101 things about me

Ok so I have seen this on other blogs. I am going to attempt it. 101 sounds like an awful lot though!

1. I'm 30 years old
2. I've been married for 8 years
3. I have an 18 year old step-daughter
4. My husband is 10 years older than me
5. My nickname was Crash all through high school
6. One of my bridesmaids was my best friend Paul, who is not a girl. :)
7. My favorite place to be is outdoors on a river or lake or in the woods.
8. My husband and I would love to own a log home some day
9. I live in Hickville, USA. Down the street there is a house that flies the Confederate flag on their porch. This is Minnesota people. It makes me sick.
10. I have a yellow lab and 3 cats. A year ago we just had the dog and one cat. Things were much less chaotic then.
11. We have adopted all our pets from rescue places.
12. Both my husband and father are recovering alcoholics. I thought I married a man that was completely opposite from my father. While they do have many differences, they are very similar in regards to that.
13. I don't ever plan on having kids of my own.
14. I don't want to have my kids be subject to the genetics of mental illness and alcoholism
15. I also don't want to go through the teenage years again.
16. Step-grandma will suit me just fine instead- many years down the road I hope
17. I love Wishbone Italian Dressing. I put it on almost everything.
18. I'm a smoker. I know I need to quit, the problem is I actually enjoy smoking. It's the only time I take for myself during the day.
19. My favorite season is fall.
20. I spend too much effort on having people like me. I am a people-pleaser and I don't know how to stop.
21. My first job was a swimming instructor and lifeguard. I was scared to death every time I had to lifeguard.
22. I drive a 4-wheel drive pickup truck. You know, to fit in with all the rednecks. ;) I don't think I will ever drive anything else now. I love it.
23. I still have a sort of "blankie" that I use from childhood everynight. I call them moles. I used to, when I was a baby, rub the moles on my mom's neck to go to sleep at night. Well, she ended up making me my own "moles" by taking a piece of yarn and tying a knot in it and then tying the ends together. I still sleep with my "moles".
24. I am very uncoordinated. I fall down a lot, I blame everything on my shoes. Damn shoes.
25. I keep eating a lot of junk food trying to make myself feel better. I'm just making myself fat.
26. My huband and I almost got a divorce 2 years ago. He wanted to drink more than he wanted to be married to me.
27. It was a very rough time but I think we came out stronger.
28. I have great neighbors. We are all around the same age and we get together like once a month. I've always just had a couple of really close friends so it feels weird to have a group of girlfriends to do things with.
29. I have a 1972 Nova sitting in my garage waiting for us to restore it.
30. Someday I would like to race the 1/4 mile in that car.
31. I would also like a 1955 Ford Thunderbird with removable hardtop in salmon
32. I come from a very musical family. I sing, play piano, fiddle, flute etc.
33. When I get tired I have a tendancy to laugh uncontrolably for long periods of time.
34. I inherited this from my mom.
35. I am an only child
36. My husband is the middle child
37. My husband had a much harder life than I did growing up.
38. Sometimes I have a hard time putting this out of my mind when visiting his family. I want to yell at them.
39. I used to deal blackjack
40. I have a 2 tattoos.
41. One is Thumper from the movie Bambi that I got when I was 18. It's on my hip.
42. The other is the chinese symbol that means serenity on my right wrist. I got it about 6 months ago.
43. I broke my tailbone a couple of years ago.
44. I can now make my tailbone crack.
45. My butt also hurts when the weather changes. Arthritis of the ass. Nice...
46. I have been a religious American Idol watcher since it started. I am really bored with it lately.
47. I was robbed at gunpoint when I worked as a teller 10 years ago.
48. The FBI brought me a photo line up and I picked the guy out, he went to jail for 12 years.
49. I was fired from that job not long after that. I missed a lot of work and didn't handle it very well.
50. I love dark chocolate
51. I eat doritos and cottage cheese together
52. I don't like my food to touch
53. With all the anxiety I have had lately, I started watch the Ice Cube movie "Are We There Yet?" and got too stressed out and had to shut it off. Cuckoo!! ;)
54. I always wanted to be a marine biologist
55. Now I would just like to be able to work with animals.
56. Instead I sit at a desk all day long. Don't get me wrong, I love where I work, just wish I could work with animals too. Maybe I need to try to volunteer.
57. Ok that's all I can come up with for now. I will have to think of some more.