100 Things About Me!!

It's time to update again....wow, that sure rolls around fast. Seriously, for me, blogging is a bit like mopping the floor. I put it off and put it off and when I finally get around to doing it I wish I would have done it a long time ago. The only difference with blogging is my feet don't slide nicely on the floor once I've updated...I really do have to mop for that. Oh well...another day.
Anyhow, I've seen a few blogs lately that have 100 things about me..(well..not me really..but them) anyway...i thought it was a good idea so if you don't mind I thought I would give it a whirl. The only concern I have is that I may get too carried away with negative things...not that I'm a negative person, because I'm not....NO WAY....UN-UH....NOT ME....but...as I try to think of 100 things about me I keep coming up with things I don't like. I'll try to keep it under control. Another concern is that I will sit in front of the computer with a blank page...and by blank page I mean my brain....so....I may only do it a little at a time....you know....25 today....25 tomorrow....ok...next month....whenever I get back to it. Anyhoo....here goes. OH...and keep in mind...these are in no particular order. I wouldn't want anyone to get the idea that #1 on the list is the most important thing about me....not true....well....I don't know...I haven't thought of what #1 is yet....OK....now here goes.

1. Yep...I knew it....here i sit with not a thought in my head....oh wait....I know....ok....#1...I'm not a very good blogger....I know it comes as a surprise...but I jsut have a hard time thinking of things to blog about...I really admire people that can just blog about anything and make it enjoyable. (I was right, it's not the most important thing about me.)

2. I've been married to my hubby Alex for 28 years....I was recently asked if I still think he's good looking....YES....I do. I think my husband is very good looking. A hottie actually. :) I always did have a thing for older men....now I have one of my own. LOL!!

3. People think I'm grumpy when I'm not. Again, a surprise, but true....I have a natural frown on my face which gives people the wrong impression. Trust me...if I'm grumpy...you'll know it.

4. I have awesome kids. No...I really do. I'm not jsut saying that. They are great. I couldn't ask for anything better.

5. I love my kids-in-law. I got really lucky there, they are really great.

6. I really enjoy laughing. Maybe because my natural frown goes away, I don't know...but I like it. I love to laugh until I cry...that's the funnest thing ever.

7. I'm a convert to the church...yep...was baptized at the tender age of 17, by Alex....my then boyfriend.

8. 10 days after I was baptized I got married. That's right...at the tender age of 17. No regrets. Might not work for everyone but has worked well for us.

9. As a girl growing up I was always very very self-conscious of my big forehead. Now i call it a fivehead. It doesn't bother me anymore....I'll even push my glasses up on my head and pull my hair back with it...and I don't even care....crazy huh?

10. When I was a kid I wanted to grow up and be an airline stewardess...that's what they were called back then. I'm glad that didn't work out because i now know that they are just traveling waitresses. I dodged that bullet, thanks to Alex coming along and whisking me away.

11. I don't like my hands. I think they're ugly. Mostly my right hand. My left one is tolerable.

12. I used to raise Golden Retrievers and show them for obedience. I put obedience titles on two different dogs. That was a lot of work...a lot of fun...and very rewarding. Now I have poodles that don't listen to a thing I say. Hmmmm.....

13. Can we just skip this one like the skyscrapers skip the 13th floor?

14. I'm not a very organized person. I really wish I was...but I'm not. I hate that about me. i want to be organized...but I just don't know how to do it.

15. I know how to get a toilet really clean and looking brand new. Pumice!!!!

16. I love purses.....Noah accused me of having a purse fetish. I think he's right. I jsut bought a new one a couple of weeks ago....I don't love this one....I may need another one soon.

17. I'm a good reader....now see...that was hard to do because I feel like I'm bragging. I'm not....I jsut thought you would want to know a little about me ....and....I'm a good reader.

18. I love Photoshop!! It's awesome....I could spend all my time in Photoshop and never be bored....although my feet swell from sitting too long...but that's what the little stool under my desk is for.....

19. I had bad acne as a kid. My 6th grade picture is just hideous. My mom tried everything...she was always buying me stuff to help it. Nothing did. Thank goodness I'm through that phase....does anyone know of a good wrinkle cream????

20. I think I'm LOUD. I always wish i had a soft little feminine voice..but I don't....I'm just a loud mouth...I really don't like that about me.

21. I rinse all my clothes before i wash them. I jsut can't stand the thought of throwing dirty clothes in the washer...put in some soap and add water...yuck. I feel like I should rinse the yuck out first... then wash.

