So, I saw this little list on Carrie's blog, and it cracked me up. I don't feel very good, and it's my birthday, so I thought I'd spend the day thinking of 100 things about myself. And, if you're a "Spongebob" fan, you'll know what song I'm singing: "You know it's all about you girl! On your 32nd birthday!" It IS all about me! Then why am I doing laundry and why did I clean my bathroom?
1. I hate cleaning bathrooms
2. It's my birthday!!
3. When I was eating Ben and Jerry's last night, Kate really believed it was special ice cream for the baby. She didn't even ask for any!
4. My first real job was as a janitor at Valley Jr. High when I was 15. It was full-time for the summer, and I remember thinking, "8 hours goes by so slow!" Good thing there was a Holiday Oil on the corner for my daily fruit punch and sprite mixture. That was before I discovered Diet Coke.
5. My favorite drink is Diet Coke
6. I discovered it was my favorite drink while pregnant with Sarah and watching the 1/4 mile drag races from the hill behind Rocky Mt. Raceway. That's also the first time I felt her kick. She must like it too! (or the races)
7. I've been to actual car races at a real racetrack. That's what I get for marrying a boy raised in Idaho.
8. I promised myself I wouldn't drink any caffeinated drinks while pregnant.
9. Speaking of jobs, one time, a guy in our ward who ran a printing business needed help putting together programs for a golf tournament. It was really hot, and Steve Thulin bought a soda and rubbed it on his face. It left dirty water all over his face (from his dirty face).
10. My favorite job was working at the Ream's camera bar all through High School.
11. One of my co-workers peed her pants in the back room when my sister was piercing her ear and stopped with the post 1/2 way through the ear.
12. No wonder it was my favorite job. We pierced each other's ears in the back room during work.
13. I love to iron
14. When I was little, I saw a swear word written on the sidewalk. I made Ginger, who was just learning to read, sound it out. Then, I ran home and told my Dad that Ginger said a swear word.
15. In 5th grade, I threw mashed potatoes on the wall at lunch, then told the "duty" that Devin Espinoza did it. He got sent to the principles office, and no one said a word, even though they saw me do it.
16. I have no conscience.
17. I have the best 4 sisters and 2 brothers in the world
18. They still love me even though I always got them in trouble.
19. I love to exercise
20. I love to eat good food, or even bad food. Just food.
21. Pizza is like sex. Even when it's bad, it's still kind of good.
22. I love cars
23. In my house, there's a rule that you can't get mad if someone throws cold water on you in the shower.
24. There's also a rule you can't throw cold water on Mom when she's shaving her legs.
25. The best was a few years ago when we lived in Utah. I filled the biggest cup we have with snow, then put some water in it and dumped it all over Neal when he was in the shower. He wasn't allowed to get mad.
26. I haven't done that for a while. Neal's number is up.
27. I'm really hungry right now.
28. I love snowboarding
29. I was named after Natalie Wood. My mom was watching a Natalie Wood show at the hospital when she was in labor with me.
30. If I have a girl, I want to name her Nellie. Neal's not so keen on the name.
31. I play the drums.
32. Neal and I were running in the mountains one winter Saturday, and I slipped on some ice and totally biffed it. He heard me fall, but didn't stop to help me up. He didn't even turn around! Some other hikers stopped to help me. It hurt like a mutha!
33. Neal's a different person today. He wouldn't do that.
34. It's really funny when people fall down.
35. I laugh when my kids trip and fall. Sarah thinks I'm mean. I probably am.
36. Sometimes I swear at other people when I drive (don't tell Dad, Ginger).
37. My mom is perfect in my eyes. She can do no wrong.
38. My dad's not perfect, because he's just like me!
39. I hate the sound of bathroom fans. It winds my nerves up tight tight tight.
40. I tried smoking cigarettes twice when I was little (like 10)
41. I will finish the bible tomorrow! Last year I read the old testament,and this year the new testament. I've read lots before, but never word-for-word until now. There's a lot of awesome stuff, but I must admit, lots of the Old Testament is pretty boring.
42. I love Stevie Knix (sp?) songs.
43. My first music tape was Billy Joel - The Bridge
44. I once made a whole leaning pallet of slim-fast fall on a man in the back of a trailer. I was a little over-eager with my box-cutter.
45. I felt bad, but it was really hard not to laugh.
46. I broke my tailbone when I was 12 (a little too much pull on the wheelie). The chiropractor had to stick his finger up my butt to un-bend my coxix. It was embarrassing. My mom giggled.
47. Whenever I go to the temple with my mom, she makes me giggle when we're supposed to be quiet. Then, I get dirty looks from the old ladies.
