{"id":668,"date":"2019-03-14T20:20:33","date_gmt":"2019-03-15T00:20:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robinrking.com\/?p=668"},"modified":"2019-03-14T20:21:59","modified_gmt":"2019-03-15T00:21:59","slug":"102-things-about-me-updated-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robinrking.com\/?p=668","title":{"rendered":"103 Things About Me – Updated 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\t
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  1. I read the (digital) newspaper every day while I eat my breakfast.<\/li>\n
  2. Breakfast always includes a bagel and something else, which changes frequently.<\/li>\n
  3. I taught myself to type on a manual typewriter with a 1950’s textbook.<\/li>\n
  4. I am addicted to Rice Krispie Treats.<\/li>\n
  5. I’ve lived in Durham all my life except for one year in Chapel Hill and 2 weeks in Greenville, NC<\/li>\n
  6. I went to ECU for 2 weeks.<\/li>\n
  7. I like Marshmallow Peeps best if they are just a little dried out.<\/li>\n
  8. I floss my teeth every night-I mean EVERY night.<\/li>\n
  9. I was born with a heart defect-bicuspid aortic valve and had open heart surgery in 2014 to replace my aortic valve and repair an aortic aneurysm.<\/li>\n
  10. I taught aerobics for over 20 years<\/li>\n
  11. I once met a real hero – Jesse Owens, and I have his autograph.<\/li>\n
  12. I worked as a “Steerette” at Golden Corral in high school.<\/li>\n
  13. I was kissed by Buddy Hackett while working as a Steerette at Golden Corral in high school.<\/li>\n
  14. I’ve always pulled for NC State-NEVER any other team.<\/li>\n
  15. I was saved in 1973 at a Billy Graham Crusade in Carter Finley Stadium.<\/li>\n
  16. I almost choked to death in a swing set accident when very young.<\/li>\n
  17. I fell in the bathtub and split my chin when I was 3.<\/li>\n
  18. I got chicken pox when I was 26.<\/li>\n
  19. My first dog was named Shep, my second dog was named Shep.<\/li>\n
  20. My favorite color is orange- the happy color.<\/li>\n
  21. I am an introvert\/ambivert.<\/li>\n
  22. I like to speak in front of people and most of the time it doesn’t make me nervous.<\/li>\n
  23. I am fiercely loyal to my family and friends and I expect them to be loyal to me.<\/li>\n
  24. My favorite Bible passage is Job 19:25-27<\/li>\n
  25. My favorite book of the Bible is 1 Thessalonians. Jesus IS coming back!<\/li>\n
  26. My favorite hymn is Be Thou My Vision.<\/li>\n
  27. My favorite Bible character is Rahab.<\/li>\n
  28. I can live without meat but not without bread and pasta.<\/li>\n
  29. My favorite book series as an adult is the Mitford Series by Jan Karon.<\/li>\n
  30. My favorite book series as a child was the Betsy-Tacy books by Maud Hart Lovelace.<\/li>\n
  31. I don’t watch much TV but when I do I watch old TV shows and House Hunters.<\/li>\n
  32. My favorite movie is You’ve Got Mail.<\/li>\n
  33. I cried every day for the first half of 1st grade. Poor Mrs. Moore.<\/li>\n
  34. Both elementary schools I attended no longer stand – Hillandale was torn down and a new one built; Bragtown 6th Grade Center burned down.<\/li>\n
  35. I’ve had foot surgery my right foot, knee surgery on my right knee, and 2 cortisone injections in my right elbow and in my left foot.<\/li>\n
  36. I have a bowl of cereal every night before bed.<\/li>\n
  37. I am very schedule\/routine oriented and don’t like quick changes or surprises. I just don’t like change.<\/li>\n
  38. I’ve had the same hairdresser for 29 years.<\/li>\n
  39. My favorite place to visit is Israel-I’ve been there twice.<\/li>\n
  40. I was on the Dance Team in high school.<\/li>\n
  41. Unmade beds drive me crazy, I make the bed EVERY day.<\/li>\n
  42. I like my music loud!<\/li>\n
  43. Coke not Pepsi. But not very often.<\/li>\n
  44. I don’t like or drink coffee AT ALL.<\/li>\n
  45. I love unsweet iced tea. ( I know, why bother?!)<\/li>\n
  46. I climbed Mount Sinai in Egypt.<\/li>\n
  47. I slept on the floor of a bus through the country of Jordan-I was sick.<\/li>\n
  48. I was baptized in the Jordan River in Israel.<\/li>\n
  49. I’ve been to the Great Pyramids of Giza, Egypt.<\/li>\n
  50. I’ve sailed on the Sea of Galilee.<\/li>\n
  51. I stood at the Eastern Gate in Jerusalem.<\/li>\n
  52. I swam in the Dead Sea. Yes, you really do float.<\/li>\n