22. My real name is Lucinda. I hated that growing up. I changed schools alot and my mom always registered me as Lucinda....apparently she figured she chose the name and wanted people to know it. So it always took a few weeks to get everyone to call me Cindy. In high school there was a girl named Cheryl that always called me Lucinda....some people never learn.

23. I jsut got a passport this past year....my name is Cindy on it. Enough said!!!

24. I love to be out on a boat on the water. I love it.

25. Whales are awesome....I truly want to swim with whales one day!! Humpbacks preferably...the black and white ones intimidate me!!!

26. I would like to live in Alaska....a coastal town...like Sitka. It's gorgeous there.

27. My favorite TV show is 7th Heaven. We're watching it from season one on DVD. I like to watch about 4 episodes at a time....that doesn't happen very often...but I like it when it does.

28. I can't ever remember not having a pet. I love my pets. i remember the day Missy died. i was 10 and it was horrible....she was hit by a car the day I came home from spending the summer in Indiana with my Dad. Welcome Home....Missy died today!!!! OUCH!!!

29. My parents divorced when I was 5. I was married with children before i have any memory of seeing them together. I felt I should introduce them. It was weird.

30. I wish my Dad could have lived longer....he was such a fun Grandpa to my kids....i wish he was still here. My kids missed out on having a Grandpa as they got older. I'm glad Alex is such a good Grandpa to our grandkids. They really love him. I love that!!!

31. I want at least one of my grandkids to love me the most....you know...to be their favorite extended relative. Just one...is that too much to ask?

32. I love my son-in-law, David....he makes me laugh...he's very witty....I love witty people.

33. I love the smell of Pine-Sol. It jsut smells clean to me. If I'm going to go to the trouble to clean house...then i want it to smell clean.

34. I don't understand politics....it's just too over my head.

35. I don't like special news bulletins that break into my TV programming. At first I'm afraid it's going to be some awful news that we've jsut been hit by a nuclear bomb...but then...I'm jsut mad cuz I'm missing my show. I think subtitles would suffice.

36. I love Jazz....and light rock.....and country......and some of the really great stuff that Stormy has me listen to. Right now my favorite music CD is an A cappela group named Eclipse...the title of the CD is Grateful Praise. It's awesome.

37. I miss Stormy....she's in Ecuador until the end of October. Now I know what your'e thinking. She's been away at college for 3 years. yes...it's true...she has....but she was not in Ecuador. She makes me laugh....Stormy is so good at making me laugh....OHHHH DAANNNNGGGG!!!.... only Stormy will understand that....I hope she laughs. I did!

38. Names of pets I've had... in no particular order...mostly cuz I can't remember the order.....Sugar....Rainbow....Cricket....Missy......Aviance.....Freeway...Charlie....Scooby...

39. I check my email several times a day...i don't like it when theres nothing new. Just checked...nothing!

40. I love chocolate...no...you don't understand...I really love chocolate. Don't get me started cuz I seriously can't stop. I bought a can of chocolate covered cashews and ate the whole can on my way home from the store.

41. i have an eating disorder. I can't stop eating chocolate.

42. I named my first Grandson. Maxx. Yep....before Tara even knew if it was a boy or a girl I started calling it Max. By the time he was born lots of people were calling him Max. I was so thrilled when they named him that. I can't imagine him being anyone else. Took me a bit to get used to the second X...

43. I don't like the smell of roses. That smell jsut makes me think of funerals. Please don't get me roses....save them for my funeral... i won't be smelling anything then.

44. I had my teeth whitened at the dentist office a few years ago. i wish they were whiter. But I hate wearing the trays to do it. My teeth are very sensitive...it hurts.

45. Hey...that's how old I am.

46. I flunked Algebra my freshman year.

47. I hate the saying "You do the math".....

48. I don't like Peas. Even the smell of them makes me sick. Ewww!!

49. I'm terrified of snakes. Sometimes I have snake dreams and I wake up screaming. Then I'm afraid to walk to the bathroom in the dark, for fear of snakes on the floor.

50. Sissy....KiKi.....Lukie.....Duke....Mike.....Mama Cat....Lacey...Gunner

51. Noah had the cutest voice ever when he was little. I love to watch home movies and hear his voice. Good thing it was cute cuz he sure said some mean stuff. :) When Mama Cat had babies he called them Baby Tittens....I guess you had to be there. Trust me...it was precious. I still can't look at a kitten without thinking of that.