48. My big little brother will be home from his mission in a week and a half.
49. Last year when I was on a jog, a found 40 bucks.
50. I won $1,000 from KCPX Power 99 when I was 12 years old. I was the 9th caller when the song "Father Figure" by George Michael came on.
51. Dang, I'm only half way!
52. When I was young, I never thought about growing up and being a mother. I just thought about growing up and doing man jobs.
53. I love to mow and trim the lawn.
54. I get mad at Neal when his lawn trimming isn't up to my satisfaction.
55. I used to mow lawns for a living during college.
56. I love BYU.
57. My boys (if I have any) will grow up to play football for my hero, Bronco Mendenhall, at BYU someday.
58. No really, they will.
59. When Neal kissed me for the first time, I thought I was going to be date-raped. (just kidding. It wouldn't have been rape. I liked it).
60. I can be really mean sometimes.
61. I hate math
62. I had a brief stint working for a rent-to-own establishment.
63. My favorite candy bar is snickers and baby ruth (tie)
64. I love m&m's. All kinds.
65. I don't own a lot of clothes. Never have. I just don't think about that stuff alot.
65. I would wear jeans to church if I could.
66. I guess I could if I really wanted to. Then they would release me from Young Women! Hmmmm. I'll think about that one.
67. Just kidding. I absolutely love working with the 12-18 year old girls at church. I love my beehives!!!
68. Why are they called beehives and mia-maids and Laurel's?
69. My sista Laurel was named after "Laurel" from the YW program. It's LA-rel, NOT LOOrel.
70. I have 3 nephews that could be my own children. Shout out to Bryant, Spencer and Logan!! I love your guts!!
71. I love ALL of my nieces and nephews. Even the new baby girl named after my little-big brother Reese.
72. I hated the ice cream man when I was little, because he taunted me with his stupid jingle on a hot summers day when I had no money!
73. More than once, we told the ice cream man to wait while we went in the house to get our money. Then, we would watch through the window and see how long he'd wait before he'd finally leave.
74. Sometimes while making the ice cream man wait, we'd (Angie, Ryan and myself) yell out the window, "FROGFACE!!" And then giggle and giggle.
75. The summer after high school, I applied for a job being an ice cream lady. My mom made me withdraw my application because she said ice cream men were child molesters.
76. She was probably right.
77. When I say the name "Trina Bubba," I still laugh after all these years.
78. I love to play sports. Any sport, all sports. Especially racket ball.
79. I'm pretty good a racket ball, at least I used to be.
80. I'm very competitive when I play sports or games, but I'm not a poor sport. I can handle losing pretty good. I played on the Cyprus High soccer team. I learned to lose.
81. I broke my pinkie finger playing goalie for the soccer team against Hunter High. It's still really crooked and it scares Sarah. She won't touch it.
82. In 7th grade I tore the ligaments in my ankle doing the long-jump at a track meet. When my mom got me crutches from the Albertson's pharmacy, they were missing a bolt, and I biffed it twice in the Hunter Jr. High parking lot. We still laugh about it.
83. I should have sued them.
84. I can snort a noodle up my nose and pull it through my mouth. It hangs out of both my nose and mouth, then I pull it while doing a little jig.
85. I answered the door one day with the noodle hanging out my nose and mouth, and Justin Dymock started dry heaving. It was funny.
86. I found out I could do that trick all on my own one boring summer day while I made ramen noodles for lunch. We should have grown up on a farm to keep me more busy.
87. Incidentally, that's not why my nick name was Noodle all through elementary, Jr. High, an high school.
88. I saw Amanda Allen in Costco a few years ago, and she still called me Noodle.
89. Just 10 more left!!!
90. Becky Bezzant and I once played with 2 whole boxes of matches and a can of aerosol hair spray out in the hut. That's when I learned how to smoke matches.
91. We stole the matches from her mom's nice emergency food storage area. I hope they didn't need them.
92. We also snorted powdered sugar up our noses and then blew powdered sugar all over her mom's immaculately clean kitchen. We were 11 and old enough to know better. We got in trouble. That's the closest thing I've ever done to drugs.
93. It hurts to snort powdered sugar and smashed smarties up noses.
94. I relish the past
95. I have few regrets. Probably because I have no conscience.
96. Growing up with siblings was the best thing ever on this earth.
97. I'm married to an only child
98. I've ran 2 marathons
99. I watched Karate Kid probably 100 times. "Walk right side of road, ok. Left side, ok. Walk middle? Squished! Just like grape!"
100. I can't believe I wrote 100 things about myself.