  53. I’ve been to Mount Rushmore.<\/li>\n
  54. I’ve seen the Badlands.<\/li>\n
  55. I’m still friends with my first best friend and we attend the same Bible Study every Monday night.<\/li>\n
  56. I love LeSeur Small Early Peas. Yep, it’s true.<\/li>\n
  57. I can’t sit still for long.<\/li>\n
  58. I love yellow sweetheart roses.<\/li>\n
  59. But I also like daisies. “The happy flower”.<\/li>\n
  60. My family drove across the US to North Dakota when I was in the 6th grade, in a 70’s Buick Electra 225 -3 men in the front seat, 3 women in the back seat.<\/li>\n
  61. I still keep in touch with a pen pal from 1977- She became my friend. I was in her wedding and she was in mine.<\/li>\n
  62. My first plane ride was when I was 19. I flew to New York to meet my pen pal. (see #61)<\/li>\n
  63. Spiders don’t bother me but insects that hop do.<\/li>\n
  64. Frogs gross me out.<\/li>\n
  65. I always pause and say “awwww” when I see a bunny rabbit.<\/li>\n
  66. I think opossums are the cutest!<\/li>\n
  67. My thumb is not green.<\/li>\n
  68. There were 4 girls with the name Robin in my 4th-grade class.<\/li>\n
  69. I don’t play any musical instrument. My mother tried to teach me to play the piano but…(see #57).<\/li>\n
  70. Asymmetry bothers me.<\/li>\n
  71. The first election I voted in, I voted for Ronald Reagan. I would do it again.<\/li>\n
  72. Southpoint Mall is my happy place. So is Harris Teeter.<\/li>\n
  73. The older I get, the more I like birds. (outside birds, not inside in a cage)<\/li>\n
  74. Thunderstorms and lightning still frighten me.<\/li>\n
  75. I have a pink toolbox. It has a roll of duct tape in it. Of course.<\/li>\n
  76. The hardest thing I have ever done is start a new job after 24 years at my old one.<\/li>\n
  77. The movie “Brian’s Song” still makes me sob. “Marley and Me” comes a close second on the sob scale. Don’t even ask me about “Hochi”.<\/li>\n
  78. I drove a ’74 Yellow Chevy Vega my senior year of High School.<\/li>\n
  79. My favorite subject in school was Social Studies\/History and I. Don’t. Do. Math.<\/li>\n
  80. I am an organ donor. Aren’t you?<\/li>\n
  81. My first trip to Washington, DC was in 2006. I was 42 years old.<\/li>\n
  82. One of my biggest “pet peeves” is paying at the pump to get gas and then having to go inside to get the receipt.<\/li>\n
  83. It bugs me when someone is nice to me one day and then acts like they don’t know me the next.<\/li>\n
  84. “Fake” people and “hiney-kissers” bug me.<\/li>\n
  85. If I could have a “do over”, I would not have wasted so much time on things that don’t matter and spent more time pursuing God’s calling for me.<\/li>\n
  86. I rode a camel. Twice.<\/li>\n
  87. I’ve never been on a horse.<\/li>\n
  88. I get out of sorts when my house is out of sorts.<\/li>\n
  89. Tick bites always result in a doctor’s visit.<\/li>\n
  90. I am normally not a “cryer”. I have a friend that teasingly calls me “Hard-Hearted Hannah” but that seems to be changing as I hit the “change”.<\/li>\n
  91. I am a side-sleeper.<\/li>\n
  92. I once had burgundy hair.<\/li>\n
  93. I held 4 jobs at one time-1 full time and 3 part-time. 3 of those jobs required me to wear a leotard and tights. Of course, I was single at the time.<\/li>\n
  94. I was the “baby” of the family growing up.<\/li>\n
  95. I always said I would never have my wedding in the summer. I got married on August 29, 1987. Never say never.<\/li>\n
  96. I took dance lessons for 5 years but switched to gymnastics because I wanted to be the next Olga Korbut. I quit gymnastics and took figure skating lessons because I wanted to be the next Dorothy Hamill. Turns out, I became neither.<\/li>\n
  97. My husband is the “Bigeyecrappieman” but I’ve never cooked Crappie.<\/li>\n
  98. I’ve been married to Rod almost 32 years.<\/li>\n
  99. I’m the mother of Caitlin.<\/li>\n
  100. I’m mother-in-law to Bradley.<\/li>\n
  101. I became \u201cBobbie\u201d to our sweet granddaughter, Lillie in 2016.<\/li>\n
  102. I am “Redeemed and Real…In Relentless Pursuit of Jesus”.<\/li>\n
  103. God has called me to a Speaking Ministry and I would love to speak to your women’s luncheon, retreat, or conference!<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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