Here I am without a job, so you'd think that I'd be updating more regularly, but I am also without the battery charger for our camera that I left in Istanbul. Supposedly they sent it to me 4 weeks ago. I think they must have strapped it to a sea turtle and hoped that it would find its way across the Atlantic, around the tip of Florida and up to Corpus Christi. Maybe I'll have to drive down there and look for it on the beach.
Anyway, since I am the only Mormon male that blogs, I feel weird about doing a post about myself like
everyone else is doing. Instead I thought I would tell you a bunch of things about Kimmie (I may or may not get to 101. Maybe the suspense will keep you reading.)
1. She is the oldest child in the family, and if you ever spend any time with her planning an event you will easily be able to tell.
2. She tried out for cheerleader in junior high and did not make it.
3. She ran for office instead and was secretary (or something).
4. She did make the nationally recognized drill team in high school (which was way cooler than the cheerleaders in our high school, I know that isn't always the case.)
5. We started dating when I was a junior and she was a senior.
6. She asked me out first.
7. She turned 18 while we were dating and I was still 16.
8. She denied me the first time I tried to kiss her.
9. I wanted to die when that happened.
10. Kim waited for me while I served a mission.
11. I'm the only guy she ever kissed (although she made up for it by kissing me A LOT in high school -- not so much anymore)
12. My cousin did try to move in on her when I was on my mission. She thought they were just friends (at least that's the story she is sticking to.)
13. Kim is 5'1 and a half, although she'll tell you she is 5'2''.
14. Kim broke her arm skating on fisher-price skates when she was little.
15. Kim sleeps with her mouth open and her head tilted back
15. We got caught making out by the police on at least three occasions. They always let us go without a hassle when they found out she was older than I am.
16. Kim slept on the same bed her entire life until we got one together. She refers to it as her "taco bed."
17. Like a gas in a beaker, Kim expands to fill any size bed. I get to sleep on 1/2 of a foot on the left side of the bed.
18. She pretty much planned her sister's wedding single handedly.
19. She did plan our wedding single handedly, and it was THE BEST WEDDING EVER!
20. We had crepes and hot apple cider for our fall wedding. They were awesome.
21. I took Kim skiing for the first time when she was a senior in high school. She then took it upon herself to learn, and quickly got to where she could ski down anything.
22. Kim is the most determined person I have ever met.
23. In the same way that Kim expands to fit any size bed, the time it takes her to get ready expands to fit any alloted time. No matter how long she has to get ready, she will be ready 5 minutes after I wanted to leave.
24. Kim is a terrible speller.
25. Kim hates to write.
26. Kim still wrote me (nearly) every week of my mission.
27. Every companion and everyone I ever lived with got to hear all about Kim, how we met, and how much I needed her letters every week.
28. I can't talk Kim into dying her hair dark (5 years and counting)
29. Kim is an incredible mother. I fear that Megan's progress is being impeded by my staying home with her.
30. Kim likes to read, but sometimes it takes her 200 pages before she starts to actually like a book.
31. She is excited to read the new Harry Potter book.
32. Kim is like my own personal travel guide - every time we vacation she buys a book about the place we are going and fills every second of our time with something to do. She is always worried she will miss something.
33. She has been to Hawaii (a million times)
34. Paris
35. London
36. Mexico
37. Peru (as a nurse for 3 weeks in the jungle)
38. The Caribbean
39. The Bahamas
40. Costa Rica
41. Turkey
42. At ZCMI in the eighth grade Kim and her friend were accused of trying to steal bathing suits they had tried on -- and they were forced to strip down and show that they didn't still have them on. When they invent a time machine I will use it to go back and beat the hell out of those security guards.
43. Kim is always working on some craft, sewing, or other project, usually multiple at a time. But I still can't get her to sew a button hole on the shirt I got 6 months ago.
44. She would rather clean than cook.
45. Kim has hypoglycemia and can get pretty scary if she misses a meal.
46. I caught hypoglycemia from her.
47. Kim finished nursing school when I was on my mission and has been supporting me ever since (thanks dear).
48. When we clean together it takes just as long as when I clean alone since Kim always does the things that I would never think to do.
