50 Things about Me

1. I want to run one marathon in my life
2. I’ve quit drinking diet coke more times that I can count
3. I still drink one diet coke a day
4. We pay cash for everything we buy
5. If we don’t have the cash, we can’t buy it
6. We are working hard to pay down our debt
7. I have two kids
8. I’m vegetarian
9. I’m in a book club
10. I’ve only run with other people once in the last 12 years (other than races)
11. I went on my first cruise over the summer
12. The only time I ran with other people was in the morning before we got on the cruise
13. I listen to country music
14. I prefer to listen to 80’s hair bands over country when I run
15. I haven’t had a fulltime job in over six years
16. I love being a stay-at-home-mom
17. I miss the intellectual stimulation of a job
18. ADP has gotten a discount on his running shoes because of paying cash (and asking for a discount)
19. I’m jealous of ADP’s discount on his shoes
20. I love winter
21. I learned how to drive a manual transmission in a Porsche
22. I love gardening
23. I’m disappointed in my veggie garden this year
24. I don’t like biking
25. I used to be in a swim club (we didn’t have a swim team at my school)
26. I’m a slow swimmer, but I loved it
27. I changed my last name when I got married
28. People can’t pronounce my married name
29. I had a bellybutton ring
30. I took the ring out because it wouldn’t heal
31. I have no food allergies
32. I dated the captain of the football team in high school
33. I dated a business/econ major in college
34. I married a chemist in graduate school
35. I’m a chemist
36. No, we didn’t meet in lab
37. It is hard to come up with 50 things about myself
38. I’ve only read one book about running
39. I love getting Runner’s World magazine
40. I read it cover to cover the day it comes in the mail
41. I hope running will help keep my knees from failing when I get older
42. I plan to run the rest of my life
43. My hope is that I eventually get fast enough so I can go on a run with ADP
44. 'Fast enough' is so that I don’t feel like I’m slowing ADP down a lot
45. I’m in awe of my SIL who runs and was/is a high school cross country coach
46. The problem with running is that I don’t like the way I look without make-up on
47. I can’t run with make-up on
48. I have run on and off for 12 years (took time off to have kids)
49. Until I ran a half-marathon I didn’t consider myself a runner
50. I want to run four longer races in 2010