More than you want to know

I’ve seen a few blogs with 100 facts about the writer. I thought I’d copy the idea but also include some interesting things about Luke to help reach 100. Despite my conviction that there are few people as interesting as Luke, I was only able to come up with 75 before giving up. I just don’t have the will to think anymore. Besides, this is a really long list.

1. Luke still drives the same car he picked me up in on our first date.
2. We drove that car from Utah to Boston in January 2003 and from Boston to Texas in September 2007.
3. In high school Luke invited and received a republican congressman to his government class because he thought his teacher was too liberal and wanted to represent the other side.
4. We’ve lived in ten houses and apartments since our marriage in October 2002.
5. In high school I bought, raised and sold three pigs for the Clark County Fair.
6. Luke is allergic to milk.
7. Luke once abstained from carbonated beverages for a year, but argued that ginger ale is not a soda because it has less sugar… What?!?
8. Luke is a political fanatic.
9. I am not good a sports.
10. Luke wins every game we play against each other, even games of luck.
11. We don’t play games much anymore.
12. Our first date was on Valentine’s Day. Luke brought me a carnation.
    
13. I don’t like carnations, but I do like Luke.
14. When Luke was little he wanted to play centerfield for the Giants. He probably still does.
15. Luke used to collect 1964 pennies.
16. I’d been home from my mission ten months to the day when we got married.
17. Luke’s mom has boxes and boxes of Luke’s “treasures” stored in her house. Some of these treasures include an enormous collection of baseball cards, random newspapers and cereal boxes.
18. Luke is very sentimental and prone to nostalgia.
19. Luke loves to argue.
20. Luke broke his wedding ring finger five times and that knuckle is HUGE.
21. Partly because of his oversized knuckle and partly because he thinks wedding rings are a pagan tradition, Luke wanted a medallion instead of a wedding ring when we got married.
22. Instead getting Luke a wedding ring, I got a necklace and earrings with the credit we got at the jewelry store from buying my wedding ring.
23. Several months after we were married, I bought an $8 sterling silver ring for Luke’s wedding finger on the streets of San Francisco. He wore it for a few days until it caused a sort of nervous breakdown because he couldn’t take it off.
24. I can play songs on my teeth.
25. I played tennis in high school.
26. My doubles partner and I once purposefully lost a tennis match so we wouldn’t have to drive into Las Vegas the next day for the championship.
27. I’m not very competitive.
28. I grew up in a town of less than 6,000 people with no stop lights.
29. Luke’s favorite author is Charles Dickens.
30. I used to play dress up and have tea parties with my friends and sisters in high school.
31. I also collected tea cups and hats.
32. Luke plays the piano.
33. According the Meyers Briggs personality test, Luke is an INFJ.
34. According the Meyers Briggs personality test, I am an ISFP.
35. Luke’s a very strong J and I’m a very strong P. We clash the most in that category.
36. Luke can juggle.
37. I love hot drinks and have one at least twice per day. I like tea (herbal, of course) and Pero.
38. I used to like hot chocolate until I went to Burdick and became a hot chocolate snob.
39. I was a lifeguard.
40. Luke is published.
41. I wish I were published.
42. I served a mission in Lisbon, Portugal.
43. Luke went to Romania on his mission.
44. I have four sisters and three brothers. I’m #4.
45. Luke has two sisters and two brothers. He’s an oldest child.
46. I am getting really desperate for facts.
47. Luke worked as a garbage picker-upper at a water park.
48. There are a lot of foods Luke has never tasted. Here is a list of some of the more normal foods he’s managed to abstain from:
49. refried beans
50. peaches
51. apricots
52. mangos
53. He tried his first cherry last summer and has only eaten one mushroom back when we were dating (when he would do anything I asked).
54. I’m a more adventurous eater and have eaten:
55. raw, cold steak
56. whole, boiled baby crabs
57. cow tongue
58. escargot
59. whole chicken feet
60. caviar
61. raw oysters
62. I love food, but not all the foods I listed above.
63. Luke and I both like to read and our favorite date is a trip to Barnes and Noble.
64. Luke loves to go to the movies.
65. Luke loves Jamba Juice.
66. When I was a child I had an imaginary friend named Bayzate.
67. I sucked my thumb until I was seven.
68. Luke had a paper route.
69. I had really long hair in high school.
70. Luke and I have never been camping together, and I’ll be surprised if we ever do.
71. Luke likes to take baths.
72. I was a nanny in France when I was 20.
73. I got lost in the forest there. It was just like a fairytale.
74. I spent the night in Amsterdam's red light district.
    
75. Luke's dream job is to be in the CIA.