1. I was baptized into the family of Christ when I was ten years old on February 17, 1988.
2. I once strongly considered being re-baptized because I thought maybe the first one didn’t take.
3. That’s when I learned about God’s grace.
4. Would that I could have the grace of God.
5. I’m voting for a Hillary Clinton/ Obama ticket.
6. I believe that Hillary/Obama winning would be the fourth sign of the Apocalypse.
7. And I wanna see Jesus and His salvation come quickly.
8. I like my cream and sugar with a touch of coffee.
9. I fell in love with Eric the day he mixed my coffee up just the way I like it without any directions.
10. He mixes my coffee and Ruth Ann’s most every Sunday morning.
11. I love having a husband who is so good to my friends.
12. Eric does not read my blog.
13. He thinks that I tell him everything that I write, so why bother.
14. Poor thing has no clue how much more I could talk in a day.
15. I think it’s funny that blogger spell check doesn’t recognize the word “blog”. Just me?
16. I am a junkie for Dr.Pepper.
17. It’s in our pre-nup that Eric will always have it in the house for me.
18. And he does.
19. I don’t remember what was in our pre-nup for me to do for him.
20. Something to do with regular home cooked meals, I suspect.
21. I should get on that.
22. Eric found our current apartment all by himself with no help from me.
23. I didn’t even see it until I came to sign the lease.
24. He did a FABULOUS job.
25. Our dog Rocco made buddies with the deer at Mom and Dad’s acreage.
26. They taught him how to gracefully leap a chain link fence.
27. We sure do miss Rocco.
28. We have agreed that our next pet will likely be a fish.
29. And not until we can be sure those hooligan deer are nowhere near by.
30. Eric played in the Texas Tech marching band.
31. He prefers jazz.
32. It is unwise to disagree with Eric about what qualifies as good music.
33. He is a music hoarder.
34. Yesterday he introduced Mackenzie to Russian Gypsy music from the Romantic era.
35. She seemed to dig it.
36. I’m going to be thirty in a few months.
37. I am finding it a bit more awkward than I thought.
38. I’m not sure what a thirty year old does.
39. I guess I just thought I would be more mature by now.
40. It seems like no matter where we live our home becomes the neighborhood hang-out for the kids’ friends.
41. I always wanted to be the Kool-Aid mom.
42. I hate orange Kool-Aid
43. I can tell the difference between Flavor-Aid and Kool-Aid.
44. Kool-Aid is way better.
45. I can’t text well because I can’t type things like “whr u at?” without cringing at the spelling.
46. My favorite number is 7.
47. My Dad’s favorite number is 47.
48. For his 47th birthday I made him 47 peanut butter cookies (his favorite) and wrote 47 memories I had of him from the years I knew him.
49. He used to say things like, “I told you 47 times not to lick light sockets”.
50. You should never lick light sockets.
51. My first real job was as a pollster for Gallop.
52. I mostly did political polls.
53. When you hear that Pelosi has a 14% approval rating, it’s because someone like me called someone like you and asked.
54. I hate sales calls.
55. But if it’s a pollster, I answer every time.
56. Gallop has never called me.
57. The numbers Gallop uses are computer generated.
58. I once called an elevator.
59. “Is the female head of the household available?” “Uh, this is an elevator.”
60. I used to smoke.
61. I quit cold turkey using education from whyquit.com.
62. Sometimes I have nightmares that I have smoked a cigarette and ruined my quit.
63. I’ll never smoke again.
64. I bite my nails when I am a smoker.
65. I’ve discovered a love for long red nails.
66. Eric played the saxophone for me at our wedding with his brother accompanying him on the guitar.
67. I still smile when I think of the husband of my youth.
68. I smile bigger when I see the husband of my youth morphing into the husband of my middle years.
69. Eric likes sci-fi, so he likes words like “morph”.
70. Shame he doesn’t read this thing.
71. I have killed every plant I have ever owned.
72. I really want to try again with a potted lemon tree.
73. I figure a tree would be hard to kill.
74. Sometimes I fantasize that I am a rock star with hundreds of adoring fans listening whilst I sing my latest top single.
74a. or a movie star or famous author on Oprah or Jay Leno.
75. It could happen.
76. I find string theory fascinating.
77. I can’t tell north from south, but I totally get quantum physics.
78. You try figuring that one out; I have to live with it.
79. I love lava lamps.
80. I was 13 before I learned that it was wax and not actual lava.
81. I have very blond tendencies.
82. The reason there is a 74a is because I remembered the other fantasy after I had already numbered everything to this point and I didn’t want to go back and fix it.
83. I really don’t like cats.
84. Sometimes I wonder if my allergy to them is psychosomatic.
85. I once had a neighbor with 27 cats.
86. Eric bought me a pellet gun.
87. I’m a terrible shot.
88. My kids make me beam.
89. They can also break my heart in a second.
90. I love being their Mom.
91. We are home-schooling Mackenzie.
92. By “we” I of course mean “me”.
93. I plan a whole blog post about why we have chosen to home-school.
94. That time by “we” I meant “we”.
95. I totally crack myself up sometimes.
96. My kids don’t appreciate my comic styling with the tenor I think it deserves.
97. That doesn’t stop me from trying.
98. My neighbor drives a sweet stretch limo.
99. Sometimes I wonder if he would give me a ride to the store.
100. Or I could just wait for Oprah’s people to send one out to fetch me.
101. It could happen.
August 21st, 2007 at 1:18 pm
Good one … er … one hundred.
August 21st, 2007 at 6:00 pm
6. Ha! Ha!
7. good point! I’ll vote too!!
16. It’s genetic!!!
59. Ha!
77. I can’t tell right from left
81. AMEN!!
83. me neither
92. doesn’t it usually???
101. OVERACHIEVER!!
August 23rd, 2007 at 5:27 am
Eric is mixing Ruth Ann’s coffee!?!?
August 23rd, 2007 at 8:03 am
Thank you, Gina. I am honored that you took the time.
And Chris, you bring me the Egg McMuffin and Eric mixes your wife’s coffee. You know how we roll.
August 23rd, 2007 at 12:24 pm
Are we allowed to do that at church?
August 26th, 2007 at 9:32 am
So where do I take the Egg McMuffin today?
August 26th, 2007 at 9:35 am
We’ll be at the 10:45 service at High Point. Do you dare?
August 28th, 2007 at 1:32 am
Oops I guess I missed it. Actually my car was in the shop so I had to walk home from work Sunday morning. If God wants me to be in church he would provide transportation. I would be interestd in learning how you liked it. Is it true they speak in tounges and handle snakes there?
August 29th, 2007 at 8:29 am
No speaking in tongues or snake handling, though there was a curious moment involving chicken sacrifice. That was kind of weird.
September 2nd, 2007 at 6:03 am
Chicken sacrifice! That is so cool! How about recreational facilities? When I am looking for a new church I look for odd religious practices and excellent recreational facilities.