The List of 100 Things About Me…

  1. I love lists. I will make a list of just about anything.
  2. I was born on the 21st of September in the year 1965.  That is the beginning of me.
  3. I enjoy listening to all kinds of music. Right now, Michael Buble’ is my flavor of the month.
  4. I am currently obsessed with fleur de lis. I was so excited to see the fleur di lis format for my blog that I almost peed.
  5. I do not have a favorite color. But if orange is among the choices I will pick the orange one. And NO I do not see anything illogical in those two statements.
  6. I am a mother. I have 4 daughters.  They are 4 blessings and  I will never ever be able to give enough thanks for letting me be their mom.
  7. I am the eldest child of two girls.
  8. My father has an identical twin. I will have to blog about that. Interesting in a way that is sad yet sweet.
  9. I LOVE to read. I will read the shampoo bottle in the shower.
  10. Tennesee Lady Volunteers Basketball team rock. That is all.
  11. I have a degree in Accounting. I have an unnatural love for spreadsheets. I am a spreadsheet ho.
  12. No, I am not a CPA. I took the exam and did not pass. I will take it again one day.
  13. I do not like the number 13.
  14. Bob Seger is the bestest ever. I would have his child. I love him that much.
  15. I live in the South. yeah, that South. The one everyone makes fun of.
  16. I can cook like a good ole Southern woman. People always want to know that I am bringing to the table.
  17. My heart was broken when I was 17 years old. I have not recovered to this day.
  18. I think that mental, emotional, and verbal abuse is just as damaging as physical abuse. Except for the whole getting the crap beat out you thing.
  19. I think there a “prisons without bars” and living in one is hell on earth.
  20. My favorite flower is the tulip. Any color. Especially the orange ones.
  21. 21 is my favorite number.
  22. I believe in God. I am a Christian-a follower of Christ. But I am not the person you think this statement makes me.
  23. I loves me some chocolate. and cheese. Not together though.
  24. I think some cartoon characters are kind of sexy.
  25. I probably need therapy of some sort. What do you think?
  26. Ice cold Coke from a glass bottle is my favorite thing to drink. Followed by a ice cold Corona with lime.
  27. I like my drinks ice cold and my food to be hot-not spicy hot-but heat hot.
  28. I tend to order the same thing in resturants and that annoys me. I should try new things.
  29. I wanted to be an interpreter at the United Nations when I grew up.
  30. I have never learned to speak another language.
  31. If I could look like anyone else, it would be Angelina Jolie minus the tattoos.
  32. I personally would not get a tattoo but think some of them are pretty cool.
  33. I HATE eggs. Scrambled, fried, boiled, quiched-all of it. Makes me ill.
  34. I have beautiful blue eyes. Really. But few people notice it.
  35. The beach is my favorite place to be.  Just sitting there, listening and watching the waves. Pure joy.
  36. I want to be cremated when I die. And taken to the beach.
  37. My favorite author is Jane Austen.
  38. I could watch any known movie version of “Pride and Prejudice” over and over again.
  39. I adore British accents. I have a satellite TV. BBC America is channel 264. I will just turn it on just to listen.
  40.  I like to play tennis. I cannot figure out how to keep score though.
  41. You know those crazy and bizarre things that happen to people. I am one of those people. I once got my car stuck on a pole sticking out of the ground.  These very nice men picked my car up and got it off the pole.
  42. Major pet peeve: People who STOP in a merge lane and turn on their blinker.  I just want to scream.
  43. My oldest daughter thinks I am a cool mom. And so do her friends.
  44. I do not care for Elvis. This just confirms what the people around me think about me. “She just ain’t right.”
  45. My everyday motto is “I feel a sin coming on.”
  46. I enjoy playing cards very very much. A game of gin rummy or Phase 10 or Rook that lasts until the wee hours is good times for me. Almost the same with board games.
  47. I think that no one should marry until they are at least 30. If I was the marriage fairy I would ban all marriage before the age of 25 unless you had a really really good argument for letting it happen and bribed me.
  48. I speak from experience. I married at 18. 
  49. I have no idea of my heritage.  I could be Samoan for all I know. It is just not something either side of my family has ever given a care about.
  50. I would like to be Irish. I have no idea why. 
  51. My grandfather did spend time in prison for shooting a man on the river bottom over a dispute about moonshine. Those are my people-you have been warned.
  52. I am allergic to the small pox vaccination. When I was gived the vaccine as a child, I had a severe reaction to it. Who would have thought this would have ever been an issue?
