Wednesday, January 31, 2007

100 things about me

Jamie posted her '100 things about me' list and I enjoyed reading it. I made one also, I hope you enjoy reading mine.(Small problem!! I have 'Cybersitter' on my computer and it blocks certain words. The only way i can put them on my page is to put a p.e.r.i.o.d. after each letter!!)

1. I'm fat: I have a nagging twenty pounds...some days thirty ;].. that are my constant companion...I WANT TO DIVORCE THEM FOREVER!!!!!!
2. I love chocolate (see fact #1.)

3. I love color, lots of color

4. I Love flowers, especially roses

5. I have 6 kids

6. I threw up the entire time-every time- I was pregnant

7. I only stop throwing up when they cut the umbilical cord (yes, I even throw up during delivery)

8. I feels so good after I delivery the baby (no long nauseous) I could clean the delivery room, and I am NOT exaggerating!

9. I love my kids

10. If I was not a mother, I would not want to exist

11. I have NO greater joy than to hear that my children walk in truth, 3rd John 1:4

12. I have a WONDERFUL husband who doesn't care one bit about fact #1


13. I love to hear my kids laughing and getting along

14. Some of my favorite times are when me and my kids sit around and talk and laugh

15. I owe Donny Osmond my life. I found the church (Mormon/LDS) through his music. It has changed my life

16. I have been trying to learn to Toll Paint for 25 years. The latest attempt came this January. I signed up for clases 2 different times and they have been canceled-- both times!

17. I love to laugh. If someone put a g.u.n. to my head and said I had to choose between not eating sweets again or never laughing again, I would give up sweets. Hummmmm, anyone got a g.u.n.!

18. I love to decorate

19. I worry waaaayyyyyyyy to much

20. I work part time in a nursing home. I no long think BABY diapers stink!!!!!!!!!!!!!

21. I use herbs for healing, a lot, especially Garlic and Cayenne Pepper

22. I love chick flicks and I can't stand sad endings

23. I love Sci Fi

24. I loved the 'Lord of the Rings' except for all the icky Orc scenes. Ever heard of a tooth brush guys!

25. My favorite car is a Chrysler Crossfire convertible!!

26. I wear glasses and I don't like them, so I rarely wear them, usually only when I have to see, ie. . driving, at a movie

27. My favorite color is deep, rich cranberry—cranberry that leans heavily to the purple side

28. I love to change my blog around. If you have seen it regularly you already know that!

29. I use !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! way to often when I write!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I'm trying to get better at that though!

30. I played the violin for 4 years................but you would never guess that if you heard me play

31.I can 'two finger' play the piano

32. I played the recorder (a small woodwind instrument)in school. I still play it every once in a while

33. I played the guitar in school........I really like the guitar but I have forgotten most of it

34. I enjoy writing

35. I dream of publishing children's books

36. I wrote a Harry Potter book!!! 540 PAGES!!(Sorry, see fact #29)

37. I love the Harry Potter Books, I have read the first 4 books 5-7 times and the last 2 books 3-4 times. If she kills off Harry in book 7, I'm going to BURN all my Harry Potter books, well, maybe.........

38. I cry EVERY time I read “The Little Match G.i.r.l. ”

39. My kids try and make me read it to them every Christmas just to make me cry..how rude is that?

40. I run 5 days a week (so why am I still fact #1?????)

41. I would like to know when running becomes fun like soooooooooo many sick, deprived, nuts (A.K.A. my friends) claim??
42. I'm 5'9”. I GREW ½ an inch when I started running three years ago

43. I am claustrophobic! And a little hydrophobic(almost drown at age 7)

44. I love the ocean (go figure!). When we lived in PA, we went to Ocean City Maryland every summer.....boy, do we miss it

45. I Love Latin music, Ricky Martin, Marc Anthony, Los Lonely Boys, Santana

46. I love Bryan Adams music and almost anything written by Mutt Lange

47. My favorite vacation was a cruise with a bunch of my friends last February

48. I miss having best friends, you know the kind, ones you can laugh with and talk to for hours. Ones you can go out with at Midnight and enjoy the “All You Can Eat” Taco bar at Garcia's in Provo (see fact # 1.. again)

