Okay, so I’m actually more or less at post 200, but you’ll forgive me if I only give 100 things about me – really, I’m just looking out for you.
1. I have turned 27.
2. More than once.
3. Scout and I were married 9 years, 1 month, and 14 days after our first kiss.
4. I knew he was my lobster before he knew he was my lobster.
5. I used to hate scrapbooking.
6. I changed my mind.
7. I have been to 10 foreign countries (Canada, Mexico, England, Ireland, Scotland, France, Germany, Cayman Islands, Jamaica)
8. I just realized our passports expired last week.
9. I’m concerned that England, Ireland and Scotland are all part of the UK and not actual countries, I’m afraid that I’m looking like a stupid American right about now.
10. Since being pregnant, I don’t have to shave my legs as often. This is my one perk of pregnancy. (other than the baby… clearly)
11. Scout is 13 inches taller than me. (Oh wait, this is about me… I am 13 inches shorter than Scout.)
12. My dad is a retired mortician.
13. He used to work with FEMA to identify people after mass casualties.
14. Like airline crashes.
15. I’m terrified of flying.
16. I went to 3 universities before getting a Bachelors degree.
17. They all have different names now.
18. I have a disgustingly high IQ.
19. I routinely forget to put the lid on popcorn while popping it.
20. I have insomnia.
21. Right now.
22. Which is perverse because I’ve been exhausted all day.
23. I adore Trinny and Susannah and detest Clinton and Stacey.
24. I grew up in the same town as Shawn Pelton. (The drummer from Saturday Night Live.)
25. I had his mom for class.
26. Somewhere is a photo of me with David Hasselhoff. At the World of Wheels when I was 8 or so.
27. I use a MacBook Pro.
28. It’s missing a tab key because the Kaiser ripped it off.
29. I love German food. Especially schnitzel. Okay, fine, the sauce on the schnitzel.
30. I want to live in Germany.
31. I want to make the Kaiser learn German, so I can live vicariously through my child.
32. I don’t think that’s a healthy idea.
33. I am Episcopalian.
34. If I sat down and analyzed what I really believe, they might throw me out.
35. I haven’t tried to go to church in a year.
36. I have a million excuses why.
37. I like dark chocolate better than milk chocolate.
38. I have had three cats.
39. For some reason when I went to type “cats”, I typed “days” instead.
40. I am a genealogy DORK.
41. I track other people’s families for fun.
42. I think about trying to make a little pocket money at it.
43. I knit.
44. I am becoming a total yarn snob, I shop by feel.
45. I laugh my ass off at “Kentucky Fried Movie”. Especially “Catholic High School Girls in Trouble.
46. I have known Scout for 13 years, 9 months and 1 day.
47. I would like to sew my own clothes.
48. I have shit for patience with sewing.
49. I am jealous of other women.
50. It’s one of my least attractive qualities.
51. It’s uglier than my stretchmarks.
52. I detest wine.
53. I wish I didn’t, I think wine is classy.
54. I detest beer.
55. I wish I didn’t, I think it’s fun.
56. I love me some vodka.
57. Especially in a Bloody Mary.
58. I love Seabreezes.
59. But I get pissed when a bartender makes a Cape Cod instead. Bleah.
60. I never want to own a dog.
61. Scout would love a dog.
62. Alex sleeps with us.
63. Because my mommy paranoia is that SIDS will eat my baby if he sleeps alone.
64. I don’t know when I’m going to get over that.
65. I suck *SUCK* at doing my hair.
66. I get to be featured on Whoorl’s “Hair Thursday” sometime in 2008.
67. I’m not a fan of Disney Movies.
68. Because they almost always kill of a parent. That’s not entertainment to me.
69. I love the Indigo Girls.
70. I love Depeche Mode.
71. I love old school Erasure.
72. I probably don’t know any other groups. Ever.
73. I have been known to identify a James Taylor song in only 2 notes.
74. Six.
75. No I’m not telling you six what. You can use your imagination.
76. I can actually cook.
77. I am incapable of folding Scout’s tshirts.
78. I am too short to easily put pillowcases on king size pillows.
79. I like hard beds.
80. I’m sucking at my October/November Mrs. Flinger challenge.
81. Alex seems to be left hand dominant and it bugs me.
82. It bugs me that it bugs me.
83. My dad and I have problems.
84. Sometimes it makes me sad.
85. Sometimes I don’t give a damn.
86. I know I’ve run out of things to say when I start whining about daddy issues.
87. I love seeing stereotypes proven true.
88. I love seeing stereotypes proven false.
89. I believe the more stuff you know, the funnier life is.
90. My favorite quote is, “The world steps aside to let anyone pass, if they know where they are going.”
91. I love sandwiches. I’d like to have one right now.
92. I’m considering changing Alex’s name.
93. To Cock Block
94. My NaNoWriMo story – you’ve read the best of it, it’s downhill from here.
95. Once upon a time, I was a certified PreK-6 teacher.
96. Now I am a board certified speech-language pathologist.
97. I never understood why people used such choppy sentences in these 100 things thing.
98. I understand now.
99. Really.
100. I do.
23 Comments
Ree
Here’s my favorite:
18. I have a disgustingly high IQ.
19. I routinely forget to put the lid on popcorn while popping it.
Hee! It made me snort.
