Friday, October 3, 2008

100th post = 100 things about me

It's my hundredth post... so to celebrate here is 100 facts about me... Enjoy :)

1. I've been married for 3 years and almost 5 months.
2. I have been a mom for 2 yeard and 4 and half months.
3. I have two sisters and no brothers, those sisters have between them 5 daughters and no sons, I have 2 sons and no daughters. I find this very interesting.
4. I enjoy blogging.
5. I like to scrapbook.
6. I like to preserve memories through blogging and scrapbooking so I can remember stories that go along with pictures.
7. I often wonder if when this generation of kids grow up they'll take as many pictures as we do, or if they'll say my parents took too many pictures of me so I'm not going to take as many pictures of my kids.
8. I'm bad at spelling.
9. I married someone who is great at spelling and he comes in very handy when blogging and writing emails.
10. I like emailing much more than talking on the phone.
11. I like to have a home phone even though it isn't a necessity since we have cellphones.
12. I watch the food network a lot during the day when I'm playing Jordan.
13. I don't really ever see anything on the food network that I would actually make at home.
14. I enjoy reading but don't do it that often because when I start reading I often don't want to put the book down until I finish and end up neglecting my mom and wife duties.
15. I love watching the biggest loser. It's my favorite show.
16. I like when my house is clean.
17. I hate dirty dishes. There are usually never dirty dishes in my house... We clean the up right after we use them.
18. Doug usually does the dishes after dinner. I used to hate doing them, but I don't mind them as much now... They're a nice break sometimes. As long as they're not too gross.
19. I also hate cleaning out old food from the fridge. Doug usually takes over when he sees me do it.
20. I have a great husband... The best there is.
21. Baseball is my favorite sport. But I also like basketball since I married Doug and that's all he wants to watch during basketball season.
22. I don't know how to get my son to stop going to the bathroom while he's sleeping.
23. I'm excited to start a garden next spring.
24. I hate waking up early.
25. I'm usually really grumpy when I wake up early. Especially when it's really early.
26. I enjoy relief society.
27. I like to cook.
28. I'm reading the old testament right now.
29. We eat enchiladas almost every Sunday. We only don't if we have people over for dinner or if we're not here for dinner.
30. I hate lunch time.
31. I want to start freezer cooking. Especially make lunches that I will actually enjoy eating but will be easy and quick to make.
32. I want another freezer someday.
33. I also want a double oven someday.
34. I love getting cooking stuff for my birthdays and Christmas.
35. I love chocolate.
36. I have a cool edge brownie pan that makes every piece of brownie have at least two edges. It's shaped like an m or w depending on how you look at it.
37. I waste too much time on the computer.
38. I don't like to be cold and so I don't like cold weather.
39. The good thing about fall and winter is that it's not light so early in the morning.
40. I love Christmas and the whole Christmas season. I listen to Christmas music from Thanksgiving until Christmas. I love decorating for it. I love Christmas shopping. I love everything about Christmas.
41. I really like shopping.
42. I don't like to buy expensive things when I shop.
43. I like shopping at garage sales and thrift stores, especially on 50% off days.
44. I like to take pictures and put them up around my house.
45. I like to find free things to do with my kids and I think there should be more free tings to do around her. Or at least more really cheap things.
46. I'm trying to build up our food storage.
47. I want to go to the cannery and can for our food storage.
48. I don't like Halloween all that much. But it's more fun now that I have a kid who can enjoy it and two kids to dress up. And it's nice that my son that can eat candy doesn't really like it that much... Althought he is starting to like it more. I guess I really just don't like to dress up myself.
49. I hate public speaking. I even get nervous when there are just a few people listening like when I teach a class at church. Primary isn't so bad though...
50. I don't ever want any pets. I had fish once and learned that even they were too much work. Mostly just because you have to find someone to watch them while you're gone.
51. I like to go to the zoo. I wish it was cheaper to go there. and closer. Maybe if it was closer I could just get a family pass and it wouldn't be so expensive since you can usually get a pretty good deal on passes to things.
52. I don't like a lot of amusement park rides. I don't like ones that go upside down or have big drops. I just like the ones that spin around really fast.
53. I like spending time with family.
54. My sons are exactly 22 months apart.
55. My sons seem very different. There's the obvious that Jordan is huge and Jack is tiny. But Jordan seems to be more active then Jack ever was. He also seems less independent. He doesn't like to be alone ever (except when he sleeps). I don't remember Jack being like that. But maybe he was. I find that I've forgotten a lot about when Jackson was a baby.
56. I like to save money and try to find ways to get things as cheap as I can by using coupons and trying to find the cheapest store and buying things used.
57. I don't like to buy used shoes. I think it's gross to put my feet in shoes other people have put their stinky feet in.
58. I have a ton of pants... Girls stereotypically like shoes and have a lot of shoes. But I like pants. I haven't got new shoes in a about couple years I think. But I have bought several pairs of pants since then.... mostly from thrift stores. If not from there then on sale.
