100 things (you never wanted to know) about me

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1. I was secretary of the chess club in high school.
   
2. My favorite car my whole life was a Honda Accord. It was also the first car I ever bought and I still had it when we moved to Spokane.
   
3. I am addicted to baking. I am trying to break the habit of baking a treat every night.
   
4. My favorite color is purple.
   
5. I got a scholarship to BYU for my first year's tuition. (I didn't maintain the 3.94 GPA that it would have taken to renew it for a second year.)
   
6. I saw my first R-rated movie when I was 21 (with John, actually).
   
7. I took notes in Sunday School when I was 14. My teacher was so impressed that she bought notebooks for the whole class. (I was not too popular after that.)
   
8. I was called to be the ward organist when I was 16.
   
9. My first accompanying experience was in primary when I was 11.
   
10. My favorite band from age 15 to 21 was Chicago. I own every album they made from 1969 to their Christmas CD in 2003. (The older ones are on vinyl!) I used to be able to name all of the band members and their instruments.
    
11. I saw Chicago in concert at least 8 times.
    
12. I could write a basic short story in Spanish, but can't speak a lick.
    
13. My favorite candy bar is Three Musketeers.
    
14. I was a BYU baby.
    
15. I played field hockey in high school. My position was right wing. I loved game days when we wore our tiny skirts to school.
    
16. I can't draw. Even my stick figures are unrecognizable.
    
17. I don't have a middle name.
    
18. I was the youngest name extraction missionary in the church. I started when I was 7 and was officially called to the position right after I was baptized. My dad is working on getting me into the church's new record book.
    
19. I can eat a 16 oz. steak in a sitting. I'm famous in some circles for that ability.
    
20. My favorite ice cream is chocolate chip cookie dough.
    
21. I would hug every animal I see that has fur if I could.
    
22. I sing second soprano.
    
23. Peaches are my favorite fruit.
    
24. I can recite all 13 articles of faith.
    
25. I have traveled to 8 countries--Mexico, Canada, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, the Czech Republic, Denmark, and France (just the Paris airport).
    
26. I have a talent for remembering theme songs. I can recognize and/or sing the theme song to almost any t.v. show, no matter how obscure.
    
27. I am terrified of earwigs.
28. I love to fold laundry.
29. I sucked my thumb until I was 10 years old. (Yes, you read that right.)
    
30. I was first funner up to the Junior Peach Queen in Brigham City when I was five.
31. I love to sing. When I'm not listening to kids' songs or movies in the car, I'm singing along to my favorite tunes. I used to stop singing at stop lights so I wouldn't get busted, but I don't bother anymore.
    
32. I have my dad's very dry sense of humor.
33. I can recite the entire script of "The Sound of Music". (Not just the music, every line.) My sister Cassie went through a phase when she was little where she had to watch it a couple times a day. It's still one of my favorite movies.
34. I hate cooked peas. I love raw peas straight from the pod!
35. I have watched 7 out of 8 seasons of Big Brother. I wait all year for the new season to start.
36. I fell in love with my husband years before he realized that he loves me.
37. I couldn't say my s's when I was little, and I still feel like I have trouble.
38. I got my first pet, a cat I named Suzy-Q, when I was seven and had her until I was 24.
39. I am a terrible volleyball player. I used to dread volleyball games in gym class--nobody wanted me on their team. Seriously.
40. When I was little I wanted to be a ballerina. I took ballet lessons for a year when I was seven.
41. I love the smell of freshly cut grass.
    
