100 Things About Me

*This is an old list, but I've updated it somewhat. I have nothing else to post about today so here you go...
**Updating again (on 1/4/13), since it's been three and a half years!

100 Things About Me

1. I am disturbingly attracted to things that are pink.
2. I don’t like talking on the phone.
3. I talk to myself. Regularly.
4. I sing in the car. Loudly.
5. I think Grey’s Anatomy is television chocolate. **It still is!!
6. I’m a soccer mom and proud of it. **Sadly, this is no longer true. I think I'll be a baseball grandma next!
7. But I don’t drive a mini-van.
8. I fully intend to own a convertible something or other someday. **Done!
9. I love most anything if it’s chocolate.
10. Especially men, but that may be TMI.
11. I have worked as a mystery shopper. Shhhhhh!
12. My biggest death-fear is smothering.
13. I love candles.
14. My favorite place to be is in a hot bath.
15. I’m terrified of sharks.
16. And bodies of water where I can’t see my feet.
17. I get motion sick easily.
18. I love dogs.
19. I believe in the power of a woman’s intuition.
20. I'm a feminist and proud of it.
21. Black cats are my favorite. 
22. I once took a Dale Carnegie course on public speaking.
23. I tried college twice, but quit before I finished a full semester both times. *I am currently back in school and doing quite well :)
24. I suck at mailing things.
25. If I could eat birthday cake every day and not gain any weight, I totally would. **Ok, turns out I would do this regardless of the weight thing. Cake is fucking good!!
26. My parents are both diabetic. **And I am apparently pre-diabetic. Evil fucking cake!!
27. My favorite song of all time is a toss up between “Best of My Love” by The Emotions, "Adore" by Prince and "Spend My Whole Life" by Shirley Murdock. **All three of these bring the same person to mind
28. I suffer from occasional insomnia.
29. I lived in my roller skates from the time I was 10 until I turned 12.
30. I am shamelessly addicted to reality TV.
31. I am a “winter”.
32. I occasionally suffer from short-term obsessions with video games. **Not as often anymore.
33. I think I have the most gorgeous kids on the planet. **Because I DO! Duh.
34. And the most talented.
35. But I might sell them to the gypsies if the price was right ;)
36. I collect shot glasses from wherever I travel.
37. I have a complete set of China that my dad bought oversees when he was in the Navy.
38. I love things that sparkle.
39. I have Flintstone feet. **But, they're totally cute!!
40. I love football and the boys who play it.
41. Go Redskins!
42. I don’t feel as short as I am.
43. Barney grew on me.
44. The Teletubbies did not.
45. Give me Spongebob any day.
46. I am helplessly addicted to sunflower seeds. **But, I'm in recovery.
47. I blog because it forces me to exercise my brain.
48. I do not believe that there are horrific karmic repercussions for not forwarding chain emails to 10 of my friends and associates.
49. I love having my eyebrows plucked.
50. I am not afraid to wear red lipstick.
51. I lived in Virginia for 2 years.
52. I was my high school mascot (a Scotty dog). Go Highlanders!
53. I believe in ghosts.
54. I have lupus. **Or fibromyalgia, the jury is still out
55. I am an optimist.
56. Coke over Pepsi, any day.
57. I’m a natural brunette, but I’ve pulled off blonde, red and nearly black.
58. I am decidedly non-religious.
59. I love a good thunderstorm.
60. I drink my coffee black.
61. MSG gives me migraines.
62. According to several unsolicited sources, I “look really good” for my age.
63. I always wanted to have 4 kids. Now I do, plus one "bonus" child.
64. I always wanted to be rich too. Still working on that.
65. I believe my soul mate is still out there. **Found him!!
66. I hate gardening with the passion of 10,000 fiery suns.
67. I love all fashion, but I’m a sucker for cute shoes.
68. I have two brothers and one sister.
69. I don’t cry during weddings, funerals or Hallmark commercials.
70. I have freckles.
71. My eyes change colors depending on what I’m wearing.
72. If laughing out loud were a sport, I’d be an Olympic gold medalist.
73. If I had more free time, I’d take a class in painting or photography. *Currently enrolled to begin a photography class next semester... **Currently pursuing a degree in Photography!!
74. When I retire, I want to live by the water, preferably a lake.
75. I want to run a marathon someday. Or at least a 5k :) **Probably not gonna happen with these knees.
76. I’m harder on myself than I should be.
77. I can’t eat pancakes unless they have chocolate chips in them.
78. The toenail on my pinky toe looks like something truly deformed.
79. I have ADHD.
80. One of my brothers is a Marine.
81. I can be crafty when I want to be. Not the Beastie Boys kind. Well, actually...
82. I learned how to knit a few years back, but I still haven’t finished my first scarf.
83. I enjoy reading, but mostly inconsequential stuff.
84. When I was a teenager, I hated my hometown. Now, I can’t imagine living anywhere else.
85. I’ve lived in 12 different apts/houses since moving out of my mom’s house at the age of 20 but I’ve never moved “back home”. **Make that 14 and counting.
86. I started working at the age of 14 so I could save for my first car.
87. My first car was an orange ’74 Super Beetle.
88. My parents eloped.
89. My grandfather was taken prisoner by the Japanese in World War II at the battle of Wake Island, even though he was a civilian, and was held for 1,444 days.
90. I graduated high school in 1988.
91. I don’t know how I lived before TIVO. **DVR - Tivo is so yesterday ;)
92. I was blessed with naturally straight teeth.
93. Every once in a while, I make breakfast for dinner. Chocolate chip pancakes anyone?!
94. My first love was a drug addict.**My soul mate is a recovering addict. Same guy! True story. :)
95. I often have weird bruises that I have no idea how I got. My theory is alien abduction.
96. I admire people who stand up for their beliefs, even if I don’t agree with them.
97. I love to dance.
98. High heels make me feel more confident than I normally would.
99. I am a very vivid dreamer.
100. I’ve never been outside of the continental United States. I hope to change this one someday.