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60 Things about Mike Smith and 50 things he wants to do

1. My e-mail address is mjsschool@mac.com
2. I am big - a little overweight, but mostly tall and size 15 feet (there’s most of the weight right there)
3. I like BMW Z3 & Z4 (I want a few of those)
4. My wardrobe is out of date
5. I have a Motorola Razor phone - mostly ’cause I like it
6. They’ll bury me clutching a box of Macaroni and Cheese
7. I am gentle, but unwillingly lumpy
8. I adapt
9. I am a father of five children
10. Dishwashers are handy, but hand washing is therapeutic
11. I love chocolate
12. I love my baby’s right ear - and how he inclines it when I click my mouth next to his face so I can give him some love
13. I like my best laid plans - have you seen them? I must have misplaced them.
14. Star Trek should be real
15. Harry Potter is a world I would like - though I know better
16. I enjoy warm oatmeal with bananas in the morning (let’s not forget the Maple Syrup)
17. I speak French
18. My kids don’t
19. I like being laughed with (and at)
20. Sometimes I am funny
21. Sometimes, I may make you wet your pants (that’s ’cause I’m a nurse)
22. Oh - did I say I love nursing?
23. I am a nurse (LPN now and RN in training)
24. I like the smell of my wife’s skin
25. I like my friend Steve - thank you Steve
26. My mind sometimes lives the books and movies I devour - if I could, I would spend more time there
27. I love flying - travel - trains and far off places
28. I love saying goodbye just so I can say hi again
29. Singing makes me happy
30. Music enchants me
31. I love serving you
32. I miss serving you
33. I like serving without thinking of the repercussions
34. I like fresh foods - and cooking with them
35. I make up foods like you wouldn’t believe - then let them rot as leftovers in the fridge
36. Those unidentified fridge objects (UFO’s as I like to call them) sometimes make it into my car and never make it out
37. I like serving in Church
38. I sometimes don’t do so well serving in Church
39. I sometimes do very well in all I do
40. I most of the time just get by
41. I like Brian, Melissa and David
42. Juanita is my friend - Mattea is her daughter
43. I like having friends over…I like entertaining guests
44. The Declaration of Independence is an inspired document and I enjoy reading it
45. My mother is Nancy - she married Carl
46. I make a real good bread
47. I wish flowers were also sent to men - ’cause I like flowers
48. I like gardening
49. I like music boxes
50. Fishing should be mandatory for membership in the smith house
51. Orange juice is my favorite - despite the pimples my father promised mewhen I was drinking too much of it as a youth
52. My computer skills are broad and I can help people
53. Apple computers make me twitterpated
54. Graphic designer has been one of my many previous jobs
55. I was a computer network junkie - and my house is proof of it
56. I used to want to be a Doctor
57. Now I know I am a nurse…just took me a while to figure it out
58. Kim and I were married in the Salt Lake City Temple
59. I currently serve in my Stake for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints as a Stake Technology Specialist, Stake Assistant Clerk
60. I am in the Ward Young Men Presidency in my local ward

I want to

1. go on vacation with my wife for ONE WHOLE WEEK
2. go on a long, fun vacation with my family
3. go to the Temple Weekly
4. be gentle always
5. seek the guidance of the Holy Ghost in all situations
6. be the Father my kids are proud of
7. be a great fisherman
8. have family council once a week
9. have family councils when my children are grown
10. have family reunions with my adult children and their children
11. work
12. be the best friend I can
13. be a better peacemaker
14. be a better whistler
15. have no pain in my back
16. own a house
17. own a garage
18. own a working set of lawncare equipment
19. own a BMW
20. serve
21. be a registered nurse
22. have enough money to help others and help ourselves
23. not get laid off, fired, let go or mutually agreed to sever work relations again - EVER
24. be a camp nurse
25. go to camp every summer for the rest of my life
26. live close to the beach (or even have a summer home on the beach)
27. pick wild blueberries every year
28. pick strawberries every year
29. grow a garden - a VERY large one
30. can and freeze the produce from the garden
31. give away the excess
32. pay attention to my kids and know their every like and dislike
33. watch as my kids’ tender wins unfold
34. help their tender wings unfold
35. teach my sons to change the oil in the car
36. afford the brakes on my van
37. play the piano
38. sing in front of an audience - and have the love it
39. read more
40. help my wife
41. get a semester of straight A’s in nursing school (I am a B student - better than the majority of nursing students who have on average - a C)
42. give, said the little stream
43. stare at the lighthouse as the sun goes down
44. listen to music in a room without the problem of bothering other people
45. write an essay for This I Believe - and have it read on NPR
46. be a clandestine operative (undercover agent)
47. hail a cab in New York City
48. tell the cab driver to follow that car
49. climb and rappel
50. be athletically competitive