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100 Things about Noreen

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    1. I am horse-crazy.
    2. I have been riding since I was 8 years old.
    3. I had two horses when I was a kid.
    4. I literally was raised in a barn.
    5. I ride english.
    6. At horse shows I do hunters (judged on the horse) and equitation (judged on the rider).
    7. The horse I am riding currently is a plain bay thoroughbred named Toga.
    8. His show name is Saratoga.
    9. He has a really cool jump.
    10. It feels like you are suspended in mid-air.
    11. I recently tried jumpers (judged on speed and accuracy) with Toga and it was so much fun.
    12. My favorite thing, by far, is to ride on trails through the woods and to gallop through the fields.
    13. I love the outdoors.
    14. I like animals too, and I dream of having a farmette.
    15. My dad wants a goat farm, though I am not exactly clear why.
    16. I guess goats are just useful.
    17. I hope he will buy a goat farm so I can keep some horses there.
    18. I like biking.
    19. I bike a lot on the Fox river trail in the summer and take spinning classes in the winter.
    20. I also like mountain biking, but I tend to fall a lot.
    21. I just got a new bike and I can't wait to try it out on the John Muir Trails in Wisconsin.
    22. I also really like hiking.
    23. My parents are really into hiking too.
    24. They are building a new section of the Ice Age trail in the Kettle Moraine Southern Unit.
    25. They are retired and live on Whitewater Lake in Wisconsin.
    26. It is very beautiful there.
    27. I try to visit them as often as possible.
    28. They have a deckboat.
    29. I love wakeboarding and tubing is also fun.
    30. Every July there are fireworks over the lake and we watch them from our boat.
    31. Swimming in the lake is really relaxing.
    32. It is a small lake so the water is very warm.
    33. When we were kids we used to make necklaces and crowns out of seaweed.
    34. My dad likes to find clams on the bottom of the lake.
    35. There are Northern Pike in the lake and they have big teeth.
    36. There are also really vicious mink and snapping turtles that swim in the lake.
    37. Sometimes when I swim I worry that they will bite my toes.
    38. I love to read by the lake.
    39. I also read a lot on the Metra.
    40. My favorite authors are Charles Bukowski, Kurt Vonnegut, Chuck Palahniuk, Nick Hornby, and David Sedaris.
    41. I listen to music on the train too.
    42. Lately, I listen to the new Modest Mouse and the new Built to Spill a lot.
    43. My friends always tell me about new stuff to listen to.
    44. If I ever have a question, I use google to answer it.
    45. Secretly, I google my friends names to see what will come up.
    46. I guess it's not a secret anymore.
    47. I was born in Chicago.
    48. I have a brother that is 3 years younger than me.
    49. He is really into cars.
    50. He works for a performance shop.
    51. He wants to put a turbo booster in my car to make it faster.
    52. I already drive too fast.
    53. My brother, dad and I love watching the Family Guy.
    54. My mom does not and always acts disgusted.
    55. I have a tons of cousins.
    56. My Mom has 9 siblings and my dad has 3 siblings so my extended family is huge.
    57. I don't watch a lot of TV, but I try to watch Scrubs and the Office.
    58. My cousin is a producer for Scrubs.
    59. I also love old TV shows like Mary Tyler Moore, Dick Van Dyke, and Andy Griffith.
    60. I grew up in Inverness.
    61. Inverness is a really small, quiet suburb near Palatine and Barrington.
    62. I live in Elgin.
    63. My favorite type of food is Mexican food.
    64. My goal is to try every Mexican restaurant in Elgin.
    65. I think there are about 25, but I keep finding more.
    66. My favorite so far is El Faro, but I like that El Pariso has a drive-thru.
    67. El Faro has really good veggie tacos with avocado.
    68. I like all food except meat.
    69. I know, meat is a pretty broad category.
    70. I love to cook.
    71. My favorite things to make are veggie lasagna, enchiladas, tacos, salad and pizza.
    72. The lasagna and enchiladas are my mom's recipes.
    73. The pizza recipe is from The Fig's Table by Todd English.
    74. I also make awesome chocolate chip cookies.
    75. I made up my own recipe, loosely based on the Toll House recipe.
    76. They are really chewy and are made with milk chocolate chips.
    77. Everyone always begs me to make them.
    78. I give the recipe out to my family and friends, but they never turn out right when they make them.
    79. I love roller coasters.
    80. I went to Cedar Point last summer.
    81. It was 103 degrees, but I still had a great time.
    82. The best ride was the Top Thrill Dragster.
    83. It accelerated to 120 mph in four seconds and then went 420 feet in the air.
    84. Then it twisted and went straight back down.
    85. I love road trips.
    86. A goal of mine is to visit all 50 states.
    87. I only have 13 states to go.
    88. Camping is one of my favorite things to do on vacation.
    89. Everything tastes better when you're camping.
    90. Even if it's spaghetti with gnats in it.
    91. Well, maybe not.
    92. I also like kayaking and rafting.
    93. I went rafting on the Penobscot river in Maine last summer.
    94. It was a lot of fun.
    95. I visited Yellowstone a few summers ago.
    96. It was amazing.
    97. We found a natural hot tub created by a hot spring and stayed in it all day.
    98. On the way out there I got to stop at a ranch in South Dakota and round up cattle.
    99. There was one cute little calf that was a few days old.
    100. I guess I am out of room, so that's it!