Sunday, July 13, 2008

100 things about me

100 Things About Me Very Random, almost confusingly random!
1. I am a wife, mother, grandmother, sister, neice, and an aunt!
2. I love rain.
3. I wish I had a college degree in home Economics, I think they call it something else today!
4. I wish I had a college degree!
5. If I had a college degree, it would probably be in English Literature.
6. It really bothers me that I don't have a college degree, can you tell!
7. I loved being a mom.
8. I was a stay at home mom until my youngest was 11 years old.
9. I have a son, age 36.
10. I have a daughter, age 32.
11. I have been married for 38 years!
12. I got married at 18.
13. Since my kids did go to college and worked some before having children, I became a GM at
the old age of 50.
14. I love being a grandmother.
15. I have a twin sister.
16. I like to sew.
17. I am learning to quilt.
18. I pieced my first full size quilt this month. It will go to my granddaughter Grace.
19. I am about to start my Katie a quilt.
20. I plan to make all of them (my five grands) a quilt to use now.
21. I plan to make them all one to give them for a wedding present.
22. I am so not good at finishing my plans!
23. I like to embroider with my Embroidery machine.
24. I plan to embroider a quilt for my granddaughters too.
25. I bought my daughter an embroidery machine.
26. I live in the middle of Alabama.
27. I have two brothers and two sisters.
28. I have one brother and two sisters that live in the area of the state I live in.
29. I have one brother that lives one state over.
30. We all see each other at the same time, rarely!
30. My mother died five years ago.
31. I miss her.
32. I still have her on my answering machine.
33. I love playing on my computer.
34. My husband hates the time I spend on my pc.
35. My husband is so talented.
36. My husband has completely remodeled our home.
37. We have lived in this house, bought new, for 35 years.
38. Nothing is the same, he has re-furbished even the wiring and plumbing.
39. My husband and I are totally opposite in personality.
40. I am very close to my daughter.
41. My son and his father are very close.
42. I don't smoke.
43. I do like to eat.
44. I don't like to cook anymore.
45. I am retired from civil service.
46. I love staying at home.
47. Even in high school I liked staying at home.
48. My twin must have got the go out a have fun gene! Cause I had rather stay home.
49. I rarely get bored!
50. I have never broken a bone.
51. I had a hairline skull fracture when I was 17.
52. I was in a bad car wreck at 17, see #51.
53. My then boyfriend, now husband was driving the car when we had the wreck.
54. I really and truly believe it was God hitting me in the head and saying "You better marry
this one, I know your future!"
55. I love material/fabric.
56. I love books.
57. I like to read.
58. I love piano, and wish I could play it.
59. I had a case of pneumonia and pericardidis a little over a year ago. Very painful to breathe.
60. I have an unrealistic fear of gettting it again.
61. I do have osteoarthritis that is painful.
62. I plan to start an exercise program for this arthritis.
63. I wish I had an inground pool.
64. I know I would plan to exercise by swimming everyday! see #22.
65. I have traveled to Green Bay WI, Las Vegas NV, South and North Carolina, Tennessee,
Georgia, Florida, Mississippi, and Denver Colorado.
66. My father was from Georgia.
67. My father died when I was two years old.
68. Both my maternal and paternal grandfathers were already dead before I was born.
69. I loved my grandma, my mother's mother.
70. I still can hear her saying her prayers in the dark, after we were in the bed, when my sister
and i spent the night with her.
71. I like to scrapbook some.
72. I like to play with my pictures on and off the computer.
73. My youngest grandson is 2 yrs old and just had a broken thumb.
74. Two of my grandchildren are adopted from the country of Kazahkstan.
75. I wish I had my own beach condo.
76. I love going to my daughter's inlaws beach home.
77. I am never late.
78. My daughter is my best friend.
79. We are alike in many ways.
80. I am a born again christian.
81. That means that since I believe Jesus died on the cross for me, I have a mansion in Heaven!
82. I have a friend that I used to work with, haven't seen her in 10 years, but we email all
the time.
83. I am a night person.
84. My husband is a morning person.
85. This causes a lot of arguments!
86. I am an Alabama Crimson Tide fan.
87. I love to talk with my grand kids. They are so funny. but don't let them see you laughing at
something they said.
88. I love to read other peoples blogs.
89. I love to watch HGTV and TLC.
90. I hate housework.
91. I love Italian food.
92. I love romantic comedies.
93. I love to swing.
94. I like medical shows.
95. Co-workers always asked me about their medical situations as if I had some
important letters after my name!!!
96. I love flying in airplanes. Or did before arthritis!
97. I collect books on quilting and scrapbooking.
98. I like to go to open houses for new homes to get ideas for my husband to do with out home!!
99. I love clean sheets.
100. I love my life right now!