One nice thing about my family, is that we know how to celebrate a birthday all week long.
Friday we're going to see Twilight and go out to lunch.
Without kids.
Tuesday I received flowers and a Birthday in a Box from Brent, as well as cookies from my visiting teachers. 
We had my family celebration at Sunday Dinner.
Followed by a game of Guesstures. Here's my Dad. He did a great "Barf", next.
Christin's "Hula" is not to be missed.
Here is Parker "marching." I'm glad no one took a picture of me doing the "Robot".Because it's my 30th birthday, and because this blog usually focuses on the kids, I thought I'd regale you with 100 random facts about Moi.
1. I would get really bad motion sickness as a kid- now I love wild roller coasters and rides.
2. I am such a sucker for accents. (Especially Irish guys-oh, so hot!)
3. I love to read. I binge read, staying up all night to finish a novel in one sitting.
4. I think that a jacket that reaches mid-thigh on a man is hot.
5. When I was a kid what I wanted to be when I grew up was a pediatrician who does humanitarian work in third world countries. And to adopt orphans from Romania.
6. I don’t like to wear my glasses while I eat.
7. I’m annoyed by internet abbreviations such as LOL and jk.
8. I’m a cat person.
9. I can twist balloon animals.
10. I can roll my tongue into a taco.
11. I love long hair on a man as long as it is kept clean and trimmed, and they use conditioner and a hairbrush.
12. I miss being able to see the stars at night.
13. I broke my nose on the playground in elementary school.
14. I fractured my wrist roller skating, but felt cheated that I didn’t get a cast to have people sign- just a splint.
15. I went skinny dipping once. Under cover of night.
16. I have never had an alcoholic beverage.
17. But I have cleaned up after a friend who had had too much. Ew.
18. I went to a Rave once, but wasn’t drugged, so didn’t really appreciate the experience.
19. I got my tongue pierced a few weeks before my 18th birthday. The shop didn’t card me. I ditched school with two friends to do it, and told my parents two days later.
20. I almost didn’t graduate high school because I had missed (ditched) my second hour class the maximum number of times allowed. It was economics first semester and government the second.
21. I was 11 the first time I snagged my mother’s razor and shaved my legs. I felt like it made me grown up.
22. My eyes stayed very blue until I was about five, then gradually turned green.
23. I can’t get acrylic nails because I use my real ones for everything, and end up breaking the fake ones trying to scrape something off, or even pick my teeth, for example.
24. I have a book collecting addiction. It’s out of hand. I love bookstores and leather bound volumes.
25. I am very mathematically inclined.
26. I’m spatially challenged. I have had to really work on it, but am improving.
27. My sophomore year of high school I went rollerblading every Friday night. I had trim thighs then.
28. I know how to swim. I took the junior lifeguard training course as a kid. But I am just not built to move quickly through the water. It’s a lot of work for me. It must be my form.
29. I get an abnormal amount of satisfaction from a closet completely lined with shelves holding plastic storage bins all in a row.
30. I prefer playing actual board games to video game versions of the same. I also prefer holding a real book to reading an ebook.
31. I’m a big procrastinator.
32. I ride English even though I’m from Arizona.
33. I have an obscenely high tolerance for pain.
34. I dissected a cat in an anatomy class. We named him Felix because he was all black.
35. I only went to my high school football games for the first two years. Then I lost interest.
36. I don’t play any musical instruments. Yet.
37. My hearing was damaged at a concert when I fought my way to the front of the crowd, only to be too near the speakers for too long. Wear earplugs!!
38. I went crowd surfing once.
39. I spent over two years living in Europe, and still didn’t get to see everything that I wanted to.
40. I do my best work under pressure.
41. I have to find ways to motivate myself. I usually bribe myself with chocolate.
42. I hate folding socks. I’d rather buy new ones.
43. I feel so happy secretly wearing silly socks that no one can see under my pants.
44. I bought my first minivan at 23, and have never felt embarrassed or regretted it.
45. I was in a car crash a week after I got married. I totaled the car, and still suffer from the injuries today.
46. I bake a lot of brownies.
47. I don’t like to cook. Or do dishes. Or fold laundry. Or clean out the fridge.
48. I don’t like sleeping with socks on. There’s something confining about a blanket over socks.
49. I hate wearing turtlenecks.
50. I don’t like mushrooms. It’s a texture thing.
51. The only seafood I eat is fish.
52. I don’t like swimming in natural bodies of water. I can’t help but wonder what is crawling around underneath me, or swimming by where I can’t see it.
53. I have tried waterskiing on several occasions, but could never get up.
54. I am very strong and sturdy for a woman.
55. In preschool I tasted paste once. I didn’t see what the kid next to me thought was so great about it.
56. I have a slight competitive streak.
57. I was on the basketball team in eighth grade. I’m not very good at sports.
58. I wrote poetry and short stories in elementary school and won a few ribbons in the Young Authors Contests.
59. I’m very stubborn.
60. I don’t actually know what my natural hair color is. I’ve dyed it since high school. I’m guessing light brown. Probably with reddish highlights.
