Back in 2004, I wrote a list of “100 Things About Me” and as I was reading back over them… well… some of them are no longer true/are actually embarassing. Therefore, they’re getting updated.

  1. I am currently a graduate student at Baylor University – working on a Masters of Social Work and a Masters of Divinity and have a Bachelor’s in Youth Ministry from Asbury College in Kentucky
  2. I am a member of Calvary Baptist Church … and truly believe that Calvary Pretty Much Rules all of the time
  3. I have an unnatural love for Aaron Sorkin’s writing
  4. I have rarely felt more consistently alive than when I was a sex ed teacher in Northern Ireland
  5. I am a Yankee. I will never be a Texan. Thank God.
  6. I believe that Chili’s Molten Chocolate Cake, Cricket’s Apple Pie or Joycie’s cookies can fix any situation
  7. I really wish that life was a musical
  8. After many years of fighting it – I love my family – all of them – and feel the void in my life when I don’t get to see them.
  9. I bought an XBOX just to play Guitar Hero and stole my little brother’s PS2 just for Singstar. Both TOTALLY worth it.
  10. I would like to live in either Stars Hollow, Connecticut or Everwood, Colorado
  11. I have family that stretches across oceans and continents and defies the boundaries of DNA
  12. I understand my faith by stories more often than Scripture
  13. My dream job would be to be a traveling speaker/photographer for something like World Vision
  14. I would rather fail an exam than fail a friend
  15. I met one of my best friends on a moving sidewalk in Heathrow airport…
  16. … and met one of my roommates by demanding to be her friend. I’m serious. It’s slightly pathetic.
  17. I believe that drinking a cold Ale-8 out of green glass bottle is a religious experience
  18. When living in Belfast, I once flew to London just to have lunch with a friend from college.
  19. I want to be on every inhabited continent before I die
  20. I love getting dressed up because of how it makes me feel… but I hate the process to get there
  21. I am loved and accepted, but only at Sonic
  22. Brace yourself – this one’s cheesy – but I do share a traveling journal and a bracelet with my sisters from college – Abby, Rachel and Katie
  23. I get RIDICULOUSLY excited about seeing or singing Hairspray
  24. I am slightly addicted to being a youth worker
  25. I believe in the power of WaWa
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  26. I try every day to believe Psalm 139 and the transitive property of coolness
  27. I wish that my elementary school had forced me to learn Spanish
  28. I read The Chronicles of Narnia every Christmas break
  29. I believe that heaven sounds like small children singing in Swahili and that God is the same in mud huts and brick houses
  30. I left pieces of my heart in a land called Ulster and aspire to reclaim them someday
  31. I have been to 21% of the world’s countries
  32. I know the deep and powerful meaning behind the phrase “Generation Reformation”
  33. I have almost died in the back of a matatu in Rwanda
  34. I have a bit of an obsession with my electric kettle
  35. I’m waiting for my own personal Jim Halpert… or maybe Henry from accounting
  36. Texas messed with me first
  37. One of the best afternoons I could imagine is to be allowed to read whatever I wanted, curled up with a wee cuppa of Earl Grey
  38. I get really annoyed when establishments outside of Philadelphia try to sell “philadelphia style cheesesteaks”
  39. I am the Devil’s Frosting
  40. I have a video of my little brother singing the Snickers commercial song… and it literally makes my day everytime I see it.
  41. I believe that education is the silver bullet and long for the day that the military has to hold bake sales to finance wars and schools have unlimited resources
  42. It’s possible that the best shower that I have ever had in my life was the Hotel Des Milles Colline in Kigali, Rwanda
  43. I heart my Waco surprises
  44. I belong to two life groups … the one that meets in the sanctuary and the one that travels to the Island
  45. I love the way that Belfast smells after it rains
  46. One of my favorite smells in the world is when you drive over the LBI Causeway for the first time and get that whiff of salt sea air
  47. My first job was at a children’s amusement park called “Sesame Place”
  48. I was once almost eaten by an ostrich.
  49. I survived the “Day of Yahweh”
  50. I own three dolls from High School Musical and was given them by my roommate
  51. I finished Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows after an all-night reading party in my living room with six Calvary students
  52. I know that DNA = Life
  53. I once won an award for being the best student director at a theater festival… and have no idea where that trophy went
  54. During my internship with Eric Keller, I won a stuffed woody woodpecker doll at Dorney Park in the ring toss game and am really proud of that
  55. The first time that I went fishing (and actually participated), I was 20 years old. I caught one fish and then promptly fell in the lake.
