For Reference: 100 Things About Me
1. I must check the stove before I go to bed at night whenever I’ve used it during the day. I must check every knob including the oven knob, even if I used one single burner.
2. I’m addicted to propel water
3. I can’t stand to drink warm or lukewarm water.
4. I can’t always remember which way is left and which is right. This is more so when I am the passenger in a car and I am asked which way to turn. I have to point Every. Single. Time.
5. I still use my fingers to count.
6. My guilty pleasure of the moment is America’s Next Top Model. Of course, I watch just to see the finished photographs.
7. Whenever possible, I take two showers during the day.
8. I rely on Word’s spellchecker way too much.
9. When I’m nervous or jittery, I tend to pick at my cuticles.
10. I’m beginning to be prejudiced against fat people even though I’ve been one for more than half my life.
11. I am an atheist who has never been given an acceptable reason to believe in a god.
12. Both of my biological grandmothers were Bi-polar. I fear I may end up the same way.
13. I never tie my shoelaces. I like to slip in and out of my shoes.
14. I own just over a dozen pairs of shoes- most of them black.
15. I hate shoes. I can’t understand the shoe fetish that many women have.
16. Maybe I hate shoes because I am a size 9 and most shoes stocked at the stores are 7’s and 8’s. I never pay full price for shoes so I never go early enough in the season to get the best styles that actually fit me.
17. I am a tidy person trapped in the body of a messy person.
18. I use my tweezers every single day.
19. The Daily Show has turned me off to the whole news culture (because of the depressing state our country is in) but it hasn’t stopped me from voting.
20. I have a thing for redheaded women.
21. My biological clock is ticking.
22. I want to have a little girl more than anything in the world.
23. We’ve already started picking out her name.
24. I cannot blow my nose (don’t laugh).
25. I want a puppy. Perhaps he will show the cats how a pet is suppose to love its owner!
26. I cannot use a pencil unless it’s a Ticonderoga.
27. I only write with gel or gel like pens. The Pilot G2 pen is my absolute favorite.
28. I can’t keep a plant alive but I want a vegetable garden badly.
29. All the flowers in my house are fake. I think it’s positively sinful to cut flowers.
30. I hate fancy labels.
31. I cannot sit at a wobbly table and be comfortable. It’s a pet peeve of mine.
32. I have had 12 major jobs since I was 15. There may be other ones that I had to file taxes for but they aren’t memorable enough to count.
33. The shortest time I’ve spent on a job was 2 weeks. The longest will be four years next month. Now ask me if I liked any of them!!
34. I get nervous around people who intimidate me intellectually.
35. I despise people who butt lines, refuse (or conveniently forget) to open the door for me, or who are otherwise impolite.
36. I am unofficially allergic to coffee, donuts and alcohol. Officially, I can live without all of them.
37. My favorite songs include Sleepwalk by Santo and Johnny, Habanera from Carmen, Israel Kamakawiwo’ole’s Somewhere Over the Rainbow and What a Wonderful World put together, and Chet Baker’s (best) version of My Funny Valentine.
38. I have heard ‘More Than a Feeling’ by Boston at least 2 dozen times on the radio just by random chance in the last 9 months.
39. Of course, nothing to do with Clear Channel radio is ever random.
40. I prefer Mo’nique to Beyonce any day of the week. Luckily, my boyfriend does too!
41. The worst thing about being a girl (IMHO) was losing myself completely during my teenage years.
42. The best thing about being a girl is having that certain power over the boys and reveling in it.
43. I hate blockbuster movies. Where is the acting, I say?
44. My all-time favorite movies include ‘My Own Private Idaho’, ‘Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind’, ‘Memento’, ‘Requiem For a Dream’, ‘Amelie’, ‘Secretary’ and ‘The Sixth Sense’.
45. I notice that most, if not all of my favorite movies have been Sundance features.
46. Favorite short stories of all time: ‘That Feeling, You Can Only Say What it is in French’ by Stephen King and ‘Santaland Diaries’ by David Sedaris.
