Wednesday, April 9, 2008

100 Things About Me (I hear this is hard to do- here goes!)

1. I grew up in the country in WI
2. I lived in the same house and same bedroom my entire 18 years
3. I LOVED cats & we had kittens every spring
4. I have 3 brothers
5. My ancestry is German and Slovakian
6. I have dark blonde hair
7. Blue Eyes
8. I'm 5'9"
9. I was in 4 school musicals & had leads in 2
10. I was in honors choir every year
11. I was in jazz choir & we won state at solo ensemble
12. I've played piano all my life (I do alright)
13. I threw up on the school bus when I was 6
14. I was in O.M.
15. I tried skiing when I was 10
16. I didn't make it to the "big" hill until I was 23
17. I still don't enjoy skiing
18. I'm not a fan of winter
19. I get scared going over 25 mph on a snowmobile
20. I love holidays, especially Christmas, and have to decorate as big as possible
21. I like celebrating birthdays BIG
22. I don't do well with surprises
23. I LIKE math!
24. I did worst in history
25. I love doing art
26. I won lots of art awards in elementary and middle school
27. I won 2nd place in the school district for jump roping in 2nd grade
28. I was voted best singer in the High School yearbook
29. I threw BIG slumber parties for every birthday since middle school
30. My first kiss was at 14
31. I've kissed 10 boys, Joe being #10
32. I've had 5 boyfriends
33. I've never been dumped
34. I dumped a long term boyfriend just a few weeks before prom (I was lame at breaking up)
35. I kissed Joe on our first date (it was the best first date of all time)
36. Joe and I broke up around 6 times before getting engaged
37. I designed Joe's wedding band & had it made (based on what he'd described wanting)
38. I found my wedding dress in one day, and it needed no alterations
39. I was proposed to on our 1 year anniversary
40. I designed our wedding invitations & put them together
41. I was married on a crazy thunderstorm day
42. I made my own bridal veil
43. I was married in the Chicago LDS temple
44. I've been married for almost 4 years
45. I had a baby at 23 by c-section (my first "surgery")
46. I loved the name Sawyer because it's the hot guy from LOST
47. I've been a stay at home mom since getting pregnant
48. My first job was at Burger King
49. While at Burger King I burned my foot with 350* grease &...
50. ...had my first trip to the emergency room
51. My 2nd job was working for a single mom, helping around her home and business
52. My 3rd job was a movie projectionist
53. I dated my boss at that movie theater
54. I love movies and wish I could just own them all
55. I worked giving phone surveys
56. I worked as a telemarketer for American Express
57. I worked at Suncoast Motion Picture Co
58. I worked as a chiropractic assistant
59. I love chiropractic care
60. I used to want to be a cosmetologist, and was signed up to start, but left at the last minute to pursue architecture instead.
61. My favorite fruit is strawberries
62. My least favorite is cherries
63. I love board games
64. I'm really good at FreeCell
65. I'm really good at Minesweeper
66. I played slots in Vegas when I was 17, and had a waitress offer me a drink
67. I was thrown out of the Mirage in Vegas when I was 19, but it was because my friend who WAS 21 looked young and was carded first.
68. My car broke down in Vegas on the way to L.A. once, so...
69. ... I missed a taping of The Tonight Show I had tickets to
70. I've ridden the Big Shot and the roller coaster on the Stratosphere in Vegas
71. I didn't ride a roller coaster until I was 16 (chicken)
72. I get car sick really easily, but not sick on roller coasters
73. I LOVE roller coasters!
74. I love southern Cali
75. I love the way the ocean looks/sounds, but...
76. ... I'm not a fan of swimming in it
77. I love flying in airplanes
78. I will never bungee jump or jump from an airplane
79. I love cheesy county fair games
80. I love ski ball
81. I love flower gardening
82. I like mowing the lawn
83. I love Febreeze & use it every day
84. I love to bake treats
85. Italian food is my favorite!
86. I knit. A lot.
87. I live in flip flops from about May-September
88. I cut my own hair and have since I was 16
89. I'm not a fan of dresses, but I'm fine with skirts
90. I hate heels because Joe and I are the same height
91. I love water parks
92. I love camping
93. I love staying in hotels
94. I love to travel
95. I've never broken a bone, just sprained an ankle twice
96. I ache for the Rocky Mountains and cry if I let myself think about how much I miss them
97. I've never left the country
98. I like to visit big cities, but want to live in the country
99. I want 4-5 kids, preferably more boys
100. I married the man I've dreamed of since I was 12! I had 'time capsule' letters written for myself in the future of what the man I'd marry would be like, and Joe matches nearly everything exactly. Freaky! Or, actually, LUCKY ME!

Hmm, wasn't as hard as I thought once I got going! I actually still have more, but I'll spare you!

1 comment:

Annalisa and Vance said...

Carrie,

I learned quite a bit about you reading 100 things about you. Wow, was that hard to think of all those things. I think I'll try that. By the way.... I got the sterling silver and amythest bracelet. I love it! I've worn it 3 times already. Thank you soo much. You've been so generous to me..you've got gifts for me covered for a while now!!!