So, here it is. My 100th post. In honor of this auspicious occasion (ha), I thought I'd jump on the bandwagon and tell you...100 Things You Never Knew You Wanted To Know
About Me...
Enjoy! (And I'm sorry about the spacing--I've tried three times to correct it. Oh well.)
1. My name is Tiffany (duh), but most people call me Tiff.
2. A few people still call me Tiffy, but they’re mostly close relatives who know they can get away with it.
3. I didn’t like my name until a few years ago, but now I’m OK with it.
4. I also like Tiffany merchandise, of which I now have a whopping three items. Hey, it’s a start!
5. I have one brother, who is 14 years older than I am.
6. We are pretty much polar opposites, but I think he’s the funniest guy I’ve ever met.
7. This serves him well in his job, which is as a sportscaster on ESPN.
8. He has known that he wanted to do this since he was a kid. I, on the other hand, have changed my career about 37 times already.
9. This is ironic because I tend to be the plan-ahead, rigid scheduler of the family, while he is a fly-by-the-seat-of-his-pants, last-minute kind of guy.
10. I often wonder where clichés and other phrases like fly-by-the-seat-of-his-pants originated.
11. My husband and I have been married for almost two and a half years.
12. We had a tiny wedding, and I kind of wish it had been even smaller.
13. I am a pretty extreme introvert, but that doesn’t mean I’m shy. It just means I get tired when I have to be around people, especially large numbers of people.
14. This was probably why I was exhausted every day after working with more than 900 students and teachers at American Christian Academy.
16. I still miss seeing a lot of people from ACA, though…and from Alabama in general.
17. I really like living in Fort Worth so far, but I’ve only lived here for a couple of months.
18. If my brother is the funniest guy I’ve ever met, my husband is the nicest guy. Really. He’s just very very nice. :)
19. Jason is also an introvert, but we rarely get tired of being around each other. (Probably because of all of his nice-ness.)
20. Sometimes we do get tired of being around Fred.
21. Even though Fred only weighs 15 pounds and doesn’t verbalize his thoughts, he sort of fills a room.
22. Fred is really spoiled, and, in case you haven’t figured it out, he is our dog.
23. He is a Bichon Frise, which is sort of like a fat poodle.
24. I want to have kids one day, but sometimes I think I would be content with just having dogs.
25. I realize this is kind of peculiar, but I’m OK with that, too.
27. We both worked for the news web site of the College of Communication.
28. Past that, our dating history is complicated, but it all worked out in the end.
29. I majored in journalism at UA.
30. I have worked in journalism in the print, television, radio and Internet sectors, but I liked public radio the best.
31. I still miss journalism occasionally, and I wonder if I will go back to it one day.
32. I think it’s more likely that I will get my PhD in something or other.
34. This program was in the College of Communication and Information Sciences, and I always get confused about which was Studies and which was Sciences.
35. I was always much more conservative than my classmates in both journalism and library school, but I was/am more liberal than most people both at ACA and at Southwestern.
36. Even though I want to get my PhD someday, I hate it when people are academically snooty.
37. Make that snooty in general.
38. I struggle with materialism, but only in certain respects.
39. For example, I am totally OK living in a tiny apartment and sharing a Honda with Jason, but I want to spend all of our money on Kate Spade shoes and Coach bags.
40. God is working on me in this area.
41. Actually, He is working on me in a lot of areas, and I’m really thankful for that…even if the process is painful at times.
42. I officially became a Christian when I was 10 years old, but I recommitted my life to Christ when I was 24. These decisions are equally big to me.
43. I grew up in the Church of Christ, but now I attend a Baptist church.
44. This is a small difference to most of the world, but it was a huge difference to my family.
45. I now just feel like a “Christian,” and I don’t really feel like I fit in with any particular denomination.
46. I used to feel like I fit in with the Republican party, but then they started spending more money than they were bringing in.
