100 things

Tomorrow is a PTO (I heart PTOs), so I'm staying up later than usual. Bored out of my mind because Kelsey went to bed and there's nothing interesting on TV, I found insipration on the ol' Internet and decided to take a stab at coming up with the famouse "100 things about me" list. Here goes nothing:

1. I am boring, but I encourage you to read the next 99 things about me. I think I’m boring because I haven’t done a lot of things people my age should have done. Like smoke weed. Or even a cigarette for that matter.
2. I broke my curfew about three times when I was a teenager. And when I did, I always told my mom about it.
3. I love my mom. Like a lot.
4. I love my sister. Tons.
5. I love my dad. So so much.
6. I hope I did enough “boy” things to make my dad feel like he didn’t miss out.
7. After hugging my grandparents and saying hello, the first thing I do when I board their houseboat is head for the back deck to start fishing.
8. I love baseball.
9. When I was 12 I would make my own score sheets on lined paper and keep score of the Blue Jays game for my dad so that I could tell him about every play when he got home from work. He always thanked me—even though TSN SportsDesk did my job at 11 p.m. every night.
10. With the exception of Catcher, I’ve played every infield position as a fast pitch player.
11. I hate the outfield.
12. I enjoy feeling needed.
13. I need feedback on everything…work, clothes, hair, etc.
14. I have too much gray hair for someone who is 27.
15. My birthday is on October 11.
16. I was born on my parent’s anniversary.
17. With my grandmother’s help, my sister and I threw my parents a fantastic surprise 25th anniversary party two years ago.
18. I miss the Okanagan.
19. The town I grew up in had one stop light.
20. Six of my 27 years were spent in a logging camp in northern B.C.
21. I took my first steps on the dance floor of a bar in Hyder, Alaska
22. My 8th birthday present was a red and white Yamaha 50 cc dirt bike
23. I used to ride the motor bike track backwards to avoid going up the steep hill at the beginning
24. I am a huge chicken who hates taking risks.
25. But, I have a fairly aggressive investment style.
26. I’m pretty good with my money, but I could be better
27. I’m more like the ant, than the grasshopper.
28. I love teaching grasshoppers. My sister is a grasshopper.
29. I wish I could be more like my sister.
30. I already regret not having more “fun” in my life.
31. I don’t know what to do to infuse more “fun” in my life
32. I love shopping.
33. The best things to shop for are clothes and shoes. And house stuff. And make up.
34. I used to make pretty decent money selling Mary Kay.
35. I have an entrepreneurial spirit, but love the comfort of a “regular job”
36. I work as a Communications Advisor
37. If I won the lottery I’d still work, but I’d work for a not-for-profit organization. Or I’d start one.
38. If I ever started a not-for-profit, I would have a hard time choosing what cause to support.
39. I worked at the Project 118 Youth Ranch—a healing place for at-risk female youth—for nearly two years
40. I feel best when I feel like I have made a difference…in my own life, in someone else’s life
41. I have decided the best way to decide where to donate money is to support the causes my friends and family support.
42. I hope my writing this doesn’t result in a sudden influx of donation requests.
43. I feel bad for bartering and when I go to garage sales, I often try to offer more than the asking price.
44. I like going to garage sales.
45. I have never purchased anything very useful or valuable at a garage sale.
46. After holding my own garage sale last year, I realized one man’s junk truly is another man’s treasure. A forest-green heart-shaped pillow with a ruffle around it? Really, lady? You wanted that? What did you do with it?
47. I have never forgotten the phrase my grandmother shared with me when I was probably 10 years old: “If you watch your pennies, the dollars will take care of themselves”
48. I admire my grandparents for their hard work.
49. Every job my grandma ever had, she created herself. She owned a beauty parlor, a sewing shop, a kitchen and bunkhouse operation and a restaurant
50. I don’t really have any favourite restaurants. Except McDonald’s J
51. I will try different foods, but don’t really like a lot of different foods.
52. I think ethnic food is weird and not tasty. African? Indian? Thai? Sorry. I just can’t do it.
53. I love steak. Especially when I can dip it in sour cream.
54. I think sour cream is the perfect condiment.
55. I also love sour candy. Well, any candy really.
56. If you see me at the airport, ask to see my carry on. There will always find candy.
57. I have traveled, domestically, a lot…for work and for pleasure.
58. I’ve been to Disneyland twice and Disney World once.
59. The only place outside of North America that I’ve ever been is the Dominican Republic.
60. My boyfriend has also never traveled outside of North America, except for to the Dominican.
61. My boyfriend’s name is Brodie (born Brody). When we met, I couldn’t have imagined meeting someone more like my dad.
62. I love Brodie’s family like my own family.
63. I hope one day his four nephews become my four nephews
64. Although I have a wedding file with magazine tear outs, I am scared to be married.
65. I’m even more terrified to have kids.
66. I lose everything.
67. I am scared I would misplace my children.
68. I have a word document saved on my computer with potential names for my daughter(s)
69. I will share those names with anyone who is really interested
70. No one ever spells my name right.
71. When I meet new people and shake their hands, I always have to repeat my name.
72. I am far more comfortable around older people than I am around people my own age
73. I am thankful for the people I’ve met since moving to Fort McMurray
74. I don’t think Fort McMurray is as bad as people say it is. I try to make the best of it.
75. I have taken an interest in photography since I moved here.
76. I’m not that great at it, but I like learning about it
77. I love to read. I love self-help books, fiction, biographies, you name it.
78. I don’t know anyone who buys more magazines than I do.
79. If there was one talent I wish I could have, it would be interior decorating.
80. I know I am so terrible at singing that I don’t even bother wishing I could sing.
81. I love to sing.
82. Country dominates my playlists, but I like a lot of different music.
83. I played the piano when I was little, but wasn’t that great.
84. I was also not that great at figure skating, but loved it.
85. If there was one thing I wish I could do every single day, it would be golf.
86. I love playing golf with Brodie. As long as he isn’t pouting.
87. I had two goals this year: break 50 on a nine-hold round and 100 on an 18-hole round. I accomplished one of two.
88. I’m pretty good at setting goals. Or, at least keeping goals in mind and working toward them, either consciously or subconsciously.
89. Getting a “B” in high school almost reduced me to tears, even though I was the only one who was disappointed.
90. I went to a hockey game with my friend, Dana, the night before my Math 12 provincial exam.
91. The Math 12 provincial exam is the only test I’ve ever failed. I got 49%.
92. I only buy 6/49 tickets when the jackpots are really big and the odds of winning are pretty much impossible.
93. I like to gamble and play online poker for real money when I’m bored.
94. The most I’ve ever won playing poker is $72.
95. I don’t have an addictive personality. Unless we’re talking about candy.
96. I have a basset hound named Barkley who likes red Swedish Berries.
97. There are few things in my life I wish were different.
98. But, it still bugs me that I wish these few things were different
99. In my heart, I am content. I think.
100. I can't believe I made it to 100.

xoxo

Lanette