Days of Discovery, Comedy, and Insanity!
Aug
13

Ok Gina, this is for you. You DARED me to write 100 things about myself…so here goes.

1. My name is Heather
2. I was born in Havre, Montana
3. I was born on St Patrick’s Day
4. I am 26 years old
5. I have been married 8 years to Bobby
6. I have three children
7. My oldest is Bobby’s from a previous relationship
8. I love him like my own
9. I was 20 when he came to live with me
10. I had my second son when I was 18
11. I had my third son 7 years later
12. I turned 26 one week after he was born
13. I insisted that our third son be named after my dad and grandpa
14. I am my dad’s only biological child
15. I am the youngest of three girls
16. My sisters are 8 and 9 years older than me
17. I moved to Spokane Wa when I was 1 years old.
18. I was in Washington when Mount St Helen’s erupted in 1980
19. I have a jar of ash from the eruption
20. I went to the same elementary school from Kindergarten to 6th grade
21. I was one of only three kids who did not move in elementary school
22. I was in gifted classes in Junior High
23. I started college when I was 16
24. I moved away from home when I was 17
25. I dropped out and got my GED instead
26. I got married at 18
27. I moved to Texas when my husband graduated Basic Training and AIT
28. I am an Army wife
29. I waited for my husband 25.5 months while he was in Korea and Iraq
30. I flew over to Korea to visit him
31. I moved to Ft Carson, Colorado in March 2003
32. I became a homeowner in July 2004
33. I am a CNA
34. I am a college Sophomore
35. My first major was Computer Science
36. I changed my major to nursing because I do not have patience for stupid people
37. I love helping people
38. I love reading, writing, and computers
39. My pet peeves are ignorance, small mindedness, and bad parents
40. I will breastfeed my baby longer than a year
41. I wear my baby in a sling
42. I cloth diaper
43. I make my own baby food
44. I co-slept with my baby for three months, until he preferred his crib
45. I co-sleep from his 5am feeding until morning
46. I supplement my older children with after school tutoring
47. I have and honor roll student and an advanced learner
48. My favorite color is purple
49. I painted the children’s room and the nursery green
50. I love asian art work
51. I would love to travel the world some day
52. I want to take my children to Korea
53. I have been to Hawaii twice
54. I have been to Mexico twice
55. I worked at a daycare when I was 16
56. I was a telemarketer when I was 17
57. I saw the Grateful Dead in ‘95
58. My parents took me
59. I got two t-shirts
60. I still wear the tye dyed tee
61. I used to think my parents were really Janis Joplin and Jimi Hendrix
62. I have dark blonde hair and blue eyes
63. I wasn’t born yet when they died
64. I had two imaginary friends when I was little
65. One was a baby, the other was a cat named “Mr. Meemer”
66. I heard my dad on the phone advising a client about a misdemeanor when I named it
67. I went to Lollapalooza with my two best friends in 1996
68. We slept in a station wagon at a rest stop because we were too tired to drive
69. I grew up on the back of a Harley Davidson
70. I went on a 2,000 mile Harley ride when I was 13
71. In summer of 2002 I spent 3 weeks camping on the Oregon Coast with my husband and two sons
72. I convinced the park ranger to let us sleep in a tepee for free
73. I am an animal lover and have had 13 animals at one time
74. I breed chinchillas; I have 5
75. I have two dogs, a yellow lab and a golden retriever
76. I have three cats
77. I used to have pet rats and pet ferrets
78. I was interviewed for a feature on the evening news this year
79. This is the year I was born, ‘79
80. My favorite Aunt and my son share a birthday; I share a birthday with her son
81. I am a Pisces and my sign is fitting
82. My favorite car is my Honda Civic; I bought it in 2003 with 8 miles on it
83. I now drive a minivan and my husband drives my car
84. I bought him a Ford Explorer for Valentines day 2004
85. I haggled it down from $12995 to $6995, my husband sold it to buy me a minivan when we learned we were expecting
86. I struggled with infertility for 6 years
87. I have PCOS
88. I had 8 failed cycles on Clomid in 2001
89. I got pregnant after stopping the birth control pills I was on the entire time my husband was overseas
90. I recently drove almost 3,000 miles across the country alone with my 9 year old, 7 year old, and 4 month old sons
91. I brought my step son into my home when he was 3 1/2 and loved him as my own
92. I brought him back him back up to grade level after years of neglect caused him to be behind
93. I have been the primary caretaker of him for almost 6 years, even while his dad was overseas
94. I want more than anything to be able to adopt him
95. I enjoy writing accounting spreadsheets in Excel
96. I collect Bearfoots and gargoyles
97. And I am always barefoot myself
98. I am an Ani Difranco fan
99. I also love classic rock, my favorite group is Led Zeppelin
100. I am a recovering pacifier addict!

Ok, your turn!!!



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