tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-655993805260848122024-03-12T18:20:10.780-07:00One Hundred ThingsKathleen Badehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09511937166340041010noreply@blogger.comBlogger29125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-65599380526084812.post-20414772570736897002011-01-29T20:18:00.001-08:002011-11-29T19:08:32.803-08:00One Hundred Things.... A collection of lists. Take the challenge. 100 things about yourself. Streaming flow of consciousness, as personal or as general as you care to make it...but make it count. You might learn something about yourself and I promise it's better than 20 questions!<br />
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1. I'm 6'1" and 235lbs.<br />
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2. I have brown hair and hazel eyes.<br />
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3. I'm bald on top of m'head.<br />
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4. I've a goatee. Prior to that, I had a beard. Facial hair makes up for a lack in other places.<br />
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5. I finished college through a master's program in four years. (College social-life is for morons)<br />
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6. My favorite food is anything ethnic/regional. What passes for 'American cuisine' ought to be banned.<br />
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7. I live in Portland, Oregon -- according to the Food Channel, it's the Foodie Capital of America. I agree.<br />
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8. Women with tattoos tend to scare me.<br />
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9. I'm 56 years old. (Hill? What hill? I don't remember one. I don't *feel* old. When did *this* happen?)<br />
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10. I used to do an Ambient/Space/New Age radio-show here. Every now and then someone remembers me....<br />
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11. My favorite music is Ambient/Space/New Age, followed by classical, then classic-rock.<br />
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12. It was my privilege to jam with Pat DiNizio of The Smithereens. He's a kind, gracious man, as well as a solid musician.<br />
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13. I saw the last Buffalo Springfield concert in 1968.<br />
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14. Neil Young is the closest thing to a 'god' I recognize.<br />
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15. I'm an atheist. Not an agnostic; not an insipid "I don't know" moron - I'm an atheist. Period.<br />
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16. I'm also a Progressive/Liberal with Libertarian tendencies.<br />
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17. I believe Fundamentalism of all stripes is a bane.<br />
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18. I believe religion is humanity's greatest scourge.<br />
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19. I was one of Yahoo/360's 'featured bloggers'. I still don't know how that happened....<br />
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20. I've never puked in public.<br />
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21. My favorite colors are Roman Red and French Blue.<br />
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22. My favorite booze is Appleton 21-year limited-reserve rum.<br />
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23. I've not only smoked pot; I've drunk bong-water.<br />
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24. I detest reality TV. American Idol is for morons. The rest of it is akin to watching the security cam in a day-care.<br />
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25. My IQ is 186 - or so I was told, the last time I took a real test (the online stuff doesn't count, by the way).<br />
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26. I've restored five automobiles in my life - a '62 Thunderbird; a '55 Thunderbird; a '63 Lincoln convertible; a '60 Land Rover, and a '56 Packard Caribbean. I'm done now. If I never own another car again, I'm happy. Right now, I drive a pickup.<br />
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27. I'm inordinately fond of silk Hawai'ian shirts, shorts and flip-flops.<br />
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28. I collect antique military firearms. I will not, however, join the NRA. They're cocksuckers.<br />
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29. Ernest Hemingway is my all-time favorite author, followed by Hunter Thompson.<br />
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30. I say "fuck"; "fuckery"; "cocksucker"; and "moron" a lot.<br />
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31. I think Wal-Mart constitutes a crime-against-humanity.<br />
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32. I think the Pope ought to be tried for crimes against humanity, and the Vatican shut down. <br />
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33. Right now, I'm wearing a hoodie and shorts and listening to Gyorgi Ligeti.<br />
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34. I'm allergic to walnuts.<br />
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35. I think the only use for Stockhausen's music is to torture people.<br />
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36. I'm a member of the IPMS (International Plastic Modelers' Association); I build hyperrealistic ships; most are radio-controlled.<br />
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37. I have a private-pilot's license.<br />
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38. I almost went in with a friend to purchase a MiG-15.<br />
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39. I was an extra in the Turner film, "Gettysburg".<br />
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40. I used to be a Civil War reenactor.<br />
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41. I hold a master gardener's certificate.<br />
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42. I spent two weeks in Pompeii, taking photographs. I wound up with most of a tour-group following me, because I knew more than their guide. (Note: Never take one of those insipid fartknocker-tours. The guides know squat.)<br />
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43. I helped build a working guillotine for a high-school project. Alarmingly; I don't know where it is now.<br />
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44. I collect vintage shortwave radios.<br />
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45. I'm single.<br />
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46. Apart from photos I've taken while traveling, every piece of art I own is abstract.<br />
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47. I built most of my own furniture.<br />
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48. I've never set foot in a McDonalds.<br />
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49. My master's is in history.<br />
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50. I'm a fairly accomplished cook (I'm good at Italian; French; Moroccan; east Indian; Thai; Greek and Mexican)<br />
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51. My all-time favorite film is "Casablanca". #2: Silence of the Lambs. #3: Seven Days In May #4: Fail-Safe.<br />
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52. I owned a home-remodeling business before the economy and construction industry collapsed and I had to sell it. It was a good experience.<br />
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53. I'm currently a business consultant, specializing in sales training, demand-generation planning and general business development of information-technology VAR's. (Value Added Remarketers)<br />
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54. I have hypertension; controlled with medication.<br />
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55. I still have all my teeth, thankyouverymuch.<br />
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56. I love camping - the real thing; getting away from absolutely everyone. <br />
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57. I don't fish or hunt. I don't figure there's much challenge in killing something that sees in monochrome, would drink out of a toilet, and which I can buy at the grocery store for far less.<br />
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58. I make the best damn steak in the country. Ask anyone.<br />
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59. I think Rush Limbaugh, Bill O'Reilly, Glen Beck, Sean Hannity, and a dozen others I haven't named are cocksucking sons-of-bitches. Now, ask me, and I'll tell you how I *really* feel.<br />
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60. Frank Lloyd Wright, Mies VanDerRohe, John Yeon and the rest of the modernist architects were geniuses. Modernism is the highest expression of American architecture.<br />
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61. I can cross both my little toes over the next ones.<br />
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62. I hate pot-pies.<br />
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63. My sister is a Fundie. She's married to a Fundie. He beats their kids to 'keep them out of hell'. This bothers me like I can't tell you.<br />
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64. I have a humidor full of Cuban cigars. They're my one real vice.<br />
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65. I collect red wine. SuperTuscans and specialty wines from here in the Northwest. <br />
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66. I don't purchase meat which originated in factory farms. That's how I roll.<br />
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67. I dream in color.<br />
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68. I got to pilot a minisub once. That was pretty cool.<br />
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69. I make a killer mushroom and cheddar omelette.<br />
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70. I also make a damn good Eggs Benedict (the secret is knowing how to make Hollandaise)<br />
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71. My barbecue-sauce recipe is *the best*<br />
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72. My online name means "Celestial Navigator". Yes; I can navigate. Learned how from my Dad.<br />
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73. I have a 12" Meade telescope. Yes; it's computer controlled, and it was expensive as hell. I still love to watch the stars, though - have since I was a kid. Some guys buy Harleys; I buy 'scope parts and related gear.<br />
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74. Well, that, and guitars. I have twelve of 'em. My favorite is my Rickenbacker 340 12-string.<br />
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75. Yes, I have a Marshall Stack. Have to, with a Rickenbacker.<br />
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76. I grew up in a small town in rural Oregon, west of Portland. To this day, I'm not terribly fond of cities.<br />
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77. My favorite exercise is swimming and snorkeling.<br />
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78. I'm an early riser. 6:00AM is late for me; if I'm up past 9:00PM, there'd better be a damn good reason.<br />
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79. I like to pick blackberries. I even make my own preserves.<br />
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80. I've a *killer* recipe for Russian Black Bread. <br />
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81. Most of my friends tell me I'm 'too serious' (whatever the hell *that* means).<br />
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82. I don't have any children. I did, however, sell my 'stuff' one summer to a local fertility-clinic which was starting out. Kept me from having to get a job between my undergrad and master's program.<br />
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83. My father was a USAF Colonel; my mom was a nurse. (Mom used to say that the first she ever saw of my dad was his butt....)<br />
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84. I've a season-ticket to the Oregon Symphony; something I've done since 1990.<br />
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85. Every Thanksgiving and Christmas, I volunteer at one of two homeless shelters. I don't do 'dinner' during that time; I think the practice is obscene.<br />
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86. I've been banned from Portland's only speed-dating venue. (Hey. I was more or less dragged there by a good friend. He knows better now. "Will - you're not supposed to see how many heads you can fuck with - it's about meeting someone....")<br />
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87. I'm a sucker for homemade pizza.<br />
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88. I make my own Caesar-salad dressing.<br />
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89. I'm a homebody - I seriously like doing laundry.<br />
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90. I used to raise peacocks. They're far more loyal than dogs, and far less messy -plus, they eat bugs.<br />
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91. I've won three blogging awards and been nominated for two more. (Guess *someone* likes what I write; huh?)<br />
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92. I slept in a fallout shelter during the Cuban Missile Crisis. (Dad built it the year before.)<br />
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93. It was my Dad who taught me to fly.<br />
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94. I played bagpipes at my Dad's funeral. Mom willed her body to science.<br />
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95. I have 20-05 vision.<br />
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96. I'd really like to own an Amphicar. The idea of driving off a dock and into the water is appealing for some reason.<br />
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97. My first car was '59 Dodge convertible. I thought more of that car than I did most people.<br />
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98. I grow most of my own produce. I can tomatoes in August. Heirlooms; a specialty....<br />
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99. No, you're not going to learn when I first kissed on a gal; when I first had sex; or any of that other stuff. That's for me know - and me to know.<br />
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100. I'm done now. Yayyyyyy!Kathleen Badehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09511937166340041010noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-65599380526084812.post-48736620774300407922011-01-23T10:07:00.000-08:002011-11-29T19:09:29.150-08:00One Hundred Things ..... Anonymous A collection of lists. Take the challenge. 100 things about yourself. Streaming flow of consciousness, as personal or as general as you care to make it...but make it count. You might learn something about yourself and I promise it's better than 20 questions!<br />
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1) I’m pretty freaked out by the fact that you guessed my middle name on the first try.<br />
2) My birthday is in May.<br />
3) My daddy is, has always been and will always be the center of my universe<br />
4) I have a canopy bed and always feel like a princess in it<br />
5) This night will forever stick out in my mind [was a blog link no longer exists ]<br />
6) My most favorite memory from when I was little was when I was 9, my family was fortunate enough to buy a beach house. I was away from home before but never in a new home. That first weekend I couldn't sleep at all. The voice in my head was too loud. The next weekend, my Daddy had recorded the sounds from my room in NYC and played that for me before I slept.<br />
7) When I hear the word chimmychonga I laugh. I have no idea other than it’s really funny to me.<br />
8) My most favorite musician is Madonna. I love everything there is about her.<br />
9) My favorite song by her is Frozen. That song is INTENSE.<br />
10) You already know my strongest sense is my smell. I love the smell of oak trees when it’s humid out and I hardly ever get to smell that in the city.<br />
11) I’m completely and totally scared of the dark…especially walking through a dark area of a house even if someone is home<br />
12) I have 2 sisters and I’m in the middle. <br />
13) M and I fight a lot and she made me cry on Thursday.<br />
14) My most favorite fruit is pineapple. My body is a temple and I eat very well.<br />
15) I still sleep with a stuffed doggy named Ralph. He has a hard nose and was my first lover *blushing*<br />
16) I’ve always thought the sound of eating a banana was the same as kissing<br />
17) I HATE loud chewers to the point where it will ruin my meal<br />
18) My mom is a loud chewer and I’ve said something thousands of times<br />
19) I think panties are super sexy…the way they look, the way they feel, the way they …<br />
20) I punched someone in the face once in HS because she fucked my boyfriend<br />
21) I’m like 284% Italian<br />
22) I have very thick hair and get the lower parts ripped out every few weeks<br />
23) I don’t have a car (haha I just went back to this after reading your blog..now you can see why)<br />
24) I absolutely love fall fashion<br />
25) Justin Timberlake has no idea how hard, deep and rough he could fuck me<br />
26) I still live at home with my family<br />
27) We have 2 cats and they are brother and sister<br />
28) I lost my virginity when I was 15<br />
29) I hate how much time I spend on the internet, but I can't break the habit.<br />
30) I give great massages.<br />
31) I absolutely love sunsets.<br />
32) I don’t like watching the local news on TV because it’s all about tragedy<br />
33) I hate all bugs … especially spiders<br />
34) I hate going to the doctor and hate hospitals<br />
35) I like right after I go to the dentist and your tongue on the back of your teeth feels as if it’s like a new mouth<br />
36) I’m active in helping with gymnastics for the Special Olympics<br />
37) I've slowly become far more confident in myself. I think it's part of growing up.<br />
38) I’m not domestic at all<br />
39) I have a ridiculously hard time picking favorites, favorites of anything. It's all dependent on mood and context. It’s virtually impossible for me<br />
40) Aged things really amaze me. I love to look at an old building and think of how much went on inside there before me.<br />
41) I have an intense attraction for married people and love to flirt just enough so I know that I’m wanted.<br />
42) I had a thing with an older man I shouldn’t have and I still think of it because it was just that yum.<br />
43) That makes me wonder if either my Mom or Daddy ever cheated<br />
44) I watched both Twin Towers fall with my very own eyes.<br />
45) In a way it angers me how people say all these things and tributes about 9/11 because I was part of it and they weren’t. <br />
46) I love spicy food<br />
47) I love huskies<br />
48) I hate runny eggs. They need to be well done.<br />
49) I really don’t like eggs *L*<br />
50) I hate horror/gory movies<br />
51) I only have my ears pierced<br />
52) I hate reality TV. Actually I’m not a big TV person<br />
53) I twirl my hair a lot. I’ve been told it’s because I’m always horny. It’s true<br />
54) I mainly focus teaching dance to contemporary jazz and urban hip-hop<br />
55) My older sister has an eating disorder<br />
56) My Mom and Daddy were HS sweethearts<br />
57) Online, I’m very submissive to women but dominant towards men<br />
58) Offline, I show neither side<br />
59) I’ve always wanted to know how to play the piano<br />
60) Even though he is physically ugly, I’d probably have sex with Billy Joel because of the sounds he produces with his hands<br />
61) Wicked is my most favorite play<br />
62) My most favorite class to teach is beginner classes with 4-6 year old girls. There are few things so precious.<br />
63) This summer I had 3 part time jobs – I taught at a camp, taught kickboxing at a gym and had a private student<br />
64) I don’t like the rain<br />
65) I drool like crazy when I sleep<br />
66) I love to make people laugh<br />
67) I get seasick<br />
68) I like the smell of my bellybutton<br />
69) When I was little, I wanted to become I mermaid.<br />
70) I’m such a people watcher. I always wonder about their secrets. Secrets totally fascinate me.<br />
71) I think I’d be a bad psychologist because of the last one. <br />
72) I’m horrible at remembering people’s names<br />
73) Of course the girl sleeping on the subway that you posted … I notice that you can see her panties.<br />
74) I had asparagus for dinner and I haven’t peed yet. I so can’t wait.<br />
75) I’ve never had sex in a car and really don’t understand why that’s so popular *L*<br />
76) I absolutely love Forest Gump and think it’s such a beautifully written movie and cry every time I watch it<br />
77) Vampires are sexy but I’d never let anyone know that<br />
78) I was once addicted to cocaine<br />
79) I used to play doctor with one of my cousins<br />
80) I curse a lot but never around my Mom or Daddy<br />
81) I’m very paranoid of kissing with morning breath<br />
82) I LOVE the idea of Post Secret and wonder what my first post would be<br />
83) I love scallions<br />
84) I think I look best in jeans<br />
85) At a wedding or event like that, I’ll get everyone to dance<br />
86) Jealousy sometimes gets the better of me<br />
87) When I get sick I’m a miserable bitch to be around<br />
88) I’m scared of thunderstorms but love them<br />
89) Most of the time I smell like Cool Citrus Basil from Bath & Bodyworks<br />
90) I’m really not good and handling bad news and often am the person that makes jokes to cope<br />
91) Mountain Lions are sexy<br />
92) I’m very impulsive<br />
93) When I drink out of a glass a lot of times I bite it<br />
94) Whenever I see a message from you I whisper in my head – Kitty Kat<br />
95) I wear super cute PJ’s<br />
96) I rarely remember my dreams at night<br />
97) My most favorite holiday is Halloween<br />
98) When I don’t like someone, I just avoid them.<br />
99) I donate blood regularly<br />
100) One of my most intense fantasies that I think about is having a man finish inside my body. It’s something I’ve never felt and think it’s one of the most personal things that I could feel.Kathleen Badehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09511937166340041010noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-65599380526084812.post-7045080421109041702011-01-22T14:25:00.001-08:002011-11-29T19:11:00.048-08:00One Hundred Things .... CherylA collection of lists. Take the challenge. 100 things about yourself. Streaming flow of consciousness, as personal or as general as you care to make it...but make it count. You might learn something about yourself and I promise it's better than 20 questions!<br />
<pre> </pre><pre> </pre><pre> </pre><pre> </pre><pre>1. I am a Scorpio.
2. I am old but I like to think of it as middle age.
3. I am a widow.
4. I once saw a grassy field at night with millions of ligtning bugs.
It was magical.
5. I have stood in the center of a crop circle.
6. I see dead people (sometimes).
7. I was 4 years old when I had my first spirit visitor.
8. I still love my husband.
9. Most people like me.
10. I'm a good cook.
11. I can't carry a tune.
12. My son once told me "Don't sing Mom". He was 2.
13. 13 is my lucky number.
14. My daughter told a friend of her's who was visiting us that "my Mom
is the meanest woman in the world. If monsters came to our
house my Mom would scare them away." She was 6, her friend also 6
was scared of monsters.
15. I don't lie.
16. I think I'm a medium.
17. I'm currently studying the Tarot.
18. I am spiritual, but not religious.
19. I don't want someone to come to my door to preach to me.
20. I don't know if I'll send this to Kate or not.
21. My home is my sanctuary.
22. If you ever leave my table hungry, its your own fault.
23. When I met my husband for the first time, it was love at first
sight. It literally felt like a bolt of energy hit me in the
chest (the heart chakra).
24. Helping him die was the hardest thing I've ever had to do (and no I
did not kill him).
25. I'm an open book.
26. What you see is what you get, but most people don't see.
27. There were 13 years difference in my husband's and my ages.
28. I have FSH Muscular Dystrophy (fascioscapulohumeral) which I
inherited from my Dad.
29. It is autosomal dominant that means both sexes can inherit the
disease from an affected parent.
30. My brothers have chosen not to be tested; the same with my children.
31. Hopefully they will not have inherited the gene.
32. I am not as affected by the MD as my Dad was.
33. My Mother is still living (86), my Father is not.
34. I worked for NASA for 27 years.
35. I can't believe that I'm retired.
36. I retired a little early to care for my husband and to spend more
time with him.
37. I've had cancer and radiation and they both suck.
38. Don't do either of those if you can help it.
39. Although I must say it was easier being the one who was sick, than
watching someone I loved go through it.
40. I wouldn't go through all the things he did just to stay alive.
41. I appreciate how hard he tried to stay for me.
42. He was very present when I was ill, even though he had died the year
before.
43. Doing this list is harder than it looks.
44. I am not afraid of dying.
45. I'd like to write a book, but everything comes out as poetry.
46. I was born in 1946.
47. My Dad was a Marine Staff Sargeant in World War II.
48. His Dad served in France in World War I.
49. My Great Grandfather was a photographer and a financier.
50. I think there should be balloons and fireworks. I'm half way there!!!
51. I hate wearing shoes.
52. I can't wear high heels anymore.
53. Red is my favorite color.
54. I had my kitchen painted orange last year.
55. It horrified my Mother.
56. That made me smile.
57. I don't like hot and humid weather.
58. Fall is my favorite time of year.
59. My decorating style is a pared down country.
60. I like antiques, things that have a history.
61. My great, great Uncle was a doctor on the Illinois frontier.
62. My husband's Grandmother was born during the Civil War.
63. Doesn't that bring history into focus more?
64. Hey that's my age!
65. Social Security's Medicare is looming large.
66. I'm still on the pretty side of 65.
67. Many might disagree with #66.
68. I don't care.
69. I don't dye my hair. Its still mostly brown.
7o. I don't know where my upper lip went; it seems to have deflated with
age.
71. I don't want collagen treatments or botox.
72. Aging with grace and dignity seem just fine to me.
73. Nothing is scarier than a 90 year old woman with black hair and big
red lips.
74. Remember that ladies.
75. I never get lonely.
76. I enjoy my own company.
77. We are all surrounded all the time by our guides and spirits.
78. I am happy for no apparent reason most of the time. Perhaps content
would be a better choice of words.
78. I have a cat named Max who will be 16 this Spring.
79. I've only had Max for 2 years.
80. It was an in-family adoption. Max was my son's cat but his wife was
allergic to long-haired cats.
81. Max came to me at the right time and has been my companion through
grief.
82. I have a wicked sense of humor.
83. I used to joke that our family motto was "Anything worth doing, is
worth doing the hard way."
84. Only it wasn't really a joke.
85. I got 3 new Grandchildren on the day my son got married.
86. Thank goodness they are too old to babysit.
87. I've had a very good life.
88. I wish I could go back and visit my Grandparents on their farm and
ask them about their lives when they were children.
89. I always wanted to explore their attic but was afraid to go up there.
90. I'm in the home stretch now!
91. When I was younger I wanted to live by the ocean.
92. I have a place by the ocean now, but I don't want to live there.
93. I found that the Pacific Northwest resonates with my soul.
94. I may move there someday.
95. I absolutely love the Twilight Saga books and all the movies.
96. I am an incurable romantic.
97. I also love all the Harry Potter books.
98. I'm a sucker for magical stories.
99. I used to be an avid reader, but now there has to be a good story to
draw me in.