49. I think Tom Sellack and Matthew McConnaughey are hot. Orlando Bloom doesn't hurt my eyes either!

50. I am a staunch, far-right winged, Rush Limbaugh & Laura Ingraham listening to, conservative.

51. I'm VERY proud of the fact that I am a staunch, far right winged, Rush Limbaugh & Laura Ingraham listening to, conservative52. I can't stand “Hillary, I'm a big fat liar, Clinton”

53. I love my country, it is the GREATEST land in the world

54. However, I fear that if we don't get our act together morally we will lose our freedoms and possibly our country

55. I have lived in 5 different states and 20 different homes

56. If I could live anywhere it would be in a beach house and it would be near Ocean City, MD57. I love long hot bubble baths, but not jetted tubs, too noisy

58. I would LOVE to design “Dream Homes”. Most are designed by boring men and they lack all the “right” things

59. I enjoy the mountains, every time someone calls these 'hills' out here in the east 'mountains', I have to use all my self-control not to laugh

60. I worry too much about what other people think about me (see fact # 1..again)

61. I h.a.t.e. shopping of ANY kind

62. I am the oldest of 3 and the only g.i.r.l.

63. I wish with all my heart I had a sister, then I would have a forever best friend

64. How did I get so old? Every time I look in the mirror I realize gravity has stepped or rather jumped into my life in a serious way65. I have hay fever

66. I'm a teribl spelr;}

67. I love the card g.a.m.e. “Rook”, One high, of course

68. I make my own lotions from unrefined oils and butters (not the eating kind of butter!)

69. I have rosacea and that is why I make my own lotions. I no longer need the DR. prescriptions!

70. I am very unorganized

71. I love it when I am organized...at least I enjoyed it the 3 times that I tried it!

72. My husband can sleep ANYWHERE....I h.a.t.e that
73. I CANT sleep anywhere but my bed......I h.a.t.e that

74. I had my wisdom teeth out on my 23rd birthday

75. My all time favorite book is Les Misérables. I read it in 3 days........but I despised the ending

76. I love my husband to play with my hair

77. My tonsils are so small that Doctors often think I have had them removed

78. I have become a recluse in my older years

79. I am one class short of an Associates Degree in Legal Assisting

80. I love Amish furniture

81. I could not stand high school

82. I home school my kids

83. My oldest is in College and getting straight A's

84. My son went back to public school for 11th grade. He is getting straight A's...even in Pre-calculus and Physics. The school did not want him to take these hard classes because they thought he would not be able to keep up with the public school kids. Kudos to homeschooling!!!!(I don't care about fact # 29 at the moment!!!)

85. I come across as snobby when people first meet me but I am just painfully shy........after you get to know me you wish I were painfully shy, I talk way to much

86. I wear an 11w shoe

87. My son, who is currently on a mission in Singapore, wears a 15w shoe

88. My dream home would have a “slick car” race track in the back yard, along with several horses and a goat or two, Nubian, of course. It would also have to have a huge bathtub, an awesome flower garden that wraps around the whole house and yard and an outdoor hot tub

89. I want to go Pari-sailing

90. I love Diet Pepsi One

91. We were in the Hill Camorah Pageant last summer

92. I do not like scrap booking

93. I have a real passion for digital Photography

94. I love photo editing

95. The only TV I watch anymore is HGTV and Whose Line is it Anyway (if I remember it is on)

96. I am losing my memory....

97. The good news is that this is normal because I am Peri-Menopausal (pre-menopause) and that is what Peri Menopausal women do

98. The bad news is I am Peri-Menopausal

99. I have NO desire to sky dive OR bungee jump100. I have had seventeen 29th birthdays!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

3 comments:

Jamie said...

Andy and I sat and read this post together. We loved it, we laughed so hard at the picture of Don. Thats a classic!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
We miss you guys

Anonymous said...

I loved the page Sherry! You did a good job on it. I'm sure the out-of-towners will love it.Nice family lots to be proud of! Your friend, Katie :)

Anonymous said...

Totally agree with #17!!!!