I guess it's about time I got around to doing one of these.

1. I am older than you think.
2. I grew up in Iowa.
3. I attended the University of Northern Iowa.
4. I didn't graduate. Art Major, German Minor, didn't want to be a teacher.
5. I should have been a farmer's wife. Instead I was a sorta cowgirl.
6. I lived in town, but had a pony or a horse beginning in 4th grade.
7. My father's family had a farm, 300 plus acres. Raised Reg. Aberdeen Angus.
8. My Mom's family had cabins at Holiday lake.
9. I detasseled corn every summer or drove the machine holding detasselers.
10. My family spent 2 weeks in Canada every August.
11. Because my dad thought Iowa was hot.
12. My father died when he was 48.

13. I live in Texas, have since 1980. I knew no one here.
14. I moved here after the longest streak of 100+ degree weather in Texas History.
15. I worked the stripping chute for Blackwood Rodeo Schools. For Free
16. Met my now ex-husband there. He rode bareback broncs. Zing Zing goes the rowels.
17. I am a single mom. Update: Empty Nest. Sigh
18. I was married for 4 years before my daughter was born.
19. I was divorced 7 years after she was born.
20. In between those years, we lived in an apt., on 2 dairies, a mobile home,suburban house,and currently my little farm. Update: Farm is for sale
21. I milked cows, eartagged, kept records,bottle fed the calves, etc...
22. If the owner of the dairy wasn't such a jerk I would still live there.
23. Oh, wait he is in jail for having a meth lab at a different farm house.
24. We had no clue.
25. A tornado destroyed the mobile home in 1993.
26. While we were home.
27. I bought and sold the suburban house myself without a realtor.
28. I bought my little farm without a Realtor, too.
27. We moved in, June of 1994.
28. We had rented the barn and pasture for 5 years prior to purchase
29. We had moved our boarding stable business there in Jan. 1989.
30. Our daughter was born in Feb. 1989
31. That was my idea of nesting.
32. He moved out in Nov. of 1995.
33. Divorce was final June of 1997.
34. I kept my little farm, despite what others thought. Update: Farm For Sale
35. I have it hard sometimes.
36. I am blessed.

37. I am 5'9" inches tall.
38. I weigh to much.
39. I am a redhead, today.
40. Born a brunette with red highlights.
41. I got my first gray hair when I was 12.
42. I should have stayed a cowgirl. Hippy Chic Cowgirl. Who paints and writes.
43. I would go barefoot all the time if I could.
44. Or wear cowboy boots or flipflops. Update: Crocs are interesting footwear
45. I am an Artist and a wanna be writer. I don't make a living doing either. Yet. Update: I had way to many blogs. Just one now!

46. I love my daughter and I like her most of the time.
47. She gets better everyday, unless her hormones are in play.
48. She keeps me young.
49. She makes me old.
50. I can't wait till she graduates and moves out. Update: Careful what you wish for
51. I can't imagine her not living here. I will probably move with her.
52. I have one brother and one sister.
53. Both younger than me.
54. He's married with 2 daughters.
55. She's not with 2 Westies.
56. My Mom married again in 1995.
57. Art is my step-dad. He's great.

58. I love animals. I want a cat. So do the coyotes.
59. Right now, we have 3 horses, 2 dogs, and a 5 year beta fish. Update: Sold horses, gave dogs away, and fish died
60. Yep, Frankie, the beta fish, is 5 years old. Update: died at 6 years old
61. Apparently the secret to his longevity is dirty water.
62. Mama, our AQHA mare, died when she was 32.
63. That's old for a horse.
64. I have rode a elephant.
65. Tigers were my favorite wild animal.
66. While single I had a Tiger-themed bedroom.
67. I have petted a giraffe.
68. He felt like velvet.
69. I collect giraffes now.

70. I also collected rocks.
71. BIG, heavy rocks.
72. Now I collect seashells and seaglass.
73. And teapots.
74. And interesting pieces of driftwood or cypress.
75. I bought a really neat tree looking one at a estate sale.
76. Now my daughter tells everyone I buy sticks.

77. Some think I collect books and magazines.
78. I only keep Western Horseman, AQHA Journals, Country Living, Martha Stewart, any craft magazine, Mary Englebreit's Home Companion and Coastal Living. And my beloved Victoria. Update: Freecycled all my AQHA Journals and assorted non Western Horseman... 15 boxes of them
79. I have subscriptions to, Coastal Living, ME Home Companion, Martha Stewart. Update: And Victoria!!
80. I do have 100's, if not a least a 1000 or so books.

81. I am a packrat.
82. Not as bad as those seen on Oprah.
83. And the stuff I pack is only stuff I think I can use in an Artsy/Crafty way.
84. Someday. You know like furniture, wood boxes, wooden shapes, fabric, and probably enough stuff for it's own 100 list.

85. I have walked down Washington's monument. A lot of steps! Climbed up and back down the Temple to the Sun in Mexico City. A whole lot more steps!
86. I have rappelled.
87. Hiked to the bottom of the Grand Canyon. Camped for the night then back up to the top, after which I danced the night away with a Park Mule Skinner who had stopped his entire string of mules carrying tourists to ask me to the dance. I had met him a couple days before so not like a total stranger.
88. Been to Canada, Mexico, Belize, Guatemala, and a lot of the USA.
89. Rafted the Rio Grande.
90. I love to travel.
91. I get carsick. Unless I'm driving or in a Pick-Up Truck.
92. I studied German. Three years in High School and 2 years of college because I wanted to go Austria, to see the Spanish Riding School, home of the Lippizans.
93. I can barely remember any German.
94. I would like to visit Australia. And Africa. And Italy. And, oh heck, Everywhere!
95. And Alaska, on a cruise.

96. I love the water. If possible I would be a mermaid. For awhile, maybe longer...
97. I have swam in the Atlantic, Pacific, and the Gulf of Mexico.
98. I would love to live on a coast overlooking the sea. Primitive, lots of hammocks.
99. I could live in a treehouse!
100. Or in the mountains, near a lake. If I won the lottery I would reside in all three.

Well, that wasn't so hard.

Updates: October, 2007

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