100 Random Things about Me

I saw this on my friend Sharon's Sister Diana's blog. ( a little complicated I know) I thought it was so fun to read about things I never knew and I got to know her a bit better. So I made a list myself. I hope I am not being to self involved. But I had a lot of fun making this list and it made me be a bit thoughtful. Enjoy


1. I have always wanted to be a mom and my greatest fear after getting diabetes was that that dream was over forever
2. I love men with curly hair and that was one of the first things I noticed about Kersten
3. Kersten and I met when I was 16 and he just barely turned 17
4. I love having curly hair
5. I was 5 7 1/2 from 7th grade until I was a freshman in college and then I grew and Inch and a half
6. My favorite thing to do with Noah is reading
7. Kersten and I got married on my half birthday
8. I remember random dates and times of things that are important to me, for instance: Kerst first held my hand on Sept 22 at Evergreen park, first kissed me on Oct 1 at 11:35 pm on the roof, First told me he loved me on Dec 24 at 4:32 pm, (I will stop now not to bore you with more details)
9. I am a hopeless romantic


10. I love the color yellow, then red and green
11. When I was little my favorite color was purple
12. I love creating
13. My number 1 thing about what I wanted in a husband, other than the obvious is that he had to make me laugh
14. I collect Children’s Books
15. I wish my hair still looked good long
16. I have flown an airplane a couple of times
17. I used to get out of doing chores when I was in Jr High by writing in my journal.
18. Book Stores calm me
19. I read purely for entertainment and I read really really fast
20. I have an unnatural love for eating out


21. I think of myself as a dancer although I haven’t danced since my senior yr of high school.
22. I secretly wish I was more athletic
23. I am afraid of Drains
24. I hate mopping my floors
25. When I was in 6th grade I started a dance company called Zing, I got 6 of the neighborhood kids and we put together a program and I charged all the neighbors to get into the show.
26. I love taffy
27. I wear a size 10 shoe and have since the 5th grade
28. Kersten and I were married for 6 years before we had a baby
29. I have no patience for technology
30. I cannot remember the authors to either books or music
31. I took singing lessons in high school.
32. I do not like the smell of coffee
33. I did not learn my timetables entirely until I was in 9th grade
34. I cannot stand long toenails, if I see even a tiny bit of white it is gone
35. Kerst and I used to go rock climbing
36. I have a paper addiction


37. I used to hate Diet Coke, but it grew on me and now I LOVE it
38. My entire family loves the Osmond’s, especially the song “Like a Yo Yo”
39. I wish I had taken piano longer as a child
40. I played the violin most of my childhood
41. I loved living close to my grandparents growing up and feel sorry for anyone that does not know their grandparents very well
42. I have a hard time with country music, to many bad associations.
43. I collect quotes especially love quotes, I made a love book in high school after a lesson my Laurel teacher did about love and showed us the one she made in high school.
44. I am not very good at journal writing anymore. That is my #1 resolution
45. I want to be a fabulous photographer.
46. I love tools.
47. I crave Buffalo Chicken wings


48. I love daisies, they are the friendliest flower.
49. I would rather not have Kersten get me flowers, I would rather have him get me something that will last a lot longer.
50. I went to Utah State for 2 years and then graduated from the University of Utah
51. I wish I was more ambitious and confident
52. I love to take naps
53. I love blues music especially BB King
54. Since I have been married I have not moved more than 10 blocks away from my childhood home.
55. My favorite engagement story is STILL my parents
56. I am fascinated with human development, physical and emotional. I still look up studies and read my old textbooks and check out new ones


57. I am on the cover of 3 of Anita Stansfield’s Books.
(The Gable Faces East, Gables Against the Sky, The Three Gifts of Christmas)
58. I like a little creative clutter
59. When I was little and shared a room with Amy, I made up a game so that I would not have to clean up our room. I would take the vacuum and go beep beep when I came to something that needed to be cleaned up and Amy would pick it up and put it away
60. I replay conversations in my head, and talk to myself about them
61. I love the Fall, I love the crisp air and the smell of the leaves
62. I love movies and miss being able to go see one anytime
63. I want to be the kind of mom that they can ask any questions to or talk to about anything and they know I will be straight with them
64. My love language is Quality time and words of affirmation
65. My friends are very important to me and I hold onto them closely


66. I am really picky about shoes and
67. Marriage is so much easier and harder than I thought it would be
68. Kersten is my match in every way and I cannot take another breathe without him
69. I love being cheesy
70. I have never been out of the country, but I dream about it all the time.
71. I love hearing stories about my ancestors.
72. I hate pets, I hate it when people have pets because I always get sick
73. Since I got pregnant, I gag really easy
74. I love to vacuum.
75. I cherish my eyesight.
76. I love notebooks
77. I like to write poetry but I am afraid to share it even with my husband
78. I have always loved my name, Laurie Elizabeth. I thought it was a name just like a princess when I was little
79. I crave time to myself where I can be alone with my thoughts
80. I avoid driving at night. I cannot see anything and it scares me
81. I love ice cream but don’t like it plain must have some pizzazz to it but no nuts


82. I can’t stand rubber, the texture, smell grosses me out
83. I love that I have obsessions
84. I love French fries and fry sauce
85. I am grateful I was born into the church
86. I wanted to be a cheerleader since I knew what one was, but the week before tryouts I found out about my surgeries and diabetes. It obviously was not meant to be
87. I hate haunted houses.
88. I don’t like gooeyness

89. I love penguins
90. I was on the Seminary council in 9th grade
91. I wish I was not so easily irritated
92. I had dreams about Noah starting about 3 months after Kersten and I got married
93. I love imagination. I think it is so important to believe in magic and have places to escape too
94. I love fun mail and cherish handwritten notes and letters and save most of them
95. I wish I wanted to sew better
96. I love to have things I cherish all around me
97. I love catalogs and magazines
98. I am not a morning person, it takes me a good 45 min to comprehend what is going on around me in the morning.
99. I am not a night person anymore either. I am definitely a midmorning afternoon person, (duh that is when most people are at their best)
100. I am grateful every day that I work from home and I get to be with Noah all day long. Although it is more than challenging sometimes. I feel so blessed

There you go, I hope you enjoyed all these random facts about me. I would love to see more lists like this out there.
Love you all