100 Things

Rumor has it that since I’ve done 100+ posts, that ya’ll want to know 100 things about me. Or at least I get to pretend that ya’ll want to know 100 things about me! But since that makes for one long post (and I want you to keep coming back), I’m going to split it up. How crafty am I?

1. I am the youngest of 6 kids – but please don’t call me the baby.
2. I’m 50% Danish, 50% Italian, and 50% Irish.
3. I was a surprise baby.
4. My birthday is in the summertime.
5. I’ve never celebrated a birthday at school.
6. I spent the summer before 1st grade on crutches.
7. I scared my mom whenever I would use the crutches.
8. I used to collect Pez dispenser (200+ at the height of my collection)
9. My husband and I met during a production of Grease.
10. Before we started dating, I set my husband up with my sister.
11. I have been involved in over 20 plays (either onstage or backstage)
12. I have directed one show (our church’s production of Godspell)
13. I will never direct a full size show again.
14. I don’t have a Bachelor’s Degree, Associate’s was as far as I got.
15. I had 2 more classes left in a self-designed major to get my Bachelor’s.
16. I was 8.5 months pregnant with Emma when the class ended. I never went back (and I have no plans to)
17. I hiked up a mountain once.
18. I had jaw surgery the summer before my senior year in high school and spent my 17th birthday with my jaw wired shut.
19. I had braces for nearly 5 years.
20. I never wore my retainer.
21. My teeth are crooked again and my dentist is bugging me about braces.
22. As part of a tooth implant, I had bone extracted from my him and inserted into my jaw.
23. I remember the pain of the days after the bone extraction more than I remember the pain of childbirth.
24. My boyfriend in high school asked me out after he (accidentally) walked in on me changing for a play.
25. I once considered modeling as a career.
26. I laugh out loud at the notion of me as a model. For anything. Except for maybe pajamas.
27. I would love to be a DJ. Performance without being seen.
28. I’m horribly afraid of the dark.
29. I have a lot of fears actually.
30. When I go to the reptile house at the zoo, I don’t like to stand too close to the glass in case one gets out.
31. I also don’t like to lean against the walls in case one already got out and is about to nest in my hair.
32. I don’t like to swim in un-chlorinated water for fear that some other species will think my toes make a good snack.
33. I don’t want my kids to inherit my fears.
34. My wedding was completely theatre themed.
35. Our invitations were formatted like a program for a musical.
36. All the music during the ceremony was from muscials.
37. Our reception was in a restored theatre. The head table was on stage, and then the stage became the dance floor.
38. The favors for the guests were magnets that we made to look like tickets for the wedding.
39. I love to travel.
40. I’m one of 26 cousins…just on my Mom’s side.
41. I would live in a vat of Dairy Queen’s Butterfinger Blizzard if I could.
42. In my opinion, Quantum Leap is one of the best shows ever made.
43. I really, really like Phil Collins.
44. I’m going to see Genesis when they tour in September.
45. I paid way too much for the tickets.
46. I’m going with my sister who I think would kidnap Phil is she had the chance.
47. I played sports when I was in grade school but stopped when I learned that I actually had to play despite the fact that my whole body hurt from exertion.
48. My passport photo looks like a mugshot for one of the Manson Family girls.
49. I’ve only ever broken one bone in my body.
50. I’ve had a lot of x-rays proving that not only did i not break other bones, but that I’m actually a wimp.
51. My mom used to say that if she collected all the x-rays my sister and I have ever had taken, she could create a complete skeleton to use during Halloween.
52. I once drove myself to the ER while Dave was on travel because I (ahem) stubbed my toe.
53. I have a Hitchhiker’s Thumb
54. I’m running out of things to tell you.
55. I have a scar right in the middle of my forehead from an accident I had when I was a kid.
56. The scar was caused by rocks (fine, pebbles) having to be removed from my head.
57. I would give my right arm to play Adelaide in Guys and Dolls.
58. When I was a kid, I wanted to legally change my name to Jessica.
59. I thought it sounded better than my actual name when paired with the last name of the guy I was sure I was going to marry.
60. Thankfully, I didn’t marry that guy. No first name would have sounded good with his last name.
61. I have walked across the Golden Gate Bridge.
62. I don’t like bridges so much.
63. I don’t like to walk over any kind of opening in the ground (sewer grates, for example).
64. Seriously running out of things to say.
65. When I was a kid, I nearly set my own pajamas on fire because I was trying to warm them on the space heater before going to bed.
66. I laugh like my mom. That’s not always a good thing…
67. I typically drink 96 ounces of water every day.
68. I love to bowl.
69. I bowl in a league on Wednesday mornings during the school year with my mom.
70. I was raised to address adults by Mr. and Mrs. _______
71. Anyone I met prior to turning 18, I still address this way (for example, my mom’s teammates are Mrs. Young, Mrs. Kessler, and Paula).
72. When my mom uses her friends first names, I have to take a second to think who’s she talking about because I’m not used to calling them that.
73. I’ve never bowled better in my life than when I was pregnant with Emma.
74. I refuse to get pregnant again to improve my bowling average.
75. I currently act as Secretary for the Performing Arts Council of my church.
76. The job makes me want to put my head throught a wall on most days.
77. I have been on 2 cruises in my life.
78. I would love to take a cruise of the Greek Isles.
79. Barbados and Grand Cayman were my two favorite ports of call.
80. I have been through only 1 earthquake in my life…well, I’ve only felt one earthquake in my life.
81. I was in Japan in our hotel room by myself because I decided I was going to lounge around and relax for the day when the earthquake hit.
82. I choose to never experience another earthquake. They are not relaxing. At all.
83. I do not like seafood or fish very much.
84. I had a little bit of a hard time eating while I was in Japan.
85. I can navigate the Tokyo subway system by myself without getting very lost.
86. I know how to use chopsticks.
87. I drink considerably less than the Japanese men that my husband Dave was doing business with.
88. I live by lists.
89. My brother laughed at me the first time he saw my Master Grocery list (it’s a Word Document categorized by aisle)
90. Despite my love for lists, I find this one increasingly difficult.
91. I am slowly turning Jacob into a list lover.
92. I secretly love dressing Emma in pink and “girly” stuff.
93. I was not a girly girl when I was growing up.
94. My costume for the show I’m in right now consists of pink barettes, a pink t-shirt, a pink sleeveless blouse, pink plaid shorts and pink flip-flops.
95. I do not like pink on anything but other people.
96. I used to work for Abercrombie & Fitch.
97. I was not one of their models.
98. I have a shorter temper than people think.
99. I am officially out of things to tell you.
100. I need to go make dinner.