100. I remember what it felt like to be 16.</pre>Kathleen Badehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09511937166340041010noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-65599380526084812.post-55769676924135959002011-01-21T07:14:00.001-08:002011-11-29T19:20:20.396-08:00One Hundred Things .... SageA collection of lists. Take the challenge. 100 things about yourself. Streaming flow of consciousness, as personal or as general as you care to make it...but make it count. You might learn something about yourself and I promise it's better than 20 questions!<br />
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1. I'm watching way too much Grey's Anatomy today.<br />
2. When I'm upset, I tend to obsess. <br />
3. When I obsess, I act like a crazy person.<br />
4. I'm not really a crazy person.<br />
5. I've eaten toast 4 times today.<br />
6. Someday I want to be a writer<br />
7. Someday I want to get married.<br />
8. I want to live in an America where it's legal for me to get married.<br />
9. Being a teenager sucks. Horribly.<br />
10. Tonight, just like last night and the night before, I'm going to stay up too late and then complain all day tomorrow about being tired.<br />
11.I do not like tree sap.<br />
12. I do however like camping.<br />
13. My favorite food is spaghetti. I could live on it for the rest of my life.<br />
14. I hate pork. There's no reason for this, but I hate it.<br />
15. My best friend is 19 years older than me.<br />
16. The most perfect thing about my body would be my teeth. I never needed braces.<br />
17. I have a stuffed plush Chlamydia microbe on my bed.<br />
18. I'm obsessed with penguins.<br />
19. My hair hasn't been its natural color since I was 12<br />
20. If I could only save one thing in a fire, besides family/pets, I would save my guitar. It's my baby.<br />
21. There is a picture of the inside of my abdomen on my bulletin board.<br />
22. I'm allergic to Kool-Aid.<br />
23. I have a crush on someone beautiful.<br />
24. I'm a very messy person and when I live in a dorm next year, my roommate will probably hate me.<br />
25. Sometimes I feel like I'm living inside a glass bubble and everyone is watching me from the outside.<br />
26. My rabbit would commit murder in order to get his morning popcorn.<br />
27. I hate one of my aunts. <br />
28. I'm a very different person around my extended family.<br />
29. My favorite number is 73.<br />
30. Sometimes I hate having a cellphone and contemplate breaking it in half.<br />
31. I know that I will never break my phone in half.<br />
32. Menopause is lame.<br />
33. I have decided that I won't delete any of the 100 things I write, even if I second guess it after I've written it.<br />
34. I love the color yellow. It looks happy, like eggs and lemons.<br />
35. I probably wear too much rainbow stuff<br />
36. I miss this one person so terribly badly. And I just want to drive to their house. And I know that would be a very bad idea.<br />
37. I love sushi.<br />
38. I want to be part of a band.<br />
39. Someday, I'd like to travel to Italy.<br />
40. I don't fit in with the high schoolers, I don't fit in with the college students.<br />
41. Someday I'd like to fit in.<br />
42. My 7th grade biology teacher saved my life.<br />
43. I made an entire renaissance costume.<br />
44. I wore the costume to the ren fair and got yelled at for having exposed shoulders that weren't period, and it was awesome.<br />
45. I start trends.<br />
46. I love disney movies.<br />
47. When I'm home alone, I often think that there is a creeper in my basement who wants to kill me.<br />
48. I don't understand women who can wear high heels everyday. I think they must be superheroes.<br />
49. Bubble gum is revolting.<br />
50. I feel like I should be writing something deep and insightful but....that hasn't happened yet!<br />
51. I'm in a world religions class, and I think I'm the only athiest. It makes for some interesting discussions.<br />
52. I love when I see a character from one tv show on another and I'm like, what, what? I thought you were evil!<br />
53. I would love to be one of those people who write songs for pop stars who can sing but can't write.<br />
54. When I wrote "pop stars" above, I almost wrote "pop tarts." I think they are interchangeable.<br />
55. Even though it's blue eyes that get the songs written about them, I think brown eyes are stunning.<br />
56. I've never done drugs. I've decided I'm going to wait until I'm 90, and then I'll try whatever the teenagers are doing in the 2080s.<br />
57. I love polka dots. On everything.<br />
58. I quote from the movie, Mean Girls, alot<br />
59. I'm tired. I will probably be awake for 3 more hours.<br />
60. I get really awkward in crowds of people<br />
61. I've never waxed my eyebrows. Or, actually anything. It sounds horrifying.<br />
62. My favorite piece of art in the world is the sculpture The Lost Pleiad.<br />
63. Currently my favorite song is "If You Come Over Tonight" by the band Old Lights, because this week, it describes exactly how I feel.<br />
64. My cousin turned 4 today. She's adorable<br />
65. I can't wait to leave the Iron Range<br />
66. I hate to wear shoes. But if I have to wear them, I prefer my Doc Martins<br />
67. I once covered my entire torso in duct tape.<br />
68. I love lipgloss.<br />
69. I listen to my car radio way too loud.<br />
70. In 10 years, I want to be working in a museum or a library.<br />
71. In 10 months I want to be at the University of Minnesota Morris<br />
72. In 10 days, I hope that all of the drama of this past week will be settled, one way or another.<br />
73. In 10 minutes, I hope that the person I'm missing will tell me something that makes me smile, instead of something that makes me frown.<br />
74. In 10 seconds I hope to come up with a # 75<br />
75. I hate the smell of lavender<br />
76. I hate the sound of chip bags crinkling.<br />
77. I feel like this is a James Bond number.<br />
78. I love sledding down the Biwabik hill late at night, even though it is dangerous and painful, and wet.<br />
79. I love glitter. It's like a parasite and it invades your house and it will never get off of your hair or your clothes or your bed, but its soo pretty.<br />
80. Edward Cullen is not desirable, at all, ever, ew.<br />
81. I make up nicknames for all of my friends, exes, and acquaintances.<br />
82. I knit hats.<br />
83. I'm insanely jealous of Marie Antoinette's wigs. My pink and black ones pale in comparison.<br />
84. Someday, I will be fluent in Italian.<br />
85. There is a bumper sticker on my white board that says "Morally Flexible."<br />
86. I've never been drunk or been to a party. I'm so straightedge.<br />
87. I make an exceptionally good pie crust.<br />
88. I burn my hand on the toaster about 90% of the time. The other 10% I burn the toast.<br />
89. I hate people who are ignorant and judgemental.<br />
90. Bananas Foster ice cream is delicious.<br />
91. My hair is too long to do anything with it, but I refuse to cut it.<br />
92. If anyone makes fun of my car, I will pull over and make them walk.<br />
93. I will fight for the things I believe in. Even if it's hard. Even if people hate me. Even if I'm on the losing side. Just because I lost, doesn't mean I was wrong.<br />
94. Dark chocolate is one of the 7 wonders of the world. It can replace one of the others. I'm sure it's more important.<br />
95. Last weekend I realized that if you leave tempurpedic pillows out in a cold car, they will freeze into a solid block.<br />
96. Sometimes I give up on love. Then I usually go for a run, or watch Say Anything, or eat some disgustingly unhealthy food, and I realize that since I love all of those things, love has to exist.<br />
97. I keep a lot of things secret from everyone.<br />
98. I hate clothing with horizontal stripes. And I realize I only have 2 numbers left, but this is a very important fact. Horizontal stripes are hideous.<br />
99. I need to start journaling everyday again.<br />
100. Like any teenager, I am now going to check my text messages, check my facebook, and stay up way past my bedtime :)Kathleen Badehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09511937166340041010noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-65599380526084812.post-43537809369045024692011-01-20T07:41:00.000-08:002011-11-29T19:52:44.123-08:00One Hundred Things ..... AnonymousA collection of lists. Take the challenge. 100 things about yourself. Streaming flow of consciousness, as personal or as general as you care to make it...but make it count. You might learn something about yourself and I promise it's better than 20 questions!<br />
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<ol type="1"><li class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">I don’t like trying to describe myself.</span></li>
<li class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">I think I am a better writer than I actually am.</span></li>
<li class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">Country music calms me and pumps me up at the same time...I LOVE IT!</span></li>
<li class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">I married by best friend and am a very lucky person.</span></li>
<li class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">I am often overwhelmed by life.</span></li>
<li class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">I wish I had more tolerance for people, everyone is going through something and I should be more forgiving in most cases.</span></li>
<li class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">Someday I want to write a novel.</span></li>
<li class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">I love going to new places and exploring.</span></li>
<li class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">I am very proud of my daughter, whether she believes that or not.</span></li>
<li class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">I am terrified that I failed to do my job as a mom and she will never come back to me.</span></li>
<li class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">I discovered joy in life through my husband…he opened my eyes to a whole new world.</span></li>
<li class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">I love redecorating, just wish it wasn’t so expensive!</span></li>
<li class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">I am able to feel lonely in a room packed with people, in fact that is usually where I feel the most alone.</span></li>
<li class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">I am an only child.</span></li>
<li class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">I am thankful to my mother for everything she gave up for me and I am so very sorry for all the heartache I put her through.</span></li>
<li class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">I didn’t always make the right choices, but all the choices helped to get me where I am today</span></li>
<li class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">Sometimes my priorities are messed up.</span></li>
<li class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">I still think about my first love.</span></li>
<li class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">Self confidence has never come easily, it is a work in progress.</span></li>
<li class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">I need to lose weight.</span></li>
<li class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">Clowns terrify me more than spiders.</span></li>
<li class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">I don’t know what I want to be when I grow up.</span></li>
<li class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">I LOVE the mountains and will live there someday.</span></li>
<li class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">I want to sell everything I own and travel around the country.</span></li>
<li class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">I watch to much mindless television.</span></li>
<li class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">My favorite is Parenthood.</span></li>
<li class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">My most favorite movie is White Christmas</span></li>
<li class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">I am horrible at video games.</span></li>
<li class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">I must be good at something</span></li>
<li class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">Everyone has a talent, right?</span></li>
<li class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">If I were to guess how most people would describe me I would say “beige.”</span></li>
<li class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">I am afraid of being rejected.</span></li>
<li class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">I like my job.</span></li>
<li class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">I don’t love my job.</span></li>
<li class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">I just saw a guy drive by on a snowmobile with an 8 foot ladder and a shovel.</span></li>
<li class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">I wish I could see myself the way others see me.</span></li>
<li class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">I never finished college.</span></li>
<li class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">I am not sure I want to.</span></li>
<li class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">I am still afraid of disappointing my mother.</span></li>
<li class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">I often think about the people who are no longer with me….and I talk to them.</span></li>
<li class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">The only one responsible for the way I feel is me….but that mean there wasn’t “help” from others.</span></li>
<li class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">I find all kinds of recipes I want to try, but never do.</span></li>
<li class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">I am not sure if I never learned how to keep a friend, or if I am just no good at it.</span></li>
<li class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">My favorite color changes depending on my mood.</span></li>
<li class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">Generally I like greens.</span></li>
<li class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">I LOVE tomatoes!</span></li>
<li class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">I get seasick.</span></li>
<li class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">I have bad luck with airlines.</span></li>
<li class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">America’s Funniest Videos can always cheer me up.</span></span></li>
<li class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span> </span>I have not met most of my clients</span></span></li>
<li class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">Camping is my favorite summer thing.</span></li>
<li class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">Hope to buy a new camper this year.</span></li>
<li class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">But we will be using the tent more often this year.</span></li>
<li class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">I want to quit smoking, but not enough to quit.</span></li>
<li class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">I like Bud Light.</span></li>
<li class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">probably too much</span></li>
<li class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">I prefer little hometown bars.</span></li>
<li class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">My favorite flower is the lily…such a happy flower!</span></li>
<li class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">I have brown eyes</span></li>
<li class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">I don’t really know my natural hair color…..Peggy always gets it close!</span></li>
<li class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">I wish I could cook like my grandma.</span></li>
<li class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">I wish she could teach me.</span></li>
<li class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">Mark Harmon is hot</span></li>
<li class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">Some people need to be MUCH more open minded.</span></li>
<li class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">Politicians makes me angry</span></li>
<li class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">My rational side understands that all the romantic stuff only happens in the movies, but the dreamer side of me still believes it COULD happen </span></li>
<li class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">I beat myself up when I make a mistake</span></li>
<li class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">I want to be swept off my feet.</span></li>
<li class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">Desperately wants to go to Country Jam again</span></li>
<li class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">I wish I had an eyelash worth of Kathleen’s talent.</span></li>
<li class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">I am afraid of the water</span></li>
<li class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">…bridges</span></li>
<li class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">…heights in general</span></li>
<li class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">But I try to do things that challenge those fears.</span></li>
<li class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">I have ridden in a helicopter</span></li>
<li class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">I have zip lined down a mountain</span></li>
<li class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">I swam with stingrays…didn’t so much enjoy that one, but I did it!</span></li>
<li class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">I am proud of my husband for following his dreams.</span></li>
<li class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">My cell phone rarely rings</span></li>
<li class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">I love when it rains on a hot humid day.</span></li>
<li class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">The smell of the rain is relaxing</span></li>
<li class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">I have one tattoo, but would like more</span></li>
<li class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">I broke my ankle last spring and now have 2 plates and 7 screws in me</span></li>
<li class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">What ever happened to Bugs Bunny?</span></li>
<li class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">I would like to think that someone would miss me when I gone.</span></li>
<li class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">I think we should all take a step back, slow down and look at how we affect other people.</span></li>
<li class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">This town is FULL of horrible drivers</span></li>
<li class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">Some day I want to cruise the ocean in one of those big fancy yachts…or maybe just take a tour of one to see how the “other half” lives.</span></li>
<li class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">I am doing my best to be an optimistic person….it is a learning process.</span></li>
<li class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">I have not had a horrible life</span></li>
<li class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">Life seems to be getting better as I get older</span></li>
<li class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">…or maybe I am getting better</span></li>
<li class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">I am all for helping people who are willing to help themselves.</span></li>
<li class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">I used to be one of them</span></li>
<li class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">Looking back at this list, it seems as though many different people wrote it….should I be worried?</span></li>
<li class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">I look forward to seeing my husband at the end of every work day.</span></li>
<li class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">I will always be a dreamer.<span> </span>Without dreams and goals, what do we have?</span></li>
<li class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">I tend to have all kinds of thoughts running through my head, but I can never get them out so they sound like they did in my head (see?!)</span></li>
<li class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">I am envious of many people for many reasons, but I will always be me.</span></li>
<li class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">Finished…..until I think of something else.</span></li>
</ol>Kathleen Badehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09511937166340041010noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-65599380526084812.post-44542524102232510162011-01-19T08:25:00.000-08:002011-11-29T19:53:17.279-08:00One Hundred Things .... JasonA collection of lists. Take the challenge. 100 things about yourself. Streaming flow of consciousness, as personal or as general as you care to make it...but make it count. You might learn something about yourself and I promise it's better than 20 questions!<br />
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</div><ol><li><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">I only feel comfortable when Im in the kitchen</div></li>
<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">I don't like monkeys</div></li>
<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">I prefer cats over dogs</div></li>
<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">I believe if one has never eaten well or loved well then one can not live well</div></li>
<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">I like tattoos</div></li>
<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Love to read</div></li>
<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Want to travel more</div></li>
<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">I miss Alaska</div></li>
<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">I enjoy solitude</div></li>
<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Like fishing</div></li>
<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Wished I lived in the outdoors</div></li>
<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Would like to meet Marco Pierre White</div></li>
<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">I like skiing</div></li>
<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Any winter activity is fine by me</div></li>
<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">I like sailing and would love to so it more</div></li>
<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">A perfect living situation for me would be to live on a house boat all summer and just fish</div></li>
<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Foie Gras is overrated</div></li>
<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Duck Confit is my favorite meal</div></li>
<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Le Belle Vie is the best place I have eaten at in Minneapolis (so far)</div></li>
<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">I'm a Capricorn</div></li>
<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">I am oddly excited by the odd</div></li>
<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">I have a book on the way....hopefully the writing is better than this</div></li>
<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">I like doing things that I normally don't on a daily basis</div></li>
<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">I enjoy the company of a beautiful woman....whats this about your brains Kathleen? Just seeing if your paying attention ;)</div></li>
<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">My favorite color is green</div></li>
<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">I'm an organization freak at work</div></li>
<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Nothing at my house is organized</div></li>
<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">I have a son</div></li>
<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">I prefer good scotch over anything</div></li>
<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">I use to draw a lot but now stick men are a challenge for me</div></li>
<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">I like photography</div></li>
<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">I enjoy art in all its forms</div></li>
<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">I respect an honest burger more than an overly thought out dish of escargot</div></li>
<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">I want to stage with Marco Pierre White at least ONCE</div></li>
<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Chocolate covered grass-hopper is AMAZING</div></li>
<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">I like deep-fried Twinkies</div></li>
<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">I enjoy coming home to make spam after preparing gourmet food all day</div></li>
<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">I like lemon with my pepsi and rum with my coke</div></li>
<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Just looked at my walls and realized I need more art</div></li>
<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">My socks don't match this morning</div></li>
<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">My socks rarely match</div></li>
<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">I would like to go to Thailand and try traditionally prepared cobra (it makes your wang bigger)</div></li>
<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">I have camped in an igloo before</div></li>
<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Yes....it was cold</div></li>
<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">I tend to think outside of the box when it comes to religion or life</div></li>
<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">I use to ride bulls in the rodeo (it was a phase)</div></li>
<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">I have broken too many bones</div></li>
<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">I like to snowboard but I broke my arm last year doing it. I guess snowboarding off of a house roof is not supposed to be done....STRANGE</div></li>
<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">I enjoy cooking fresh food from what the land around me has to offer</div></li>
<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">I am officially half done with this list</div></li>
<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">I like camping</div></li>
<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">I need a motorcycle...yes NEED one</div></li>
<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">A little pissed that the last establishment I worked for closed</div></li>
<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">I love the smell of a properly braised lamb chop</div></li>
<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Spherification excites me</div></li>
<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clostridium_botulinum" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">I have a healthy fear of clostridium botulinum</span></span></span></span></span></span></a><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"> </span></span></span></span></span> </div></li>
<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">Sous Vide is the best thing since peas and carrots</span></span></span></span></span></div></li>
<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">I like to write</span></span></span></span></span></div></li>
<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">I want more kids</span></span></span></span></span></div></li>
<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">I listen to classical at work and heavy metal at home</span></span></span></span></span></div></li>
<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">I like fountains</span></span></span></span></span></div></li>
<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">I have always wanted to build a houseboat</span></span></span></span></span></div></li>
<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">I am eating santa's foot right now and enjoying it with coffee</span></span></span></span></span></div></li>
<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">There should be a law concerning the sale of chocolate under a 62% rating</span></span></span></span></span></div></li>
<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">“<span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;">Theres a place I know where they go hard core”</span></span></span></span></span></div></li>
<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">I use to have 14 piercings (another phase)</span></span></span></span></span></div></li>
<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">I still have one piercing</span></span></span></span></span></div></li>
<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">Thinking about getting my tongue re-pierced</span></span></span></span></span></div></li>
<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">I'm going to buy a Jeep Savannah series</span></span></span></span></span></div></li>
<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">Avatar is my favorite movie</span></span></span></span></span></div></li>
<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">I need more tattoos</span></span></span></span></span></div></li>
<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">I would like to try dolphin....just once</span></span></span></span></span></div></li>
<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">I find Egyptian mythology interesting</span></span></span></span></span></div></li>
<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">I hate Justin Bieber</span></span></span></span></span></div></li>
<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">I want ferrets again</span></span></span></span></span></div></li>
<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">I wish people were more understanding of each other</span></span></span></span></span></div></li>
<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">I need more coffee right NOW</span></span></span></span></span></div></li>
<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">Baklava is my favorite dessert</span></span></span></span></span></div></li>
<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">Every politician I vote for is never elected</span></span></span></span></span></div></li>
<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">I secretly sponsor a child in the Philippines shh</span></span></span></span></span></div></li>
<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">I believe that knowledge is not power. The ability to use knowledge is power</span></span></span></span></span></div></li>
<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">Gastronomy is more interesting to me than cooking</span></span></span></span></span></div></li>
<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">I should be cleaning my room but I'm making this list instead</span></span></span></span></span></div></li>
<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">The best summer I ever had was living in a cabin 50 miles from town in the Denali National Forest</span></span></span></span></span></div></li>
<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">Never joined the military</span></span></span></span></span></div></li>
<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">I have much respect for those that fight for my freedom</span></span></span></span></span></div></li>
<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">I hate small dogs</span></span></span></span></span></div></li>
<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">Plan on taking a cruise this summer</span></span></span></span></span></div></li>
<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">Would like to start playing guitar again</span></span></span></span></span></div></li>
<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">I don't care what anyone says....muktuk is the worst thing I have ever eaten</span></span></span></span></span></div></li>
<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">omg this is taking forever...8 more!</span></span></span></span></span></div></li>
<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">Johnny Depp is the shit!</span></span></span></span></span></div></li>
<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">I want to see Black Swan</span></span></span></span></span></div></li>
<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">I just ate an entire chocolate santa</span></span></span></span></span></div></li>
<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">and drank a pot of coffee</span></span></span></span></span></div></li>
<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">Think I will watch a movie tonight</span></span></span></span></span></div></li>
<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">oooo I should make Lobster tonight!!</span></span></span></span></span></div></li>
<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">Boiled in a court bouillon </span></span></span></span></span> </div></li>
<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">Pressed with leeks and mire poix then sliced</span></span></span></span></span></div></li>
<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">Finished with a nice lemon dill burre blanc...ahhhh gotta go</span></span></span></span></span></div></li>
</ol>Kathleen Badehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09511937166340041010noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-65599380526084812.post-61959374839830710382011-01-18T13:19:00.001-08:002011-11-29T19:54:50.827-08:00One Hundred Things .... GusA collection of lists. Take the challenge. 100 things about yourself. Streaming flow of consciousness, as personal or as general as you care to make it...but make it count. You might learn something about yourself and I promise it's better than 20 questions!<br />
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1. I never really know how to start off a list of things about myself. <br />
2. I really dig a color that’s a combination of pink/purple, but refer to it as “Tattoo Purple” so it’s less feminine. <br />
3. When I was a kid, I thought antacids were made from crushed ants. <br />
4. I hate the fact that Hollywood is stuck remaking movies that were already remade once before. <br />
5. I don’t understand why people rush out to buy the latest cell phone, then bitch about it being “sucky”. <br />
6. I hate every movie in the Twilight series. <br />
7. I’m comfortable with the idea of Tom Cruise possibly being the Anti-Christ. <br />
8. If I eat breakfast, it’s cause I force-fed myself. <br />
9. I’ve never thought that Brittney Spears, Jessica Simpson or Lindsay Lohan were hot. <br />
10. I don’t get why a 3 minute phone conversation has to be drawn out into a 22 minute texting session. <br />
11. I often catch myself spacing out and thinking of the weirdest things…Like…what if monkeys could use surf boards. <br />
12. I think the programmers on The History Channel are really Nazis…or slowly becoming one. <br />
13. I liked MTV better when it was actually about ‘music’. <br />
14. I like to tell people “I’m writing a book” because saying “I’m using Microsoft Works to type out a book” takes way too much time/effort. <br />
15. I wonder if Jim Henson started developing a fisting obsession. <br />
16. I miss Saturday morning cartoon fests. <br />
17. I’ve never had AIDS. <br />
18. I love it when my therapist comes over to my house for our ‘sessions’ just to bob his head while I talk to him. It makes me feel like there’s music in the room that I’m oblivious to. <br />
19. I used to want to be Superman…but now, I don’t ever see me wanting to wear my underwear over my pants in public. <br />
20. I once stayed up to watch a Cheech and Chong movie just because there would be naked girls in it.<br />
21. I totally laugh every time my daughter farts. <br />
22. I dig the fact that most major holidays are on the same day ever year. <br />
23. I’m totally a Star Wars geek…I mean…fan. <br />
24. When someone cuts me off while I’m driving, I HAVE to drive up next to them to see what they look like. <br />
25. I have NO idea what possible good could come of #24.<br />
26. I have no problems admitting that I think George Michael is a great singer. Or at least, used to be. <br />
27. I once stapled my hand to see if it would hurt. It hurt. <br />
28. When I hear a tattoo gun, I start to go thru withdrawals. <br />
29. I don’t understand how rainbows make someone gay. <br />
30. I’m obsessed with video games and talk to my girlfriend about them like they’re real life scenarios. <br />
31. One of my legs is slighter larger than the other, but I don’t know which one it is. <br />
32. When I was a Cub Scout, I could care less about earning badges. <br />
33. I had no idea how exactly stinky poop was until I took a dump into a bucket. <br />
34. I love to say “11teen” instead of eleven. <br />
35. I think the term “Special Needs” is just as offensive. <br />
36. I think the song “If You’re Happy and you Know It” is offensive to kids with only one hand. <br />
37. I used to fantasize about being in a wheelchair…mostly during gym class. <br />
38. I have no idea why guys have a problem with buying tampons. <br />
39. I love my girlfriend more than chocolate. <br />
40. I have a certificate for Improv Comedy from Second City Chicago…but don’t know why this list sucks. <br />
41. I went thru the 80’s Metal Spandex phase for like…a week. <br />
42. Sometimes, when I’m bored, I make crank calls just to amuse myself. <br />
43. I can never actually picture Ellen having lesbian sex…or any sex for that matter. <br />
44. Oscar the Grouch was my hero. <br />
45. I once saw my dad’s balls flop out of his underwear during an argument. It was horrible…but ended the fight with a weird silence. <br />
46. I think Sally Struthers needs to stop eating all of Africa’s food supply while she’s there. <br />
47. I’ve never had a ‘man-crush’ on any actor. <br />
48. I used to think that G.I. Joe guys were real. <br />
49. I think it would be hilarious if clowns had sprinkles in their poop. <br />
50. I don’t understand why the tech-support agent on the phone is named “Robert” when he clearly is an Arab dude.<br />
51. I once got a tattoo based only around the fact that it was the most painful area to get tattooed. <br />
52. When I was 13, my mom would buy me bottles of Jack Daniels to bring to band practice. <br />
53. I think I’ve ran out of ’poop’ jokes. <br />
54. I really think I’m starting to develop ADHD since I..<br />
55. I’ve always wanted an ALF doll, but never got one *tear*<br />
56. I think 50 Cent sucks almost as much as Elton John. <br />
57. I still have a hard time saying ’vagina’ to an 8 year old. I just say “your junk’ instead. <br />
58. I can’t wait for this list to be over. <br />
59. I used to tell my parents that an F on my report card meant fantastic! <br />
60. If Facebook had an ugly contest, I’d be afraid I’d win. <br />
61. I used to dance on my front porch while spinning Michael Jackson albums on my Snoopy record player. <br />
62. I always hated my name “Constantine” until the Keanu Reeves movie came out. Heh<br />
63. I used to roller skate in my friends basement listening to The Bee Gees thinking “Man, it doesn’t get any better than this!” <br />
64. Every time I see a guy wearing a leather jacket with fringe on it, It reminds me of how much I truly hate Bon Jovi. <br />
65. I also hate the fact that I just had to add the word Jovi t the Microsoft Works dictionary! <br />
66. In Sunday School, they showed us pictures of Hell to scare us…But it backfired. I wanted to go there since all the people were naked. <br />
67. If I actually put one of my guitars away in its case, I feel like I’m suffocating a child of mine. <br />
68. I once puked and laughed at the same time. Try it…it’s not easy. <br />
69. The number 69 always makes me giggle like a schoolgirl. <br />
70. I love it when your friends say “that tastes like crap!” right before they hand it over to you to try. <br />
71. I’m obsessed over the weird stuff my daughter says. <br />
72. I don’t think aliens would fly millions of light years just to fly past Iowa for 2 seconds. <br />
73. I think we should stop letting clowns sell us food. <br />
74. I think it would be awesome if a UFO crashed into a Scientologist church. <br />
75. Speaking of which…Can we all just boycott all Tom Cruise movies until he finally goes out of the closet? <br />
76. I’m super glad that I have yet to see anyone I know on ‘To Catch a predator”. <br />
77. There really is no difference between Myspace and Facebook. <br />
78. I’m really glad they (kinda) stopped making those morality movies aimed towards black males in the ghetto. <br />
79. I love reading comic books, but haven’t read a comic book in years. <br />
80. I used to want to be in the Special Olympics. <br />
81. I once farted so loud in church (while singing in the choir) that the priest actually stopped to turn and look at me with the evil eye. <br />
82. When I was a kid, we would put plays on ever year in Greek School. I would learn all of my parts, then, replace them for my own jokes the night of the show. <br />
