My 100 list

My cousin, Julie, has been encouraging me to make a 100 list for my blog. That was about the time that I started this blog, and haven't gotten around to it... until now. So here goes:

1. As a child, I was very shy. There were some days at school where I would not say a single word to anyone.
2. People don't believe that when I tell them. Probably because I never quit talking.
3. We moved a lot when I was a child. I have lived in West Jordan, Pennsylvania, Georgia, Clinton, Syracuse, Logan, Taiwan, and now I'm back in West Jordan.
4. I have been caught in quicksand twice. Both times were in the lake near my house in Georgia.
5. I'm a band geek. I played the clarinet and contra-alto clarinet in junior high and high school.
6. I wasn't ever very good, even though I really liked it. Probably because I never practiced.
7. I tutored children with autism in high school and college.
8. I get really passionate about teaching. It's a little out of control sometimes.
9. I speak Mandarin Chinese.
10. I served my mission in Taiwan, and I really love that place.
11. I am the second of six children.
12. My brother Nathan was my best friend growing up. We were such good friends that as a three year old, I was planning on marrying him. (Luckily, I've changed my mind:)
13. My brother Ian is now my best friend.
14. I am afraid of a lot of things, including heights and balls flying at me.
15. Even though I'm afraid of heights, I have been cliff jumping one time.
16 I graduated from Utah State University with a dual major in early childhood education and early childhood special education.
17. I graduated summa cum laude, which I didn't even know until I got to my own graduation.
18. I love to go dutch ovening up the canyon.
19. I own my own dutch oven. I only know how to make cobbler and that's all.
20. I love chocolate, and I love milk... my two great loves in life.
21. I really love warm, comfy sweaters.
22. I love to go swing dancing. That's big band swing, not country swing.
23. When I was in junior high school, I would force myself to ask the young men to dance, even though I was shy then.
24. Sometimes they said no.... but I figure that's probably only because I was a foot taller than them with buck teeth.
25. I like to bake, and I have gotten so much better over the years!
26. I never did figure out how I managed to fail, "Never Fail Fudge."
27. I like to sew and I have sewn most of my own skirts.
28. I usually sew pajama pants for all of my brothers and sisters at Christmas time.
29. I am a home body. I love to be at home, doing things with my family or friends. I prefer eating meals at home with my family instead of going out to eat.
30. I like having my mom at home. I'm 24 and I don't even live at home, but for some reason, I feel more secure when I know she's at home.
31. I'm a little Chinese. The Chinese people really love things when they are shufu and fang bian (meaning comfortable and convenient.) Me too!
32. When I was a junior in college, I bought a stuffed green frog for a class I was taking. It was really soft and I named it Flops.
33. I sleep better when I'm holding it.
34. I considered taking Flops on my mission, but I didn't. I missed that silly frog the whole time I was gone!
35. I have only had two boyfriends in my life. Curiously, they both had the same birthday.
36. I like to cross-stitch. I am currently working on a cross-stitch that will probably take the next ten years to complete.
37. There is a woman in Taiwan that prays every night that I will find a man to marry.
38. I took a semester of sign language, and three years of Spanish, but I can no longer use either language...just Chinese.
39. My favorite constellation is Orion.
40. When I was in high school, I covered my entire ceiling with little glow-in-the-dark stars. I even put up my own constellations, including the female version of Orion (she had a skirt.)
41. My bedroom was given away to my little sister, and I totally forgot I had those stars until one night this past summer when my brother and sister-in-law were visiting and I slept in Erin's bed.
42. Those stars brought back a lot of good memories, so I put up glow in the dark stars in my bedroom at my new place.
43. When I was in high school, you could see the Bountiful temple from my bedroom window.
44. I'm still disappointed that they built a house in the way.
45. My favorite temple is the TaiPei temple. My second favorite is the Bountiful temple.
46. As a child, I was a Girl Scout. I sold a lot of cookies.
47. While singing in a Girl Scout Choir at the Cherry Blossom Festival in Georgia, I fainted on top of my sister, Chelsea's, head. I don't know if she ever forgave me for that.
