Since a mere 100 things was far too scant a score, I offer here 100 more.
1. I am a poet in progress.
2. For my parent's 40th wedding anniversary, I wrote them a poem and presented it to them as a gift.
3. Fall is my favorite season.
4. Winter is my least favorite season.
5. I hate ironing.
6. My father and I butted heads a LOT when I was growing up, I seemed to always be angry with him.
7. While we still have our moments, I love him very dearly and tell him so often. We are the same person.
8. My mother and I have always been close. We are complete opposites.
9. My brother and I didn't particularly get along that well for the first 32 or 33 years of my life.
10. Today, I consider my brother to be one of my greatest blessings. While he is 21 months older than me, he waited a bit longer to grow up.
11. I am very proud of my brother. He has been a member of the volunteer fire department in our home town for 6 years.
12. My favorite flower is the daisy.
13. I've never broken a bone.
14. I have, however, suffered two concussions.
15. I once won a hairiest legs contest.
16. In high school, I swam on the swim team, played basketball (through sophomore year) and played softball.
17. I took figure skating lessons for 4 years.
18. I was in Suzuki piano for 2 years, participating in two play-thrus whereby I memorized two books of piano music (about 30 pieces in all) and played them through.
19. In 8th grade, I also participated in a national college-level competition.
20. I miss my piano. It is currently at my parents house as I have no room and it's a bitch to move.
21. I played the piano for my cousin's first wedding. They divorced. I don't play at weddings any longer.
22. Someday I would like to search for my biological parents.
23. I also hope that my firstborn child will want to meet me sometime.
24. I've never been downhill skiing.
25. I've only gone cross country skiing a handful of times, the results were disastrous, however...see #13.
26. I was the youngest of 10 grandchildren to get up on water skis at the cabin, at age 6.
27. Sometimes I'm afraid of the dark.
28. My favorite restaurant is Chevy's.
29. Two movies I never tire of watching are "Christmas Vacation" and "Singin' In The Rain".
30. I love attending plays and going to the theatre.
31. My favorite musical is "The Music Man".
32. Throughout my life, I have always had many friends. While some have come and gone, and some come back again, I have always had one or two very close friends.
33. Most of my friends are now married with children and families of their own.
34. As happy as I am for all of my friends, I am in equal part jealous of their lives, and feel as though I myself am standing still.
35. I become bored quite easily, most especially in my professional life.
36. I despise ruts, and am in constant flux.
37. I love to hand wash dishes.
38. My kitchen is always the cleanest room in my apartment.
39. My bedroom is always the messiest.
40. I have clutter down to a science.
41. In middle school I took the 1st place trophy for three 'Silver Skate Races' in my hometown, competing against both boys and girls of all ages.
42. I also won an alphabet belching contest, I was the only girl competing with three boys. My parents weren't as proud as I had hoped they'd be.
