110 things about me for my 110th post....
I figure it would be easiest to do this life story style like Joanne did, so here we go.....
1. I was born in Vienna, Austria on April 5, 1982
2. eight minutes after my mother arrived at the hospital.
3. I was the most beautiful baby my mother has ever seen. (true story!)
4. I went to kindergarten for two years.
5. I peed my pants once in kindergarten.
6. I went to Austrian school.
7. I learned how to read and write German before English.
8. I was in 1-6th grade with my older brother Jeremy.
9. When I was eight years old I taught myself how to read in English.
10. In the Summer of 1990, we were in the states on furlough, and I went to Kansas Bible Camp.
11. That week I accepted Jesus Christ as my Savior.
12. Once, in the third grade, I wore a dress with little short socks during the winter, and my teacher told me that I would catch a cold in my belly and never be able to have children, and Jeremy and I laughed at her, and when she told my parents this, they laughed at her too.
13. During gradeshool I had a crush on a boy named Ronni. :)
14. In the 4th grade, for a writing test, We had to write an essay about someone of the oposite sex in our class, I wrote about him. (and he wrote about me too!) :) (i'm such a dork!)
15. For the 5th grade I went to Vienna Christian School.
16. It was my first year in an English speaking school.
17. That year my best friend's name was Johanna.
18. We would write secret letters back and forth to eachother in a diary that we each had a key to.
19. In 1993 we moved back to the States.
20. August 8, 1993 I was baptized, Jeremy and Tabitha got baptized that day too.
21. In the 6th grade I went to Lowell Elementary, accross the street from our house.
22. I had a crush on Joel Christy, my dad's boss' son.
23. My best friends were Jaime and April.
24. We walked to school together when we started middle school, but were all in different "halls" and didn't really stay friends.
25. I went to Salina South Middle School.
26. I was so good at 7th grade math that my techer had me take a test to see if I could skip pre-algebra and take algebra in the 8th grade instead.
27. The Summer before 8th grade I went to Jr. High camp at KBC the same week Micah Hawkinson did, and developed a terrible 7-year crush on him. :)
28. I highlighted the entire book of Micah in my Bible.
29. I took Algebra in the 8th grade, third quarter I had 19 missing homework assignments and got a D. My parents took away my tv watching priveledges for the rest of that school year, and I actually did all my algebra homework and learned to like it.
30. In the 8th grade, my best friend Angie and I were in a little play, we were two of the 3 little pigs.
31. I went to Salina Central High School.
32. Fall of my freshamn year I auditioned for the student-directed one-act plays and got a role.
33. For the winter musical that year I had a friend in German class that was head of the house crew and asked me to take tickets for the show, the show was Damn Yankees, and that's how I got started in the drama department at Central.
34. The summer of 1997 I stated staffing at Kansas Bible Camp.
35. I still had a terrible crush on Micah Hawkinson. :)
36. I worked with the horses that Summer and absolutely loved it. ( I hated it at first...I didn't even like horses, I was scared of them, I would only ride the ponies!)
37. In the 10th grade I took a drama class, my favorite things were costume and set design.
38. I wanted to be an ornithologist.
39. I spent the Summer of 1998 at KBC.
40. My first week of counseling was the last ever week of 6ers camp.
41. I STILL had a big crush on Micah. :)
42. In the 11th grade I spent many many many many hours working on the set and costume crews for our plays and musicals.
43. In the fall of 1998 I was inducted into the International Thespian Society.
44. I still give my parents a hard time about going to my ceremony, and leaving right away with their cake to watch Jeremy's football videos...from a game that they had already been to.
45. Summer of 1999 I spent at KBC.
46. I was best friends with Dorothy Denny that Summer.
47. During the 2-week CEF break we went road-tripping with Paul Page and Micah.
48. After we got to Manhattan, they left us there for a week to have "guy time" with Izzy Wasso.
49. Mrs Hawkinson taught us how to sew, we each made a little purse, and we hung out with all of Micah's siblings a lot, it was such a fun week!
50. I still had a crush on Micah. :) He he he, how many is that now?
51. Fall of 99 I got a part in the mainstage play.
52. I was a Senior in Drama 3 that year, and get to direct a one-act play.
53. I also slept through most of my classes that year, and still got As.
54. I was never as glad of anything as finishing high school.
55. I spent the Summer of 2000 at KBC.
56. I also got to go with Linda Newcome to Lost Timber Bible camp in Minnesota, they talk funny there....like Canadians.
57. I went to Emmaus Bible College in Dubuque, IA.
58. I had planned on going for four years to get my elementary education degree, but decided that I really just idn't like going to school.
