Seeing as I have the think tank the size of a gnat lately….I just can’t come up with any topics. I know it is a common blogging practice to write 100 things about yourself. I honestly don’t know if i can up with 100 titillating (oh man….love that word…WINK!) things about myself. But if you really do want to know because you are writing a book or regularly stalk me and my family…well here you go.
1. I am a horrible speller. A world without spell check would be disastrous. Like my first sentence in this post where I spelled gnat with a “k” instead of a “g”. Yes, I am THAT bad! Michigan education failed me!
2. I am massively computer illiterate. I was on the cusp of the computer being madatory for college….like you might have been required to have one internet source for a research paper….I never really learned and I am a total technology mooch off my husband.
3. I am a trend whore, ( although I will never, EVER pull off skinny jeans and I am not stupid enough to try) I get bored so easily and always want the next fashion. Thank God for Target and TJ Maxx…I can make a cheap version of most things.
4. Decorating makes me very very happy
5. I care much more about E News than CNN News.
6. I have five tattoos. You can imagine how happy that makes my parents. Only one is visible to the public on my left foot. It says “He leadeth me”. My stomach has a butterfly (how cliche) with the Greek word for “redeemed”, my back was three sittings and has vines and flowers and a Christian fish with the Hebrew word “righteous” and my left ribs have a sun thing with the sign of the trinity in it.
7. I only regret my rib and back tattoo.
8. I actually used to love my stomach (pre babies…dang babies…DANG DANG babies.) It was the one area on my body genetically small and easy to maintain.( I know…don’t hate me) Go one inch below and it is a different story. I miss it…..a lot.
9. I always wished I was 3 inches taller. I am 5′2″…but 5′5″ seems easier to buy clothes.
10. I love doing Chloe’s hair and I am secretly way more excited than her to play dress up and Barbies….I can’t wait till she is old enough
11. I lived 9 years in Michigan, 9 years in New York and 14 in Virginia, but will always consider myself a northerner even though you couldn’t pay me to move North again.
12. I don’t enjoy breastfeeding AT ALL…but I know it is best for my babies and isn’t forever.
13. I have traveled to Czech Republic, Germany, Austria, Kyrgystan, Kazahkstan, Turkey, Northern Cyprus, Southern Cyprus, Mexico, Venezuala,Dominican Republic, Pureto Rico, and of course Canada. Love me some Canadians…you guys are some faithful readers.
14. I would love to be paid to travel and write travel guides on the best places to go, eat, and be entertained. Anyone, anyone…want to fund this dream?
15. I do crack myself up and think I am darn funny. (Does that sound conceited? I hope not)
16. Blogging was an obsession the first year, after I let it go…my site grew!
17. I love my hair and I am sad I cut it…VERY VERY sad. It will be a long year growing it out.
18. I cry when I watch Extreme Home Make Over. Really anytime someone is down and out or has a disability and something awesome happens to them. It makes my heart so happy.
19. I think people with Down Syndrome are adorable.
20. My favorite color is green…but orange and red make me very happy.
21. I have spinal degeneration so I have not slept a whole night through since I was 20 years old…that is 12 years of getting up all night long to adjust or pee. I miss sleep and wish it wasn’t so hard for me.
22. I hated going to bars. I felt dirty and desperate. I would much rather stay home.
23. I find guys more fun to be around than girls….I think it was because I only had a brother who was fun and funny to be around. Girls are too catty and serious most of the time. LIGHTEN UP!!!!!
24. I get a little rush of excitement when I splurge on a People or US magazine.
25. I have over 100 pairs of shoes. But I haven’t hardly bought any new ones since having children.
26. I am not into real jewelry.(minus my wedding ring) I would rather have Gadzooks plastic jewelry anytime.
27. I have a hard time receiving gifts.
28. I am a horrible gift giver…I can NEVER think of something someone would want when it is their birthday.
29. I think my husband is sexy when he throws a baseball or football.
30. I wish my ankles were smaller
31. I am a boy when it comes to movie taste. My favorite movie is “Braveheart” followed by Gladiator and Saving Private Ryan.