49. She's pretty OCD about cleaning, she often disinfects random objects throughout the house.
50. Sometimes it's nice to have company because it's a guarantee that the house will be made spotless.
51. Our first date was Dec 5, 1997, which means that this December we will have been together for 10 years.
52. On Oct 17th we'll have been married 5 years.
53. Kim is the only person I know who writes everything in cursive. It also looks nothing like most female's handwriting (which usually all looks the same to me).
54. Kim writes lists and inspirational things to herself on random pieces of paper and on random pages of notebooks.
55. Kim has the most beautiful eyes I've ever seen.
56. Kim is incapable of buying a pair of jeans.
57. For a decade Kim bought jeans that were too big for her. It's still a struggle to get her to buy the right size.
58. She will often move my things to a spot where I will never find them again. Some things just disappear altogether. Her things remain in the same place.
59. Kim had a c-section with Megan, since Megan wouldn't turn around. Her head was visible poking out of Kim's side in the same place for the entire pregnancy.
60. Kim was never sick with her pregnancy, and worked right up until the week before she had Megan.
61. Kim likes to take baths, especially when she comes home from work.
62. She always feels like she needs two alarms to get up, but she always wakes up with the first one and I have to turn off the other.
63. Her hairdryer sounds like a jet fighter in our bathroom at 5:00 am.
64. Kim kept her purple and white crocheted baby blanket until after we got married.
65. She told me if I threw it out while she was at work that she would leave me.
66. Kim changed her mind about the first wedding ring we picked out, but was too afraid to tell the guy we ordered it from and made her sister call and pretend to be her.
67. She then went back and bought the first ring we looked at.
68. Her maiden name is McFadden and we had a bagpiper at our wedding reception.
69. Kim makes the best yellow cake chocolate frosting cupcakes of all time.
70. Kim read the entire Work and the Glory series.
71. Kim always thinks she will like chick flicks, but she rarely does.
72. Kim thinks Brad Pitt is real good looking. But she thinks I'm better.
73. She likes back massages, but hates tickling. She will pinch me or do some other big-sisterly thing if I tickle her.
74. Kim had her ears pierced multiple times but took them out after the prophet said she only needed one pair.
75. She won't get a tattoo with me.
76. Kim is very competitive and is always against me when we play board games.
77. She always beats me at bloody knuckles and the hand slapping game.
78. Kim doesn't shop a lot, but when does she will buy something without comparing it to other things just because it costs more. [yes, I formulated this sentence correctly. It doesn't make any more sense when she does it in real life.]
79. She loves her cherry wood bedroom furniture set.
80. That damn bedroom set is the bane of my existence every time we move. It is about as soft as butter and Kim watches it like a hawk.
81. Kim is the nicest friend anyone can have
82. People always like her more than me -- I stand in the way of many possible friendships.
83. Kim got mixed up in the wrong crowd in 6th grade and said the f-word once. She also stayed too late at a quinceañera she went to that year.
84. That's pretty much the only thing that Kim has ever done wrong.
85. Kim's first job was at the snow cone shack in a parking lot of a grocery store.
86. She worked at a silver jewelry store in the mall for a few years.
87. She loves strawberries, and also lemon pepper.
88. Her favorite breakfasts have fried potatoes.
89. Kim wore the prettiest wedding dress ever made.
90. When I went to pick her up for prom she was fighting in the bathroom with her sister and didn't know I was waiting in the living room. She walked down the stairs with no pants on. (Didn't I tell you she was never ready in time?) She just kept on going past me and down into her bedroom. She acted like nothing had happened. It was awesome.
91. Kim motivates me to do everything, without her I would probably be a homeless mendicant.
92. She refuses to clean the lint screen on the dryer -- sometimes when I haven't done laundry in a while there is enough lint on there to make a sweater.
93. Kim can fall asleep anywhere under any conditions if she lays down.
94. Kim misplaces her phone every day.
95. She looks gorgeous in blue. And brown. And pink. and white. And green.
96. Kim doesn't own a scale.
97. No matter how long she has had an article of clothing, she will still look at herself in the mirror and ask me, "Does this look good?" My response will always be, "Yes, it still looks good" unless it gets a hole or a stain or something.
98. Kim will often have conversations with me in her head and then say something totally random to me that only would make sense if I could read her mind.
99. Kim is so beautiful that she still distracts me at stoplights and people honk at me when it turns green.
100. She doesn't know the lyrics to any song ever written. Not even hymns.
101. Kim lets me be whatever I want.
