I've been reading the blogs of friends who did this and it made me laugh. I apologize to those of you who tune in solely for the pictures of my kids (grandmas and Cynthia), but here goes a little narcissistic road trip to Alison.
1. I like the smell of stinky feet. (Jake didn't know this and is now really grossed out.)
2. I was the mascot for my high school. Big Blue Bulldog.
3. I fell asleep at the wheel and drove off a cliff once. just once.
4. I've been stung by a bee twice.
5. I don't like to sleep past 7:00am.
6. I could survive on Samoas alone (girl scout cookie).
7. I drive really slow in the right lane on the freeway.
8. I worked for Ryder Trucks and got to drive the big ones around AZ when I was 18.
9. I worked for one week as a runner for a construction company in Phoenix.
10. I only ever dated blonde guys until Jake.
11. I'm deathly afraid of moths.
12. I'm a wee bit bossy. Just a wee bit.
13. I really hate cats. I used to shoot them with my bb gun to keep them from doing their business in my garden in Texas.
14. I raised hogs each summer during high school and then showed them in the county fair.
15. I'm afraid of the dark. I make Jake come get me at the car when I get home late at night.
16. I'm just like my mother.
17. I look nothing like her.
18. I think my kids are way cuter than anyone elses kids.
19. I like to country dance. NOT line dance.
20. I crashed my mom's van into the light post outside Taco Bell on the way home from getting my learners permit.
21. I licked dirt from a window ledge while taking a walk with my mom when I was 3.
22. Getting dressed up is torture.
23. I have whole conversations in my sleep.
24. I made a really bad cheesecake when I was 12 (picture floating chunks of gelatinous goo) and have been judged harshly for it ever since.
25. I have really big ears that I hide with my hair.
26. I snort when I laugh hard.
27. I used to slide down the stairs in a sleeping bag and make my little brother, Reid, be the landing pad.
28. I had a great perm for most of my early teen years.
29. My bed time is 8:30.
30. My parents spanked us with a wooden spoon when we were especially naughty. I still can't hear someone rummaging through the utensil drawer without getting chills.
31. I speed read and it drives Jake up the wall.
32. My favorite movie is You've got Mail.
33. I've got the hots for Clive Owen.
34. I've got the hots for Jake too.
35. I almost burned down my grandpa's house when my parents were out of town.
36. I can tie a bowline knot faster than anyone I know except my dad.
37. I know the scout law by heart.
38. I dumped coals down the trunk of a dead tree at girls' camp and started a fire.
39. I went to Kindergarten in Paris.
40. I hate wearing perfume.
41. I like watching cartoons.
42. I can't ride a bike.
43. I've had to give the baby heimlich 3 times on my children.
44. I was a flag girl in high school.
45. I HATE scary movies!
46. I love the beach.
47. I've gained and lost 384 lbs in the last 8 years.
48. I like expensive clothing.
49. I can't carry a tune to save my life.
50. I won't take out the trash. I refuse.
51. I am the weirdest person Colman Carter knows.
52. I don't like dessert with fruit in it.
53. I only like really good chocolate.
54. I drove a big giant rusty blue Chevy pick-up in high school that my friends nick-named "killer" as a joke.
55. I have lived in Utah, Illinios, Arizona, Texas, California, Connecticut, Switzerland, Paris, and Madrid. Not in that order.
56. If Jake makes the bed "wrong" I redo it after he leaves for work.
57. I love to sew.
58. I hate Japanese animation.
59. I wish I could play the violin
60. I passed gas in 2nd grade and blamed it on Mike Luna, the kid who sat next to me.
61. I had 21 different roommates in college.
62. I got in a fist fight with my next door neighbor, Margaret, when I was in 4th grade.
63. I really like getting a pedicure but have only had 2 in my whole life.
64. I want to be like Martha Stewart. (talent not personality)
65. I like to waterski but haven't done it in 9 years.
66. I like camping because of the food.
67. I hope to live near my siblings (or Jake's) when they've all grown up and have families.
68. I cry when I laugh too hard.
69. My mom had to convince me to go out with Jake.
70. I have seen my best friend, Adessa, twice in the last 8 years and she's still my best friend.
71. I got called a boy in the school bathroom (eric spit gum in my hair so my mom cut it boy-short) so I beat up the girl and got a pink slip.
72. I can make really realistic cow, chicken, turkey, monkey, and pig noises.
73. I love having birthdays and want everyone to know it's my special day.
74. I get unreasonably dissapointed when nobody remembers my birthday.
75. I love to throw things away.
76. I really like old musicals with lots of tap dancing.
77. I like to play softball, but when I was in little league, I was famous through out Mesa for being that one girl who's never actually hit the ball.
78. I like experimental cooking. My kids aren't too keen on experimental tasting.
79. I like new shoes but have had the same pair of square toed, thick heeled black sunday shoes for the last 6 years. (for women's shoes, that's bad.)
80. I'm a whiz at making up stupid poems.
81. I love, love, love having friends come stay with us from out of town.
82. I hate, hate, hate staying at other people's homes.
83. I really like Brighton jewelry.
84. I collect Polish pottery.
85. I like cleaning my microwave.
86. My dad taught me how to drive a car and our relationship has been strained ever since.
87. I taught myself how to drive stick-shift.
88. I feel very at home speaking in front of an entire room full of primary kids.
89. I would rather break my leg than speak in front of an entire room full of adults.
90. I would rather play football than watch it.
91. I'm terrible at putting together an outfit.
92. I love having a yard sale.
93. I'm great at organizing.
94. I'm not very humble.
95. I'm referred to by some ladies in my ward as the "poop lady" because they call me for advice when their children aren't regular.
96. I am a great baker. I am also great at eating what I bake.
97. I procrastinate like there's no tomorrow. I guess it's more like there's lots of tomorrows.
98. I love being a stay at home mom. That term's kind of deceiving since I'm more of a "stay at the grocery store-zoo-dry cleaners-kids kindergarten class-beach-costco-doctor's office-church-target-park-library mom".
99. I wish I had bigger calf muscles.
100. I love the smell of creosote bushes in the desert when it's about to rain.