  53. All 4 of my children were induced labors. I have never gone into natural labor. 
  54. I delivered all 4 of my children without epidurals.  And no, they did not just pop out. And HELL no, I cannot recall any “joy in childbirth.” Combine natural childbirth with induced labor and only a few can imagine the pain.
  55. Never take your child’s good health for granted. It is a blessing beyond measure.
  56. I walked in the St Jude’s Memphis Marathon in December 2006. I only walked the 5K. Our motto was “Dare To Be Last.” We did not come in last but by God we tried.  It was a good thing to do-a happy day.
  57. I have read all the Harry Potter books and am very excited about the last one. Shut up-they are good reading. See #9.
  58. I always feel like the ax is about to fall.  You know what I mean?
  59. I cannot stand any vanilla scented stuff. It gives me a violent headache and I will usually get sick.
  60. I currently drink a 6 pack a day. Coke, that is. Not Diet Coke, not Coke O, not Pepsi. That little red can is my crack.
  61. I can sew and all that crafty kind of stuff.  I like to make things.
  62. I am a fabric junky. Some people collect comic books or ceramic birds or coins. I collect fabric.
  63. Sometimes I think there is nothing I could not do within the laws of nature if I would just put my mind to it. This does not happen often and usually passes in a millisecond.
  64. I procrastinate. But I know why.  I put off making a decision or taking action for as long as I can because I will make the wrong choice and things will go horribly wrong.  This is just a little bonus brought to me as a result of  years of emotional, mental and verbal abuse.
  65. Knowing why is one thing. Fixing it is another.
  66. I enjoy Matthew Perry. And James Gandolfini. I know, I know. I am one odd duck.
  67. I love to laugh.  A lot.
  68. I had my tonsils removed twice. Once at 3 years old and again when I was 5. They grew back. I was a walking science fair experiment.
  69. Moving on. There is nothing I could say that would come out right about this number.
  70. I think there is an amount of money that a person could have that makes them stupid. This amount is not the same for everyone. Each person has there threshold for stupid money. For example: When you pay $400 for a plain, white cotton t-shirt, you have crossed the stupid money threshold in my mind. I feel my stupid money threshold is around $25 million.
  71. I would love to have $25 million to see if my hypothesis is correct. 
  72. I used to have a dog named Bogey and one named Maddie. There were black Chows. I loved my dogs.
  73. I want a Shetland Sheepdog now. I want to name him Rico.
  74. My girls and I watch the dog shows on TV every year. We love doing this. It is good times.
  75. I want a saltwater aquarium.
  76. The first thing I take note of about a person that I meet  is their teeth and the state of their nails.
  77. I have never had my nails done.
  78. I used to be a night owl. Until I had children. Now, I just want some frikkin sleep.
  79. I buy plants with the hope that they will thrive and I somehow inherited my grandmother’s green thumb. I am delusional in this way.
  80. I am not my mother’s daughter. She knows I am different than her. But she assumes that makes me crazy. Why can’t I just be different?
  81. My favorite comic to read is Peanuts. Snoopy is the bomb-diggety.
  82. Sudoko kicks my ass.
  83. The older I get the less I like cold weather. It has become physically painful for me to be cold. And I live in the South.  How cold does it get here?  This does not bode well for the future.
  84. When I really get wound up, I will do the “snort” laugh.
  85. I think my favorite holiday to decorate for is Halloween. I probably like Christmas more though. As a holiday-not the decorating part.
  86. I think I probably have Attention Deficit problems but I like to tell myself it is just an inability to focus. Except spreadsheets-I will lose myself in those.
  87. I have good intentions.
  88. In addition to being a spreadsheet ho, I am also a office supply slut.
  89. It is painful for me to write with a pen with no cap on it. It just doesn’t feel right in my hand.
  90. I like silver and platinum jewelry. Simple stuff-no fru fru.
  91. The first website I look at on Monday mornings at my office is Post Secret.
  92. I think having a Percheron horse would be way cool.
  93. I get woozy when I go into buildings with high ceilings.  Like arenas and coliseums.
  94. I sing. At church.  Solos and that sort of thing.
  95. I hate jellybeans. Especially the black ones.
  96. I want to be cremated and my ashes taken to the beach. I love the beach so much that one way or another I want to be there.
  97. People that are artistic just fascinate me. What part of the brain does that stuff come from and how can I flip that switch in my own brain.
  98. I am creative in the way that I will totally try to copy what you have done. So, that is basically stealing someone’s stuff isn’t it?
  99. I think bowlers take theirselves way too seriously.
  100. I listen to people’s footsteps at work to figure out who is coming my way. If I was being really truthful, I am listening for his. I need to get a life.
  101. I have stop listening for the footsteps. It is just wrong.