52. I love cold cereal. Captn Crunch is one of my all time favorites. I don't eat it anymore...I guess cuz I'm a grown up now.... Lucky Charms is another favorite. Wow...those were the good ol days.

53. One of my favorite snacks is toast with Crunchy peanut butter on it. Be right back!!!

54. I can type with peanut butter stuck to the roof of my mouth.

55. I don't like my handwriting. it's very sloppy. I've always wished I had cute handwriting. I don't...I'm over it.

56. I think thank you cards are great. Havent' you ever done something with no thought of someone thanking you for it...then a few days later got a thank you card in the mail? I don't know...I jsut think it's so thoughtful. Someone went out of their way to say thank you. i want to send out thank you cards.

57. I hate junk mail. I waste so much time ripping up or shredding junk mail. I'm too afraid to just throw it away...I have to destroy it first. Sometimes I put it back in the enclosed self addressed stamped envelope and send it back to them. I feel better about that.

58. I don't like to go into a grocery store that stinks. I jsut don't even want to buy anything. Sometimes it smells like rotten meat....oh I hate that.

59. I love cool whip. Seriously....I jsut eat it out of the tub with a spoon. or my finger if the spoons are too far away.

60. I love grass and trees. Theres not enough grass around here. I would love to have grass all over my entire yard.....I just don't think you can have too much grass.

61. I love riding lawn mowers.

62. I wish when you bought a car you just paid the price on the tag and moved on...I hate all the bartering that goes on.

63. I don't like it when people drive too close. I think it's rude. It makes me nervous. I always try to stay far behind other people so they don't feel nervous.

64. I love rings....silver rings....bling bling especially....they don't have to be expensive....jsut blingy....I really love rings.

65. I used to have sculptured nails.....now I have my own very short nails and I love it. I think they're cute....and that says a lot since I have ugly hands....especially my right hand, my left hand is tolerable.

66. I get headaches a lot. I have one right now.

67. I can't beleive I'm on #67....OHHHH DAANNNGGG!!!

68. I enjoy being alone. True....perhaps it goes back to when i was young and the only one left at home and my mom worked....I had a lot of alone time....I love it. Nobody enjoys me as much as i do!!! :)

69. Liebchen....Baby.....Gracie....Moose.....

70. It's 52 degrees in Quito Ecuador right now...I wonder what Stormy's doing?

71. My son Noah is a pilot. I know, right? He got his pilots license when he was 17. One day he's going to be pilot of someones private jet....well...that would be cool anyway. Noah's cool. He's a smart kid....much smarter than I could ever hope to be. He used to tell me about new things he had learned from articles that he read. I jsut nodded and interjected the occaional "Oh wow"...."uh -huh"...."Cool".....I really didn't have a clue....it was always way over my head. But I thought it was so cool that he loved learning I wasn't about to discourage him. Sorry Noah...you know I love you.....:)

72. wow....28 more things and I'm done....this isn't so hard.

73. So lets talk about my kids...that could easily take up several slots.

74. Seth is amazing. He's the most patient person I know. And so considerate of others. when he was little he always wanted to hold the door open for his teachers. They always siad on his progress reports what a kind and considerate boy he was. Still is. When people are mean to Seth it makes me very angry. I yelled at a girl in a photo studio for being rude to him. Poor Seth..he was so embarrassed. In my defense, he was leaving on his mission that week and I was very stressed about it.

75. Breezy is very organized. I'm not sure where she gets it. It must be from her Aunt Sally. But....she didn't get it until she moved out. When she lived at home she was not organized...OH NO....her room was a mess. I'm glad she got organized...maybe theres hope for me yet. Breezy is the one person I know that can laugh at herself. If she does something silly she just laughs. I love that about her. She is really a fun girl....I enjoy her a lot. I love having grown children...now I have kids and friends all rolled into one.

76. Noah....see #71 and #51.

77. Stormy....see #37. Stormy is great with accents. I used to think I had the corner on the market on that one. Nope...Stormy is better. She can pick up an accent so quick. Stormy is a lot of fun...but when she's not....yikes....watch out...step back....Do Not Git Loud Wit Her.

78. Ok....that does it...I'm hungry....12 to go....i'll save them for later.

......to be continued.......

79. Oh....I hate it when shows are continued....Oh that really irks me. you know it's already been filmed....and I'm sure they could jsut play it at the same time...but no...they make us wait....why??...because they can!!!

...to be continued.....because I can.....