61. I don’t floss regularly.
62. I once had an intern dentist fill the wrong tooth. The office still tried to charge me for the filling.
63. I’m not in any hurry to die, I have too much still to do. But I’m not afraid of death, either.
64. I stubbornly persisted in sucking my thumb until I was eight. Just because everyone told me not to. I quit cold turkey when my mom bribed me with a new doll.
65. I first learned to drive in a car with a standard transmission.
66. I’m not a gift person. I really couldn’t care less if I never got another birthday present. But I love being surprised with a plate of homemade cookies. Or anything else homemade.
67. I would like to be in a play, but don’t have the time to dedicate to it.
68. I can sing in a choir, but solos frighten me.
69. I can’t dance. I do anyway.
70. Public speaking doesn’t bother me at all.
71. I’m very allergic to most metals. I can’t wear jewelry unless it is surgical steel.
72. My first job was a cashier at Kmart.
73. I did a lot of babysitting as a teenager. And ever since getting married…
74. Soy makes me sick.
75. I’d love to learn to fly an airplane.
76. Someday I’d like to get a degree.
77. I’m naturally a pack rat.
78. I’m cheap. Or should I say thrifty? Frugal? I just really love clearance.
79. I haven’t listened to the radio in ten years, other than the occasional talk radio, and Christmas music.
80. I was in the last class that took home economics and woodshop in junior high. The following year they were permanently replaced by a technology (typing and computer awareness) class.
81. I’m not afraid of bugs or snakes. Sharks and alligators are another story.
82. I’m a good navigator. Just give me a good street map.
83. I’m a visual learner.
84. I have lived in seven different houses over the last ten years. I hate packing and unpacking boxes.
85. I love the rain.
86. I can roll my R’s.
87. I don’t accessorize very well.
88. I cry when I’m super mad. Which makes me feel weak, which makes me even more mad.
88. I usually get my way.
89. I’m spontaneous. Or a lousy planner.
90. I own a lot of scrapbooking supplies, but never find time to scrapbook.
91. I think this pregnancy is making me lose my hair in the front.
92. I use coupons.
93. I am not a shoe person, but in high school I once spent over a hundred dollars on tall Docs.
94. I trip over cracks in the sidewalk.
95. I like to eat vegetables.
96. I love Thai food.
97. I don’t watch rated R movies.
98. I am LDS. My faith is a huge part of who I am.
99. My family means everything to me.
100. It’s not easy thinking of 100 things about yourself.
2. I am such a sucker for accents. (Especially Irish guys-oh, so hot!)
3. I love to read. I binge read, staying up all night to finish a novel in one sitting.
4. I think that a jacket that reaches mid-thigh on a man is hot.
5. When I was a kid what I wanted to be when I grew up was a pediatrician who does humanitarian work in third world countries. And to adopt orphans from Romania.
6. I don’t like to wear my glasses while I eat.
7. I’m annoyed by internet abbreviations such as LOL and jk.
8. I’m a cat person.
9. I can twist balloon animals.
10. I can roll my tongue into a taco.
11. I love long hair on a man as long as it is kept clean and trimmed, and they use conditioner and a hairbrush.
12. I miss being able to see the stars at night.
13. I broke my nose on the playground in elementary school.
14. I fractured my wrist roller skating, but felt cheated that I didn’t get a cast to have people sign- just a splint.
15. I went skinny dipping once. Under cover of night.
16. I have never had an alcoholic beverage.
17. But I have cleaned up after a friend who had had too much. Ew.
18. I went to a Rave once, but wasn’t drugged, so didn’t really appreciate the experience.
19. I got my tongue pierced a few weeks before my 18th birthday. The shop didn’t card me. I ditched school with two friends to do it, and told my parents two days later.
20. I almost didn’t graduate high school because I had missed (ditched) my second hour class the maximum number of times allowed. It was economics first semester and government the second.
21. I was 11 the first time I snagged my mother’s razor and shaved my legs. I felt like it made me grown up.
22. My eyes stayed very blue until I was about five, then gradually turned green.
23. I can’t get acrylic nails because I use my real ones for everything, and end up breaking the fake ones trying to scrape something off, or even pick my teeth, for example.
24. I have a book collecting addiction. It’s out of hand. I love bookstores and leather bound volumes.
25. I am very mathematically inclined.
26. I’m spatially challenged. I have had to really work on it, but am improving.
27. My sophomore year of high school I went rollerblading every Friday night. I had trim thighs then.
28. I know how to swim. I took the junior lifeguard training course as a kid. But I am just not built to move quickly through the water. It’s a lot of work for me. It must be my form.
29. I get an abnormal amount of satisfaction from a closet completely lined with shelves holding plastic storage bins all in a row.
30. I prefer playing actual board games to video game versions of the same. I also prefer holding a real book to reading an ebook.
