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2.) My parents are still married.

3.) I live with my boyfriend. I think the correct term is ’shackin up’. We are renting an old, small farmhouse on a 70 acre farm.

4.) We have known each other since our sophomore year in college, but didn’t start dating until our 5th year in college.

5.) Yes, it took me five years to get my stinkin degree. My first year was spent ‘undecided.’ Engineering does not care about Latin or music history classes. Blah.

6.) I love animals.

7.) I first wanted to be a vet… but didn’t want to become immune to animals dying, so I decided not to go into that field.

8.) I decided on engineering because it sounded challenging.

9.) Ironically, Math was my weakest subject. (Thankfully, my boyfriend was pretty good at Math.)

10.) He wasn’t my boyfriend at the time, but Mr. C still helped me through Calculus. Without him I would have failed. Seriously.

11.) My grades weren’t stellar, but I made it through.

12.) When we were younger, I convinced my sister (#2 in line) to stick a cup in a bee/wasp/hornet nest in the ground to plug it up. She got stung multiple times. I got stung once.

13.) 13 is my lucky number. My birthday is on the 13th, and I used to ride bus 13 when I was a kid.

14.) I once convinced my sister (#2 again) to ride one of our pigs. It wasn’t a friendly pig and took off quickly. She fell on her back in the mud/hog crap.

15.) Luckily my parents didn’t care too much about us getting dirty… we lived on a hog farm afterall.

16.) I was in a teen pageant.

17.) My mom threatened me that if I wasn’t in it, I wouldn’t see my then-boyfriend all summer. So, see #16.

18.) I got 2nd runner-up. Not bad for a tomboy.

19.) I love walking through the animal barns at the fair.

20.) I like the smell of cow poop. (Weird, I know)

21.) Mr. C and I have 22 chickens.

22.) We first ordered 14, two disappeared and I decided to order 10 more.

23.) We asked our landlord before we got them. We’re good tenants.

24.) My cat Jayda pees in the bathtub sometimes. She has acidic urine that irritates her. She is on medication.

25.) We drove to Georgia (12 hour trip, one way) to pick up our pekepoo puppy.

26.) It was my idea.

27.) Mr. C drove the whole way.

28.) When I put my mind to something, it’s hard for me to talk myself out of it.

29.) Hence going to GA to pick up a female puppy.

30.) I love Coach handbags.

31.) I don’t like Louis Vuitton handbags, but I wouldn’t mind having LV luggage. I’m not sure why.

32.) I’m not psycho about my Coach bags. If they get dirty, so be it. They’re meant to be carried around, not hung in a closet.

33.) My dream job would be to own a farm.

34.) I am on Weight Watchers.

35.) I hope to lose 40 pounds.

36.) I bought a brand new mustang GT when I was 18.

37.) That was in 2001. It now has 107,000 miles on it.

38.) But it’s still beautiful.

39.) I lived in Indiana until I was 15, then we moved to Kentucky where I lived until this year (I’m 24) when I moved back to Indiana.

40.) I really, really want to go on a cruise. But I want to go when money isn’t an issue. Hopefully soon though.

41.) I would really like to learn a new language (or two). I used to work with two arabic guys, so I got a book on learning Arabic. I got stuck on page 2 and gave up.

42.) When I interviewed with the Company I work for, three different departments wanted me.

43.) I got pretty good at interviewing.

44.) I chose the right department for me.

45.) My boss is great. He is one of the rare ones who believe that family comes first… and means it.

46.) I was raised Catholic and went to Sunday School for many, many years.

47.) I have problems with people who treat you differently because of the way you dress. ESPECIALLY at church.

48.) We dressed up for church, but our clothes weren’t always brand new.

49.) My mom got 6 (at the time) kids up at the butt-crack of dawn and got us all ready to go to church. You’d think that would give reason for people to admire her.

50.) I haven’t been to church in a long time.

51.) While I was a server, I realized that the meanest, rudest people you will ever wait on are the people who just got out of church. This kills me.

52.) They got hateful if their food didn’t come out in the speed of fast food, or when their fat asses ran out of bread to eat… or when they ask if you go to church. Hello? Someone has to serve your fat ass!

53.) If Mr. C and I reached our 2-year anniversary and there’s still no talk about getting engaged or married, I will have a serious decision to make.

54.) I played baseball (not softball) when I was young. My friends and I were a handful of girls in the baseball league.

