one hundred confessions of a crazy canuck

so, i'm stealing jackie's idea and i'm going to write 100 things about moi. call it self-absorbed or maybe a bit of a confessional type experience... i don't know, but it sounded fun. so here goes:

100. i was born on my parents first wedding anniversary.
99. i'm canadian.
98. i bought my volkswagen jetta about 6 months before burton got home from his mission because i knew burton didn't like vw's, and i was worried if things worked out and we got married that he'd never let me buy it.
97. i went to efy twice - once in washington state and once at ricks college (ricks 6... it was a big deal)
96. i wore casts on both my legs for the first six months of my life because there was a problem with my toes... but the casts got so smelly that my mom went back to the doctor and forced him to take them off because she couldn't stand it anymore. luckily they'd been on long enough that i don't walk like a duck.
95. i hated country music til i started dating burton... i'm one of THOSE girls.
94. i used to list every guy i had a crush on in my journal on any given day... sometimes there were as many as six.
93. in highschool i would bring clothes that my mom wouldn't approve of with me to school and change in the bathroom.
92. in 5th grade i wrote a book with my friend tara called the "jt detectives".
91. the first time i kissed a boy was in 7th grade and it was one of those experiences where all the girls are pushing me and all the boys are pushing him and there's nowhere to go but towards each other... i kissed his chin and he kissed my nose.
90. i had little red hearts on my wallpaper until i was 16.
89. i had a few new kids on the block posters on the walls in my room, and i would sit and daydream about donnie wahlberg.
88. on that note... i owned the nkotb christmas album.
87. i've played bloody mary in the girls bathroom in elementary school and still get creeped out by mirrors in the dark.
86. my best friends in highschool (all mormon kids -- guys and girls) had a tradition of staying at one person's home on new years eve every year and staying up ALL night after the new years eve dance doing nothing... watching movies, eating food, whatever. if you fell asleep, you got jiffy marker on your face.
85. i have 108 people on my instant messenger list... i think i'm addicted.
84. in highschool (and sometimes in college and since graduation), i could talk on the phone for 6 or 7 solid hours in one sitting and be totally engaged the whole time.
83. i bite my nails.
82. i have had what some might call a bit of a wart problem with my feet. i've had surgery a few times and basically my podiatrist is like my grandpa... i even invited him to our wedding.
81. melissa and kam (who don't really even know each other) have almost the same identical handwriting as i do. with kam and i, i sometimes can't even tell our handwriting apart.
80. the people i have had the most all-out fights with are my absolute best friends in the whole world.
79. i love spicy foods.
78. i spent most of my life liking my steak well-done thinking that it was better that way, until burton introduced me to medium and i fell in love with steak.
77. you already know this if you've read my previous posts, but i have an uncanny aversion to thawing chicken. i hate it with a passion.
76. i look like my dad.
75. i see my mom when i look in the mirror.
74. i have white hair - like not a few... like if i wasn't obsessive about plucking my white hairs, i'm sure you'd notice them.
73. if i could, i would wear my flip flops all year.
72. i have an obsession with coats. all sizes. if it's cute and it's for a toddler, i will find a toddler to buy it for.
71. i really like clocks. not lame clocks (except the egg shaped alarm clock i bought at target that burton absolutely hates), but i love cool clocks. i want to have a clock on enough walls in my home that i merely have to turn my head from any place in my home and know what time it is.
70. ironically, i hate wearing a watch. i don't own a watch.
69. i owned two... count them, two... mickey mouse watches in highschool that sang "it's a small world afterall" when you pressed a particular button. yes... highschool. yes... two. one brown and gold and one black and silver.
68. the clothes in my closet are color coordinated. but i never make my bed.
67. the first concert i ever went to was Weezer and No Doubt in 1997... and it was awesome.
66. the most recent concert i went to was U2... and it was even more awesome.
65. i was the only kid in my 5th grade class to get straight A's and i was ridiculed for it. you can cry for me now. kids are so mean.
64. i have never drank even a drop of alcohol... and i'm canadian... and mormon, so i guess they kind of cancel each other out.
63. i love the snooze button. i LOVED snoozing when i was single. i just enjoyed it... i relished it. but now that i'm married, and i know i'm driving my husband crazy, it's not so fun anymore. but i still do it... every morning.
62. i have never been water-skiing. i've been kneeboarding, wakeboarding, tubing, etc... but never strapped on the skis.
61. i had a song written about me in college and put on a CD that people own. it's weird. but i kinda like it. and my dad cracks jokes about it all the time still.
60. i really like to cook... and i'm pretty good at it too... but curse that frozen chicken that needs to be thawed first!
59. i've cheated (on tests and stuff). a few times. and we'll leave it at that.
58. sometimes i won't kill spiders in my house, because i figure that eventually they'll just go away.
57. i love strawberries... period. pretty much strawberry anything.
56. almond toffee symphony bars... need i say more?
55. i have never been good at sticking to something... piano lessons, the gym, tae-bo, sports... but you know, i really like yoga... and i think i'll actually stick with it. thanks whit.
54. i'm not sweet. but i try to be kind... most of the time.
53. i like to work in the dark. burton will come in the room or the apartment and start singing "batman... da-na-nana-nana-nana".