59. There were a bunch of us from KBC there that year, we all hung out, they called us "The Kansas People."
During Christmas Break that year Adam Sallee, Eva Caudill, and Dorothy Denny and I all went on a road trip to Arkansas.
60. My favorite class was Church History.
61. I was part of a traveling performance group called "off the hook" and we got to go to Canada to perform once...that's the only time I've been to Canada.
62. While I was at Emmaus I instant-messaged a lot.
63. This is when I became friends with Magen. (on IM) :)
64. I graduated from Emmaus with the 1-year Bible Certificate.
65. Summer of 2001 I spent at KBC. :)
66. I also got to go counsel at Southwest Bible Camp in New Mexico, which was SO much fun, I even got to jump off a cliff!
67. At the end of that Summer Mom and Dad drove Lucile out to camp to pick me up.
68. My first car was a 77 Plymouth Fury named Lucile.
69. I loved that car.
70. In the fall of 2001 I had to get my first real job.
71. I worked as a cashier at the True Value Hardware store.
72. I was off work every other weekend, which is about how often I went to Topeka to visit the Wassos and Magen.
73. That fall I also drove to Lawrence to visit Eva and go to a Relient K/FIF concert.
74. I forgot to write down directions to Eva's dorm.
75. I stopped by the Wasso's on the way...Matt made me write down Eva's phone number in case I got lost.
76. When paying the toll on my way into Lawrence, I noticed a lot of smoke coming out of the hood of my car.
77. I knew NOTHING about cars!
78. I was so nervous about the car that I took a wrong turn.
79. I finally stopped somewhere with a pay-phone and called Eva, who came to pick me up.
80. We left the car there and went to the concert and had a great evening.
81. The next day we got Lucile and drove her back to Eva's building.
82. We went to walmart and talked to a guy in automotive and we decided maybe I needed oil, got some oil, put more oil in her, and we thought it was all good.
83. On my way home there was more smoke and the car was overheating.
84. I pulled her over on the side of the highway and started walking back to Lawrence.
85. I had no cell phone.
86. I walked about two miles before a cop picked me up, drove me back to my car, figured out that one of my heater hoses had a hole, fixed it, filled my radiator back up with water (it had been steam and not smoke) and sent me on my merry way.
87. After I got home my dad helped me replace all my heater hoses.
88. Over Lucile's life, we had many such experiences, but because telling that one took 15 of my 110 things...I will just list a couple more...my drive-shaft-yolk broke....just broke...when I was in Hutchinson, Jeremy Goering is still my hero from that one, and my starter gave out while in Topeka...when poor Sherry Wasso had my car, nonetheless! Rachel and Magen drove me back to Salina for play rehersal, and then Dad drove me back to Topeka that night and put a new starter in...in the middle of the night...he's still my hero for that one.
89. Speaking of play rehersal....I was in "A Christmas Carol" at the Salina Community Theatre December of....2002?, which is where I met Joshua and Ruth Matlack.
90. I started going to church with them in Minneapolis, KS.
91. In January of 2003 I wasn't getting enough hours at the hardware store so I got a job at The Green Lantern and started taking classes to become a CNA.
92. I loved working at the Baskin Robbins in the Green Lantern, I have such fond memories of that job.
93. I had a big crush on Josh Matlack....(sorry if you're reading this, Josh!)...I never told him. (Josh, if you're reading this, did you know even though I never told you?)
94. April 1st Josh wrote an april fools email about how their family was moving away, and I BAWLED until I got to the end and realized it was an april fool.
95. In May (I think it was May...maybe June) I went with Josh and Ruth to MACPAC...a Christian performing arts conference...and they broke the news to me that they were going to be moving away to Oklahoma.....I wouldn't believe them at first...cause we had just been talking about how horrible Josh's april fool had been...but it was really true. It broke my heart and I cried the rest of the day...and I was in a terrible funk for a week or two and couldn't talk to anyone without crying.
96. In July I quit working at GL, to work as a CNA...but took three weeks off to go work at KBC.
97. In September 2003 I started working night shift as a CNA at Salina Center for Long Term Care.
98. In January of 2004 Magen and Micah and Michael Khol and I took a road trip down to the Mission to take Micah back.
99. Magen and I stayed with Anne Denny...who had known about my highlighting of the entire book of Micah back in the day...and not imagining that Micah would ever be teaching down there, or that I would ever be visiting, had told her students about a girl who had a crush on a boy named Micah and highlighted the entire book in her Bible. We found it extremely funny...especially since Magen and Micah were dating...(or engaged?) (Were you engaged yet, Magen?)