55.) A couple of months ago, I could go weeks without seeing another female at work. Seriously.

56.) Thankfully, we hired two in our group.

57.) Of those two, one has my name. But she spells it differently.

58.) My Grandpa was the biggest pork producer in Indiana for many years.

59.) That all ended when the government thought he was in cahoots with a mob guy, Tino De Angelis. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Salad_Oil_Swindle

60.) He wasn’t, he just sold hogs to the guy. He got screwed in the end when the guy quit paying him.

61.) He died before I was born. I hear he was an ass.

62.) The two sisters below me in the family line-up both have two kids. They both got pregnant in high school, then got pregnant again.

63.) I tried to set a good example, apparently they didn’t care.

64.) My mom and I worked together at Restaurant. We were both servers. Two of my sisters eventually started working with us also.

65.) I liked working with my family.

66.) My dad works at a Ford plant, which means every time Ford talks about plant closings I hold my breath. It would be hard for him to find a job to support my family and make as much as he does now.

67.) My friend’s friend (whom I’ve met)’s family won the lottery.

68.) He is a preacher who lives in a house that is owned by the church he works at, and only pays like $100 in rent.

69.) His family won the money before he was a preacher.

70.) If I won the lottery, I would be not become a preacher.

71.) When I was a sophomore in college, I would work 14 hour shifts over the weekend. I made enough to drop $400.00 on clothes every weekend.

72.) And I did for a couple of months.

73.) It stems from being poor growing up and not being able to buy the clothes I wanted.

74.) Thinking back, I should have saved money instead of blowing it.

75.) I can’t fit into any of those clothes now. See #35.

76.) My friend (referred to in my blog as JFriend) works for a company that has box seats at a place in Louisville. That means that we get box seats tickets to concerts and when they’re entertaining customers we get free food, beer, and wine. So far we’ve seen: Reba McEntire, Kelly Clarkson, Trace Adkins, Kellie Pickler, Dierks Bentley, Carrie Underwood, etc. We love our country music!

77.) When I was younger, I really wanted a horse…. so every Christmas morning I would go out ot feed the pigs and pray that there would be a horse waiting for me.

78.) We had a pony when I was really young. I fell off his back and into our sewer once. My mom made me get back on so I wouldn’t be afraid.

79.) The worst present I ever got was from my asshole ex who got me a gold (I don’t wear gold. Ever.) heart necklace that clinked when I moved. I sounded like a cat with a bell.

80.) My boyfriend, Mr. C got me a Coach purse for my last birthday. He said he walked into the store and the greeter says “Hi, how are you?” and he said “Yes. I need help.” Imagine a country boy walking into a Coach store. He loves me!

81.) Diet Pepsi/Diet Coke bloat me up like no other.

82.) Holy crap, I’m only on 82.

83.) I love corny jokes.

84.) I love watching wedding shows like Bridezillas and Platinum Weddings. I like it better when they are DVR-ed so I don’t have to watch the endless commercials.

85.) My mom brought a Title IX suit against my school in Indiana. The boys had brand new warm-ups and we girls had to buy our own volleyball jerseys…. it was bad. Of course being from a small town, everyone thought she was crazy for doing it and acted like she was trying to bring the school down. (Title IX requires that high schools spend equivalent money on girls and boys sports)

86.) While I was co-oping, my friend and I used to send dumb ‘poems’ to each other. I sent one with the word ‘lust’ in it and it got caught by the filter and sent to HR.

87.) I never heard anything about it, but I’m sure it got forwarded to my supervisor.

88.) I don’t like snakes or spiders. I will play the girl card if I see either of these.

89.) I’m not big on 4-wheelers. They look fun and all, but they’re really not my thing.

90.) I’ve never been skiiing even though there is a ski place less than an hour from me.

91.) When I was in High School I took a Home Ec class where we had to carry around the crying babies for a week. I got extra credit by carrying around a crack baby for a couple of days after that. It cried ALL THE TIME.

92.) The first two things I noticed about my boyfriend were his muscular arms and his nipple ring.

93.) He pierced his own nipple in high school. There’s a drunken video somewhere.

94.) I was 15 when I had my first kiss.

95.) I was 19, almost 20, before I did ANYTHING else.

96.) I wasn’t ready until then and no pressure was going to change that.

97.) I picked a bad person to be my #1.

98.) My weight is a huge issue. It’s always on my mind.

99.) But I love food. A lot.

100.) I love reading other people’s 100 things!