83. I used to pretend that Bruce Willis was my dad. <br />
84. Out of all the boys bands, I think The Spice Girls were the best. <br />
85. I don’t understand why everyone drinks only the liquor that’s deemed socially popular…for that minute. <br />
86. I really wish I had more poop jokes right about now. <br />
87. I’ve never watched a full episode of “Friends” and I’m proud. <br />
88. I used to think that Mr. Rogers had the ability to jump out of the screen and kill me if I was being bad. <br />
89. I don’t understand how Ozzy Osbourne can ditch his accent while singing, but Garth Brooks’ country twang still remains. <br />
90. I hate people who are obsessed with math, it just don’t add up. <br />
91. I really hate that last joke and almost wish I didn’t just write it. <br />
92. I wish I invented the teabag that looks like a tampon. <br />
93. I’ve been known to accidentally Dutch Oven myself during the night. <br />
94. This comment shouldn’t count…or should it? Hmmmm<br />
95. I hope the entire cast of Twilight all die in a fire. <br />
96. I think American Idol should just be called “You Suck”. <br />
97. I think that if Elton John had a sex tape leaked to the public, it would be really gay. <br />
98. I’ve never had a crush on a female superhero. <br />
99. I totally lied on the last one. Teehee<br />
100. All of the above are true…except for #98...obviously.Kathleen Badehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09511937166340041010noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-65599380526084812.post-50317235016933984962011-01-11T10:43:00.000-08:002011-11-29T19:55:44.934-08:00One Hundred Things .... ShawnA collection of lists. Take the challenge. 100 things about yourself. Streaming flow of consciousness, as personal or as general as you care to make it...but make it count. You might learn something about yourself and I promise it's better than 20 questions!<br />
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Kathleen: "Okay I have to pre-qualify something, as I laugh here, yes he saw them many years ago and has never recovered. Most men don't. They are gorgeous. [ grin ] And to your credit Shawn I happen to know you love my brains as much as you love my breasts."<br />
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1. I hate making lists<br />
2. I hate talking about myself<br />
3. I feel like people don't listen to me; therefore I have learned to listen because I know how it feels.<br />
4. I think Kathleen Bade has the best looking breasts I have ever seen :P<br />
5. I like talking to people about stuff to learn about new things<br />
6. Blue and Green are my favorite colors<br />
7. I don't have many friends<br />
8. The friends I DO have I wouldn't trade the world for<br />
9. I would take a bullet for my friends in a heartbeat<br />
10. I HAVE taken a bullet for one friend; we served in the same unit together<br />
11. I wish I could have become a pilot<br />
12. Planes are a passion of mine.<br />
13. Flying has been a part of my life since I was young.<br />
14. If I was diagnosed with a terminal illness, I would probably go on a shooting spree over where the drug dealers hang out.<br />
15. I hate anyone who uses the race/gender card<br />
16. I hate women who hyphenate their name. Why should I be expected to say an extra word?<br />
17. I hate the term African American, Latino American etc. Either you are African or American, not both<br />
18. I like being alone because you don't get your heartbroke so easily<br />
19. I always pick women who are bad for me<br />
20. Country music is what I listen to because it tells a story or makes a point.<br />
21. I can't stand poorly written music<br />
22. I hate most Rap music<br />
23. I like to cook<br />
24. I like to help people<br />
25. I have a deep dark void inside me<br />
26. Helping people helps fill that void temporarily<br />
27. I like to hold hands<br />
28. If I was to choose which Xmen I would be, it would be Wolverine<br />
29. I am a loner but hate that part about me<br />
30. I wish I had someone in my life where I could go to when I am down or have problems<br />
31. I have been called a Rock by people<br />
32. I have a weakness<br />
33. I am not going to share it because my strength lies within it being kept a secret.<br />
34. I get exploited alot<br />
35. I have gas alot<br />
36. Women who burp are hot!!<br />
37. A woman who drinks beer out of a bottle and burps is even hotter<br />
38. I hate cats but they love me<br />
39. My family disowned me 3 years ago<br />
40. I am not saddened by this, it was a long time coming<br />
41. I was treated like an outsider by both of my dad's familes when I was growing up<br />
42. I have never cheated on a woman<br />
43. I have never hit or grabbed a woman<br />
44. I HAVE thrown my best friend off a second story balcony for hitting his wife.<br />
45. I have saved a life<br />
46. I have had days where it was literally a miracle I lived to see another day<br />
47. I have delivered a baby or 10 in my time<br />
48. I hate that I can't give blood anymore<br />
49. I hate my government for losing control over reality<br />
50. I wish I lived on the coast of Australia<br />
51. I am thinking of a piece of Boston Cream Pie right now (and Kathleen's breasts)<br />
52. My middle name is Erin<br />
53. My real nickname is Amos<br />
54. Amos was given to me by my grandfather<br />
55. He said I was his 'little nigger baby'<br />
56. I was to turn out to be my Grandfathers favorite<br />
57. I have never been to jail<br />
58. I have never failed a grade<br />
59. I have never been to summer school<br />
60. I have never ridden in a limo<br />
61. I have never worn a Tux<br />
62. I have always taken second place, never first, to people<br />
63. My hero is named Robert E. Armbrust<br />
64. He was a fighter pilot<br />
65. My favorite teacher was Mr MacPherson<br />
66. I never took a single class of his but learned so much.<br />
67. My favorite leader was Ronald Reagan<br />
68. I hate cranberry and grapefruit<br />
69. Eggplant sucks too<br />
70. For Christmas I asked for a pic of someones boobs<br />
71. I only got a book on Shamanism for Christmas and a box of chocolates<br />
72. The more I read about Shamanism the more I believe I am one<br />
73. I love video games where I can craft stuff and learn about business practices<br />
74. Playing a crafter on a video game has made me more financially responsible<br />
75. I don't go to bars or clubs if I can help it.<br />
76. I consider my marriage to Tracy my biggest mistake ever<br />
77. I need a new computer<br />
78. I spend alot of time helping others and not enough time helping me<br />
79. I wish I had a friend with benefits that didn't mind spending time doing other stuff with me as well<br />
80. I prefer sundresses on a woman over bikini's<br />
81. Can't stand lingerie; tshirt and cotton panties make me weak in the knees<br />
82. I love crablegs the best, and sushi<br />
83. I believe in the power of the mind and body over drugs and medicine.<br />
84. I just had my heart broke for the last time.<br />
85. I think I want to go become a monk or a Preacher<br />
86. If I DO become a preacher I will still have a beer and tell dirty jokes<br />
87. I am saving up for a Harley<br />
88. When I get that Harley I will be a drifter and travel the US and Canada<br />
89. I am tired of not getting what I want while seeing everyone get what they want<br />
90. I am tired of being there when people need stuff but never invited to do the fun stuff<br />
91. I have decided to not take any crap off of anyone from now on<br />
92. I cry after sex (mace will do that to a man)<br />
93. I think humor is the best way to diffuse any problem or bad situation<br />
94. I can't believe I am doing a 100 list<br />
95. If Kathleen didn't have such great knockers I wouldn't be doing this<br />
96. I think Kathleen is tired of me talking/thinking about her breasts<br />
97. I hate the cold<br />
98. I love being warm<br />
99. I hate this disease I have<br />
100. I don't want anyone to cry at my funeral when I die.Kathleen Badehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09511937166340041010noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-65599380526084812.post-8462931079404241562011-01-06T06:23:00.000-08:002011-11-29T20:00:51.692-08:00One Hundred Things ..... AnonymousA collection of lists. Take the challenge. 100 things about yourself. Streaming flow of consciousness, as personal or as general as you care to make it...but make it count. You might learn something about yourself and I promise it's better than 20 questions!<br />
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1. Just want Kathleen Bade to give me a second glance.<br />
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2. I long for the Upper Midwest but live in Ohio – live through siblings all over the North Country – visit often.<br />
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3. I have been alone for 17 years personally, but am always surrounded by people. Anyone with me would have to understand that we have no privacy, but we can be wonderful to everyone.<br />
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4. I started on TV when I was 17, this will be my 45th year doing what I love – weather on TV – it is a hobby and I am never bored.<br />
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5. My God reason for being an exposed person is to be the person anyone can come too when they have a problem. No matter what, I will help.<br />
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6. I rescued a total stranger with cerebral palsy from a nursing home and put him into his own apartment and gave him a life until he died last year. For a decade I was his only family.<br />
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7. Work janitor could not get to work – I got him a car.<br />
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8. An abused woman stranger came to me and I gave her money for plastic surgery.<br />
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9. Woman and son lost job. Was going to be evicted – I kept them in their house until she got back on her feet.<br />
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10. No one knows even a fraction of what I do quietly, so it is God driven that people come to me.<br />
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11. My house would not be for entertaining adults. Every room has trains, toys, dinosaurs in elaborate layouts for my grandchildren to play with.<br />
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12. I have a hockey rink in my yard.<br />
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13. I have a snow making machine to make snow since it is my first love as a kid – now. I am a failure if I do not have 20 feet of snow at my house in a winter, haha.<br />
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14. I love to snow ski, dog sled, play hockey and never watch TV even though I am on it – want to be active every minute.<br />
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15. I have two daughters 5 grandchildren 2 dogs and 2 cats – only the 4 legged ones live with me.<br />
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16. I grew up in Iowa, retain the simple decent qualities of the Midwest.<br />
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17. My hair is still mostly black – thank you dad.<br />
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18. I do not whine.<br />
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19. I do not blame others for anything that happens to me.<br />
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20. I see the good in everyone.<br />
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21. I’m the uncle all the nieces and nephews want to see and go on vacation with.<br />
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22. I am a good judge of character.<br />
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23. I was in the Army – helicopter unit - #1 marksman Spirit and Honor Medal<br />
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24. I graduated with degrees in college in Math, Climate, Speech<br />
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25. I have taught 6-7-8 science and math just to fill my days while working on TV.<br />
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26. I am an actor.<br />
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27. This would be my 20th season in the outdoor drama TECUMSEH this summer.<br />
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28. I am with SHADOWBOX LIVE a sketch comedy, rock and roll troupe 9 months out of the year.<br />
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29. I am in the AP Broadcast Hall of Fame.<br />
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30. I have been voted favorite television personality in Columbus since the early 1980s EVERY YEAR – Columbus Monthly.<br />
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31. I am not an egocentric person so this is a very hard list for me to do.<br />
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32. If Kathleen Bade would find time to talk to me, she would not be disappointed.<br />
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33. My reading is almost exclusively science or history related.<br />
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34. I watch for shooting stars almost every night the sky is clear.<br />
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35. A fire will mesmerize me.<br />
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36. I talk to myself all the time.<br />
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37. My favorite moment is when I fall into bed after midnight every night.<br />
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38. I believe aliens did land in Roswell, New Mexico – one cat is named Roswell, other is Drizzle.<br />
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39. I believe the next life – dimension – is right next to ours, just out of our eye vision.<br />
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40. I believe that those on the other side do give us signs if we are quiet, sensitive, aware.<br />
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41. I cry.<br />
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42. I laugh more.<br />
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43. I can relate to people down and out, I had a drug problem 25 years ago. Have walked that line.<br />
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44. I miss my father, he has been gone 10 years.<br />
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45. My 85 year old mother still teaches aerobics.<br />
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46. I am close to my family.<br />
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47. I love doughnuts.<br />
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48. I love Ovaltine.<br />
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49. I do not drink alcohol.<br />
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50. Why are a lot of my closest friends owners of restaurants?<br />
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51. I used to bowl and play softball.<br />
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52. I miss bowling and softball.<br />
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53. I could be passionate – still waiting on that one special woman – I think it is you.<br />
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54. Don’t ask me how I know – I do.<br />
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55. I do not kiss and tell.<br />
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56. I have a good relationship with me ex and her husband, they visit my house.<br />
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57. I have no enemies.<br />
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58. I go to church.<br />
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59. Duluth, Minnesota and Dubuque, Iowa are my favorite towns.<br />
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60. My TV station sends me on trips with viewers every year – my love of it is still questionable, places fantastic.<br />
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61. I spent 10 days on a working ore freighter – Edgar Speer, out of Two Harbors MN to help them understand weather/shipping.<br />
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62. I am fascinated by the Edmund Fitzgerald.<br />
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63. Superior is my favorite lake.<br />
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64. I am going to Hawaii in two months for 10 days.<br />
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65. I was in the Canadian Rockies last summer.<br />
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66. I love Austria and Switzerland and the mountains there.<br />
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67. My dog, Penny C, is a pug/chihuahia and she loves me.<br />
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68. My dog, Sammie C, is a golden retriever; he is food motivated.<br />
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69. I never date a co-worker.<br />
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70. I rarely date viewers who seek me out – not sure of their motives.<br />
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71. Like to keep some of me private.<br />
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72. I love toy trains, Lionel, every since I was little.<br />
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73. Christmas and snow make me glow.<br />
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74. I love autumn leaves and crisp air.<br />
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75. I love walking at midnight in August when crickets, cicadas, and others chirp up a loud storm.<br />
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76. Worst day of my year is day to take down the ice rink for the season.<br />
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77. Best day is putting it up.<br />
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78. I drive a Buick – does that make me old.<br />
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79. I like shuffleboard – that does make me seem old for sure.<br />
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80. I would not disappoint Kathleen Bade – she would rethink some of her list if she knew me.<br />
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81. We only see 72 days of blue skies where I live.<br />
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82. I also do forensic work when weather is involved in court cases.<br />
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83. Yes even murder trials and arson against the mob trials.<br />
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84. My name and phone number is still listed in the phone book.<br />
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85. But I have a concealed carry permit.<br />
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86. I like to grow watermelon and pumpkins – takes no effort for a big reward.<br />
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87. Howling wolf in the woods of northern Wisconsin is special.<br />
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88. I want to see a live bear in the woods sometime.<br />
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89. I have coyotes, fox, deer where I live.<br />
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90. I once killed a rattlesnake when rock climbing in the Army – no other way to not get bit – noosed it with wire.<br />
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91. Still feel bad about it, never would hurt an animal.<br />
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92. My cat Drizzle is smarter than me, and more cunning.<br />
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93. I have 3 brothers and 3 sisters.<br />
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94. I dream of climbing Everest – would settle for Ranier.<br />
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95. I wished I knew other languages.<br />
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96. I work from noon to midnight = little social life.<br />
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97. I am not quite the man my father was still.<br />
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98. I am 62, look like I’m in my 40s, act like I am in my 20s for activity.<br />
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99. Almost last chance for Hurricane Kate to notice me.<br />
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100. Kate sometimes fleeting glimpses do tell much and do open your eyes.Kathleen Badehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09511937166340041010noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-65599380526084812.post-86551419967552942022011-01-05T06:20:00.000-08:002011-11-29T19:58:18.958-08:00One Hundred Things ..... AnonymousA collection of lists. Take the challenge. 100 things about yourself. Streaming flow of consciousness, as personal or as general as you care to make it...but make it count. You might learn something about yourself and I promise it's better than 20 questions!<br />
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1. I have been living below the poverty line for several years.<br />
2. I have been looking for cashmere sweaters on mark down for several years.<br />
3. Today I bought three lovely cashmere sweaters, cheap! I am wearing one now, and it feels lovely.<br />
4. I tend to be unsympathetic when people tell me they suffer from depression. I do not tell them I am unsympathetic. I do not see depression the way it is currently viewed. I do try to cheer them up, but I refuse to “feel their pain” when they say there is nothing wrong but depression. Own up to it, or walk away from it. Don’t just dawdle there full of self pity.<br />
5. I love to smile, and to be smiled at.<br />
6. I am totally in love with my daughter. I have been ever since the day I was giving her a bath and she didn’t want me to wash her hair. She wasn’t talking yet, but she tried anyway. She stood up in the tub, put her hands on my cheeks, and holding my face in her tiny hands and looking me straight in the eye, she babbled at me in a stern voice. I knew she was telling me that the way I was washing her hair was unacceptable. To this day she still hates for water to get on hair face while she is washing her hair. BTW, to wash a child’s hair w/o getting water on their face, use a wet washcloth.<br />
7. People tend to think I eat weird food. I think they do.<br />
8. I do not want another pet because I am longing for freedom, for travel, for not taking care of another anything or anybody. <br />
9. I was fearless when I was young.<br />
10. I am very honest, and was fearless with my honesty when I was young.<br />
11. I have learned to be afraid of telling the truth.<br />
12. I miss it.<br />
13. I jumped out of an airplane at 10,000 feet. The freefall was amazing. I didn’t care for it when the chute opened and stopped the fall. Floating down was fine, but jumping out and falling was the best part.<br />
14. I have known people to do horrible things, yet I still believe that each of us contains the very best of all things. I do not believe in evil, as in I do not believe that there is something in one that is not in another. And I do not say this lightly. Tell me of the most horrible act by the most horrible person, and I will say that we are all equal. <br />
15. I do believe it is of immense value to do our best to be kind, and help others, and avoid harming others.<br />
16. I love people. It seems ever so much easier to do well from a distance.<br />
17. The thing that I resent about being a mother is that I feel like I am no fun now, not in the way that I was before I became a mother.<br />
18. I never wanted to be a single mom. I resent that too.<br />
19. I never thought my husband would cheat on me. It was one thing that I knew for sure.<br />
20. I am an adoptive mother, yet I did not seek my daughter, she came to me. <br />
21. I think I express myself best in writing.<br />
22. I cry easily.<br />
23. I yell, even though I think it is the wrong way.<br />
24. I used to hit when I was mad.<br />
25. Before I started hitting when I was angry, I was hit by others when they were angry.<br />
26. It felt powerful good when I hit instead of being hit.<br />
27. This is starting to read like therapy. Fair warning, it might get worse.<br />
28. I love dry, dark humor. <br />
29. I also love dark chocolate. <br />
30. Men? I dunno. Sometimes I wish I wasn’t heterosexual.<br />
31. I love women, but I am not quite bi. I do think women are generally better looking than men. I would like to live in a society where women hold hands and snuggle. And there are societies like that. If it was acceptable, I would love up lots of people in that way. Not sex, just physical expressions of love.<br />
32. I do miss sex. I have only had sex a couple times in the last five years, and none at all in a very long time.<br />
33. I am starting menopause.<br />
34. I am GLBT friendly, but will not date men who cross dress.<br />
35. I like ritual.<br />
36. I have studied many, many subjects, formally and informally.<br />
37. I am a clutter bug, but I love clean.<br />
38. I love good sheets, feather pillows, and high end mattresses.<br />
39. I love to travel.<br />
40. I can enjoy dives just as much as posh places.<br />
41. I was arrested on a felony charge. Aggravated assault/assault with a deadly weapon. It was self defense. It was in a bar. The guy was making me leave with him, and no one would stop him, even though I was asking for help. He was someone I knew, but not someone I wanted to leave with. He was big time bad news. I busted his head open with a glass, left handed even, cause that was my only opportunity. The bartender called the police; I waited for them, figured it was the lesser of two evils. The guy dropped the charges on Monday, after I sat in jail all weekend.<br />
42. When I was a child, I loved to run. I was sure I could fly if I just ran fast enough.<br />
43. I had terrible nightmares as a child.<br />
44. I sucked my thumb until about 2nd grade.<br />
45. I want to see Thailand, Greece, Italy, Africa, and jungles, rainforests, and India, and Guatemala, and...<br />
46. I only look like a white girl. I do not feel like a white person. I am not exactly prejudiced against white people, but they kinda scare me in general. And I often feel like I am an imposter around them. And I feel like a wanna-be around ethnic people. I am a woman without a tribe.<br />
47. I dream of winning the lottery. Really. I would not be surprised if it happened. I am often slightly surprised when it doesn’t.<br />
48. I think I could love again, and believe I would love well given another chance. But I don’t fall in love easily these days.<br />
49. I never thought I would get this old.<br />
50. Things are good. Life is peaceful, and I am safe. The only things that threaten me are the demons of my past.<br />
51. I have agreed to start seeing a psychotherapist. This is hard for me, because as you might remember, I don’t much believe in whining.<br />
52. The main reason I decided to is because I realized I do not have all the tools I need to raise my daughter at this stage of her life.<br />
53. I cried all day yesterday. I cried because I realized that both of my parents had failed to protect me when they should have. I always blamed my mother, and idolized my father. Yesterday I realized that he should have not gotten me a fake id when I was underage, and that when I told him I was working at a peepshow, he should have told me to stop.<br />
54. I am afraid that if I think about it too long, remember too much, talk about the facts of the matter, that I will have to conclude that I was never loved the way I love my daughter.<br />
55. I am crying now.<br />
56. I am a spiritual person. God has spoken to me throughout my life. His advice is always sound. I do not believe in a traditional God, but I know the Divine. And I still call it God. I am confounded that others do not hear God. <br />
57. I would like to help other people find the peace I have at times. <br />
58. There are so many things I want to do in this world it is hard to know where to start, what to give my attention to. I tend to do what is in front of me.<br />
59. My daughter is beginning puberty. I hope I am past the worst of my mood swings before she begins the worst of hers.<br />
60. I love to feed others good food.<br />
61. I think soup can be beautiful. Or a simple salad, or bread.<br />
62. I like it when others feed me. My neighbors sent over casserole yesterday, and somebody shoveled my front walk today. Those things make me feel loved.<br />
63. Awhile ago I realized it was no longer appropriate to donate money to charities when I needed charity. So I made a decision that I would not put money in the church plate, and I would cancel my “sister” that I supported monthly, and ignore all formal charity requests. But I also decided that I would refuse no personal requests for help. Interesting the people who have showed up in my life, asking for anything from three dollars to two eggs, or to use the phone. It has felt good to always say yes. It has also been a practice in non judgment to always say yes.<br />
64. I love deviled eggs.<br />
65. I love to play.<br />
66. I like to drink tequila straight, if I am drinking seriously, which I don’t do often.<br />
67. I love the water. <br />
68. I love flying.<br />
69. I have flown an ultra light, cut the engine, and glided into a desert sunset with only the sound of air moving past me.<br />
70. My favorite memory of Jamaica is the snorkel guide who dived to the bottom and then popped up next to me to surprise me with a sea urchin on top of his dreadlocks. <br />
71. I learned to scuba dive in Mexico.<br />
72. My family is hard to trust.<br />
73. I love them, even when I avoid them.<br />
74. My mother is exceptionally smart, as are many of my siblings.<br />
75. My mother was raped as a child. She was younger than my daughter is now.<br />
76. I was turned out by a trick when I was a child. Maybe you don’t know what this means. “Turned out” refers to how one was convinced to begin in prostitution. It often is a reference to what a pimp does to a girl to start her in the life. “Trick” refers to a man who supports and promotes the sex trade because he seeks girls to pay for sex. And “child” means it was illegal. I spent the money on food and stuff for Mom. She did ask where I got it. I did tell her some guy paid me 50 dollars for a massage.(And that was what he called it, and what he told me to do at first, and then told me/taught me/coaxed me to finish with a hand job). She did not give any further feedback, just a grocery list.<br />
77. I first tried cocaine when I was about 14. I became addicted by 18, and did not quit until I was 25.<br />
78. I did not run away from home. My mother dropped me off at a school friend’s house and then was unable to be reached for a very long time.<br />
79. I was a good kid, eager to please. Unfortunately, the things that pleased others were not good for me.<br />
80. The first street drugs I tried were from my mother’s top dresser drawer.<br />
81. I want to be a good mother.<br />
82. I feel like this is getting whiny, and want to rewrite. I will just change subjects.<br />
83. I love people. I think they are beautiful. I think I can often see their Divine Essence shining thru.<br />
84. I have had dreams of people close to me as they were passing over. It’s nothing to be afraid of.<br />
85. I am sure that death will be a cakewalk. Maybe that’s not the word I want. Piece of cake? Well, sweet and easy is what I am getting at.<br />
86. I overeat, and am holding the line between overweight and obese. I don’t like being fat.<br />
87. If I had a lover, I would slim down without even trying.<br />
88. I like to garden, to plant seeds, to tend and nurture, to harvest, and to put up the bounty that is reaped. I like to open those jars full of summer on a cold winter day. I like to share the deliciousness with my friends and neighbors.<br />
89. Life is a miracle, yet still I am prochoice.<br />
90. When I win the lottery, I will have a personal masseuse.<br />
91. When I was seven, I was reading the Chronicles of Narnia, at nine, Piers Anthony. By eleven, Kahlil Gibran. <br />
92. I love to read.<br />
93. I read more nonfiction then fiction these days.<br />
94. I love music, especially live.<br />
95. I love marching bands. When I win the lottery, I will hire a marching band for my birthday every year.<br />
96. In seventh grade, in gymnastics, my teacher scored my floor routine a 10. It felt so good.<br />
97. I was a tomboy, always outside, climbing, running, jumping. <br />
98. I hated becoming a girl as a young teen.<br />
99. I am always growing, learning, and changing.<br />
100. I believe that we all emerged from one divine essence, that we all remain a part of one divine essence, and we will all return to one divine essence.Kathleen Badehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09511937166340041010noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-65599380526084812.post-44548777752647827462010-12-22T07:18:00.001-08:002011-11-29T19:56:56.415-08:00One Hundred Things ..... Michelle ... part twoA collection of lists. Take the challenge. 100 things about yourself. Streaming flow of consciousness, as personal or as general as you care to make it...but make it count. You might learn something about yourself and I promise it's better than 20 questions!<br />
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1. Quotes are very important to me, if I cannot find the right words to use, I can generally find the perfect quote, and several will crop up during this list.<br />
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2. For the past three weeks, here in Scotland we have experience a huge amount of snow. I have approx 3ft outside, which is nothing in comparison to many countries. I simply adore the snow, I never get sick of seeing it, I never tire of it, and snow is Momma nature icing her cake.<br />
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3. Cake, my favourite cake has to be carrot cake, it’s not too sticky and perfectly moist and totally scrumptious.<br />
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4. Mulled wine is scrumptious any time of the year; it’s not just for Christmas.<br />
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5. Eggnog latte is seriously heavenly.<br />
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6. Tea: Earl Grey please, Orange Blossom Earl Grey is even better, either black or with a slight splash of milk.<br />
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7. ‘A friend is someone who knows you and loves you just the same’ ~ some people never experience baring their complete soul to anyone. I am very lucky to have some very special friends who know everything about me. I have bared my soul to them, and during good times they have shared the laughter and during the bad times they have been my crutches when I have not been able to walk. It’s important to be open with at least one or two people in life, otherwise you will never gain a true insight into yourself.<br />
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8. I am blessed in this life, I have two wonderful children, a wonderful home and my heart is at peace, I have no complaints.<br />
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9. Karma is my religion.<br />
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10. I believe we live in a ‘move on’ society. People are now more willing just to move on, than sort out conflict. Conflict resolution is a skill that is a dying art, and too many people are buying into that method of thinking. There is a fine art in learning to shut your mouth and open your ears and to not see everything as an attack, but as a platform to recreate.<br />
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11. The gentle art of listening, is learning to stop building walls and defences, but learning to build bridges. By listening to others you gain a very good insight into how you are being perceived in this world.<br />
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12. Perception is reality. How some people perceive the world, you and I, is their reality. We are all different and see and perceive things differently. A major step towards higher intelligence is learning to see things from the others point of view, walk that mile in their footsteps.<br />
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13. Out of body experiences ~ has been on my mind recently. I have experience a few within my lifetime. Right now, I hypothesise that an OBE is the two self’s of the body. We have an invisible self, and the physical self. When you are experiencing an OBE, you are invisible, but you can still see the other, physical self. I am certain that when we die, this invisible self leaves the body and remains, hence why we can feel the presence of others when they have passed. They remain with us in this form.<br />
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14. One of the greatest lessons in life is learning to forgive. It’s very powerful. I see no point holding bad feeling about anyone, no matter what they have done, never allow the hurt and pain to continue. You can choose to have no association with a person, and keep them out of your life, but ‘holding onto anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else, you are the one who gets burned’.<br />
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15. Anger: ‘Anybody can become angry, that is easy, but to be angry with the right person to the right degree and at the right time for the right purpose, and in the right way, that is not within everybody’s power and it not easy’. Emotional intelligence is part of learning to control your emotions, learning when and where you should use them, stepping above or out of the situation. It’s fundamental that people should pay more attention to their emotional intelligence, to gain a better future for themselves and those people around them. The world would be a better place.<br />
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16. Ben & Jerry’s caramel chew chew ice-cream rawks.<br />
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17. I believe in synchronicity ~ everything happens for a reason.<br />
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18. I have realised that recently I have been drawn more and more to photography. Several of my newer friends are professional photographers, and several more have a keen interest, like me in the amazing properties of seeing through a lens. I have always dreamed of building a studio on my land next to my house... That dream is being constantly fed, and I believe that synchronicity is playing a hand by enabling me to get closer to a precious few who have mastered the art.<br />
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19. I love bumble bees. On the hunt for nectar, the strongest bees will leave the hive to go and search. When they find a source of nectar they will return to the hive and do a waggle dance to the other weaker, younger bees, which gives them the directions to the closest location of the source. This is in order for the weaker bees to survive the flight and make it back to the hive. And let’s not forget that bees really define all laws of nature in the fact that they can actually fly. They are amazing.<br />
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20. I love football... that’s soccer to the Americans. I have my favourite team which I have been supporting for many years.<br />
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21. I do understand the ‘off-side’ rule.<br />
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22. I named my son, James, after the stadium at which my favourite team played.<br />
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23. I have been honoured to meet Sir Booby Robson on several occasions, and what a guy! So warm, so gentle, just so genuine. RIP Booby, you are missed.<br />
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24. I was asked my thoughts last night on Inception. Do I think it’s possible? Oh yes. If someone can master remote viewing and combine that with mastering out of body experiences, I am certain the rest comes easy. Welcome to the real matrix.<br />
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25. My favourite bands are Snow Patrol, Coldplay and Pink Floyd. Going to a Coldplay concert is on my bucket list, the remaining two bands I have seen live.<br />
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26. My bucket list: Everyone should have one, adding different experiences onto it and also ticking off ones you achieved. My bucket list is now pretty small, mostly full of countries I will visit, I have been fortunate enough to tick off and remove many items which were on the list beforehand.<br />
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27. Strictly Come Dancing, A British TV show where celebrities compete each week, learning dances and gradually get voted off the show until one winning couple is left. Learning to really dance is on my bucket list.<br />
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28. My favourite song right now is Secret Garden by Bruce Springstein.<br />
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29. Seeing him live is also on my bucket list.<br />
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30. Rugby: what a sport... I really love rugby, seeing all of that testosterone on a field; it does something to me... Really lights my fire.<br />
