2007-07-10T19:59:00.000-05:00

This is just a blog where I listed my "100 Things". My updated blog is Snips and Snails...please come see me there!

100 Things

2007-03-04T16:34:00.000-05:00

So I thought I'd finally do the obligatory "100 things" for bloggers to get to know me. I can't imagine I will be able to come up with 100 things but I will give it a shot.

1. I'm 34...it just snuck up on me.
2. I had my first child at 31.
3. He is the most amazing child on the planet...yes, he really is.
4. I had a very difficult delivery
5. I still want more children
6. I was ready to have more in the recovery room after having this one...Crazy?
7. My child had to be in the NICU for 3 days after his birth.
8. I had an emergency C section
9. By the time I left the hospital I couldn't even tell I had had surgery...guess I am just a fast healer.
10. My husband is 5 years older than I am.
11. I met my husband on the internet.
12. I have been married 7 years.
13. My husband sometimes works 90+ hours a week.
14. I worked with my mom for 10 years in interior design
15. We didn't kill each other.
16. We wanted to many times.
17. I miss my job everyday
18. We closed the business the same week my son was born.
19. I made custom floral arrangements, did all the floor display, and performed in-home consultations mostly for decorating Christmas trees.
20. I bought for and decorated 9 Christmas trees a year just in the store.
21. I often did this for clients so the number was higher than 9 most of the time.
22. I LOVED my job.
23. I also did all the books, the scheduling, and sat in on all buying appointments.
24. I want my job back.
25. I went back to school and got a 2 year degree in Medical Records and Coding after we closed the store.
25. The store was called Elegant Accents
26. Before finishing my degree my husband accept an offer to be relocated to South Carolina
27. I had lived in Indiana all my life
28. I had lived 5 minutes from my mom all my life
29. I love South Carolina!
30. I would never move back to Indiana
31. My husband works for a company that makes gas tanks for a bunch of different automobile manufacturers.
32. At his plant they make tanks for Hyundai and BMW
33. He is a supervisor or something like that. I don't know what his title is
34. He was recently given a promotion and a raise...atta boy!
35. Sometimes he has to go to Germany for his job.
36. I have never been to Germany.
37. I recently got my first stamp in my passport when we went to Playa del Carmen Mexico for vacation
38. I used to hate the beach
39. I like the beach now that I have my son to take
40. We go to Las Vegas every fall for a long weekend with my dad and step-mom.
41. I don't gamble.
42. My husband does.
43. I shop and see shows
44. and shop some more.
45. My parents were divorced when I was 5
46. They were both remarried when I was 6
47. My step dad is a real estate developer
48. My mom works for him and takes care of her mother.
49. My dad is a retired school teacher
50. My step-mom is a retired school teacher and principal
51. We had a big retirement party for them last summer.
52. My mom visits us in SC every-other-month
53. I have 3 step sisters
54. I have one SIL
55. I wish I had had siblings to grow up with.
56. I LOVE animals

57. I have 7 dogs

58. I have 3 cats

59. At one time I had 10 cats and 7 dogs

60. I have one beta fish named Dorothy by my son

61. I had a bird

62. I had a hamster all at the same time as the 10 cats and 7 dogs

63. I did not live on a farm

64. I will never have that many animals again

65. I love to scrapbook

66. I love my blog

67. I may be addicted to both

68. I like crafts in general

69. I keep crazy sleeping hours

70. I'm on a more normal schedule now but I'm sure it will go awry again soon.

71. I'm still friends with my best friend from kindergarten.

72. All my friends got married and had kids about 8 years before I did.

73. I used to bother me

74. It doesn't anymore

75. I just joined a Mom's Club to make new friends

76. I am beginning the search for a good pre-school

77. I'm running out of things to say about myself

78. I love old Cary Grant movies

79. I also love Judy Garland

80. I have a weird obsession with reading about mountain climbing expeditions...don't ask because I don't know why.

81. I also like to read chic lit

82. I also like Stephen King's old stuff

83. My favorite place to shop is Target

84. I also make weekly trips to Pier 1 and Hobby Lobby

86. I desperately want to open my own store here like the one we used to have.

87. I would call it the Blue Pineapple or the Purple Palmetto

88. I LOVE Hello Kitty

89. We are into some random crap now.

90. 10 more... I don't know if I can make it!

91. I often get obsessed with whatever I'm into at the moment.

92. I'm not scrapbooking right now for that reason.

93. I wish I hadn't started this list.

94. I want this to be my blogskin but am afraid to change for fear of losing everything.

95. In an attempt to get my friends to blog I made blogs for two of them.

96. One of them is using hers...sparingly.

97. I hate when I go to a blog and there isn't a new post to read.

98. I

99. am

100. done!

2007-01-16T04:22:00.001-05:00

Just testing a template.

2007-01-12T23:54:00.001-05:00

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