100!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This is my one hundredth post!! Considering I only started blogging seriously last September, I think that's pretty good. I looked through some of the blogs I read and on their 100th posts they made a list of 100 things you may not know. So like the big dork that I am I started my 100 list about a month ago. I copied a lot of these from the similar (but shorter) lists on Facebook. Please, please, please, if you make it all the way through, leave me a comment! Here's to the next 100 posts from Chaosville :)

1. I was born in San Diego, CA and lived there until I was almost 13, but Texas is my home.
2. I hate talking on the phone.
3. I rarely wear makeup and even when I do it is usually just mascara and eye shadow.
4. I never think people I used to know will remember me.
5. I have never had a full time job.
6. I only get my hair cut about once a year.
7. I have never dyed my hair and have never wanted to.
8. No one ever spells my name right so I have been going by Fran since college.
9. I take all the pictures in our house, so I am rarely in one. (And the ones I'm in I think I look awful)
10. I seriously need to lose about 20 pounds.
11. I get obsessed with my kids toys and buy all of them I can if they are part of a series.
12. I am slightly OCD.
13. I have 7 pet chickens.
14. I have a degree in Animal Science and my husband has a degree in Criminal Justice, but I am the cop show junkie and he watches the farming shows.
15. When Jayme was in Iraq it took me until midnight to fall asleep almost every night. It still does when he is gone.
16. My dog is the world's greatest and no one will convince me otherwise.
17. I get an absurd amount of joy watching my children play.
18. All of our kids have some kind of connection to my birthday. I found out I was pregnant with our oldest child on my birthday. He was conceived on our anniversary. Our second child was born 2 days after my birthday, conceived around Christmas. Our third child was born 2 days after our anniversary and two weeks before my birthday.
19. I got the same SAT score as my brother. I consider him a genius, but not myself.
20. I love to send out birthday cards and I get sad when I don't get them.
21. There are members of my extended family that I do not love. (If you are reading this and you’re related to me then it isn’t talking about you!)
22. I haven't been to church since 2004. (Except for weddings/funerals but that doesn't really count)
23. I have our senior prom picture on the family portrait wall in our house.
24. I HATE when my husband grows a beard, but I don't ask him to shave it...he will eventually.
25. I love cooking shows, but am not a great or ambitious cook.
26. I cannot swim.
27. I had all 3 of my kids naturally (no pain meds).
28. Both of my boys were born face up and required forceps--ouch!
29. I was the 5th person to wear my wedding dress. My grandmother, her sister, my mom and the sister's daughter all wore it. (It was handmade by my great- grandma and her mom for my grandma 50 years before I wore it).
30. We were originally going to be married on New Year's Eve, but moved it up so we could live together our senior year of college.
31. We never went on a honeymoon.
32. We would rather take our kids anywhere we go, so we don't typically go places that they aren't invited.
33. We plan on living in a log house on our land when we retire.
34. I once thought about going to diesel mechanic school when I realized my parent's could not afford college. I decided against it and racked up some loans.
35. We keep a list of funny things our kids said/did through their lives on an Excel spreadsheet.
36. I could not disagree more with people who teach their kids to say penis and vagina instead of funny made-up names. (It’s just creepy to me)
37. I love the smell of horses.
38. I love the smell of campfire smoke.
39. I don't like marshmallows.
40. My mother-in-law taught me how to make chicken n dumplins since Jayme likes them so much, and he likes mine better.
41. I hate to unload the dishwasher.
42. I always helped my Dad work on our trucks growing up and once taught a guy how to change his oil. I also do most of the maintenance on my truck now. I even changed the oil once when I was about 8 months pregnant with Clay.
43. I love apples and cherries, but hate apple pie and cherry pie.
44. I am fairly dirty minded.
45. I would rather take a walk in the forest than sit in a pew in a church. I think it's better to see what God has created than to be told about it.
46. I buy most of my children's clothes at a resale shop.
47. My kids took forever to sleep through the night (Pattie still doesn't) and give up their bottles and I don't care what anyone says, it did not hurt them at all.
48. Snickers is my favorite candy bar.
49. I have low melanin levels and rarely get a tan.
50. I don't wear a watch, and I haven’t since before Pattie was born.
51. Tim McGraw’s "It's Your Love" was our wedding song, but I don’t like Tim McGraw.
52. I am jealous of anyone who lives close to their children’s grandparents.
59. I’m allergic to erythromycin.
60. My husband and I went on our first date on Halloween 1993. We saw Demolition Man.
61. I have never been pulled over by a policeman.
62. I can’t stand chick flicks/romantic comedies!
63. I love action movies, westerns, and historical dramas.
64. If I like a book that is part of a series, I have to read the rest of the series.
65. When my husband and I were dating we broke up twice; once for 24 hours and once for 27 hours.
66. I love writing on my blogs but I worry that no one is reading it.
67. I don’t like raisins but I love craisins.
68. If I could change one thing about where I live, it would be moving closer to my hometown.
69. If I could change one thing about my current town, it would be to make alcohol available in stores. I hate dry counties, yet I always seem to live in them!!
70. I like to joke that when Pattie was born, I became like the Grinch. Since she is my third child, my heart has grown three sizes.
71. I like to watch SpongeBob as much as my kids do and I even watch it without them.
72. Someone saying, “God doesn’t make mistakes” makes me furious.
73. I frequently feel I don’t deserve to be so happy. Not because I think I am a bad person, but just in the sense that, I have never done anything worthy enough to have this wonderful little family.
74. I have all but given up on my hair ever being pretty!
75. I hoard holiday candy and usually have some left from the last holiday when the next one rolls around.
76. I was born in 1976.
77. I have Facebook friends I don’t really like. (again, if you are reading this, I like you!!)
78. I won’t join a Facebook group or “like” a Facebook page if there is a grammatical error in the title.
79. Uptight people make me itch.
80. Bible thumpers make me murderous. Not people who jokingly refer to themselves as thumpers but who are actually just spiritually happy in their faith. I mean the ugly nasty people who think they are superior to anyone who doesn’t believe what they do.
81. If I disagree with you, it doesn’t make me wrong!
82. My way of doing things works for me. If I want your advice, I’ll ask for it.
83. I love an ice cold beer on a hot day, or any day for that matter.
84. When we eat out, I frequently order a strong beer like Guinness while my husband orders a fruity girly frozen margarita. More than once the server has switched the drinks when they brought them out.
85. It is incredibly easy to hurt my feelings.
86. My favorite dark chocolate is super, extra dark chocolate.
87. On average I wash about 9 loads of laundry per week.
88. I sometimes go several days without shaving my legs, especially in the winter.
89. We left California for Texas in June 1989. We arrived July 7th.
90. I was born during a Typhoon, which is like the West coast version of a hurricane. They are fairly rare.
91. Last summer Jayme and I tried to go away for two nights but I had to come back after one. I missed the clones.
92. I want to go to Boston so I can tour the Sam Adams Brewery.
93. I met my husband on the first day of school in 1993. We started dating that November.
94. I graduated from high school in 1994.
95. If Raley had been a girl, her name would have been Raley Sue. If Clay had been a girl, she would have been named Pattie Lynn. We had no boy name picked out for Pattie.
96. I can handle blood, puke, pee and poop, but show me a tooth wiggling in its socket and you’ll lose me!!
97. I got married in 1997.
98. I graduated from college in 1998.
99. My mother wanted to name me Miriam.
100. I hope that reading this was interesting enough for you. Please leave me a comment if you made it all the way through!!