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31. Last year my son broke his wrist playing rugby, even with a broken wrist he continued playing, managed to score a try, was taken down in another tackle, to which then the pain became too much. After the game he went to his friends for a sleep over, ignoring his wrist, and when I collected him the next morning, he showed his wrist to me, and I then took him to A&E. My brave little soldier. It was funny seeing him beg the consultant to remove his cast in order for him to get back on the pitch.<br />
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32. As soon as his cast was removed he was back playing.... And I was trying to wrap him up in cotton wall... I could not watch.<br />
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33. My wee man, my son, James. A gentle giant, 6ft 2 at 14 years old.<br />
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34. My little princess, Alisha, born with her head in the clouds, and it’s still there now. She is such a space head, and so beautiful with it.<br />
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35. James’ dream is to become a neuro surgeon, and I am certain he will achieve this dream. Alisha either wants to become a psychologist and follow in my footsteps or go into psycharitry. I know they will both succeed.<br />
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36. I changed ships. It’s never too late to change ships. I spent many career years being in management, hotels and pubs. I then trained as a counsellor, nlp, hypnosis, and life coaching and now psychology. I am building my castles in the skies and working towards my goals.<br />
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37. I am a book worm. It’s actually rare to find me watching TV. I spend most of my time with my head shoved in a book. I always have several books on the go at once, it’s weird... I can read 3 or 4 books in the same space. I get to the stage where I want some time to digest all the information I have absorbed in one book, and I achieve this by reading another book, and so forth... Right now I have added audio books into the juggle, as there are times when my eyes get tired of the written word, so I then listen instead.<br />
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38. Courage: I believe in facing the fears and doing it anyway. Our brains are like elastic bands, once they have been stretched, taken from their comfort zone, pushed and expanded, they never return to their original shape or size. It’s only when we are out of our comfort zone, can we expand so much in such little time. It’s good to push yourself into achieving what you or others thought was not possible of yourself.<br />
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39. If I did not believe in the above, I would never have gone to Australia. I have a fear of flying, and to go to Oz was having to take three flights on my own.... It was not easy, panic attacks, hyperventilating etc, but I did it and wow the memories for doing it. My elastic band was seriously stretched.<br />
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40. Having flown so many times, countless of countries etc. I am still not good at flying, but I refuse to allow the fear to hold me back.<br />
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41. Ancestry is very interesting, I have now traced back my genealogy to the 1700’s, with some fascinating results. I am struggling with finding details of my Grandmother who was born in Canada, but I will continue to search.<br />
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42. My grandfather served in the Navy during the Second World War. Serving in rescue operations to Russia and Canada. Whilst in Russia a young lady feel in love with him, I have her photos and her love letters. When serving in Canada, he met my grandmother, who then moved to England, and they married.<br />
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43. My grandparents were amazing people, I miss them so much.<br />
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44. I have always been drawn to water. I am a very strong swimmer, and still swim frequently. I love the beach, lochs and lakes. Maybe it’s the Cancerian in me, I don’t know, but water soothes my soul.<br />
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45. Shells, my namesake.... Each one is uniquely different, so individual and the design is simple yet complex. They hold a rare beauty.<br />
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46. Double chocolate mocha... I am beginning to think my tummy is ruled by indulging in wonderful drinks.<br />
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47. Scottish shortbread, there is no other shortbread that tastes quite the same, the delicate richness that melts in the mouth.<br />
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48. Pringles ~ Once you pop, you just cant stop!! BBQ flavour please<br />
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49. Dexter ~ pure brilliance... you can’t help wishing that there was a real Dexter.<br />
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50. Deep breath, half way.<br />
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51. Lie to me, an excellent portrayal by Tim Roth, based on Paul Ekman’s theories. A fantastic show, which only actually tells half of the story, but the scripts are beginning to include more of the psychology behind the micro expressions.<br />
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52. Grey’s anatomy has one of the most incredible sources of quotations. In the closing scenes, the narrative is always amazing.<br />
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53. Boston legal ~ Is simply pure brilliance.... You cant get better than this.<br />
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54. I’m waving not drowning<br />
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55. Ownership of issues. If someone has an issue with you, it’s really their issue, not yours, you can’t own it. But you can learn from it.<br />
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56. Children and childhood. Our children only have a short period in their lifetime, to which we call a childhood. This time flies past and it’s our responsibility to fill that period with as much love we can muster and as many memories we can pack in. This will stay with them for the rest of their lives. To build a strong house, you need good foundations.<br />
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57. I remember sitting with my father doing jigsaw puzzles. Those memories are so vibrant and warming to my soul. I loved that time together and I will never forget it.<br />
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58. I used to go camping all the time, and loved every moment of being the big outdoors. Neither of my children are keen on camping, which I feel that just maybe they might be missing out on a wonderful experience.<br />
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59. I believe I am wealthy, not in the financial sense, but wealth in the heart. I am surrounding by loving people, friends who are family. People you can bare you soul to. My heart is full.<br />
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60. I feel that we should all give something back to nature. I planted an apple tree in summer, which was a gift. The tree is growing well and gives life in so many ways. Hopefully within a few years it will produce fruit, not only to feed the children and myself but also to feed the insects and birds.<br />
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61. At the end of each year, I always take time to reflect. Looking back at the lessons I have learned, what have I achieved, what I did not achieve. Where I am in regards to my goals, looking back, planning ahead. And one thing I have learned, on any given year, you really do not know how much your life will change for the following year. Some things can be set in stone and so many others are totally unpredicatable.<br />
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62. Recently I had a fMRI scan, and the radiographer allowed me into the viewing library after the scan to explore my own brain on the computer. I cannot explain how amazing this experience was. Having recently finished my neurology course and having so much biological insight into the bran and its functions, I was in awe.<br />
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63. Im still waiting for the results for the above.<br />
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64. As this year comes to an end, I am half way through my psychology degree, which is a huge achievement based on the statistics of a 60% drop out rate. Onwards and upwards.<br />
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65. My favourite drive is from here to Loch Ness, driving through mountains and national parks and then up to the deepest loch. Ness is stunningly beautfil with a magical mystical feeling about her.<br />
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66. Rome is one of the most amazing places to visit. If you get the chance go.<br />
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67. The Great Barrier Reef is also totally amazing, put that on your bucket list as well.<br />
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68. Marriage is not on my bucket list.<br />
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69. My next building project will be to find a church by a loch or the sea and convert this into a home. Once my children have flown the nest, this house will be too big for me. I will downsize, by building my final resting place.<br />
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70. ‘I am not afraid of my storms, for I have learned to sail my ship’ Learn your emotions and you have life pretty worked out. It’s all about emotional intelligence and taking control of your head and your heart. Knowing a day is only 24 hours long and we all get them. A day bad is not a bad year.<br />
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71. People will come in and out of your life. They will always leave their footprints, some you prefer to be in stone so they never wash away. Some you would prefer to be in sand so they would vanish with a rising tide.<br />
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72. I believe in unconditional love. No boundaries, no terms and conditions attached, to love free and whole heartedly.<br />
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73. My landrover kicks ass in snow<br />
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74. I would love to snowboard or learn to ski, this is on my bucket list.<br />
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75. I am prone to dancing around the house and singing like no one is watching or listening.. much to the laughter of my children telling me to grow up before i grab hold of one of them and swing them into a waltz with me.<br />
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76. ¾ of the way there, it’s harder to do the second time around as you try to exclude everything from the first one<br />
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77. Anthony Hopkins is my favourite actor.<br />
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78. Though i do not watch much TV, I can get addicted to certain series, which I will buy the dvd box sets and have a lazy day watching every episode.<br />
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79. I call my children the Hobbits, its a fond expression. And our house is the Shire, we have dust bunnies who we fight wars with and demented sheep that like to attack now and then.<br />
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80. The demented cat is attacking the Christmas tree right now.<br />
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81. The same cat is called Gizmo, from the Gremilins. She has two personalities, one is cute and adorable, snugly, cuddly and loving. The other is her Psycho self, in which she is a serious serial killer.... The mice have been warned, she is an amazing hunter and brings presents often.<br />
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82. Which leads me to a memory of a mouse she once caught, it was alive when she brought it into the house, I chased her, she dropped the mouse, i managed to shut her in a room, and then Alisha called me, the mouse had stopped in its tracks, Alisha then said, ‘oh mommy, it’s now stopped breathing, it’s dead, throw it in the bin’ I still chuckle.<br />
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83. My children have warped senses of humour, I guess they would never be normal having a mom like me. I love their humour, they are quick and smart and hilarious.<br />
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84. In our house, if you are moody there is a saying ‘Change your attitude, your current one sucks’ it normally works.<br />
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85. Every night, we eat at the table. No TV, no music, no phones. Just the three of us enganging in conversation. Its our quality time.<br />
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86. In the car we all do karaoke. James is the dj on the ipod, and we sing our hearts out. Our car journeys are always quality time together, there is never a dull moment.<br />
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87. Debates are always a keen topic at the dinner table. I encourage the Hobbits to bring in a subject that we can all debate about. I believe this increases everyones understanding, knowledge and stretches the elastic bands. Topics can be politics, gay adoption, the death penalty etc, normally heavy subjects.<br />
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88. I still tuck the Hobbits in at night, and kiss them goodnight. I think I will still be doing that when they are adults<br />
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89. Have you noticed yet how random I am ;)<br />
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90. 10 more to go<br />
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91. I am now wondering if all of these luxury drinks are responsible for my healthy curves.<br />
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92. My favourite Christmas song is Fairy Tale of New York....<br />
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93. I buy myself Christmas presents and wrap them and write from Santa, this is because I have no close family and the children enjoy seeing me open gifts as well on Christmas day.<br />
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94. I am a sucker for history and art, hence why Rome was so amazing.<br />
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95. When i was young, my father always called me Fred.<br />
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96. I was in the brownies and the Girl Guides.<br />
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97. Lord Baiden Powell, the founder of the Boy Scouts is buried in a graveyard next to the Hobbits school.<br />
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98. If i could give everyone a gift, it would be the feeling that is within my heart, of beauty, peace, calm and perfect karma. This feeling is amazing.<br />
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99. I still remain friends with a few people from my childhood. I love our history, we have lived through each others eyes at times.<br />
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100. And so the end. I wish you all peace, love and harmony in your lives.Kathleen Badehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09511937166340041010noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-65599380526084812.post-65091772555091108192010-12-21T08:22:00.000-08:002011-11-29T20:01:53.305-08:00One Hundred Things .... SharonA collection of lists. Take the challenge. 100 things about yourself. Streaming flow of consciousness, as personal or as general as you care to make it...but make it count. You might learn something about yourself and I promise it's better than 20 questions!<br />
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1. This speaks to how I am. I decided to do the 100 things list and before I could begin, I decided where I’d write it, formatted a page and made sure that it was in a font I liked.<br />
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2. I get paid to be this way – YES!!<br />
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3. When I was young, I was my mother’s human notepad. She’d tell me things she wanted to remember and would ask me to remind her when the time was appropriate. This was a good and a bad thing. Good because it trained me to remember stuff. Bad because it annoyed her when I remembered the stuff she wanted, but she didn’t remember wanting it, so the conflict created stress for her.<br />
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4. I have 3 siblings. Two sisters and a brother.<br />
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5. Our brother doesn’t talk to us anymore. He got annoyed that I continued my role as human notepad and made sure all the legal stuff was done when mom died. I’m not sure why he felt cheated. We all got the same thing. He turned on the three of us and has excommunicated himself.<br />
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6. These are his issues, not mine. I still love him and hope that he can work through whatever it is he needs to.<br />
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7. I love to learn, but have no interest in going to school. I want to learn what I want to learn, on my own terms and not be graded on my learning. It feels better that way.<br />
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8. I used to work in a Montessori school. I saw the processes and lessons there and realized I’d done most of the same thing with my own children without knowing I was teaching them in a Montessori fashion. This made me feel good.<br />
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9. I have 4 children. 2 girls and 2 boys. I tend to say that I started off right, messed up in the middle and finished correctly. (girl, boy, boy, girl) That’s silly. All of my children are “right”.<br />
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10. I also have 4 grandchildren – so far.<br />
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11. I was a teenage mother. I gave birth to a daughter when I was 17.<br />
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12. The father was never really involved unless there was something to gain. He’s still around, but mostly because my daughter followed him and inserted herself into his world. Or at least that’s how I see it. Those are her choices.<br />
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13. I don’t believe in trying to control my children. They are individuals that I helped keep safe and guide them into their own choices. It’s been great to watch them grow and change.<br />
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14. All of my children love me. They all regularly give me hugs and kisses and cuddles and call me to tell me that they are so happy with the way they were raised and that I did a good job. I love my children.<br />
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15. I ran a daycare for 14 years. Since I had 4 children by the time I was 26, it made sense to stay at home and watch other children as well. I always wanted 6 children anyway. I usually had 6-8 children with me at any time.<br />
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16. The neighbor’s children are my adoptive babies. They are all grown now with kids of their own, but while they grew up they were in my house all the time. I love those kids, too.<br />
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17. We used to go places in my big Suburban. We called it the Urban Burban. I’d pack up my kids, the twins, the neighbor’s kids and we’d go to the bay, Annapolis, the park, the drive in, the zoo… you name it. We liked to go do things.<br />
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18. Grocery shopping was a time to learn. With 8 helpers we would find items on the shelves by playing I spy. Rectangles, colors, letters… the world is a great schoolroom.<br />
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19. I love to grocery shop. Before I took the job I have now, I seriously considered starting a grocery delivery business. I’d even come put it away in your home.<br />
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20. Nutrition is a love of mine. A natural approach to medicine seems to stick in my head.<br />
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21. If I didn’t have the job that I do, I would have studied Nutrition. You are what you eat and what you eat affects everyone’s chemistry set (body) differently.<br />
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22. My job would allow – nay, encourage – me to study anything I wanted. Since I work for a well-known University that is big in the medicinal field you’d think I’d jump at the chance to get my degree for free. Nope. See number 7.<br />
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23. I’ve always wondered what my “passion” was. I’ve never felt that crazy focused attitude people have about sports teams or bands or anything of that nature. Sure, I’ve had my interest piqued at times, but nothing ever makes me feel like I need to buy a shirt that’s emblazoned with an emblem and I refuse to go visit someone for their birthday because a “game” was on TV.<br />
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24. I do love children and music. I guess that’s the closest thing to fandom I can think of.<br />
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25. I get a big kick out of watching babies eat in restaurants. I like to watch them focus on the food on the plate, and reach to get at mom’s potato, and attempt to master the art of pinching and getting the morsel to their mouths. I love the little crinkled brow they get while they are working and the legs kicking in joy when they achieve their goal. I wish adults would show this kind of enjoyment.<br />
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26. I also love watching children enjoying and dancing to music. The way they dance about, so carefree of how their bodies look and who might be looking and just letting the music move them no matter where they are. Love it.<br />
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27. I don’t like going to concerts in large venues. You can barely hear the music, the hooting and screaming hurts my ears and I’m just annoyed by it all. Seems so counter-intuitive when you read above that I like to watch children enjoy themselves. You’d think I’d be just as happy and tolerant about everyone else loving and showing appreciation for what they are witnessing. Nope. I think because the yelling and loud clapping and whistles and standing so no one can sit all impact my experience in a way I don’t care for. That and the music doesn’t sound the same as it did in the recording.<br />
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28. My favorite concert that hasn’t been one with the PCC would be Squeeze at the Senator Theater in Baltimore. Good band, comfy venue, just right.<br />
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29. My motto/tagline/saying/whatever you want to call it: Say what you mean and mean what you say. It’s about integrity and honor and clear communication.<br />
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30. The other day I pulled up to a convenience store nearby my home. The wall in front of me had a faint outline of two pay phones and the holes where they had been bolted to the wall. In some ways, this saddened me. It’s another sign of how insular life has become. More connected while less connected.<br />
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31. I know they are grown and harvested as a crop, but seeing the leftover trees that don’t get chosen to be someone’s Christmas tree always makes me feel sad. They ended their life as nothing more than mulch. Mulch has its purpose, too. I get that. But it’s just not the same. Along those same lines, I have troubles cutting down a tree. The one time we did it, I cried. (Hey! Stop laughing at me!!)<br />
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32. I’m allergic to onions, leeks, chives, scallions, onion powder- you name it – which all belong to the Lily family. I can eat small doses of cooked garlic, but not much and not too often. This makes mealtime quite interesting.<br />
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33. There is a proverb taped to my refrigerator that all my kids could recite. It reads, “A good name is more desirable than great riches; to be esteemed is better than silver or gold.” Proverbs 22<br />
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34. I used to sculpt in polymer clay. I don’t play with clay so much anymore, but I have begun to dabble in sculpting with fondant. I like the thought of playing with my food.<br />
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35. I was never a big fan of choral music. I sang in the church chorus when I was younger and enjoyed it until…. See #36…. but listening to an adult chorus wasn’t something I’d choose to do. That was before my daughter started singing in a children’s chorus. I learned that treble choirs are different, and I love those. I now work for a Grammy nominated children’s chorus. (oh yeah!)<br />
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36. When I was in the church choir, there was a piece I really liked but couldn’t seem to get the lyrics right. I decided I’d take the piece home and work on the lyrics and return it on Sunday when we were supposed to sing. I didn’t ask anyone if I could do that, but didn’t see the harm in practicing. My mom saw the music in my hands and asked if I had permission to take the music. I told her I hadn’t asked. She said I was stealing from the church and then made me go back inside and tell the choral director that I was sorry for stealing. I don’t remember if she went with me to make sure I said those words or not, but I do remember feeling all kinds of horrible and crying because *I* knew that my intent was not to steal at all, but that’s not the way *she* saw it. I didn’t like that my mother thought I’d do something like that and I hated that I didn’t tell the director the real reason I was taking the piece instead of what my mom told me to say. I stopped going to choir practice after that.<br />
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37. My favorite colors are yellow and green and purple. I think I like them in that order as well.<br />
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38. I started listening to the teachings of Abraham (Hicks) about a year ago and so many things that I already knew clicked into place. At times I think it’s harder now that I understand the theory of manifesting instead of when I just used to do it as a matter of normal living, but the understanding is worth it, I think.<br />
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39. I was raised as a Methodist, but never really felt comfortable with religion. I always argued during group prayer in my head if what the preacher said was not what *I* wanted to say. I’d adjust my prayer instead. I NEVER wanted to shake the hand of the Pastor. That was just TOO uncomfortable for me… so I made sure I placed myself on the far side of my mother to avoid the event.<br />
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40. I’ve been married for 25 years and with that same man for 29 years. I love that man. He’s exactly what I asked for when I was 18 and had those prayer/conversations on my own. Coincidence?<br />
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41. I want to move. I’ve wanted to move for about 7 years now. Slowly, things have fallen into place and are making that more and more accessible. My goal is to put my house on the market in the Spring.<br />
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42. I’m traveling to Italy twice in 2011. Once to look at the venues and hotels the children will be staying in during our tour and the second time with the children. We toured England in 2009. We’ve got a few other fun things lined up, but I can’t really say anything about those yet! (darn!)<br />
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43. Long ago, when the children were young and I’d had a rough day, I’d bake. I found the measuring and mixing, the stirring and the smells very soothing. My husband would walk in the front door and inhale the delicious aroma of freshly baked something and then think, “Uh oh.” Poor guy.<br />
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44. I was born on the same day and just about the same time as Martin Luther King made his “I Have a Dream” speech, just a few miles from where it all occurred.<br />
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45. I broke my leg in a sledding accident when I was 7-8. I was bundled to the brim and on the sled behind my sister on an icy slope with my legs sticking out on either side. There was no way to tuck them in we were both so bundled. We started off down the icy hill and shortly were doing warp speed until WHAM, my left leg slammed head on with a chunk of concrete my dance teacher had used to help retain her front hill. My sister continued on down the hill while I slid a few feet further after being left behind by the sled. No one thought I was truly hurt, so I had to walk back to the house in the slippery plastic bags my mom used to put over our shoes to keep us dry. I think it was the bundled clothes that kept my leg together while I walked up the icy hill to my house. Does anyone else find it ironic I broke my leg on my dance teacher’s wall?<br />
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46. I’m addicted to coffee. The warm, earthy taste and smell is something I relate to my grandfather’s farm. It’s as close to sniffing and drinking dirt as I think I’d ever like to get.<br />
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47. A further observation on flavors, I don’t really like many really sweet things. No hard candy, no sugary drinks, no soda… and I REALLY don’t like milk chocolate. I thought I didn’t like chocolate at all until I was introduced to the dark side of chocolate. Now, I’d rather munch on a dark chocolate baking bar than a candy bar. And chocolate should always be cold – never warm or hot. Berries and fruits, on the other hand, should always be hot – never cold. Odd, I know!<br />
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48. I love to read. I used to go to the library just to poke around in the card catalog. I’d come home with armloads of books. Since it kept me occupied and quiet, my mother didn’t really care or edit what I read. I’m not sure reading Philip Roth books at age eleven was the right thing to do, but I did it anyway. I read everything and anything I found interesting and somehow, have not read many of the classics. I’m attempting to rectify this.<br />
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49. I like techno. Specifically psy-trance. Seems to always get me moving.<br />
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50. I usually wake up with some lyric or small snippet of music in my head. This morning it was “See chameleon, lying there in the sun, all things to everyone, run, run away” from the song “Run Run Away” by Slade.<br />
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51. This list has now taken me 5 days. I either get called away, or my attention wanders and I feel it’s best to come back to it instead of forcing it. I’m not sure how long it will ultimately take me, but I feel the anticipation of the K-meister from miles away.<br />
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52. I have 5 blogs I am combining into one main blog. I’ll still cross-post because it’s near to impossible to move your readers, but I like the fact that I’ll have everything in one spot. Eventually, I want to print my blogs so I have a non-electronic version of my writing.<br />
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53. I’m a big fan of smiling. I’ve frequently had people say they always wonder what I’m smiling about because I do it so much. I dunno. It just feels good?<br />
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54. I think the biggest reason I love my husband as much as I do is because we laugh…often and about some of the silliest things.<br />
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55. I like to knit. I don’t seem to sit and do it as often as I like, but I do like to do it. I’m currently working on a sock. My friend Beth will show me how to turn the heel if I can ever get the tube part done.<br />
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56. My biggest knitting accomplishment thus far was the Dr. Who scarf I knitted. I had promised it would be completed before we got to London. It’s patterned after the season 13 scarf worn by Tom Baker, the 5th Doctor. It’s 14 feet long. I was putting the tassels on it just before we pulled into London. I SAID I’d finish it!!<br />
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57. I named one of my children, Liberty. She proudly announces her name to everyone she meets. She says only family gets to shorten it to Libby. Her Grandfather was killed on the USS Liberty. She does the name proud.<br />
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58. Bess is a cat. We own each other. She’s been my bestest-buddy for 16 year now. She doesn’t look her age at all. She’s a fluffy calico. My daughter and I hand-reared 5 abandoned kittens. I had found a home twice for Bess and both times, she was returned. Not because anything was wrong with her, but because circumstances had changed and the people couldn’t keep her. After the second time, I didn’t have the heart to give her away again and I kept her and her sister, Molly. Molly died about 2 years later from feline leukemia. Bess has survived an infected uterus and 5 bouts of breast cancer. That cat and I were meant to be buddies. I love Bess.<br />
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59. Don’t be surprised, if you read my blog, if you find some of these items re-used as writing prompts!<br />
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60. As a little girl, I was afraid of Godzilla.<br />
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61. I like rabbits. Not to eat-no, no, no, no, – just to look at. Under the Chinese zodiac, I’m a rabbit.<br />
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62. I like things that sparkle. (Ooooooo, sparkly!!)<br />
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63. Sometimes, my attention wanders, but I send out an APB and someone usually sends it back to me.<br />
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64. I am the average height of a man.<br />
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65. When a boy would come to date my daughters, I insisted they come inside to meet me. After greeting them, I asked to see their driver’s license and wrote down the make, model and tag number of their car. I was always friendly, joking and polite, but I meant it when I said not to bring her back late.<br />
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66. I’m not sure why, but the kids say that most of their friends were a little intimidated by me. They thought I was nice, but they were not willing to cross me. (Gee, I can’t imagine why….)<br />
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67. I’ve never seen the movie, “A Christmas Story”. I think I’m going to keep it that way.<br />
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68. I like watching the birds at my bird feeders. When a squirrel comes by, I alert my 85 lb. Rottie/Lab mix dog, who then gets really riled up and bounces with eagerness to get out of the door. Once adequately primed, I let her bolt out into the yard and chase the squirrels away from the feeder. This would be cruel, except she has an electric collar and never goes past “the line”, and the bird feeder is just past her area. (because she likes to eat the seed) Since the dog won’t fetch a ball, this has morphed into our version of fetch.<br />
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69. I’ve been called critical and nit-picky. (Btw, did you know the origin of the phrase ‘nit-picky’ has to do with head lice? I bet you’d love someone with an attention to detail to be the one that checks your head for nits, now wouldn’t you) I do tend to notice small details or differences, but the word critical seems to have a negative connotation. I prefer to say that I’m observant, because that’s how I see it. I’m not trying to tear apart, or destroy, or denigrate something when I notice a detail. I’m reporting an observation, or what *I* see as an improvement. Take it or leave it. If you understand that I’m not being negative, some of my comments don’t sound so harsh. I’m working on re-phrasing for those who are more sensitive in nature.<br />
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70. I like to volunteer. I like to be helpful and lend a hand.<br />
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71. If I had my druthers, I’d live near water. Doesn’t have to be the beach, just water. I find large bodies of water, or rivers and streams, comforting.<br />
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72. When pet rocks were all the rage, I was traveling across country with my family in a motor home. In Colorado, I discovered the BEST round river rocks, which I’d never seen back home. I immediately chose a pet from the river, found a marker and had my own (free) pet rock. I still have him.<br />
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73. I am a stationary nut. I love stationary, post its, desk sets, notebooks, list pads, juicy ink pens, journals, note cards and wrapping paper.<br />
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74. So far, I’ve been to Puerto Rico, Mexico, England, and cross country in the US twice. I still have the New England portion of the US to explore. I love to travel.<br />
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75. I can be lazy, but I don’t relax well.<br />
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76. I try not to be, but I can be bossy.<br />
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77. I have green eyes.<br />
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78. My daughter just scrunched up her face, looked at me, and announced, “You’re weird.” I agree, and I’ll wear that badge proudly.<br />
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79. My mom used to call me Rain and Sunshine. I’ll admit I have a vicious temper at times.<br />
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80. I prefer silver to gold, unless it’s white gold. I do like diamonds, but I like dark blue sapphires and amethysts and deep green emeralds… in that order. (Make a note of that for when you send me gifts…hmmmkay?)<br />
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81. I had a neighbor who made me the trustee of her fairly large estate. I was honored by her trust, but if you ever want to give someone a BIG job, make them your executor and trustee of an estate.<br />
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82. My husband gave me a card I keep on my bulletin board. It reads “Wife. There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.”-Homer It’s perfect.<br />
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83. I don’t watch much television; instead, my time vampire seems to be the internet.<br />
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84. The humor I enjoy is not slapstick, but more intellectual. More of a connection that needs to be made to understand the humor. Puns, when good, are fantastic. Observation of human nature is funny. Watching a guy fall or get hit in the balls or some other physically painful thing just isn’t funny to me.<br />
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85. I’m a jeans and T shirt kind of gal. Barefoot if possible, but running shoes if I must be shod.<br />
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86. I love socks. When I was a child, we always wore the tube socks with the stripe around the top. It was difficult to keep pairs when you had 3 siblings wearing socks that were similar. Even finding white socks that match could be difficult. I started buying novelty and patterned socks to alleviate this problem. At last count, I had about 100 pairs of cute socks, not counting the white work-out variety. My friend calls the patterned socks, “gotta man” socks.<br />
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87. Either I’m relatively simple, overlooking something major about myself, or this list just isn’t the easiest thing to complete while talking about one’s self.<br />
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88. When annoyed, or sometimes when I’m anxious, I jiggle my foot similar to the way a rattlesnake shakes its rattler.<br />
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89. When I’m sleepy and settling in for bed, I flex just my foot back and forth slowly. The motion is very soothing.<br />
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90. I prefer someone to draw on my back over a massage, ANY day. My sisters and I used to make trains, where we sat one behind the other to draw on the back in front of us. Eventually, the leader would have to become the caboose. We made the train formation when we played with each other’s hair as well.<br />
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91. My kids figured out that if you played with mommy’s hair or drew on her back, you could eventually ask her just about anything you wanted and get the response you desired. I figured their ploy out when I realized I had authorized things I normally wouldn’t have. Sadly, the eventual denials meant my hair and back weren’t objects of attention any longer.<br />