31. I’m a big procrastinator.
32. I ride English even though I’m from Arizona.
33. I have an obscenely high tolerance for pain.
34. I dissected a cat in an anatomy class. We named him Felix because he was all black.
35. I only went to my high school football games for the first two years. Then I lost interest.
36. I don’t play any musical instruments. Yet.
37. My hearing was damaged at a concert when I fought my way to the front of the crowd, only to be too near the speakers for too long. Wear earplugs!!
38. I went crowd surfing once.
39. I spent over two years living in Europe, and still didn’t get to see everything that I wanted to.
40. I do my best work under pressure.
41. I have to find ways to motivate myself. I usually bribe myself with chocolate.
42. I hate folding socks. I’d rather buy new ones.
43. I feel so happy secretly wearing silly socks that no one can see under my pants.
44. I bought my first minivan at 23, and have never felt embarrassed or regretted it.
45. I was in a car crash a week after I got married. I totaled the car, and still suffer from the injuries today.
46. I bake a lot of brownies.
47. I don’t like to cook. Or do dishes. Or fold laundry. Or clean out the fridge.
48. I don’t like sleeping with socks on. There’s something confining about a blanket over socks.
49. I hate wearing turtlenecks.
50. I don’t like mushrooms. It’s a texture thing.
51. The only seafood I eat is fish.
52. I don’t like swimming in natural bodies of water. I can’t help but wonder what is crawling around underneath me, or swimming by where I can’t see it.
53. I have tried waterskiing on several occasions, but could never get up.
54. I am very strong and sturdy for a woman.
55. In preschool I tasted paste once. I didn’t see what the kid next to me thought was so great about it.
56. I have a slight competitive streak.
57. I was on the basketball team in eighth grade. I’m not very good at sports.
58. I wrote poetry and short stories in elementary school and won a few ribbons in the Young Authors Contests.
59. I’m very stubborn.
60. I don’t actually know what my natural hair color is. I’ve dyed it since high school. I’m guessing light brown. Probably with reddish highlights.
61. I don’t floss regularly.
62. I once had an intern dentist fill the wrong tooth. The office still tried to charge me for the filling.
63. I’m not in any hurry to die, I have too much still to do. But I’m not afraid of death, either.
64. I stubbornly persisted in sucking my thumb until I was eight. Just because everyone told me not to. I quit cold turkey when my mom bribed me with a new doll.
65. I first learned to drive in a car with a standard transmission.
66. I’m not a gift person. I really couldn’t care less if I never got another birthday present. But I love being surprised with a plate of homemade cookies. Or anything else homemade.
67. I would like to be in a play, but don’t have the time to dedicate to it.
68. I can sing in a choir, but solos frighten me.
69. I can’t dance. I do anyway.
70. Public speaking doesn’t bother me at all.
71. I’m very allergic to most metals. I can’t wear jewelry unless it is surgical steel.
72. My first job was a cashier at Kmart.
73. I did a lot of babysitting as a teenager. And ever since getting married…
74. Soy makes me sick.
75. I’d love to learn to fly an airplane.
76. Someday I’d like to get a degree.
77. I’m naturally a pack rat.
78. I’m cheap. Or should I say thrifty? Frugal? I just really love clearance.
79. I haven’t listened to the radio in ten years, other than the occasional talk radio, and Christmas music.
80. I was in the last class that took home economics and woodshop in junior high. The following year they were permanently replaced by a technology (typing and computer awareness) class.
81. I’m not afraid of bugs or snakes. Sharks and alligators are another story.
82. I’m a good navigator. Just give me a good street map.
83. I’m a visual learner.
84. I have lived in seven different houses over the last ten years. I hate packing and unpacking boxes.
85. I love the rain.
86. I can roll my R’s.
87. I don’t accessorize very well.
88. I cry when I’m super mad. Which makes me feel weak, which makes me even more mad.
88. I usually get my way.
89. I’m spontaneous. Or a lousy planner.
90. I own a lot of scrapbooking supplies, but never find time to scrapbook.
91. I think this pregnancy is making me lose my hair in the front.
92. I use coupons.
93. I am not a shoe person, but in high school I once spent over a hundred dollars on tall Docs.
94. I trip over cracks in the sidewalk.
95. I like to eat vegetables.
96. I love Thai food.
97. I don’t watch rated R movies.
98. I am LDS. My faith is a huge part of who I am.
99. My family means everything to me.
100. It’s not easy thinking of 100 things about yourself.
6 comments:
Parker wanted me to add:
"I've never had a lava lamp."
Where did that come from?!
I got this from Brent:
"I just thank me lucky stars for a bonnie lass like you. This was my feeble attempt to give you an irish accent that you are hot for."
wow--that is a lot of random, interesting info! I'm jealous of your tolerance for pain. I'm a wimp.
100 things when you turn 30--impressive! I'm just trying to think of 36...
Wow, it's been a while since I have checked your blog!!
It was fun to learn more about you... we have quite a few things in common! :)
Oh... and Happy belated bday!! How does it feel to be 30? I am almost there in a few months... ugh!! :)
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