100 Things

1. I love my husband, regardless of how much we argue
2. We have two little boys
3. They grow up too fast
4. We might have another
5. Randy is for it and I'm against it
6. I don't think I could stand the noise
7. But I really like babies
8. Especially when they are asleep
9. I love to read
10. I take vacation days and spend them reading instead of vacationing
11. I pretend that I'm an Excel geek
12. People at work believe me
13. I make their lives much easier through simple things
14. I pretend that they are interested in how I did it
15. Really, they just want me to be available to do it again
16. I keep track of my reading list in Excel
17. As a result, I have lots of information that is totally useless
18. Just like everyone else on the web
19. I really believe that I am capable of writing a book that is worthy of publishing
20. I fear that it will take me the next forty-two years to write it
21. I secretly teach my boys to like computer games
22. Just to piss off my husband
23. He thinks that they should be outside
24. I think that they need to be normal
25. My boys like computer games
26. But I make them go outside too
27. We like to go for bike rides
28. Sometimes, we even go really fast
29. Family is important to me
30. Especially since my own family lives two states away
31. I have a secret stash of chocolate in my house
32. It is for emergencies only
33. It gets raided every day
34. I have a black lab and a brown cocker spaniel
35. The cocker spaniel gets to live only because he is my oldest's
36. He eats too many shoes for me to like him
37. The dog, not the kid
38. We like pets
39. But we only have dogs and fish
40. I won't let my husband have a duck
41. One day, I'm going to own a duck
42. The three men in my life will conspire against me and get one
43. Thankfully that day is very far away
44. My eyes are blue
45. Sometimes they look green
46. Or gray
47. My left eye is smaller than my right one
48. But I don't look weird or anything
49. I'm a Harry Potter fan
50. I've read the first book about 15 times
51. I figure that's a testimony to its worth
52. Not something for me to be embarassed about
53. Others think that I should be embarrassed
54. I detest novels by Charles Dickens
55. I firmly believe that he is a prime example of what happens when authors are paid by the word
56. I adore Jane Austen
57. Emma is my favorite
58. But I've read Pride and Prejudice more
59. I am uninhibited when it comes to buying books for my kids
60. My house contains between 200-500 hundred books
61. Numbers like that occur when I use Excel to track things like books
62. I have abandoned my fantasy novel
63. I figure, if I'm not interested in it, why would anyone else be
64. If Bethany reads this, she is going to demand the ending for it
65. I suck at writing titles for books
66. I once wrote a 50,000 word novel in one month's time
67. I plan on doing it again
68. I've never read it, except during its conception
69. It's half auto-biographical
70. What it might contain scares me
71. But I'm positive that it contains some brilliant purple prose
72. HTML used to scare me
73. I started blogging as a means to force myself to learn it
74. I like HTML
75. I am going to re-do my template sometime soon
76. To me, HTML is like punctuation
77. Generally, it comes out the way it should
78. Occasionally, I make huge mistakes
79. When I make a mistake, it's a pretty simple one and everybody recognizes it
80. My husband tries very hard not to laugh when I do this
81. I love to rummage sale
82. I can find the best kids clothes at them
83. Kids clothes are too expensive to buy new always
84. I'm cheap
85. I like the big neighborhood ones where I can wear my kids out by walking for two or three hours
86. I bribe them with toys while we do this
87. Bribery is good training
88. Paychecks are bribery
89. I need chairs for my three seasons porch
90. My quest is to find them at a rummage sale
91. I was married in Las Vegas
92. I would highly recommend it to anyone
93. We were not married by Elvis
94. I want to go back there to renew my vows
95. I have four television shows I watch faithfully -- Las Vegas, Alias, Eyes and The O.C.
96. I've been to Sweat, South Dakota
97. I'm never going back
98. I would live in England, if I could live anywhere I wanted with my family
99. I want to go to Italy for my 15th wedding anniversary
100. I'm just enough of a geek to update this list within a year