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92. I have thousands of photographs. Most of them are of my children. I used to tell the kids that if there was an emergency, they needed to take the photo albums out of the house, if they could. I like to take pictures, but I don’t know much about what I’m doing beyond, looking, pointing and clicking.<br />
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93. I love going on walks and exploring. Everything looks different when you walk. The same street you drive down daily will look different if you walk down it. You’ll always see something different. Walking is also my favorite form of exercise.<br />
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94. When on a walk during our trip out west, we got stuck in a thunderstorm around a lake, we walked by a fresh kill by a bear without realizing that fact until late in the walk and walked at a rest stop on a path that was called “Hells half acre”. On one vacation, we logged over 26 miles of walking, just wandering around the town and looking at the buildings.<br />
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95. When you take me to a city, my head will always be looking up. I love to look at the decorations and crenelation at the tops of buildings. You just KNOW that there is a meaning behind every carving or symbol on a building, but through time, that knowledge is hidden. It would be great if every building would research the artwork on its edifice and post a plaque so I could look down now and then.<br />
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96. Shower therapy is a great way for me to improve my mood or figure out a solution to something that’s been nagging me. I tend to get “shower epiphanies”. Love ‘em!<br />
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97. I like that I pay attention to people. I watch them, get a feel for them and notice little things they do. I look into their eyes when they talk. I watch their faces and body language. People are like jigsaw puzzles. If you pay attention to the shapes, colors and sizes, you can find out where that piece fits where.<br />
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98. Sometimes people find something within a person that they don’t like. Sometimes they just find a behavior annoying and sometimes they don’t like one thing so much they decide that entire person isn’t worth being around and dismiss that relationship. I think that’s fairly foolish. Even if there is a behavior or habit I don’t like about someone, I weigh that against the “whole” of a person before I decide to let a relationship go. Within the differences of people are the places you find room to evaluate and grow. I’ve had more than a few people wonder why I would remain loyal to people who haven’t been very kind, or done the kindest things to me, and think that I’m foolish. I remember the person as a whole and work not to judge them by what is truly a small part of them. Then I forgive that minority and stay true to my belief that they are good and decent in the majority. Some people find this thought process difficult to understand.<br />
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99. I can be quite random. A conversation with me will start in one place, jump to many related points, go through a few hoops and most of the time, end up with that original thought, but not always. My husband says the ability to keep up with where my mind has jumped helps to keep him mentally young and fit.<br />
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100. WOW!! I’ve made it to the end… Carnations are my favorite flower. Not the colored kind, but ones that are natural (usually white) and have that deliciously sweet spicy scent. I will walk over to carnations at the grocery store floral department and bury my face in a bouquet of carnations every time I see one. So, I guess the last thing about me is that I’m really glad that I actually do stop and smell the flowers!<br />
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--Kathleen Badehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09511937166340041010noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-65599380526084812.post-87516966355883028502010-12-16T07:18:00.001-08:002011-11-29T20:02:20.675-08:00One Hundred Things ... SusanA collection of lists. Take the challenge. 100 things about yourself. Streaming flow of consciousness, as personal or as general as you care to make it...but make it count. You might learn something about yourself and I promise it's better than 20 questions!<br />
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1. Coming home to a house so clean it gleams...(that just happened...)<br />
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2. Baking a cake for someone's birthday and seeing the surprise in their eyes...<br />
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3. Starting a new journal...<br />
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4. The feel of a good pen in my hands...<br />
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5. Wearing dresses and skirts...<br />
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6. Sitting on a rock in the sun with my toes splashing in a creek...<br />
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7. Going to the symphony...<br />
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8. Polishing my furniture ~ (I use Jenkins Wax imported from the UK...)<br />
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9. Ironing ~ (yes, I really do love to iron!)<br />
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10. Taking good photographs ~ (I'm learning that this really requires a great camera....mine isn't so wonderful at the moment....)<br />
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11. Acupuncture...<br />
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12. Almond hand cream...<br />
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13. Mango Body Butter (from the Body Shop)...<br />
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14. Getting dressed in the morning...<br />
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15. Being outside while it's still dark, before the sun rises and the rest of the world wakes up...<br />
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16. Jotting down ideas...<br />
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17. Speaking Chinese...<br />
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18. Feeling understood...<br />
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19. A strong, hot shower...<br />
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20. A long bath in ginger-scented bubbles...<br />
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21. Sleeping later than usual on a rainy Saturday morning...<br />
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22. An icy Diet Coke on a sweltering afternoon...<br />
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23. Memories of summer days in California...<br />
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24. Landing in a new country...<br />
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25. Holding babies...<br />
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26. Two year olds...<br />
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27. Candlelight...<br />
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28. Jasmine ~ (in any form...fresh blossoms, perfume, lotions, aromatherapy, or tea for drinking...)<br />
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29. Fresh flowers smack-dab in the middle of my dining room table...<br />
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30. Salmon sashimi...<br />
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31. Evian water with a squeeze of fresh lemon juice~ (and, yes, I think it tastes better...)<br />
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32. Hiking...<br />
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33. Waterskiing...<br />
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34. Sitting in a hot tub after a long day of downhill skiing or hiking...<br />
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35. Wrapping a present...(I use a glue gun and add wooden ornaments or glass balls or other goodies)<br />
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36. Making a scrapbook...<br />
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37. Settling down with a cup of tea, an excellent book and a few hours of free time...<br />
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38. Waking up from a peaceful, sweet dream...<br />
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39. Sensing the touch of God...<br />
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40. Buying new make-up...<br />
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41. A two-hour Thai massage...<br />
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42. Sitting on a cold beach with a blanket, my journal, my Bible and an open heart...<br />
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43. Dinner out in a fine restaurant with good friends...<br />
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44. Blowing out candles after guests have left for the evening...<br />
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45. Sipping espresso while reading the paper...<br />
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46. Laughing so hard I can't stand it...<br />
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47. Designing costumes...<br />
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48. Loaning a beloved book to a dear friend ~ (and getting it back is like icing on the cake...)<br />
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49. Doing crossword puzzles...<br />
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50. The quick exchange of banter with imaginative, witty friends...<br />
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51. Reorganizing drawers and cupboards...<br />
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52. Taking a nap on Sunday afternoon...<br />
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53. A cup of steaming rose or cardamon & ginger tea before bed...<br />
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54. Triple-milled almond soap from Caswell-Massey...<br />
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55. The feel of pearls against my skin...<br />
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56. 550 thread count cotton sheets...<br />
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57. Washing dishes in hot, soapy water...<br />
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58. Swimming...<br />
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59. GOURMET magazine...<br />
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60. Conducting a choir or band ~ (it took me a long, long time to get comfortable with this, too...)<br />
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61. La Mer Moisturizer ~ (I was so glad to find it in Hong Kong...)<br />
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62. Having my teeth cleaned ~ (so lucky, still haven't had a cavity...I take after my Dad in this area...)<br />
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63. Flavored olive oils...<br />
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64. Pedicures...<br />
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65. Wolford stockings ~ (the absolute best in hosiery ~ also found in Hong Kong...)<br />
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Any book by... 66. Phillip Yancey<br />
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67. Barbara Kingsolver<br />
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68. Gabriel Garcia Marquez<br />
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69. Rohinton Mistry<br />
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70. Ken Follett<br />
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71. John Eldredge<br />
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72. Sue Monk Kidd<br />
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73. Paul Theroux<br />
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74. Robert Hicks<br />
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75. Max Lucado<br />
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76. Playing music that is challenging on a really excellent piano...<br />
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77. Jazz...<br />
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78. Cooking dinner for/with someone I love while listening to Handel...<br />
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79. The smell of garlic & freshly sliced ginger sauteeing in olive oil...<br />
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80. Open-toed shoes...<br />
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81. Sand...<br />
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82. Rocks...<br />
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83. The smell of Eucalyptus trees...<br />
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84. Christmas...<br />
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85. Working out ~ (lifting weights, walking, aerobics, yoga or T'ai Chi...)<br />
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86. Being lulled to sleep by the ocean waves...<br />
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87. Riding the Star Ferry across Victoria Harbor...<br />
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88. Shopping in museum stores...<br />
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89. Blue skies and fresh air...<br />
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90. Having my hair treated ~ (highlighted, conditioned, trimmed...)<br />
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91. Teaching...<br />
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92. Being early for meetings...(I'm definitely a front-row seater)<br />
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93. Playing a pipe organ...<br />
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94. Waking up to thoughts of God...<br />
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95. Earrings...<br />
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96. Sundays ~ (my favorite day...)<br />
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97. Dancing alone in my living room to music ~ (praise music, salsa, Motown, practically anything)<br />
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98. Bananas ~ (alone or in anything ~ banana nut bread, banana pudding, banana cheesecake, banana ice cream, banana pie, banana cake, and with coconut & rice in a Thai chicken dish...)<br />
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99. Quiet Saturday nights at home...<br />
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100. Thick towels...Kathleen Badehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09511937166340041010noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-65599380526084812.post-21476547817664115292010-12-14T08:24:00.000-08:002011-11-29T20:03:22.268-08:00One Hundred Things .... PaddyA collection of lists. Take the challenge. 100 things about yourself. Streaming flow of consciousness, as personal or as general as you care to make it...but make it count. You might learn something about yourself and I promise it's better than 20 questions!<br />
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1 I’m going to die young.<br />
2 I like clementines, especially at Christmas time.<br />
3 My one true success in life has been being a mother.<br />
4 I’m not a perfect mother, they don’t exist.<br />
5 I used to write poetry.<br />
6 I paint now, sporadically.<br />
7 I left my husband in August 2005<br />
8 Blank pages frighten me.<br />
9 Blank canvasses I find daunting.<br />
10 I believe in Astrology when it suits me,<br />
11 I’m a Leo with rising sign in Sagittarius, double fire, so they say.<br />
12 I love El Greco.<br />
13 I can block out sound.<br />
14 I’m an intuitive cook.<br />
15 I lived in Italy for 25 years.<br />
16 Of Human Bondage by Somerset Maugham is my favourite book.<br />
17 I could live without music.<br />
18 I like dancing to tunes in my head.<br />
19 I’ve lost all my self-confidence.<br />
20 I have a boyfriend called Michael.<br />
21 I love the sea. <br />
22 I live 5 minutes walk from the Atlantic Ocean.<br />
23 I’m finding it ever more difficult to like alcoholic beverages.<br />
24 My favourite dish is pizzocheri because it has potatoes and cabbage yet is Italian.<br />
25 I am a charity shop addict.<br />
26 I used to teach English to Italians from 3 years of age to 73.<br />
27 I snore.<br />
28 I like wearing black, white or beige, occasionally red and very recently pink.<br />
29 I used to know lots of people and have lots of friends.<br />
30 I used to co-own my own language consultancy business.<br />
31 I speak Italian fluently and rusty French.<br />
32 I used to be a theoretical gardener.<br />
33 I have a son who is 21 and a daughter who is 19.<br />
34 My parents almost called me Helen but then decided that as my surname begins with H it would have been too much of a mouthful.<br />
35 I have four pairs of black boots yet still I crave (and look for) the perfect pair.<br />
36 I like sleeping on my right side.<br />
37 I love shiny things, baubles, jewellery … Michael calls it my magpie instinct.<br />
38 Some people call me Patricia and others call me Paddy.<br />
39 I am still legally married to my husband.<br />
40 I take 9 tablets on a good day, 13 on a bad.<br />
41 I love the wind in my face.<br />
42 I’ve hardly any friends at all any more. It is of my making.<br />
43 I drink Guinness very, very rarely and only from the Harbour Bar in Portrush. <br />
44 I am bi-polar.<br />
45 I have a permanent love affair with my washing machine and tumble dryer.<br />
46 I don’t really like those smelly candle things.<br />
47 I am very proud of my children.<br />
48 I was 50 this year, no big deal.<br />
49 I have three sisters and a brother and another brother died from cystic fibrosis about 45 years ago. <br />
50 I am the eldest.<br />
51 I have my mother’s name as my middle name, Ann.<br />
52 Even though I could live without music I do love singing, especially hymns and big church choral pieces.<br />
53 I used to read four books at a time.<br />
54 I’m overweight and have been since I was a child.<br />
55 I love swimming but I only know the backstroke.<br />
56 I go to a day centre for adults with physical and mental disabilities.<br />
57 I no longer bite my nails, after 45 years!<br />
58 I used to be a very sexual person.<br />
59 My favourite piece of jewellery is a ring my kids bought me for my 50th. I wear it all the time.<br />
60 I love crisp white sheets.<br />
61 Yellow roses are my favourite flower.<br />
62 I miss my husband.<br />
63 The sunsets where I live are so splendid a song was written about them.<br />
64 I hate milk except for a drop in my tea and coffee oh and in my porridge.<br />
65 I love being in my small garden planting and pruning watering and weeding.<br />
66 I look younger than I am, everyone says so.<br />
67 I have an ear-ring fetish.<br />
68 I’m useless with ALL technology.<br />
69 I met Michael on the internet.<br />
70 I love driving to this lovely town called Ballycastle about 14 miles along the coast from here. For some reason my family thinks this is hilarious.<br />
71 I smoke. I want to stop.<br />
72 I’ll always prefer the quiet man in the corner to the loud one at the bar.<br />
73 If I were to fantasise about someone of the opposite sex it would be Daniel Day Lewis.<br />
74 I wear the same perfume as my mother, Aromatics Elixir by Clinique.<br />
75 I had a total nervous breakdown 8 years ago.<br />
76 I’ve been dyeing my hair since I was 18.<br />
77 I adore lingerie. I don’t wear it any more.<br />
78 That music thing I said, I forgot, I love opera.<br />
79 I went off coffee for a while but came to my senses … I make a mean espresso.<br />
80 I love following British and Italian politics.<br />
81 I can only read two pages of a book at a time now.<br />
82 I like having painted toe nails.<br />
83 I tried to commit suicide twice in 2002.<br />
84 I love my children dearly.<br />
85 I used to like driving fast but no longer feel the need to.<br />
86 I hate flying … if only they’d let me pilot the plane … I’d feel much better!!<br />
87 I hope my Italian husband come to live here when he retires in 10 years time.<br />
88 I really look like my father.<br />
89 My daughter looks a bit like me and my son looks a bit like me but in different ways, so I have been told.<br />
90 I feel a bit disillusioned by the internet.<br />
91 I haven’t worked for more than 5 years.<br />
92 I’m not good at keeping in touch.<br />
93 I like my own company.<br />
94 My biggest fear is something horrible happening to my children.<br />
95 I’m left-handed.<br />
96 I love scarves, wool, silk, cotton ….<br />
97 My memory has utterly gone to the dogs.<br />
98 I lost my mother in August this year.<br />
99 I miss her very much.<br />
100 I’m done.Kathleen Badehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09511937166340041010noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-65599380526084812.post-372516397502952372010-12-13T18:46:00.000-08:002011-11-29T20:03:57.464-08:00One Hundred Things .... Savanna [part two]A collection of lists. Take the challenge. 100 things about yourself. Streaming flow of consciousness, as personal or as general as you care to make it...but make it count. You might learn something about yourself and I promise it's better than 20 questions!<br />
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1. I hate being cold; but I love the snow. I love the way it smells, the smell reminds me of the innocence of a child, snow makes everything look so magical, and pure. <br />
2. My favorite time of year is the fall. To me fall is Bon fires, crisp fresh air and an amazing use of color <br />
3. Words are an amazing thing, when they are used correctly. A friend of mine told me this quote once, " From the moment a child begins to speak, he is taught to respect the word; he is taught how to use and how not to use it. The word is all powerful, because it can build a man up, but it can also tear him down. That's how powerful it is. So a child is taught to use words tenderly and never against anyone; a child is told never take anyones name or reputation in vain." <br />
4. I love the quote above and try to live by it every day. <br />
5. I don't follow a specific type of style, I don't categorize into cliques because I don't believe in it, I don't believe there is a correct style or way to use mannerisms that will make you "cool" <br />
6. For many years I lived my life and made my decisions to please others. I was miserable; and won't go back to that again <br />
7. I over think many things, many situations and over all just plainly many things all together, that is my down fall. <br />
8. I obsess over why people say the things they say or act the way they act in order to see the true person behind the mask that many people wear <br />
9. Im not your usual cup of tea <br />
10. A few years ago I was the worst role model anyone could ask for, I manipulated and used people for my advantage, I used foul language and did terrible things that I am not proud of. <br />
11. People always told me that my sisters looked up to me. I never believed them, until I sobered up and realized my 12 year old sister was following my foot steps on the road of life and that is the one thing I regret most in life. <br />
12. I have changed a lot in the past year and I am proud of the person I am today <br />
13. In order to help others; sometimes first you must be selfish and help yourself <br />
14. I'm supposed to be graduating thus year, instead I am three years behind in school. Watching my friends have fun during there senior year of high school is really hard, simply because I know I should be doing the same; but instead I'm working hard to try and catch up credits and I have no social life <br />
15. I resent the person I once was<br />
16. I'm terrible to sleep with, I have heard it many times that I scream, hit, kick, bite, move to much, talk in my sleep and say some pretty messed up things when I sleep, I have no idea why<br />
17. < the age I am <br />
18. I'm always here to help people, I give people advice and I don't sugar coat things. I'll give you advice once, if you don't use that advice to your advantage the first time and then come back and ask for advice a second time I will give you the same advice if you don't use the advice the second time around and come back for s third time I'll most likely tell you to get lost. <br />
19. I don't judge people based on looks or others opinion, I get to know them myself <br />
20. I live the life I love, and love the life I live <br />
21. I don't deal well with nonsense <br />
22. Before you leave someone in any given situation always tell them that you love them because you never know when you'll get the chance to see them again. You never know what fate has in store for them, you never know if " I love you " will be the last words you get to say to them<br />
23. I believe that the happiest girls are the prettiest <br />
24. I have 5 main food groups. Italian, Mexican, coffee, food you find at the gas station, and Chinese.<br />
25. I love music and reading <br />
26. I'm not a "bitch" I'm simply honest <br />
27. I learned more about life in treatment then any other place <br />
28. Blaze orange is my favorite color<br />
29. I can't stand Hypocrites<br />
30. I'm pretty funny and almost always have a come back <br />
31. I have had many people walk in and out of my life. So before trying to get into a relationship with me I often let people my life doesn't have a revolving door, either your in or your out. <br />
32. Every morning I change like 12 times because I get really anxious when I don't think I look good. <br />
33. I'm a perfectionist <br />
34. I may seem to people like a very strong person but in reality when it comes down to it I like to look my best and if I get the feeling I look less then perfect I will freak <br />
35. "Confidence is a stain you can't wipe off" I wish I got that stain <br />
36. I hate yelling and violence in all forms <br />
37. When first meeting people the first I look at is how self centered they are. I don't like self centered people <br />
38. I often look back on my childhood and wish I was that innocent again<br />
39. I had an affair with a married man who had two kids, that is another thing I regret <br />
40. I started smoking cigarettes when I was 12<br />
41. At the age of 12 I also started drinking and smoking marijuana, it all escalated from there. I'm not going back to that lifestyle thank you very much<br />
42. The lessons I have learned from my past have made me the person I am today <br />
43. I think it's a matter of love: the more you love a memory, the stronger and stranger it gets. - Vladimir Nabokov <br />
44. I do random silly things often <br />
45. Writing helps me express myself in a healthy way <br />
46. I hate doing group projects in school, I'd rather write a paper then do a performance in class and I never dressed for gym a day in my life<br />
47. Jack Frost is the only person allowed to nibble at my nose <br />
48. I hate being alone, I love having companionship with someone, <br />
49. One of the worst feelings I know is when I'm in a room full of people and feel completely alone <br />
50. 100 things sometimes just isn't enough :) <br />
51. My ambition in life is to be a better parent then my mother. But then again isn't that every kids goal?? <br />
52. You choose whether or not to use your past and learn a lesson from it, or use it as an excuse. I have chosen to learn from mine, how about you?? <br />
53. Sorry is a five letter word that doesn't mean anything to me, it's over used there for it has no meaning to me. Actions speak louder then words. <br />
54. My favorite holiday is Halloween (: <br />
55. Itasca count will always be my home <br />
56. I have moved many times, for stupid reasons. When I have kids I won't up root them every 1-3 years. My kids will have one true home.<br />
57. People say that you will marry a guy that's like tour dad in many ways, I believe that to be true <br />
58. I don't like baring bad news, I'll avoid it at all cost<br />
59. One of the hardest things I have done is bring my best friends cat (who was very old and sick) to her cousins house so that he could put it down. Her grandma asked us to do it weeks prior explaining that she didn't want to know how or when, she just wanted us to do it. One day we got the cat and brought it to my friends cousins house. The cats name was blue eyes, when we got back to her house we got our bottles of wine, whiskey and a case of beer. We drove out to our favorite place in deer river, it was a local duck hunting spot. We sat and drank. We watched the sunset and we watched the sunrise. We talked about everything. Life, love, and the problems we have had to deal with. It was a night a day I will never forget and look back on often. <br />
60. Summer 2010 was the best summer in my life, so far <br />
61. When I'm bored in class or the teacher is really annoying that day I pretend to smash there head with my fingers, it's pretty entertaining! <br />
62. I have horrid eating habits <br />
63. I have a fear of deep water, I don't know how to swim, I won't go swimming off a pontoon or anything like that. One day I hope to get over that fear <br />
64. I hope that within then next 6 years I have a child, job, car, and my own house. I plan to do whatever I can to reach that goal <br />
65. Arizona tea is the best (: <br />
66. I have a low tolerance of dis respectful people <br />
67. I miss the good 'ol days when getting high met how high you could get on a swing<br />
68. I like my privacy and I really don't like nosy people <br />
69. If I feel a certain aspect of my life is your business I'll let you know, before that time comes, mind your own <br />
70. I eat all the time (: <br />
71. I hate when people purposely annoy me <br />
72. Blah lah te dah is something I say at least 15 times a day <br />
73. I am going to quit smoking as my new years resolution <br />
74. I'm making my sisters Christmas presents this year<br />
75. I hate being put in awkward situations<br />
76. I still watch disney movies from time to time <br />
77. I love when I listen to music and the lyrics of the song explain exactly how I feel<br />
78. I love horoscopes :) <br />
79. After 10:00 pm is when my house hold is the most entertaining <br />
80. I do random things with my sisters all the time, sister days are the best, and movie nights happen on a weekly basis <br />
81. I love cuddling with my Lilly Bean <br />
82. I miss hanging out with my grandma CC <br />
83. I hate when people come to my house and think they can come in and try to parent my sisters and over rule what I have told them what to do, it pisses me off <br />
84. I will do anything to keep my sisters safe <br />
85. while doing this I am laying on the couch and Austin and Lilly are trying to get my attention<br />
86. Austin needs to see #'s 68 and 69 again because he keeps reading over my shoulder <br />
87. I have a orange cat named Rupert; I must say he is adorable <br />
88. Everyone deserves a second chance <br />
89. I read constantly and enjoy every minute of it <br />
90. I don't deal with ignorance at all <br />
91. I find it funny when people try to be the center of attention and everyone in the room is ignoring them<br />
92. People tell me all the time that Lilly and Amanda look just like me <br />
93. If I could meet anyone it would be Audrey Hepburn <br />
94. Life is full of decisions to be made, make the decision that will make you happy in the end <br />
95. Don't worry about what could of been, because chances are that what could of been may never what you wanted in your future to begin with<br />
96. Being high on life beats being high on drugs any day <br />
97. I am over 80% Italian, google Pauly Castellano, he was my great uncle<br />
98. Art and music are my muse <br />
99. I couldn't live without family friends coffee and writing <br />
100. Reading the book is a 100 times better then seeing the movie <br />
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<pre style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">1.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: small;">I am 17 years old; and though some </span><span style="font-size: small;">may not think </span></pre><pre style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">that is a very mature age they certainly don't know me.
2. I have been in one serious relationship in my life </span></pre><pre style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">and though it ended badly we are still amazing friends and I still love him
3. I believe that there is always something good to find in any situation, </span></pre><pre style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">whether it's a new friend or a lesson learned, </span></pre><pre style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">the hard things you go through are just obstacles </span></pre><pre style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">on the way to making you a stronger person.
4. I have three younger sisters that I have helped my mom raise and I love them dearly
5. Referring to #2 I'm still hung up on whether or not </span></pre><pre style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I want to be in a relationship with him </span></pre><pre style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">which makes it hard for me to be fully committed in a new relationship
6. I have a lot of trust issues
7. I don't really like most people my age because they have no respect for others
8. I have changed a lot in the past year; </span></pre><pre style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">some people may call it "fake" it's just me being the best I can be
9. I love quotes
10. Writing is my passion
11. "Bad" is not an absolute but a relative term
12. I do what ever I can to help when I can
13. There are a lot of things in my life that could of went better but didn't;</span></pre><pre style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> And the lessons I've learned because of those things </span></pre><pre style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">has made me the person I am today
14. I wouldn't change any aspect of my life </span></pre><pre style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">that I couldn't change myself ( if that makes sense)
15. I find it really funny when kids act more mature then adults
16. I'm not your usual cup of tea
17. I smoke cigarettes
18. Caffeine is my addiction
19. I hate when I hear people judging people by what they look like
20. I love to read
21. I go hunting, camping, fishing and ATVing
22. I'd rather stay at home and watch a movie then going to a movie theater
23. I have really bad anxiety about being around people </span></pre><pre style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I don't know and doing things out of the blue that weren't planned
24. I have OCD about certain things, like how my room is kept
25. I love hanging out with my friends (:
26. I read a lot
27. Gilmore Girls is my all time favorite show
28. I listen to all kinds of music
29. I'm not quite sure if I'm doing this 100 question thing right lol
30. Im pretty silly at times
31. I know the difference between when it's appropriate to be silly </span></pre><pre style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">and have fun and when it's time to be serious
32. I get really attached to people and when they leave I get really depressed
33. I hear a lot that I'm funny and that I'm easy to talk to
34. Even though me and my mom fight we always work it out
35. I have days that I get really mad and don't like </span></pre><pre style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">people talking and commenting on things I say and it pisses me off
36. Even though there are many people </span></pre><pre style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">that aren't a part of my life anymore </span></pre><pre style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">that doesn't mean I don't love them and care about them
37. I may hate the decisions you make but that doesn't mean I hate you
38. I hate drama
39. I'm one of a kind
40. I have very few friends because of the way I live my life
41. I can't stand lying
42. I hate two faced people
43. There are many things I do not tolerate
44. I miss my dad
45. ^ I don't have a relationship with my dad
46. My life is full of drama and I do the best I can
47. I need to learn a lot of things about life but I'm trying (:
48. Happy girls are the prettiest girls
49.when people we love make choices, </span></pre><pre style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">we don't always understand them. </span></pre><pre style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">But you can go on loving them just the same. </span></pre><pre style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">It isn't a matter of comprehension. It's forgiveness.
50. Some lessons can't be taught, they simply have to be learned.
51. Usually I'm more organized </span></pre><pre style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">when I do things like this so forgive me for my randomness
52. I hate knowing when people are mad at me.
53.grammar is not my strong </span><span style="font-size: small;">suite</span><span style="font-size: small;">
54</span><span style="font-size: small;"> I like to crochet and knit (:
55. The big bang theory and Dexter are amazing shows
56. I re arrange the cupboards in my kitchen on a weekly basis
57. I have been held back four times but I'm finally getting it on track
58. ^ I'm getting really good grades now
59. I used to do PCA work in deer river and loved it
69. I love little kids
70. I can't wait till I'm old enough to have a baby
71. Sometimes I look back on my past </span></pre><pre style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">and obsess over what I could of done differently
72. I am an addict and used to go to AA meetings on a weekly basis
73. I have been to drug treatment 2 times
74. I have low self esteem
75. I believe that holding on to people </span></pre><pre style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">that aren't adding value in your life isn't loyalty it's stupidity
76. I never give up on people </span></pre><pre style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I just chose not to have them as a part of my life, but they know </span></pre><pre style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">that I'm always here when they need me
77. I am easily persuaded by people
78. I'm to forgiving
79. People have walked all over me </span></pre><pre style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">and have betrayed my trust many times which is why I have trust issues
80. I'm not religious I am spiritual and nobody can change that
81. I believe that in a past life I was a gypsy and a hippie :)
82. I hate staying in the same place for to long
83. I'm known for running away from my problems </span></pre><pre style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">but have learned to face them instead
84. I'm not sure if any of you reading this will find these things interesting
85. My biggest fear in life is being kidnapped
86. My little sister Lilly and Amanda are my best friends </span></pre><pre style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">even though Lilly is 6 and Amanda is 12
87. Austin James Towle will always be a part of my life and people need to realize that
88. I hate being alone
89. I miss the innocence of being a child
90. I believe that words are meant to be used with respect </span></pre><pre style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">and there are a lot of people use them in the wrong way
91. I hate exercise
92. I think that people should always re check there morals </span></pre><pre style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">and priorities when there not happy with how there life is.
93. "there are two kinds of love. The safe kind, </span></pre><pre style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">you look for someone who's exactly like you. </span></pre><pre style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">It's what most people settle for. </span></pre><pre style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">But then there's the other kind of love. </span></pre><pre style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Everyone us born with a ragged edge, </span></pre><pre style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">and some people crave the piece that's a perfect fit. </span></pre><pre style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">You'll search for it forever, if you have to. </span></pre><pre style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">And if your lucky enough to find it, it looks so right, </span></pre><pre style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">you start to tear at your own seams, </span></pre><pre style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">thinking, maybe I could be that perfect.</span></pre><pre style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> But then of course, when you try to get close to their half, </span></pre><pre style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">you don't fit anymore. That kind of love, </span></pre><pre style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">you come out a different person then you were when you started.