32. I wish I could learn how to dance like they do on So You Think You Can Dance. I should have stuck to dancing and not gymnastics.
33. I know nothing about car brands. I say, “the red car” or the “big black truck”. Doesn’t interest me. I would be horrible guessing prices on the Prices Is Right for vehicles.
34. I am very discerning about people and can figure out the real “issues” immediately, especially when it comes to their past and their relationships.
35. Most people don’t want to hear the truth, so I have to keep my mouth shut or it gets me in trouble.
36. I am easily annoyed but almost impossible to offend
37. I am very good at impersonating people, horrible at accents, wonderful at writing stories, terrible at telling stories or jokes.
38. I give too many details when I talk.
39. My favorite number is 11
40. I am still insecure when I think about my high school years.
41. I love to read and miss having time to devour a good book
42. I love doing photography with my husband.
43. I sleep with a body pillow every night that has a brown pillow case and we call it my “Poop pillow” or my “Turd”. That word is hilarious. Turd Ferguson anyone….anyone?
44. Josh Lucas is my Hollywood crush.
45. These were my favorite jeans of all time before I ripped the crap out of them stepping off a ladder. RIP jeans.
46. The only veggie I can’t stomach is mushrooms…GAGGGGGGG!
47. I had salmonella poisoning and a parasite all at the same time.
48. i lost 32 pounds because my small intestine shut down
49. I was glad I got sick, it took off all of my college and depression weight and all I had to do was poop a lot! Not a bad gig.
50. I hate not having a tan.
51. This is a picture that Ryan took of me back in 2004 where he knew he wanted to date me.
52. This is one of my favorite pictures of Ryan and I. It makes me smile everytime I see it.
53. I did my own hair on my wedding day because the stylist screwed it up.
54. I want to write a book, but I don’t know about what
55. I love having a really really ridiculously tall husband (6′6″) and I still get amazed when he can touch things that are really high up. Never gets old.
56. I am fairly certain I could survive on the following foods: cheese puffs, cheese, cream cheese, chocolate, caramel, coffee, bacon, steak, mashed potatoes, ….can I go back to bacon. YUM!
57. I think Sandra Bullock could play me in a movie.
58. I wish Dwight Schrute was real and lived next door to me.
59. I have a hard time being serious in a photo.
60. If I could bottle Chloe’s laugh and Bennett’s chatter and sell it, I would be rich. It could melt an iceberg.
61. I sing out loud all day long. I love to sing. Let’s hope my children like my voice.
62. My fingernails are really strong and can grow really long
63. I wish I could experience living in different environments like a major city, internationally, on the ocean, in the mountains, and on a boat.
64. My heart comes alive when I am doing missions work. I love serving overseas.
65. Sarcasm is my middle name….or it should be. I don’t understand people who are literal.
66. I have a compulsion about the couch cushions. I straighten them a million times a day even if I am going to come right back and sit down on them. OCD maybe?
67. I love my daughters butt. It is so cute and bouncy…it makes me laugh when she runs.
68. I had two surgeries on my left calf to remove a massive birthmark. One when I was 7 the other half when I was 13. I have a 9 inch scar on my calf and part of my muscle was removed so it looks a little funky.
69. My favorite form of exercise is swimming.
70. J-Lo and I have something in common…but i just can’t put my finger on it.
71. There is not much I won’t share about myself or not say.
72. I like being silly, even at 32.
73. I have never been to a real music concert.
74. I wish I had the guts to try out for a musical
75. I wouldn’t know what to do with an IPhone
76. I think Chloe looks like me as a wee one
77. I LOVE being a mom and my kids are the shiznit, but some days are boring if I have to be honest. I am looking forward to them being a little bit older so we can do more.