47. I have enough problems with that in my own finances, and I think the government should set a better example.
48. My husband almost never talks about his political beliefs.
49. I almost never cry.
50. Some people think that I can be cold and stand-offish, but I’m really just kinda slow to get to know people.
51. This is odd because I’m super fast at most everything else (reading, typing, driving, working…most everything).
52. I hope that didn’t sound like bragging.
53. One thing I cannot do well is decorate. My house is clean, but not that snazzy.
54. My mother was a fantastic decorator, and she had no formal training.
55. On the other hand, I like to cook, and she did not.
56. These differences could go on and on. Other than being freakishly clean, we are not anything alike.
57. My dad and I are very much alike. We have the same (Myers-Briggs) ISTJ personality type.
58. All this knowledge about personality types would have come in super-handy when I was growing up, but I’ll settle for it helping me better understand people now.
59. My mom passed away almost five years ago.
60. I miss her every single day.
61. This is the worst thing I’ve experienced in my life, but since then I’ve been trying to help others who have gone through the same thing. I’m not sure how successful I’ve been, but I plan to keep trying to help.
62. One thing I inherited from both my parents was an unnatural obsession with coffee.
63. I drink way, way…way too much…and now I’ve corrupted my husband.
64. Oh well. It’s not a bad obsession to have.
65. I wouldn’t call it an obsession, but right now I do have a little crush on the new Mac.
66. I still have (and use) my first electric typewriter from almost 20 years ago.
67. I also have, in our teeny-tiny apartment, my piano because I just can’t part with it.
68. I have been playing the piano since I was seven years old.
69. I do play a little almost every day, but I would love to still be able to sit down for an hour and just fly.
70. My husband refuses to fly on an airplane.
71. This makes it difficult when we go see family in Connecticut and have to drive for two days with a 15-pound Bichon in a Honda Accord.
72. Actually, it’s not that bad. We have a lot of fun on vacations together.
73. We also have fun watching television together, but we probably watch too much of it.
74. We’re both crazy about The Dick Van Dyke Show…as well as Smallville and now Heroes. I personally also loved Gilmore Girls, The Doris Day Show and Felicity.
75. Now that Blockbuster has the “send the DVDs right to your house” plan, our TV problem has grown exponentially.
76. I probably have too many favorite movies to name, but tops on my list would be Breakfast at Tiffany’s, The Godfather, Amelie and You’ve Got Mail.
77. I also love just about every kind of music. Lately, though, I listen to a lot of Christian rock music…because it’s gotten much better since when I was growing up.
78. I am a really heavy sleeper. Sometimes I think I scare Jason.
79. I also talk in my sleep…but not nearly as much as I did when I was a kid.
80. I still have scars all over the place from when I was an accident-prone kid.
81. The most notable is the piece of lead still stuck in my knee from the pencil I jabbed in there (on accident).
82. I started reading when I was three years old, and I haven’t really stopped since.
83. I have always read pretty much anything I can get my hands on…newspapers, encyclopedias, dictionaries and plain ol’ books.
84. I usually have a stack of current books I’m reading as well as a stack of what I’ll be reading next.
85. Because it’s too hard to name favorites, I’ll just say that the first novel I read was Little Women. The book that had the most impact on me was probably Mere Christianity, but that’s a tough call, too. I also try to re-read To Kill a Mockingbird every year. I’m going to get carried away if I don’t stop.
86. I was a head taller than every other kid in my class until about the 8th grade. Then they all started growing, and I stopped…at almost 5’3”…where I remain today.
87. I really, really wish I was tall. Like six feet tall.
88. I am a morning person.
89. I get my Bible study time, my walk/exercise, a good bit of prayer and my shower before 7 a.m. Sometimes even on the weekends! After work, though, I do nothing.
90. I used to run daily and even trained for a half-marathon.
91. Now the asthma from my childhood days has returned, and I’m back to walking.
92. I have finally stopped feeling guilty about this.
93. I do still feel guilty when I eat Little Debbies.
94. I wish it could be as easy for me to “believe God” as it is to “believe in God.”
95. If you don’t understand that last statement, read Beth Moore’s book Believing God.
96. I also wish my life looked more like Christ’s.
97. When I really think about what his life looked like and the changes I would have to make, I get excited and frightened at the same time.
98. To learn more about what Jesus’s life looked like, read The Bible as well as The Jesus I Never Knew by Phillip Yancey.
99. I can finally and honestly say that God is in control of my life, and I want my life to be all about Him.
100. I am so excited to see what He does in our life at seminary and where He takes us after that.
OK, the end!
