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101 things as of 2007

  1. I got married in July.
  2. I had no idea I would like being married so much.
  3. I think my family had given up hope of me ever getting married. Which is terribly old fashioned of them, don't you think?
  4. I met my husband via my blog. Doesn't that sound a bit like a Lifetime movie?
  5. I'm an American girl, living in Canada.
  6. My husband is Canadian, that's why I live in Canada.
  7. In my opinion, what Canada needs most is Nordstrom and Target. And more Dr Pepper.
  8. I am currently a housewife, due to lack of visa.
  9. I'm addicted to Dr Pepper.
  10. I have green eyes, but they didn't turn green until I was in grade school.
  11. My eyes used to be blue green.
  12. For five and a half years I had a house bunny named Phoebe, she was known across the world as The B.
  13. Now I have a cat named Pru and a cat named Momo.
  14. I can't remember a time when I could not read.
  15. I'd rather read books than do just about anything. Just about anything... but not everything.
  16. I can cross one eye at a time.
  17. I have a hard time finishing what I've started.
  18. I'm a night person, if left to my own circadian rhythm, I will become nocturnal.
  19. I don't sleep much, average of 4 hours on a school night.
  20. If I don't have to wake up any particular time in the morning, I will sleep a full 8 hours, maybe more.
  21. I have been treated for depression.
  22. I think blogging is better than therapy.
  23. I come from a family of addicts.
  24. I do not posses the addictive gene, despite what I said above about Dr Pepper.
  25. I have a tattoo on the back of my left shoulder.
  26. I am a Unitarian.
  27. My tattoo is a flaming chalice, with green flames.
  28. Right now, right this second as I am updating my list of 101 things... I am eating Chinese Chicken Salad. My mother's recipe.
  29. I have a potty mouth.
  30. I have a nose piercing.
  31. My mom thought I was too old to get my nose pierced.
  32. I was about 33 at the time.
  33. I have a stepdaughter.
  34. I have super-duper denial capabilities.
  35. I want to be a writer.
  36. I often remember my dreams.
  37. I wish I wrote them down, however, so I could hang on to the details.
  38. I desperately want to be telekinetic.
  39. I also want to be THE BEST PSYCHIC IN THE WORLD so I could be a psychic detective.
  40. I wanted to be a private detective when I was growing up.
  41. Or a teacher, or a writer or a dolphin psychologist.
  42. My parents divorced when I was five.
  43. I once chased a bank robber down the street with my friend Dee Dee. He was on foot, we were in her civic.
  44. We didn't catch him.
  45. We only chased him because a woman came out of the bank and said "follow that man he just robbed the bank."
  46. If we had caught him, I'm not sure what we would have done with him.
  47. My mom and stepfather divorced when I was 33. I think this divorce was harder than the first, for me.
  48. My father passed away, suddenly, when I was 26.
  49. My stepfather passed away, slowly, when I was 39.
  50. I have two brothers.
  51. Technically, it would be 1.5 brothers I imagine, one belongs to my stepmother and father.
  52. My older brother is 2 years older than me.
  53. My younger brother [half] is 13 years younger than me.
  54. He was a pain in the ass when he was a kid, but I love him to bits now. Even if he is a vegan.
  55. I don't trust vegans. I think it "means something" when you chose to be a vegan. Probably that you have "issues."
  56. I have issues but I am a complete carnivore. meat meat meat!!
  57. If my only choice is no-fat anything, I'd rather not have it.
  58. We live on a busy street, I sit at the window and watch people walk by. I make up stories about them and/or try to decide if they are more or less happy than I am.
  59. I worked at McDonalds when I was in high school. I lasted 4 months. I wasn't fired, I quit.
  60. I did not study anything computer related in school, not even in college.
  61. I got into computers when someone put a mac on my desk and told me to watch it for incoming files.
  62. That was in 93 or so? It escalated from there.
  63. I am a mac user. 100%
  64. I have a B.A. in Psychology from the University of Washington.
  65. I was born in Denver, in the same hospital as my brother and also as my father.
  66. After that it went, Phoenix, Dallas, Seattle, Grand Junction, Tulsa, SF Bay Area, San Diego, Seattle.
  67. I spent my summers in the Bay Area, with my dad and stepmonster.
  68. She knows I call her my stepmonster. With love.
  69. I never used to cook. Now that I am married, I cook. I might be getting better at it.
  70. I don't sew.
  71. I don't do crafty things.
  72. Therefore, it is possible, judging from my family, I am adopted.
  73. I used to tell people I was adopted, that my real parents were a Russian Gypsy and a Spanish Aristocrat.
  74. There is no Russian or Spanish blood in my veins, but I am fascinated by Russian culture and want to learn to speak it.
  75. I'm Irish, Scottish, Swedish, Norwegian and rumor has it, Dutch.
  76. I've never left North America.
  77. I am not well travelled, outside of this country.
  78. I can say four things in Japanese.
  79. Abunai!! means Danger! Watch out! in japanese. It works best when you yell it.
  80. If you invite me over for Thanksgiving dinner, you should probably know... I like dark meat.
  81. I'm very very lazy.
  82. I'm a Libra.
  83. I'm Housekeeping Challenged.
  84. I have a cello which I play very poorly. Very poorly indeed.
  85. I was with my Moür Moür when she met President Ford. He stopped in Grand Junction and shook hands. He shook hers. Not mine, however.
  86. I read comic books.
  87. Not only could I do a list of a hundred things, I could do a list of 900 if you wanted. They wouldn't all be interesting, tho.
  88. When I was in grade school, my teachers would always isolate my desk because I was too social.
  89. I hate the telephone. I usually don't answer it.
  90. Well, maybe not 900. But 100 is pretty damn easy.
  91. I am a member of the Überbrain.
  92. I realize I said that I do not posses the addictive gene, but I am a bit addicted to blogging.
  93. I go through phases where I eat the same things repeatedly, and then don't eat them again for years. Ex: stovetop stuffing phase. Ate it every day.
  94. I think that chips and salsa is a perfectly good dinner.
  95. People think I am funny.
  96. They also think I am strange.
  97. And stubborn and hardheaded. That I have a "smart mouth." Perhaps a wee bit difficult.
  98. Who cares what they think?
  99. i scold people for being rude in stores, especially if they are unnecessarily rude to sales people or clerks. Or they cut in line in front of me.
  100. I'm a bit of a train wreck, actually. Occasional derailment with no casualties.
  101. Oh... one more thing... I love getting comments on my blog, especially from people I do not know, who then comment enough that I start to get to know them. If that makes any sense.

Posted by jodi on 6 février 2001 19h56 |