100 things you wanted to know about me, but were afraid to ask

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If swankyfunk can do it, then so can I. Plus I need something to keep me awake.


1. The first concert I ever went to was Loverboy. I'm not proud of this fact, I didn't even like them, but everyone else was going. Certainly a valuable lesson was learned in following the crowd.
2. In elementary school I had to serve a recess detention along with my whole class, even though I was in clarinet practice while they were misbehaving.
3. My elementary school librarian had a mini-nervous breakdown from me asking if there were any new books every. single. day.
4. Once while carrying my little sister around on my shoulders I stepped on a sewing needle and it lodged about 2 inches into my foot.
5. To this day the ocean scares me from seeing "Jaws."
6. Sometimes I talk to myself using an English accent.
7. In 3rd grade I beat up a 6th-grade boy for teasing my sister.
8. I currently have two tattoos, a left armband and a gargoyle on my right calf.
9. Mr. Rogers was the speaker at my college graduation.
10. I can play the following musical instruments: clarinet, bass clarinet, tenor sax, baritone sax. However, I never said I could play them well.
11. I have seen the following Broadway shows: Cats, Les Miserables and Lion King. Cats was the only one I actually saw in New York City.
12. I hate seafood unless it is deeply fried.
13. I can never eat Fig Newtons again because they made me sick one time.
14. I once rode in an elevator with James "Scotty" Doohan at a Star Trek convention.
15. The grossest thing in the entire world to me is wet hair in a drain.
16. I taught myself to read by the age of 4.
17. In elementary school I was the only one who knew the answer to the Riddle of the Sphinx (my teacher was a little peeved).
18. I needed an emergency appendectomy at age 9.
19. Also at age 9 our house burned down. It was a very bad year.
20. I can read Tolkien's "The Hobbit" in about 8 hours.
21. The first movie I ever saw alone was Time Bandits at age 12.
22. I used to know Kung-Fu.
23. Milk is my favorite drink in the whole world.
24. I don't drink alcohol at all.
25. I tried pot exactly once. I hated it and didn't even get high.
26. I like most animals better than most humans.
27. I apparently moan so loudly in my sleep that Tery sleeps on the couch.
28. I used to throw up every single Christmas Eve from excitement, and was in awe of my sister because she didn't.
29. I like to spy on my neighbor through the door peephole.
30. My father died of skin cancer 4 years ago. To this day my deepest regret is not going home for the funeral.
31. I was a juvenile delinquent. As a baby being carried around on my mother's back while shopping, she didn't notice I had picked up an owl nightlight until we were in the car. She kept it.
32. My sister and I served as flower girls for my older sister's wedding, and we were convinced we had to marry the boy ringbearers who escorted us down the aisle.
33. Once when I worked for McDonald's I threw a pen in the fry cooker accidentally while horsing around with a co-worker. For the rest of the day we sampled every batch of fries to see if they tasted funny, but they never did. Still, a valuable lesson in work shenanigans was learned.
34. My first serious schoolgirl crush was on my Catholic priest.
35. While playing with a Ouija board as kids we got freaked out and were convinced we were talking to Satan. All I remember is asking why it wasn't in Heaven and the answer was "No hate." : O
36. My happiest childhood memory is rowing out to one of the islands in the middle of the lake behind our house and falling asleep in a tree while eating blueberries off the branches.
37. My saddest memory was losing my enormous stuffed bull, Scottie (it was as big as me), in the fire (see #19).
38. If I could travel to any place in the world it would be New Zealand.
39. I am fiercely proud to be (half) Irish.
40. I hate children.
41. I would rather die than eat gefilte fish, but
42. As a kid I lived on mayonnaise sandwiches.
43. The only time I have left the country was a trip to England. And once to Canada when we got lost (which wasn't on the same trip).
44. Yesterday morning I was so poor and hungry that I ate a complimentary packet of raspberry cookies for breakfast.
45. I used to have Mr. Spock's serial number memorized.
46. I think Richard Gere is the worst actor in the world, and I don't understand why he keeps getting parts.
47. If I really dislike someone, I can't even look them in the eye when I talk to them (when I have to talk to them).
48. Whenever I have to cook something, even something as simple as Hamburger Helper (which frankly is about as complicated as I can manage), I carry on an imaginary cooking show in my head.