47. When I donate to charity, I give to Planned Parenthood, United Way, Relay for Life and St. Vincent DePaul’s.
48. I live paycheck to paycheck so it gets hard to donate on a regular basis.
49. Not including my student loans (which are too daunting to look at), I am in debt by about $5500.
50. I expect to have close to $1500 of that paid off by the end of the year (fingers crossed).
51. I like to knit but I have a very hard time finishing projects. I have yet to move completely past the scarf stage.
52. I’d love to learn how to sew. I would use Oriental prints as an accent to everything. I’d sew my own clothes to fit my weird hourglass shape and I’d make fabulous curtains for every room.
53. When I become a mommy, I don’t want to stay at home all the time. But I do want to have a schedule that allows me to spend more time with my child than a babysitter would.
54. Perhaps the budding photography hobby would help my spouse and I achieve that type of schedule without losing too much income.
55. I’m 95% sure that I found my future husband.
56. And he knows it because he said it to me first.
57. I’m happy to the point of wanting one of those dippy tee-shirts that says “The Future Mrs. _______”.
58. I just want to make sure that we do this the right way and we go into it fully prepared to be together forever. I don’t believe in divorce for myself except in extreme cases.
59. My best friend is getting married next year and I am her maid of honor. Secretly, I wish I was the one getting married. But maybe I’ll at least be engaged by then.
60. My ideal career would involve renovating buildings for single family use and selling them for affordable prices, maybe even setting up a management company on the side to help assist renters in buying the homes they would start out renting from me.
61. I’d do that because it would make me proud to find affordable homes that fit families perfectly. I’d also do it to avoid more new and butt ugly construction in this country.
62. I don’t like bugs in my home but I don’t feel right about killing them.
63. I usually point the cats in their creepy crawly direction whenever possible.
64. One strange thing that haunts me is being part of a group of little kids that tortured a slug with salt.
65. I fear coming back in my next life as a slug.
66. I love the way the French language sounds.
67. But I would have more use for learning Spanish.
68. My favorite places on earth include all of Hilton Head Island, my parents’ house in the middle of a silent winter night, a certain sand dune in Newport, and my shower.
69. I think all those grammar rules totally blow.
70. I am slowly becoming the person I’ve aspired to be. I naively thought I would be that person when I turned 18.
71. I hate using public toilets. Not because of germs but because I value my privacy from strangers.
72. At my worst, I’m self-centered and high maintenance.
73. At my best, I am passionate and occasionally thoughtful.
74. I’ve never broken a bone and until high school I managed to go through life with only 4 little stitches. Today I have somewhere in the neighborhood of 35-40.
75. ‘Runaway Train’ by Soul Asylum reminds me of my high school crush. ‘The Time Warp’ reminds me of one of my relationships. So does ‘Is This Love’ by Bob Marley, ‘Feelin’ Way Too Damn Good’ by Nickleback and ‘More Than a Feeling’ by Boston.
76. I hate people who immerse themselves in celebrity gossip and all the related TV shows but sometimes I find myself turning to it to avoid the horrors of the fighting in other countries and the constant ineptitude of our current president.
77. I have a thing about personal space. I need a certain amount and I tend to avoid giving hugs to anyone other than close friends and family.
78. The thought of going to a day spa, getting a pedicure, a bikini wax, or a professional massage makes me panicky. I just don’t like strangers that close to me.
79. I had a hard time finding a reason to stop shopping at Wal-Mart until recently when our local store became a disaster area with no employees and untidy shelves. I now go out of my way to avoid Wal-Mart. It’s not cheaper to go somewhere else, but there is a lot less hassle!! Now I can jump on the Anti Wal-Mart bandwagon and not feel like a total hypocrite.
80. I give evolution two opposable thumbs up!
81. I suffer from migraines. Probably due to stress in most cases and gritting my teeth constantly.
82. I like to walk barefoot whenever possible.
83. At my wedding, I will dance barefoot in freshly mowed grass. It sounds a thousand times more appealing than a parquet dance floor.