52. i spent hundreds of dollars in college on textbooks i never read.
51. i was an english major for almost two years and then changed to advertising because i didn't like to read.
50. i have freckles and dimples. the freckles aren't that noticeable for the most part.
49. i love freckles on other people.
48. i have two shades of skin... white and red. there is no such thing as "tan" for moi.
47. i have two crushes other than my husband... johnny depp and jake gyllenhaal.
46. i can't handle background noise. like music or video games through a wall, people talking outside my apartment, car alarms, hammering, tapping, HUMMING and WHISTLING (equally)... and much more.
45. i never want to lose touch with any of my friends. ever. and i miss the ones i never see.
44. i could make myself cry right this very minute if i start to think about the possibility of my dog dying. and i'm going to leave it at that so i don't.
43. i'm the oldest child in my family (of 2) and my brother, mom and dad are all youngest children (well, my mom is second to youngest... but one of the youngest)... and none of us know what it's like to have a sibling of the same gender.
42. i remember birthdays. for some strange reason, they just stick. i remember people's birthdays that i don't even like anymore... the day will come and i'll be like "crap... why do i know this?!"
41. i loved being teachers pet in school... elementary school, highschool, college... you name it. i took pleasure in it.
40. i had a crush on my english teacher in highschool. like the movie "never been kissed" but i wasn't actually old enough like drew barrymore's character ended up being. and we never kissed. very important part of that story.
39. the very first boy i ever kissed (see #91) ended up being gay in highschool and died of a drug overdose. weird.
38. i once applied for a job as a waitress at a place back home just for the summer, and the manager, as part of the interview, asked me to tell a joke. and i did it. and it wasn't funny. and i didn't get the job. does anyone else think that's really lame?
37. i had those posters... you know the ones... the black and white ones of the little kids dressed like adults from the 1920s with flowers that were in color. i shared a room with jess in COLLEGE and had those still. she wanted to kill me. thank you jessica for making me grow up and get rid of them.
36. my favorite color right now is green.
35. my lucky number is 8.
34. i'm a sagittarius.
33. i used to write the horoscopes for my highschool newsletter and i would hear people in the bathroooms saying "oh my gosh! that's SO true!" and i would make fun of them for being so stupid.
32. i used to read the horoscopes in magazines and say "oh my gosh! that's SO true!"
31. my friends and i would play MASH (Mansion, Apartment, Shack, House) to figure out who we were going to marry, how many kids we were going to have, our occupation, the kind of house we would own... and i would put a lot of faith in the positive outcomes.
30. i like using a particular kind of pen.
29. i get homesick for the pacific northwest more than i admit.
28. i had never colored my hair until 2001 when i met kam.
27. my name is finnish, and would be spelled "janeija" if it were spelled the finnish way.
26. i haven't used shaving cream or soap or anything to shave my legs in about 8 or 9 years.
25. i don't have a canadian accent anymore... except for the following words i can't say: flag, bag, tag, vague (probably the hardest one for me to say), and plague.
24. i had 9 volumes of journals when i met melissa and she was so cute and wanted to read them, so i let her... and she read every single one.
23. i'm lazy. when i put my mind to something, i can work my butt off... but deep down, in my heart of hearts... i'm lazy. and it drives me nuts.
22. i really love fly fishing. really. and ALMOST more than i love fly fishing, i love my fly fishing gear... mostly the boots... cause they're cute.
21. i'm an interrupter. i really really hate that i do it, so i really really try really hard not to. but it's a battle i fight and sometimes lose.
20. my knees ache when i get really tired. and my head hurts when i get really hungry. does any of this make sense to you?
19. sometimes i like being sick... it's a good excuse to take a break (see... lazy) and i usually get this sexy raspy voice, which i think is pretty cool.
18. i miss school sometimes. and then i remember making no money and paying to learn useless crap. and i don't miss it anymore.
17. my dad was a DJ when i was a little girl.
16. my dad was also a movie theatre manager when i was a little girl and one week my mom went away to a convention or something and i went with my dad to the theatres all day and watched "back to the beach" about a thousand times (bet you don't even know what that movie is!)
15. i was a faker. (i try really hard not to be a faker anymore). i would call home from school and pretend to be sick so i could come home and veg out (and... lazy).
14. in college, my roommates and i would stay home from school to watch 90210 reruns all day.
13. i can't watch scary movies, or i will literally not be able to close my eyes to wash my face for many months.
12. i watched "the ring"... i can't even talk about it. I GOT A BLOODY NOSE PEOPLE!!!
11. i love the cosby show. burton almost bought me the dvds.
10. i think my dad was right when he said that "paying for your education is an important part of gaining an education"
9. i love sneezing.
8. i love sneezing while driving... it's kind of a scary rush. like, am i going to hit a car while my eyes are closed?
7. john lennon was killed on my 2nd birthday, and i have the same birthday as sinead o'conner and cybil shepard... uh, who?
6. in highschool, i was known as "the mormon girl who wasn't going to have sex til she's married"... fun huh?
5. at a restaurant, if i can have ceaser salad, i will.
4. two words... prom sucks.
3. it's 1:12 AM and i'm still awake writing this post. see... if i put my mind to it...
2. i'm going to love the snooze button tomorrow, for sure.
1. tada!