My 100

Our lives have been fairly boring recently and we don't have much to blog with. But want to update our blog, so I copied this idea from my cousin's blog. Here are 100 things about me:

1. I enjoy bowling.


2. I have never dyed my hair.


3. I hate paying full price for anything.


4. I like to read celebrity gossip magazines like US Weekly or People at the checkout stand, so sometimes I look for the longest line so I can peruse the magazines for longer.


5. I watch Law and Order almost every day of the week.


6. I don't like milk.


7. I have a hard time sleeping without a fan.


8. I have never broken a bone.


9. I loved going to college at BYU.


10. My favorite colors are red and green, but not together.


11. I am not as patient as I would like to be.


12. I check our bank account everyday.


13. I love candy, however I go through phases as to what is my favorite. Right now I really like nerds and snickers.
14. I am monumentally bad a video games.


15. I'm not a cat person.


16. I love to read.


17. My sister Melanie makes me laugh really, really hard.


18. Even though I sometimes complain about it, I really like my calling as Wolf Den Leader.


19. I like to run when it is nice and cool outside, at like 6 in the morning or 8:30 at night in the summer.


20. I love to feel the sun on my skin.


21. I am a pool rat.


22. I don't like merging onto the highway.
    
23. Tony is nicer to me than I am to him.


24. He is the perfect husband for me.


25. I couldn't ask for better parents. I love my family.


26. I couldn't ask for better in-laws. I love Tony's family.


27. I have the four best sisters ever.


28. I have the four best sisters-in-law ever.


29. I have the best three brothers-in-law ever.


30. I feel so blessed to be part of such wonderful extended families.


31. I love tomatoes and cheese. Almost every meal I make has one or both of these things in it.


32. I don't like being cold.


33. I am better at making lists than I am at checking things off of them.


34. I love the smell of clean laundry.


35. I wish I had longern (thinner) legs.


36. I wish I could dance as well as my sister Laura. All of my sister's think I dance weird. To them I say, "Whatever!"


37. I used to think I could lay down on the Y and cover it up.


38. I love flowers, especially tulips.


39. I miss getting candy--especially chocolate covered cinnamon bears--from the BYU Bookstore.


40. My favorite job was working at the BYU Bookstore, such great friends and co-workers.


41. I love Papa Murphy's.


42. I love Tony and am grateful for how hard he works for our family.


43. I love the feeling you get in your stomach when you descend on a roller-coaster.


44. I really like the movie 13 Going on 30.


45. I love getting emails or real letters/packages in the mail.


46. I think I have adult ADD.


47. Sometimes I tell Tony I think A-Rod or Jeter are hot because it bugs him. Sometimes I say random things to check and see if he is really listening to me.


48. I love taking my family's dog, Brandi for walks around the neighborhood.


49. Sometimes I am sneaky.


50. When I was younger sometimes I would suggest things to my sister Emily. You know, things I thought could be interesting, but didn't want to get in trouble for doing them myself.