78. Being a special ed teacher for children with autism was so hard and SO interesting.
79. The only poster I ever owned was of Kirk Cameron ( I am obviously a teen from the 80’s)
80. I always wonder how people describe me when I am not around. “You know Kelly, she is…..”
81. I wish I wasn’t so afraid to try new things
82. i want to sky dive
83. I hate my profile (My crescent moon face)
84. I love the smell of coffee, fresh bread, laundry detergent, peonies, and a good sale
85. I have a really really hard time with emotionally needy people, arrogant people and mean/inconsiderate people.
86. I suck at napping. I probably only take 10 naps a year. I wish I could turn my brain off to sleep during the day.
87. When I smile really big I show a lot of gum. I call it my “horse smile”
88. I have Irritable Bowel Syndrome which makes for some GREAT stories. Just not funny at the time.
89. I think farting is hilarious and can smoke Ryan out any day.
90. I find my kids to be incredibly cute, devilishly sweet and funny and the biggest blessing ever to happen to me
91. I have a husband that loves me no matter what. It blows my mind sometimes. He is awesome
92. My life is different than what I thought it would be and yet it is exactly as it should be.
93. I would love to know what people will say at my funeral someday
94. I know how to laugh at myself
95. I love Ryan’s legs…he has great calves.
96. I have a fear of drowning, being set on fire, or suffocated. Gives me the heebie geebies.
97. I consider myself to be really well rounded and able to talk to anyone from any walk of life.
98. I am a born sales woman.
99. I laugh A LOT! My crows feet are proof.
100. I was able to come up with 100 things you may have found boring, enlightening, interesting or egotistical. Nobody made you read! Care to leave five interesting facts about yourself.
first of all, i cannot believe you could DO this. i kept reading and thinking….i don’t think i COULD!
secondly, my favorite line was: 43. I sleep with a body pillow every night that has a brown pillow case and we call it my “Poop pillow” or my “Turd”. That word is hilarious. Turd Ferguson anyone….anyone?
TURDDDDDDDDDDDD! i love that word!!!!!!!!!!
thirdly, ibs. i laughed immediately. enough said.
lastly, when people ask me about you i say, ‘kelly….my breath of fresh air friend.’ then i expound on how you’re not only one of the funniest but possibly one of the greatest people i know. just had to let the world know! (er at least your readers!)
love you!
You are rad, I’m a new reader, 1 in growth for you.
I’ll take your challenge… I have three - 1. I remember more about my oldest sisters high school life than her 2. I am most proud of being a veteran 3. I’m afraid of permanent things like tattoos and having babies - hence me thinking you are rad.
1. I take the worst pictures in the history of time. Every guy I have ever gone out with has said that I look much better in person.
2. I have ridiculously amazing calves, which I would trade in a second for your pre-baby stomach.
3. My idea of perfection is a rainy sunday, great football game on tv, really good snacks, sweatpants.
4. I’m deathly afraid of the labor part of having a baby, enough so that I’m constantly searching the internet for articles about planned c-sections, even though I’m so many years away from having a kid.
5. I could not marry a man who would not at least tolerate my having a cat. Dealbreaker.
thanks for the list kell!!!
I hate tomatoes. I keep trying them because I feel like it’s immature that I don’t like them, and they look appealing. But no.
I think we’d get along smashingly, and I could have written about 20 of those word for word!
This was one of my favorite posts of yours!
I love your blog!
I love your first and last picture. Te ves tan preciosa!! 98. born sales woman.. and i am Mary Kay :)loved your list tons of fun! ooo loved the picture of you at Chloes age and then her. she really does look like you! great post kel!
I’ll take your challenge:
I, too, cringe and am embarrassed by my high school self.
I can recite the alphabet backwards
I can name all 50 states
On a good day, I can accomplish upwards of 50-60 tasks.
The sound of my son laughing makes me cry tears of joy.
Love it. someday i’ll do one of these but HOW do you come up with 100 things about yourself. you came up with great ones. many of them i was like “dude, me too”. especially the sarcasm ones or the one about people you can’t tolerate.
i’m there too baby!
Chloster DOES look like you! Holy wow.
Ryan’s calves - that is adorable.
i love Dave’s legs in general, he’s got good soccer legs. YUM.