100. Magen and I went to the Grand Canyon and all sorts of great things, I love road trips!
101. I took a couple years of Tae Kwon Do...I stopped at high green belt.
102. One night after TKD Elina Redden told me I should try eHarmoy.com...later that week while talking to Joanne on the phone, she told me I should totally try it....so while still on the phone with Joanne I started filling out my personality profile.
103. I was matched up with Jason on March 2ond 2004, and we stated emailing on the 4th, and emailed every day after that.
104. We met for a first date on May 15th in Dubuque, IA for Joe and Jessie's wedding.
105. We did the long-distance (700 miles) thing for a year.
106. Summer of 2005 he moved down to KS for the Summer, and when the Summer was over I decided I could't live without him, and moved up to Wisconsin.
107. Thanksgiving 2005 we were in Kansas and went out to Coronado Heights to take pictures (or so I thought!) and he asked me to marry him!
108. We got married on March 25th 2006. :)
109. In September on 2007 we moved to Oak Creek, WI.
110. um......um....and I like to scrapbook.
He he he he he...good enough? Sorry about any spelling/grammar errors...it's too long to proof-read.
1. I was born in Vienna, Austria on April 5, 1982
2. eight minutes after my mother arrived at the hospital.
3. I was the most beautiful baby my mother has ever seen. (true story!)
4. I went to kindergarten for two years.
5. I peed my pants once in kindergarten.
6. I went to Austrian school.
7. I learned how to read and write German before English.
8. I was in 1-6th grade with my older brother Jeremy.
9. When I was eight years old I taught myself how to read in English.
10. In the Summer of 1990, we were in the states on furlough, and I went to Kansas Bible Camp.
11. That week I accepted Jesus Christ as my Savior.
12. Once, in the third grade, I wore a dress with little short socks during the winter, and my teacher told me that I would catch a cold in my belly and never be able to have children, and Jeremy and I laughed at her, and when she told my parents this, they laughed at her too.
13. During gradeshool I had a crush on a boy named Ronni. :)
14. In the 4th grade, for a writing test, We had to write an essay about someone of the oposite sex in our class, I wrote about him. (and he wrote about me too!) :) (i'm such a dork!)
15. For the 5th grade I went to Vienna Christian School.
16. It was my first year in an English speaking school.
17. That year my best friend's name was Johanna.
18. We would write secret letters back and forth to eachother in a diary that we each had a key to.
19. In 1993 we moved back to the States.
20. August 8, 1993 I was baptized, Jeremy and Tabitha got baptized that day too.
21. In the 6th grade I went to Lowell Elementary, accross the street from our house.
22. I had a crush on Joel Christy, my dad's boss' son.
23. My best friends were Jaime and April.
24. We walked to school together when we started middle school, but were all in different "halls" and didn't really stay friends.
25. I went to Salina South Middle School.
26. I was so good at 7th grade math that my techer had me take a test to see if I could skip pre-algebra and take algebra in the 8th grade instead.
27. The Summer before 8th grade I went to Jr. High camp at KBC the same week Micah Hawkinson did, and developed a terrible 7-year crush on him. :)
28. I highlighted the entire book of Micah in my Bible.
29. I took Algebra in the 8th grade, third quarter I had 19 missing homework assignments and got a D. My parents took away my tv watching priveledges for the rest of that school year, and I actually did all my algebra homework and learned to like it.
30. In the 8th grade, my best friend Angie and I were in a little play, we were two of the 3 little pigs.
31. I went to Salina Central High School.
32. Fall of my freshamn year I auditioned for the student-directed one-act plays and got a role.
33. For the winter musical that year I had a friend in German class that was head of the house crew and asked me to take tickets for the show, the show was Damn Yankees, and that's how I got started in the drama department at Central.
34. The summer of 1997 I stated staffing at Kansas Bible Camp.
35. I still had a terrible crush on Micah Hawkinson. :)
36. I worked with the horses that Summer and absolutely loved it. ( I hated it at first...I didn't even like horses, I was scared of them, I would only ride the ponies!)
37. In the 10th grade I took a drama class, my favorite things were costume and set design.
38. I wanted to be an ornithologist.
39. I spent the Summer of 1998 at KBC.
40. My first week of counseling was the last ever week of 6ers camp.
41. I STILL had a big crush on Micah. :)
42. In the 11th grade I spent many many many many hours working on the set and costume crews for our plays and musicals.
43. In the fall of 1998 I was inducted into the International Thespian Society.
44. I still give my parents a hard time about going to my ceremony, and leaving right away with their cake to watch Jeremy's football videos...from a game that they had already been to.
