100 Things About Me:
1. I am Canadian.
2. I live in Alberta.
3. I live just outside of Edmonton (home of West Edmonton Mall)
4. I am 47 years old. *shaddup*
5. My age does not bother me at all.
6. I have been married for 26, nearly 27 years *amazing*
7. I have two great kids. (Sarah 22 - Recently graduated nurse, and Ben 18 - 1st year carpentry apprenticeship)
8. I have a hearing impaired old dog named Patches.
9. I have 2 cats, Smudge & Ice.
10. I design and maintain the school web page.
11. I work full time in Special Needs at school.
12. I work in an Elementary School with a population of about 160 kids.
13. I drive a 1998 Neon *gag*.
14. I love country music *never mind*
15. I am always watching my weight (sometimes going up, sometimes going down).
16. I've got lots of problems with arthritis, mostly developing this past year.
17. I used to love to workout. (but is highly affected by #16)
18. I watch too much TV
19. I love Trading Spaces.
20. I have a crazy sense of humor.
21. I am a good friend, because I'm honest with my friends. I don't BS them,
or tell them what they want to hear.
22. Doreen is my best friend.
23. I smoked for 17 years.
24. I quit smoking 15 years ago. *enter the weight gain years*
25. I partied way too much as a younger person.
26. I quit drinking completely for 15 years. Now I enjoy the occasional.
27. I was very athletic.
28. I'm 5'10" tall.
29. I have short hair *streaked... naturally and phoney*
30. I have REALLY blue eyes.
31. My really blue eyes have needed specs since I was 8 years old.
32. I wear contacts when I go out.
33. I was born and raised on a dairy farm.
34. I love spending time in the country or at the beach.
35. I want to retire at a nice house on the lake.
36. I love animals *better than most people*
37. I used to love doing web graphics, and spent HOURS doing them, but have
lost interest in that over the past year.
38. I moved to Edmonton from the farm to attend boarding school for grade
11 & 12.
39. I used to be obsessively tidy, but now I'm just tidy *enter full time
employment*
40. I stayed home for 10 years with my kids until Ben started grade one.
41. I took piano lessons for 4 years.
42. I took guitar lessons for 5 years.
43. I was a great little guitar player!
44. I NEVER touch my guitar now.
45. I used to sing in the church choir *now that fits me... doesn't it!??*
46. I love singing with the radio, CD's, whatever!
47. My favorite time of the day is when work is finished!
48. I am a Lutheran.
49. I am of Norwegian descent.
50. I have one brother (unmarried - 44 years old - NOT gay)
51. My Dad died at the age of 69, 11 years ago.
52. I adored my Dad.
53. I am great with Special Needs kids. They love me to bits!
54. I don't like driving at night.
55. I don't like going anywhere for the first time.
56. I am basically very shy and backwards until I get comfortable.
57. I had my own weight-loss support group for 4 years.
58. I belong to many online fitness groups.
59. I have WAY too many exercise DVD's!
60. I'm not a very good wife, but am working on it.
61. I'm a very good Mom.
62. I hate Spam.
63. I love naps in the winter under my electric polar fleece blanket, cuddled
up with my cat.
64. I love lying in the sun in the summer reading a book. But not for very long.
65. I hate wearing shoes.
66. I hate wearing bras, and rarely do, except to work....because.
67. I LOVE ice cream.
68. I LOVE my first cup of coffee in the morning.
69. I love hugs from the kids I work with!
70. I love the color pink.
71. I hate packing my lunch.
72. I have very ticklish feet. Don't touch them if you know what's good for
you!
73. People say my eyes twinkle, and that I always look like I'm up to something.
Hmmmmm
74. I have creaky, gritty, sore, old knees. They're finally really interfering in my life. They've been this way for 30 years. My shoulder is now the same way
75. I like watching my kids play sports.
76. I hate unpacking grocieries out of my car. I believe an alarm sounds when
I pull into the garage, and my house becomes magically evacuated leaving me
to do it all by myself.
77. I hate cat hair.
78. I am starting to figure out what I want to do with the rest of my life.
79. I enjoy quiet times with ppl I love rather than big social gatherings.
80. I suffer majorly from PMS *enter this domain name*
81. I have very little patience with pitiful/pathetic people.
82. I have a very high tolerance for pain.
83. I have no tatoos, or extra piercings. Just my ears, and I have enough
trouble keeping track of my earrings thank you very much, never mind if I
had 3 sets of them, and navel, nose, etc, rings as well!
84. I hate lots of body hair on men! (poor hubby... hmmm)
85. I get along with men much better than women, always have.
86. I spend too much time and money on EBay.
87. I go shopping when I get stressed out or pissed off, otherwise I hate
it.
88. I used to read constantly. Now I have piles of books I "intend" to read
. I finally started reading again this summer.
89. My favorite group is Lonestar.
90. My favorite songs are "God Bless The Broken Road" by Rascal Flatts and "When You Lie Next To Me"
by Kellie Coffey
91. My favorite movie is "White Christmas"
92. I hate going to movie theaters. They have a serious lack of leg
room.
93. I love Chinese food.
94. We have seasons tickets for the Edmonton Oilers hockey club.
95. I will do anything for the people I love. (anywhere, anytime)
96. If this computer croaks now before I post this, I'm going to kill myself!
97. I love watching Oilers hockey on TV when they're on the road!
98. I drink gallons of water everyday.
99. I've never had a speeding or parking ticket.
100.I am truly the most boring woman on this planet!
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