100 Things About Me

1. I enjoy sewing, but not with an electric sewing machine. I'll stick to my treadle machine while I try to teach my daughters how to sew using an electric model.
2. I don't like bar soap. Just the thought of having to touch a bar that has been used even once, makes me shudder.
3. I love reading, but half the time I reread favorite books instead of trying new ones.
4. I cried like a baby the first time I read "Where the Red Fern Grows"
5. I love apples. Honey Crisp are my favorites, but there's no way I'm paying close to $200. for a bushel.
6. I like winter a lot better than summer.
7. I love pretty dishes.
8. I broke my left ankle in a freak accident while working in my grandparents new house.
9. I still like when businesses give calendars to their customers.
10. Fresh, cold  water from our well is my favorite thing to drink.
11. I don't drink coffee, ever.
12. I like the idea of drinking tea, but don't enjoy it when ever I do.
13. I love Italian food.
14. I used to love climbing trees.
15. I used to have a kitchen that had a brick floor, and I wallowed in self pity every time I had to clean it.
16. I love bacon.
17. I think adding cheese makes almost everything better
18. My favorite candy bar is Clark, but only in the fun size.
19. I love Amish church peanut butter.
20. I always cry at weddings.
21. I love thunderstorms. Again. I used to hate them when we lived in Missouri. The difference of severity of storms between those and the ones we have here is similar to comparing a lion and a kitten.
22. I can play a harmonica.
23. I collect cookbooks, and choose a different one every week to plan menus.
24. I love rainy days.
25. I do not love fog. It makes me feel slightly claustrophobic.
26. Shrimp used to gross me out, but I learned to like them around two years ago. Now I can't get enough.
27. Gladiolus are my favorite flowers.
28. I had an imaginary sister when I was a child. Her name was Magdalena.
29. I once won a recipe contest, my prize was a meat thermometer.
30. I used to sleepwalk and once woke up to find myself trying to climb out my bedroom window.
31. I don't think camping is fun.
32. I do not consider buying the weekly groceries as going shopping.
33. I can tell when bad weather is coming because my previously broken ankle will hurt.
34. I have a scar on my right hand from a sledding incident in school.
35. I used to dread recess in school. Writing was ever so much more fun than playing outdoors.
36. Store bought bread used to be a rare treat when I was growing up.
37. If I had been born a boy my name would be Ervin.
38. I detest cleaning a stove.
39. Cast iron is my favorite type of cookware.
40. I have over eighty mixing bowls, most of them in the attic. All of them wedding gifts.
41. Mystery books were banned in our house when I was a girl.
42. I loved that my teacher read mystery books to us everyday after noon recess before we settled back into our lessons.
43. I think garden gnomes are very creepy.
44. I have several two dollar bills that I refuse to spend.
45. I enjoy jigsaw puzzles.
46. I like houseplants, but they would all die if LV didn't care for them.
47. It has been several years since I last chewed gum.
48. I have eaten pickled beef tongue.
49. I used to sell things on ebay.
50. LV and I once sang a duet at church. I still cringe at the outfit I wore that day.
51. I used to have an egg fried until well done on whole wheat bread almost everyday for my school sandwich. I never got asked to trade lunches with other children.
52. I find text talk extremely annoying when not used in an actual text. C U L8R
53. I hate ketchup and mustard.
54. I love sour cream.
55. I don't wear makeup. I hate how it makes me feel grimy.
56. I actually enjoy green smoothies.
57. I drink vinegar water at the first sign of a sniffle and have been cold free since 2010.
58. I like using bacon drippings instead of butter or vegetable oil to make popcorn.
59. I don't like having my feet covered when I sleep.
60. I still have all the letters LV and I wrote to each other before we were married.
61. I hate seeing someone brush their teeth.
62. I love taking long road trips.
63. I whistle, a lot.
64. I'm on a food journey, continually trying new recipes and foods.
65. Some days I miss the convenience of having canned hamburger.
66. I love fruit, but loathe bananas.
67. I have a curling iron, but find it way too time consuming to bother using it, same goes for a hair dryer.
68. Songs have a way of taking me back to where I first heard them.
69. I can hear a song only a few times and be able to sing it.
70. Hearing someone sing off key really bugs me.
71. So far in life I haven't met a vegetable I don't like.
72. I was married before I had my first ever visit to a dentist.
73. I used to have to wear glasses when I was in 4th and 5th grade. My grandmother insisted it would make that I no longer have gall attacks. They never helped an iota, for my sight or my gall bladder.  My parents didn't make me continue wearing them after being told my eyesight is basically perfect.
74. I read books purely for the joy of reading a good story. I don't go looking for deeper or hidden meanings.
75. I still enjoy coloring.
76. I enjoy cooking steak, but I hate eating it.
77. I don't have patience to do handwork like embroidery, knitting or any kind of hand sewing.
78. I love crocheted afghans, but I don't know how to crochet and really doubt I'll ever get serious about learning.
79. I miss my friends I had while growing up.
80. I hate snakes, mice, spiders, and basically all insects.
81. I think ladybugs are cute, I used to play with them when I was a little girl.
82. I read really fast. I used to read several books per day when I was recovering from an accident.
83. Baked Alaska fascinates me and is on my list of food for this year.
84. I love fried pie, but it's too much work to make often.
85. Mr. Bean makes me laugh.
86. I have been to 23 states.
87. I never seem to have enough hours in my day to get everything done I would like to.
88. I often read the last chapter of a book first. It doesn't keep me from still enjoying the entire book and hoping for certain outcomes even though I know ahead of time how the ending will be.
89. I love Pinterest. I've found so many great things on there that I wouldn't have otherwise. We have completed loads of Pinterest projects.
90. I once accidently killed my brother's pet fish.
91. Milk chocolate is my favorite.
92. I think white chocolate doesn't qualify as chocolate.
93. I hate having my picture taken.
94. If someone tells me where they hurt I often get sympathy pains. (That disappear as soon as they're done talking.)
95. I want to learn better cake decorating techniques.
96. I love reading children's books.
97. I would rather feed squirrels than birds. They are a lot more fun to watch.
98. Bad drivers irritate me.
99. I like browsing kitchen stores even though I don't have room in our house for any more gadgets.
100. I love being a wife and mother more than I ever thought possible.