightening it and letting it curl.
57. I need to lose 25 pounds.
58. I was born in Chicago.
59. I moved to TN at the age of 4.
60. So I consider myself a Southerner.
61. Not the trailer park kind of Southerner, the Steel Magnolias kind.
62. Like any good Southern woman I don’t leave the house without makeup.
63. Or wearing sweats.
64. But I live in jeans and sandals.
65. No girdles or push-ups.
66. Twenty dollars at the consignment store = a new outfit.
67. I’m allergic to dust and pollen.
68. But my house is always dusty.
69. I prefer having fun with my family than cleaning.
70. If I find clothing that fits I wear it until it falls apart.
71. I don’t like to cook. Maybe a cooking class would change that.
72. I like AdultSwim and SyFy.
73. I have no tattoos.
74. I’m too old to show enough skin to have a tattoo.
75. I never have a tan.
76. If I try I just burn and peel back to white.
77. I wore thick glasses until I had Lasik Surgery twice.
78. I nursed each of my babies for their entire first year.
79. That’s more than 5 years of breastfeeding.
80. If I could afford it I’d have them lifted.
81. I accept my wrinkles, but I hate the bags under my eyes.
82. I don’t like going to the doctor.
83. I had braces on my teeth for three years.
84. I wore a back brace for two years.
85. My spine still twists completely around.
86. Someday I’ll need major back surgery.
87. I feel like I haven’t seen the world. Or America.
88. I would love to travel. And take pictures while doing so.
89. I like dogs much better than cats.
90. I have 2 cats and two dogs (and a snake).
91. I have bottle-raised several orphaned litters of puppies and one half-wolf pup.
92. I roller skate better than I roller blade.
93. I haven’t figured out stopping on roller blades.
94. I like shopping for my children and our home, but not for myself.
95. I LOVE new office and school supplies.
96. I love to send and receive Christmas cards.
97. I hang them up all over the house.
98. Bridges and water frighten me.
99. Craft supplies make me giddy
100. I want to read my family and friends’ 100 things lists now.