42. I go to the Messiah Sing-Along at Abravanel Hall every year with my family.
43. I love shoes, and have very expensive taste. I even own 1 pair of Manolo Blahniks, a gift from my sweet husband. I have also visited the very exclusive store in NYC, where you have to buzz at the door and wait to be escorted inside.
44. I was Sterling Scholar in foreign languages at Woods Cross High School. (It's a Utah thing.)
45. I could survive with nothing to eat but chocolate.
46. I have a piece of the fence that was the border between East and West Germany. I broke it off myself the year after the wall came down.
47. I was a Brownie, but dropped out before I was an official Girl Scout.
48. I have ridden an elephant. (At Hogle zoo when I was little.)
49. I can't roll my r's. (Part of the reason I don't speak Spanish.)
50. I LOVE movie theatre popcorn!
51. I would love to drive a cute little convertible Jaguar, but will probably always drive a mini-van. (I, too, used to make fun of mini-vans and swore I would never own one.)
52. I cry way too often.
53. I am going to learn to play the violin someday.
54. I have always wanted a pet monkey. If John told me I could have one, I would go get one today. Yes, I know it's like having another baby.
55. I am an excellent speller. (I hope you can't find evidence to the contrary in my blog!)
56. My favorite board game is Monopoly. My sisters and I used to play games that would go on for days.
57. I hated the color pink until I had Katelyn. Now it's one of my favorites.
58. I could eat Cafe Rio's grilled steak salad every day. Don't forget the creamy tomatillo dressing!
59. I used to love being barefoot. When I was in high school I thought it was cool to go everywhere without shoes on. Gross, huh? Now I'm too worried about the calluses on my feet to do that.
60. The smell of eggs frying nauseates me.
61. I want to have as many kids as I can before I turn 40. (I'm working on it, believe me.)
62. When I was 21, I was called to be Sacrament Meeting chorister and ward choir director in my parents' family ward. If you haven't directed a ward choir, I wouldn't recommend it.
63. I hate mosquitos so much that it's practically a phobia.
64. John and I loved to golf before we had kids. Now he golfs occasionally, and I never do.
65. I love KFC, the greasier the better. And I love the mashed potatoes.
66. I thought it was cool to color in high school. My kids now have my collection of 20+ coloring books.
67. I still don't understand the rules in football. Luckily my husband's not a big football fan.
68. My three sisters and I had matching pixie haircuts when we were young, cut by my mom, of course.
69. My favorite soda is Diet Dr. Pepper, but my favorite drink is lemonade--the real stuff, not just lemon-flavored syrupy stuff.
70. I don't really like Halloween.
71. I have ugly fingernails.
72. I love the Indigo Girls!
73. I go to the Parade of Homes every year, and I look forward to it all year long. (I couldn't find one in Spokane.)
74. My feet are my least favorite part of my body.
75. I love math, particularly algebra. Even when I was taking Calculus II at the U and I could barely understand what we were doing, I loved doing my homework.
76. I'm terrible at telling jokes, and I can never remember any to tell anyway.
77. I completed almost all of the med school pre-reqs with John at the U because I was going to apply to vet school. Then I realized that I couldn't stand seeing animals hurt. Luckily I never got to Organic Chemistry, because I'm terrible with science.
78. I'm a night owl, not a morning person.
79. I sunburn easily, and it's almost impossible for me to get a tan.
80. My favorite tree is a Japanese Maple.
81. I get scared easily. John never gets to watch horror movies because I refuse to watch them.
82. I own all 6 seasons of Sex and the City on DVD, and I've taken the tour in NYC.
83. I have 3 semesters left to finish my bachelor degree in Piano Performance.
84. I hate running.
85. I'm clumsy and I bruise easily, not a good combination. I always have bruises on my legs.
86. I was very shy as a child. I still am when I'm in a crowd.
87. I love getting into a suffocatingly hot car after freezing to death at church in the summer.
88. I almost always wear heels--the taller the better.
89. I can't raise one eyebrow at a time.
90. My nickname in high school was Minnie Mouse because of my big ears. I hated it!
91. I have a hard time staying awake in movies, no matter how interested I am in the show.
92. I'm a procrastinator, but I'm working hard to change that.
93. I have relative pitch, but I wish I had perfect pitch. My piano teacher swears that you can develop perfect pitch, so that is one of my goals in life.
94. I am very sensitive.
95. I love plants, but I'm not very good at keeping them alive.
96. I am not flexible at all.
97. If I could, I would do yoga every morning with a good instructor. I have a hard time doing it by myself or with a tape.
98. I love frosting. I try to get corner pieces so there's more frosting than cake.
99. I'm softspoken. Jerry Seinfeld would call me a "low talker." It drives John crazy because he can never hear me.
100. I love to blog!