100 Things

My sister in law Terica challenged me to write 100 things about myself. I seem to remember doing this years ago, but it's been so long that I don't remember what I put, so I am starting all over again. Here goes.

1. Every one in my house but Jaren and I are sick right now. FUN.
2. I am so wanting to lose weight right now that if I get sick I will be looking forward to not eating for a few days and dropping some pounds. Sad, huh?
3. My baby turns 6 years old in two weeks.
4. I am going with Jaren to buy plants later so we can escape the sickies.
5. This toyroom is such a mess that I don't even know where to start.
6. I have three children but I have been pregnant six times.
7. I am one of five children.
8. I married a man who is one of 12 children.
9. I think we will stop with three children.
10. I strongly dislike my natural hair color.
11. I spend way too much time on the computer.
12. I don't have enough will power to just turn the computer off and have a productive day.
13. I have hot pink toenails right now.
14. I often give myself very good advice, but I very seldom follow it.
15. I am way too into Grey's Anatomy.
16. I am 5' 2" tall
17. I married someone a full foot taller than me.
18. I was engaged to someone ELSE before I was engaged to Brian.
19. Brian and I never discussed ever getting married. He planned everything with the help of my sister and totally surprised me.
20. I have an ebay rating of 106.
21. Ideally, I need about ten hours of sleep a night.
22. I manage to get about eight hours a night.
23. I just found out that a friend's daughter (who just finished her freshman year at BYU) is dating one of my former junior high students. ACK!!!
24. I went to seven different schools from kindergarten to 12th grade.
25. I have been to Europe.
26. I have never been to Mexico.
27. I had to take French Diction twice in college because I got a D or D+ in it the first time. I think I managed a C or C- the second time. Whew.
28. I got a 43 on my report card for the last marking period of math my senior year of high school.
29. I graduated from BYU ten years ago this week.
30. I subscribe to Fitness, Shape, US Weekly, the Ensign, Family Fun, Parents, and Parenting Magazines.
31. The only one I read cover to cover religiously is US Weekly.
32. I am a sucker for the Scholastic Book order forms.
33. My kids have tons of books.
34. I drive a green minivan.
35. I have never broken a bone.
36. I have a chickenpox scar on my right jawline and one on my right thigh.
37. I don't tan.
38. I am going to see Harry Connick Jr. in a few months.
39. Of all the friends I had in high school I still communicate regularly with ONE.
40. True love in highschool is something totally different from true love in real life.
41. I am craving icecream and brownies right now.
42. I consider myself a jack of all trades, master of none.
43. I worked at McDonalds for two summers.
44. I worked at Sbarros at the mall for one summer.
45. I have survived being a substitute teacher for junior high classes.
46. I wear glasses because contacts dry out my eyes too much.
47. Legally, I don't need my glasses to drive.
48. You should be glad I choose to wear my glasses to drive.
49. I love Reeses Puffs cereal.
50. I love cold cereal more than just about any food.
51. When I was in college my roommates went out and "murdered" snow men with cardboard swords. I was too chicken to go with them, but I helped them make the "weapons." Their gory carnage was in the school paper the next day.
52. Don't do anything illegal with me. You will be caught.
53. I was caught Saran Wrapping someones car in the church parking lot.
54. I was caught with friends hanging out in a field looking at stars. Evidently it was a private field that was frequented by drug users.
55. I was Student Body secretary in high school.
56. I have sung the National Anthem at a professional hockey game.
57. When I was in junior high I got to shadow a US Congressman for a day as part of Career Day.
58. On that career day I got the autograph of "Gopher" from The Love Boat. He was a congressman from Iowa. Who knew?
59. When I was in 7th grade I flew from Springfield VA to San Antonio TX (with a plane change in Chicago) all by myself to visit Laura Burink. She had been my BFF in elementary school when I lived in Okinawa and I was SO excited to see her again.
60. I still have Laura's phone number from junior high memorized. I didn't really have the concept of "long distance phone charges" down.