94. I hate starting things and not finishing them
95. I hate when my work looks sloppy so when that happens </span></pre><pre style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I usually re do it and turn it in later
96. I love clothes, food, and photography
97. I have though of starting a blog (:
98. I'm addicted to face book
99. If I could be granted one wish </span></pre><pre style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">it would be that my sisters grow up </span></pre><pre style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">to be the amazing people that I know they can be
100. Don't take life to seriously, nobody gets out alive anyway (:
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1. I sucked my thumb and twirled my hair until I was out of 5th grade.<br />
2. I didn’t care where I was or who saw. I did beat a few kids for teasing me in front of everyone. It had to be a bummer to get your butt kicked by the thumb sucking girl you were just calling a baby.<br />
3. Everyone said I would have buck teeth. I pushed against my top teeth with my pointer finger while I sucked my thumb to stop them from pushing out… and it worked…even then I was a problem solver.<br />
4. I still twirl my hair for comfort when I’m tired, stressed, bored or upset.<br />
5. I wanted my ears pierced so I agreed to quit for 6 months…really was going to start again as soon as I got my ears pierced but by then the magic had left my thumb. : ( <br />
6. I have had 20/20 vision all my life. You will notice the font size is larger …my eyesight is digressing quickly.<br />
7. I have always been surrounded by the loving support of my family. It took me awhile to grow up and realize that that ^ was a blessing incomparable.<br />
8. I use to be jealous of my friends that had parents that let them go anywhere or do anything whenever they wanted to. I was sure they were the coolest parents. Now I know the truth.<br />
9. I grew up in a household that we all worked very hard. There was no disrespecting our parents or not doing our chores. We earned the privileges and things we got. It was called contributing to your household and it was expected. I feel kids now would benefit from the same lessons. <br />
10. I was spanked as a child. I can say I knew the rules and the consequences and if I chose to break them it was on me. My parents were strict but fair and I always knew I could count on them and that they loved me with all that they are. <br />
11. I am not a liar. At least not about anything important. I am sure there are questions my dad has asked over the years that he wished he hadn’t. <br />
12. I convinced my son at a young age that if you lie your face turns ugly…this kind of ugly only a mom can see. To this day when he tries to lie to me he looks away. : ) it is the truth, it is ugly to lie and I really could see it. <br />
13. I once got grounded from opening the fridge for a whole week. I had to ask for someone to open it and get me something out of it. (it was summer and I was constantly standing with the door open on the fridge)<br />
14. I always got good grades with the exception of getting a D--- in science. I was grounded for a quarter and brought it up to an A. <br />
15. I am the oldest of 3.<br />
16. My brother is 2 years younger than me and was my partner in “crime”.<br />
17. We had a rule that you couldn’t tell on each other unless it was the day you committed the offence. We never broke that rule.<br />
18. Very good rule because if we ever started we would have been grounded forever. <br />
19. I would never let anyone beat up my brother or sister. I could beat on him but no one else.<br />
20. My sister is 9 years younger. Thus I didn’t beat on her. I tormented her mind instead. <br />
21. On vaccination day in kindergarten I told her they would cut her finger off and drain out her blood and then pump it back in her toe. She wouldn’t get on the bus. Lol<br />
22. When she was getting old enough to get a pap smear and she told me she wasn’t going to get one. I told her that when she went in for a checkup the doctor would get help and duct tape her feet in the stirrups…. Before everyone gets all up in arms…think about it she was like 16 by then that is gullible. Plus she was great for constantly tattling or doing these painful things to me. Being 9 years older I couldn’t hit her back or hurt her so I F-ed with her head some. I would always tell her I was joking but she would milk it with mom and dad. lol<br />
23. My sister is now one of my best friends. <br />
24. My mom is also.<br />
25. I could fly when I was younger. <br />
26. I could fly in my dreams. All I had to do was concentrate hard enough.<br />
27. I had reoccurring night terrors for many years.<br />
28. I could fly away from the stuff that was coming to hurt us. The only problem was that no one else would concentrate or believe they could fly so I would have to go back and save them or die trying to. <br />
29. I think I could still fly. But won’t leave the ones I love to do it. <br />
30. My night terrors ended after I accepted Jesus as my savior. I trusted him to watch over me and keep me and my loved ones safe. <br />
31. I now am an aware dreamer. I don’t have nightmares often but when I do I am aware I am dreaming. They are still scary but they don’t have the power they use to. <br />
32. I am very competitive. <br />
33. I love sports.<br />
34. I was a gymnast for 6 years. Not great but solid.<br />
35. I love working out. Prefer strength training.<br />
36. I love music. Mostly rock, blues, some jazz, techno dance, very little rap and kick ass country but not sad country.<br />
37. I power up by listening to it. Recharges my batteries. I always listen to it when I mow, shovel, or walk. <br />
38. I am a fantasizer.<br />
39. I fantasize when I work out, or mow, or shovel. It helps keep my mind off of being tired or bored with what I am doing. I can have great sex, save the day, or achieve something no one thought I could do. So if you see me push mowing and I’m grinning you know why. Lol <br />
40. I have always been the defender of those that can’t or won’t defend themselves. <br />
41. I am willing to take a beating to stand up for what I believe in. I will dish it out as well.<br />
42. I have no qualms about killing to defend my family or others in need of it. <br />
43. If you can’t respect yourself don’t expect me to.<br />
44. I hate excuses. If you f-ed up then man up, make it right the best you can, and move on.<br />
45. I like working at my own pace which is usually much faster than most. I prefer people just stay out of my way and let me get my chit done. <br />
46. I choose to be happy…most of the time.<br />
47. I am mechanically minded. I like to fix things and solve puzzles.<br />
48. I enjoy running a chainsaw. Very therapeutic. <br />
49. I totally have a tool fetish. Home depot or L & M are my favorite stores.<br />
50. I really enjoy the outdoors, I like to fish, camp, hunt, not big on hiking unless I have my mp3 player. <br />
51. I can clean most all fish and take the Y bones out of a northern pike.<br />
52. I can back up any trailer, land and load a boat, and run the boat.<br />
53. I prefer to let someone else run the boat cause I like to read when I fish.<br />
54. I can shoot, gut, clean and process almost any wild game.<br />
55. I am a total carnivore, I love red meat.<br />
56. Seafood is my favorite. Shrimp without breading, crab legs, mussels, lobster, prawns and scallops. <br />
57. I am a terrible speller; I constantly am looking up words in the dictionary<br />
58. I love to play scrabble …kinda funny cause I’m a crappy speller. <br />
59. I like eating in general. Thus I am always working on finding a balance for health and weight control.<br />
60. I don’t do drugs…kinda fits with the control thing besides my dad scared me with warnings of flashbacks that could happen at church. <br />
61. I don’t like the taste of alcohol in things. I would prefer to drink it straight and for years I would gag at the idea of drinking beer. <br />
62. I have since developed a taste for dark beers. They still have to be really cold. <br />
63. I am jealous of people who can drink wine and really enjoy it. I think they are all faking it just to make me feel socially inferior. <br />
64. I do love bulldogs drank with a fat straw. They make me really happy. <br />
65. I have very few inhibitions, I am comfortable in my own skin, and I don’t mind getting under someone else’s if I think they deserve it. <br />
66. I don’t mind confrontation…actually I get off on it when I know what I am arguing over…which is most of the time. I don’t usually get in that situation if I don’t know.<br />
67. I like power and being in control, just knowing I have it is enough, I don’t have to flaunt it or abuse it to feel important. <br />
68. I believe our minds are an untapped resource. There is so much power there that we don’t utilize because we don’t believe or know what we are capable of. <br />
69. I have a different mindset about pain… it’s probably the control thing but I can usually handle a lot. I like getting through it, knowing I could deal with it and keep control of myself. I have had bones set and dislocations put back without anything for the pain. <br />
70. The reason for 64 is I hate needles and I don’t like the idea of my mind being open for the world with no control of what comes out of my mouth.<br />
71. I am the one in the family that looks at cuts and injuries. I will clean and determine if they should go in to the ER or fix it if I can. I should have become a surgical nurse it fascinates me except for the needles thing. I could cut someone but not poke them. Lol<br />
72. I have a knack for being able to see what would hurt someone the most. I don’t use it anymore… even if they are assholes. Just knowing is enough. There is the power part in play. Actually it’s ugly to know those things and realize how your own mind works. <br />
73. I had severe migraines for years even as a child. Doctors then didn’t believe kids got migraines. As I got older they told me they were stress headaches and I just needed to reduce the stress in my life. <br />
74. My grandma (dad’s side) use to tell me I must have been naughty to make God punish me that way. I believed it for a bit. That is that Catholic guilt thing for ya. Btw she really was a great grandma just a little off in some of her thinking. <br />
75. My migraines finally ended when I got pregnant. They are triggered by flux in estrogen or progesterone. I still struggled for abit between kids and after having them. Now I just get ocular migraines. No pain just very messed up vision and some nausea from the vision stuff. <br />
76. I have a horrible laugh reflex. The more serious something is the more out of control I can get. <br />
77. I love men. I loved them my whole life. I can find attractive things about all of them…that is until some of them open their mouths then that can end it. <br />
78. I have only had sex with the two men I have been married to. <br />
79. I really like sex. <br />
80. I like to talk about it.<br />
81. I like to think about it.<br />
82. It is a good thing I didn’t find out how much I liked sex until I was older because I think that number 73 would be a heck of a lot larger.<br />
83. I met my husband online in a chat room for trucker’s wives. (My sister was a founder of the site). I was not looking for a relationship at the time but remember hearing his voice and knowing he was important to me. Scary thought when you don’t believe in that stuff. If a friend had told me this had happened to her, I would have told her to get her head examined. <br />
84. I use to be very judgmental. I still have those tendencies but through my own experiences (refer to #84) and some of the ones I love experiences; I have learned that there is often more to the story than meets the eye. I think most people do the best they can. <br />
85. I know there are grey areas and I’m ok with that. I can see and feel for both sides of a story. Then you have to use your faith to know where you need to stand.<br />
86. I am an organizer. I receive more enjoyment sometimes from organizing my stuff then actually using it. Ex. Scrapbooking stuff, office supplies, spices.<br />
87. I love to play cards of any type. Really love poker. <br />
88. I use to shoot pool and loved to shoot league and tourneys. <br />
89. I enjoy shooting pistols and rifles, shot guns are ok but I like rifles the most. <br />
90. The main reason I learned to do all those “male” things is it was a way to be around them and get respect from them. Then there is the competitive thing too. <br />
91. There is almost no joy quite like the feeling of beating a man at “his” game. <br />
92. There is so much freedom in loving a man because you choose to, not because you need to.<br />
93. Being stubborn has carried me over a lot of obstacles; it has also caused a lot of pain. <br />
94. I hate being told what to do. I hate it so much that I can’t even tell myself what to do most of the time. <br />
95. If you tell me what I need to do or order me around, I will let my true ugly self loose and probably end up hurting more than myself with my spitefulness. <br />
96. That is not to say I am not open to suggestions, if put as such. <br />
97. I think out loud. So in the process of a conversation I can totally change my view on something because I am thinking it out on someone. Actually hearing something out loud can really put it into context for me. <br />
98. I am most relaxed when I am doing something. I really can’t sit and do nothing; I even have a hard time sitting and reading. I usually get up and roam then come back and read some more. <br />
99. I miss having horses and wish I could have had them for my girls.<br />
100. I am now worried that I have said too many “I” things.Kathleen Badehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09511937166340041010noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-65599380526084812.post-25783959914786960382010-12-11T03:29:00.000-08:002011-11-29T20:16:30.133-08:00One Hundred Things .... LindaA collection of lists. Take the challenge. 100 things about yourself. Streaming flow of consciousness, as personal or as general as you care to make it...but make it count. You might learn something about yourself and I promise it's better than 20 questions!<br />
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1. I am an Aquarius and amethyst is my birthstone.<br />
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2. I knit, crochet, sew.<br />
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3. I have two published poems (online at poetry.com, so does that count since it's a self-publish site?)<br />
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4. I was unfaithful in my first marriage.<br />
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5. I have been faithful in my second marriage.<br />
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6. Yes, maturity and the men made a difference.<br />
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7. I was molested as a child.<br />
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8. As a result of #7, many of the problems in my 1st marriage had a direct correlation.<br />
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9. As a result of #8, counseling helped me see that and I changed lots of things that needed fixing inside me.<br />
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10. I am currently enjoying two renewed friendships with girls I went to school with as kids.<br />
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11. My oldest adult best friendship is 20 years in the making. Thanks for your patience, Patti.<br />
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12. I count few people as friends. Trust issues. Yeah, #7 again.<br />
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13. My husband is 9 years older than me. And, he's only 29! Last year we celebrated his 25th anniversary of that birthday.<br />
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14. I sometimes feel like I've wasted my intelligence. I never finished college. Dropped out after two years to get married.<br />
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15. My first marriage was to my high school sweetheart. Started dating at 16 and married at 21. Divorced at 36. It was my escape from home and he stuck around when no other boys would. Yeah, you can thank the brother that molested me for being the thug that threatened everyone else away. I figured no one else would ever love me or ask me to marry them. Funny how twisted your thinking becomes when you're running from that kind of shit.<br />
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16. I don't regret my 1st marriage. I got my two kids from it. One girl. One boy.<br />
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17. I became a grandmother early. Two months before my daughter's 16th birthday, she gave me a granddaughter that I cherish.<br />
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18. My ambition as a child - to be a good wife and mother. I accomplished both (even if the wife part came second time around).<br />
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19. No one can blame me more than I blame myself for anything.<br />
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20. I graduated 9th out of 320-some in my high school class. It means nothing.<br />
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21. I've been a bookkeeper/office administrator on and off for the past 25 years with a stint in retail prior to that. When I wasn't, I was home raising kids.<br />
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22. I can add upside-down faster than an ex-boss could on his calculator. It freaked him out and he would challenge me to see if I could get the right answer. The business was selling multi-million dollar power and process equipment, so the numbers were usually quite big. He rarely won.<br />
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23. I was once accused of making up a word. Mellifluous. I have a large vocabulary. Excuse me, Tom, if you do not.<br />
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24. I don't do recreational/illegal drugs. Ever. Never have.<br />
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25. I grew up in a household with addicts and dealers.<br />
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26. I have panic attacks occassionally. And why yes, that movie on the TV with the booming explosions can set off an attack, TYVM.<br />
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27. I weigh twice what I weighed in high school. <br />
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28. I do not have high cholesterol, high blood pressure, or diabetes.<br />
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29. I am a realist with a tendency toward pessimism.<br />
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30. I can and will argue both sides in the same argument.<br />
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31. I once told my current husband he shouldn't get used to dating me (about a month into dating him) because he reminded me too much of my father and I didn't want to date my father. We've been together for 10 yrs and married 5 of those. He's says he's still not used to it.<br />
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32. I eat lots of chicken and pasta. Little red meat or fish. Fresh vegetables in a salad are great. Cooked veggies are not my friend and I won't eat them.<br />
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33. Spicy is best.<br />
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34. I like to cook, but hate coming up with a menu night after night.<br />
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35. I rarely drink. When I do, it cannot taste like alcohol.<br />
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36. Chocolate....mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm....<br />
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37. I love to sing. I'm not bad. The one-time Dean of Music at a local university told me I have a lovely voice. But I don't Karaoke. Scares the crap out of me. See #26.<br />
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38. I have two dogs. Cats are ok, but no snakes or spiders. Uck!<br />
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39. My secret desire is to live in Ireland.<br />
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40. I have been to Ireland twice.<br />
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41. I have been to Vegas - once was enough.<br />
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42. Cake is only the vehicle by which to get the frosting into my body.<br />
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43. Cheesecake on my birthday is preferred.<br />
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44. My daughter has her Bachelors Degree in Interior Design. Yes, this is the same daughter who gave birth at 15 and has a 7 year old daughter. Beaming pride here.<br />
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45. Same daughter was nearly killed by a drunk driver in February 2009, who slammed into the car she was in with her boyfriend. They were driving home from his parents home. The other car was at 100% acceleration and going somewhere between 100 and 130 MPH at contact. Three people in the drunk driver's car were killed, including the driver himself. Airbags save lives. Sara and Joe lived. No brain injuries. Broken bones, a collapsed lung, nicked spleen, three weeks in the hospital but they lived. The hardest day of my life was taking my granddaughter in to see her mother broken in the hospital.<br />
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46. The second hardest day of my life was taking my son to court ordered residential rehab at age 16 where he stayed for 7 months.<br />
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47. The third hardest day of my life was taking same son to a group home the day I turned custody over to the state when he was 17, because he was so out of control I couldn't take care for him anymore.<br />
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48. I am crying right now having written those last three.<br />
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49. At 18 1/2 now, son is figuring it out. He's come a long way in the past year.<br />
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50. I am at peace in the mountains of northern New Hampshire where we own property.<br />
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51. I like to swim in fresh water.<br />
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52. I have lived within 1/2 hour of the Atlantic Ocean for more than 20 years and have only ever waded in up to my knees. I do not like salt water.<br />
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53. I am not a "beach" girl, unless it's after 5:00 and the sun won't burn me into a lobster.<br />
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54. Even high number sunscreen does not keep me from burning within 10 minutes on a bad sun day.<br />
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55. I am 1/8 Irish and it is the heritage I identify with the most.<br />
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56. I believe in past lives and am a healthy skeptic of the paranormal.<br />
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57. I am #7 of 8 children.<br />
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58. My oldest sister died of a rare blood disorder when I was 11. I still talk to her sometimes.<br />
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59. My father passed when I was 19. I still talk to him too.<br />
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60. My nightmares always include the house I grew up in and my brother in some context.<br />
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61. I've worked hard to be the woman I am today. I like me.<br />
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62. I like games - board games, card games - but I rarely play.<br />
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63. My fondest memories growing up were going to flea markets on the weekend with my mom.<br />
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64. I was horribly ashamed of my home growing up so rarely had friends over. I always went to their homes. As an adult who has done work to heal myself, I realize now that was all tied into my shame and need for escape. See #7.<br />
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65. I dislike bible bangers. I don't believe in organized religion. If I had to classify myself, I'd have to say agnostic. I have not explored other belief systems. I have no desire to.<br />
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66. We will all die some day. It is a given. That is why I eat chocolate. I will die happy having eaten chocolate. I will not die happy having eaten cooked vegetables.<br />
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67. I have a difficult time with stupidity.<br />
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68. Do not lie to me. It will not be pretty.<br />
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69. I am a 3 a.m. friend. If you need me, I will be there.<br />
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70. I love babies. You can have them back from age 4 til 20.<br />
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71. Please do not vomit in front of me. It will make me do the same, then you will have twice as much to clean up.<br />
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72. I found I can get by with only 20 hours of sleep over 7 days if necessary and it isn't be the best way to lose 20 lbs either. See #45.<br />
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73. I love my husband. Very, very much.<br />
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74. I have two step-kids. One boy, one girl.<br />
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75. I am a smart-ass. If you don't like me because of that, your loss.<br />
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76. When I watch TV, it's usually whatever my husband has on (can you say sports?). If I watch by myself, it's one of the shows on TLC, Discovery or the Biography channel.<br />
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77. I like to read; suspense normally, every now and then a romance.<br />
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78. I like taking drives in the country. <br />
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79. I hate crowds. They make me feel claustrophobic. So does rush hour traffic.<br />
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80. I do not like heights. I never realized how much I do not like heights until I was on the top of a mountain in Lake Placid, NY with my sister. The hike down was a welcome relief.<br />
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81. I can do the outer trail at Cannon Mountain (summit over 5,200 ft), with the sheer drop-off along trailside, so long as I use my hand as a blinder to that side and cling to the opposite side of the trail. I will panic if anyone is too close to the edge. Anyone. It is irrational,I know. <br />
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82. I would like to go back to college, but do not want to start a "career" at my age.<br />
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83. My sense of humor is very dry and sly, to the point that many people think I have none whatsoever. I just rarely find humor in slapstick.<br />
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84. I listen to country music. <br />
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85. I believe in abortion, but not as a means of regular birth control.<br />
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86. Test results revealed I do not carry the genetic markers for breast/ovarian cancer. My mother had breast cancer and a radical mastectomy three years before I born. It was a concern of mine.<br />
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87. My one acquiescence to vanity is coloring away my gray. I rarely wear makeup or paint my nails.<br />
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88. I do not understand Brazilian waxing. But then, I don't particularly want anyone poking around down there besides my OB/GYN or my husband.<br />
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89. At age 45 and 230 lbs, I taught my granddaughter (age 6 at the time) how to do a cartwheel. Yeah! I got my fat ass over and landed it!<br />
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90. I haven't said anything nasty about my ex-husband in this list. And it hasn't been easy to refrain.<br />
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91. Most people think I'm a bitch or a snob, because I don't open up well at first. I am working on that. But it does help to weed out those that won't stick around long enough to get to know me anyway.<br />
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92. I shop Walmart. That does not mean I do not have class.<br />
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93. I like Celine Dion and own most of her cds.<br />
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94. I met my husband online through a mutual friend in a local chatroom. The group would also meet up in "real life", outside of the online chat, to do things, so we really all knew each other. His daughter went to school with her daughter. Thanks, Cathy, for vouching for him.<br />
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95. Ten years later, I still remember our first date. He came over to my house to watch George Bush accept the presidential election to office in December of 2000. The year of the hanging chads in Florida and the election outcome was hanging (pun intended) on for 6 weeks while they hand-counted votes to see who won the Presidency. <br />
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96. Everyone makes mistakes. Learn from them. Try not to repeat them. And accept your own responsibility for them. I've tried to teach my children this and live by it.<br />
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97. I don't like to wear shoes. I do not have them on at home ever. I've been known to take them off and walk around the office in my bare feet too. Thankfully, I've only ever worked for small businesses where I could do that.<br />
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98. Crocs may not be stylish, but they are the most comfortable thing anyone could possibly put on their feet. Yes, I own 3 pair (knock-offs, as I rarely wear "branded" clothing). <br />
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99. I let my hair grow when I got divorced. Up until 2000, I wore it boy-cut short. I wear it halfway down my back now. Radical difference! Ponytails are my friend.<br />
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100. And I'm anal. I just went back to read through this and fix any typos.Kathleen Badehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09511937166340041010noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-65599380526084812.post-17171267381028169182010-12-09T11:02:00.000-08:002011-11-29T20:17:05.004-08:00One Hundred Things .... JoshA collection of lists. Take the challenge. 100 things about yourself. Streaming flow of consciousness, as personal or as general as you care to make it...but make it count. You might learn something about yourself and I promise it's better than 20 questions!<br />
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<div style="text-align: left;">1. I have regrets, but nothing I cannot change or live with.</div><div style="text-align: left;">2. I am comfortable being alone; sometimes it is preferred, although there is something to be said for people on occasion.</div><div style="text-align: left;">3. I speak French, not a lot, but enough.</div><div style="text-align: left;">4. I like good jazz, specifically Miles Davis and Billie Holiday.</div><div style="text-align: left;">5. I am a decent poker player. Not great, but good enough to make some money from time to time.</div><div style="text-align: left;">6. I lie better than people give me credit for, hence the poker skills.</div><div style="text-align: left;">7. There is a list of places that I want to see before I am gone, and I will.</div><div style="text-align: left;">8. My temper has a long fuse, takes quite a while for me to finally blow, but when I do it can be bad.</div><div style="text-align: left;">9. Montecristo cigars, nuff said.</div><div style="text-align: left;">10. I am no longer a planner.</div><div style="text-align: left;">11. I have had crushes on girls 3 times in my life, Elementary school, Middle school through High school, and in college… sorry no names will be mentioned. </div><div style="text-align: left;">12. I love quotes.</div><div style="text-align: left;">13. Coffee will pick my mood up, not just my energy.</div><div style="text-align: left;">14. Do not ask me a question if you do not want the truth.</div><div style="text-align: left;">15. I am a Kiwanian.</div><div style="text-align: left;">16. I do not want kids of my own. Never have.</div><div style="text-align: left;">17. Ignorance bugs me, willful ignorance even more.</div><div style="text-align: left;">18. Tell me I am not able to do something and chances are I will try just because.</div><div style="text-align: left;">19. I have been to a strip club.</div><div style="text-align: left;">20. George Carlin makes me laugh my ass off.</div><div style="text-align: left;">21. I made it to 20 before being intoxicated.</div><div style="text-align: left;">22. I did not get my driver’s license until I was 25.</div><div style="text-align: left;">23. Gut feelings should be listened to.</div><div style="text-align: left;">24. I have done some things I am not proud of, but I think I have learned a great deal from most of them and will not be repeating.</div><div style="text-align: left;">25. I carry a knife on me at all times, the few moments I do not have one are the times when it is most needed.</div><div style="text-align: left;">26. Pocket watch, not wrist watch.</div><div style="text-align: left;">27. Humphrey Bogart is cool personified.</div><div style="text-align: left;">28. I was once taught to reggae dance by three beautiful girls from Jamaica.</div><div style="text-align: left;">29. I am not a phone person. Anyone I have had a conversation with on the phone for more than 2 minutes can consider themselves one of the chosen few.</div><div style="text-align: left;">30. Being single on Valentine’s Day has never bothered me, New Years does. Go figure.</div><div style="text-align: left;">31. I am right handed, the only thing I can do with my left is shoot pool, kind of strange, but true. </div><div style="text-align: left;">32. I would rather spend my money on experiences than things.</div><div style="text-align: left;">33. I had one straight A year in college.</div><div style="text-align: left;">34. Libraries are some of my favorite buildings to be in.</div><div style="text-align: left;">35. I hit the snooze button every time my alarm goes off.</div><div style="text-align: left;">36. I save everything. Pack rat I am.</div><div style="text-align: left;">37. Useless knowledge is something I possess.</div><div style="text-align: left;">38. I have read every Sherlock Holmes story by A.C. Doyle.</div><div style="text-align: left;">39. There is no music I will not give a try. My IPod has everything on it, shake it up and be surprised.</div><div style="text-align: left;">40. Looking into the past is something I do too often. I am trying to get away from it, but dammit it is hard.</div><div style="text-align: left;">41. I am beginning to understand forgiveness. Things I use to think were unforgiveable I am now seeing in a different light for certain reasons.</div><div style="text-align: left;">42. My way of dealing with some problems is to ignore them until I can’t.</div><div style="text-align: left;">43. When I was a child I joined a tap dancing class. I went there to see if I liked it and a girl I had a crush on was in the class. Decision made.</div><div style="text-align: left;">44. I can handle my drinks, although one good gin and tonic will jump start the buzzing faster than a few of anything else.</div><div style="text-align: left;">45. I have seen two oceans. </div><div style="text-align: left;">46. According to the Mensa sample test my IQ is 187.</div><div style="text-align: left;">47. Only started one physical altercation in my life, and would do it again. Some things I just cannot stand by and let happen.</div><div style="text-align: left;">48. I can cook a pretty good meal. Pan fried steak being my specialty.</div><div style="text-align: left;">49. For good or bad I think knowing is always better than not knowing.</div><div style="text-align: left;">50. Procrastination is my life. I always get my work done, but usually at the last minute. Packing is the one exception; I tend to be packed for a trip the night before at least. </div><div style="text-align: left;">51. I can’t stand gardening, other outdoor chores not so much of a problem, but no gardening for this boy.</div><div style="text-align: left;">52. Sent my first text message earlier this year. Behind the times perhaps, but seemed to survive without it.</div><div style="text-align: left;">53. Hard to find writing more beautiful than Shakespeare.</div><div style="text-align: left;">54. I do not like to fly, but will for the right reasons.</div><div style="text-align: left;">55. I have discovered that the anticipation of something can be worse than the actual event, the mind can run the wrong direction sometimes.</div><div style="text-align: left;">56. I have miraculously manage to keep track of my Zippo lighter for 6 years, not many things make it that long with me.</div><div style="text-align: left;">57. I have faith in people, I have seen the good they are capable of.</div><div style="text-align: left;">58. I have tried steer wrestling.</div><div style="text-align: left;">59. Dumb pride has gotten me in trouble in the past, still hard to let go of it.</div><div style="text-align: left;">60. Air conditioning is a must.</div><div style="text-align: left;">61. Somewhere along the line I became the reactionary of the family… not sure when that happened.</div><div style="text-align: left;">62. I will not give up red meat. </div><div style="text-align: left;">63. You can keep your Angelina Jolies and Nicole Kidmans give me a flirty look from Marilyn Monroe or a young Lauren Bacall asking for a match anytime. </div><div style="text-align: left;">64. When it comes to junk food it is salty not sweet for me.</div><div style="text-align: left;">65. I once held a girl in the pouring rain while she cried on my shoulder. </div><div style="text-align: left;">66. Even if the destination is a bad one road trips can still be fun.</div><div style="text-align: left;">67. I have some of the best friends that anyone could ask for and I am thankful for all of them.</div><div style="text-align: left;">68. I was once engaged, didn’t work out but I learned a lot.</div><div style="text-align: left;">69. I will someday know what the air smells like while watching the sunrise in Africa.</div><div style="text-align: left;">70. I am a romantic.</div><div style="text-align: left;">71. These new math techniques taught in schools bug me. </div><div style="text-align: left;">72. Cold doesn’t bother me. No jacket all winter long that’s me.</div><div style="text-align: left;">73. I do not watch any new tv program. A few reruns of things and an occasional new show, but no weekly program that I need to tune into.</div><div style="text-align: left;">74. I collect classic books, my best one being an 1887 copy of Les Miserables</div><div style="text-align: left;">75. Every year around Christmas I get the flu. Doesn’t matter what I do it always shows up, the Christmas break from school was oh so much fun.</div><div style="text-align: left;">76. I buy bottled water, not because I think it is better than tap but because I am at the gas station and want something to drink besides soda.</div><div style="text-align: left;">77. Biggest celebrity that I got to actually meet was Kirby Puckett. He said hello and I got to shake his hand when he visited our school. I wasn’t supposed to be in the entry way that they were walking through but class just wasn’t that exciting, was at the right place at the right time. </div><div style="text-align: left;">78. I get very quiet around people I do not know. Not being rude, just quiet.</div><div style="text-align: left;">79. My cowboy boots are my favorite piece of footwear, will be sad when I have to retire them, although it does make room for getting a new pair.</div><div style="text-align: left;">80. Did not have internet until my first year in college. I still got all my research done in high school… they are called books.</div><div style="text-align: left;">81. I sleep on average about 3 hours a night. I seem to get by on that without too much trouble, but then again my daily dose of coffee probably helps.</div><div style="text-align: left;">82. I have kissed first.</div><div style="text-align: left;">83. My junior year in high school I saw every production and event at the local performing arts center, and for free. Just required a little volunteer work It was a great year.</div><div style="text-align: left;">84. I sprained my knee and was on crutches for 5 months, golf is a rough sport.</div><div style="text-align: left;">85. I have been skinny dipping.</div><div style="text-align: left;">86. Pac Man is the best video game ever invented. </div><div style="text-align: left;">87. I broke my first bone in 2010, my big toe.</div><div style="text-align: left;">88. I have a terrible memory for names of people I meet. I once talked with a girl for two hours about all the things we had done since graduation and I still do not know who she was.</div><div style="text-align: left;">89. For as much reading as I do I have yet to sit down with the Harry Potter or Twilight series.</div><div style="text-align: left;">90. I still remember the first time I watched a John Wayne movie with my grandfather; I would have been about 5 at the time. A good memory.</div><div style="text-align: left;">91. I have been taken advantage of by people more than I would like to remember, monetarily, emotionally, etc, but I still keep that faith (see #57).</div><div style="text-align: left;">92. I consider myself a decent dancer, but in the long run I don’t care, I just think it’s fun.</div><div style="text-align: left;">93. I like to be a regular at places in town. I go to the same branch of my bank every week, the same coffee shop, the same restaurant, etc. I like the fact that the people know me. </div><div style="text-align: left;">94. Fresh tomatoes are horrible. Keep them off my plate!</div><div style="text-align: left;">95. Driving fast with the windows open is the best way.</div><div style="text-align: left;">96. Guinness. I like a beer I can sink my teeth into.</div><div style="text-align: left;">97. One of my most important goals in life is to be a good friend.</div><div style="text-align: left;">98. I still do not understand bullying.</div><div style="text-align: left;">99. I like the smell of bleach. Smells clean to me.</div><div style="text-align: left;">100. I will not make an argument that I cannot back up. Debate anyone?</div>Kathleen Badehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09511937166340041010noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-65599380526084812.post-43626594437705653142010-12-08T03:40:00.001-08:002011-11-29T20:32:18.547-08:00One Hundred Things .... BeccaA collection of lists. Take the challenge. 100 things about yourself. Streaming flow of consciousness, as personal or as general as you care to make it...but make it count. You might learn something about yourself and I promise it's better than 20 questions!<br />
