I saved my 100 things about me and added 36 for my birthday today. It seemed like the perfect tradition to start on my birthday each year.
So here we go, I don't know why I am so scared about posting these... yikes. Be easy on me.

A list of 136 things that make me Kristi Brooke!

1. Peanut Butter and Chocolate Ice cream from Baskin Robbins is my all time favorite ice cream.
2. I have a horrible habit of sticking my finger in my relatives ears when there is wax in there
3. I love being surprised but am rarely surprised
4. I would rather have something old and sentimental than something shiny and new.
5. I detest violence
6. I could come up with 10 things to write about on my blog everyday and like Jill am constantly writing posts in my head.
7. I love reading even though it is difficult for me
8. I am often worried about what others will think of what I do or say
9. I write detailed thank you letters in my head but rarely send them
10. I loved the 80's, I mean LOVED the 80's. I still have all my swatch watches
11. My favorite video game is Millipede
12. I love Mexican food.
13. I love family traditions and believe they heal hearts.
14. I enjoy being barefoot and only own a few pair of socks
15. I retuck my girls in bed after they are asleep and whisper "I love you" in their ears even though they don't hear me or will ever remember.
16. I use liquid Tide with Febreeze, fabric softener, and bleach (not colors) in every load and a dryer sheet in the dryer. I love smelly laundry.
17. I bring out the worst in people
18. I bring out the best in people
19. I could work on my spelling skills
20. I dream of going to my Laurels weddings in the temple from when I was Young Women's President
21. I currently bite my fingers nails and I hope this is not on my list next year. It is a horrible habit
22. I have a hard time concentrating
23. What number am I on?
24. I have a very embarrassing sneeze. I sneeze at least 7 -10 times and it sounds like a mouse
25. My mind is constantly thinking of things. One day I told my friend that my head hurts all the time from all the ideas it has.
26. I sleep like a pretzel
27. I am a sheet snob - thread count must be 400 or higher (this only applies to my own bed not when I visit you)
28. This was my piggy bank when I was a little girl.
    
29. I only used white towels in my home because I love to bleach them
30. Ihave lived in Montana, New Mexico, Utah, North Dakota, South Dakota, Minnesota, Wyoming, Louisiana, Tennessee and Maryland. 17 years of those were in New Mexico.
31. I have serious cell phone issues and don't like using them. My average minutes used per month is 50. I would lose a lot of friends if I told you how I really feel.
32. In college I majored in Fashion Merchandising, Communications & American History... I graduated in nothing.
33. I served a mission for my church in Rapid City, South Dakota. Which included 6 states and was very cold.
34. I learned some incredible lessons while living in New Orleans and made some of my best friends.
    
35. I love gray sweatshirts, but currently do not own one. I am still mad I let Jeff throw my old one away.
36. If I had another child I would want a girl. I would name her Martha, Mary or Frances. If I had a boy it would be Henry or William.
37. I wish I played the piano.
38. I always have some scent burning in my home.
39. I am strongly influence by people. I have often called myself a chameleon, because I feel like I change based on who I am around. Not something I am proud of.
40. I kept a journal in elementary school that I wrote down ideas for when I would be a teacher someday. I often wanted to give my teachers ideas of things they could do to make school fun and exciting. I wish I could find that book.
41. I love the monuments in D.C.
    
42. I cry often and easily. I cry at the end of football games, spelling bees and during parent teacher conferences.
43. I have a difficult understanding the difference between reality and make believe.
44. This list was very easy for me to make
45. I over promise and under deliver
46. I can be good at keeping in touch with people, I sent a wedding invitation to my 4th grade teacher, Mrs. Chalekian.
47. I cried while making this list.
48. I want to get a perm but can't find anyone who will give me one. ( I wonder why?)
49. I have a mole on my belly button, that was removed but grew back.
50. I love sewing for my little girls and dream of their girls wearing the dresses I make.
51. I was my very best the year after my mission, the year before I got married.
52. I love my birthday.
53. I need to work on my relationship with my sister.
54. My heels are always cracked and dry. One day at church a girl sitting next to me said while pointing to my feet. " you can do something about that"
55. A boy in high school told me I needed to wax my upper lip.
56. Friends have told me it is hard to be my friend
57. People feel comfortable telling me things about myself that I should change.
58. I took his advice and wax my upper lip.
59. I buy myself flowers for my anniversary when I know Jeff is too busy to do so.
60. I am a good public speaker and enjoy it
61. I talk way too much. I always feel like people are trying to get off the phone with me and I am trying to stay on.
62. I love anything pink, monogrammed or from a garage sale. (photo of phone I bought at a garage sale and spray painted pink)
    
63. I suffer from depression and work very hard to make myself happy everyday.
64. I don't brush my teeth long enough, I am always in a hurry.
65. I can do anything I put my mind to.
66. I went to college with three goals. To work at the GAP, drive a Jetta and be an EFY counselor. I did all three. Too bad my goal was not to graduate from college.
    
