100th Post!

One Hundred Random Facts about Me—Are you ready for this?

1. I eat kiwis with the skin on. You should try it.

A tornado hit my neighborhood in Virginia when I was eight years old. Thankfully, my house wasn’t damaged.

I am ambidextrous.

I was 18 when I got my first kiss.

I love onions. Just love them. On salads, on baked potatoes…I put them in/on almost every dish I make.

Spencer and I went on two honeymoons. First, on the California coast. Four months later we went to Hawaii.

I have never had a pedicure. Someday….

Smells are a big deal to me.

In college I got a telemarketing job. After ten minutes on the job, I quit.

I am not a morning person. I am not a night person. I am a person who likes to get lots of sleep.
I’m a bit grouchy if I don’t get my sleep. Ask Spencer.

I have never broken a bone (knock on wood).

I am a second child of five. The oldest girl.

I have had two surgeries—a C-section and my wisdom teeth yanked out.

I don’t like soda.

I would do anything to brush my teeth at least twice a day.

I have Icelandic ancestry.

I’m a BYU baby.

I really enjoy watching Friends. I think it’s hilarious. Monica and Chandler are the best! Right now I’m into Lost.

Before Spencer came along, I didn’t enjoy chocolate, steak, or applesauce on pork. I love them all now. Spencer’s mad because now when people give me chocolate, I don’t pass it on to him anymore—I hide it from him.

My favorite card game is Spades.

I was called on a mission to Utica, New York. Someday I’d like to visit and see what I missed out on. Spencer owes me big for keeping me from the mission.

I like memorization.

I dislike Halloween. It is a meaningless holiday that loads me and my children with glucose.

I’ve never been to a Broadway musical. I’m dying to go!

I love avocados and I love fish. (not together)

I don’t wear earrings.

Spencer and I have only missed Family Night a handful of times in our marriage.

I’d love to dye my hair, but I’m too chicken to do it.

I have been snow skiing twice in my life…I didn’t really enjoy it. (See #30.)

I am scared of heights.

My shoe size is 6 and a half.

Before I had any children, I wanted twelve kids. I don’t know why I chose such a high number.

Now I’d be happy with significantly less.

I HATE wassabi.

I don’t like to shop with anyone.

I don’t cry much. I hate crying in public. I’m even embarrassed when my husband sees me cry.

I worked at the testing center at BYU for a year. I just passed out the tests…pretty easy.
People always asked me, “How can you work in the testing center”? It wasn’t that bad.

I am not a dark chocolate gal.

I’m not a big fan of medicine unless I’m in lots of pain or severely ill.

I like speaking in church with a very prepared talk in my hand. I don’t do well with impromptu—I get too nervous.

One time I gave Spencer a chocolate bar for Valentines Day and ate more than half of it. Spencer was upset (sorry Honey).

I’m an animal person… If my husband weren’t allergic…

Being a leader doesn’t come naturally to me.

I want to visit these top three places for a long, long stay someday: Alaska, Europe, and Jerusalem.

When Spencer leaves me on business or on a camp-out with the scouts, I don’t sleep well. I traditionally watch A&E’s Pride and Prejudice. I love that movie.

One book that I highly recommend you reading is Corrie TenBoom’s The Hiding Place.

I like garlic.

I know sign language.

I don’t have any professional sports teams that I am remotely interested in.

I worked at the Bean Life Science Museum. I was the front office receptionist and I did reptile shows for school groups. Holding snakes wasn’t my favorite part of the job, but I tolerated it.

I enjoy cooking.

When I was little I would put beetles in jars. My brothers and I would tie strings to their legs and fly them like kites. It was fun. I was a bug girl.

I enjoy classical music.

I’m not very crafty.

I have an unhealthy fear of poisonous spiders.

I wish I were a better gift-giver. I’m a great gift-receiver. :D

In Junior High I got a teacher to write me a detention for making-out in the halls. It was April Fools Day. The joke didn’t work. My mom didn’t believe it.

I have never been fishing or hunting.

My idea of scrapbooking is putting my pictures in picture albums.

I put chopped celery, onion, and dill pickles on my tuna sandwiches.

When I was ten or eleven, some punk teenager held a gun up to my head on Halloween and told me to give him my pillowcase full of candy. I froze for a few seconds, and then gave it to him. He ran across the street, then came back laughing, telling me he was just kidding…. um…traumatic.

I have NO allergies.

I’d like to learn how to do flower arrangements.

I tolerate hot weather more than cold.

My least favorite chore is laundry.

I had an abusive Kindergarten teacher. She got fired.

I like to sing.

My favorite colors to wear are greens and blues, and black and white.

I spelt the word “COLUMN” wrong on my third-grade spelling bee contest.

I like soccer. I played soccer in college on an intramural team.

I’ve never been horseback riding, but I’d like to.

I’m not a big magazine or newspaper person.

My favorite ice-cream flavor is Dreyer’s Rocky road. Yum. It’s all about the nuts.

I get irritated when people chew loud or slurp.

I prefer driving to being driven.

I am not an artist. You should see my horse, and my self-portrait. Yikes.

If I had to choose between mountains and beach, I’d choose mountains.

My favorite color in nature is purple.

I don’t like yardwork.

I like hats.

My dinner plates are white with gold trim. We also have some cobalt blue plates. Yay for wedding gifts!

I’m not a germ freak.

I think my eyes are dark gray/blue with a golden ring around the pupil. Spencer calls them “mud eyes”. I tell people my eye color is hazel. It’s easier.

I don’t like to talk about my experience with Taylor being born three months early. It’s not a fun memory. Don’t ask.

I invite the missionaries over to my house for dinner every month on the 17th. Bizarre isn’t it?

I prefer to write in cursive.

I look silly in sunglasses…kind of like a bug. My face is too narrow.

I have extremely oily hair, unfortunately.

My blood type is A+.

I am sick for the first half of my pregnancy. I throw up every day for those few months.

I’m not a career person. I have no desires to have a profession…ever. I just want to be home with my kids and family…. kind of like Beth in Little Women. Good book.

Spencer and I are planning on going to see Wicked.

I want to take a public speaking class.

I am picky about what movies I like.

I still get acne, dang it!

If I had a choice, I would want my next child to be male.

We go to the library every week for story time with Miss Donna.

I was “Constance” (from Forgotten Carols) in a stake play four years ago. Spencer was “John”.

We want a home in the country someday.

Spencer and I want to take a ballroom dance class together.

100. It was really hard for me to come up with all of this randomness.