- I am not a girly girl
- A good portion of my wardrobe is pink
- My favorite vehicle was a purple Dodge Dakota sport
- I have a crush on Joe from Blue’s Clues
- I have been to Japan
- I did not like being in Japan because I didn’t like being illiterate
- I spent seven years as a stay at home mom
- I dream of having a breast reduction
I haven’t had a full night’s sleep since 2001Let the sleeping commence!- I dislike answering my phone
- I also dislike returning calls
- I’m horrible at small talk
- If I could eat one thing for the rest of my life? Cheezits. Cheddar Jack Cheezits.
- I have one cat and could easily see myself becoming an old cat lady.
- If you rub my ears, I fall asleep.
- I know all the words to the movie “Sixteen Candles”
- I could also live off of pre-made chocolate milk (like the kind from the dorm cafeteria)
- I have a B.A. in technical theatre and a B.A. in English composition.
- I procrastinate.
- Despite a career in the arts, I have very little creative ability. I have an eye for color and a wicked sense of timing though.
- Things I will drink at a bar: Vodka (all its forms and flavors) and Miller Lite
- I say rude things to strangers in my head
- I read everything very quickly
- I am an Aries. But I don’t act like one.
- I can crochet but only square or rectangle things
- The two best smells in the world: my mother and a breastfed baby.
- My counters are always cluttered
- My children were all cloth diapered
- I am best suited for work that involves delegation, supervision and donuts.
- I once ran five miles and it was the hardest physical thing I have ever done.
- Which is saying something because all my kids were birthed without drugs.
- I find the same things funny that 12-year-old boys find funny.
- I am a fair-weather camper
- I have one brother and one sister, both younger
- Up until about four years ago, I had all four grandparents alive. Now I have three.
- Favorite book of all time: A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
- When asked my favorite color I always say purple to be different. But I really mean blue.
- I have worn contact lenses since the sixth grade.
- I have worn a bra since fourth grade. Or should have.
- I am turned on by a man playing the piano
- I am going to be a birth doula when I grow up
- Diabetes runs in my family and that scares me
- My girls both have the genetic condition that killed their father and that scares me too
- Ella was named the day I peed on the stick
- I want to live in Vermont someday. Or Washington.
- I own five pairs of Birkenstocks
- I enjoy doing laundry but detest cleaning the kitchen sink (suck it, flylady)
- I cry when I am really angry
- And when I’m frustrated
- And when I’m tired
- And when I’m hungry
- But rarely when I’m actually sad
- I learned to drive a stick and operate a vehicle in the same day
- I have a commercial driver’s license
- I love driving a box truck, anytime or anywhere.
- I love pre-1970’s musical theatre
- I once stole a Garfield book from my elementary school book fair
- And the matching bookmark
- I still have both of them in a box somewhere
- I bought my own Cabbage Patch Kid when I was ten because my mom didn’t/wouldn’t/couldn’t
- I will not consume anything that is artificially flavored like banana or cinnamon
- I would love to be a dancer
- I bite my fingernails
- My middle name is Alice
- I love grocery shopping
- I hate clothes shopping
- Unless it is for the little girls
- I have enough underwear to last two months
- And socks for three
- The last movie I saw was Harry Potter 7, part 2
- I would like one more child. At least.
- I get geeked out for the first day of school
- I can make cookies without a written recipe
- I can never shake the feeling that I’m responsible
- I will eat anything that contains both chocolate and peanut butter
- I love staying in hotels
- I crashed my first 10-speed bike into a parked car
I have been in love exactly twiceMake that three times.- Corporate and/or political propaganda makes me itchy.
- My children were all breastfed
- I think cauliflower and blue cheese both smell like farts
- My sister and I were not friends until we started drinking together in college
- I still believe that beer is the great uniter
- Punchline to my favorite joke: “No, that’s just a little mayonnaise from my sandwich.”
- I was raised Lutheran
- I will probably die a Lutheran
- I wish I could play the guitar
- I do best in a “supporting” role
- I never look directly at myself in the mirror
- I love cheese in all its forms
- I am a very nosy person
- I take personal offense at bad grammar and spelling and speech
- I will eat chicken fried steak anywhere and at any time
- I have a crush on Jim from “The Office”
- I will probably never own a house
- I can tie a cherry stem in a knot with my tongue
- If I knowingly break a rule, I will always get caught
- I look like my dad but talk like my mom
- I walk slow as a general rule
- My
laptopand ipod are both mint green (laptop died) - I love bacon. Thick cut, chewy bacon.
I knew most of them. The only big shock to me..your middle name and crashing your ten speed bike into a car. I do not recall an ungraceful moment together…well on your part.
#95- didn’t you buy your current dwelling? 🙂
ps Cheese is wonderful!
I think I have just fallen in love with you. Thank you for making me choke on the water I was drinking. (My nose does not thank you)
You are a funny, funny lady!