100 Things About Me

  1. I met Jesus in 1983
  2. My favourite subjects in school were Japanese, Phys Ed, and Creative Writing
  3. My favourite sports are running and volleyball
  4. I’ve actually started liking Tennis too
  5. I hate swimming
  6. I hate water or anything in my face
  7. My weight matched my age till I was 12
  8. When I was 12 I hit 120 and stayed at that till I was 16
  9. Then I was 115, just for that year
  10. I graduated at 125
  11. and was that weight till I lived on my own
  12. I ate fast food for 3months straight
  13. and gained 50lbs.
  14. It’s been hard to go down
  15. easy to go up
  16. and in 2007 I weighed 214lbs
  17. the heaviest I’ve ever weighed
  18. I’m 5 feet tall
  19. So far I’ve lost over 40 pounds
  20. I want to weigh 115lbs again.
  21. In 2002, I taught ESL in South Korea on a Missions Trip
  22. It was a lot of fun
  23. and required a lot of patience
  24. 3 years later I got my TESL
  25. I taught English for a year after that
  26. I cashiered from 1999-2006 part-time
  27. I hate math
  28. but I LOVE pushing buttons and putting things in bags
  29. I married in 2004.
  30. In 2006, we were foster parents.
  31. For a year.
  32. It was hard.
  33. and real good birth control.
  34. We own our business.
  35. I work part-time for it
  36. I’ve grown to like the work.
  37. I’ve been taking PGX for a month-June 2008
  38. And found that I don’t crave sweet stuff anymore
  39. Except during PMS
  40. I’ve learned to love high fibre plain foods that are low calories
  41. I love this type of food because then I can eat a lot more during the day
  42. Although I don’t and try to stop eating by 6pm
  43. This has been working for losing weight
  44. I LOVE the "EATING RIGHT" brand of oatmeal without anything in it.
  45. I like change!
  46. I don’t like thinking about the future, though.
  47. I think that frightens people more than change does.
  48. Last year I lost 40lbs in 4 months.
  49. Those 4 months were: June - Sept.
  50. I hope to lose another 55 lbs this year.
  51. So far, those 4 months seem to be the ONLY time I lose weight!
  52. Because I’ve started losing again! (It’s June)
  53. I view my blog as a place of fellowship and conversation, that’s why comments are important to me.
  54. If you comment, thank-you!
  55. I feel compelled to comment when I visit people’s blogs.
  56. I think it’s polite.
  57. And plus then they know I was there.
  58. Sometimes I don’t know what to say
  59. I started blogging in 2006
  60. I like it way more than Facebook
  61. I think Facebook has way too much going on
  62. I like to focus on one thing at a time
  63. I am not a multi-tasker
  64. My husband is.
  65. I’m the muscle and he’s the mouth in our marriage.
  66. Our dishwasher does a better job cleaning dishes than I can do by hand
  67. I am fast at doing things
  68. Once I’ve thought long and hard about it first
  69. I don’t think before speaking though
  70. I love Photoshop
  71. and clean and simple looking things
  72. I love practical gifts
  73. I hate things that collect dust
  74. except for maybe dried flowers
  75. and computers
  76. My bedtime is usually 1am
  77. I don’t get tired usually till then
  78. I love animals
  79. We have 2 cats. In 2006, we had 14
  80. 12 were kittens
  81. We had 2 litters and I helped deliver the first batch
  82. a couple were breeched
  83. The second batch was delivered on my birthday
  84. Salsa did it alone
  85. and I was surprised that she gave me a birthday present of 5 kittens
  86. Nacho is the name of the other cat we have
  87. That’s her husband
  88. I love brushing his orange fur coat
  89. and chasing him up the stairs
  90. to attack him at the top with a pat on the butt
  91. Just to have him chase me right back
  92. Haha he can’t reach my butt, but he’ll tap my ankles
  93. I love hearing the cats talk back to me
  94. Sometimes I’ll have conversations with them
  95. It’s great owning pets for us ladies I think
  96. Because then we can get out some of those words we don’t use.
  97. When no one’s around to talk to.
  98. And then we can let our men sleep at night
  99. When we might like to talk
  100. Yup that’s me!