45. Summer of 1999 I spent at KBC.
46. I was best friends with Dorothy Denny that Summer.
47. During the 2-week CEF break we went road-tripping with Paul Page and Micah.
48. After we got to Manhattan, they left us there for a week to have "guy time" with Izzy Wasso.
49. Mrs Hawkinson taught us how to sew, we each made a little purse, and we hung out with all of Micah's siblings a lot, it was such a fun week!
50. I still had a crush on Micah. :) He he he, how many is that now?
51. Fall of 99 I got a part in the mainstage play.
52. I was a Senior in Drama 3 that year, and get to direct a one-act play.
53. I also slept through most of my classes that year, and still got As.
54. I was never as glad of anything as finishing high school.
55. I spent the Summer of 2000 at KBC.
56. I also got to go with Linda Newcome to Lost Timber Bible camp in Minnesota, they talk funny there....like Canadians.
57. I went to Emmaus Bible College in Dubuque, IA.
58. I had planned on going for four years to get my elementary education degree, but decided that I really just idn't like going to school.
59. There were a bunch of us from KBC there that year, we all hung out, they called us "The Kansas People."
During Christmas Break that year Adam Sallee, Eva Caudill, and Dorothy Denny and I all went on a road trip to Arkansas.
60. My favorite class was Church History.
61. I was part of a traveling performance group called "off the hook" and we got to go to Canada to perform once...that's the only time I've been to Canada.
62. While I was at Emmaus I instant-messaged a lot.
63. This is when I became friends with Magen. (on IM) :)
64. I graduated from Emmaus with the 1-year Bible Certificate.
65. Summer of 2001 I spent at KBC. :)
66. I also got to go counsel at Southwest Bible Camp in New Mexico, which was SO much fun, I even got to jump off a cliff!
67. At the end of that Summer Mom and Dad drove Lucile out to camp to pick me up.
68. My first car was a 77 Plymouth Fury named Lucile.
69. I loved that car.
70. In the fall of 2001 I had to get my first real job.
71. I worked as a cashier at the True Value Hardware store.
72. I was off work every other weekend, which is about how often I went to Topeka to visit the Wassos and Magen.
73. That fall I also drove to Lawrence to visit Eva and go to a Relient K/FIF concert.
74. I forgot to write down directions to Eva's dorm.
75. I stopped by the Wasso's on the way...Matt made me write down Eva's phone number in case I got lost.
76. When paying the toll on my way into Lawrence, I noticed a lot of smoke coming out of the hood of my car.
77. I knew NOTHING about cars!
78. I was so nervous about the car that I took a wrong turn.
79. I finally stopped somewhere with a pay-phone and called Eva, who came to pick me up.
80. We left the car there and went to the concert and had a great evening.
81. The next day we got Lucile and drove her back to Eva's building.
82. We went to walmart and talked to a guy in automotive and we decided maybe I needed oil, got some oil, put more oil in her, and we thought it was all good.
83. On my way home there was more smoke and the car was overheating.
84. I pulled her over on the side of the highway and started walking back to Lawrence.
85. I had no cell phone.
86. I walked about two miles before a cop picked me up, drove me back to my car, figured out that one of my heater hoses had a hole, fixed it, filled my radiator back up with water (it had been steam and not smoke) and sent me on my merry way.
87. After I got home my dad helped me replace all my heater hoses.
88. Over Lucile's life, we had many such experiences, but because telling that one took 15 of my 110 things...I will just list a couple more...my drive-shaft-yolk broke....just broke...when I was in Hutchinson, Jeremy Goering is still my hero from that one, and my starter gave out while in Topeka...when poor Sherry Wasso had my car, nonetheless! Rachel and Magen drove me back to Salina for play rehersal, and then Dad drove me back to Topeka that night and put a new starter in...in the middle of the night...he's still my hero for that one.
89. Speaking of play rehersal....I was in "A Christmas Carol" at the Salina Community Theatre December of....2002?, which is where I met Joshua and Ruth Matlack.
90. I started going to church with them in Minneapolis, KS.
91. In January of 2003 I wasn't getting enough hours at the hardware store so I got a job at The Green Lantern and started taking classes to become a CNA.
92. I loved working at the Baskin Robbins in the Green Lantern, I have such fond memories of that job.
93. I had a big crush on Josh Matlack....(sorry if you're reading this, Josh!)...I never told him. (Josh, if you're reading this, did you know even though I never told you?)
94. April 1st Josh wrote an april fools email about how their family was moving away, and I BAWLED until I got to the end and realized it was an april fool.
