1. I am 39 years-old.
2. I have never been married.
3. I work for a newspaper.
4. I should really be doing something else with my life but my own fears have prevented me.
5. I am an only child.
6. My biological father is from
7. He and my mom divorced when I was a baby. He went back to
8. My stepfather was neither a good husband nor a good dad.
9. It’s not that I missed having my biological father in my life so much as I missed having a positive father figure.
10. My grandmother had premonitions, or what she called, “revelations from God.” I like to think I inherited some of her intuitiveness.
11. I’m learning to trust my intuitions more and more each day.
12. I have never had children.
13. As a professional babysitter, I’ve spent the last 20 years taking care of other people’s children.
14. Sometimes I fear this is as close as I will ever come to having kids of my own.
15. I love to cook.
16. I especially love to bake.
17. In my next life, I want to be a pastry chef.
18. I have almost 1000 recipes stored on my computer.
19. I sometimes attach my self-esteem to how well a dish turns out.
20. I collect kitchen gadgets.
21. I think I got my love of cooking from my stepfather’s aunt. She made awesome potato rolls and a multi-colored, three-layer cake with caramel icing that was to die for. I regret not getting that cake recipe before she died.
22. I would love to have a professional pedicure but think $30-plus is too much to pay.
23. I love my beautician, not because she does my hair especially well, but because of the hen-party atmosphere she creates.
24. I am also jealous of my beautician’s marriage.
25. I have seasonal allergies.
26. I take Claritin everyday, not for my sinuses, but for hives that break out inexplicably.
27. I told my allergist that I think my hives are caused by air.
28. My allergist thinks I’m nuts.
29. I am frustrated by the fact that I can’t seem to find a purse I like for under $100.
30. I’ve been told that I am a good listener.
31. At work, I am usually the person everyone tells his or her problems to.
32. I often ask probing questions to avoid talking about myself.
33. I sometimes wish people would ask me probing questions.
34. My friends can learn more about me from reading my blog than they could ever learn from me face-to-face.
35. When I was 16, I failed my driving test twice.
36. I was so emotionally scarred that I didn’t try again until I was 25.
37. I have never had a speeding ticket.
38. I have had 2 parking tickets.
39. Relationships are very important to me.
40. I let my love (overvaluing) of relationships delay my college graduation by 2 years.
41. My favorite TV shows are The X-Files and La Femme Nikita. Yes, I know they aren’t on TV anymore.
42. The only things I watch on TV now are basketball, The Food Network and HGTV.
43. The book, The Washingtonienne, inspired me to become a blogger.
44. I am very ticklish…(whispering) down there.
45. I also have a spot on my back that, when touched, turns me into a giggling 3 year-old.
46. I can’t swim.
47. But I am a world-class dog paddler.
48. I can’t find anyone who can wax my eyebrows the way I like them, or the same way twice.
49. My favorite color is navy blue.
50. I have never been to the dentist.
51. I bought my first house in August of 2005.
52. The flowerbed in my backyard looks like a jungle and I don’t care.
53. I have never mowed a lawn.
54. I color my hair because I started turning gray at 25.
55. I voted for Ralph Nader in the last presidential election.
56. While living in a college dorm, my suitemates were having a lesbian affair and I didn’t find out about it until after the fact.
57. Two years later, my college roommates were having a lesbian affair and I never knew it until after it was over.
58. Apparently, I’m not the sharpest knife in the drawer.
59. I am not a lesbian. Not that there’s anything wrong with that. ;)
60. Foods I hate: beets, sauerkraut, anchovies, and sardines.
61. Foods I love: meatloaf, pizza, chocolate cake, fried chicken, anything spicy, liver and onions, cheeseburgers, French fries, mashed potatoes and gravy, green peas, rice with butter and sugar. In other words, nothing healthy.
62. I believe aliens exist though I’ve never been abducted.
63. I spend most of my free time at my computer.
64. I love movies.
65. I usually forgo typical
66. I especially like movies where the characters are twisted and/or highly dysfunctional.
67. I have started a “weird” movie collection.
68. My two favorite
69. Most of my favorite music is sung by women: Jill Scott, India.aire, Erykah Badu, Sade, Alanis Morrisette, Sarah McLachlan, Cyndi Lauper.
70. I am deathly afraid of amusement rides.
71. My most embarrassing moment involves a tube top and a moon bounce.
72. During PMS, I eat like there’s no tomorrow, I get really horny and I become emotionally sensitive.
73. I have two weeks out of the month where I am normal. The rest of the time, I am a slave to my hormones.
74. I let my seventh grade crush get away because I didn’t know how to express my feelings.
75. I am 39 years old and I am just now learning how to do that.
76. I love bookstores and libraries.
77. As a kid, my mom and I would go to the library where we would spend hours.
78. I have fond memories of having breakfast at the Steak N’ Egg with my mom on Saturday mornings.
79. Chick lit is my secret indulgence.
80. I am allergic to nickel.
81. I can only wear nickel-free earrings.
82. My favorite cookie is chocolate chip.
83. I am a night owl.
84. While compiling this list, I listened to Janet Jackson, Erykah Badu and Sade.
85. I am dancing in my chair to Janet Jackson at this very moment.
86. I won’t let the kids I babysit put too much sugar on their cornflakes even though I put 1/4 cup of sugar on my Cheerios every morning. I feel like such a hypocrite.
87. My favorite cereal is Crunch Berries.
88. In college, I got caught cheating in sewing class.
89. Jane Austin is one of my favorite authors because she had a knack for exposing the plight of women of her time without appearing to be a feminist.
90. While working on this list, my electricity went off for an hour. I have never been so bored in my life.
91. Now that the electricity is back on, I am chair dancing to Janet Jackson again.
92. One of my favorite things to do with my girlfriends is to go to a Mexican restaurant and pig out on tortilla chips and cheese dip while drinking a margarita.
93. My sneezes are so loud that I often scare people.
94. Going to the grocery store is the highlight of my week. I love grocery shopping almost as much as I love cooking.
95. I always wear a bra, even to bed.
96. My parents were part owners of a convenience store. I spent my junior high and high school years working there. It was slave labor.
97. I did perfect my Miss Pacman skills though while working at the convenience store
98. I love to spend my lunch hour in my car, eating fast food and listening to sports talk radio.
99. I hate coffee. It tastes like watered down dirt. I like my dirt undiluted.
100. Coming up with 100 things about myself was really hard, like pulling teeth.
6 comments:
I love these "getting to know you" things on the blog world.
Why does yours say ListSupport in front of your numbers?
Thanks for the head's up pud! When I look at my blog in Mozilla Firefox, I don't see the ListSupport stuff but when I view the blog in Explorer, I see it plain as day. I'm not sure how to correct that. Any suggestions would be appreciated.
Okay, I think I fixed it!
NEVER been to the dentist? Wow, that's almost as bad as me hardly ever going to the doctor. BTW, I don't know how you came up with 100 things about yourself. That's way too much inner thinking for me to even attempt.
And your ticklish spots--um, no comment...
wonderful, wonderful, wonderful list, grizz.
you inspire me to start my own list, but i think ill keep it short. i hate thinking too hard about these things (ironically, this is number one.)
Well, we two have a lot in common!
Edgy independent films for one!! I love movies.
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