101 Things About Me

101 Things About Me

1. I hate it when they don’t play the second half of Tainted Love by Soft Cell on the radio. 
2. I love pretty aprons, and any pretty fabric. 
3. In college, I used to make mix tapes at the end of the year using all of my favorite music that my roommates and that year’s boyfriend had. 
4. Those are some of my favorite mixes and are a great way to remember those times instantly.
5. I miss sharing music with my friends and boyfriends like I did in college.
6. I think the library is one of the best inventions EVER. I love walking in the library and running my fingers along the books as I walk down the row, then picking out whatever books interest me. 
7. I kind of do that with the internet now. 
8. I used to feel like I was born in too modern of a time and wished I lived WAY back in the day. 
9. I changed my mind when people started using the internet.  (Which is also one of the best inventions EVER!)
10. I consider “wasting” sunsets a luxury.  Whenever I don’t have a camera and there is a beautiful sunset, I know that its ok not to be able to “save” it with a picture, because I have a nearly endless supply of sunsets! Its very decadent.
11. I don’t believe that you have to lack something to appreciate it, because I’ve always had hot water available to me and I always appreciate it.
12. I make up songs about my life and sing to myself sometimes while I drive in my car. I also talk to myself in different character’s voices. (! Now you know!)
13. Music, humor, and love help me believe in goodness. Just the fact that they exist. Especially music which seems so unnecessary and is so wonderful.
14. I’m a radical feminist.
15. Pet peeve: any woman who has been to school, owns any of her own things, would hope to have rights to her children after divorce, has ever earned money, or has voted who considers herself anti-feminist.
16. I used to make vast irrigation routes in the cities I designed in the dirt.
17. I used to look out the car window when I was little and imagine how I would redo the landscaping along the freeway.
18. I have made up a lot of inventions that it turns out have already been invented; like taco salad.
19. One of my favorite memories from high school was my art class where we would draw and paint while occasionally talking and laughing as we worked.
20. A couple of my pieces of art made it into juried exhibits. I’m really proud of this.
21. My high school asked if they could keep one of my drawings. They did, framed it, and hung it in the hall.
22. I love being cooked for. And I’d rather do the dishes than cook. 
23. But I only like to do the dishes if I can wear rubber gloves while I do it.
24. I got about 60 credits in one summer at college- including a minor in Danish.and 20 credits of Norwegian.
25. When I was 25 I started to have … whatever that word is when you forget the word you were trying to say. 
26. I have lived with over 100 people; over 30 by the time I was 18. 
27. I am an only child. 
28. I have a lot of inside jokes with myself. I think this is a consequence of being an only child.
29. I am good at imitating voices and accents, comedy improv, dancing, singing, and writing songs, writing words, and some kinds of art. 
30. This is offset by my lack of talent, (despite my efforts) in cooking, fashion, shopping, remembering what cars people drive, and sewing, to name a few.
31. Speaking of non-talents: I have no sports knowledge or skills and I don’t like watching sports on TV at ALL, 
32. but I have always dated athletic guys. 
33. They all try and teach me their sports, which I like, and they usually tell me that “I coulda been a contender!”  This makes me feel better ’cause:
34. I really wish I could have learned how to play sports as a kid. Just so I could play on an amateur team, or play a pick up game of… whatever. :)
35. I have never downloaded music illegally.
36. I feel self-righteous about that.
37. I don’t have a best friend, but I wish I did.
38. I love my hands.
39. I sang before I spoke.
40. I want four kids.
41. I also want a nanny! or a housekeeper.
42. I might have to settle for two kids because I’m in my mid-thirties.
43. I don’t want just one kid because I was an only child and it was often lonely. Even though:
44. When I was a kid, I lived in a neighborhood with about 300 kids within walking distance.
45. I was allowed to stay out unsupervised until dark.
46. My favorite games we used to plat were pirate and snow spy!
47. I’m not going to allow my kids to play with Barbie Dolls or guns although I LOVED my Barbie Dolls and very realistic cap guns.
48. I like alpha males.
49. I don’t shave my legs.
50. I just can’t justify doing something so illogical!
51. I like the philosophy of the Tao.
