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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. I am looking for a new job. I really need to be the boss!

12. I never knew what I wanted to be when I grew up.  I’ll let you know if I figure it out. I am going back to school to be a Christian counselor. Yay! It’s definitely what I was meant to be!

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

14. Diet Coke. Seriously. (I have cut way down – averaging less than one a day…)

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’ve had our ups and downs. But who hasn’t? We all have days that suck.

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 a United Methodist – and I have just learned to love Praise and Worship/Contemporary Worship!

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 2 1/2 years. 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. I would, though.

40.  Sometimes, when you don’t kiss someone you really want to kiss, and you think about it and imagine it, that is almost enough.  Almost, but not quite.

41.  I love making out and foreplay.

42. I also love sex.

43. I also curse all the time. Not cursing so much anymore.

44. I am learning the power and necessity of being intentional about everything.

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 OK.

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.  Big M is just like her dad.  Little M 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 or silly AT ALL 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 used to eat out so much.  Now, we just manage it as best we can.

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, unless someone really hurts me.

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.  I mean, water!

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.