This was great!
ALl right, here are my FIVE facts:
1. I have a HORRIBLE fear of snakes.
2. I don’t like fish.
3. I met my wonderful husband on the internet in a Christian chat room 10 years ago, it was a total God thing because neither one of us were looking for one another.
4. I have been married for 3 years and some odd days!
5. I want to be a mother sooner than later!
Have a great weekend!
Loved this
You are a lot of fun
Let’s see what I have.
1. I have an obsession with food. Either too much or too little.
2. I’m doing a job I never wanted to do.
3. I have three boys. Never ever ever thought I would have boys OR that I would enjoy them this much
4. I change my mind. All the time. Very easily
5. I need a lot of sleep. 8 hours just doesn’t cut it (difficult to get it when you have three kids though!)
I love your blog. You crack me up!
Here’s 5 on me:
1. I HATE chocolate.
2. I’ve lived in Oklahoma all my life.
3. I love peanut butter but can’t stand pb&jelly sandwiches (it is a texure thing)
4. I love my children so much it hurts
5. I think God created me and my husband for each other. We really compliment each other well.
Great post, I love reading about people’s lives. Here goes my list of 5:
1. I love the idea of reading, but rarely take the time to sit and read a book. Thus I have a huge pile of yet-to-be-read books.
2. I have really blue eyes that my sons were lucky enough to inherit
3. I’ve never met my father
4. I love vacuuming…it’s like my Zen garden
5. I love re-experiencing childhood through my son’s eyes
“You know my friend Kelly - super stylish, great hair, really funny.”
or
“You know my friend Kelly in VA - she just had her second and she and her hubby have that sweet photography business.”
or
“You know my friend Kelly - I’m sure you’ve seen her butt on J-Lo.”
Kelly! How fun! I love this, but I do not think I could come up with 100 things… maybe if I really thought about it. As I was reading, I kept wondering how long it took you to write all of these. Were they just right off the top of your head or did you really have to think about it?
You have inspired me… maybe I’ll try to do a list about myself too. We’ll see how many I can come up with.
Also… Chloe looks JUST like you when you were little! WOW adorable!
Wow! 100 things. I’m not sure I could come up with a list like this! But…I can come up with 5 things:
1-#43 on your list made me lol. My last name is Ullrich-Ferguson, my husband’s is Ferguson. When I was pregnant with my son, my husband’s geeky physicist friends called the baby “Turd Ferguson.” I kid you not.
2-My husband would not tell me what said friend’s nickname for our son was, lest I lay a smackdown on them, but I found out about it anyway.
3-I’m the eldest of nine kids. Now that I’m a mother of two, I think my own mother is a saint. That or a crazy person.
4-If I could live anywhere in the world, I’d choose my college town, Blacksburg, VA. That or Cape Town.
5-My husband and I lived in Namibia for a bit after we graduated from college and worked as teachers (me in a primary school, him in a secondary school). We’re hoping to take our children back at some point in the future.
hey–my favorite number is 11, too!
3. I LOVE diet mountain dew, and it brightens my day to splurge on it.
5. I can’t wait until Christmas with my 2 sweet little boys.
My five:
1. My husband has great soccer legs, and I love to watch him participate in athletic things.
2. I secretly hope my son is a soccer star in school.
4. I’m terrified of having a C-Section if this little one doesn’t get head down in time.
and a bonus…6. I think fish are nasty alive, but I don’t mind eating them.
#89 Now that’s me too, much to my husband’s chagrin!
Wow - Didn’t think you’d make it to 100!
#1 - I am a horrible book keeper! Obviously the reason I let my husband handle the finances.
#2 - I absolutely love my job as a nurse and the fact that it let’s me be home with my children a lot too!
#3 - I love to organize. It gives me great pleasure to pick things in it’s own little home. Not so easy with the two tots in tow though!
#4 - Sitting on our boat on the lake just after sunset is by far one of my favorite things to do. Unfortunately I hardly ever get to do it anymore.