84. One of the worst things about losing weight is feeling colder more often. I have a lot less body heat to keep me warm.
85. One of the best things is being a thousand times less gassy! (Yes, it’s very true.. for me anyway)
86. I’ll avoid wearing a coat in the winter because I don’t want to look any fatter than I am. It doesn’t matter if I’m freezing- I refuse to look like the Michelin Man!
87. I had a form of body dysmorphic disorder for many years.
88. When I was in 9th grade, I refused to take gym class because we were going to have to swim for the semester. I was not about to get around my peers in a bathing suit. My counselor said I’d never graduate if I didn’t get in the pool.
89. I graduated in 1995 and I never put even one toe into the water. I transferred schools and got gym credit for bowling, yoga, and intense badminton classes.
90. Most of my English credits in high school came from acting. I had parts in 13 different plays in 2 and half years.
91. If you haven’t guessed, I went to a very liberal alternative high school- Malcolm Shabazz City High School in Madison, Wisconsin. It was both a good thing and a bad thing.
92. I have a bad habit of putting my foot in my mouth when I think others can’t hear me talk about them.
93. My biggest regrets include a very unhealthy lifestyle for most of my life, the way I have treated family and friends from time to time (especially when I was young), and certain people that I have fallen for that I wished I hadn’t.
94. There have been times when I wished for a massive illness to ravage my body just so I could lose weight.
95. When I lay down on my side, I love the way my hand can rest on my hip bone.
96. I have an irrational fear of choking to death on food.
97. I eat very small bites of food and small meals because of this fear.
98. I only feel like an adult because I choose breath freshening mint gum over bubblegum, news and history programs over cartoons and paying rent over living at home.
99. I’m waiting on pins and needles for the day that I have a wedding ring on my finger, a baby on one hip, and an architectural design practice.
100. Secretly I’m scared that I won’t be able to juggle all three and stay sane.
2. I’m addicted to propel water
3. I can’t stand to drink warm or lukewarm water.
4. I can’t always remember which way is left and which is right. This is more so when I am the passenger in a car and I am asked which way to turn. I have to point Every. Single. Time.
5. I still use my fingers to count.
6. My guilty pleasure of the moment is America’s Next Top Model. Of course, I watch just to see the finished photographs.
7. Whenever possible, I take two showers during the day.
8. I rely on Word’s spellchecker way too much.
9. When I’m nervous or jittery, I tend to pick at my cuticles.
10. I’m beginning to be prejudiced against fat people even though I’ve been one for more than half my life.
11. I am an atheist who has never been given an acceptable reason to believe in a god.
12. Both of my biological grandmothers were Bi-polar. I fear I may end up the same way.
13. I never tie my shoelaces. I like to slip in and out of my shoes.
14. I own just over a dozen pairs of shoes- most of them black.
15. I hate shoes. I can’t understand the shoe fetish that many women have.
16. Maybe I hate shoes because I am a size 9 and most shoes stocked at the stores are 7’s and 8’s. I never pay full price for shoes so I never go early enough in the season to get the best styles that actually fit me.
17. I am a tidy person trapped in the body of a messy person.
18. I use my tweezers every single day.
19. The Daily Show has turned me off to the whole news culture (because of the depressing state our country is in) but it hasn’t stopped me from voting.
20. I have a thing for redheaded women.
21. My biological clock is ticking.
22. I want to have a little girl more than anything in the world.
23. We’ve already started picking out her name.
24. I cannot blow my nose (don’t laugh).
25. I want a puppy. Perhaps he will show the cats how a pet is suppose to love its owner!
26. I cannot use a pencil unless it’s a Ticonderoga.
27. I only write with gel or gel like pens. The Pilot G2 pen is my absolute favorite.
28. I can’t keep a plant alive but I want a vegetable garden badly.
29. All the flowers in my house are fake. I think it’s positively sinful to cut flowers.
30. I hate fancy labels.
31. I cannot sit at a wobbly table and be comfortable. It’s a pet peeve of mine.
32. I have had 12 major jobs since I was 15. There may be other ones that I had to file taxes for but they aren’t memorable enough to count.