49. My favorite swear word is "fuck."
50. I can hold a grudge for years.
51. I am more of a control freak than I would care to admit.
52. I have only gone all the way with a guy twice...it was the same guy, in the same weekend.
53. If Bush wins again this year, I have seriously contemplated moving to Canada.
54. As a rule I generally don't like dogs.
55. I secretly harbor a belief that 80's music was, and still is, the best.
56. I often prefer movies with sad endings over happy ones.
57. I am inordinately proud of having a real live native British friend.
58. As a kid I hated having my hair washed or combed, and would howl like a banshee the entire time.
59. I went topless in summer up until the very last year possible and
60. To this day I wish I didn't have boobs.
61. As a kid I would amuse myself for hours in front of a mirror wearing a skeleton Halloween mask and talking about ruling the world.
62. I love picking at peeling sunburns.
63. I had a crush on Vivian, my nursery school teacher.
64. I don't give a fuck what anyone else thinks of me. Never have, never will.
65. My closest run-in with the supernatural (apart from the Ouija board) was a prophetic dream I had. I dreamed my high school band teacher was very sad and I was consoling him. A week later his wife fell down the stairs and died.
66. I don't wear a lick of makeup. However, I am partial to Bath & Body Works' cucumber melon line of products.
67. I often secretly wish I was a vampire.
68. I love having my ears cleaned.
69. Watching a movie is my idea of the most fun you can have without having sex.
70. I hate jazz music.
71. One of my favorite pastimes in summer was shooting hoops all by myself. I joined the basketball team in high school but didn't know any rules. No one told me we switched baskets at half-time, so my one and only career shot was made for the other team (not surprisingly, I've hated sports ever since).
72. I love thunderstorms at night.
73. I prefer raw cookie dough to baked cookies.
74. I have a watch fetish, a shoe fetish and a phone fetish in that I can't resist browsing them while shopping. I fortunately resist buying (most of the time).
75. My two favorite stores are Target and Hot Topic.
76. I am terrified, yet helplessly compelled, by the "old man" Six Flags is currently using in their promotions.
77. My favorite color used to be black but is now cobalt blue.
78. I take pleasure in people being intimidated by me.
79. I am absolutely incapable of ignoring my little AOL "You've Got Mail" icon.
80. I own approximately 500 CDs, 175 DVDs, and 50 laserdiscs.
81. I can't sleep without a fan, even in winter.
82. I wish I was in better shape.
83. I have 3 scars on my right hand from my sister biting/scratching me when we were little.
84. I have a large, oddly shaped birthmark on my right thigh that used to embarrass me so much I would cover it with my hand when I wore shorts.
85. My favorite name in the whole world is Tagliabue, as in Paul, the football commissioner. Say it with me. It's fun!
86. To my knowledge I have never been stalked.
87. I have never stalked anyone else.
88. The most common grammatical error that always raises my hackles is the substitution of "loose" for "lose." They aren't even pronounced the same, people!
89. I have never smoked nor had the desire to.
90. Another secret wish of mine has always been to be able to fly.
91. The drunkest I ever got was when I mistakenly drank a TGIFriday's concentrated drink mix straight from the bottle. I stood up and walked right into a wall.
92. I couldn't stand Mexican food until I moved to Denver (this keeps coming back to food, I don't know why).
93. Once in marching band in college it was a brutally cold day, and I gave my warmest shoes to my friend to wear.
94. When babysitting two dogs for an acquaintance I didn't pay attention when they were explaining medications. I didn't even know which dog was which, so I gave the eardrops to them both.
95. When babysitting three children from my church, the two older boys insisted we go for a bike ride. I had to take their father's bike because it had the babyseat on it. When we had to pull over for a passing car I overbalanced and dumped the bike with the babyseat and the baby in a ditch (she was fine, don't worry).
96. I once drove over the bridge in New Mexico where a scene from Natural Born Killers was filmed.
97. The longest day I ever worked was 22 straight hours.
98. I once threw up in the back of a Volkswagen Bug with 5 people in it on the way to see Star Wars (I was a very excitable kid).
99. I was driving through Vegas the day that Roy got mauled by the tiger.
100. I still have one deep, dark secret that only my inner circle of friends will ever know.