Wednesday, January 31, 2007

100 Things About Me

1. I am part of a "party of 4.5" - sweet husband, darling toddler twin daughters and ever-loyal black lab

2. I need 8 hours of sleep at night

3. The weather affects my mood

4. My parents are still married

5. I never had a treehouse

6. I pick my nails when I am nervous

7. I have a benign brain tumor

8. I am an Aries

9. I type embarrassingly fast

10. I am completely tone deaf

11. My childhood dog was named Molly. Our dog now is named Holly.

12. I sleep on my stomach

13. I am allergic to penicillin

14. I have never broken any bones (knock on wood)

15. I love yoga

16. I only parallel park when absolutely necessary

17. I love 80's music

18. Polka dots make me happy

19. I collect Limoges boxes

20. I love bubble baths

21. I own golf clubs but rarely use them

22. I wore striped hairbows all through college

23. I adore stationery

24. I have green eyes that change color depending on what I wear

25. I have had the same haircut in different lengths most of my life

26. I could eat cereal for three meals a day and be quite content

27. I am gullible

28. I love the smell of bleach

29. I got the chicken pox on the first day of college orientation. From then on I was known on campus as the "chicken pox girl"

30. I am a list maker

31. I use a paper calendar

32. I don't have a "land-line" only a cell phone

33. My favorite flowers are Peonies and Gerber Daisies

34. I love to entertain

35. I wore a uniform most of my life

36. I love toile

37. I wear contacts and have had glasses since I was three

38. I read the Wall Street Journal every day

39. I keep a list of things I want to do before I die

40. I love everything monogramed

41. I love sweet tea

42. I am a debutante

43. I believe as my good friend LM says that "you can have it all, just not at once"

44. I worked in Advertising for Miller Brewing Company and Sales for Coca-Cola. My beverage of choice is water

45. I have never been to Europe

46. I am a self professed neat freak

47. I went to summer camp with John Denver's daughter and Jeremy Miller from Growing Pains

48. I love tradition

49. I could easily buy one of everything in the JCrew catalog

50. I adore grosgrain ribbon

51. I wear platinum jewlery not gold

52. I love holiday photo cards

53. I love black and white photos

54. I am a morning person married to a night owl

55. Ice cream is my favorite sweet. Cupcakes are a close second

56. I love California Pizza Kitchen salads

57. I go to the same restaurant for my birthday every year

58. I am addicted to USC Football

59. I sell things I no longer use on e-bay

60. I love cleaning out my closets

61. The color pink makes me smile

62. I went to surf camp

63. I was a "foster parent" to puppies from the Humane Society

64. I love to play games - my husband and I even took Scrabble on our honeymoon

65. I love girls nights and live for girls weekends

66. I love the idea of buying, renovating and "flipping" a house

67. I love to read

68. I begged for brothers and sisters when I was little

69. I have a "dream" file

70. I could tour open houses and model homes all day every day

71. I love all things striped

72. I am a proud stay at home mom to my daughters

73. I went to the same college as Dan Quayle

74. I am a card-maker and find creative things very therapuetic

75. I love Soduku puzzles

76. I was on bedrest for 10 weeks before the arrival of our twins

77. My husband and I met on a service trip to Nicaragua during college

78. I was born in San Angelo, Texas but have lived in Southern California since I was one

79. My husband and I ran the Anchorage Marathon

80. I am a tea drinker - Celestia Seasonings Honey Vanilla is my favorite

81. I love flip flops

82. I spent a semester in Philadelphia in college

83. I was PR director of my sorority

84. I was born on tax day

85. I lived in Costa Rica as an exchange student in high school

86. My husband and I got engaged in Vail and married in Maui

87. Magazines are my guilty pleasure. I have more subscriptions than I can count

88. I only wear stud earrings

89. I am a self help junkie

90. I love "connecting" people

91. I have belonged to the Junior League in 4 states

92. I am a proud library card holder

93. I fell in love with my husband for his southern accent

94. I love to wrap presents

95. I firmly believe in thank you notes

96. I am addicted to e-mail

97. I have lived in 6 states and 1 foreign country

98. Combined my husbands and my initials spell JERK

99. I have identical twin daughters

100. I am an only child