August 03, 2005
100 Things About Me: Part One
[I know this is totally teenagery, but I just can't think of anything to blog about, and I'm currently juggling four projects. Unfortunately, you're the ones who have to suffer for it.]
1. I took piano lessons for 10 years, ages 5 to 15, and I was awesome. Then I quit to coach the varsity track team and meet boys.
2. My shoe size is 8½.
3. I have over 150 Barbies.
4. I don’t eat seafood. My mantra is “Nothing from the sea!” And yes, that includes shrimp. And tuna.
5. When I was a senior in high school, I won the Gwendolyn Brooks Illinois Poet Laureate Award and got to miss my graduation ceremony to go meet her. She was kewl.
6. I wear thong underwear cuz I hate VPL.
7. I have three tattoos. (I can hear Queenie now -- "Pictures, please!")
8. I have the recipe for Tollhouse Chocolate Chip Cookies memorized.
9. I have two sisters.
10. I’m the middle child.
11. I was often mistaken for a boy when I was a kid.
12. I’ve never finished a game of Monopoly. And I don't care.
13. Two years ago, I had my appendix, four inches of intestine, and a mass the size of a softball removed.
14. I still have my wisdom teeth, my tonsils and my gallbladder.
15. When I was little, and the other kids were taking horseback riding lessons or skiing, I was folk dancing.
16. I’m 5’8” in my bare feet.
17. I love the Beatles; can’t stand Elvis.
18. I have a 3 year old yellow lab named Daisy.
19. In 1986, I had mono and slept for three months straight. Prior to diagnosis, I had done ALL the rehearsals for both “Hello, Dolly!” at school and “The Pirates of Penzance” with a local theatre group. I wasn’t able to do any of the performances. I'm still bitter about it.
20. I have cousins who live in Norway and visit us every few years.
21. I have no qualms about skinny dipping, anytime, anywhere.
22. I suck at sports and hated every moment of every gym class. Except for the one day I climbed the rope to the top of the gym and was one of only three girls to make it into The Tarzan Club.
23. I cannot snap my fingers.
24. I didn’t get my period till I was 15.
25. I gained an entire bra cup-size when I was 20, without gaining any weight.
26. I’m the only one in my house who knows how to load a dishwasher.
27. From the time I moved out of my parents’ house at 19 to when I married Husband at 32, I moved nine times. I owe sooooooo many people!
28. Favorite authors in junior high: V.C. Andrews and Stephen King.
29. Favorite authors now: Neil Gaiman and Tom Robbins.
30. I lost my virginity two weeks before my 17th birthday.
31. I’ve seen “The Princess Bride” over 20 times, most of those in the theatre.
32. My favorite movie of all time is “Young Frankenstein.” It’s just brilliant.
33. When I shave my legs, I miss three hairs on each kneecap EVERY SINGLE TIME.
34. When my Mom was preggo with me, she was so sure I was going to be a boy, they didn’t even bother to pick out a girl name. I was Bradley. On the way home from the hospital, they got my name from a billboard. True story.
35. When I was little, my Mom wouldn’t let us get a dog, so she let us have hamsters, mice and gerbils. I named all mine after Gilbert & Sullivan characters. Nerd alert!
36. I weighted 8 lbs. 14 oz. at birth.
37. I love garlic.
38. I am Second Generation American.
39. My eyes are blue-grey.
40. I’ve noticed my CD collection consists of a large percentage of soundtracks -- movie and musical.
41. I have both my earlobes double-pierced, but I haven’t worn any earrings in the second holes for years.
42. I got an A in every single English class I ever took. EVER.
43. I flunked out of Algebra II in high school.
44. I’m a mezzo soprano.
45. Currently, I have participated in 156 transactions on eBay.
46. I’ve been on David Letterman’s show, twice. And yes, I mean on stage, not in the audience. And no, it wasn’t for Stupid Human Tricks.
47. Luke Perry once checked out my ass.
48. I have a dead tooth (a canine) and a veneer on it.
49. I hate pot roast. It's stringy.
50. I very deeply believe the old adage that Actions Speak Louder Than Words.
Comments
Yes, pictures please! I have a tattoo around my ankle (and have already posted pictures of it). I also believe actions speak louder than words, AND? My boy name, would that I have been one, would've been Bradley too!
We must've been separated at birth.
Posted by: Queen of Ass at August 3, 2005 04:28 PM
What is it about growing up in the Depths of the Midwest that makes so many of us pescophobic? I can't stand fish, either--though I find shellfish and such tolerable.
Of course, just to prove that I'm really weird, I really like quite a few different kinds of sushi. Yup, raw dead fish, yumm!! (No, it doesn't make sense to me. Maybe it's required now that I'm a Californian...)
Posted by: some_other_dave at August 3, 2005 07:36 PM
*Nerd alert*
I see nothing abnormal about naming pets after G&S characters. I renamed Raggedy Andy after my brother Mark, who, at the time, I thought was cool.
I also remember singing G&S at the funeral of one of your hamsters . . .
Posted by: Lola at August 4, 2005 08:57 AM
Am I the only one clamoring for Part Deux?
Posted by: qfe at August 4, 2005 01:45 PM
ME too! Me TOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!
Bring it on WENCH. (I can't wait!)(egads, that was a lot of exclamation points for one comment!!! WASN'T IT???!!!?)
Hey Wenchie.......................
VAGINA.
Posted by: Scarlett Cyn at August 9, 2005 10:11 AM