33. The shortest time I’ve spent on a job was 2 weeks. The longest will be four years next month. Now ask me if I liked any of them!!
34. I get nervous around people who intimidate me intellectually.
35. I despise people who butt lines, refuse (or conveniently forget) to open the door for me, or who are otherwise impolite.
36. I am unofficially allergic to coffee, donuts and alcohol. Officially, I can live without all of them.
37. My favorite songs include Sleepwalk by Santo and Johnny, Habanera from Carmen, Israel Kamakawiwo’ole’s Somewhere Over the Rainbow and What a Wonderful World put together, and Chet Baker’s (best) version of My Funny Valentine.
38. I have heard ‘More Than a Feeling’ by Boston at least 2 dozen times on the radio just by random chance in the last 9 months.
39. Of course, nothing to do with Clear Channel radio is ever random.
40. I prefer Mo’nique to Beyonce any day of the week. Luckily, my boyfriend does too!
41. The worst thing about being a girl (IMHO) was losing myself completely during my teenage years.
42. The best thing about being a girl is having that certain power over the boys and reveling in it.
43. I hate blockbuster movies. Where is the acting, I say?
44. My all-time favorite movies include ‘My Own Private Idaho’, ‘Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind’, ‘Memento’, ‘Requiem For a Dream’, ‘Amelie’, ‘Secretary’ and ‘The Sixth Sense’.
45. I notice that most, if not all of my favorite movies have been Sundance features.
46. Favorite short stories of all time: ‘That Feeling, You Can Only Say What it is in French’ by Stephen King and ‘Santaland Diaries’ by David Sedaris.
47. When I donate to charity, I give to Planned Parenthood, United Way, Relay for Life and St. Vincent DePaul’s.
48. I live paycheck to paycheck so it gets hard to donate on a regular basis.
49. Not including my student loans (which are too daunting to look at), I am in debt by about $5500.
50. I expect to have close to $1500 of that paid off by the end of the year (fingers crossed).
51. I like to knit but I have a very hard time finishing projects. I have yet to move completely past the scarf stage.
52. I’d love to learn how to sew. I would use Oriental prints as an accent to everything. I’d sew my own clothes to fit my weird hourglass shape and I’d make fabulous curtains for every room.
53. When I become a mommy, I don’t want to stay at home all the time. But I do want to have a schedule that allows me to spend more time with my child than a babysitter would.
54. Perhaps the budding photography hobby would help my spouse and I achieve that type of schedule without losing too much income.
55. I’m 95% sure that I found my future husband.
56. And he knows it because he said it to me first.
57. I’m happy to the point of wanting one of those dippy tee-shirts that says “The Future Mrs. _______”.
58. I just want to make sure that we do this the right way and we go into it fully prepared to be together forever. I don’t believe in divorce for myself except in extreme cases.
59. My best friend is getting married next year and I am her maid of honor. Secretly, I wish I was the one getting married. But maybe I’ll at least be engaged by then.
60. My ideal career would involve renovating buildings for single family use and selling them for affordable prices, maybe even setting up a management company on the side to help assist renters in buying the homes they would start out renting from me.
61. I’d do that because it would make me proud to find affordable homes that fit families perfectly. I’d also do it to avoid more new and butt ugly construction in this country.
62. I don’t like bugs in my home but I don’t feel right about killing them.
63. I usually point the cats in their creepy crawly direction whenever possible.
64. One strange thing that haunts me is being part of a group of little kids that tortured a slug with salt.
65. I fear coming back in my next life as a slug.
66. I love the way the French language sounds.
67. But I would have more use for learning Spanish.
68. My favorite places on earth include all of Hilton Head Island, my parents’ house in the middle of a silent winter night, a certain sand dune in Newport, and my shower.