51. I was lucky to have really great roommates in college.


52. I had a horrendous awkward phase. It was long and it was brutal.


53. Because of this I hope my children don't look too much like me.


54. I don't like looking at pictures taken of me circa '95-'00.


55. I love McDonald's french fries.


56. I like being tan.
57. I am sentimental.


58. I love reading the teachings of King Benjamin. It's my favorite part of the Book of Mormon.


59. I wish I could go out to lunch at Sweet Tomatoes with Jill tomorrow for some WonTon chicken happiness.


60. I love to laugh so hard my sides ache.


61. I am excited to teach personal finance and management classes one day.


62. I write everything down in my planner.


63. My favorite month of the year is May.


64. My mom is the kindest and most sensitive person I know.


65. I like watching sports with Tony.


66. My favorite church hymn is "In Humility Our Savior."


67. I really dislike the TV Show "Deal or No Deal."


68. I am a major procrastinator.


69. I don't like chocolate cake, or any cake really, but especially not chocolate.


70. I eat a bag of 100 calorie popcorn almost every day.


71. I love finding connections, between people and things.


72. Josh Groban music sooths my soul.


73. I always wanted an older sister or brother.


74. I am really interested in politics.


75. I like doing "horace and jasper" things with my dad.


76. I want to have a lot of kids, and after we have all our kids I want to get a dog.


77. I like doing crafty things.


78. I wish I was better at decorating our apartment.


79. When I was younger I wanted to be Stephanie Tanner.


80. I like having inside jokes with people.


81. My favorite drink is water. I never order drinks at restaurants.


82. I am happy to be living so close to two of my best friends from high school again.


83. I am often irrational.


84. Sometimes I have double-standards.
    
85. And I am really grateful Tony puts up with them so nicely.


86. I am pretty shy, I want to be friends with everyone, but I get scared and intimidated pretty easily.


87. I have always thought boys were cute.


88. I am glad I'm a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. I can't imagine my life any other way.


89. I don't like breaking bills, like I would rather spend four dollar bills than break a five. Weird.


90. I like to sew.


91. I feel anxious when our apartment is messy, I guess you could say I'm a clean freak.


92. I have a hard time falling back to sleep if I get woken up in the middle of the night.


93. I like songs with a strong and happy beat.


94. I miss going to BYU sporting events.


95. I love those AT&T commercials with the mom, daughter and grandma texting. I laugh so hard every time I see them and I try to use their abbreviations when I talk.


96. I like playing card games.


97. My favorite Disney movie is The Little Mermaid.


98. I wore braces for nearly four years.


99. I changed my major four times at BYU.
100. I am happy and content with my life today.

Ice, ice baby

Today started off so great for me. I've had a bad headache all weekend and was not in the mood to get up be ready to drop Anthony off at school by 8 a.m. When my alarm went off this morning I knew I needed another good hour of sleep to really recover from the weekend. I turned off my alarm and figured I would just stay in bed until Anthony came back to our room and in his kind yet slightly-anxious way ask me if I was planning on showering. He never did. I woke up about an hour later and found him sitting on our couch like an anxious school child with the Today show on watching the school closing ticker at the bottom of the screen. We had an ice storm last night and the whole town had frozen over. I couldn't have asked for better timing. Before I got out of bed my half-asleep half-awake brain was consumed with thoughts of calling in sick to work, but knowing if I did I would be mad at myself as soon as I did. I hate calling in sick, plus we need the money, so rarely miss work. Due to my extra hour of sleep I was feeling great, so we made good use of the day by taking care of stuff we should have done this weekend but didn't because my head hurt and Anthony was busy taking care of me. Starting this afternoon we heard loud crackling sounds--branches breaking off trees. Around 9 p.m. I thought we should maybe check on our car. We could see branches out our window covered in a thick layer of ice. We gingerly made our way across the parking lot and started hacking at our car, which was also encased in about an inch of ice. It was kind of fun kicking and hacking at our car. It took us about half an hour to get all the ice off. We've both lived in cold weather places, but have never experienced anything like this before.

And that is not snow on our car--it is ice, very hard ice. We karate kicked our car to crack the ice.

Trees are bending over and breaking because they can't support the weight of the ice.

Not so Super

I thought this week was suposed to be super. Super Bowl Sunday, Super Tuesday, etc. Well, things have just not been going our way this week. Things actually started being un-super last week when both of us were experiencing flu-like symptoms. Apparently there is a flu epidemic spreading across Missouri State and we both caught it. We spent the weekend eating saltines and drinking carbonated beverages. Sunday was the Super Bowl. It was an exciting game, but again, not such a super ending. Yesterday was Super Tuesday. In our own state, and across the country things didn't go the way we would have liked. It is exciting to vote in a battleground state and feel like your vote is important. Unfortunately, only 29% of our fellow Missourians felt the same way about the candidates. I would just like to point out that we were NOT part of the 42% of Greene County registered voters that voted for Mike Huckabee. I'm starting to wonder if there is any correlation between the lack of driving skill in Springfield and poor choice for President. On our trip to the polls and back we encountered MULTIPLE bad drivers.

On a more cheerful note, we feel very blessed to live in a country where we are able to vote peacefully and without fear. Even if we don't agree with the outcome, it is such a blessing to have agency. We are so blessed to be allowed to think for ourselves and believe whatever we want to.

Disclaimer: While we were engaged we watched the movie "I heart Huckabees" one evening. I didn't even make it through the whole thing. I thought it was the weirdest movie I had ever seen. Hopefully it was just because we saw the Clean Flix verison and un-edited the movie made more sense. Regardless, I thought it was funny that my least favorite candidate has the same name as the movie we make fun of for being the worst movie we have ever watched together.