Elementary school students celebrate the 100th day of school by bringing a 100 items to class, and Americans are scrutinizing President Obama’s first 100 days of office. Today I join the blogging tradition of posting 100 things about myself on my 100th post.
1. I am a devoted follower of Christ
2. I am a fourth generation Texan
3. I have been married for a quarter of a century (in July)
4. We have a 22-year-old son
5. and a 16-year-old daughter
6. Gray, overcast days energize me
7. I like history
8. because it tells His story
9. I like to picnic at cemeteries and read tombstones
10. because each tombstone tells a story
11. I am an avid reader
12. a condition which I inherited from my father
13. I love libraries
14. and used book stores
15 and hardware stores
16. and office supply stores
17. I am a bird watcher
18. I love to listen to classical music
19. especially the music of Ralph Vaughn Williams
20. and the sacred music of John Rutter
21. My husband took me to Carnegie Hall
22. and gifted me with the experience of John Rutter conducting “Gloria”
23. I used to have a motorcycle
24. I like to garden
25. and recycle kitchen scraps into compost via earthworms
26. I’ve been “green” for a long time and didn’t even know it
27. I love to visit nursing homes
28. I am a morning person
29. I thought that college was hard
30. but I thought that earning my master’s degree was easy
31. I have matured since I was 18
32. My mother led me to Christ in our bathroom when I was 10
33. I don’t swim well
34. I like water aerobics
35. I like sailing on lakes
36. But not in the bay because I turn green and want to jump out of the boat
37. I have blue eyes
38. I like cats and some dogs
39. I have one sister
40. I have two brothers
41. I would dearly love to live near each of them
42. I am a champion vomiter
43. My oncologist said so and my mother agrees
44. I love my children with all my heart
45. I like to cook
46. I didn’t learn to cook until I was in college
47. My mother taught me to cook over the phone
48. and by providing me with many cookbooks
49. I like Mexican food
50. Chips and salsa are the best part
51. My favorite flowers are sunflowers
52. I love children’s literature
53. My favorite hymn is “Joyful, Joyful, We Adore Thee”
54. The congregation sang it at our wedding
55. I would love to visit England
56. and Scotland
57. and Israel
58. I wear cotton socks to bed
59. We were married by my uncle
60. I didn’t attend kindergarten
61. instead, God sent me to preschool when I was an adult
62. I learned a lot
63. I am a better mother for having taught preschool
64. I like pie much better than cake
65. I have been to the Grand Canyon
66. and Carlsbad Caverns
67. I have memorized more than 100 nursery rhymes
68. I memorized them to keep my toddler sister occupied on car trips
69. If you are still reading this, thank you!
70. I enjoy radio more than television
71. I know sign language
72. I am a slow signer
73. I have mainly lived in Texas
74. except for brief periods in Oklahoma and New Jersey
75. A New Jersery deer tick gave me Lyme disease
76. An Oklahoma restaurant and hard-working parents paid for my college education
77. Chemotherapy turned my hair gray
78. My children insist that I color my hair brown
79. Sometimes I forget, but they always remind me
80. My favorite author is the Scotsman, George MacDonald
81. My birthday is September 30th
82. God’s grace amazes me!
83. I like genealogy
84. I like the challenge of tracing my ancestor’s geographical path
85. I like to study how my ancestor’s made it through what we loosely call “life”
86. I am the eldest of my siblings
87. My husband is the oldest of three brothers
88. My children are six years a part, putting them in the first-born category
89. A family of four first-borns makes life interesting
90. Ivory is my favorite color
91. I like to name things
92. I named my laptop “Abigail”
93. and our house “The Haven”
94. and our first burr oak tree “Taurus,” after my husband’s ship
95. I didn’t enjoy learning how to type in high school but am so glad that I did
96. I love to wander through antique stores and Good Will stores
97. in search of treasures made in the USA
98. The fragrance of Joy perfume brings me joy
99. as does the fragrance of lemon thyme
100. I love comments
Thank you!
I love reading your 100 things. Boyd has sent me a copy of his 100 things. I am working on writing mine as well. Rick says he is amazed that with all of the stuff we all have to do we still don’t have quite enough to do since we are still finding time to write 100 things. He does see how writing them can be somewhat of a break from all of the other things going on. We need the rest of the family to write and share their 100 things as well.
Good comment, Susan! Although I am not a member of the Young family, Carol’s list has prompted me to write a list, and now I want my husband and younger son and his wife to write out their lists. I thoroughly enjoyed writing my list and think it will be a good experience for my family, too.
Thank you, Susan. Tell Rick that it doesn’t take long to write 100 Things! Boyd, Cherrye, and I found that once you get started, so many things pop in your head that the list could easily be 1000 things long.
I think a 100 Things list should be a requirement for a first date. The list makes great conversational material, and you could get a really good idea of what’s important to each person.
Cherrye,
I think that your family is going to know each other better after making their lists and sharing them. It was rather surprising to me to see that while I knew about many of the things listed on your and Boyd’s lists, I gained a different perspective from reading them in a list form.
Wouldn’t it be enlightening to have 100 lists written by our ancestors?
I am glad that I read your list. Although much later than everyone else, I enjoyed it very much. I have been doing a lot of self-reflection lately, so I think I might like to do this myself. I loved you before I read your list, but I think I really love you even more now. What a neat person you are.
I am pleased that you enjoyed my list, and your comment really warmed my heart. You are an encouragement to me. Compiling it is rather theraputic, so I think you’ll like composing your own. I look forward to reading yours.