100 things you didn't know about me...

I got this idea from my niece. Thought it would be a challenge. It was.

1. My favorite color is blue.
2. I'm NOT a huge chocolate fan.
3. I'll take caramel over chocolate any day.
4. I don't have a middle name.
5. My name is rarely pronounced right. (It rhymes with "sorry").
6. I sing alto.
7. I took "spelling" in college-loved it.
8. I don't care much for meat.
9. I am phobic about spiders. Want to hear me scream?
10. I really wish I could sing really well.
11. I love to wash dishes.
12. I like my toenails painted.
13. I don't like my fingernails painted.
14. I've played piano for Primary for over 30 years, among other callings.
15. I love to mow grass.
16. I don't like bbq sauce. I hate the smell.
17. I don't really like Halloween.
18. I love to watch tv at night in bed.
19. I wish I had become a track star sprinter.
20. I am hooked on decorating and how to shows.
21. My 10-key class in college was my favorite & I aced it!
22. I'm very sensitive. Poor Oscar.
23. I speak some German, but get so nervous I flub a lot. I do better talking to myself.
24. My favorite candy bar is butterfinger.
25. I've traveled to dozens of European countries.
26. I love to fly in airplanes.
27. I've always thought it would be great to play the violin.
28. I love playing the piano.
29. I wear my watch on my right wrist.
30. My favorite song is "Piano Man" by Billy Joel.
31. I love to type.
32. I once had 13 pillows on my bed.Four to sleep on and 9 decorative.
33. I lived in Renkum,Holland at age 5, my kindergarten year.
34. I lived in Vienna, Austria my 7th grade year.
35. I never thought I would be one of those people that jump up on furniture and scream if they saw a mouse. I am.
36. I love to write lists.
37. I hate to fold laundry.
38. I went to an "Earth, Wind & Fire" concert in college. It was GREAT!
39. I worked for a power company for 3 1/2 years.
40. I got to have brain surgery when I was 41 years old.
41. My chiropractor & physical therapist told me I was very flexible.
42. Looking at homes is a huge hobby of mine.
43. "I Love Lucy" is my all time favorite show.
44. I love a Baskins & Robins hot fudge sundae with mint chocolate chip and cookie dough ice
cream. NO nuts please!
45. I also love caramel on ice cream.
46. I go nuts when I see baby animals of any kind. I want to hold them!
47. I was a Camp Fire Girl when my mom was my leader. I never went beyond that short stint.
48. I love Fish and Chips from Red Robin.
49. I am a very picky eater, though in my old age I try a few new things now and then.
50. UGH!! 50 to go!! My best friend Sherrie Leavitt and I had twin pixie hair cuts in 6th grade.
51. I like purple pop and purple koolaid best. Chances are if it is purple I will drink it.
52. I am terrible at telling jokes. I can NEVER remember the punch line.
53. I love frosting, and eat it by the spoonful! Homemade, of course.
54. I have been known to eat powdered milk in the powder form. In other words, no water
added. Yum.
55. I admit I watch "Desperate Housewives".
56. I also love "Frasier".
57. Mashed potatoes and gravy are one of my favorite meals.
58. I learned to drive a stick shift on a foreign car (French) called a Citroen. The best car ever!
It looked like an upside down bathtub, so I got a lot of jeering when I drove it to school. HA!
59. I slept on a single size water bed without a heater for a couple weeks in high school. I
couldn't take the freezing cold any more and got rid of it.
60. I used to thoroughly, and I mean thoroughly clean and change my room around every week
and drag my parents down to see it. I vacuumed every corner and cleaned out closet and
drawers, and then sprayed it to heck with lysol. Wish I still did that kind of thing....to this day the smell of lysol takes me back...
61. I bought my first car, a Honda Civic, when I was 21. It was m&m green. I loved that car!
62. I am a night owl.
63. I didn't get my ears pierced until I was 19! My friend Cherrie Loski had to hold my hand
the whole time.
64. I took disco dance classes (yes, disco) with Cherrie Loski as my partner. Yes, it
was a little embarrassing to have a female partner. We kept switching off being leader.
65. I never gained over 25 lbs with any of my pregnancies.
66. I went to an all girls Austrian school in Vienna.
67. I love french fries with "secret sauce".
68. I smacked in to a sheriffs pick up truck--no damage to him, damage to my parents car.
69. I loved to "rake" my mom's white living room carpet for her.
70. I can still do a cartwheel. Probably everyone else can too...
71. I was in one play in my life and my one line in Southern drawl was "What was that?!".
72. I love to drive.
73. I don't like making phone calls.
74. I put in a new sub floor, and vinyl flooring in two bathrooms all by myself!
75. I love to paint. Walls, that is.
76. I am a clock watcher.
77. I am also a people watcher. I could watch people at a mall all day long.
78. Another favorite show of mine is Matlock. I love murder mysteries.
79. I hate clothes shopping. I am not at all good at it.
80. I love to dejunk , especially other peoples houses. That's fun!
81. I flew to Europe with family just weeks after 9-11. Yes, we were scared. The planes were half empty, so we had our choice of seats!
82. I used to play on the elevators at the Cub building on the WSU campus in Pullman.
83. While playing at the Cub, my friend and I crashed coming in and out of the doors of the ladies room and I wound up with 5 stitches in my head!
84. I am a good driver in snow. I learned on the hilly hills in Pullman.
85. I love to make things out of wood, like shelves, benches and frames. I have my own table saw, chop saw and scroll saw.
86. I like to weed gardens.
87. My favorite flower is the tulip, although I love many other flowers too.
88. I won a tv at my senior graduation party.
89. I have been shy my whole life. Not an easy thing to be.
90. The funnest thing I have done is travel to Europe with my 3 sisters!
91. I like pie better than cake.
92. I learned to ski in the Austrian Alps when I was 12.
93. I have a stick in my eye. Actually it is a spot of extra pigmentation, but people see it as a stick! A guy at college said "Hey, you have a stick in your eye!"
94. I grew up on milkshakes practically every night. Maybe not every night, but it is a fuzzy memory of having them all the time.
95. I have thin sliver lips. And by the way, the lip plumping stuff does NOT work. I am gullible.
96. When I was a newly wed, I was asked over the phone if Oscar and I wanted to trade mates. I thought he said "maids"and I told him I didn't have a maid. I was naive!
97. I never want to swim in the ocean. I am too scared of sharks.
98. I cook from scratch most of the time.
99. I love action movies. Since I have 4 boys and a husband, that is what we always watch! Our motto is "if something hasn't blown up or someone hasn't been shot in the first 5 minutes it's not a good movie!"
100. I haven't missed a single day of flossing my teeth in 8 years!