#5 - I fear getting sick and not being able to take care of my children and husband.
Thanks for sharing your 100. Love you even more, now that I’ve read those things.
1) I find it strange that I feel connected to so many women I’ve never read, through blogs. Yet, sometimes blogging can be so uplifting I wouldn’t trade it.
2) I always dreamed that I would travel as a young woman but never did and it seems strange, now, that I ever dreamed that.
3) I never would have guessed that I would have been married with two kids at my ten year reunion, but I can’t seem to think of what I would have guessed instead.
4) I love co-sleeping with my kids and I am thrilled that my husband loves co-sleeping, too.
5) I stress out about money. A lot.
hi kelly! i loved this post because i don’t think i could come up with 100 things–but i will try the 5.
1. i have been back in the united states for 1 month and grocery stores, target, etc still overwhelm me to the point that i avoid going into them
2. i love my dog so much that i have a hard time sleeping if we go away for a night
3. i’m not only embarrassed about the high school me–but also partially the college me
4. my husband has so much faith in me that i believe i can do things and then painfully find out i can’t (an example would be how many times i wipe out mountain biking)
5. tattoos and piercings don’t scare me but having to live somewhere for a long period of time frightens me
As usual, I just love reading your posts! Great one Kelly. On the days when I get a free minute to peak at emails and catch up on blogs I always come to your site. Recently I’ve been missing stories and pictures. But, this was a joy!!! You’re so very talented and creative. Also, inspiring. Now, if I could just find the time to do more of the things you do! lol.
Here’s my go at 5 on me…
1) I’ve just recently learned to make my own loaf of fresh bread. Not from a machine…. and boy is it yummy!!! I think I’m gaining weight already.
2) I love McDonald’s Iced Vanilla Coffee, it goes great with a sausage McGriddle!
3) I always imagined I’d be married to a rich man and have all of the expensive things in life but possibly no children. Now, I’m married to a man I’m richly in love with, have nothing expensive in life short of bills but have a home full of children and love every minute of it!!!
4) I have no style. My walls are white, and almost all of my stuff is hand me down. Oh what I’d give to have an ounce of style… at least to liven up my home some!!
5) This was much harder than I thought…. way to go Kelly on listing 100!!!
That was very interesting and entertaining. I don’t know that I could do it for myself.
1) I love my daughters so much and am terrified about how fast they are growing up (8 and 6).
2) I love taking pictures-sometimes when I am taking them, I just know how awesome they are going to look that I tend to think of that and lose the current moment.
3) I don’t really like dogs and people think that makes me a freak or bad (even though I love my 3 cats).
4) I love driving as long as it isn’t in a city with stop and go traffic. My husband jokes that I should have been a trucker.
5) I adore my parents and wish we could live with them, and am lucky to have a wonderful husband that genuinely loves them too.
Okay, Kelly. I did it. Not just 5 but 100. You must check it out. I think you’d be impressed.
Hope you’re having a great weekend!
Kelly. I LOVED this blog and I too am inspired by YOU! It’s been SO BUSY, but should slow down this coming week! I owe you a long thank you note! You and Ryan were so great!
What a great post! I feel like I know you better already..but girl, pat on the back to you for being able to come up with 100 things. I could never do so. I love the horse smile one..lol
I so like you. Neat to learn more about you.
PS. Do you and Ryan go to WPPI? We’re going in February.
Wow! Great post. I don’t think i could come up with 100 things. I may have to give it a go…
1. I am a terrible *new* blogger.
2. I LOVE LOVE LOVE photographing my kids
3. I HATE swimming in lakes
4. I want to rediscover myself after losing *me* after my kids came along.
5. I wish I was a more spiritual person
wow. See, 100 things?? no way. That was hard coming up with 5!
Great post…Lets see what 5 I can come up with!
1. I have been with my husband for 9 years and I love him more today than I did when I first fell in love with him.
2. I have a job, which I hate. I would give almost anything to just stay home with tmy babies again.
3. I have two little girls. One looks identical to my husband and one looks like me. It completely amazes me.
4. I am currently 13 weeks pregnant with my 3rd and final little miracle and both me and my husband want another little girl.