Random Ramblings
These were quite entertaining while my kids were eating breakfast!!!
Audubon Ron
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1. I saw the length of this blog and thought
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3. It?¢‚Ǩ‚Ñ¢s too long.
4. Then I read it
5. The whole thing.
6. I liked it.
7. It was fun.
8. If your dad gets too much on your mind, let me know
9. I?¢‚Ǩ‚Ñ¢ll adopt you.
10. I think technically I?¢‚Ǩ‚Ñ¢m old enough.
The Other Dawn
And again, with the wondertwins. I soooo want to like beer and wine, I want to be that girl that can swig a Bud or swirl a red. But I’m a vodka girl, too.
Don’t fret Alex’s lefty-ness. Some of the coolest people you know are lefties. (Me!) Actually, Hubs and I are both left handed, and the kids are both right. Messed. Up. And it bothers me, too.
Jennifer
This was a great list. I learned lots of interesting tidbits about you.
I’m almost to my 300th post, should I do a 300 things about me?
I don’t think so, either.
Hydes Like Us
Oh man! This was great. You made a list (something I would normally just skim through–shhhh….) really interesting. And funny. Ha.
-HH
Lisa (the girls' moma)
200 posts should equal 200 Things? Holy CRAP. I better get busy — I have 1744 posts!
I am SO with you on #23! LOVE Trinny and Susannah SO MUCH! I miss them. Oprah used to have them on regularly and now it’s Stacy, Stacy, Stacy. Ugh.
About the t-shirts on #27 — my husband goes through so many t-shirts that I’ve recently refused to fold them. I toss them into a basket and leave it on his side of the bed. Ha!
And amen on #89. I wish more people understood that.
Lisa (the girls' moma)
Oh sorry- the t-shirt thing was 77, not 27. Am lame.
magpie
I love the last few. These things do take on a funny rhythm of their own.
Ewokmama
If it helps, left handed peeps have more connections between the left and right lobes of their brains. So, uh, they’re smarter…right? 😉
I am hoping Jack is left handed. Probably to spite my grandmother, who forced my brother to be right handed. I could kill her for that. Okay, not just for that. 😛
Jackie
Great list! 100 things lists are my favorite! I wish I liked beer, too.
Arkie Mama
You just made me feel much better about the Depeche Mode and Erasure on my Ipod! (Because of my bizarre and diverse taste in music, the rest of my tunes list will remain my dirty little secret.)
Bloody Marys — yum, especially if they’re made well.
Mrs. Flinger
OH, you’re right! We have a ton in common! You had me at “I knew he was my lobster before he knew he was my lobster.” Mr. Flinger and I married… uh (counting fingers and toes) 11 years after we started dating.
Then, a whole slew of other cool stuff including the sucking at the challenge. Until the wine! THE WINE! My god, woman. Find it in you to love wine and I can clone you and use you in my place. 😉
Veronica
I love that Alex is left hand dominant! So is Amy, even though neither Nathan nor I are.
Mary Alice
I also am Episcopalian.
I also like dark chocolate and the sauce on schnitzel.
I also sew. It makes me cranky. Military Man wishes I wouldn’t.
I am fond of vodka and James Taylor.
Six. Wow. Not me.
Sarcastic Mom
A also chuckled over the way the popcorn lid problem follows the disgustingly high IQ.
And I read the whole thing, happily, even though I’m tired as shit. Braden broke another molar through today.
I’m dreading this 100 things, but I feel I must do it… but I haven’t even started, and it’s LOOMING.
Rargh.
Sarcastic Mom
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I’m ready for you to pull out your weiner for me, baby.
the fruitfemme
I knew it. I knew you were an indigo girls girl. I hear “airplane” streaming through my speaker right now.
Secret Agent Mama
I love your 100!
74. Six.
PRICELESS!
Jen
Holy fire and rain I thought I was the only person who could name a JT song in two chords…I knew I liked you. Remind me to tell you about the time I had serious pregnancy brain and missed a JT concert…it still makes me nauseous to think of it.
candace
i love me some JT and Indigo Girls…!
I wish I was turning 27 again. If I did, it would be for like the 12th time!
this was great.
VDog
Dark chocolate and daddy issues.
And we can cook. Loves it. Love you!
(BlogHer ’08, baby! You and the Kaiser can stay with us. LOL)
Mrs. Flipphead
O.k. You are really freaking me out. #’s 3, 4, 33-36, 38, 40, 48, 56-57, 67-71, 76, 78–I might as well just say “Ditto”. Except Mr. knew I was his lobster before I knew he was mine.
And I must have the world’s most disgustingly low IQ because-for the love of God-six what??!! Other people seem to be getting this. Six kids, sex six days a week?! What?! Both maybe? None of the above?
Arrrgggghhhhh!