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100 things about me

  1. I am a dog person
  2. and a cat person.
  3. I would like my last meal to be tortilla chips with salsa, sour cream, queso, AND guacamole, a couple margaritas, spinach enchiladas with sour cream sauce, all followed up by Blue Bell Cookies n’ Cream ice cream.
  4. I hate having people mad at me.
  5. I can play the Darth Vader theme on the cello.
  6. I am only 5′6″ but wear size 10 shoes.
  7. I like to cook, but not everyday.
  8. I am not a Democrat
  9. or a Republican.
  10. I cry when I get mad.
  11. I hate berries. Yes, all kinds. Yes, I know they all taste different. I try them every few years just to make sure I still hate them. I always still do.
  12. I don’t eat meat or fish, ever.
  13. I don’t have any tattoos, but I want one on my foot.
  14. Tulips are my favorite flower.
  15. I’m not superstitious.
  16. I use nine-digit ZIP codes whenever possible.
  17. I have a favorite number, not a lucky one: 3.
  18. I HATE the color pink.
  19. I like brown, blue, and green a lot.
  20. I love kids’ books
  21. but I don’t like kids.
  22. There are a couple exceptions to that rule. They are named Emmit and Jasper.
  23. I know lots of lyrics to 80s country songs.
  24. I am a very loyal friend.
  25. My first job was scooping cat shit and cleaning hairballs in a cats-only boarding facility.
  26. I sing “Happy Birthday” con gusto.
  27. I don’t believe my Myers-Briggs type will tell you anything useful about me.
  28. I am terrified of cockroaches.
  29. I am alarmed by how quickly I go through toilet paper.
  30. People are always surprised when they first hear me swear.
  31. I swear a lot.
  32. Good spelling is very important to me.
  33. I will point out if you’ve misspelled “definite.” It really bothers me.
  34. I’m a good listener.
  35. But I hate the telephone.
  36. Silliness is one of my favorite qualities.
  37. I HATE the word “signage.” Ugh. They’re signs, people.
  38. I love it when friends call me by my last name.
  39. I once quit a job by screaming curse words at the manager and storming out.
  40. It felt pretty damn good.
  41. I like to write.
  42. Some days I think I’m pretty good at it.
  43. Some days I think I’m pretty shit.
  44. I wish I knew more about politics.
  45. I collect zany, ugly, weird, and nonsensical postcards.
  46. I always put stamps on upside down.
  47. I have over 100 pairs of novelty socks and zero pairs of plain white socks.
  48. The Sechler Pickle Factory in St. Joe, Indiana is the best tour I’ve ever been on.
  49. I will never own a pair of khaki pants.
  50. Click and Clack (on NPR’s Car Talk) taught me how to parallel park.
  51. I am fascinated by how the human body works.
  52. The only thing I’m really squeamish about is eyeballs.
  53. Cold pizza is about the best breakfast I can think of.
  54. I really really really want to learn how to surf.
  55. And to learn Italian. I studied it for a year and loved it.
  56. I don’t think the word “truly” ever sounds sincere.
  57. I love traveling by myself.
  58. I am directionally challenged.
  59. Good thing I’m okay with a little adventure!
  60. I over-research and therefore over-think important decisions.
  61. Well, sometimes unimportant ones, too.
  62. I have a compulsive need to alphabetize things.
  63. This may be a result of having worked at McBookstore for 5 1/2 years.
  64. Being hungry makes me very, very cranky.
  65. I didn’t have my first alcoholic drink until age 19.
  66. Yeah, I was a big dork in high school. It built character.
  67. I’m tougher than you think.
  68. I have run one full marathon and seven half-marathons.
  69. I am not religious
  70. but I am fascinated by religious imagery in art.
  71. Yeah. Still a big dork.
  72. I have a thing for green shoes.
  73. My first car was a 1998 bright red Dodge Neon named Greta.
  74. I bought her when I was 22.
  75. I totaled her when I was 26.
  76. One of my favorite things to do is sing at the very top of my lungs while I’m driving. I don’t really care if the windows are down. Sometimes it doesn’t even matter if I don’t know all the words.
  77. I seem to attract friends who share my first name.
  78. I love taking factory tours!
  79. All non-Bluebell ice cream must be mixed with milk and mushed up into a milkshake. Forget beer; milkshakes are proof God loves us. Bluebell tastes so good it doesn’t really need it, though.
  80. Stick shifts are way more fun to drive.
  81. I love writing letters on pretty paper, and then decorating the envelope. Usually with lots of stickers.
  82. I don’t believe in soul mates.
  83. I do believe in love. And snuggling. Lots of snuggling.
  84. I always wanted to be able to draw and to able to sing. Neither was meant to be.
  85. I am always late.
  86. I hate being late! But I hate being early, too. It feels like such a waste of time.
  87. My current magazines subscriptions are The Atlantic Monthly and The New Yorker. But I read the trashy celebrity/gossip magazines when I can get them!
  88. I have been hit on by at least eight different creepy old men named Steve.
  89. Soccer is my favorite sport.
  90. Live baseball is pretty fun, too.
  91. I don’t follow any sports teams.
  92. I have been behind the wheel in three car accidents. In the last one, my airbag deployed, leaving me with Angelina Jolie lips for the rest of the afternoon.
  93. One thing that really annoys me is when, after finding out I’m from Texas, people ask, “Where’s your accent?” I suppose it’s a natural enough question, but I’ve heard it so many times I can barely muster a polite answer. And what do I say? I mean, I just don’t have one, okay?
  94. When I was little, I took every dance class/music class/sport I could: ballet, jazz, tap, basketball, softball, soccer, piano lessons, flute lessons…
  95. The flute lessons did not last long at all. It was for fourth grade band, and I wanted to play saxophone more than anything. But our 86-year-old band director said that “girls don’t play the saxophone,” and he made me play the flute. I hated it and faked my way through every concert we played. Finally he just moved me to the bass drum.
  96. I have never broken any bones.
  97. But I have a trick shoulder. Its trick? It knows when it’s going to rain.
  98. I don’t know what I want to be when I grow up.
  99. This is either very frustrating or very exciting, depending on my frame of mind.
  100. I know a little bit about a lot of things.

