One Hundred

I have been anticipating our 100th post on this blog for a while now.  I have been watching the count closely for the moment when we would finally reach 100.  The numbers have been creeping up slowly as we have continued to post, and the blog's count finally informed me that my last post was number 99.  I was so excited that I could finally post my special 100th post.  But the next time I logged in, it told me we had actually posted 103 times.  I don't know why the count has been off all along and then it decided to correct itself right then, but what happens happens. So here's is what was supposed to be the 100th post (actually the 104th).

100 things about Zack that you may or may not already know:

1- He does not like belly buttons.  He thinks we shouldn't have them.

2- He plays percussion.

3- He is in the Penn band.

4- He always likes to wear shoes, even when he's at home.

5- He never buys new shoes until he absolutely has to.

6- He is very difficult to shop for.

7- He sleeps very properly- on his back with his mouth shut and his hands folded over his chest. It almost looks like someone laying in a casket at a viewing.

8- He always says he isn't even going to be the favorite Zack in the family (my sister is marrying a Zachary in June).

9- He hates folding laundry.

10- He cooks nearly every night.

11- He is good at cooking.

12- He has a talent for expressing himself, especially through writing.

13- He loves Raisin Bran Crunch.

14- He is a good driver.

15- He loves newspapers (good newspapers, that is)

16- He serves as the bishop's secretary even though he's so busy already.

17- He would be happy to stay in Philly forever.

18- He can brush his teeth for a long time without spitting.  He'll just sit on the couch watching TV or play around on his computer for ages.

19- He paces a lot.

20- He does not like to make plans horribly in advance because then they often fail (or need to be switched around).

21- He lost a box of books when we moved to Philly that he still laments over a lot.

22- He has short little fingers.

23- He finds time to be up to date on a variety of current events despite how busy he is.

24- He likes his underwear tops and bottoms to be roughly the same age (or in the same shape).

25- He has an extensive baseball card collection from when he was a kid.

26- He also has an extensive collection of legos from when he was a kid.

27- He is currently working on applications for grad school.

28- Some top options for grad school included: Illinois, Texas, Drexel.  This list is currently very fluid.

29- He loves the TV show 30 Rock.

30- He eats Macaroni and Cheese with a fork.

31- He loves Macs over PCs (because they are much better of course).

32- He has really long and pretty eyelashes (how come it's always the boys who get those?)

33- He really can't see well without glasses or contacts.

34- His glasses are not harry potter glasses.

35- He is a night owl.

36- He is good at finding deals (we pay $60 a month for both of us to have cell phones with 1000 minutes, unlimited nights after 7 and unlimited weekends and unlimited calls to anyone on Sprint, unlimited texting, and unlimited data usage (internet).  Can anyone beat that?)

37- He makes the phone calls when we need to call someone because I don't like to.

38- He is very assertive on the phone and

39- he is good at getting what he wants.

40- He thinks his toes are shaped funny.

41- He is not easily offended.

42- He wants to work as a research librarian someday

43- or maybe as an archivist.

44- He thinks that all babies/small children hate him.

45- He thinks cell phones are a nuisance/unnecessary.

46- He goes to school full time and 

47- works as many hours a week as Penn will allow.

48- He played the flute for a short time.

49- He is a University of Utah fan (go Utes!).

50- He loves the Cubs too.

51- He has a special place in his heart for the Phillies even though the Cubs will always be #1.

52- He thinks being cold is all psychological.

53- He used to run a lot until his knees gave out.

54- He was Sterling Scholar in English in high school and

55- also editor of the newspaper in high school.

56- In high school, he led a movement to get our senior class to donate our class gift to charity (after paying off debts from former years).

57- He won in every sense- but the school still decided on a electronic sign for the outside of the school, which several classes after ours ended up paying for (because they had no choice. What a gift, eh?).

58- He speaks Spanish fluently.

59- He went to the orthodontist as a kid and

60- had braces.

61- He clips his fingernails and toenails way too short.

62- He has a scar under his chin from a bike accident as a child and

63- he nearly bit his tongue off in said accident.

64- His tongue is fine today.

65- He hates doctors (no offense to any doctors out there).

66- He has never been out of the country (unless you count the Netherlands embassy in Washington DC).

67- He sometimes takes off his wedding ring and tosses it around.

68- He helped our marriage survive nursing school (probably all on his own).

69- He graduates in May.

70- He wanted to kiss me on our first official date but I didn't allow for an opportunity to do so.

71- His friend rear ended him on that date.  No cars were damaged.

72- We first kissed about 3 months after that.

73- I was the first person he kissed..

74- I am the only person he has kissed (cute huh)

75- He took me to the prom junior and senior years of high school.

76- He does not like to go on bridges or boats over water, although it has gotten much better. 

77- He served his mission in Dallas, Texas.

78- He was originally called to Venezuela but had some visa problems.

79- All American missionaries were pulled out of Venezuela part way through his mission so he would've ended up somewhere else anyway.

80- He often entertains himself during sacrament meeting by trying to write just like the font on the program (ok, ok I do it too).

81- This past week, he wrote our tithing slip in Serif font.

82- He always lets me wear his suit jacket during church because it's freezing.

83- He has gotten a speeding ticket before (rebel).

84- It happened on Bangerter Highway (in Salt Lake).

85- He hates Bangerter Highway, and not just because of that speeding ticket.  

86- Our parents live straight down Bangerter Highway from each other (also not why he hates it).

87- He often snags his socks on the nails in our wood floors.  It really annoys him.  It has led to many ruined socks.

88- He gives really good gifts.

89- He loves me a whole lot.

90- He gets good grades in school.

91- He was ranked 7th in our high school class (It was a pretty big class with 300-something people).

92- I'm almost like a New jersey girl because I pretty much never pump gas.  Zack always does it.

93- His birthday is one day before his dad's birthday.

94- He keeps mugs in the freezer so he can have a frosted mug of soda whenever he feels like it.

95- He decided to come to Utah from Penn for spring break one year so he could ask me to marry him.

96- He does not snore, even when he's sick.

97- He sat through a Rascal Flatts concert with me- that's love.

98- He let me decorate our bathroom in pink when we first moved here.

99- He gets sunburned on this one spot on his forehead, even with sunblock on.  That's often the only spot that gets burned.

100- HE IS SO AWESOME!