100 Things About Me

1. I am a Christian
2. I believe in a personal and two-way relationship with God through Jesus Christ
3. My husband is my favorite person to be with
4. I love being with my kids (most of the time)
5. I have always wanted a large family
6. I am a recovering alcoholic
7. I got sober when I was 19 and have never had a "legal" drink
8. My favorite beverage is Dr. Pepper, Otherwise I drink water
9. I can only drink milk when I am pregnant, otherwise it makes me gag
10. I have been married for almost 7 years
11. I have a BS in Psychology - please tell me what to do with it
12. I have never been "on a diet"
13. I like to observe life, not necessarily be involved in it
14. I love to do research and to study new things
15. I always wanted to write the next great American novel
16. Unfortunately I always get stuck in the research
17. If I had all the money I could want I would be a professional student
18. I have never had a speeding ticket
19. I grew up in a beach community
20. I do not like going to the ocean
21. I love to cook
22. I believe that recipes are merely suggestions
23. I wonder why my oldest daughter has trouble following directions :)
24. I love to breastfeed (my own children, please)
25. I can get so caught up in reading a book the house could burn down around me
26. I always wanted red hair
27. I have a red headed child
28. I am descended entirely from people of the British isles: Irish, welsh, English and Scottish
29. My family settled in NC in the 1600s, the same county in which I grew up, and someone in my family has lived there ever since
30. My only sister lives on the West Coast, darn it!
31. I dread cleaning the kitchen
32. I exercise by putting on dance club/ old skool hip hop and dancing around the house with my girls
33. My favorite colors are blues and greens
34. I love to watch home decorating shows and am addicted to HGTV
35. I will never be happy with the way my home looks, sorry honey
36. I have grand visions, but struggle with follow-through
37. My favorite music artist is Steven Curtis Chapman
38. I listen to a lot of different music - jazz, blues, old skool, 80's soft rock, 70's rock, 80's/90's hair bands, and classical.
39. I love Vivaldi's Four Seasons
40. I can't stand Opera
41. My favorite movie is Gone With the Wind
42. My second favorite movie is The Sound of Music
43. I love to play in the snow, for about an hour, after that winter could be over for all I care
44. I do not like horror movies
45. For personal escape I like to read historical romances in a bubble bath
46. I get to do that about once every two years
47. Waking up to an alarm clock puts me in a bad mood
48. I get horrible Migraines (used to get clusters of them, after having children I get them a few times a year)
49. The only place I have been outside of USA is to the Bahamas
50. I would like to travel to the British Isles, Central Europe, Costa Rica, Canada and New Zealand one of these days
51. I do not have a passport
52. The car I drive is a 1999 Dodge Grand Caravan
53. The car I would love to have is a Honda Odyssey
54. My favorite car I ever owned was a 1966 Mustang that my Dad and I rebuilt for my 16 birthday
55. We have a dog, we used to have a cat also but he ran away when I was pregnant with my second daughter, I won't take it personally
56. I prefer to stay at home to going out
57. I want to learn to read foreign languages - French, Hebrew, German and Latin
58. I took French in High School and college, but stunk at speaking it
59. I would like to have a time machine to travel back in history to study how different cultures actually lived
60. I have a black thumb and can kill any living plant that I try to grow
61. I like to play board games
62. I have never learned how to play chess
63. I have kept a journal since I was 11
64. I have gotten rid of my journals from when I was in high school and early college to protect me from my children
65. I do not like politics and will not discuss them
66. I took piano lessons when I was 5/6 and played the trumpet in middle school, other than being able to read music, I have no ability
67. I cannot sing, not even in the shower
68. I originally studied genetics in college
69. I can do nothing special with my body. For example; roll tongue, wiggle ears, double jointed
70. I was shooting guard for my high school basketball team
71. I like to watch sports with my dh, especially ACC Basketball
72. The first b-ball game I remember watching on TV is the 1983 NCAA finals in which NC State won
73. I decided when I was eight where I was going to college - NC State
74. My husband is 7 years older than I am
75. I don't like 'fake' people and people to pander towards me
76. I am not into name brand clothing, and spend most of my money at Target
78. I am a clutterbug, although I am trying to clean up and get rid of most of it
79. I can still wear a pair of jeans from high school, they were baggy and now they are tight, but I can still wear them
80. I wear jeans, sweatshirts and sweaters most of the time
81. I have basically had the same haircut since I was 15, jut sometimes it is long and sometimes it is shorter
82. I am a night owl and get more things done late at night
83. I like to have a nap in the afternoon
84. I have always thought about buying an RV and traveling around the US
85. I spend too much time on the computer
86. Patience is the virtue that I need the most work on
87. I have never thought of really living anywhere else than were I am living now
88. I never really learned how to do a lot of housekeeping things, I have had to learn on the job
89. I am learning to knit and to sew
90. I would like to start my own at home business for when the girls are older
91. I have a temper, although I am working on it
92. I collect 'useful' pottery
93. I love freshly laundered sheets
94. I am not very romantic
95. I talk to myself as I am working
96. I took a photography course, and still can't take decent pictures
97. I like to watch historical and nature documentaries
98. I have 'worked' since I was 14 (I am including being a sahm)
99. I would like to take a trip on a train
100. I hope that I don't have to do this again

Boy this was much harder than I thought it would be.

Amy