Oh my, I have been tagged by the lovely and ever-so-talented Allison to bore you to tears with 100 things about myself. I am rather disturbed by how easy it was to come up with 100 things. I thought I only had about 25 or so things in me. I guess I am much deeper than I thought. Ha!
1. I often count my steps when I walk
2. my favourite time of day is around 8:00 or 9:00 am
3. I learned to drive on a standard transmission
4. I want to be buried in a burlap sack under a tree5. I couldn't ride a bike until grade 36. my favourite number has always been 6
7. I entertained thoughts of being a long-distance trucker when I was young. Also an artist
8. I cannot read music. They tried to teach me but it didn't take
9. I came to this country on a boat
10. I have had two broken bones - baby finger on right hand and left ankle
11. I had math phobia from grade 3 right through into grad school
12. creamed corn strikes me as useless13. sometimes the Resident Offspring and I conduct our entire commuting conversation in Scottish accents14. I have difficulty not dismantling styrofoam cups
15. I use the words astounding and amazing far too much
16. I like gospelly sounding songs but would not be caught dead in a church
17. Ever since my brother told me he has a hard time distinguishing the word musician from magician, I have a moment of doubt if I am using the right word18. I once labelled several cases of homemade rhubarb wine and spelled it "rubarb" on each bottle19. I was in university for eight years20. the green sea turtle, Chelonia mydas, is responsible for my (barely) passing grade in Zoology.
21. I received 25 stitches to my fingers when a pop bottle exploded in my hands. And I was on crutches at the time
22. my current favourite word is flummoxed
23. I love soup but hardly ever eat it
24. I was in labour for 42 hours
25. I was in grad school before I used a computer26. when I used to figure skate, I did jumps in one direction and spins in the opposite direction27. I was addicted to those little Ritz cheese sandwich crackers one summer; now I can't see what I saw in them28. I often feel like there is a movie being filmed about me as I go about my day
29. my first memory is watching my mother hang clothes on the line at age three or four
30. I used to get wicked poison ivy every summer when I was a kid and my dad used to put gasoline on the sores to dry them up - leaded gasoline
31. I love when somebody else makes a salad for me32. I took a welding course in university and I was pretty good at it33. if I was to come back to life as an animal, I would want to be either an otter or a cat34. I once got to take the controls in a 4-seater plane for a few minutes during flight
35. I ran away from home in grade 2, taking only my Saint bubble gum cards and nobody noticed I was gone, as I discovered when I got bored and returned home
36. in junior high I once started changing my clothes in front of my hallway locker without realizing what I was doing
37. pomegranates are a pain in the ass, but I love their taste38. in university I sold a short story to a literary magazine for $35.00
39. I started going grey at 19
40. my feet grew two shoe sizes after I had a baby
41. I despise Sylvester Stallone, for no good reason
42. I cannot stand to watch someone use a metal nail file, but emery boards are fine
43. as a child I hated mushrooms
44. my favourite part of Paris was the tour of the sewers
45. I used to love rye and water and now cannot stand the thought of drinking hard liquor, except for the odd gin and tonic
46. I think flavoured toothpaste is an abomination
47. I have twice been under general anaesthesia
48. I can raise my right eyebrow independently of my left, but not vice versa
49. there is always at least one song going through my head
50. I rarely put furniture against the wall
51. in a waiting room, I need to pull the chair an inch or two from the wall before I sit down
52. I have had two miscarriages
53. I have only water-skied once (badly) but am pretty decent at windsurfing54. it bothers me if the balance of a room is off
55. I prefer limes to lemons, except for lemon squares, which top all
56. excessive packaging is something I think should be punishable by drawing and quartering
57. it drives me to distraction when pictures are hung crookedly. Also towels
58. I prefer brown rice to white
59. I never tuck in my shirts
60. I love elections, love all the analysis and debate and postering and speculation. The US electoral process is like Disneyland to me
61. I am not very fond of baking but I make a really great pie crust62. sometimes I think I drink too much water
63. the Michaelangelo museum was closed the only time I was in Milan
64. although I love getting out of the city occasionally, I could never live anywhere but a city
65. pecans and cashews are tied for my favourite nut, but I am fast learning to love almonds
66. I can control my blood pressure with deep breathing
67. I use far too many superlatives68. seeing the Mona Lisa is very underwhelming69. I have swum in the Caribbean and the Gulf of Mexico, but never in the Pacific or the North Atlantic ocean
70. I have puked in somebody else's sleeping bag
71. I think train travel is the preferred way to see anything
72. I don't like margarine
73. I have never been sky-diving or in a hot air balloon
74. every time I sit on our couch, I say "damn that's a comfy couch"75. I don't like mountains, which is met with great disbelief among fellow Calgarians76. I grin like a fool as the plane lifts off
77. have a slight intolerance to eggs
78. I once had my palm read by a psychic who told me I am an alien. Her exact words were "you are not of this world", so what would you call that?79. I have never met a cheese I didn't like
80. I am always struck by how much more sensible and mature my kid is than I was at her age. Smarter too
81. I am the most unromantic person I know, besides my husband
82. We buried our old cat, Pook, in our back yard. Our old backyard holds a snail, a butterfly, and assorted gold fish83. I blame the evil high school guidance counselor for steering me in the wrong direction in life, with his "if you don't study sciences, you will live in a cardboard box under a bridge" speech
84. I have cataracts
85. I am terrible at laundry, everything goes into one big load
86. I refuse to be held hostage by the laundering demands of my clothing
87. I now realize that a passing interest in cool medical terms is not the best basis for a career choice
88. I kept my own name when I married
89. I wish I was about 3 or 4 inches taller90. We kept our dead cat in the freezer for several months before burying him, which was a great cause for concern amongst our dinner guests
91. I once broke a board in half with a karate chop
92. I enjoy torturing my cat, particularly spice worming her (making the bed tightly over top of her)
93. I do some of my best music listening and analysis in the car
94. I am a bit of a grammar Nazi, with quotation mark abuse in particular being on my shit list
95. I once ate what I was told were calf brains, although in retrospect I am pretty sure it was scrambled eggs96. I have been a CBC radio junkie since I was 19
97. I was thoroughly frisked at the Zürich airport (when I was 12)
98. I have never eaten haggis, although I would like to, because the addition of oatmeal to anything automatically makes it delicious
99. I have a weakness for cute little paper bags with handles and have a collection from various shops, collected in my travels, pinned to a wall in the office
100. I once went grocery shopping with a grocery list which read only "supper x 2"
You now know more about me than CSIS does, I think. That kind of information is like gold.
And provided that you have not yet resorted to gouging out your eyes with a spoon, I'm going to turn it over to you. Al tagged four people so I will follow her lead. And since I can't remember who hates tags and who loves them, I am going to go out on a limb here, reach into my random blogger generator, and tag Toccata, Gifted Typist, Bubs, and Deb, who are all free to tell me to go straight to hell, of course.
Have at it!