100 things about me, whether you want to know or not.

Well, I've seen a few people doing these lists and I liked the idea of them. So I worked on it last week and here's mine! You're free to do it, as well. No one is being tagged, it's just a fun activity. Actually, I found it to be rather therapeutic. :) So, if you'd like to join the fun, go ahead! And if you'd rather just read, that's fine, too. :) Now...on to the list.

1. I try to drink at least 64 ounces of water a day. On a really busy/active day, I can easily drink 96 ounces.
2. I really don't enjoy tea. Of any kind.
3. I love to do word find puzzles. I could work on them for hours.
4. I really am disgusted with how unhealthy I've become in the last two years. I'm going to fix that.
5. I love to write. LOVE. IT. Letters, essays, blog posts, e-mails. When it comes to writing, you name it, I love it.
6. I love my current job, advising students at the University. It has turned out to be one of the most satisfying jobs that I've ever had!!
7. However, I hate the task of taking minutes from meetings at said job. It's a rip.
8. One of my pet peeves is when people clip their finger nails in the car. To me, that is like finger nails on a chalkboard. In fact, when people clip their nails anywhere in public, it about sends me over the edge. And a lot of people do it!! Let's save that for the privacy of the home, okay? Yuck.
9. I guess fingernail chewing could be another pet peeve. I can't imagine! I mean, look at Jenny's post and then think that if our hands do to that to bread, WHAT is under our nails that then goes into our mouth/body? Ugh. Give me a minute to let my stomach stop rolling.
10. I think cell phones are obnoxious and don't do much more than encourage bad manners. It's sad, really. I'm amazed at the number of students that I'm talking directly to and in the middle of what I'm saying, they'll pull out their cell phone and respond to a text!! WHILE I'm talking!! *sigh* As my good friend, Edna said, we're here to teach them, so I usually have to give them a small schpeel about how that's so not OK. Let's not start with the one's that answer their phones in the middle of a meeting or a play. Oy vey.
11. Even though I feel this way about cell phones, I have one. It's my only phone. But...I try to treat it exactly like a house phone. I'm at work? No answer. I'm on vacation? No answer. It will not own me.
12. I will admit that cell phones come in handy while traveling. I'm glad to have them then! They make me feel a bit safer when I'm traveling.
13. I really enjoy falling asleep to white noise, like a fan or a running furnace. Something about it just really helps me to relax.
14. I've been dealing with a lot of anger this year and I'm not sure why or how to handle it. I'm working on that, though.
15. Sometimes I still get really mad over my having had cancer. I get angry over what I feel that it stole from me. I'll never be as carefree or as youthful as I was before being diagnosed. It stole that from me.
16. BUT...it didn't kill me, so I really try to focus on the good that came from the experience (and there was good!!) and I just try to move forward.
17. But I'd never wish it on anyone. Ever.
18. I'm a night owl. My perfect schedule: up until midnight, sleep until 9, go to work at 11, leave at 7, repeat cycle. :)
19. I hate coffee.
20. But I love Starbucks' Frappuccinos.
21. Some days I feel like my attitude is "just do whatever you have to do, health wise, so you don't get cancer again."
22. Some days that expereince still owns me. And that sucks.
23. I have troubles keeping my calcium levels at what they should be since my surgery/cancer treatment. Because of that, I will get face tingles (similar to the feeling you get when your foot falls asleep) and if I tap my face in just the right spot on either side, that side of the face will twitch. It's called Chvostek's sign. It's my "trick". :o)
24. I often struggle with some pretty serious spiritual doubts, but I try not to let people know just how serious they are. I'm often embarrassed/ashamed by what I struggle with. Only a few people really know.
25. I can tell my deepest darkest fears like this (writing) and not think twice about it. But put me face to face with someone and ask the same thing and it's likely that you'll never know the truth.
26. When it comes to a confrontational situation, I really can't tell people what I really think or feel. I have yet to walk through my fears on this one. It's just too terrifying! But...some day I will walk through that fear. Some day.
27. I love to read simple, good romance novels. Not trashy ones, but good ones. They're such an easy read and it takes me away for awhile. For as much as I love to read, though, I don't like books that require a lot of effort or are too scary or realistic. Yuck. Give me the easy stuff.
28. It really bothers me that I care so much about how other people view me.
29. But I'm not the least bit afraid to "make a scene" in public (the joking around kind, of course!). :)
30. I really do miss the girl that I was before cancer. She always had fun and was full of life.
31. Now, she just seems to live with a lot of fear.
32. But counseling helped and it really is better than it used to be.
33. *sigh* I love counseling. Love. It.
34. I get mad at anyone that knocks it (counseling, that is).
35. And anyone that knocks people taking depression meds. When used appropriately, those pretty little pills can change a person's life.
36. They did mine!!
37. And I often wish that I would have stayed on them a bit longer. Like six months or a year longer. Just for a longer time frame of stability.
38. But I'm managing okay now.
