1. I am a Sexy Housewife! (No one said I couldn't write the obvious.)


2. I have been married for 17 years.


3. I have 3 children: daughter-18, son-12, daughter-9


4. I have 2 cats.


5. I live in the capitol of a Midwestern State.


6. I love bubble baths!


7. I only use Vanilla products from Bath & Body Works: shower gel, bubble bath, body spray, shampoo, conditioner...my brother-in-law says I smell like fresh baked cookies, the hubby thinks I smell good enough to......well never mind that.


8. It has taken me 10 months to get to my 100th post.


9. I started blogging for all the wrong reasons but I have kept at it because I have met such great people here and I just can't stop now.


10. I am 5 feet 6 inches tall.


11. I have no idea how much I weigh. I last was weighed at the doctor's office about 3 years ago. Then I was a size 14/16 and weighed 186 pounds. Now I am a size 8 and I am guessing I weigh about 130 pounds (that's what my driver's license says anyway).


12. I have dark brown hair with red and blond highlights (and not to cover any grey, thank you very much!)


13. I wear glasses. (Yes, I have that sexy intellectual look.)


14. I am a teacher by trade. I have a Master's Degree in Education.


15. I seem to have quite an aptitude for technology.


16. I like watching football games. (I am secretly glad my son has chosen football over soccer.)


17. I love to sing and I am not half bad.


18. I enjoy gardening and sitting in my back yard.


19. Sadly though, my horrible hayfever makes it hard for me to fully enjoy #18. But I also use me hayfever as an excuse not to cut the grass.


20. I think this is the lamest list of 100 things ever written by anyone.


21. I spent 13 years in parochial school. So now I make sure my children suffer through endure benefit from the same.


22. We go to church almost ever Sunday.


23. Faith and prayer are very important to me.


24. I love to cook. I think a good meal can fix a lot of things.


25. I get irritated with all the people that speed down our street.


26. I understand the need for road construction but it drives me crazy!


27. I like taking short little get-aways with the hubby.


28. I am an avid reader.


29. I like to read suspense, mysteries, some chick-lit.


30. My favorite authors include: Janet Evanovich, Sue Grafton, Mary Higgins Clark, Jodi Picoult, James Patterson, Nelson DeMille, Vince Flynn, and Barry Eisler.


31. I like a lot of different music: Pop, Metal, New Age, Contemporary Christian, and Classical.


32. I cannot stand Country Western (except a few crossover artists) and raunchy Hip Hop.


33. I took flying lessons in high school.


34. I have fired an M-16 and an M-60.


35. I used to want to be an Aerospace Engineer.


36. I still would like to fly with the Blue Angels or the Thunderbirds.


37. I don't like starting so many sentences with "I".


38. I am 38 years old.


39. I will be 39 in August.


40. I am not big into getting gifts.


41. I prefer to spend time with the family.


42. The hubby is 42. (I know, not about me but what are you gonna do about it?)


43. The hubby's book habit is already taking over the new basement.


44. I didn't think I would care too much about having an HD TV, but I think I like it.


45. It bothers me that you can’t get good service at many places now-a-days.


46. I didn’t start drinking coffee until I was 33 years old, now I have to have my Java!


47. I am not artistic.


48. I have no patience for arts and crafts.


49. I like painting walls though.


50. Hey, I'm halfway through the list!


51. I am a descent writer.


52. But blogging is a different kind of writing for me. It is a challenge.


53. I am more comfortable with technical writing in my field (education), spouting research and acronyms and boring drivel that most people are not interested in at all.


54. I can argue any side of an issue, whether I believe what I am saying or not.


55. Number 54 got me through college. I could convincingly write whatever my profs wanted even when I thought it was complete crap.


56. Speaking of college, I changed my major about 6 times.


57. I was Philosophy major for about a year. During which time I took a number of classes where you sat and argued about the meaning of life. I used this opportunity to thoroughly mess with the heads of vulnerable freshman (see #54).


58. One class was particularly fun when the Catholics and the Protestants were arguing about whether or not Mary experienced pain during childbirth.


59. Once I switched to education, I was astounded by the number of wanna-be teachers that could not perform basic math operations. And I am not talking about derivatives and quadratic equations, I mean they couldn’t add, subtract, multiply, or divide.


60. I have too many favorite foods to list.


61. But the following would be near the top: prime rib, lobster tail, walleye, brownies, cheesecake, peanut butter-chocolate Rice Crispy bars.


62. A high school boyfriend once took me to Red Lobster but didn’t realize how expensive it was and didn’t have enough money. Luckily, I had enough that we could have a nice meal. I didn’t mind but he thought this was some sort of failure.


63. I am only a baseball fan when my son is playing.


64. I was a gymnast until the 6th grade. (Once you get boobs it is hard to find leotards that fit right.)


65. I enjoyed playing basketball, soccer, and volleyball in Jr. High.


66. In High School I was a cheerleader.


67. I cheered for football and was the only girl on the squad that understood the game. This came in handy when they wanted to cheer “1st & 10, let’s do it again” while our team was on defense.