69. I think all those grammar rules totally blow.
70. I am slowly becoming the person I’ve aspired to be. I naively thought I would be that person when I turned 18.
71. I hate using public toilets. Not because of germs but because I value my privacy from strangers.
72. At my worst, I’m self-centered and high maintenance.
73. At my best, I am passionate and occasionally thoughtful.
74. I’ve never broken a bone and until high school I managed to go through life with only 4 little stitches. Today I have somewhere in the neighborhood of 35-40.
75. ‘Runaway Train’ by Soul Asylum reminds me of my high school crush. ‘The Time Warp’ reminds me of one of my relationships. So does ‘Is This Love’ by Bob Marley, ‘Feelin’ Way Too Damn Good’ by Nickleback and ‘More Than a Feeling’ by Boston.
76. I hate people who immerse themselves in celebrity gossip and all the related TV shows but sometimes I find myself turning to it to avoid the horrors of the fighting in other countries and the constant ineptitude of our current president.
77. I have a thing about personal space. I need a certain amount and I tend to avoid giving hugs to anyone other than close friends and family.
78. The thought of going to a day spa, getting a pedicure, a bikini wax, or a professional massage makes me panicky. I just don’t like strangers that close to me.
79. I had a hard time finding a reason to stop shopping at Wal-Mart until recently when our local store became a disaster area with no employees and untidy shelves. I now go out of my way to avoid Wal-Mart. It’s not cheaper to go somewhere else, but there is a lot less hassle!! Now I can jump on the Anti Wal-Mart bandwagon and not feel like a total hypocrite.
80. I give evolution two opposable thumbs up!
81. I suffer from migraines. Probably due to stress in most cases and gritting my teeth constantly.
82. I like to walk barefoot whenever possible.
83. At my wedding, I will dance barefoot in freshly mowed grass. It sounds a thousand times more appealing than a parquet dance floor.
84. One of the worst things about losing weight is feeling colder more often. I have a lot less body heat to keep me warm.
85. One of the best things is being a thousand times less gassy! (Yes, it’s very true.. for me anyway)
86. I’ll avoid wearing a coat in the winter because I don’t want to look any fatter than I am. It doesn’t matter if I’m freezing- I refuse to look like the Michelin Man!
87. I had a form of body dysmorphic disorder for many years.
88. When I was in 9th grade, I refused to take gym class because we were going to have to swim for the semester. I was not about to get around my peers in a bathing suit. My counselor said I’d never graduate if I didn’t get in the pool.
89. I graduated in 1995 and I never put even one toe into the water. I transferred schools and got gym credit for bowling, yoga, and intense badminton classes.
90. Most of my English credits in high school came from acting. I had parts in 13 different plays in 2 and half years.
91. If you haven’t guessed, I went to a very liberal alternative high school- Malcolm Shabazz City High School in Madison, Wisconsin. It was both a good thing and a bad thing.
92. I have a bad habit of putting my foot in my mouth when I think others can’t hear me talk about them.
93. My biggest regrets include a very unhealthy lifestyle for most of my life, the way I have treated family and friends from time to time (especially when I was young), and certain people that I have fallen for that I wished I hadn’t.
94. There have been times when I wished for a massive illness to ravage my body just so I could lose weight.
95. When I lay down on my side, I love the way my hand can rest on my hip bone.
96. I have an irrational fear of choking to death on food.
97. I eat very small bites of food and small meals because of this fear.
98. I only feel like an adult because I choose breath freshening mint gum over bubblegum, news and history programs over cartoons and paying rent over living at home.
99. I’m waiting on pins and needles for the day that I have a wedding ring on my finger, a baby on one hip, and an architectural design practice.
100. Secretly I’m scared that I won’t be able to juggle all three and stay sane.
posted by punkindunkin at 5:07 PM
1 Comments:
Neat list. Totally with you on #2 and #3. And #20. #31, too.
Good for you for not breaking any bones. I've fractured 2. Haven't kept track of the stitches. Had about 20 staples for my shoulder surgery. 3 suture anchors, too.
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