  56. Some of my favorite moments in CBC youth involves anytime we break into song – after church, hayrides, Passport…
  57. I once stayed in a “hotel” where I was given a bucket for a shower
  58. I can quote the movie American President verbatim
  59. I CAN do the stick dance!
  60. I took a whole class in identifying baptists
  61. I love recruiting for Truett
  62. I love it when wise men and women of God take time to impart their wisdom to students. I hate it when they make me believe that their version of the Kingdom is the only viable one.
  63. I give and receive teammates like it’s my job
  64. One of my most famous slip ups at Love for Life was when I told students the importance of monitoring their fertile music.
  65. I’d love to know why all small children in horror movies are the creepiest things ever
  66. One of the most stressful things for me about traveling is which books to bring
  67. I have read “The Last of the Really Great Whangdoodles” fourteen times
  68. I once shared an office with two taxidermied deer heads: Ting Ho and Francis
  69. I am actually toying with going on to get my PhD and I’m not sure how much that freaks me out
  70. My goal for my next living location is to live somewhere with chinese food that delivers
  71. I love partnering in alliances with people to more effectively build the Kingdom. I hate it when those people attach strings of sameness to their alliances and try to define unity by homogeniality.
  72. One of my first priorities upon moving to the UK was to make a pilgrimage to Oxford to sit in the Eagle and Child pub
  73. While I’m so glad that I don’t work at Dunder Mifflin… I love feeling like I do.
  74. One of my dreams is to backpack around the world… but I fear that I’m too attached to books to actually backpack
  75. It’s very important to me that people get specialized ring tones on my phone.
  76. I fall a lot
  77. There are days that I wish I had the will power to be a vegetarian
  78. I’ve married Colin without so much as a date
  79. I know what a German Aug6 is
  80. While I try to live in the springtime seasons of life, I keep migrating back to the others
  81. I know the deep importance of salting and burning… it’s the only way to get rid of a vengeful spirit.
  82. I’m really sad that Subway got rid of provolone cheese
  83. My biggest irrational fear is having my mouth entirely shut by peanut butter
  84. I’m still waiting on the boy that will make my foot pop
  85. If Katie is Sookie, then I am Lorelai with a dash of Miss Patty thrown in
  86. I love it so very much when my house is full of students
  87. In high school, I helped write a musical about “Candyland”… it was for class, I promise
  88. I have a hard time eating American chocolate after a whole year of Galaxy
  89. One of my favorite resturants in the entire world is in Lexington, Kentucky – God bless Bella Note
  90. I am finding that true rest can only exist for me when I am somewhere without connection to the outside world
  91. I’m slightly worried that my brother’s dog – Rafiki – has replaced me as the second sibling in the family
  92. I miss the days when someone could wait for you at your gate as you got off the plane
  93. I live in a state of constant clutter, but wish I didn’t
  94. When I was a small child, my best friend was Teddy Ruxpin and I wept when he had to “go to the hospital” because his mouth wouldn’t move anymore
  95. Even though I have a dear friend who once was a clown, I still fear them greatly
  96. My roommate, Sarah, and I are obsessive with our Netflix list. We plan our schedules around what movies we have.
  97. I really wish that I knew how to play the cello
  98. I miss Rita’s mistos and believe in the expansion of both Rita’s and WaWa
  99. My dream concert to go to would be Damien Rice opening for U2
  100. I truly never thought that I would a: end up in texas or b: end up in grad school. I’m pretty thankful that both are true.