100 Things About Me

Okay I passed my 100th post without even realizing it. So this is really my 102nd post. When you hit 100, you are supposed to post 100 things about yourself. I am not doing 102. This was incredibly hard. I hope you don't fall asleep reading it.

1. My middle name is Dawn
2. I have been mistakenly called Jennifer by several different people over the years. I must look like a Jennifer.
3. I have 2 brothers.
4. I have one sister.
5. I love to read.
6. I hate math.
7. I have a hard time convincing my oldest child that math is not bad or hard!
8. I could not pass math in college so I dropped it. Twice.
9. I did not graduate from college. (That had nothing to do with math though.)
10. That does not bother me at all. I do believe it bothers my parents and my husband.
11. I love staying home and taking care of my family more than anything else I can imagine.
12. I love to bake.
13. I like to cook-even though I am a picky eater.
14. I hate when I cook something and my picky kids won’t eat it.
15. I have lived in 9 states.
16. I hate moving.
17. I have a hard time making friends.
18. My best friend is my husband.
19. I am not very social.
20. I would love to learn how to sew.
21. I would like to learn to can food.
22. I don’t like cooked vegetables very much.
23. I love potatoes.
24. I could live on potato chips—until the grease and fat killed me.
25. I am trying to give up potato chips.
26. I am also trying to give up cheerios snack mix—my new substitute for chips.
27. I don’t like sports.
28. I hate to garden.
29. I hate all yard work.
30. I am not an outdoor girl at all.
31. I also don’t like animals.
32. Because I hate dirt. And germs.
33. That is the number one reason we have no indoor pets.
34. I also hate to clean.
35. But I spend a good portion of my time cleaning.
36. I have at least 5 books about cleaning and home organizing.
37. My favorite books are the Little House on the Prairie books.
38. And the Bible.
39. Also Gone With the Wind. The book is better than the movie.
40. I love the movie Gone with the Wind too. Even though it is different than the book.
41. My favorite book of the New Testament is probably James.
42. Old Testament is Psalms.
43. I wish I could sing. I can’t. I sound awful. Ask anyone who sits near me in church.
44. I sing anyway. I love to sing praises to God.
45. I love Jesus.
46. I love to read to my kids.
47. It is shameful how little I do read to them.
48. I once argued for the “right to choose” even though I do NOT believe in abortion at all. I am probably more ashamed of that one “conversation” than anything else I can think of.
49. I am not a feminist.
50. I am ashamed to say I have never voted in my life.
51. This year I AM voting! I got my absentee ballot yesterday and am so excited!
52. Some days I do not turn on the TV at all.
53. The one TV show I have to watch is Army Wives. It fascinates me to see how crazy they portray Army life. Although some of it makes me cry because it is real.
54. I love fall. It is my favorite season. I miss fall in WV.
55. My favorite “church songs” are Amazing Grace and I’ll Fly Away.
56. I love so many praise and worship songs I could not name just one.
57. My favorite food is pizza. Or maybe potato soup.
58. My favorite sweet is chocolate chip cookies—homemade.
59. My favorite fruit is strawberries.
60. I love aprons.
61. I love my sister and I wish I could talk to her everyday. She is 10 years younger than me and was only 9 when I got married. Now I wish we lived right next to each other and were best friends!—love you Wendy!
62. I love babies.
63. I am terrified of frogs.
64. Someday, when my kids are all grown up—I would really like to go help Operation Christmas Child distribute gifts in another country.
65. The only other country I have been in is Canada.
66. I wish I could make a quilt. (Have to learn to sew first--#20).
67. Before I had kids my shoe size was 7 ½. Now most of my shoes are size 9.
68. I have never been ice skating.
69. I have never been skiing either—snow or water.
70. I have been whitewater rafting.
71. I think cable TV is one of the worst things to happen to our society. I think it is a major reason for the decline of morals.
72. I still think the internet is awesome though. I love being able to look things up instantly.
73. I know sometimes I don’t make much sense.
74. I don’t care though, because I also have some pretty strong convictions.
75. Sometimes when I voice those convictions, I make people mad.
76. I hate having people mad at me.
77. I hate speaking in public.
78. Every year I make “speeches” in church to push Operation Christmas Child.
79. For a girl, I don’t think I cry very much.
80. I hate sad movies. Maybe I don’t want to cry.
81. I also hate scary movies. Refuse to watch them.
82. You probably already knew this, but I love to move furniture. My husband thinks it is a sickness.
83. I don’t have a favorite color. I like blue and red and brown and pink and purple.
84. I sleep under a down comforter. Even in summer in Texas.
85. I hate shoes.
86. I love socks.
87. Being a mom is the only career I ever wanted to have.
88. In December I will have been married for 20 years.
89. We waited 9 years to have kids.
90. I am 30 years older than my son. That is how I remember how old I am!!!! Yes, I forget.
91. I have much more patience with babies than 5 or 6 year olds.
92. I have never been farther away from home than I am right now in Texas.
93. I like to vacuum.
94. I am always late.
95. I hate roller coasters. My kids love them.
96. My favorite flowers are daisies, sunflowers and pink roses. Flowers are too pretty to just pick one.
97. I procrastinate a lot.
98. I spend too much time on the computer.
99. I wish we had an office so the computer was someplace where I did not see it all day and be tempted to get on for “just a minute”.
100. I am glad to be finished with this list as I don’t usually like talking about myself!