100 Things About Me (In No Particular Order)
- I love red hair
- I recently tried acrylic nails and I’m hooked. I love them.
- I’m uncomfortable with the size of my body.
- I have only 1 sister.
- My nieces and nephews adore me.
- I have OCD.
- I love to write but don’t do it enough.
- I’d rather give a talk in public than sing in public.
- I’ve been in the Young Women 16 of the last 20 years.
- I have more books than I’ll ever read.
- I was almost hit by a train as a child.
- I’ve been flashed.
- I went on a mission to West Virginia.
- I spent 13 years involved with Oakcrest Camp as an employee or on the committee.
- I’d rather cook for 100 than for 2.
- I was engaged once.
- My favorite TV shows were/are Scarecrow and Mrs. King and The X-Files.
- I’m 40 and I live with my mother and a brother.
- The more I know my mother, the more she amazes me.
- I play the guitar enough to play camp songs.
- I’m closer to my sister now than when we were growing up sharing a room.
- I’m a packrat.
- I’ve spent too much of my life feeling guilty.
- I don’t like long toenails and I file mine very very short.
- A poem I wrote in the 2nd Grade was published in the local newspaper. The title “Thanksgiving is Thanksgiving”
- I believe the Lord can find all lost keys.
- I’m a girl’s camp junkie. I love it!
- I have dislocated my right shoulder 3 times – ouch!
- I love John Denver, Barry Manilow, and Neil Diamond.
- I never argued with my mother as teenager. She refuses to argue.
- I’ve owned 2 Saturn’s but will probably not own a third.
- I am the youngest of 6 children
- I am 40 and have never been married – yup still a virgin.
- I believe my car trunk and my desk at work are simply extensions of my purse. If I don’t have it – you don’t need it.
- I have a passion for chocolate! I like milk chocolate but a high quality dark chocolate is a delicious experience.
- I have 6 capped teeth.
- I think I’m funny.
- Putting on lipstick always makes me feel better.
- I’m sarcastic (sometimes too sarcastic.)
- I once fed a pig a hotdog and still wonder if it was morally wrong.
- My father died in 1990.
- I have the same middle name as my mother.
- I can only wear earrings with real gold or silver posts.
- I love paper products.
- I had my first kiss at the age of 20.
- I love to bargain shop – the thrill of the hunt.
- I want to own a beagle and name it Bagel.
- I have never been out of the USA.
- I like Diet Coke.
- When I was 3 I prayed to be Genie like on “I Dream of Jeannie”. My first unanswered prayer!
- I love Pride and Prejudice – the book, the movie, and the A&E Mini-Series.
- I still believe in true love.
- I cry easily.
- I HATE when I cry at work.
- I dream about my maternal grandparents who died when I was 19 about once a month.
- I check my email compulsively.
- I have incredible friends.
- I read horoscopes.
- I wish I were more organized.
- I like basketball but think football is boring.
- Golf is more boring.
- My idea of a perfect man is a mixture of Andy Taylor, Charles Ingalls, Mr. Darcy, and Fox Mulder.
- I love to sleep with the windows open in the summer if there is a cool breeze.
- I peed my pants in 2nd grade. The janitor was cleaning the bathroom and wouldn’t let me in to go. I was humiliated.
- I wish I were more thoughtful.
- I hated math in school and still don’t like it.
- I never finished college, feel a little guilty about it, but don’t want to go back.
- I lettered in track my sophomore and Junior year in high school.
- I’m not fond of cats.
- My mother does my laundry! Wahoo – she’s an awesome roommate!
- I have sleep apnea.
- Except for my mission, I have lived in the same house my entire life.
- I have written every day in my journal since I was 14.
- I think the only food I really dislike is seafood.
- I LOVE Puppies.
- All my siblings and myself have first names that start with “D”.
- The defining moment when I first realized I was an adult was when I bought a loaf of “homemade” bread and ate the center out and threw the entire crust away.
- I didn’t get my ears pierced until I was 21 and on my mission because my dad told me I couldn’t have them pierced until I was 21 and “out of the house”
- I hate waiting in lines.
- I can only use Gel Toothpaste.
- Today I ate an entire loaf of Great Harvest Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Bread (Breakfast & Dinner)
- I read 3 magazine consistently (First, Woman’s World, and Prevention)
- I keep magazines in the bathroom at home.
- I’m pretty sure there are UFO’s (Yes Mulder “I Want to Believe”)
- I love bears (real bears – not teddy bears) and in the Millennium I want to have a pet bear.
- I grateful I’ve never been tempted to drink alcohol because I’m afraid I’d be an alcoholic who drinks fruity drinks with little umbrellas.
- I look dumb in hats.
- I would love to live in a cabin in the mountains – but be close enough to drive to the city to shop.
- I love the color pink.
- Fuchsia is not pink.
- I would love to be married but would rather be happily single than unhappily married.
- My first job was working at a preschool.
- I once held the hand of a naked man (okay – so he was a retarded 18 year old – but he was still naked and I was still embarrassed.)
- I was the birth of my youngest nephew. It was an incredible experience but nothing like births on TV.
- I think coffee smells like the bottom of a burnt pan.
- I love the smell of a wet sidewalk on a hot summer day.
- Perfect comfort food – Ice Cream.
- I don’t care for most country music even though my current “theme song” is “I’m Moving On” by Rascal Flatts.
- I read or listen to the Book of Mormon every day. Most my prayers are answered through the scriptures.
- I hope one day to take a picture of me in my “fat pants” where I can fit my whole body into one leg.

4 Comments
July 9, 2007 at 11:19 pm
Can you please please please tell me what guitar chords are in the camp song “Tell me the reason” I have been looking everywhere for it. Please help me? Drop me an email if you can. Thanks. Steph
March 29, 2008 at 10:53 am
Hei, never knew someone honestly describe their self like you do
Btw, I run a small website about sleep apnea, since i myself got sleep apnea too. It really annoying though.
I am thinking to buy a solution that can cure my sleep apnea though…
April 19, 2008 at 9:04 pm
Is there a CD of Oakcrest Camp songs somewhere? I went there a million years ago and learned a lot of the songs and want to sing them to my daughter but can’t remember a lot of the lyrics or full tunes…any ideas?
Thanks.
May 28, 2009 at 11:31 pm
I also attended Oakcrest a few years back and I only bought the book and now I wished I had bought the tape I was wondering where I could get a the CD it would be great. Thanks