I’ve seen some fellow bloggers write “100 Things About Me” and I thought that was a great idea. But as it’s time to actually make the list, I am thinking two things: What are 100 things about me, and Who would want to read 100 things about me? So with that in mind, I will start to jot down whatever pops in my head and we’ll see how far I get.
This Is Me:
1. My full name is Jodi York
2. I do not have a middle name
3. No, I am not making that up because I do not like my middle name
4. I was born in Illinois
5. My birthday is Christmas Eve
6. The comment I’ve heard most often about my birthday is “awww, that’s terrible”
7. Until I moved to Georgia, and now I hear “awww, bless your heart”
8. Having my birthday at Christmas doesn’t really bother me anymore
9. As long as you follow the rule
10. The rule is: birthday presents should be wrapped in birthday paper and Christmas presents should be wrapped in Christmas paper. A birthday present wrapped in Christmas paper is actually a Christmas present. Thank you, but try again!
11. I’ve lived in Georgia since 1990
12. I like it here better than Illinois because the sun shines in the winter
13. My parents have been married since 1970
14. I have one sister
15. She is the funniest person I have ever met
16. I met Jeremy in 1999
17. I was working for his dad
18. I cannot say I didn’t know what I was marrying into (hee hee)
19. On our first date we went to the club house, a haunted house, and the Waffle House
20. On our second date he took me fishing and I was “hooked”
21. We got married 8 months later
22. He wanted to get married outside
23. I was nervous about it
24. He said, “it never rains on the weekends in June, trust me, I’m a fisherman”
25. On our wedding day, in the midst of a terrible drought, a thunderstorm blew in and destroyed our decorations 30 minutes before I was to walk down the aisle
26. If I have any advice to give about outdoor weddings, it would be to never trust a fisherman
27. I competed in one fishing tournament
28. The largest bass I’ve ever caught weighed just over 3 pounds
29. I did not catch it during the tournament
30. Our current home resides on the bank of a 650 acre lake
31. I love everything about living next to the water with the exception of the snakes
32. My husband and I opened our own business in 2001
33. We are builders
34. We have built ourselves 3 houses in 6 years
35. Do not marry a builder if you do not like to move
36. Our daughter was born in 2002
37. We named her Savannah
38. I got to pick her middle name because do you really think he would argue with the woman who just endured natural child birth?
39. My husband is highly intelligent
40. Our son was born in 2005
41. We named him Emery
42. Again I picked the middle name but for entirely different reasons than #38
43. I think it’s only fair since I am, after all, “MN Deficient”
44. My favorite movie of all times is “Planes, Trains, and Automobiles”
45. The CD I am currently wearing out is by “Casting Crowns”
46. The book I read most often is my study Bible
47. I am a Christian
48. I rededicated my life to the Lord in 2002
49. God has done some cool things that I cannot deny
50. If I could choose to have a talent that I wasn’t born with it would be the ability to sing on key
51. I only feel comfortable singing in front of my kids
52. In church, I lip sync
53. When it comes to household chores, I would rather clean toilets than cook dinner
54. My biggest fear is flying
55. The best holiday is Thanksgiving
56. You get to eat all the good food without the added pressure of buying gifts
57. My favorite color is green
58. I am a stay at home mom
59. It is the hardest job I’ve ever had
60. Even harder than detassling corn (and you Midwesterners know what I’m talking about)
61. I want to homeschool my children
62. I hated to read when I was young
63. Now I love it and can’t find the time
64. Some days I spend too much time on the computer
65. My worst quality is how quickly I can get upset about something
66. I don’t like to apologize
67. I do like to dance
68. About 10 years ago I took line dancing lessons with my sister
69. I don’t remember any of them
70. I love to vacation at the beach
71. I’ve been on 3 cruises
72. The farthest I have ever flown in a plane was to San Diego
73. If I ever get over my fear of flying, I would like to go to Greece
74. I prefer Hershey’s Special Dark to the regular chocolate bars
75. I am a breakfast eater
76. I love all kinds of cereal
77. I like to excercise
78. I am not so fond of drinking water
79. I enjoy college football
80. In my “spare time” I indulge in my scrapbooking addiction (I am soooo behind)
81. I have a wish list at Amazon
82. I used to know how many licks it took to get to the center of a tootsie roll tootsie pop
83. When I was younger I played volleyball and softball
84. The total number of people in my high school graduating class was 48
85. Our school was in the middle of a corn field
86. Three local grade schools pooled together to form the 9-12th grades
87. My hometown had a post office, a bank, and a “mom & pop” grocery store (that my mom forbid us to go into after she hit the owners wife with a box of Cheerios in a dispute over a BOGO offer)
88. We did not have a fast food restaurant
89. We did have an ice cream stand in the summer where we’d hang out after softball games
90. We lived 1 mile from town on the bank of the Fox River
91. There was a train tressle on the south side of our property
92. Some people would walk the tressle over the river to get into town…but NOT ME!
93. I am a chicken
94. We raised chickens for a few years and sold their eggs to other people banned from the town grocer (just kidding)
95. But we really did raise chickens
96. One time we tried to kill a few to eat but it was more like a massacre
97. After that day we named the site “Bloody Stump”
98. My sister and I got sent out to Bloody Stump one day when my Mom had enough of our fighting
99. We stood there, nose to nose, for a long time before we realized we weren’t mad at each other…just Mom
And the 100th thing about me is: I am crazy about my husband, wild about my kids, devoted to my family and friends, and love the Lord!!!
And that about covers it!
