1. I searched the web for 100 questions to answer so this would be easier.
2. I have four five children.
3. Two girls and two three boys.
4. My husband is my best friend.
5. But I drive him crazy.
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. The first time I married it was for independence.
13. This time I married for love.
14. We eloped and someday we might have a honeymoon.
15. I want to go for a ride in a hot air balloon.
16. I am a homebody.
17. My house doesn’t feel like it is MY home.
18. My oldest child has Asperger’s.
19. I used to work as a mental health social worker.
20. I psychoanalyze others (and myself) too much.
21. My voice is too deep and husky.
22. I have a double major bachelor’s degree in Sociology and Psychology.
23. I minored in Theatre.
24. I left college one class short (world history) of a second degree because I ran out of money.
25. I like learning new things.
26. I am addicted to the Internet.
27. And blogging.
28. I am a fast hunt and peck typist.
29. 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 wish I could be published.
34. But my brother has MANY published poems.
35. I enjoy a good argument about ‘ideas’ but not about ‘things’ or ‘people’.
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 love food.
41. Except onions and green peppers.
42. Dark chocolate is the best.
43. I rarely drink.
44. If I do it’s probably a Vodka Collins.
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.
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 straighten it quit straightening it when I had my fifth child.
57. I am losing my hair.
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 Birkenstocks.
65. I hate wearing a bra.
66. So I wear a lot of camisoles.
67. I’m allergic to dust and pollen.
68. But my house is always dusty.
69. I’d rather be having fun with my family than cleaning.
70. If I find clothing that fits I wear it until it falls apart.
71. I watch too much television.
72. I like cartoons.
73. I have no tattoos.
74. Maybe someday I will.
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 don’t like going to the doctor cause they look at me.
82. And they always complain about my wiggly veins while I’m the one being stabbed repeatedly.
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 worry about what other people think.
88. I like dogs much better than cats.
89. I have 2 cats and two dogs (all girls).
90. I have bottle-raised several orphaned litters of puppies and one half-wolf pup.
91. I roller skate better than I roller blade.
92. I haven’t figured out stopping on roller blades.
93. Bridges and water frighten me.
94. I like shopping for other people or our house.
95. I STILL like new school supplies.
96. I love to send and receive Christmas cards.
97. I hang them up all over the house.
98. Yes, I’d like a Christmas card from you.
99. I enjoyed making this list.
100. I want to read my family and friends’ 100 things lists now.