2004-01-26 - 7:57 p.m.
I got this idea from my sister, Legs. I did it a little differently, though. Thanks!
Instructions:
1. Copy this whole list into your journal.
2. Bold the things that you have in common with me.
3. Whatever you don't bold, replace with things about you.
1. I love dogs.
2. I am a great teacher.
3. You either love me or hate me.
4. I love the color cobalt blue.
5. I collect knives and coins.
6. I believe people should have to get a license to reproduce.
7. I do not believe in organized religion.
8. I learn quickly.
9. I’ve broken my nose three times (the last two times were three weeks apart).
10. I love my Grandma, TheVoice.
11. I call it as I see it.
12. I have no regrets.
13. I have many opinions, all of which I will share with you at some point.
14. I hate pink on men.
15. I never use a public restroom.
16. People don’t cut me off. I beat them before they can.
17. I don’t like phone calls after 9:30 p.m.
18. I don’t allow you in my car unless you wear your seatbelt.
19. I don’t know how to tie my shoes with the loop, swoop, and pull. I do bunny ears still.
20. I hate my body.
21. I don’t eat hairy fruit (kiwi, peaches, etc.)
22. I drive better than most men I know and can parallel park better than them, too.
23. I believe in eating whatever the hell you want to; just don’t eat too much of any one thing.
24. I believe that when you stop challenging yourself, you become stagnant. To always be active is the key to staying mentally and physically fit.
25. Monday is my favorite day of the week.
26. I almost didn’t survive my birth.
27. My family means everything to me.
28. I hate Barney, the Teletubbies, and child pop stars that overstay their societal welcome.
29. I hate the current “role models” for young girls: Britney Spears (white trash trailer whore), Cristina Aguilera (token Latina Jezebel), Jessica Simpson (typical dumb rich white girl), Jennifer Lopez (changes men like underwear, if she wears any), Brittany Murphy (eat something other than your nails), Paris Hilton (what’s work?), Mariah Carey (bend over and the whole world sees your colon), and, of course, Courtney Love (why does she still have custody of her daughter?).
30. I hate gangsta rap. I don’t care for black men screaming about women being bitches and whores. Just whose coochie did you come out of? A man’s?
31. I love my mother’s “lazy galabky.” She’s shown me how to make it, too.
32. I have a pink birthmark on one of my toes. If you really know me, you know which toe.
33. I believe in taking naps.
34. I don’t like to be forced to do anything.
35. Patience is something that took me a while to learn.
36. I like primary colors.
37. I paint, draw, and sketch in my spare time. I also do scrapbooking and photography.
38. I write and publish.
39. I keep forgetting to take an overdue library book back. If you really know me, you know how long the book is overdue.
40. I love to watch learning as it happens, with kids and puppies, alike.
41. I have a tattoo.
42. I wake up every morning at five.
43. My favorite music is 70’s and 80’s.
44. Whenever I go to a Cubs game, I have to have a hot dog with mustard and a beer with peanuts floating on the top. I get that from my Dad.
45. I hold the phone with my left hand.
46. I know a lot of trivia, none of which really matters.
47. I knew I’d marry my husband the day I saw him. I introduced myself first and sat next to him in class. If you know me well, you know which class it was.
48. My brother is my hero. He shows me anything is possible.
49. My sister and my brother taught me how to read. They also taught me how to walk. Those are two things I still do the most of each day.
50. My Dad taught me how to aim and fire a gun properly.
51. My brother and I once brought home parts of a decomposing cow carcass. I can’t believe our Dad actually let us put the pieces in garbage bags and drive home with them. They’re still in Dad’s yard.
52. I’m artsy, like my Mom. She can do it all.
53. My Mom and I have the same birthmark on our faces, on opposite sides.
54. I have my Gram’s eyebrows and attitude.
55. I have an allergy to stupid people. They make me sick.
56. I believe in love at first sight.
57. My husband calls me “Wifey.”
58. I like pizza from mostly anywhere in Chicago.
59. If I were a color, I’d be red. Cobalt blue might be my favorite, but red is who I am.
60. I hate lines.
61. I can’t sit through a movie; that’s why I don’t go to the theater. I have to keep moving.
62. I’m a stickler for symmetry.
63. I don’t like extreme heat or extreme cold. I also don’t like the cold without snow.
64. I am an Aquarian.
65. I don’t like to take unnecessary risks. Skydiving was a necessary risk, though. I just had to do it.
66. I was married in Maui. I guess you could say I got married on my honeymoon.
67. I am right-handed.
68. I don’t like men who beat up on women. I don’t like the women who sit there and take it. Choice is power.
69. I believe that bitches respect bitches. A strong woman knows another strong woman when she sees her.
70. I can’t live with uncertainty. I naturally crave structure.
71. I don’t trust people easily.
72. I don’t know why we can’t just close the country’s borders for 25 years. Or require visitors to have a round-trip ticket from wherever they left.
73. I like cake donuts with chocolate icing.
74. I love leftover pizza and spaghetti, cold.
75. I don’t care for most of the television programs on prime time TV.
76. I don’t like small places. I need my personal space. Whenever I get on an elevator, I always envision myself stuck between floors.
77. I don’t like escalators, either. I always feel like I’m somehow going to get dragged in like the cartoons depict.
78. I don’t walk over metal sewer grates (the kind where you can see all the way down). They make me feel like I’m going to get sucked into the sewer.
79. If I’m in a place where I can really see the stars, I choose not to look up. It just kills me to look at them. It just reminds me that all of us (the whole world) are merely in a shoebox in someone’s closet. Human beings are probably just someone’s science experiment gone awry. The stars and the sky just feel like they’re going to swallow me when I look at them. When I see stars in Chicago, it’s not the same. We can barely see 1/1000th of what other places can see. Too scary for me. I’m a city girl.
80. I wish I could live in the woods. I’d live off “the fatta the lan’.”
81. My husband is the most patient man I know. He lets me feel what I want to feel when I want to feel it.
82. I am lucky to be who I am.
83. Hollywood is overrated. Even movie stars have flaws. (See www.skinema.com)
84. Men are the weaker sex. Really.
85. I like being alone, but not lonely.
86. My Mother, my sister, and I all arrange our kitchens similarly.
87. I still have nightmares sometimes. And I still speak a strange language in my sleep when I’m stressed out. Ask my husband. He has no idea what I say or to whom I am speaking. He just knows not to wake me.
88. Not a day goes by where I’m not glad I met my husband. He saved my life.
89. God is not for everyone.
90. I can’t get along with people who are lazy and expect something for nothing.
91. I don’t really have a nickname. (If you count “Spitfire,” then I guess I do.)
92. I’ll never get another perm again. I haven’t had one in twelve years. I’m not about to go back.)
93. I wish my feet didn’t hurt so much all the time. It makes it hard to work on my feet. (I’m not a teacher who sits down. I literally can’t. It’s like driving without a seatbelt; it’s not natural.)
94. My middle name is my great-grandmother’s first name. I remember her well and I liked her a lot.
95. My first dog bit me twice on the face.
96. I don’t like being in large bodies of water. I have to be able to see land and get to it, if I have to. I can swim just fine, but I wouldn’t want to swim for my life. I’d probably forget how.
97. Chocolate Labrador Retrievers are my dog of choice.
98. I have traveled to many places, alone and with company.
99. I love vanilla ice cream with regular M&M’s in it.
100. I believe in Eastern medicine.