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1. I live on the coast in Georgia<br />
2. I love walking out my front door being able to smell weather the tide is high or low<br />
3. My mom is my best friend. I would choose her even if she wasn’t my mom.<br />
4. I don’t know everyone on my facebook page because my husband tells his friends to add me since he doesn’t have a page of his own.<br />
5. I love to write<br />
6. I find cleaning therapeutic, when I am upset I have to clean something<br />
7. This Christmas will be the first year my immediate family has all been together for the holidays since I was 17<br />
8. I love to read books before I see the theatrical version even though I am disappointed by the silver screen adaptation nearly every time.<br />
9. I am a geek for history, particularly WWII era.<br />
10. Nonfiction human interest is my favorite genre for both books and movies.<br />
11. I told my mom I was 5 I wanted to marry a boy from YMCA day camp. He was 11.I started dating that boy 13 years later. I married that man 2 1/2 years ago. <br />
12. I love my husband more each day that passes.<br />
13. The smell of fresh cut grass makes me incredibly happy.<br />
14. When I went to my first civil war era reenactment in GA I was secretly terrified because I was a Yankee south of the Mason-Dixon. They take reenacting very seriously around these parts.<br />
15. I love fishing.<br />
16. I feel stronger for all the crap I have endured over the past several years of my life. It’s been a growing experience.<br />
17. I am a Christian. <br />
18. Getting hand written letters and cards in the mail makes my day, especially in today’s fast paced, instant gratification world. Someone took the time to write, stamp, address, and mail that piece of paper to me, I appreciate that.<br />
19. I am a very nostalgic person.<br />
20. I have been told by many people I have an old soul in a young body. I like to think I have an understanding of how history affects the present and future.<br />
21. I love to sing and have a very musical background. I can read music and sing soprano. I have sung dozens of solos and performed in countless choirs. And yet, the idea of singing in a church choir still freaks me out.<br />
22. I think my dad put it best when he told me “home is where your stuff is”<br />
23. I hate shopping for jeans. Seriously, loath it. I have a 29 inch inseam. Even “petite” pants have a standard inseam of 30 inches. <br />
24. I love the breath the moment just before a passion filled kiss. It’s slow, its tender, it’s a rush.<br />
25. Rain boots make me happy. Yes, rain boots. They are so colorful and fun!<br />
26. Cheese is pretty much the best food ever invented. I begged for The Cheese Bible for my birthday one year. My mom and dad found it for me even though it was and is out of print.<br />
27. I was devastated when I realized I had to let go of my 1940’s Philco Radio/Record player console. There is NO sound in the world like a vinyl record being played. So many memories of sitting around the kitchen table with the radio turned on to the local AM oldies channel.<br />
28. I think today’s generation of kids are completely spoiled and have zero work ethic. My children will hate me because they will know what work is and the value of a dollar.<br />
29. As badly as I want to be a mother, I am secretly scared to death I will be a terrible parent and my kids will end up screwed up.<br />
30. Too many people miss the music of nature. The ocean’s rhythm as it rolls in and out sooths my very soul. The sound of crickets at night, it’s like a mini symphony that often goes unnoticed.<br />
31. A piece of my heart will always belong to Poland.<br />
32. I get so frustrated because I have been unable to locate a bread that even remotely resembles the bread I had in Poland. I hear this is a common complaint from anyone who has ever visited the country.<br />
33. Lion Bars are my favorite candy in the entire universe. <br />
34. I love to quilt. I think it preserves a tiny sliver of history. The love and care that goes into each stitch is undeniable. <br />
35. I am going to have to learn how to do container gardening this year as I no longer have a garden plot. But, I am very excited because I have a back yard and a patio that I can turn into my own personal garden jungle.<br />
36. I am a totally sucker for romantic movies- The Notebook. I will watch it and cry time and time again. The Time Traveler’s Wife, same thing. <br />
37. In January my husband and I visited GA. 10 months later we moved here from MN.<br />
38. I find nature documentaries incredibly intriguing. The Planet Earth series were fascinating. <br />
39. I have a house full of clocks. When I moved it was the one thing I absolutely, unequivocally refused to downsize. I have fond memories of my Great Uncle and his vast collection of clocks. Many of which he made himself or with the help of his wife. <br />
40. I have two individual possessions I treasure above all others- a music box I got from my Grandma S.- my Grandpa S. gave it to her. She passed it on to me when he passed away. The other item is a silver dancing ballerina. My Grandma Z gave it to my Grandpa Z for Valentine’s Day in the late 1960’s/early 1970’s. They gave it to me just before we moved. <br />
41. I cried harder than I have in years when I said goodbye to my grandparents before moving. It’s the first time I’ve lived more than 10 miles away from them in 22 years. <br />
42. I find water to be very healing on many levels.<br />
43. The most beautiful place I have ever stayed was at a resort in Mexico. And I am not talking about Cancun. My husband and I honeymooned deep into southern Mexico. The waters there are breathtaking. They are a color of teal I have never seen before. Life oozes from that place.<br />
44. I love shared space. No conversation is needed, just a companion in a common area.<br />
45. I sometimes wish I could play my thoughts on a screen. <br />
46. I wish I could play my memories like a movie for others to see. I often wonder what details others would remember from the same events.<br />
47. I sometimes feel like I was born in the wrong era. <br />
48. It’s funny how making major life changes lets you know who your true friends are. Some will be supportive, others will completely cut you out of their life. <br />
49. I have arthritis in both of my collar bones because I was so accident prone as a kid. I broke both my collar bones multiple times just being a kid- falling out of trees, diving out of carts, falling down stairs, sliding down the stairs in a laundry basket, and falling off the railing of the deck(for the record, I have much better balance on balance beams now).<br />
50. I was convinced my birthday was cursed for years as a kid. Something bad often happened on my big day- one year I held my hand up high and told my brother to try and kick my hand, he did and broke my fingers. Another year I was swinging, jumped off and turned around- took the swing right in my eye. I had an awesome shiner for about a week. Another year, I went to my neighbors house to play catch- I missed the ball with my glove and caught it with my face. I had the worst bloody nose, thankfully it wasn’t broken.<br />
51. Loose teeth freak me out to no end. <br />
52. I don’t like to watch the local news- not because I don’t like to be informed, but because I don’t want to know about all the horrible things happening locally. Nationally I can deal with; I just don’t want to know if someone got shot a few blocks away.<br />
53. Morgan Freeman makes me giddy. My husband makes fun of me to end because Morgan is old enough to be my grandfather.<br />
54. Eric Bana also makes me happy. I tell my husband not worry, it’s just because he’s pretty. We have an agreement, I can find him attractive as long as I promise not to pursue him. I don’t foresee that being a problem…<br />
55. I work in a craft store, I think it’s pretty much one of the best jobs on the face of the earth.<br />
56. I am a total science geek. I like to know how things work. I am constantly amazed at the great things that God has made. <br />
57. My wedding song was Etta James’s “At Last”<br />
58. To my cat’s great dismay, I make my bed every single morning after I get up. He would prefer I leave it all jumbled up so he can make a cat nest in the covers.<br />
59. My engagement ring was purchased with our winnings from pull tabs at a local pub. It was a good night for pull tabs my friends. <br />
60. Going up into attics freaks me out because when I was a kid I wasn’t allowed in the attic because it was unfinished. <br />
61. I want to go shrimping some day. <br />
62. When I was a little girl I wanted to be a gymnast.<br />
63. Thanks to my husband I dig movies from the 1980’s.<br />
64. Gone with the Wind and Singing in the Rain are two of my favorite classic films.<br />
65. I love my friends like family. I will defend them to the ends of the earth and expect the same in return.<br />
66. I prefer carnations over roses every time.<br />
67. I loath shoes. They are super cute, and I own many pairs. I just think they suck.<br />
68. Southern Soul BBQ is my favorite Q joint hands down.<br />
69. I have a physically demanding job pulling freight off the semi trucks. I wouldn’t have it any other way.<br />
70. I am by nature an introvert. I have to make a conscious decision to be social most days. I have accepted this about myself.<br />
71. I love to read. I don’t do it nearly as often as I’d like to.<br />
72. I played the trumpet for 7 years in band. I loved it. <br />
73. Sometimes I feel like a 12 year old girl trapped the body of a 25 year old woman. <br />
74. I don’t actually think I am interesting enough for anyone to honestly care about my list of 100 random things about me. Seriously. I am so random.<br />
75. I have been around so much glitter in the last 3 days at work I may be made up of 4% glitter now. Even after I shower I find glitter on my person.<br />
76. I secretly find it charming when men stumble over words when they find me attractive. Who doesn’t enjoy a little flattery once in a while?<br />
77. I love the idea of being caught in the rain during a summer rain. In reality, it sucks. It’s cold and wet. It leaves you feeling like a wet dog. <br />
78. I wish my brain was wired to understand math better.<br />
79. When I smell drying onion skins I associate it with the root cellar in my grandparents old house.<br />
80. As an adult I appreciate my dad’s witty sense of humor far more than I did as a kid/teen.<br />
81. I find it comforting to hear trains off in the distance. I’ve always lived close enough to hear the horns blow, it would be weird to not hear them anymore.<br />
82. I can’t express how proud of my family members (inlaws included) who serve or have served our country. <br />
83. As much as I appreciate the men and women who fight/fought for my freedom, I am very relieved my husband is not in the military. Military wives and husbands are stronger than anyone ever gives them credit for. <br />
84. There is always time for one last grand adventure. Always.<br />
85. I am super excited to make a 7 layer jello salad. I have never done it before, it looks like fun so I am gonna give it a whirl. <br />
86. For years I’ve wanted to take a cake decorating course. I look longingly at the Wilton starter kits every time I go into work. <br />
87. Some day I want to pick a cookbook and cook every single recipe in it. <br />
88. I could beach comb every single day of my life and be content. <br />
89. This summer my husband and I are going to rent metal detectors and play on the beach. <br />
90. Right before Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1 came out I watched movies 1-6 back to back. Greatest weekend ever. <br />
91. Glee is my new guilty pleasure.<br />
92. I very much want to see the Nutcracker ballet performed in the theater again. The last time I saw it I was about 13 years old. <br />
93. I love hosting big, family holiday meals at my house. <br />
94. I graduated summa cum laude and was 11th in my class of almost 200.<br />
95. My husband used to call me Oscar when I was cranky. <br />
96. When someone in our house needs and attitude change, we say they need to change their pants. This came from the terms “cranky pants” and “pissy pants”. If we are in public we simply say “pants.”<br />
97. I know my husband looks like my dad, I don’t need to be reminded at every family function. Besides, I will still deny it to be true.<br />
98. I desperately want a telescope so I can star gaze on a new level.<br />
99. I think it’s sweet my cat thinks he’s a person. Not just a person, a nurse. Whenever we are sick he stays right with us until we are better. <br />
100. I have been blessed beyond words by God who loves me and died for me.Kathleen Badehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09511937166340041010noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-65599380526084812.post-34587521222301630352010-12-08T03:21:00.000-08:002011-11-29T20:33:02.160-08:00One Hundred Things .... PaulA collection of lists. Take the challenge. 100 things about yourself. Streaming flow of consciousness, as personal or as general as you care to make it...but make it count. You might learn something about yourself and I promise it's better than 20 questions!<br />
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<ol><li> <div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">I found the love of bonsai during one of my trips to Japan. That was 1987 and 23 years ago. I teach, collect and find friendships worldwide because of this artform. </div></li>
<li> <div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">I work with children who for many circumstances have made decisions that have impacted their own lives and the lives of others in some occassions. I truly believe these are good kids making very poor choices. </div></li>
<li> <div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Throughout my life I have worked with various human services, either by volunteering or working directly. </div></li>
<li> <div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">I stuck a short Navy career in the middle of my life. I will never forget the men and women I had met in those 8 wonderfully experienced years. </div></li>
<li> <div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">I stole a squad car when I was 16. Borrowed without permission won't cut it anymore... </div></li>
<li> <div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Stole a car and a motorcycle too. </div></li>
<li> <div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">I was an altar boy growing up. I put “Hi Mom” on the bottoms of my shoes so that they faced the congregation while I kneeled at the altar. </div></li>
<li> <div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">I was raised in the Catholic faith. I remain grounded by this upbringing but have traveled the world and continue a spiritual path not nessarily away from the Catholic faith, but along side it. </div></li>
<li> <div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">I believe in God as the creator of all. I believe that Buddha and Jesus are brothers...spiritually speaking, not biologically....duh. I am in awe of Native American spirituality as well. </div></li>
<li> <div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">I have travelled around this globe. Actually all the way around the earth by the time I was 21. </div></li>
<li> <div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">I was born in Wiesbaden Germany in 1966. </div></li>
<li> <div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">From Germany we headed west back to the states. </div></li>
<li> <div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">I have lived in Virginia (state), Florida, Texas and Minnesota. Minnesota is my home. </div></li>
<li> <div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">I love Lake Superior for all its power and beauty. </div></li>
<li> <div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">My journey continued west through my life. I ended up in Central Africa in 1989, almost directly below Wiesbaden Germany (longitude-wise). </div></li>
<li> <div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">I crossed the equator 6 times. </div></li>
<li> <div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">South of the equator, I had to make sure I flushed a toilet to prove the water circles opposite. </div></li>
<li> <div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">I have seen the Southern Cross. </div></li>
<li> <div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">I have stood in the pouring rain and winds of both hurricanes and typhoons. Trust me, they are the same thing. </div></li>
<li> <div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">My kryptonite is pine nuts. </div></li>
<li> <div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Pine nuts have almost killed me on 3 occassions. </div></li>
<li> <div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">I walked away from death on 9 occassions, which is weird because I am a Leo. </div></li>
<li> <div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Not looking forward to the 10<sup>th</sup> time. </div></li>
<li> <div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">I have witnessed both the miracle of birth and death first hand. </div></li>
<li> <div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">I believe in ghosts. </div></li>
<li> <div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">I am a tattoo enthusiast. Full right arm sleeve, back and chest piece and a start to a left sleeve in the works. </div></li>
<li> <div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">The brevity of man is the theme of my right arm. Tempus Fugit Memento Mori. (Time Flies Remember Death) </div></li>
<li> <div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">My daughter designed the chest piece tattoo. She is 7. </div></li>
<li> <div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">I play guitar. I picked it up in high school in 1983. I am still a student. If I practiced, I might be pretty good some day. </div></li>
<li> <div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">I ran a rescue farm for domestic and farm critters for a decade. </div></li>
<li> <div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">I owned a Scottish Highland Cow named “Bubbles”. </div></li>
<li> <div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Animals have taught me many things about values and my own existence. </div></li>
<li> <div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Thomas Merton, C.S. Lewis and Thich Nhat Hanh are my favorite reads. </div></li>
<li> <div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">I like to write. Whether poetry, songs or stories....I find written word an excellent way to vent. </div></li>
<li> <div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">I draw too. Sometimes I put my written word to a drawing. </div></li>
<li> <div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">I dabbled in smoking marijuana for many years. I get it. But understand lack of control and how life can be wasted. </div></li>
<li> <div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">I was married for 7 years, and divorced. </div></li>
<li> <div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">The day of the divorce I went sober. I didnt have a problem, just wanted to live my life chemical free. </div></li>
<li> <div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">I discovered wine making, and decided chemical free sucked ass. </div></li>
<li> <div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">I love wine. </div></li>
<li> <div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">I couldn't tell you what wine to drink with fish or venison, but I can tell you how buzzed I can get on a great bottle of Merlot or Shiraz.... </div></li>
<li> <div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">10 years ago, I would never had known what the hell Shiraz was. I would have guessed it was some new latin female singer. </div></li>
<li> <div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Speaking of....Shiraz makes me want to dance. </div></li>
<li> <div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">I was told once that my daughter is a Rainbow Child. You are gonna have to look that one up....I did. </div></li>
<li> <div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">I dated a girl once that introduced me to the Tamarack Dance Association. They meet once a month and do square and line dancing with a live band and callers. Was the most fun I have had in a long time. I miss the dancing, not her. </div></li>
<li> <div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">I actually do miss her, but not in the loved loss sort of way. She was good people. </div></li>
<li> <div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">I used to polka with my mom. </div></li>
<li> <div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">I miss her bunches. She passed on almost a year ago this coming February to cancer. </div></li>
<li> <div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Cancer sucks ass. </div></li>
<li> <div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">My pops died of cancer too. </div></li>
<li> <div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Cancer sucks ass times two. </div></li>
<li> <div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">I have two brothers. </div></li>
<li> <div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">One brother is a police detective in Florida. He didn't know I stole a squad car til just this year. </div></li>
<li> <div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">My other brother is a brilliant man full of math facts and stats that blow my mind. </div></li>
<li> <div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">I am completely and utterly math stupid. </div></li>
<li> <div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">He has Cerebral Palsy, but that doesn't define him. </div></li>
<li> <div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">My only sister is a giver. She has sacrificed much of her life these past three or four years to the care of both my parents until they passed. She is our angel. </div></li>
<li> <div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">My parents celebrated 50 years of marriage. You don't see that too often anymore. </div></li>
<li> <div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Dear Cancer, you can suck it. Sincerely. Paul. </div></li>
<li> <div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">When I was 18, I had a tortion of the left testical. Which by the way is equivelant to an elephant standing on your testical....pain wise. </div></li>
<li> <div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">I no longer have a left testical. </div></li>
<li> <div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">I believe in Karma. That said, I still have no idea what I did to deserve the pain of an elephant standing on a testical. Oh wait..... I think I know....see #5 and 6. </div></li>
<li> <div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">I lived in the Phillippines where I had a housemaid that put a curse on me. I am kinda weirded out by that still. </div></li>
<li> <div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Life goes on curse and all. </div></li>
<li> <div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">I think I have the answers to all life's questions. That is probably why I don't ask questions....I just do. </div></li>
<li> <div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">I passed that knowledge on to my daughter....she has the answers to everything. At least she thinks she does. </div></li>
<li> <div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">I am in trouble in 8 years....probably sooner. </div></li>
<li> <div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">I kind of feel sorry for any suitor that may come her way. I am a guy. I know how guy's think. </div></li>
<li> <div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">I own guns. </div></li>
<li> <div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">I am a pretty good shot too. </div></li>
<li> <div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">My daughter has two uncles and a boatload of serbian kin that are pretty good shots too. </div></li>
<li> <div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Speaking of.... I am ¼ each of Serbian, Croatian, Slovenian and Hungarian. </div></li>
<li> <div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">My daughter is 1/6 of each including Polish and Irish. </div></li>
<li> <div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">I guess I really shouldn't worry about any suitor my daughter may have. She is gonna be able to defend herself without a doubt. </div></li>
<li> <div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Twenty-five more to go!!!! </div></li>
<li> <div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">:) I know these last two were cheap adds on this list. </div></li>
<li> <div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">I have a Gordon Setter named Fas. (Foss). Or as my daughter calls him Fozz or Fozzy. Fas is latin for “fate”. </div></li>
<li> <div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">I really enjoy the companionship that dogs give. Unconditional loyalty and love. They see you at your worst and and at your best. </div></li>
<li> <div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">I live like that too. Giving my all for my friends and family. Unconditionally. </div></li>
<li> <div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">I am a night owl. My mom was too. We would stay up late just talking or playing cards til the wee hours of the morning. Good times. </div></li>
<li> <div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">I know that sleep is needed, but find that I function well on the sleep I do get. In spite of knowing that it is healthier to get more sleep. I could argue with myself about this all night. </div></li>
<li> <div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Coffee helps me get through this argument in the mornings. </div></li>
<li> <div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Mornings are always the best times to drink coffee. </div></li>
<li> <div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">The worst time to drink coffee is in a jeep on a really rough road. Not cool. </div></li>
<li> <div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">I like tea too. Chai mostly, but I can enjoy a good black tea. I doll it up nicely with loads of honey, sugar or creams.... so it tastes like coffee. </div></li>
<li> <div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">I am in my office right now, thinking I started this some hour or so ago. I liked the concept of this 100 list, and am grateful for my new friend to challenge me with the task. </div></li>
<li> <div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">I find her to be a mystery right now, but she is like the first sip of a morning cup of coffee. Awakening the senses that have slept through the night. </div></li>
<li> <div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">I am looking forward to sleep in about 10 more minutes. </div></li>
<li> <div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">That leaves me about 1 minute for the remaining ten items on my list. </div></li>
<li> <div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">I plan on changing jobs soon. Not that I do not like the one I have. I am a person that doesn't stay too long in one spot. </div></li>
<li> <div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">I enjoy variety and diversity. With that comes new experiences and connections. </div></li>
<li> <div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">I enjoy being connected to people \....and once connected, always connected. </div></li>
<li> <div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">The spiritual journey I am on is filled with these connections. For these, I am truly blessed. </div></li>
<li> <div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">I strive to be the man that God intended me to be. A good father, a good family man, a good friend. God is love. </div></li>
<li> <div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">I hope that through my connections, I can give more than I have received from them. I learn much about myself and this great world with every breath. </div></li>
<li> <div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">I am a student of life and love, laughter and understanding. </div></li>
<li> <div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">My brother has taught me that life is about accepting and appreciating all that I have. </div></li>
<li> <div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">I am a better man because of all my family, friends and the love that I have shared with all who I have met through the years. </div></li>
<li> <div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">I look forward to the years to come, so that I may become closer to who I am supposed to be. </div></li>
<li> <div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Thank you Kathleen for the opportunity to share this with you. </div></li>
</ol>Kathleen Badehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09511937166340041010noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-65599380526084812.post-22452454477626777962010-12-07T15:11:00.000-08:002011-11-29T20:34:53.617-08:00One Hundred Things ..... MichelleA collection of lists. Take the challenge. 100 things about yourself. Streaming flow of consciousness, as personal or as general as you care to make it...but make it count. You might learn something about yourself and I promise it's better than 20 questions!<br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;">1. My star sign is Cancer<br />
2. I love the beach, and I am about 15 mins from one.<br />
3. I moved to Scotland from England 4 years ago, just because I loved the feeling here.<br />
4. I am very random.<br />
5. I am also very opinionated.<br />
6. When I was a nurse, I could never see a person die without someone holding their hand.. In the early hours of the morning and when no relatives were present, that person was always me. I stopped counting after the 60th death, as I considered counting as being morbid.<br />
7. During my late teenage years, I moved 11 times in 12 months, I was homeless and slept anywhere.<br />
8. I did the above because of a very abusive mother.<br />
9. When I was 16, I woke up one morning to find my boyfriend dead besides me, he had overdosed on heroine. I never knew he was into drugs. I have never touched any and I have a zero tolerance for users.<br />
10. I’m a proud Mom of two amazing children.<br />
11. I named my son after my football teams ground.<br />
12. My daughter’s name comes from a band.<br />
13. One of my maternal descendants was hung in the 1700’s for stealing from a church.<br />
14. I collect books, mostly on psychology, human behaviour and other odds n sods.<br />
15. One of my good friends at school, Marcus, called me one night, in order for me to visit him; I got distracted and never went to his place. The very same night he killed himself, I will always blame myself for that.<br />
16. I love to study.<br />
17. I have two cats; one is 15 years old and has been with me since before I was married, before my divorce and before my children were born. She is old and raggy but I love her.<br />
18. I live in the middle of nowhere with views of 100 miles on a clear day, this is my little piece of heaven.<br />
19. My ex husband announced to me he wanted a divorce on Christmas Day a few years ago.<br />
20. I rarely watch TV, if there is something that takes my interest, I will download the whole season.<br />
21. I believe in love though I am not sure it believes in me.<br />
22. At 22 I was jilted on my wedding day.<br />
23. I love history, especially Scottish History.<br />
24. The next house project I will undertake is when my two children fly the nest and I will convert a church and build a huge library in it with leather sofas and log fires that will then be my final home.<br />
25. It annoys me when people fail to walk the talk.<br />
26. I have always been bi-sexual though I am becoming more and more drawn to females, basically because of my lack of trust in men.<br />
27. I find it hard to trust.<br />
28. I am very independent.<br />
29. My goals are high and I will achieve them<br />
30. The best paper I have written was based on the long term effects of cocaine on the brain and the links with early onset dementia and Alzheimer’s.<br />
31. I am a huge fan of Paul Ekman<br />
32. When I am low, I place all of my energy into school work and shut out the outside world.<br />
33. I have been driving for 20 years.<br />
34. I used to be a very competitive swimmer.<br />
35. It’s rare for me to wear makeup.<br />
36. I generally have bed hair.<br />
37. On my external hard drive I have around 65,000 tunes.<br />
38. I prefer to sleep in pitch darkness.<br />
39. Pink Floyd is my favourite band.<br />
40. I was introduced to country music about 5 years ago and love it.<br />
41. My music tastes vary from one extreme to the next.<br />
42. I drive a Land rover.<br />
43. It’s rare for me to wear jewellery.<br />
44. I am kick ass at scrabble.<br />
45. I believe in reincarnation and I have been regressed.<br />
46. I have had several out of body experiences.<br />
47. I find decorating and gardening therapeutic, though don’t have much time to do either.<br />
48. I am fully licensed to run any establishment which serves alcohol.<br />
49. When I die, I want to be buried so I can feed all the bugs and insects and give Mother Nature something back.<br />
50. I am covered in freckles.<br />
51. I have not seen my sister for approx 20 years.<br />
52. I wish I could dance salsa<br />
53. One day I intend to build a studio on my field and take up photography as a hobby.<br />
54. My desk is generally a mess.<br />
55. I love candy canes.<br />
56. I hate mushrooms and fish.<br />
57. I drink less alcohol at this point in my life than at any other stage.<br />
58. I always sleep naked as I feel that wearing anything to bed is claustrophobic.<br />
59. I fell out with my father several years ago, and it still makes me cry, I miss him so much.<br />
60. Several of my really close friends I have met via being on-line. They are now my family.<br />
61. I have flown from the UK to the USA to meet someone I fell in love with on-line.<br />
62. Sometimes I don’t make sense to others and often I confuse myself.<br />
63. I recently had an fMRI scan and I am waiting for the results yet scared to death about what my consultant will say.<br />
64. I love long walks, anywhere, just walking. The beach or hills or countryside or in a town.<br />