59. I love to eat goldfish crackers.
60. I eat waffles every day for breakfast.
61. I don't like to give my kids food that's not good for them as long as I can put it off for.
62. I really like romance movies, but hate how a lot of them have bad parts in them.
63. I tried spinich for the first time a few months ago and found that if you have a good dressing on it it's not so bad. I'm finding that's the same for most green leafy salads.
64. I'm trying to have more healthy food for my family to eat for lunches and dinners.
65. I like the rain, especially when it's warm when it rains. I also love listening to the rain when I'm inside.
66. I don't really like snow, but I think it makes everything look really pretty when the snow is fresh and it's night time. I like how it makes it look lighter outside when it's night time.
67. I like looking at Christmas lights.
68. I like when the lights are off in my house and I have the Christmas tree lights on.
69. I like to help my mom decorate for Christmas.
70. I like wrapping presents.
71. I like baking with my family for Christmas.
72. I like family reunions... Even though they generally mean getting up early.
73. I don't mind watching other people's kids.
74. I'm watching my sister's kids for 6 days when she and her husand go to Hawaii. I'm also teaching her preschool class for her for two of the days and my mom is going to watch my boys while I teach.
75. I can't wait until I can go on a fun vacation with just Doug. My kids just need to be a little older.
76. I'm not a person that thinks it's bad to throw away food if I don't like it or am full.
77. I'm don't get offended it people don't like food I make...I don't think at least. I don't that anyone has ever said they don't like something...
78. I'm a really picky eater, but since marrying Doug I have increased the different foods I like by quite a lot.
79. I like to have my house picked up and dinner on the table or really close to being there when Doug gets home because I likes it like that when he gets home.
80. I love the age of two. I think kids say such funny things at that age and I like to see how they look at things.
81. Once a lady told me that she always loved every stage her children were in and never wished for them to be older (or be younger probably) and so I try to always enjoy every stage my kids are in and not wish them to get older.
82. That lady's husband fixed our old tempo after their daughter followed us off to the side of the road when our car wasn't working very good and she said her dad was a mechanic and we could follow her home and have him look at it. We did it and he looked at the car and did a little work. But our car still broke down for good pretty soon after that.
83. That old tempo wasn't a great car by the end of it's life. Besides that fact that it stopped working completely, that air conditioning didn't work, only one of the electric locks worked, and that was on the driver's side door, one of the doors didn't open, the clock didn't work very well, and that's all I can think of right now. There was probably something else wrong too.
84. That car worked really well until I got married. I don't think I had any problems with it before. But once I got married it kept breaking down and needing repairs. There was a few weeks where it had to be jumped anytime we wanted to go anywhere... Luckily we lived close to family and they helped us out.
85. I love having a minivan.
86. I think I'll keep my kids out of organized sports as long as I can. I don't mind going to games and watching them, but when you keep having kids and have more than one in sports and have to do it every week and have practices plus having littler kids it just seems like more it will take a lot of time and energy but the kids won't enjoy it as much until they really want to play. It also costs a lot.
87. I think I'll put my kids in swimming lessons as soon as they'll go though. I think they're important.
88. I worry a lot. About everything there is to worry about pretty much.
89. I like my calling because I'm in the young women's program (as personal progress coordinator) but I also get to go to relief society so I've been able to get to know lots of different people, including the young women.
90. I love when my kids are happy.
91. I was a cheerleader in high school.
92. I love to dance.
93. I like to play volleyball and I wish my ward had volleyball team. Or would have at least asked if people wanted to play because I think that a lot of people would have signed up.
94. I love watching my husband play with my kids.
95. I love going on dates with my husband.
96. I love that we live close to my sister and that she watches our kids for us so we don't have to leave them with a babysitter, which would get expensive and I'm afraid to do it because I don't know how Jackson would do with someone he doesn't know very well. Plus we probably wouldn't go out as often since we'd have to pay for a babysitter... I'm cheap.
97. I like to give kitchen stuff as wedding and bridal shower gifts.
98. I think it's weird that' I'm older than most boy and girl missionaries. For some reason I still think of them as being older.
99. I wish I liked peanut butter sandwiches because then lunch would be easy and yummy.
100. I love being a stay at home wife but I don't like to spend all my time staying home. I get bored when I'm home all day everyday.

There it is. Now you all know me a little bit better...

2 comments:

Renee said...

just wondering...what foods do you eat now that you're married?

Stephanie said...

The foods that I eat now that I didn't eat before are: enchiladas, fajitas, spinich, ravioli, chicken quesadillas, lasagna, chicken alfredo, bell peppers... that's all I can think of at the moment, but I'm sure there's more... I try things a lot more willingly than I did before.