100 Things

I am going to do this 100 Things tag that is going around. If you read it, I hope it's interesting.

1. I was born and raised in Grand Prairie, Texas.
   
   
2. I've lived in L for almost five years now. (I'm stuck here.)
   
   
3. I lived and worked in London for six months.
   
   
4. I lived and worked in Cork, Ireland, for four months.
   
   
5. I spent five weeks backpacking in Europe alone.
   
   
6. I've been to 14 countries in Europe, most during those five weeks.
   
   
7. I love going to the movies.
   
   
8. I love reading books.
   
   
9. I love theatre.
   
   
10. I love watching TV.
    
    
11. Thursday night is my favorite night of TV. I watch My Name is Earl, The Office, Scrubs and 30 Rock on NBC and Ugly Betty and Grey's Anatomy on ABC.
    
    
12. I couldn't live without TiVo.
    
    
13. Or my iPod.
    
    
14. I mow my own yard.
    
    
15. I have a younger sister.
    
    
16. I do not have any living grandparents.
    
    
17. I've watched 38 movies and one TV series season on Netflix so far this year.
    
    
18. I love the Dallas Cowboys.
    
    
19. Emmitt Smith is my favorite Dallas Cowboy ever.
    
    
20. I like Tony Romo right now.
    
    
21. I played tennis in high school.
    
    
22. I've been to Wimbledon.
    
    
23. I saw the Williams sisters play doubles at Wimbledon.
    
    
24. Pete Sampras is my all-time favorite tennis player.
    
    
25. Rafael Nadal is my favorite male tennis player right now and Venus Williams is my favorite female player.
    
    
26. My tennis injuries include a bloody nose and black eye.
    
    
27. I was in drama in high school.
    
    
28. I competed in two One Act plays.
    
    
29. I took advanced art in middle school.
    
    
30. I took roller skating lessons in elementary school.
    
    
31. I sprained my left arm skating.
    
    
32. I broke my right arm in second grade.
    
    
33. I went to a private elementary school.
    
    
34. I've never had surgery.
    
    
35. I collect key chains.
    
    
36. I've kept a happy list instead of a journal since my junior year in high school.
    
    
37. I'm growing jalapenos and green bell peppers, the first things I've ever grown.
    
    
38. I love the Dixie Chicks.
    
    
39. I have no idea what I want to do with my life.
    
    
40. I don't watch reality TV.
    
    
41. I love to go camping.
    
    
42. Beaver's Bend State Park is where my family always went camping.
    
    
43. I remember very little from my childhood.
    
    
44. I am an incredible Taboo player.
    
    
45. I saw my first opera in Verona, Italy.
    
    
46. The last book I read that I couldn't put down was No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy.
    
    
47. I voted Democrat in the last presidential election.
    
    
48. I've never had a traffic ticket.
    
    
49. My favorite color is green.
    
    
50. Then red.
    
    
51. I hate to dust.
    
    
52. Mint Chocolate Chip is my favorite flavor of ice cream.
    
    
53. I can't eat hamburgers at Wendy's because the patties are square.
    
    
54. As a volunteer I raise money for the United Way and the Children's Miracle Network.
    
    
55. I lived with a boy for two years (we were not dating.)
    
    
56. I will look at a billboard and count the colors or say every color represented in my head.
    
    
57. I will count the "sections" of things like entertainment centers in my head.
    
    
58. I used to count steps.
    
    
59. I must be getting less crazy because I do those things less often now.
    
    
60. I dye my hair to cover up the gray, which there is a lot of.
    
    
61. FRIENDS is one of my all-time favorite TV shows.
    
    
62. I threw a book away in Italy because I couldn't stand the thought of leaving it around for someone else to read, I thought it was so bad.
    
    
63. If I think about it too long, I still feel bad about throwing away that book.
    
    
64. I love cookie cake!
    
    
65. I have one every year on my birthday.
    
    
66. I refuse to wear clothes with the brand name or logo on them.
    
    
67. I can't whistle.
    
    
68. A co-worker made my cry.
    
    
69. I love taking exercise classes at the gym.
    
    
70. I don't like to talk on the phone.
    
    
71. In high school, I had long hair that went down to my elbows.
    
    
72. The first car I drove was a baby blue VW Beetle.
    
    
73. I believe everyone should know how to drive a standard.
    
    
74. I think President Bush is an idiot.
    
    
75. I love cheesecake.
    
    
76. I stopped wearing makeup in middle school and just wore it for special occasions until last Saturday when I became a full-time makeup wearer.
    
    
77. Almost nobody noticed, which I take as a compliment.
    
    
78. I haven't run since Thanksgiving 2006 due to a foot problem.
    
    
79. My knees pop every time I bend them.
    
    
80. I was a counselor for ACU Leadership Camps.
    
    
81. My favorite season is Fall.
    
    
82. I love the snow!
    
    
83. I walk to work, or at least try to. I've had so many off-campus meetings lately I haven't been able to.
    
    
84. If I had an opportunity to move back to Europe and work, I would do it in a heartbeat.
    
    
85. I don't have a land line, just a cell phone.
    
    
86. My birthday is during spring break, so I only remember going to school or working on my birthday once.
    
    
87. I had a solo in a musical in elementary school.
    
    
88. I'm addicted to Chapstick. I always buy Chapstick Medicated and take the wrapper off so it's a brand-less white tube. If the clothes I'm wearing have pockets, I keep my Chapstick there, otherwise I keep it in my purse. I have a to-go Chapstick attached to the outside of my purse. When I travel, I have those two Chapsticks, plus at least two backups. I also keep a Chapstick in a drawer at work.
    
    
89. I love to sing along to music when I'm in the car or washing dishes.
    
    
90. Diet Dr. Pepper is my soda of choice.
    
    
91. I wish I could dance.
    
    
92. A 31-year-old divorced bus driver asked me out. I said yes before I said no. I'm cruel, but not intentionally.
    
    
93. I love scary movies, but rarely watch them.
    
    
94. My bedroom is red, white and black with the walls painted red.
    
    
95. I like High School Musical.
    
    
96. The last movie I saw in theaters was Hairspray.
    
    
97. The next movie I plan on seeing is Bourne Ultimatum.
    
    
98. My dad always gives me candy for Valentine's Day, even if he has to mail it.
    
    
99. I wish my drive to work was longer than one minute so I could list to Kidd Kraddick more.
    
    
100. This was fun, but harder than I thought.

If you read this, I tag you to do it.