100 Things About Me

100 Things About Me

(I am an open book. Until I’m not. You can ask me anything. I just reserve the right not to answer.)

1.  My hair is half my personality.

    My boobs are the other half.

No, just kidding.  Together they make up no more than 3/4 of my personality.

2. I think a lot.

3. I process things by thinking about them and talking about them.

4. I have an addictive personality.

5. My favorite thing about Christmas is getting Christmas cards. I also love Christmas lights. The tackier the better (on other people’s houses, of course!)

6.  Working out makes me feel better, but I never seem to have enough time to do it.

7.  I like for things to be symmetrical and I like odd numbers.

8. I think I have ADD.  I have a hard time focusing sometimes. Or. perhaps, I am just VERY good at multi-tasking.

9.  High school sucked. Well, junior year, after I moved. Before that, it was awesome.

10.  I  listen to my ipod all day at work. (On speakers)

11.  I love my job.

12. I never knew what I wanted to be when I grew up.  I’ll let you know if I figure it out.

13. I am an extremely messy person.  The more I try to “work on that,” the worse it gets.

14. Diet Coke. Seriously.

15. I also love Ciroc, a most excellent vodka made from French grapes and the tears of angels.

16. I have a lot of gay friends.

17. I do not have a lot of girl friends, unless you count the gays. I am figuring out that I need a few really GOOD friends. I’m not one of those people with a thousand friends.  I have 10 GREAT friends, and we do all kinds of things for each other, and I always know they are there for me, and I am there for them.

18. Hubby and I have been married since 1993. I know.

19. We are swingers. It’s fun! We were swingers. I’m not anymore. I am figuring things out.

20.  We have 2 children, both girls, both smarter than we are.

21. We know we are in trouble.

22.  I believe we all (as in, everybody in the whole world!) need therapy.  Some more than others.

23.  I wish I lived somewhere that it snowed.

24.  I hate the yellow pages.

25.  I love the internet.  Usually it loves me back.

26.  I am working on a novel.  It will be good.  If Oprah makes it a book club book I will share my fortune with you. Seriously. It’s more than half done. I need to focus again.

27.  I can’t keep plants alive. No matter what.

28.  I am an elder at my church. I am a very spiritual person. Sometimes religion interferes with that.  I think I have found a church where I can have my needs met and eventually get involved.

29. I am supposed to be cleaning up my office.  It’s a wreck.  But it’s better than it was!

30.  Laundry. Sigh.

31.  Dunkin Donuts Coffee.  Almost as good as Diet Coke.

32. I read a lot. Contemporary fiction. Harry Potter.

33. I have an assistant.  I know I’m a bitch to work for.  I try to be nice about it. New position, no assistant. Bah!

34.  My car is a mess.

35.  I have had  3 wrecks in the last 18 months. None my fault.

36. I love pens - cool ones.

37.  I am very liberal.  I don’t understand conservative people.  I like some of them, but I do not understand them. (Unfortunately I took a quiz and it says I am 52% conservative.  Still grappling with that….)

38. I have never had a threesome.  I have had an MFM threesome. It was awesome. I don’t think I will ever do that again.  Maybe an FMF. If the right other F ever showed up.

39.  I have never kissed another girl.

40.  I’d try it though.  Sometimes, when you don’t kiss someone you really want to kiss, and you think about it and imagine it, that is almost enough.

41.  I love making out and foreplay.

42. I also love sex.

43. I also curse all the time.

44.  Military men drive me wild.

45. I am a Pisces and I am so very Pisces!

46.  My mom says I always have to have the last word.  Do not!

47.  I hate arguing and bickering and confrontation.

48. I love to travel.

49.  I hate to travel to Raleigh, which is the place I go most often.

50.  I like almost all kinds of music, but I listen in phases.

51. I am great at planning things. In fact, I NEED to plan things.

52.  I love party food.

53. I think it is unfair to have acne, gray hair, and wrinkles all at the same time.

54. I have a tattoo.  It is a dragonfly on my right shoulder. I love it!

55.  I also have my nipples pierced. But I am thinking about taking them out.  My nipples are officially un-decorated. I’m not even sad.

56. The guy who pierced my nipples has his whole arm tattooed blue.

57. I used to watch too much TV.  Now I am online too much.

58.  I get migraines.  I never fake a migraine - that is a sure way to ASK karma to bite me in the ass.

59. I love chocolate.  But who doesn’t?

60.  I usually go to bed around 10 and get up between 4:30 and 6, depending on how stressed I am.

61.  My children do not sleep.  Bedtime is the worst time of the day at our house.

62.  My fingernails always look like crap.

63.  My toenails usually look awesome.

64.  I am an unflappable, unshakable romantic.

65. I am also an optimist.  Sometimes this is endearing.  Sometimes it is maddening.

66.  Moose is just like her dad.  Squirrel is just like me.  I have learned so much about myself from her.

67. I am having so much fun watching the girls grow up.  They amaze me.

68. I don’t really like other people’s kids. I try, and I am nice to them, but I like my own kids.

69.  My brother and I are very close.

70.  I wish he lived in NC instead of the northeast.

71.  I am a very tense person.  I am a very serious person.  I am not frivolous and yet people think I am fun to be around.

72.  Think it’s the vodka?

73.  I don’t like peppermint.  Thank God someone came out with Cinnamon toothpaste.

74. I always buy things for myself when I am Christmas shopping. Usually something someone else has bought me.

75. My favorite color is black.

76.  My favorite food is Mexican.

77.  The only food I don’t like is Eastern European - all those beets! Yuck!

78. I am a hell of a cook.

79. I am a terrible cleaner-upper.  Looks like my kids inherited that.

80. I love celebrity gossip.  I gave it up for Lent last year.

81.  One year I gave up cursing.  That was a LONNNNNG 40 days.

82.  I have a 10% hearing loss in one ear and 25% in the other. 

83.  I have a hard time hearing really deep voices.

84.  My hearing loss was much more significant when I was a child - I could lip read TV when I was 3.  The doctors told my parents I would need to go to the NC School for the Deaf.  I had 3 surgeries and now I am almost normal!

85.Well, hearing-wise, anyway.

86.  I am a non-taster, which means that food does not taste as intense to me.

87.  My husband is a super-taster. That means food tastes VERY intense to him.

88.  No wonder we eat out so much.

89.  I love to give gifts but I am very bad at it.

90. I am very sentimental.

91. But I don’t cry easily. Except when Rand is there.

92. I love my digital camera.

93. I have a zillion CDs.  Twice as many books.  A computer in almost every room.  Ditto TVs with digital cable.  You might say we are a media-centric family.

94.  I want my kids to go to Catholic school.  Public schools here are crazy. My kids are going to a magnet school and we are going to hope for the best.

95. mmmmmm Diet Coke.

96.  Nobody ever bet enough on a winning horse.

97. I get Shakespeare.

98. Life is too long to be miserable.

99.  You can tell me anything.  I do not judge.

100.  I may snicker, but I won’t judge.