48. I wanted to be a ballerina when I was a little girl.
49. I also always wanted to be a writer.
50. I think I'm a good story teller.
51. I have been skiing exactly 4 times in my life. That's when I broke my leg and gave the sport up for life.
52. My name is Alisa. I've always liked my name. Unfortunately, very few people in this world know how to say that.
53. I have a mortal fear of needles.
54. I hate needles so much that I signed myself up for a research study to have my four impacted wisdom teeth removed while I was awake, just to avoid getting an IV.
55. I get pale and whoozy just talking about needles, blood, and other medical stuff. I am a pansy.
56. My brothers are bigger pansies than I am.
57. I like to wear ear muffs. Chelsea has always been embarrassed for me because of it.
58. As a child, I was obedient to a fault. I really was.
59. As an adult, I'm rather stubborn. I don't like having people tell me what to do. Just ask my Dad.
60. Someday, I'm going to build a house that has higher counter tops, just so that I don't have to bend over so much to do my dishes.
61. I listen to Christmas music out of season.
62. I don't actually have a working radio in my car, so I just sing loudly to myself.
63. In college, my roommates named my computer "Gilbert" and referred to him as my boyfriend. They felt like I needed to get out more.
64. I don't like to eat tofu. That includes when it's baked, broiled, steamed, boiled, fried, and barbecued. Just not a fan.
65. I ate a lot of tofu as a missionary.
66. I pretended to like it-- but I didn't.
67. My car is named Meshach(!!!). Ian helped me name it. We love that car.
68. In college, I drove a 1974 land yacht... I mean, Ford LTD. It would slide if it saw ice, or even thought about it.
69. I have so many cousins that when I moved back to Utah, I took the time to memorize all of their names.
70. I love to go on walks in the rain.
71. I like to go on drives into the canyons or pretty places, just to go driving.
72. I like to go hiking, but I kind of mosy when I hike. Some say I'm lazy, but I say I'd rather enjoy my surroundings than make it to the top.
73. As a child, I really liked to go on walks by myself, just to find my own "secret hide-outs."
74. Nathan and I used to write to each other in code. My favorite one was "code silver."
75. I like to tell my students really, really dumb jokes, just so they'll laugh.
76. I really do love to teach kindergarten.
77. When I was in first grade, there was a little boy that wrote me a love letter every day. Not knowing what to do and distressed about the situation, I wrote him a hate letter. He quit writing the love letters.
78. I still feel kind of guilty about that.
79. When I was in high school, I was really good friends with my ninth grade seminary teacher's family and would hang out at their house.
80. I used to win eating contests in junior high school... and then complain about still being hungry.
81. I got in trouble in school for reading too much.
82. I won't let myself read books during the school year. I lose all sense of time and place and get absolutely nothing done.
83. When I was in seventh grade, I tried to make an adobe brick for a history project. My friend, Danielle helped me. We collected mud and grass from outside and mixed in a pot, before pouring it into a shoe box. We then put it into the oven to "bake."
84. We learned a few things. a. Never put mud mixed with snow in an adobe brick. It gets soggy fast. b. Find out the origin of the mud. If the construction site used to be a cow pasture, don't touch. c. If you forget the aforementioned rules, avoid your mother for awhile.
85. I once performed in a play where I played the part of Romeo.
86. I do not like games where balls come flying at me. That includes most sports.
87. A friend once told me while playing volleyball that I would be great at karate... I had mastered the art of avoiding the enemy.
88. I'm a good swimmer.
89. There are no balls in swimming.
90. When I was in sixth grade, my mother went on strike. She wasn't going to cook breakfast for us anymore. I tried to make breakfast for my family. I made pancakes, but I cooked them at too high of a temperature, and so they were gooey inside. I just told my brother and sister to put m&m's on the top and eat them anyway.
91. As a child, I loved to play school. I was always the teacher, and Chelsea was my student. I don't know if she's forgiven me for that yet.
92. I loved to play with dolls as a little girl.
93. Chelsea's favorite doll had only one arm and was named, "Beep Beep."
94. As a little girl, my grandpa taught me how to idiot stitch. It's called that because, "any idiot can do it." If you want to know how, I'm offering lessons.
95. I like to ice skate, even though I can hardly stay on my own two feet. I learned how to skate backwards once too.
96. I know a lot of children's songs.
97. I taught myself how to type in ninth grade. I can type about 80 wpm.
98. I'm trying to learn to read Chinese.
99. I had really long hair as a child that went down to my waist.
100. I've always loved tulips.