43. I've never been a girly-girl. I have terrible nails and rarely keep them polished.
44. However, I do love to dress up for special occasions and my toes are never without polish in the summer.
45. My feet are very small for my height. I am 5'10" tall and wear an 8 or 8 1/2.
46. I have struggled with my weight for most of my adult life.
47. I am currently trying to lose weight. I have 100lbs to go...and it WILL go.
48. I love horror movies, a favorite is "Children of the Corn".
49. I have five piercings (in two ears) and no tattoos.
50. I hate exercising but love the feeling it gives me afterward.
51. I do not enjoy cooking.
52. I love to bake.
53. In high school, I wanted to be a marriage counselor.
54. My first career test had me pegged to be a garbage collector.
55. My favorite subject in high school was English.
56. I never took Biology, Geometry, Algebra or Trigonometry.
57. Despite my lack of scientific or mathematical prowess, somehow, I still manage to score above average on I.Q. tests.
58. I love being smart.
59. I hate stupid drivers. I scream at people in my car. Sometimes I hope they can hear me...or read my lips.
60. My favorite dessert is cheesecake.
61. I love to study. My mind is a sponge.
62. I think the ocean is a lonely creature.
63. My favorite body of water is the lake.
64. My maternal grandmother was one of my best friends. I lost her just over two years ago.
65. I delivered a eulogy at her funeral. I still miss her all the time.
66. I can't watch an episode of "Little House on the Prairie" without crying.
67. I've never understood soccer.
68. The Winter Olympics are my favorite.
69. I've been to 11 of the 50 states. There have been a few others but I'm not counting airport layovers.
70. I have very eclectic musical tastes, so eclectic that I do not even have a favorite band.
71. I do like any form of rap music, whatsoever.
72. My favorite poet is Edgar Allen Poe.
73. My favorite poem of his is "The Bells".
74. I get very lonely sometimes. I hate when people can't differentiate 'aloneness' with loneliness.
75. Sometimes I get so lonely all I can do is cry out to God.
76. I drive people crazy correcting their grammar and punctuation.
77. I want to learn Russian someday...I think it's the most romantic language.
78. I don't really find mountains that beautiful, or even majestic. They're just big rocks, after all.
79. I think the desert is terribly boring.
80. I have always been an excellent speller but have never participated in a spelling bee.
81. I never missed one episode of 'Dallas'.
82. I still didn't know who shot J.R.
83. I love red wine.
84. Bozo is still my favorite clown ever...'The Grand Prize Game' was the bomb.
85. My first undergraduate degree is in Early Childhood Family Education. I taught 2-4yrs olds for five years.
86. I hate that preschool gets such a bad rap.
87. I still cringe when I hear people refer to it as 'day care'. They don't realize that from age 0-5 we accumulate 50% of the knowledge we will attain in our entire lifetime. And THAT doesn't take some teaching?
88. I love candles.
89. I'm a terrible bowler.
90. I still dream of my wedding day, just as I did when I was a little girl.
91. I love solitude and spending long stretches of time alone.
92. I used to pretend I was married to Eric Estrada.
93. My favorite soft drink is Diet Coke. I think people that can't successfully pass the Pepsi/Coke challenge have broken taste buds.
94. I love an English accent...I melt like buttah.
95. I can't stand Ellen Degeneres or Rosie O'Donnell.
96. My dislike for these two women has nothing to do with their sexual preferences, I have close friends that are gay...but they are not annoying, like I find Ellen and Rosie to be.
97. I love fresh air.
98. I am very funny, witty and great with one-liners, however, I'm a terrible joke teller.
99. I love the smell of gasoline, I always have. Growing up I wanted to work at a gas station so I could smell it all day long.
100. I can't stand the smell of freshly mowed grass.
1. I am a poet in progress.
2. For my parent's 40th wedding anniversary, I wrote them a poem and presented it to them as a gift.
3. Fall is my favorite season.
4. Winter is my least favorite season.
5. I hate ironing.
6. My father and I butted heads a LOT when I was growing up, I seemed to always be angry with him.
7. While we still have our moments, I love him very dearly and tell him so often. We are the same person.
8. My mother and I have always been close. We are complete opposites.
9. My brother and I didn't particularly get along that well for the first 32 or 33 years of my life.
10. Today, I consider my brother to be one of my greatest blessings. While he is 21 months older than me, he waited a bit longer to grow up.
11. I am very proud of my brother. He has been a member of the volunteer fire department in our home town for 6 years.
12. My favorite flower is the daisy.
13. I've never broken a bone.
14. I have, however, suffered two concussions.
15. I once won a hairiest legs contest.
16. In high school, I swam on the swim team, played basketball (through sophomore year) and played softball.
17. I took figure skating lessons for 4 years.
18. I was in Suzuki piano for 2 years, participating in two play-thrus whereby I memorized two books of piano music (about 30 pieces in all) and played them through.
19. In 8th grade, I also participated in a national college-level competition.
20. I miss my piano. It is currently at my parents house as I have no room and it's a bitch to move.
21. I played the piano for my cousin's first wedding. They divorced. I don't play at weddings any longer.
22. Someday I would like to search for my biological parents.
23. I also hope that my firstborn child will want to meet me sometime.
24. I've never been downhill skiing.
25. I've only gone cross country skiing a handful of times, the results were disastrous, however...see #13.
26. I was the youngest of 10 grandchildren to get up on water skis at the cabin, at age 6.
27. Sometimes I'm afraid of the dark.
28. My favorite restaurant is Chevy's.
29. Two movies I never tire of watching are "Christmas Vacation" and "Singin' In The Rain".
30. I love attending plays and going to the theatre.
31. My favorite musical is "The Music Man".
32. Throughout my life, I have always had many friends. While some have come and gone, and some come back again, I have always had one or two very close friends.
33. Most of my friends are now married with children and families of their own.
34. As happy as I am for all of my friends, I am in equal part jealous of their lives, and feel as though I myself am standing still.