68. I also cheered for wrestling and basketball.


69. I was also in the band.


70. “What instrument?” you ask. Um, the drums. Yeah, I rocked. Not your traditional band geek.


71. I was editor of the yearbook staff in high school.


72. I also worked while in high school.


73. In fact, I started working when I was 11 years old.


74. I would babysit, a lot. One summer I was hired to babysit this little girl everyday while mom and dad worked. They paid me $5 an hour!


75. I also had a paper route for a few years.


76. I started waitressing when I was 16.


77. I also worked at a travel agency one summer.


78. Work is where I met the hubby, under the flashing Blue Light at K-Mart.


79. I can’t stand shopping at K-Mart now. Only Target for me.


80. We planned our wedding in about 2 months.


81. And it went off without a hitch.


82. Well, except when our 1- year-old daughter started crying when we recessed out of the church. She thought she was being left behind.


83. I didn’t get my driver’s license until I was 17. I had to pay for the classes myself so I saved up.


84. Another high school boyfriend taught me how to drive a stick.


85. The hubby was thoroughly impressed when we met that I could drive his car (a stick).


86. I swear I am the only one in my house that knows how to change the toilet paper roll.


87. I graduated from high school in 1987.


88. I like to do word search puzzles and Sudoku.


89. I can’t even do the crossword puzzle in the TV Guide, let alone the NY Times.


90. I love logic problems.


91. And I do care when the trains will meet if one leaves Station A at 10 AM traveling east at 60 MPH and the other leaves Station B at 10:25 AM traveling west at 75 MPH and the stations are 250 miles apart.


92. I hate it when people assume you know nothing about cars just because you are a woman.


93. Ditto for technology related issues.


94. I really can’t decide which I like better, Mac or PC. Although the Mac guy in the commercials is cuter.


95. Oh yeah, and why can’t hot girls be good at math?


96. Or science?


97. I really love all the neat blogs I have found to read!


98. I really love all the cool people I have met online!


99. I really hope I can keep blogging for a while. I really didn’t think I would have so many things to blog about.


100. I did it! I freaking finished the list! I hope you weren’t bored to tears!

I know I have been a less than attentive blogger the past few weeks. But trust me, I have more than enough blog material now to last months, maybe even years (no, I can't afford therapy so it is on all of you)! The last time I wrote anything remotely meaningful was during my brush with death on May 16th. You will be happy to hear that I have made a full recovery but not before I attended a concert and served punch at a reception for this year's graduates (I really should not have been near people, let alone serving them drinks).

I was starting to feel better by Wednesday, May 21, not 100% but well enough to feed the children and do a few things around the house to get ready for the upcoming party. That night around 7:30, I was surfing the web and talking to Hubby on the phone (yes, neglecting my children, why to you think we bought the big screen TV?). I have been checking Ikea online periodically to see if they have the furniture I want (that furniture I went to buy in March but they didn't have). I type in the line of furniture I am looking for, I click on the beautiful sideboard picture, then I select my Ikea store and click "Check Stock". And I read, "In Stock...NO" for more than 2 months! Not in stock! So frustrating, I really like it, I love the price, the basement is done, but I have no furniture, the party is soon, what should I do?! But on May 21 I clicked and it said "YES"! Yes, my beautiful sideboard is in stock! I click again to make sure..."YES". I checked store hours, open until 9 PM. Can I do it, should I do it? Still on the phone with Hubby, "Honey, I will talk to you later, I am going to Ikea." He says, "Now?" I say, "Yes, now." I hang up the phone and tell the oldest, "I am going to Ikea, watch the kids, put them to bed in a little bit." She says, "You are going to Ikea now?" I say, "Yes, now. Be back in a bit."

I hopped in the van and toodled over to Ikea, I made the 18 mile trip in 20 minutes and only slightly exceeded the speed limit. I found my sideboard! I paid for my sideboard! I picked up my sideboard and loaded it into my van! (I bought a couple of end tables too.) I came home and made the oldest help me carry the boxes in and down the stairs (she dropped her end of the biggest box so then I dropped my end and broke 3 nails and got a major bruise on my leg!)

I resisted the urge to stay up half the night putting it all together but I did build it on Thursday. And I love it! It is exactly what I wanted!

Memorial Day is more than another 3-day-weekend. It is a time to remember the fine men and women that have fought and continue to fight for the freedom we enjoy in America. Read more about the history of Memorial Day here: http://www.thememorialdaytribute.com/origin-of-memorial-day.html .

I have some suggestions for how to do Mother's Day right at http://iamasexyhousewife.blogspot.com/2008/05/mothers-day-gift-ideas.html. Check it out!

I have noticed a number of people that have music players on their profile page and their blogs. Well, I have joined that group! I have created my playlist and added a pretty pink player to my profile and blog. Most players give you the option of having music play automatically. Do you like when music blasts at you when you load a web page? Or would you rather choose to start the music yourself?

Oh, and BTW, what do you think of my playlist?