65. My son is now 6ft 1 at 14 years old and yet such a gentle giant with a massive heart and treats the girls with so much respect.<br />
66. I have about 4 years until I qualify in all the areas I am studying in.<br />
67. My Favourite book is called Mutant Messages Down Under.<br />
68. My favourite film is Green Mile though I refuse to watch it as it makes me cry too much.<br />
69. The children and I are all Harry Potter fans.<br />
70. I believe that Bush was involved in 9/11 and we have all been fed bullshit and a huge cover up story.<br />
71. When I was a child, I spoke to ghosts on frequent occasions.<br />
72. I am agnostic.<br />
73. I play Sudoku every night in bed before going to sleep.<br />
74. I took my son to his first concert this year, to see Snow Patrol.<br />
75. I left home at 15 years old and never went back.<br />
76. My parents never once took us on a vacation.<br />
77. I have since travelled a lot of the world.<br />
78. I recently sold my Mercedes, which I had for many years and was sad to see her go.<br />
79. I adore Christmas time, I love buying gifts and spoiling the people I love.<br />
80. I have no time for horror films; I prefer watching something with an actual story to the plot.<br />
81. My youngest cat is a serial killer who catches mice on a regular basis, some I have to save, some I pick up various body parts left behind.<br />
82. My daughter is a bigger air head than I am.<br />
83. Fancy dress parties give me a reason to go mad, I love them.<br />
84. The first person I had sex with was a female.<br />
85. I drink coffee in the morning and tea in the afternoon.<br />
86. I don’t accept ‘you can’t do...’ as an answer, tell me I can’t do it and bet your bottom dollar I will try it.<br />
87. All of my tutors and professors said I would be excellent if I studied Law.<br />
88. Both of my children want to go into medicine when they get older.<br />
89. After training in Neuro Linguistic Programming, I retired as a counsellor.<br />
90. I adore snuggling on the sofa.<br />
91. I believe that a kiss can say so much.<br />
92. If I let go, it means I have nothing left to give, it means all of my resources are exhausted.<br />
93. I believe that some people should never be parents and don’t deserve the right to call themselves a mom or dad.<br />
94. I wish I could take in orphans at Christmas.<br />
95. I am never good enough in my own eyes, I always want to do better.<br />
96. I often stand outside, even on freezing nights and look at the stars and get lost in the awe of the Universe and all of its beauty.<br />
97. Animals and insects don’t scare me, people do.<br />
98. I really enjoy the sound of silence.<br />
99. I frequently jump on the trampoline with the children.<br />
100. I believe I am still a kid. </div>Kathleen Badehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09511937166340041010noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-65599380526084812.post-15257765497130321332007-11-28T18:55:00.000-08:002011-11-29T19:59:21.097-08:00Suzanne's list of 100A collection of lists. Take the challenge. 100 things about yourself. Streaming flow of consciousness, as personal or as general as you care to make it...but make it count. You might learn something about yourself and I promise it's better than 20 questions!<br />
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<div style="margin-left: 0.5in;">1. I’m doing this because my best friend is a pain in the ass and feels the world needs to know more about my boring self.<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-left: 0.5in;">2. My best friend is seldom correct.<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-left: 0.5in;">3.Very few people know the real me.<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-left: 0.5in;">4. I’ve been hanging out online for 7 years.<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-left: 0.5in;">5. People tell me I come across as cold.<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-left: 0.5in;">6. I tell them it helps me to weed out the people I don’t need around me.<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-left: 0.5in;">7. I test people for a long time before I’ll let them get close to me.<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-left: 0.5in;">8. To date there are only a handful of people who I consider to be my friends.<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-left: 0.5in;">9. I married my “high school sweetheart.”<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-left: 0.5in;">10. I married him to get out of an abusive home, I’m not in love with him.<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-left: 0.5in;">11. I was accepted into 5 well known Colleges/Universities.<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-left: 0.5in;">12. I burned the acceptance letters so my dad wouldn’t find them.<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-left: 0.5in;">13. The sixth one arrived when I wasn’t home. My dad got to that one.<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-left: 0.5in;">14. I ended up at <st1:place><st1:placename>Old</st1:placename> <st1:placename>Dominion</st1:placename> <st1:placetype>University</st1:placetype></st1:place>.<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-left: 0.5in;">15. I dropped out after a few months but didn’t tell my dad.<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-left: 0.5in;">16. I almost died from a blood clot in my leg and ended up in the hospital.<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-left: 0.5in;">17. This was when I broke the news to dad. (He can’t kill me in the hospital, right?)<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-left: 0.5in;">18. I wrecked my dad’s truck twice in a week when I was 18.<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-left: 0.5in;">19. One of the times I hit a parked car.<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-left: 0.5in;">20. I learned not to try and drive while attempting to pick up the lit cigarette I had dropped on the floor.<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-left: 0.5in;">21. Greg is my bitch.<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-left: 0.5in;">22. I don’t really like the beach.<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-left: 0.5in;">23. When I was 14 a dead body washed up on the beach right next to me. <o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-left: 0.5in;">24. Now I’ll only go to the beach where the water is clear.<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-left: 0.5in;">25. Mice will make me scream like a girl and jump up on the furniture. <o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-left: 0.5in;">26. I’ve had 23 operations since I was 18.<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-left: 0.5in;">27. No, I didn’t have a sex change. <o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-left: 0.5in;">28. I’m extremely self conscious.<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-left: 0.5in;">29. I’m very unsympathetic at times.<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-left: 0.5in;">30. I can’t deal with people who whine about their lives.<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-left: 0.5in;">31. I’m blunt.<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-left: 0.5in;">32. I’ll be the first person to tell you to shut up, get off your lazy ass and change your life instead of crying about it.<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-left: 0.5in;">33. I’m often quick to judge people.<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-left: 0.5in;">34. But normally I’m right about them from the start.<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-left: 0.5in;">35. I’m opinionated, to a fault.<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-left: 0.5in;">36. I like things my way and I hate not getting my way.<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-left: 0.5in;">37. Those who know me will tell you that I’m not the callous bitch I seem to be.<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-left: 0.5in;">38. I have learned to put up walls to protect myself.<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-left: 0.5in;">39. I rarely let them down because I get hurt too easily.<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-left: 0.5in;">40. I was always the good girl growing up.<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-left: 0.5in;">41. This made it easier to get away with stuff once I was a teenager.<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-left: 0.5in;">42. I told my dad I was going to wait in line all night to buy concert tickets. Instead I spent the night in a hotel with my boyfriend.<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-left: 0.5in;">43. I’ve had 2 real life best friends in my life.<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-left: 0.5in;">44. The first I met when I was 10.<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-left: 0.5in;">45. We lived next door and were always together for 7 years.<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-left: 0.5in;">45. She was in a car accident over the summer while I was out of town.<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-left: 0.5in;">46. I drove 10 hours to get back home. In tears the entire way<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-left: 0.5in;">47. She died 5 minutes after I got to the hospital. At least I got to say good-bye. She was 16.<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-left: 0.5in;">48. My other best friend died suddenly from cancer at age 30. She was 5 months pregnant.<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-left: 0.5in;">49. I blame myself for her death.<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-left: 0.5in;">50. I feel that I should have seen the signs that she was sick and done something to help her.<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-left: 0.5in;">52. When I’m depressed or upset I clean.<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-left: 0.5in;">53. I’ve won 3 writing awards and been published.<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-left: 0.5in;">54. I really hate talking about myself.<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-left: 0.5in;">55. I have 2 boys. <o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-left: 0.5in;">56. I named my oldest son after the guy I had a crush on all through high school but my husband doesn’t know this.<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-left: 0.5in;">57. Fine, I’m a freak!<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-left: 0.5in;">58. I hate slasher flicks but love rotten.com<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-left: 0.5in;">59. I love classic movies.<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-left: 0.5in;">60. I collect Marilyn Monroe memorabilia.<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-left: 0.5in;">61. I’m a hair band junkie.<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-left: 0.5in;">62. In the last year or so I’ve seen Poison twice, Cinderella, Skid Row, Motley Crue,, Ratt and Veins of Jenna.<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-left: 0.5in;">63. Mel Brooks is my idol.<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-left: 0.5in;">64. I’m addicted to Hell’s Kitchen and Supernanny.<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-left: 0.5in;">65. OK, and I love Trading Spaces and Flip this House.<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-left: 0.5in;">66. My favorite color is green.<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-left: 0.5in;">67. I find the Amish fascinating.<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-left: 0.5in;">67. Most of the books I read are about their life and customs.<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-left: 0.5in;">68. I love art.<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-left: 0.5in;">69. Dali and Van Gogh are my favorites. And Munch and…..ok, I could keep going but I won’t.<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-left: 0.5in;">70. I used to teach art classes at the local museum.<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-left: 0.5in;">71. My parents sent me to <st1:country-region><st1:place>Germany</st1:place></st1:country-region>, <st1:country-region><st1:place>Austria</st1:place></st1:country-region> and <st1:country-region><st1:place>Switzerland</st1:place></st1:country-region> when I was 15.<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-left: 0.5in;">72. I’m addicted to Diet Dr. Pepper.<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-left: 0.5in;">73. I smoke…Marlboro light 100 menthols<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-left: 0.5in;">74. I have a yellow lab named Daisy.<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-left: 0.5in;">75. I lost my grandfather last September.<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-left: 0.5in;">76. I regret being talked out of naming my youngest son after him.<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-left: 0.5in;">77. I was involved in an online relationship for 2 years.<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-left: 0.5in;">78. I’m really not passionate about politics.<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-left: 0.5in;">79. But I’m extremely vocal about my views on abortion.<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-left: 0.5in;">80. I’m a member of a few right to life societies.<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-left: 0.5in;">81. I love to people watch and laugh.<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-left: 0.5in;">82. I spend way too much time online.<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-left: 0.5in;">83. I’m a smart ass. (like you didn’t already know that but I’m trying hard to come up with shit here.)<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-left: 0.5in;">84. My favorite words are fabulous and fuck.<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-left: 0.5in;">85. I’m a very strict parent.<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-left: 0.5in;">86. I don’t allow myself room for error.<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-left: 0.5in;">87. I’m hard on myself all the time.<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-left: 0.5in;">88. It’s hard for me to not let that influence the expectations I have for my kids.<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-left: 0.5in;">89. I love to cook<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-left: 0.5in;">89. I have one tattoo tight now. It’s tribal art, 13 inches long down my spine.<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-left: 0.5in;">90. Growing up I spent most of my days with my grandmother on her farm.<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-left: 0.5in;">91. She taught me to bake bread when I was 5. And I learned the facts of life by watching cows hump while we sat on her porch.<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-left: 0.5in;">92. I’m allergic to narcotics. Makes it hard to be a drug addict.<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-left: 0.5in;">93. I can’t tolerate men who allow me to be in control.<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-left: 0.5in;">94. I’ve studied many different religions and decided I’m agnostic.<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-left: 0.5in;">95. People with no common sense annoy me.<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-left: 0.5in;">96. Actually, most people annoy me.<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-left: 0.5in;">97. Greg annoys me, but I love him.<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-left: 0.5in;">98. I’m a pessimist, even my blood type is negative.<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-left: 0.5in;">99. I’m in love, but I’m afraid it won’t last.<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-left: 0.5in;">100. I tend to ruin relationships on purpose. It keeps people from getting too close.<o:p></o:p></div>Kathleen Badehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09511937166340041010noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-65599380526084812.post-70009406674340836682007-11-27T07:08:00.000-08:002011-11-29T20:35:25.386-08:00One Hundred Things .... CherieA collection of lists. Take the challenge. 100 things about yourself. 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1. I used to drink Pepsi until I found I was addicted to it and when I stopped drinking it I went through horrible withdrawal symptoms...nausea….the shakes…headache… it was terrible.<br />
2. I love the darkest chocolate you can find my favorite two candy's are dark chocolate covered espresso beans rolled in dark cocoa and dark chocolate truffles rolled in dark cocoa.<br />
3. I can’t get through the day without coffee…lot’s of it strong and black with a little cold water or ice to cool it down.<br />
4. The more nervous I am the more I smile.<br />
5. My favorite sport is golf and I really am bad at playing… so bad that they won’t let me on the golf course during certain hours or days so I go to the driving range at least a couple times a week… I never get any better.<br />
6. I am an enthusiastic fan, the kind that jumps and shouts and boo’s, I love watching my favorite teams play.<br />
7. My favorite football teams are the 49er’s and the Raiders but if I have to choose I choose the 49er’s.<br />
8. If I get an idea for writing while talking on the cell phone and driving… I will talk, write and drive all at one time because if I don’t write it down immediately I lose the thought within seconds.<br />
9. I like buttermilk.<br />
10. When my first marriage ended I felt I had disappeared and become invisible… literally like I didn’t exist any more.<br />
11. I’ve been told I’m a great kisser.<br />
12. I’m a terrible singer so bad that the woman who is my mom’s best friend and my business partner puts tissues in her ears at church and my daughter asks me to not sing around her or but I love to sing and it’s why I go to church, the one place they won’t ask me to stop.<br />
13. I want to live on a houseboat.<br />
14. I’ve been divorced…twice I’ve lived with one other man for a couple of years but wasn’t married to him.<br />
15. I haven’t eaten meat, foul or poultry for about 10 years but I do eat fish and seafood.<br />
16. I have 2 grown children a son and a daughter and 3 grandchildren two boys and a girl.<br />
17. I collect pink flamingo’s, chenille bedspreads, bumble bees and bee hive honey pots.<br />
18. My second husband kissed me goodbye one morning a few days after my father died then walked out of my life forever without a word after 16 years of marriage… I never heard from him or saw him again until last summer when I got divorce papers in the mail.<br />
19. It made me change and was the greatest gift he ever gave me and I know it was the only way he could do it so I forgave him.<br />
20. I learned to love again.<br />
21. I learned to trust again.<br />
22. I love to hold hands… with women, men, children… it’s the feeling of connection.<br />
23. If I love someone, friends, family, anyone… I tell them every time I talk to them, you never know who needs to hear it or if you’ll ever get another chance.<br />
24. My first husband beat me and put me in the hospital several times and I always lied to everyone about it because I was ashamed and thought it was my fault.<br />
25. When they took me to him on a stretcher to press charges against him the last time he put me in the hospital I almost didn’t do it.<br />
26. If I love you, I’ll love you always…yes even him…I’m like that I see the good over the bad in most people.<br />
27. My friend who lives 2000 miles from me I spend more time talking with than the one who lives thirty miles away.<br />
28. I won’t be controlled or try to control another ever again.<br />
29. I love hoop earrings.<br />
30. I spend way too much time on the phone.<br />
31. I believe in God.<br />
32. I have a hard time asking for what I need or want from a relationship even the simple things like a phone call.<br />
33. I’m selfish that I take care of homeless people on the street not for them but for me because it makes me feel like I have a purpose.<br />
34. I don’t have a quick temper but watch out once I get to that point.<br />
35. I was a truck driver for a very short time…yes the big rigs.<br />
36. I got married at 16 the first time it lasted 11 years.<br />
37. I want to be married again someday.<br />
38. None of my windows have curtains or any type of covering.<br />
39. Mashed potatoes are my favorite food followed by macaroni and cheese then broiled Salmon.<br />
40. I only like real butter.<br />
41. I’m a Pisces<br />
42. I’ve never been given diamonds, candy, jewelry or any of the other “traditional” romantic gifts from the men in my life and I didn’t care but I’ve always wanted to be loved by someone who knew I would love to have gifts that showed he really knew me nothing expensive but that book I want to read or the cd I won’t buy myself…the little things.<br />
43. My greatest achievement is shown through my daughter’s life.<br />
44. I saw Jimmy Hendrix in concert when I was 15 on my very first real date.<br />
45. I hate wearing thong panties.<br />
46. I love pretty bra’s but it’s hard to find them in my size.<br />
47. I have several times in my life gone for 45 days without eating a bite of food.<br />
48. I’m photogenic…I look better in my pictures than in person.<br />
49. I’ve lived in my home for 7 months and I’m still not unpacked, because I think as soon as I make it my “home” I will have to leave it.<br />
50. I have an amazing resume, experience and education so at one time I made a six-figure income when that was a lot for a woman but I quit so I could follow my dreams.<br />
51. Today I make less than poverty level of income and I’m happier than I ever was with more money.<br />
52. I’m very interested in a man I’ve never met in person and I’m afraid to meet him because deep down I believe I’m not good enough or pretty enough for him...but I’m working on that.<br />
53. I’m normally extremely self confident in person and if I’m not you will never know it.<br />
54. I’ve stood in front of 1000 people and given presentations, training and motivational talks and nobody ever knew I had severe stage fright, crying and scared, just minutes before I stood in front of them.<br />
55. I’ve designed furniture that sold for thousands of dollars and decided that I won’t design for paying clients any longer, but only for those I “feel” who they are… the other way sucked my soul dry.<br />
56. I struggle with my weight constantly and I usually lose the battle…because I’m in denial and don’t see myself as heavy as the bathroom scale or the mirrors say I am and… I like food.<br />
57. I love taking photos of people especially from behind or when they are unaware or of children.<br />
58. The sound of the trains that run right next to my home are soothing to me.<br />
59. I don’t hear the trains or their whistles when I’m sleeping but I do hear if one of my grandchildren makes a peep when I’m sleeping.<br />
60. My dream trip is to Italy.<br />
61. When I finish writing something good I always feel I will never be able to write again and it always scares me.<br />
62. I LOVE my life.<br />
63. I like to touch and be touched.<br />
64. I haven’t been kissed romantically in over 4 years.<br />
65. Or had sex in over four years.<br />
66. I miss both but especially the kissing part.<br />
67. I love blue jeans the older the better.<br />
68. I love wearing boots.<br />
69. I have a vintage pair of converse high tops that are hot pink that I wear almost every day.<br />
70. I act and feel much younger than fifty.<br />
71. I hate change, I want things to stay the same until they change then I realize it’s better.<br />
72. Writing is my biggest passion but I don’t think I am very good at it.<br />
73. I wear Cool Water Woman perfume.<br />
74. I like flannel pj’s.<br />
75. I love the feeling of showering with someone I love…the soap and slippery water is incredibly sexy to me.<br />
76. Needles, blood and people clipping toenails make me feel faint.<br />
77. I make a killer lemon pie.<br />
78. I put 200,000 miles in 7 years on my car driving once a month back and forth to Oklahoma from California because I was afraid of flying but I got over it a month before my daughter came home for good.<br />
79. I signed the papers to have my tubes tied before I had my daughter and the doctor forgot to do it while he was doing the c-section and didn’t tell me….until I miscarried the resulting baby because I drank too much went horseback riding and fell off not even knowing I was pregnant.<br />
80. I was angry for years at myself for that but I quit drinking and finally quit hating myself for it.<br />
81. I hate to shop.<br />
82. I love to trout fish in mountain streams and rivers.<br />
83. I have a pierced belly button.<br />
84. On the inside of my left ankle I have a tattoo of a dove with an olive branch to symbolize the peace I prayed for when the army sent my daughter to the DMZ in Korea.<br />
85. My favorite vacation spot is at Pismo Beach riding the quads on the dunes.<br />
86. I’m a lousy hostess it makes me uncomfortable to have people in my home.<br />
87. I am good at math….I can do it in my head faster than most can do on a calculator.<br />
88. I’m allergic to many perfumes and colognes they give me migraine headaches.<br />
89. I love sushi, blue cheese, raw oysters and escargots.<br />
90. I have probably only had the television on 7 times since I’ve lived here and most were for my grandkids to watch movies.<br />
91. The first memory of what I wanted to be never changed…I always wanted nothing more than to be a loved wife and have the kind of marriage where you met him at the door with a kiss at the end of the day and read the paper together in bed while having coffee on Sunday mornings.<br />
92. I never was.<br />
93. My favorite movies are One Night With The King…Murphy’s Romance and Beauty and the Beast.<br />
94. I’ve seen every episode of Gilmore Girls at least 5 times some of them many more and my favorite line is from the last one where Luke puts a big party together for Lorilei and Rory and at the end she tells him thank you and he says it was nothing, she says Luke and he says……”I just like seeing you happy”…I would love to be loved like that.<br />
95. I love romance (yes I know big surprise there but I’m running out of things to put on here).<br />
96. Teens are my favorite age of kids.<br />
97. I have trouble sitting through an entire movie quietly.<br />
98. I can write you a killer resume and cover letter that will get you the interview.<br />
99. The name of my business was Serendipity Dreams ..I specialized in bedroom accessories and design.<br />
100. I had fun doing this hundred things about me.<br />
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<li><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 100%;">I am an only child</span> </li>
<li><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 100%;">My son is the only child of an only child of an only child</span> </li>
<li><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 100%;">I went to 8 different schools from K thru 12</span> </li>
<li><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 100%;">I’ve lived in 5 different states</span> </li>
<li><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 100%;">I started college in 1974 at the University of Florida, left there in 1977, started school again in 1999 and finished with my MBA in 2004 </span> </li>
<li><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 100%;">My GPA for my Bachelors is 3.84</span> </li>
<li><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 100%;">I don’t think you need any degree to be smart or successful</span> </li>
<li><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 100%;">I think there are a lot idiots with degrees</span> </li>
<li><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 100%;">I used to think hard work would make you successful</span> </li>
<li><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 100%;">I realize I’m not going to make it with hard word & this personality, so far so good with experience & a graduate degree</span> </li>
<li><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 100%;">I’ve been drafting since I was 12 </span> </li>
<li><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 100%;">My personality quadrant is on the exact opposite quadrant of most CEOs I know</span> </li>
<li><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 100%;">I’m good but not great at most sports, except volley ball, I’m very good at that, sand & indoor</span> </li>
<li><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 100%;">I prefer college football over pro</span> </li>
<li><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 100%;">I have been a Red Sox fan since I was 4</span> </li>
<li><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 100%;">All the major sport teams I root for have won championships in my lifetime</span> </li>
<li><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 100%;">I have been swimming since I was 3, I’m just as comfortable in water as land</span> </li>
<li><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 100%;">I love sex in the water, preferably the ocean</span> </li>
<li><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 100%;">I like different positions, but prefer sex in bed</span> </li>
<li><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 100%;">I sleep with 3 regular pillows and one body pillow</span> </li>
<li><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 100%;">I once made love to a woman 7 times in one night</span> </li>
<li><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 100%;">I’ve slept with a married woman who I wasn’t married to</span> </li>
<li><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 100%;">I prefer giving oral sex to a woman than receiving it</span> </li>
<li><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 100%;">I believe in love at 1<sup>st</sup> site</span> </li>
<li><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 100%;">I prefer long term relationships</span> </li>
<li><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 100%;">I once picked up a woman in a laundry room</span> </li>
<li><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 100%;">I don’t understand BDSM</span> </li>
<li><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 100%;">I haven’t cybered in years</span> </li>
<li><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 100%;">I’ve had phone sex</span> </li>
<li><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 100%;">I’ve met people from on line</span> </li>
<li><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 100%;">I’ve fallen in love online</span> </li>
<li><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 100%;">I have a few close, great friends here</span> </li>
<li><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 100%;">I prefer to talk to women on line, I work in construction, plenty of guys to talk to there</span> </li>
<li><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 100%;">I am a beer snob</span> </li>
<li><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 100%;">I like single malt scotch & Irish Whiskeys</span> </li>
<li><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 100%;">I love to cook</span> </li>
<li><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 100%;">My ancestors were Scots, Irish, Swedish & Norwegian</span> </li>
<li><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 100%;">I wish I were Italian at times</span> </li>
<li><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 100%;">My 1<sup>st</sup> concert was Bobby Womack & Santana</span> </li>
<li><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 100%;">I prefer the blues and jazz quartets & quintets from the 50s & 60s</span> </li>
<li><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 100%;">I can’t dance to save my life, but am willing to try</span> </li>
<li><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 100%;">I wear the same basic clothes out now as I did in high school, white button down shirt, jeans or khakis and sneakers. Add a brown corduroy jacket when it gets cold</span> </li>
<li><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 100%;">I wear boxer briefs</span> </li>
<li><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 100%;">I’ve taken most recreational drugs except heroin & crack</span> </li>
<li><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 100%;">I used to be a casual acquaintance of Jimmy Buffet when he 1<sup>st</sup> came out, got his band laid at U of Fla, been on his bus & into his sound checks. He dedicated “God’s Own Drunk” to my friends & I</span> </li>
<li><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 100%;">I don’t believe in God or heaven or hell</span> </li>
<li><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 100%;">I don’t like or trust organized religions</span> </li>
<li><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 100%;">I prefer Eastern philosophies, mainly Taoism</span> </li>
<li><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 100%;">I love long walks in woods</span> </li>
<li><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 100%;">I like riding bicycles</span> </li>
<li><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 100%;">I love pillow talk</span> </li>
<li><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 100%;">I like having champagne, a joint & finger foods on the night stand for pillow talk</span> </li>
<li><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 100%;">I love playing with a woman’s body</span> </li>
<li><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 100%;">I love kissing</span> </li>
<li><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 100%;">I love building up my friends and making them feel good, though it may sound like a line of shit at times</span> </li>
<li><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 100%;">I’ve been in trouble with women who I consider close friends, but they wanted more & I just didn’t see them that way</span> </li>
<li><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 100%;">I’ve always needed women as friends</span> </li>
<li><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 100%;">My best friend from high school is still my best friend</span> </li>
<li><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 100%;">I’ve never had an STD</span> </li>
<li><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 100%;">I’ve never had a broken bone</span> </li>
<li><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 100%;">I still have my tonsils </span> </li>
<li><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 100%;">I prefer sitting in front of a computer rather than in front of tv</span> </li>
<li><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 100%;">I read mostly dead authors</span> </li>
<li><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 100%;">When I moved, we brought over 18 boxes of books, we sold 15 before we moved</span> </li>
<li><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 100%;">I have over 400 CDs</span> </li>
<li><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 100%;">My favorite veggie is broccoli</span> </li>
<li><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 100%;">I could easily become a vegetarian, but I do appreciate a good steak</span> </li>
<li><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 100%;">I drink 3 cups of coffee a day, with light milk</span> </li>
<li><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 100%;">I eat shredded wheat with fruit for breakfast every week day</span> </li>
<li><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 100%;">I can eat garlic by the spoonful</span> </li>
<li><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 100%;">Prefer spices to bland, love hot stuff</span> </li>
<li><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 100%;">I don’t drink soft drinks</span> </li>
<li><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 100%;">I love art museums</span> </li>
<li><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 100%;">NASCAR & golf bores me</span> </li>
<li><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 100%;">Photography frustrates me, I finally have a good camera, but not the patience for it</span> </li>
<li><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 100%;">I miss my grand parents (father’s side)</span> </li>
<li><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 100%;">My parent’s divorce still bothers me after over 35 years</span> </li>
<li><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 100%;">I love my friends, but need my time alone</span> </li>
<li><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 100%;">I’ve been to Europe twice</span> </li>
<li><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 100%;">I’m happy with my age</span> </li>
<li><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 100%;">I don’t care that I’m bald</span> </li>
<li><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 100%;">I’ll never probably be under 200# again </span> </li>
<li><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 100%;">I have hazel eyes</span> </li>
<li><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 100%;">I’ve worn Lagerfeld cologne for over 25 years</span> </li>
<li><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 100%;">I prefer my hair longer but I do have a job…….</span> </li>
<li><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 100%;">I had mutton chop side burns & my hair half way down my back in high school</span> </li>
<li><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 100%;">I had a beard for 20 years</span> </li>
<li><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 100%;">I miss romance in my life</span> </li>
<li><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 100%;">I never voted for a Bush</span> </li>
<li><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 100%;">I’ve been a Republican since 1976 & I’m ashamed of my party</span> </li>
<li><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 100%;">I would move to Canada if they tried to make my son go to war</span> </li>
<li><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 100%;">I hate macho assholes who think we should keep killing because we already are</span> </li>
<li><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 100%;">I don’t think the Democrats are much better</span> </li>
<li><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 100%;">I like porn</span> </li>
<li><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 100%;">I don’t wear sandals</span> </li>
<li><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 100%;">I need to start working out again</span> </li>
<li><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 100%;">I love women in sun dresses</span> </li>
<li><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 100%;">I love spooning</span></li>
</ol><div><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 100%;">I think I’m in love……….again</span></div></div></dd></div>Kathleen Badehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09511937166340041010noreply@blogger.com1