My 200th post!!

To celebrate my 200th post I wanted to do something special. I know this isn't all that original, but it's all I could think of. So, here are 200 things about me!

1. I'm not sure I can come up with 200 things about me
2. I like cats
3. I like dogs
4. I do NOT like birds
5. I have two boys
6. I'd love to be pregnant again
7. I've been married almost eight years
8. We live in a townhouse
9. I wish we lived in a real house with our own yard
10. However, I hate to do yard work
11. I used to own my own house
12. I did not have the best yard on the block
13. I did however have awesome wood floors that I refinished myself
14. I like to do creative projects around the house
15. I put down the laminate floor in our refinished basement myself
16. I've done all the creative painting in our house
17. I hate the prep work and clean up of painting
18. but I'm pretty darn good at the actual painting
19. Our bedroom is the only room in the house we haven't painted yet
20. This is because Amazing Daddy and I can't agree on a color
21. I let my seven month old watch the Teletubbies
22. I may be a bad mom
23. I am not a morning person
24. My ideal day would start at 9am
25. And I wouldn't go to bed until 1am
26. And there would be a nap sometime in the afternoon
27. I tend to have the TV on all day, even if I'm not watching it
28. I spend far too much time on my laptop
29. I love my job - most of the time
30. But my boss can drive me crazy at times
31. I think I am good at what I do
32. I get hurt when I find out someone has not been honest with me
33. I loved being pregnant
34. It was the only time in my life I was happy with my body
35. My breasts have always fascinated me
36. I love that I can breastfeed my baby
37. Even if I have to take fenugreek and domperidone to keep my supply up
38. Pumping however, is a bit of a chore
39. I make my own baby food for Kiel
40. Sometimes I make vegetables for him that I don't like - like beets
41. I sometimes think I am funnier than I really am
42. I like to sew
43. and do needlepoint
44. and crochet
45. I love to read
46. Right now I am reading Seven Ancient Wonders by Matt Reilly
47. I'm pretty sure I'm not going to be able to come up with 200 things
48. I'm actually pretty damn boring
49. I'm a couch potato
50. I hate exercising
51. I really hate being hot and sweaty
52. I love to take baths
53. I love to read in the baths
54. I can spend an hour or more in the bath if I get the time
55. I rarely get the time
56. I have my own little sewing business
57. It is very little
58. In fact, it has been almost a year since I have accepted any orders.
59. I wish I could draw
60. I love nap time.
61. I'm not very good at keeping up with my kids baby books.
62. In fact I downright suck at it.
63. My husband and I met in a chat room in May 1999.
64. He came to visit me nine years ago this week.
65. Our first date lasted a week.
66. Yes, we had The Sex on our first "date."
67. But we had been talking on the phone every day for over a month by then.
68. I fell in love with him before I ever met him in person.
69. Adopting Noah and giving birth to Kiel were the two most amazing things I have ever done.
70. Better even than the first time I soloed when taking flying lessons.
71. Oh yeah, I took flying lessons when I was 22.
72. I ran out of money to get my pilots license.
73. I was a licensed EMT when I was 18.
74. I rocked the exams, but never had the confidence to really do anything with it.
75. I was going to be a doctor.
76. But I decided I wanted more of a life than that would allow me.
77. So I went to pharmacy school.
78. But that was after I was the Assistant Director of Campus Safety at the college I graduated from.
79. I decided I did not like busting fraternity parties.
80. I would rather be drinking at them.
81. My mother suggested I be a pharmacist.
82. So I said OK.
83. Not much thought went in to that decision.
84. It's worked out OK for me though.
85. I don't like beer
86. but I love hard cider
87. I prefer to read fiction over non-fiction
88. I prefer interesting and exciting fiction over what others consider "good writing"
89. I can be incredibly shy
90. I hate large gatherings
91. I suck at small talk
92. Given a choice, I'd rather be at home
93. unless it has to do with going out to a fancy restaurant
94. I love to drink wine.
95. I also love fru fru fruity type drinks
96. I used to be hugely addicted to Diet Coke
97. I play the piano
98. I used to play the trombone
99. Yes, I was a band geek in high school
