100 things about Me

It is very rare to see a blog without one of these lists. I throughly enjoy reading them so I decided to go ahead and try to make on myself.

100 Things About Me

1. I was born on April Fool’s day at 12:02 am
2. My mom wanted to name me Katie but my dad said Katie my last name didn't work so they named me Holly which works quite well with my last name.
   
3. I am the second of four children. I have an older sister and 2 younger brothers
4. I have a black Labrador retriever named Bentley
5. I also have 2 cats Joey, who is a light gray tabby, and Sierra, a tabby
6. I knit
7. I also crochet but prefer knitting for the most part.
8. I have an amazing wealth of useless knowledge
9. I tend to learn quickly and am very good at memorizing
10. I wish I had a photographic memory
11. I am very competitive when it comes to board games
12. My mom is my best friend
13. I have long brown curly hair
14. I have blue eyes
15. I am 5’7”
16. My skin is very fair. So fair it is lighter than most foundation’s lightest shade.
17. I need to lose about 100 pounds
18. I love to cook
19. I went to Culinary school did extremely well until I decided I didn’t want to be a chef
20. I love the smell of fresh laundry
21. I served a year on a traveling retreat ministry team
22. My dad died two weeks before my tenth birthday
23. I often wonder how my life would have been different if he had lived
24. I’m close to my brothers, sister and sister in law
25. I can’t think of a time that I have gone more that a few days without talking to one of them.
26. As close as I am to my family I am not very close my cousins and extended family.
27. I think it mostly has to do with the physical distance between us.
28. I can barely see my outstretched hand without contacts or glasses
29. I prefer to wear my contacts!
30. I have never had a brand new car
31. Two of my cars were hand me downs that I bought from my Mom
32. I have decided to go into nursing and will be starting a pre-nursing curriculum in Fall 2008
33. I love being able to help people
34. I like to garden but hate to weed and only do so when I absolutely need to
35. Little things can make me so happy
36. I took French for 3 years in high school and can remember very little of it
37. I love to read
38. I’ve been known to stay up all night to finish a good book
39. I am much more likely to get a book from the library than to buy one
40. But I did buy the Harry Potter books as they came out
41. I love coffee, I take creamer and 2 Splenda packets
42. I drink a lot of water especially at restaurants
43. I always tip big
44. I believe in love at first site….but haven’t experienced it
45. I'm very detail oriented. I notice everything.
    
46. I try to perform as many random act of kindness as I can
47. I am Catholic
48. My middle name is Elizabeth after my Grandmother, who was and will always be one of my favorite people ever
49. I seriously dislike email and text message slang. You is only 2 more letters than u how it that so hard? But I have been known to use lol.
    
50. I cry while watching the news, Extreme Home Makeover, movies, etc
51. I am a hair and face product junkie who is trying to reform her ways
52. I babysit my brother and sister in law’s puppy anytime I start getting the feeling of wanting another dog.
53. I have only knit one thing for myself in the 9 or 10 years I have been knitting
54. I am a sucker for little things: kids, puppies, kittens, plants, mini food I love it all
55. I love Josh Groban
56. I mostly listen to country music in the car
57. My first trip out of the country was to Canada
58. My foot was run over by a car, it took 3 surgeries and months of PT to be able to walk again
59. I have gotten not one but 2 speeding tickets for going less than 5 mph over
60. I fought both in court
61. I want to have a large family
62. I love when the weather is nice and I can open all the windows
63. Purple has been my favorite color for as long as I can remember
64. I live on the East Coast but love the West Coast
65. My immediate family all live on the east coast so I will probably never move out west
66. I can be very hard on myself- I’m working on it
67. So far in my life there have been very few decisions that I have regretted
    
68. I am a creature of habit
69. I always change my sheets on Sunday nights
70. My closet is such a complete and total mess that I don’t even know where to start to get organized
71. I love freshly baked chocolate chip cookies and brownies
72. When I eat something sweet I always want a glass of milk
73. I can type fairly quickly but often have typos mostly inverting letters
74. I love photography
75. My college GPA so far has been a 3.98
76. I’m hoping to get perfect 4.0 in nursing school
77. Every room, except a small windowless hall bathroom, in my house has at least one houseplant
78. I recycle, compost, & donate religiously
79. I always sleep on the right side of the bed and sit on the left side of the couch
80. I will always try very hard to solve a problem myself before asking for help
81. I can be stubborn , obsessive and a little nutty at times
82. I am an optimist
83. I consider myself shy but most people who know me laugh when I say I am
84. I have had dreams that have come true, but they have mostly been about random things.
85. I often sit with one foot under the other leg.That foot always falls asleep, and I honestly can’t remember a day that it hasn’t happened.
86. One of my biggest fears is walking with my foot asleep
87. I am fascinated by architecture. I love Victorians with turrets, log cabins, craftsmen, cute cape cods I guess it's all about the details!
    
88. I spend entirely too much time online looking at people’s blog or different websites.
89. I love to drink cold sun tea in the summer.Hot chocolate is my drink of choice in the winter.
90. I am a sucker for "new and improved" and packaging. I'm an advertiser/ marketer's dream.
    
91. I’m always amazed at people’s generosity especially other knitters I have met.
92. I love the show Lost!
93. It is the only show that I will not answer the phone, knit or do anything else like fold clothes during.
94. My to do list is always long
95. I try to keep my list of unfinished project to less than five but it doesn’t always work
96. I love the sound of babies laughing
97. I am always sending emails to friends and family of product or ideas that I think will help them
98. I love getting mail! Real mail like cards, letters, and magazines not bills
99. My dream is to someday own a farm with sheep, alpaca, dogs, cats, horses you name it. I think I should probably marry a Veterinarian to make this dream more financially feasible!
100. I completed this list in 2 sittings and it was harder than I thought it would be!