67. I love serving in my church.
68. I met my best friend in 4th grade.
69. I still sit in any room and think my husband is the best looking in the room.
70. I loved going to girls camp
71. The first few years of marriage were very hard for me.
72. I have a very difficult time sleeping. My brain does not when to stop.
73. I don't enjoy cleaning but love a clean house.
74. Loving my little brothers has always been very easy for me - I believe it is a gift.
75. I dream of new business's that I could start all the time. I have a great one right now and the logo is oh so cute.
76. I still miss all my neighbors in TN. Does life get better than that?
    
77. I dream of being on the Today show someday talking about a book I write.
78. I get giddy when listening to country music, I didn't like it until we moved to Nashville.
79. I would love to be in a Broadway musical and I think I would do a great job except I can't sing and dance.
80. I am very different today than I was 10 years ago.
81. My theme of the year is, "Easy to please and hard to offend"
82. I was told once that I don't share my talents. it hurt my heart. see #53
83. I have learned to lower my expectations. It has made a world of difference
84. I started my own stationery homemade purse business while Jeff was in school. It was called Pockets & Posies.
85. My friend Mindy taught me how to quilt. It changed my life. (Photo above the first quilt she taught me how to make in 1998)
    
86. My friend Jill taught me how to blog. It changed my life.
87. My friend Stacy taught me a bit about typography and it has made all the difference.
    
88. I love feel good movies like Hoosiers, The Rookie and Invincible.
    
89. I Google at least 10 things a day
90. I get teary when I think of the civil war.
91. When I hear of children in other countries who suffer I want to bring one home.
92. I make friends easily but feel I disappoint them in the end.
93. I love catalogs of all kinds
94. I love the ribbon outlet and wish I could take everyone I know there.
95. I love southern sewing stores that teach the fine art of sewing, smocking and handmade piping.
96. When I get older I want to have silver hair in a cute, thick bob with a white streak in front.
97. I have never had alcohol or smoked anything.
98. I feel like I have 4 ears. I can be talking to you and listen to the conversation a few feet away from me. see #21
99. I don't buy a lot of clothes. I have two dresses I wear to church and special events.
100. If I could buy a whole new wardrobe it would be from Lands End.
101. I am a people watcher.
102. I sent President George Bush a Christmas card this year.
103. I fell in love with my husband at first sight and carried this photo of him with me my entire mission. ( I was kind of a stalker) When he saw me again after three years he didn't remember my name.
     
104. I do not spend the time to proofread.
105. I have a fear I will die young and think too much about it.
106. If I went back to school I would be a graphic designer.
     
107. I know Emily Davis.
108. I love my mom and dad and they love me.
109. I have a gift of seeing and feeling the needs of others
110. I wish I followed through with #106 more often
111. I love to garden, work in the dirt and watch things grow.
112. I love home grown tomatoes with salt. I could eat 10 a day.
113. I would let Jeff pick out all my clothes, he does a much better job than me.
114. I have a strong testimony of Jesus Christ.
115. I can tell the difference between 80 lb and 100 paper in seconds.
116. The one thing I love more than touching fabric in a fabric store is watching my daughter do it. She does not know why she does it yet, just that she has watched me do it.
117. I believe in eating raw eggs.
118. I love chocolate chip cookie dough.
     
119. I wear a size 11.5 tennis shoe
120. I love using the computer.
121. I used to work for Rubberstampede.
     
122. I have never called 911.
123. I get scared very easily
124. I have not sent out all my Christmas cards, but have already ordered them for next year, they are printed and ready to go. (no more post Christmas guilt)
125. I love all the freckles on my arms.
126. I have probably own 20 pairs of scissors.
     
127. I have 3 sewing machines.
128. I feel like I have good luck and always get a good parking spot.
129. I get bored in most movies.
130. I want to someday run a marathon(oh I can't believe i publicly announced that)
131. We called my Dad's mom Nona
     
132. I love Disneyworld
133. Because of the Good Mail concept I now own a postal scale.
134. Being a Mom is hard for me and easy for me.
     
135. Being Jeff's wife is awesome
     
136. Being true to Me is important... to me!

36 Here I come!