100. I was also the valedictorian
101. and graduated with a 4.0
102. and was voted most likely to succeed
103. and most intelligent
104. they were all very mislead
105. I was sophomore class president
106. in college I was a Delta Gamma
107. in pharmacy school I was in a co-ed fraternity, Kappa Psi
108. I did not have a 4.0 in pharmacy school
109. however, I was voted outstanding graduate in my class
110. I did 'shrooms with one of my pharmacy professors
111. it was fascinating
112. but I won't do it again because I liked it far to much
113. my favorite flowers are spring flowers - lilacs, tulips, daffodils, peony's
114. I always wanted to get married in the spring, and carry lilacs
115. instead I was married in the fall
116. I don't remember what flowers I carried
117. My house is a mess
118. I am NOT a good house keeper
119. I wish I could afford to hire someone to clean for me
120. I'm a decent cook
121. and a great baker
122. but I really hate to make dinner
123. unless it is for a dinner party
124. I've made and decorated cakes that others have told me looked professional
125. If i could make a living doing something creative like that I would
126. but I could never make enough money
127. I have expensive tastes
128. We have three cats
129. We used to have four, but one had butt cancer
130. I used to have a Bouvier named Sabena
131. She had a stroke when she was 15 years old
132. She had to wear a diaper towards the end
133. I've backpacked around Europe and the United Kingdom
134. I spent a semester in college in Stirling, Scotland
135. I've climbed to the top of the Leaning Tower of Pisa
136. I've kissed the Blarney Stone
137. I know how to drive a stick
138. I grew up on a farm
139. I used to have my own pig
140. his name was Wilbur
141. I also had my own pitchfork
142. When I was a kid my job was to collect the eggs from the hen house
143. Chickens can be mean
144. Did I mention I'm scared of birds?
145. I got in big trouble at work because of something I said on Twitter
146. It is the reason I changed my blog name
147. I really wish I could be pregnant again
148. and have another baby
149. maybe when Kiel is three
150. but it will be too late by then
151. and my husband would have a fit
152. My wrists and hands are failing me
153. I had carpel tunnel surgery on my right hand just before the IVF procedure that resulted in Kiel
154. I'm not very good at playing with Noah
155. I lose my patience very quickly
156. I still haven't sent out birth announcements for Kiel
157. but I do think I finally figured out where I am going to order them from
158. I love chocolate
159. but prefer white/vanilla cake over chocolate cake
160. I'm not very good at eating my vegetables
161. I eat too much junk
162. I still have a teddy bear
163. and I sleep with it at night
164. I wish I was a better writer
165. I still have a lot to learn when it comes to grammar
166. but I write for a living
167. I'm not good with confrontation
168. I try very hard to admit and acknowledge when I am wrong
169. or hurt someone
170. I miss my grandmother terribly
171. I'm a picker
172. I was born in England
173. but we moved back to the states when I was two
174. Growing old scares me.
175. turning 40 this year was hard for me
176. My husband is Jewish
177. we are raising our boys Jewish
178. I'm not religious
179. but I love Christmas
180. I really hate dieting
181. I'm not ready yet to move Kiel out of our room in to his own.
182. I miss him when I'm at work during the day.
183. I do see a therapist.
184. She helps me more than wine.
185. But I still drink wine.
186. Sometimes I get sucked in to infomercials.
187. I never return my library books on time.
188. But, I always pay my overdue fines.
189. I'd like to see this blog become something.
190. I've been asked to contribute on another much larger blog.
191. I'm very excited about doing that.
192. I really cherish having my alone time.
193. If I don't get it I get very bitchy.
194. I love to travel,
195. but I love coming home even more.
196. I love buying books and toys for my children.
197. I hate putting laundry away.
198. I also hate unloading the dishwasher.
199. I love my husband and my kids, even when they drive me crazy.
200. I know that I am a very lucky woman.

Wow, I made it! And if you read all of these I'm amazed and pleasantly surprised.

A big thank you to all my readers! It means so much to me that there are people out there that want to read what I write. Thank you, thank you, thank you!