100 things about MOUNTAIN GIRL

After much thought and deliberation.....here is my list. This was hard.

1. I am a Christian. (I thank God for His grace and patience.)

2. I am a work in progress.

3. My father is one of the greatest influences on my life.

4. I was a tomboy growing up. Still am in many ways.

5. I was extremely rebellious thru my teenage years. I got involved in alot of things that I am not to proud of.

6. I love to learn.

7. I love to read self-help type stuff and bio and autobiographical stuff.

8. I am blessed to have a several really good friends. One I have known since kindergarten, one since seventh grade, and one I met on the first day of college. I still talk to all of them on a weekly basis.

9. I barely graduated from high school but I graduated from college with a 3.85 gpa. Its amazing what a difference paying for your education makes.

10. I usually feel more comfortable around guys. I grew up with all boys and was always just treated like one of the guys.

11. I am learning how to hang out with women, but it is different and difficult at times.

12. I have worked at a rock quarry and doing construction.

13. My first marriage was a disaster from the start.

14. The years I spent with my ex-husband were the lonliest and most difficult years of my life so far.

15. I went on a cruise with my ex husband (we were still married at the time) and really seriously contemplated pushing him off the boat one night when he was drunk. But I didn't.

16. Instead I came home and filed my divorce papers. One of the best decisions I have ever made.

17. I miss working from time to time.

18. I love giving the perfect gift. (doesn't have to cost alot. I just love it when you are able to give someone something they absolutely love.)

19. There is something that I like about working outside and doing physically difficult work and even being dirty at the end of the day.

20. The day that I married my now husband was one of the happiest days of my life. When I met him I knew I had found "home."

21. The days that my boys were born are my other happiest days.

22. My husband is 17 yrs and 11 mos older than me. He graduated high school the year I was born.

23. I almost let him slip thru my fingers because I didn't know if I wanted to date someone that much older than me. Boy would I have missed out.

24. I like getting older (the alternative sucks) I learn so much every year.

25. My children have brought great joy and alot of hard work.

26. Before I had the Banimal I had never fed a baby or changed a baby.

27. I have always been afraid of the dark.

28. I played piano well enough to get a partial college scholarship but now I can barely read music or play 'Twinkle, twinkle, little star.'

29. My mother forced me to play and my rebellion was to stop once I turned 18 and never touch the keys again.

30. Lately I have toyed with the idea of picking it back up again.

31. I love anything that is artistic. music. painting. drawing. crafting. even play dough.

32. I was a member of NOW when I was in college.

33. They would be so disappointed in my outcome. Stay at home, mother of two, submissive little housewifey.

34. I feel like the little domestic housewifey suites me way better than the hostile man hater.

35. My husband says that I have "Little Red Hen Syndrome" from time to time.

36. I thoroughly enjoy my little domesticated life.

37. I worked for most of my twenties and don't have a penny to show for it.

38. I have less and spend less now, but I am so much more satisfied.

39. I absolutely love Blues. especially Buddy Guy and BB King.

40. I also love classic rock and southern rock. (I had written old rock at first, but my sweet hubby explained that its called 'classic' not 'old'.) I think that's how he chooses to look at himself as well.

41. I love doing service/volunteer work.

42. I don't drink caffiene.

43. I love chocolate. (kind of a double standard... I'll eat caffiene but not drink it.)

44. I make a mean pan of biscuits. Just the way my Grandma used to in a cast iron skillet.

45. I love to cook

46. I have a huge recipe collection.

47. My graduating class only had 51 people in it.

48. I loved college because there were so many different kinds of people there with so many different points of view.

49. I love to talk to people that I have nothing in common with.

50. I talk way too much. Always have.

51. I open my mouth and speak without thinking. A habit that I have been working on.

52. I love to play sports.

53. I used to love to lie when I was a kid. It was like a challenge to try to get them to believe you.

54. I have a really hard time telling people "no". But my husband has helped me to stand my ground more.

55. I seem really tough on the outside but I am really a big mush pot on the inside.

56. Having kids has made me even mushier. I cry about all kinds of crazy things.

57. I am extremely sentimental. I keep all of the cards that my husband and kids give me.

58. I am obsessed with pictures. I have lots of pictures of my family and friends.

59. When I was in the sixth grade my mom would not let me shave my legs and a boy in my class called me 'cow legs'. I have shaved my legs nearly ever day of my life since my mother finally let me. I can't stand to have hairy legs.

60. People always comment on my smile.

61. I think that my green eyes are my best attribute.

62. I had an aunt that used to babysit me when I was about 7 and she would close the blinds and turn off the lights and turn her disco ball on and play Rod Stewart's 'If you want my body' and 'abracadabra'. I thought I was at the club and I used to dance for hours to those 45's. that was one of my fave memories

63. I love to read quotes.

64. I can memorize the words to a song after hearing it once.

65. Unfortunately I am a terrible singer.

66. My favorite color is red.

67. I am a dreamer.

68. I resist change (according to Mr Clean, resist don't quite cover it).

69. I have always wanted to do something artistic for a living.

70. My dream job would be to have a shop and make custom cabinetry and small furniture.

71. I love Seagrams Ginger Ale.

72. From time to time I watch General Hospital.

73. I would never admit it to my friends.

74. I was born almost 7 1/2 mos after my parents married. I was 8lbs. You do the math. My mother still to this day, 30 yrs later, will not admit to anything.

75. I don't get along with my mother. (that's a blog of its own)

76. I enjoying blogging very much.

77. I did natural childbirth.

78. I feel like I can do anything after that.

79. I LOVE pizza and macaroni. Not necessarily together. I am carb crazy.

80. I love to be outdoors.

81. When I was pregnant, I secretly wished for boys.

82. I hope to maybe have a little girl someday.

83. If money was not a consideration, I would love to have alot more kids.

84. I never wanted kids at all, until I met Mr Clean.

85. I think sometimes I might have adult ADD. Mr Clean reaaures me its just having kids.

86. Sometimes I think parts of my brain are turning to mush. (from lack of use)

87. I am great at dreaming up ideas and things to do.

88. I have a hard time following thru with things.

89. I don't really believe in horoscopes, but I am exactly how they describe libras.

90. The chinese horoscope thing that's on the placemats at all Chinese restaurants says that Mr Clean and I should never be together. What does a placemat know?

91. I usually wear a tshirt, jeans and a pair of TEVA sandals.

92. When I was a kid I would cry until I was sick because my mom would make me wear frilly dresses and she would curl my hair.

93. I used to rock climb.

94. I rode a motorcycle for a couple of years. (I sold it when I married Mr Clean. He doesn't ride.)

95. I went gray prematurely. I have been dying my hair since I was 26.

96. I have good looking feet. ??? I asked my husband what he thought I should add and this was his contribution. He said, 'Beware of the woman with ugly feet.' He says all men know this. ???? I am confused.

97. I eat like a lumberjack and always have.

98. I have never ordered a salad and pushed it around on a plate to impress a man.

99. I like comedy. movies, tv, books.

100. This was the hardest thing I have done in a long time.