61. I wore a bright pink satin dress to prom when I was in 10th grade.
62. I will never run for public office. I would be too terrified that someone who knew me in high school or junior high (heck, or COLLEGE) would come out of the woodwork and share embarrassing stories about me.
63. I sometimes wonder if people who knew me in past years sit around and talk about "that weird Paige girl" and all the dumb things I did.
64. My friend Linda and I broke into the local community theater one Saturday in high school. We were on a walk and it started POURING and we had no umbrella. I had overheard someone at a rehearsal give the code to the lock and it worked. So we waited out the storm. Miraculously, we were not caught.
65. I dry heaved on my wedding morning.
66. Matthew McCoughnehey is on my "list."
67. So is Mc Dreamy.
68. Reese Witherspoon is not.
69. I am blessed with some of the best friends on the planet. I am constantly amazed at the compassion and service given by people around me. If everyone on this earth acted like my friends do, this world would be an amazing place for everyone.
70. Three of my grandparents are still alive.
71. I hate horror movies. I think the last one I watched was Poltrogist in junior high. I have much too vivid of an imagination and I can't get images out of my head. I have to cover the screen during the scary parts of CSI. Who needs to see rotting flesh???
72. I love to cook.
73. I don't cook very often because my family seems to prefer to eat stuff that comes out of a box.
74. I am considering changing to a diet that is 80% vegetarian (no red meat, chicken and fish on occasion) and as organic as I can get it. The only thing keeping me back are a husband and two kids who hate vegetables and a daughter who gets the runs when she has too much fruit.
75. I wanted to be a Speech and Language Pathologist when I was younger.
76. I tried out for my first musical on a dare in 9th grade. I made it and was hooked.
77. I care way too much about what other people think, though I try really hard not to.
78. I am horrible with financial management and planning.
79. I am married to a CPA and yet I do all the family budgeting AND our taxes.
80. I hate crowds. I will avoid things that I would really like to do if I think there will be a disorganized crowd of people there. I don't mind ORGANIZED crowds, but the zoo on a sunny school holiday or a downtown parade would pretty much kill me.
81. I had Scarlet Fever.
82. I cry every time I read or watch Little Women.
83. I have a MySpace page.
84. I always leave the lid off of the toothpaste. It drives Brian crazy.
85. I HAVE to answer the phone whenever it rings. It takes incredible will power to let the machine get it. I do it very rarely.
86. I used to be able to play "Up on the Housetop" on the trombone.
87. I wear a size 7 1/2 shoe. I was a size 6 before I had any kids.
88. I love board games. We have about 30 to choose from. Wanna come over?
89. I once won a He-Man action figure from a pack of Bubble Yum.
90. One of my favorite recipes was featured in Quick Cooking. It even says my name.
91. I sleep on the left side of the bed. At least in this house. I am always on the side closest to the door so I can run out if a kid starts to cry.
92. I own a sewing machine. I haven't used it in two years.
93. In highschool I made a boy hate me so much that the poem for his senior English Literature oral presentation was all about how much he hated blondes.
94. I used to be the statistician for the varsity baseball team. This is amazing considering my less-than-stellar math scores.
95. On Sadie Hawkins day once in college me and my roommates dressed in matching red long red jammies with a flap on the back and went around to our male friends and sang and delivered flowers.
96. On one of my birthdays in college those same friends tied me to a bike rail and put a big sign in front of me saying "It's my birthday, please sing to me."
97. Amazingly, I am still friends with those gals.
98. I am very sensitive to noise. I have trouble blocking it out and if there is a dog barking in the neighborhood or a noisy car or motorcycle it literally makes me go a little crazy.
99. I have a hard time making up my mind. Ask my sister. She HATES shopping with me.
100. I had to scrape the bottom of the barrel to come up with this list. I know that as soon as I lay down to go to bed I will think of something that would have been INTERESTING to read and wish I would have put it on here. Sorry.

Okay. Your turn. Can YOU come up with 100 things about yourself?