35. I become bored quite easily, most especially in my professional life.
36. I despise ruts, and am in constant flux.
37. I love to hand wash dishes.
38. My kitchen is always the cleanest room in my apartment.
39. My bedroom is always the messiest.
40. I have clutter down to a science.
41. In middle school I took the 1st place trophy for three 'Silver Skate Races' in my hometown, competing against both boys and girls of all ages.
42. I also won an alphabet belching contest, I was the only girl competing with three boys. My parents weren't as proud as I had hoped they'd be.
43. I've never been a girly-girl. I have terrible nails and rarely keep them polished.
44. However, I do love to dress up for special occasions and my toes are never without polish in the summer.
45. My feet are very small for my height. I am 5'10" tall and wear an 8 or 8 1/2.
46. I have struggled with my weight for most of my adult life.
47. I am currently trying to lose weight. I have 100lbs to go...and it WILL go.
48. I love horror movies, a favorite is "Children of the Corn".
49. I have five piercings (in two ears) and no tattoos.
50. I hate exercising but love the feeling it gives me afterward.
51. I do not enjoy cooking.
52. I love to bake.
53. In high school, I wanted to be a marriage counselor.
54. My first career test had me pegged to be a garbage collector.
55. My favorite subject in high school was English.
56. I never took Biology, Geometry, Algebra or Trigonometry.
57. Despite my lack of scientific or mathematical prowess, somehow, I still manage to score above average on I.Q. tests.
58. I love being smart.
59. I hate stupid drivers. I scream at people in my car. Sometimes I hope they can hear me...or read my lips.
60. My favorite dessert is cheesecake.
61. I love to study. My mind is a sponge.
62. I think the ocean is a lonely creature.
63. My favorite body of water is the lake.
64. My maternal grandmother was one of my best friends. I lost her just over two years ago.
65. I delivered a eulogy at her funeral. I still miss her all the time.
66. I can't watch an episode of "Little House on the Prairie" without crying.
67. I've never understood soccer.
68. The Winter Olympics are my favorite.
69. I've been to 11 of the 50 states. There have been a few others but I'm not counting airport layovers.
70. I have very eclectic musical tastes, so eclectic that I do not even have a favorite band.
71. I do like any form of rap music, whatsoever.
72. My favorite poet is Edgar Allen Poe.
73. My favorite poem of his is "The Bells".
74. I get very lonely sometimes. I hate when people can't differentiate 'aloneness' with loneliness.
75. Sometimes I get so lonely all I can do is cry out to God.
76. I drive people crazy correcting their grammar and punctuation.
77. I want to learn Russian someday...I think it's the most romantic language.
78. I don't really find mountains that beautiful, or even majestic. They're just big rocks, after all.
79. I think the desert is terribly boring.
80. I have always been an excellent speller but have never participated in a spelling bee.
81. I never missed one episode of 'Dallas'.
82. I still didn't know who shot J.R.
83. I love red wine.
84. Bozo is still my favorite clown ever...'The Grand Prize Game' was the bomb.
85. My first undergraduate degree is in Early Childhood Family Education. I taught 2-4yrs olds for five years.
86. I hate that preschool gets such a bad rap.
87. I still cringe when I hear people refer to it as 'day care'. They don't realize that from age 0-5 we accumulate 50% of the knowledge we will attain in our entire lifetime. And THAT doesn't take some teaching?
88. I love candles.
89. I'm a terrible bowler.
90. I still dream of my wedding day, just as I did when I was a little girl.
91. I love solitude and spending long stretches of time alone.
92. I used to pretend I was married to Eric Estrada.
93. My favorite soft drink is Diet Coke. I think people that can't successfully pass the Pepsi/Coke challenge have broken taste buds.
94. I love an English accent...I melt like buttah.
95. I can't stand Ellen Degeneres or Rosie O'Donnell.
96. My dislike for these two women has nothing to do with their sexual preferences, I have close friends that are gay...but they are not annoying, like I find Ellen and Rosie to be.
97. I love fresh air.
98. I am very funny, witty and great with one-liners, however, I'm a terrible joke teller.
99. I love the smell of gasoline, I always have. Growing up I wanted to work at a gas station so I could smell it all day long.
100. I can't stand the smell of freshly mowed grass.
1 comment:
I love an English accent as well. Perhaps I can get Mike into a little role playing. :)
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