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  1. Comment by MonkeyPosh on 20 April 2008 8:20 am

    Helllo! I am cracking up at your 100 things. I can identify with so many of them. SHOUT OUT Bluebell! I am from Oklahoma (and now live in the Chicago area), so I get it with the Bluebell. Whatever with this custard stuff! HA

    I also share your talent of knowing words to country songs from the 80’s. Sadly they are the background music of my youth.

    I actually found you through “Four Months in Rome” whom I found while trying to find a hair dresser in Oklahoma. Google is a strange, strange animal.

    I have a friend from Texas who know lives in Chicago who also RAVES about Bluebell all the time, she also worked in a no kill cat shelter for a long time. She also likes to write (and writes a music blog for internet radio), etc. At first when I was reading your list I thought it was my friend, Emily.

    Very funny blog, and I love your photos.

    Lovely day to you!
    Jen at MonkeyPosh

  2. Comment by justaguy11 on 22 June 2008 12:46 am

    Okay, so I (somehow) found your blog, read two posts and your “100 things” entry and I was enthralled by your complete lack of spelling errors, your apparent use of proper grammar, and your similarity to many of my 100 things…none of which I’ve documented anywhere. (I hope you aren’t offended by ellipses…which might be like berries in the writing world). I’m going to follow you on Twitter, if that’s okay with you. Cheers.
    justaguy11

  3. Comment by Anthony Zuccarini on 24 August 2008 9:24 pm

    I love your site. Just one thing, I think number 43 is a fragmented sentence.

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