52. I care very much if I look beautiful.
53. I like the idea of the Tao of beauty.
54. I used to have gas and an uncomfortable stomach almost every day of my life until I discovered, about 15 years ago, that I was 1. lactose intolerant and 2. that sugar free gum gave me gas.
55. I know how to play the guitar.
56. I really, really, really want an art studio.
57. I often wonder if I have something physically wrong with me so I try not to hear about symptoms of diseases.
58. I don’t have a cable because it is too easy for me to get addicted to tv.
59. I can relate to the idea of all of us having a Trickster archetype in us. 
60. I can especially relate to the idea of God having some Trickster in him/her. (Very funny, God)
61. I think a good solution to the he/she dilemma would be to create a new ungendered pronoun: “e”
62. I have reactive hypoglycemia.
63. The animals I’ve known have been a big part of my life.
64. One of the things I want most in life is a happy family.
65. In conversation I often hear phrases that could be used as taglines in unconventional ads.
66. I used to keep a quote board of phrases that my friends said that made me laugh.
67. Pet peeve: when people find out I was an only child and ask: “Were you spoiled?”
68. Sometimes when I am perturbed, I prefer to resort to expressive sounds rather than words. 
69. Pet peeve: when reporters ask someone who has been through a terrible ordeal, “How do you feel?” “Were you scared when you saw the giant ball of fire coming towards you?” “Did you feel sad as you saw your wife and children sink down under the water?”
70. Closely related pet peeve : when I see pictures or videos of people who need help. DROP THE CAMERA! HELP THE PEOPLE! grr.
71. I love puppy breath.
72. My favorite months are April and October. 
73. I love the clear orangish light that there sometimes is in the fall. That’s my favorite light.
74. My favorite weather is when it’s sunny AND raining.
75. I also love thunderstorms.
76. Sometimes “World Peace” sounds boring to me. I prefer “World Creation.”
77. Many times when I think about what I want to do, the answer is: lay outside on the grass under a tree.
78. I once saved a man from drowning.
79. I used to soothe myself by making up math problems and solving them.
80. I would like to have a room on the top of the house with all windows on the ceiling and big pillows on the ground so that I can lay up there and watch the sky.
81. I have wanted my own house very badly for 15 years.
82. I hate the suburbs- I like small towns and big cities. They both feel like small towns to me.
83. I don’t mind riding the bus.
84. My snapshot picture of my perfect life is me walking up to my cottage-like house with a basket of food I have bought at the farmer’s market, and my husband standing outside greeting me, and my kids waving and smiling from the upstairs windows.
85. I love sitting in my mom and her husband’s living room. It’s cozy.
86. When I was little I wanted to be a “singing nurse”
87. My step-sister Kristy was a really good sister to me.
88. When I was little I thought she looked like a goddess, with long flowing golden hair.
89. Now I see her in pictures and she has dirty blond hair, glasses, and braces, and buck teeth. ? I didn’t see any of that. 
90. I used to love the smell of wet cement.
91. I snuck out of my house in the summer at about 4 in the morning when I was about 5 or 6 and ran down the sidewalks in my bare feet, in my pink nightgown, with my arms stretched out like an airplane, through the sprinklers which came on so early in the morning.
92. I can still totally remember the sound of my feet slapping on the pavement.
93. I have a scar on my knee from falling asleep kneeling on the heating vent.
94. The giant paradox of my childhood was deciding between being good or being happy. I got over that when I decided it was a false paradox.
95. But I still feel a bittersweet compassion for myself for deciding on “good.”
96. I used to feel like I missed a day in kindergarten when some crucial skills were taught. 
97. I’m *finally* learning what some of those things are.
98. I can’t believe that its turning out that I’m amusing and artsy.
99. The poem Invictus was a talisman for me during some tough early teen years, and I recited it to myself and wrote “Invictus” on my folders, and shoes, and pants.
100. I crashed into our neighbors house in a car when I was 11. I was house-sitting for them. They weren’t mad because their insurance paid for them to get a bay window!
101. I learned the most about how I want to parent from having pets, especially dogs.

Related posts

• You don’t have to be a lone warrior (3)
• Animal Rights, what do you think? (7)
• Sometimes you just need your mother (3)