95. In May (I think it was May...maybe June) I went with Josh and Ruth to MACPAC...a Christian performing arts conference...and they broke the news to me that they were going to be moving away to Oklahoma.....I wouldn't believe them at first...cause we had just been talking about how horrible Josh's april fool had been...but it was really true. It broke my heart and I cried the rest of the day...and I was in a terrible funk for a week or two and couldn't talk to anyone without crying.
96. In July I quit working at GL, to work as a CNA...but took three weeks off to go work at KBC.
97. In September 2003 I started working night shift as a CNA at Salina Center for Long Term Care.
98. In January of 2004 Magen and Micah and Michael Khol and I took a road trip down to the Mission to take Micah back.
99. Magen and I stayed with Anne Denny...who had known about my highlighting of the entire book of Micah back in the day...and not imagining that Micah would ever be teaching down there, or that I would ever be visiting, had told her students about a girl who had a crush on a boy named Micah and highlighted the entire book in her Bible. We found it extremely funny...especially since Magen and Micah were dating...(or engaged?) (Were you engaged yet, Magen?)
100. Magen and I went to the Grand Canyon and all sorts of great things, I love road trips!
101. I took a couple years of Tae Kwon Do...I stopped at high green belt.
102. One night after TKD Elina Redden told me I should try eHarmoy.com...later that week while talking to Joanne on the phone, she told me I should totally try it....so while still on the phone with Joanne I started filling out my personality profile.
103. I was matched up with Jason on March 2ond 2004, and we stated emailing on the 4th, and emailed every day after that.
104. We met for a first date on May 15th in Dubuque, IA for Joe and Jessie's wedding.
105. We did the long-distance (700 miles) thing for a year.
106. Summer of 2005 he moved down to KS for the Summer, and when the Summer was over I decided I could't live without him, and moved up to Wisconsin.
107. Thanksgiving 2005 we were in Kansas and went out to Coronado Heights to take pictures (or so I thought!) and he asked me to marry him!
108. We got married on March 25th 2006. :)
109. In September on 2007 we moved to Oak Creek, WI.
110. um......um....and I like to scrapbook.
He he he he he...good enough? Sorry about any spelling/grammar errors...it's too long to proof-read.
6 Comments:
I noticed a few things about you that I don't know if I had before. First, you had a lot of best friends! I think I was lucky cause I had Joanne! Second, I didn't realize your car had so many problems. Third, you and Jason hadn't been dating all that long before our wedding. I don't know if I could do that 100 things thing cause my brain isn't really functioning right now. I don't know how many posts I've had either I guess. haha
Woah, there are so many things I want to comment on! First off, loved the "life story style", that was an awesome way to put it. Your mother has spoken so often of what a beautiful baby you were, that I wish I could have seen you right after you were born! After they cleaned you up that is. Did you go to kindergarten early, is that why you went for two years? Because Jeremy got held back a year at some point, so that's why you ended up in the same grade. That is crazy that your teacher told you that when you wore short socks! There are some ridiculous wives' tales out there. I totally remember meeting Johanna when she came to the chapel in Salina. I don't think I ever knew that you highlighted the entire book of Micah. I still remember the time your dad gave him money for gas after he ate dinner at your house when I was there. Um, what is an ornithologist? I remember when they quit 6ers, I thought that was a bad deal. I remember the talk about your parents splitting to go watch the football video. Guess that solidifies Jeremy's position as favorite kid #1, eh? Lol, when we were home in June, your sibs took dibs on their numbers, and since you weren't there you ended up with #5. Jenny started the crazy talk, then immediately laid claim to #2!!! So at Christmas you'll have to battle it out yo. Just letting you know what's ahead of you. And I think it is so funny that you guys are so competitive about it! Just one of the many things I love about your family. Man, you got to go on a lot of road trips. I wish I had gotten to do some! I loved going to see your plays. I miss those days. Lucile. I wonder where she is now. Jeremy loved that car, did you know that? Anne Denny--it's been way too long since I've seen her! Dude, I totally didn't know that you started eHarmony when we were on the phone! Or if I did then, I forgot over the years. Good job Elina for thinking of it! Man, I want to read more! Ok, when you get to post 200 then you have to write more things. Or sooner if you want.
I knew about the book of Micah thing! lol! I'm definitely second favorite! I've seen Anne a couple times at our church. That's all. I had to comment on Joanne's comment.
"I highlighted the entire book of Micah in my Bible"
That is toooooo cute!!! :) :)
And I had no idea you were born in Austria, wow!
Ah, the good old days!
Hehehe, I STILL have to laugh that you worked at the green lantern.
You are too funny, Joyful. Micah and I weren't engaged yet when we went to the mission...we got engaged the next summer.
Also, thanks for not hating me for stealing Micah out from under you. Lucky for me, you almost had Jason by that time!
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