random things about me

Well, I'm kinda bored so I'm just gonna list some random things and thoughts.....
1. I am a HUGE Tony Stewart fan (duh) and if he lived anywhere near me, I would probably be considered a stalker......I own all kinds of #20 paraphanalia.
2. When I am a grandmother, I want to be one just like my Mom is. She is always there for me and I know if I ever need her to keep my girls, she will...no matter what.
3. I don't have many close friends that live close to me. (Am I antisocial?)
4. I can't swim underwater.
5. I have five tattoos and that is all I am going to get. My first one was flower around my ankle (ouch). My second one was a ying-yang heart on my back shoulder (which had to be added onto)...the heart represents me and Bobby, then I have chain with a little heart with same colors swirled together (for Erin) and another small heart with a chain with a "dancing bear" inside(for Claire Bear). I have a sun on my calf. I have a cross on the my other shoulder (Bobby drew the heart and the cross). And then I have a lower back tattoo which is my favorite.
6. I have my belly button pierced and my cartilage pierced.
7. I have worked at the same place for 16 years.
8. I have been married for 19 years.
9. I have lived in the same house for 17 years and will live here until the day I die.
10. I want to be cremated when I die and I want Amanda and/or Jordan (from my youth group) to sing "Who Am I" by Casting Crowns at my funeral.
11. We have a prayer group every morning before work which makes the day much better.
12. Someone who I love very much has lost their faith and are no longer close to God and it breaks my heart. I pray and pray for them every night.
13. I used to party way too much when I was younger.
14. I was an Air Force brat growing up and we had to move every three years. I guess that is why I don't want to move now.
15. I play handbells at church and I absolutely love it!
16. A lot of the people I work with really get on my nerves!
17. I love to read and read everynight before I go to bed. I probably read at least 4+ books a month. 18. I never polish my fingernails.
19. I have a gap between my front teeth that I wish I had gotten fixed when I was younger but now feel that I would look weird if I got it fixed now.
20. I don't like change. My husband calls me a creature of habit.
21. I'm not the neatest person in the world....and the rest of my family are worse than me.
22. I have a daughter who is starting 1st grade this year and one who is starting 10th grade. They will be going to the same school. :)
23. My husband used to be an alcoholic but quit when I was pregnant with our first child (and I am very proud of him.)
24. My husband is also on disability for paranoid schizophrenia and I am proud of him for being man enough to admit he had a problem and getting the help he needed. (It isn't always easy living with him though...part of the illness)
25. I work with the Youth group at my church even though I don't really feel I'm qualified to, but no one else will do it. (I've been doing it for four years). when I told someone at church, that I didn't feel qualified, he told me that the youth know that they can count on you and will always be there for them so I am qualified. And they are all very special to me.
26. My dad lost his right arm in a work related accident 18 years ago and he amazed me with how well he adjusted to that and got on with his life.
27. My MIL lost a breast to cancer and had the most wonderful attitude about the whole thing. And she is doing great now!
28. I worry because my two daughters now have a family history of breast cancer.
29. I have never had a brand new car (only used).
30. I lost one of my best friends to suicide and I can tell you that it is much harder on the ones that are left behind.
31. I have read all the Harry Potter books twice (except the last one....still reading it for the first time.)
32. I have read the Left Behind series twice.
33. I have a laundry MOUNTAIN in my laundry room.
34. I look at young people now...in their early 20's....and think "you just don't have a clue."
35. It isn't always easy being a grown up.
36. I love iced tea.....and it ain't iced tea if it ain't sweet.
37. My mom makes the best hot tea ever.....with cream and sugar.
38. My mom makes the best fried chicken ever and it is the only fried chicken I will eat.
39. My mom cooks lunch every Sunday for me and my brothers and our families.
40. My Mom is from England. She moved here when she was 18 years old and didn't get to go back to visit for about 15 years. Now she goes every year and they come to visit us here.
41. I love my relatives from England. They are such a hoot and I wished they all lived here.
42. I have two older brothers. My oldest brother has two daughters and a son and a granddaughter. My other brother has a son who is about six months younger than Claire.
43. I wish my husband would help around the house, but he does transport the girls around.
44. Only one of the electric windows on my car works and that is the back passenger one. I wish they still made regular roll up windows.
45. I don't really care for material possesions.
46. One of my pet peeves is people who feel like they have to have the best of everything and look down on me because I don't and I don't care too.
47. My daughter goes to school with a lot of rich kids and I don't really fit in with their parents. But that is their problem, not mine.
48. My oldest daughter is acolyting at wedding right now and that is why I have time to write all this boring stuff I'm sure you don't care to know.
49. I love going to rock and roll concerts...especially metal...and I'm always hoarse when I leave....and exhausted.
50. I used to headbang when I was younger and had long hair.
51. Metallica is my all time favorite band.
52. My mom loves to take pictures and always has doubles made for me.
53. I prefer enjoying the moment instead of being behind a camera all the time but I do take more pictures now that I have a digital camera.
52. I still have rolls of film from years ago that have never been developed and I have no idea what is on them.
53. I don't particulary enjoy cooking.
52. Orange is my favorite color.
53. I'm addicted to Blistex....the tinted kind.
Well, I guess that is enough for now, huh? Bless you if you made it through the whole list!!