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    100 Things

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    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.

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