39. As long as I exercise regularly.
40. And I hate exercising.
41. But, thankfully, I don't loathe it anymore. :)
42. I'm a "planner". By nature, I like to have a planned out calendar and social life.
43. But the biggest lesson I learned from having had cancer is that I'm not in control of anything, so I try to actively practice letting go and letting it be what it is.
44. Funny thing is, it works!!! And I always end up feeling better!! :)
45. Did you know that in 2007, four years after being diagnosed with cancer, they finally declared me cancer free?
46. WAHOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
47. This year is the clincher..."cancer free" this year and NO tests for five years!!!! I continue to hope!! :)
48. To this day, I still don't really know that I want to get married and have kids.
49. Does that make me selfish? Sometimes I think so.
50. But I still don't know that my feelings really change, even when I do feel that way.
51. But I do believe that if I met the right person, I might feel differently.
52. I have a terrible memory! Seriously. It's so bad, that it kind of scares me a bit! I mean, what's it going to be like 20 years from now?!? Yeeks.
53. I see myself as a realist, not a pessimist or an optimist.
54. But I also think that I'm on the verge of switching to a pessimist. I need to work on that.
55. I enjoy watching movies and TV.
56. But, I do realize how much it changes my attitude toward a lot of things in life, so I try not to watch them too often.
57. I love things that make me laugh. People, books, shows...whatever. :)
58. I drink about a gallon of milk a week. I love milk!
59. And I love cheese!!
60. Is this because I'm from Wisconsin? Probably not.
61. I hate to cook. It seems that it's so much work for such little results. Yuck.
62. But I think that I need to start changing my attitude because it's certainly not practical.
63. I already mentioned it, but I love to write. It helps me to release. It helps me to connect with others. It keeps me honest. It keeps me real.
64. I love my little church fellowship groups in town. They really help me through my week.
65. I just feel like I wish I did better at living what I talk about, hear and learn there.
66. Just this past August, I cut off about a foot and a half of my hair to donate for wigs for cancer patients. It was for "Locks of Love". It made me feel good!
67. What didn't make me feel so good was when the stylist "trimmed" my hair after taking what I wanted her to take (for the donation). Four inches later and my hair barely touched my shoulders. NOT so good.
68. But it's been five months and it's grown about an inch a month, so it's okay.
69. But I don't think that I'll donate again.
70. The same thing happened to my mom.
71. And my friend.
72. And my friend's friend.
73. So, I don't feel alone! :o)
74. I always want to learn how to better myself.
75. Until recently, when my mom's friend was celebrating her 60th birthday and she told me that she didn't need to read self help books anymore because she knows she's fine just the way she is and, at 60, she really doesn't care what anyone thinks about her!
76. So, I want to have that attitude NOW. At 27. :)
77. Lizards kind of creep me out. I can't believe that people have them for pets.
78. I love to travel.
79. I've been to Ecuador, Latvia, and Colombia, as well as a lot of places in the U.S.
80. Some day I want to go to Italy.
81. So, I'm thinking I might plan a three week trip there when I turn 30. Wanna come?
82. But I do enjoy being home, too. There's nothing like the comforts of your own home. :)
83. I've only worn makeup a couple of times and I have to say that I really don't understand the appeal of it. It always makes me feel like I'm suffocating my skin. Strange, huh? (But if it works for you, great! :)
84. It's kind of the same thing with watches. I don't wear them because I feel just a bit claustrophobic (or a feeling similar to that, anyway).
85. My favorite colors in my wardrobe have become red and pink.
86. But not together. :)
87. I love yellow, too, and I wear it. But it doesn't look good on me. It kind of makes me look pale. :(
88. My dream car is a Lexus RX (SUV). That is one sleek vehicle. Albeit, pricey. :)
89. I really do enjoy watching football games, professional or otherwise.
90. But I don't really know many details about the game. I really can't keep straight the difference between offense and defense, even though it's been explained to me a million times. I always forget.
91. I love Burt's Bee's Beeswax Lip Balm. I have yet to find anything that compares with it.
92. Well, maybe the plain Mary Kay lip balm does.
93. I love to use hand soaps and lotions with the antibacterial stuff in them.
94. But I keep hearing how that stuff is really bad for us, so I'm using up what I have and I'm going to go back to the regular 'ol stuff.
95. I'm not a very patient person. But, I really don't want to pray for help with it, either, because I really don't want to be tested.
96. I love contacts and I HATE glasses.
97. Some day I'm going to have that eye surgery so I don't ever have to wear either ever again.
98. In the last couple of years, I've decided that I really hate nylons.
99. So, I do all that I can to avoid having to wear them!!
100. I need braces because I have a crossbite. But to get them, I have to have a lot of work done beforehand. Part of that "work" would be having a surgeon break my upper jaw in half and widening it. So...I don't think that I'll be getting braces. Ever.

There you go! 100 random pieces of information about me! Are you up for doing something like this? We'd love to read what you had to share! :)