Drum Roll Please...This Is My 100th Blog Posting

In accordance with all blogging traditions, I am posting my 100th blog posting, albeit it is actually 11 days past due for the blog page, but oh well. I will now share 100 not-so-interesting and curious things about myself.

1. I was born weighing 9 lbs. 9 oz.
2. I was a perfect shade of porcelain pink. My mom told me so!
3. Because of this, I was the most beautiful baby. Again, my mom tells me it’s so!
4. I was born a few days late, unlike my twins who came 8 weeks early.
5. I may have been late for my birth, but I am rarely, if ever, late wherever I go to this day.
6. It is not my fault, it was ingrained in me at birth and as I grew up by my strict, somewhat authoritarian-style parents. My parents would lecture: “How rude it is for you to be late!”
7. I have an older brother who thought I was very cool when I was first brought home. (I think he probably still thinks I’m cool).
8. I was a girly-girl growing up and had tons of Barbies and baby dolls. I’m a girly-girl even still today.
9. The Barbies and dolls each had a special name, although I can’t remember their names now.
10. I grew up in a time that was much safer than the cities and neighborhoods are today. I was able to roam free and unsupervised.
11. I had one of the best childhoods, thanks to two of the best parents a girl could have hoped for!
12. I went to private Christian schools for elementary, middle and high-school.
13. I had to wear uniforms every day. I hated it at the time.
14. Looking back now, I’m so glad my parents sacrificed so much to keep me in private schools all my years growing up. I hope to do the same for my twins!
15. I was always a talker in the classroom, always getting in trouble for being too social and for passing notes in class.
16. I did so poorly in high-school one year, I had to go to summer school. That was also the year I got my first real boyfriend.
17. I was always in trouble for not properly tucking in my uniform shirt at school.
18. I was voted Class Secretary my junior year of high-school.
19. I was voted Class President my senior year of high-school.
20. I was once voted “Best All Around” by my high-school classmates.
21. I had a great church youth group I was a part of as a teenager.
22. My best friend was Christy and she moved to Texas when we were juniors in high-school.
23. Her family welcomed me as one of their own.
24. She was the athletic one.
25. I was the cheerleader one.
26. She is now married to a doctor who graduated from Duke University.
27. I haven’t talked to her in years.
28. I have no living grandparents today.
29. Paige and Taylor have two sets of grandparents.
30. I was married at 28.
31. I think it is a great marriage, although we definitely have our share of disharmony and disagreements from time to time.
32. I wouldn’t want the “perfect marriage” whatever a “perfect” marriage would be.
33. It’s the imperfect elements to our marriage that makes us unique.
34. We have been married for nearly 6 years.
35. We have two beautiful children.
36. I am amazed at how beautiful and special each of our children are in their own way.
37. I look at my children and see all that is good and true in the world and thank God for entrusting them to us.
38. I might want more kids someday. Maybe even sometime next year…
39. I lost the 70+ pounds I gained from my twin pregnancy in a little more than 5 months. Fortunately, I also have very, very few stretch marks. Lots of ab crunches deserve the credit for that!
40. I was a size six before getting pregnant.
41. I am a size six again and holding. YAY!!!!!
42. I have developed a daily habit of enjoying Starbucks mochas.
43. I tend to drink more than one Starbucks on really bad days.
44. I love shopping.
45. I love shopping for me, our house, my husband and especially our daughters!
46. Shopping can be therapeutic.
47. I have a tattoo with an insignia on my lower right side of my stomach.
48. I got my tattoo when I was 21.
49. Very, very FEW people have seen it as it is, by design, very well hidden.
50. I have contemplated getting the tattoo removed since having children.
51. Someday, I will discourage my children from getting tattoos and how can I do that if I have one myself?
52. I finally have accepted the fact that I live in California.
53. It has taken more than 5 years to accept that.
54. I also still hold onto the hope that one day we might move somewhere else.
55. I really don’t want to raise Paige and Taylor in California or have them attend the public school system in California.
56. I used to get to the gym 7 days a week.
57. I used to work out an average of 2 hours each time.
58. I now get to the gym to work out only 4-5 days a week, if that.
59. I had a great career in Marketing for several years.
60. I miss it sometimes.
61. I don’t miss it enough to leave Paige and Taylor in daycare however so that I can return to a lofty career.
62. I am applying to grad schools.
63. I had completed 1-1/2 years of my Master’s before getting married/pregnant.
64. I am hoping to return to grad school part-time in 2009.
65. I would love to travel to Africa.
66. And, go on a safari with Paige and Taylor.
67. I met my husband at the gym.
68. I am a “good housekeeper”, according to some friends and family.
69. I love to be organized.
70. I wish I didn’t care about a clean house sometimes.
71. I wish I had a paid housekeeper sometimes.
72. I don’t because I probably wouldn’t be happy with his/her cleaning service.
73. I can follow a recipe.
74. But, my husband is definitely the better cook.
75. I wish I enjoyed cooking more.
76. My mom didn’t especially enjoy cooking so I think I got that trait from her.
77. I love to read, blog, hang out with friends and family.
78. I am a speed reader.
79. I love all types of music.
80. I wish that I was a better photographer.
81. I love the smell of Yankee candles.
82. I love the smell of fresh baked chocolate chip cookies.
83. My favorite color is black followed closely by white.
84. My favorite flower is a simple wild orchid.
85. I love to eat sweet n’ sour peach rings.
86. Spiders and snakes really scare me.
87. I am a very tenacious, focused person.
88. Those attributes drive my husband crazy sometimes.
89. And, that's ok.
90. I have met my true life partner in him.
91. I love him very, very much.
92. My children are the most important people, next to my husband, in my life.
93. I hope that my daughters grow up safe, healthy and have every opportunity that they wish for in their lives.
94. I love to take long hot showers.
95. I have naturally dirty blonde colored hair, however, I dye it and highlight it so it’s even more blonde. I have recently dye-d my hair to a chestnut brown color.
96. I wish I had really short hair, it would be so convenient.
97. I am unlikely to ever cut my hair really short.
98. I prefer chocolate ice cream to most any other flavor.
99. I have wonderful friends in real life (Hi Erin! Hi Kim! Hi Jen!)
100. I think I am a pretty great person most of the time. My husband probably agrees. Ha, ha, ha.

Whew! That was pretty tough. Could you tell I was grasping at straws with some of those? Want me to expound on anything you read? Send me an email.