100 things about me
1. i’m a mom
2. i moved out of my parents house at 17
3. because they moved back to MN my senior year in high school and i didn’t want to move.
4. i was married at 20 and a lot of people thought it wouldn’t last but it has so far.
5. i love the number 5
6. i have 3 sisters and no brothers.
7. i have a compulsion to add any number i see to get it down to one single digit.
8. i fear failure so it keeps me from trying new things
9. i also fear rejection which keeps me from trying new things
10. i love to read
11. but i hate to write
12. my favorite book: This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald
13. i have 2 cats-oliver and baxter
14. baxter is really my sister’s cat but she lives with me
15. while giving birth to my son, my oldest sister left an unscreened window open and my cat jasper ran away.
16. i still miss him
17. one of my best friends died in a car accident when i was 17
18. i still think about her every day
19. i have the easiest job in the world.
20. i quilt. go ahead laugh everyone else does.
21. i live life without regrets.
22. i’m a compulsive planner.
23. when i get freaked out i want to runaway
24. but i don’t
25. i have expensive taste
26. but i can be really cheap when it comes to certain things
27. i’m the least liked in my family
28. they think i’m the most judgemental
29. i don’t care as much as they all think i do
30. i live for the mail
31. my day can be ruined by not getting any mail
32. the glass is always half full
33. i have terrible sentence structure
34. i’ve been friend’s with jodi h since i was 4 years old
35. my parents moved to WI when I was in 9th grade.
36. leaving my older sister behind in MN to finish her senior year(they have a habit of this see #2)
37. i’ve seen pearl jam in concert 4 times
38. i was on the guest list for one of those times
39. i like things to be black or white no gray areas for me
40. i’m close with both of my parents
41. i don’t like the taste of beer
42. i’m a feminist and proud of it
43. i vote
44. i make my family vote too.
45. i call them all on election day to make sure they voted.
46. sometimes i even have them prove it by showing me their “i voted” stickers
47. i still can’t get over the fact that my husband voted for jesse ventura
48. i love godiva chocolate raspberry truffle ice cream
49. i have a fear of calling people on the phone
50. i make my husband do all the calling and i stand there and tell him what to say
51. i’m a control freak
52. i live on diet pepsi
53. i love reality tv
54. i have very little patience
55. except when it comes to my kids 56. i wish i had more reasons to use the *
57. i have a unhealthy obsession with Richard Nixon and Watergate
58. i’m in search of Deep Throat
59. in high school i helped two girls runaway from a drug rehab house.
60. one of them told on me.
61. my sister and i both were charged with obstructing an officer.
62. my sister was pissed at me for it.
63. we had to get a lawyer to work out a deal.
64. we never had to make a court appearance but had to pay a fine
65. besides that i have never been in trouble with the law
66. i never went a full day of school my senior year
67. i graduated even though i was 1 credit short
68. some how i slipped through the cracks
69. i’d rather be smart than pretty
70. i’m not allowed to read my sister’s website
71. i have a sister who is a radical, right wing republican
72. but she’s in denial
73. she thinks i’m a “tree hugging, bleeding heart liberal”
74. which i am
75. i love saying, “three’s the limit…two should be”
76. i’m agnostic/atheist
77. i have people who pray for my soul
78. which makes me sad for them
79. my kids go to catholic preschool
80. i go to a catholic college
81. this makes me laugh
82. i was married by a female judge
83. she said, “you may now kiss your husband” instead of “you may now kiss your bride”
84. it wasn’t even my idea
85. but i loved it
86. i love shaggy
87. i don’t know why
88. i just do
89. i go to the mn state fair every year
90. shaggy will be there this year
91. i met paul wellstone last year
92. i gave him a little squeeze when we posed for a picture
93. my husband was my high school sweetheart
94. he dated my friend first
95. he got me really excited to go to prom
96. then broke up with me
97. and took someone else
98. a week after prom he begged for me back
99. obviously i went back
100. i’m still bitter but i love him