100 Things About Me

1. I have naturally blond hair.

2.I sort of really love my hair. When it’s cut right and it’s not raining or snowing or too windy outside.

3. I wake myself up laughing sometimes. Last night I woke myself up snickering. I don’t remember why.

4. I love The Office.

5. I love The Hills (my daughter and I watch it together).

6. I’m not afraid to die.

7. But I’m not ready to die yet.

8. I suck at spinning.

9. I have a really big, bad desire to collect every spindle I see.

10. Ditto with fiber.

11. I think there’s a god out there, but I don’t think it’s a he or a she, or even anything I’d recognize.

12. I used to be scared of spiders, but now I like them.

13. I hate ants.

14. I also hate centipedes.

15. I don’t kill bugs, except ants, and I feel guilty about that. Killing ants, I mean.

16. I drive a Camry. It’s the best car I’ve ever had.

17. I use a PC with Vista, and I hate it.

18. I lust for a Mac.

19. I think of my iPod as my friend.

20. I don’t necessarily think I’m weird for thinking this way.

21. Sometimes I fall asleep by imagining I’m knitting.

22. I don’t think babies should be taken to nice restaurants. Especially if they’ve learned how to screech.

23. My children are adults.

24. I don’t have grandchildren yet.

25. I believe there is such a thing as happily divorced.

26. I watch endless hours of House Hunters.

27. Ditto to Whose Wedding Is It Anyway?

28. Even if I won the lottery tomorrow, I’d probably still work.

29. I don’t do well with large chunks of unstructured time.

30. I love to buy books. Knitting books, writing books, fiction books, lots of kinds of books.

31. I love to read in bed at night before going to sleep.

32. My favorite food is chocolate. Candy. Ice cream. Cake. Whatever.

33. My favorite dessert is Cherry Carnival. Ask my mother how to make it. She knows.

34. My favorite drink is my first sip of coffee in the morning.

35. If I were rich, I’d drink Starbuck’s lattes every day.

36. I don’t drink enough water, because I hate to stop to pee.

37. I don’t eat enough vegetables, but I eat plenty of fruit.

38. I don’t eat much red meat, but sometimes I crave it.

39. I can’t bear to think about the terror an about-to-be-slaughtered animal feels.

40. I think George W. is the laughing stock of the world.

41. I’m afraid we are, too. By default. And because sometimes we deserve to be.

42. I don’t think 24 hour news channels are a good idea.

43. I don’t think 24 hour anything is a good idea.

44. I believe it’s okay to pace yourself, and take on only what you can reasonably accomplish.

45. There are no points to be had for being “super” anything. “Good enough” is good enough.

46. I wear mineral makeup.

47. I started getting facials and I love them.

48. I hate fake nails.

49. I like nail polish, but I’m too lazy/unmotivated/inept to wear it.

50. If I had another life to live, I’d be a writer.

51. If I had another life to live, I’d be an artist.

52. I love art supply stores.

53. I love pens. Colored pens. Fountain pens. Sharpies.

54. I keep several journals.

55. I love bags. Whenever I go to Macy’s or Lord and Taylor, I always stop to look at the bags.

56. I’m not sure I love Vera Bradley bags, but I sure have enough of them.

57. I don’t like to wear high heels.

58. I only like cotton underwear.

59. I sleep with a fan on, even in the winter.

60. I am owned by a cat named Harrison.

61. I love cheese.

62. Just thinking about Rhinebeck makes me swoon.

63. This year I’m bringing my knitting to Rhinebeck. DUH.

64. This year I’m going to make a list of what to buy at Rhinebeck. (Yeah. Right.)

65. I want to learn more about wine.

66. I want to join a knitting group.

67. I am not a joiner.

68. I am happiest when I am left alone. I can be with you. Just don’t bug me.

69. I only wear silver jewelry.

70. I love to wear stone pendants.

71. I think stones have different and useful properties, depending on which one I’m wearing.

72. I think there’s a life after death.

73. I think big weddings are a waste of money.

74. If I ever got married again, I’d do it under the radar. Just me and whoever and someone to sign the paper.

75. Unless you sign my paycheck, you don’t get to tell me what to do.

76. I used to suffer from insomnia, but now I don’t.

77. I seldom iron anything.

78. I like to wear linen.

79. I think that it’s possible for #77 and #78 to co-exist.

80. When I was little, I used to sleep with “Blue Dolly”. She had something velvet on her that felt really soft. Sometimes I wish I still had Blue Dolly.

81. I’ve met grownups who still had their “bankies” from childhood.

82. I am a good listener.

83. If I could start over, maybe I’d be a counselor or a therapist.

84. I’d like to learn therapeutic touch.

85. I’d like to learn massage therapy.

86. I’d like to make and sell jewelry on Etsy.

87. If I could live anywhere, it would be by the ocean in New England.

88. When I stopped caring if people liked me, then people started to really like me.

89. Sometimes I’m funny.

90. I’ve had four car accidents in my lifetime. One was my fault.

91. I haven’t gotten a speeding ticket in over 3 years.

92. I’ve seen Paris twice.

93.  lived in South Florida for a while.

94. I miss the sun.

95. I really, really like Rochester.

96. Just when I think I’m really screwed up, I meet someone else way more screwed up than me.

97. I think “normal” is a myth.

98. I did the best I could with what I knew at the time.

99. My favorite color is green.

100. I love the smell of raw wool.