5. I absolutely HATE to do any kind of cleaning, and honestly I don’t do it very often if I can get away with it.
Kelly you rock. I love your blog and never ever miss a post even though I don’t always comment. Please keep it up, you keep me sane!
I love this post! I think I could come up with 100 things but it would probably bore my readers to death. So here are 5…
1. I hate seafood. I’ve tried numerous times and still - hate!
2. I used to love Jonathan Brandis and would collect every teen magazine just to put his pictures on my walls.
3. My first and only cliffdiving experience was in the Delaware River and it took me 30 minutes to jump.
4. I hate ants and gnats worse than bees and spiders
5. Patrick Dempsey doesn’t know it yet but he loves me
Amen to the breastfeeding sister! So, glad I’m not the only one who bf but only because I believe it’s the best thing for my kid.
1. I really hate my white kitchen sink, no matter how much bon ami with bleach I use, it still looks stained.
2. I do love my shiny new kitchen faucet that actually gives me water pressure!
3. I love baking more than cooking
4. We finally got the box that allows us to watch digital tv so now we finally get PBS!
5. My new favorite show is history detectives on PBS.
I love how genuine you come across, makes me wish you were my neighbor!
1. For me, Laughter really is the best medicine
2. I hate being hot, it makes me cranky.
3. I give people too many chances.
4. I cry way too easily, I’m working on that.
5. I still regret a decision I was strong-armed into making in 2003, and pray it’s true that God forgives.
6. I do believe I will meet “The One”, when it’s time.
What is scary about this is that there were SO MANY times while I read your 100 things that I was like “hey, that is me!” Awww…..
2) I love meeting new people
for instance.
-My fav. number is 11. It was always my number in every sport I played.
-Seth and I share the love of photography. (our first date…another aww)
-I’m a horrible speller too
-I would be so computer illiterate without Seth.
-Seth and Ryan are sooooo alike….(does it surprise me we picked such good men!)
-I use to love my flat stomach (pre-baby)
-I have a j-lo booty
And I could go on
BUT
here are 5 things about me that you might not know
1) I don’t wear deodorant (you may think I’m gross, but I just don’t ever smell…at least no one has told me if I do)
3) I was born with a total of 3 thumbs (got the extra one cut off when I was two and I still have thumb nail problems b/c of it)
4) I lived in Japan for 3 years
5) I had doubts I was adopted till I as about 7 years old. My sister would always tell me I was and I believe it since my parents didn’t get pictures of my birth (their camera batteries died b/c I was 3 weeks late and they packed the hospital bag too early), I didn’t look like my family for the longest time since I use to have blond hair, have blue eyes (the rest have brown) and curls (they have straight hair). But you can’t deny I am adopted now since I have grown to look like my sisters and I have my mother’s thighs.
Excellent list. I can answer the ‘describes you’ one as I just did it to my daughter ‘I’m reading that Kelly’s blog…you know…the funny American girl.’ I was laughing out loud at the pipe cleaner pics.
So 5 things about me;
1. I too would like to write a book and once had a short story published when I was at university. However, can’t come up with a single good idea. If I can’t be JK Rowling I am not playing!
2. I fart all the time. I am just a great big bag of gas. I now actually avoid dried apricots and any lentils because of this.
3. I am learning to sign (Auslan not ASL). We are not allowed to talk in class. I cannot go 2 mins without breaking this rule…
4. When I am nervous I chew the skin around the nail on my thumbs and can’t stop even when I am hurting myself.
5. The fear of my mother’s over-reaction has prevented me from ever getting my nose pierced even though I really want to and I am now 34 with three children, a husband, my own house, a university degree and the means and where-with-all to go do it. Argh! When does the laso loosen up????
This was fun. I don’t know if I could get to 50 never mind 100. But I would give it a red hot go!
Jude
All I have to say is, you are definitely one beautiful woman - inside and out.