Chatter Boxes

1. I was born in the 70’s.
2. I’ve never broken a bone.
3. The only surgery I’ve had was to get my wisdom teeth pulled.
4. I sing in the car…all the time.
5. I have perfect feet.
6. I would change almost everything else about my “features”.
7. Except that I think I have pretty eyelashes.
8. Sunday is my favorite day of the week.
9. I’m a firm believer that Sunday is a “day of rest”.
10. I can pinpoint my earliest memory.
11. It was riding in the back seat of a 1980 Honda Civic during a test drive. I was 4.
12. I have a hard time falling asleep.
13. I also have a hard time waking up.
14. I can’t stand to have unpainted toenails.
15. So I’ve polished them consistently since I was 16 years old.
16. I played the oboe in high school.
17. I’ve played piano since the 2nd grade.
18. My parents never once had to force me to practice.
19. My parents did have to ask me to stop playing.
20. I love scary movies.
21. I hate haunted houses.
22. I’m particular about the texture of foods.
23. As a child, I wanted to adopt children from Romania, and drive them around in a passenger van.
24. I prefer black ink pens to blue.
25. I threw away my high school yearbooks.
26. My mother thinks that’s crazy.
27. I was indifferent about the entire experience and don’t feel the need to pack and store four very heavy books full of people I didn’t know very well.
28. I did however, have a good time at my 10 year high school reunion.
29. I enjoy public speaking (to a group).
30. I’m horrible at small talk.
31. I just bought canvas bags to use at the grocery store because it suddenly dawned on me how wasteful grocery sacks are.
Plastic bags consumed this year:

(Copied from: http://www.reusablebags.com/)
32. I don’t like frozen vegetables.
33. I’ve been to dozens of countries all over the world.
34. I’ve never been to Vermont.
35. My favorite flower is the daisy (Shasta…the white one).
36. I think I’m a better driver than every driver around me.
37. There are certain words that give me the willies.
38. I’m smart enough not to tell you what those words are (if you don’t know already).
39. I hate reality tv.
40. I love news programs or dramas about solving crimes, rescuing animals, or surgical procedures.
41. I have a German driver’s license.
42. I didn’t learn to drive a stick until I was 21.
43. I didn’t learn to fish until I was 30.
44. I don’t like seafood.
45. I prefer fruit flavored candy to chocolate.
46. Except a Heath Bar which beats everything else.
47. I like hymns.
48. I’m critical of contemporary Christian music.
49. I would rather take a train than a plane.
50. I’m an organ donor.
51. I have specific instructions about how I am to be donated when I die…piece by piece, not intact.
52. Having something stuck in my teeth drives me batty.
53. I carry dental floss everywhere I go.
54. I love to ski.
55. I live in a state with no mountains.
56. I took racquetball and pottery my senior year of college…that’s all I took.
57. I did sign up for Spanish but I dropped it because there was too much homework.
58. I haven’t taken a math class since my junior year of high school.
59. I don’t balance my check book.
60. The world does not stop spinning as a result.
61. I married a man who does math for fun.
62. That’s not, however, why I married him.
63. It makes me sad that people don’t write letters anymore.
64. I wrote a one page letter last week and my hand got tired.
65. I like sad songs.
66. I remember the phone number we had when we lived in Chicago. That was over 20 years ago.
67. I got in trouble a lot in preschool for acting up during nap time.
68. I enjoy doing laundry.
69. I had a retainer in the 2nd grade but broke it in half while playing handball.
70. I’ve never had braces.
71. I have very straight teeth.
72. We planted a garden last weekend.
73. I am now the proud owner of two little pea sprouts about ¼ inch tall.
74. I have a hard time believing they will produce actual pea pods.
75. I’ve had this blog for just over a year.
76. I like it, even if nobody reads it.
77. I worked retail jobs in high school.
78. I didn’t make any money.
79. I worked in the deli department at a grocery store for one summer in college.
80. It made me nauseous to touch other people’s meat and salads.
81. I bought a cherry red Toyota with the money I earned.
82. I don’t enjoy playing competitive sports.
83. Catching a fly ball during a youth group softball game is one of my proudest moments.
84. I love my husband.
85. I waited a long time to say that phrase. Not because it’s taken me a long time to love him…but because it’s taken me a long time to love anyone that way.
86. I have a spot on my middle finger. I can’t decide if it’s a mole or a splinter. It’s been there for several weeks.
87. I love old windows. I own two. I paid more for one of them than I did for my dog.
88. An ideal weekday is being in my pajamas by 6:00pm.
89. Doing this on a weekend would make me feel sad and pathetic.
90. I talk to my dog like a real person. I think she understands part of what I say.
91. I always get money back after doing my taxes (or having them done) but every year I fear that THIS year will be the year I owe thousands of dollars.
92. I own about 20 pairs of shoes. 17 of those are either black or brown.
93. I have awesome friends.
94. My parents are fun to hang out with.
95. I’ve always wanted to learn sign language.
96. I have no idea why.
97. I have a pink ipod and a red phone.
98. I’ve been able to keep my houseplants alive for almost 5 years.
99. I’m particular about what doors are open and what doors are closed when I go to bed. John can sleep with the front door unlocked and possibly ajar.
100. I’m sometimes more critical than I’d like to be.