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100 Things

1. I’m an internet junky.
2. Every guy I’ve dated since I graduated high school is someone I’ve met online.
3. When I was in 4th grade, I was very, very upset when I didn’t get to go to the advanced smart kid classes once a week.
4. My husband has never seen my natural haircolor, unless you count my eyebrows.
5. Some of my earliest memories are of watching my grandfather sketch spaceships, cowboys, and aliens on the Formica kitchen table.
6. Due to a fear of public speaking, in 5th grade I deliberately mispelled “kitchen” to avoid being in the school spelling bee.
7. I love mushrooms, which is weird because I never liked them until I was 22.
8. I read about 5 books each week, mostly bad romances disguised as mysteries.
9. I once got into a very heated argument with an uncle over whether we were going to watch Mr. Rogers or Star Trek.
10. I hated coffee until Eddie made me try a latte. Now I can put a good dent in a pot if I’m not going anywhere.
11. We currently have 1 ferret and 1 cat.
12. I am a slob.
13. I am also a procrastinator.
14. This means that I will never, ever clean the house when I say that I will.
15. I’ve been dealing with trichotillomania since I was 11.
16. If I don’t keep my hands “busy” I’ll have a bald spot in a week.
17. I’ve been dealing with depression since I was 21
18. I once took part in a drug testing program – I was paid to tell the doctors about how fucked up my dreams got on the new drug.
19. When I stopped taking the drug, I threw up for 4 days straight and lost 15lbs.
20. I have an addictive personality.
21. I lost my virginity in room 113 of Weldon Hall at URI when I was 18, 3 days after I moved into the dorm for my freshman year of college. The Beastie Boys License to Ill CD was playing at the time.
22. I love to take hot showers until the water gets cold.
23. I love porn of all kinds – straight, gay, lesbian, video, written, you name it.
24. On 2 occasions, I’ve been so drunk I’ve blacked out.
25. On one of those occasions, I had sex with Eddie and forgot about it.
26. Both times, I was very sick the next day.
27. I love horror and cheesey teen movies.
28. I cry at the drop of a hat. You know those people that cry at long distance commercials? Yeah, that’s me.
29. My first real kiss was behind the mailboxes when I was 14. I was so nervous I promptly ran inside had to pee.
30. My younger sister and I couldn’t be civil to each other until she was about 12 and I was 20.
31. I hate using the phone.
32. I hate any being involved with any sort of conflict, and will do everything possible to avoid a fight, even if it means agreeing to something I don’t agree with.
33. I hate most reality TV, with the exception of Survivor.
34. I think we need more sitcoms on TV.
35. I am a Law & Order fiend, although I’m not sure if I will like the newest spinoff.
36. I could sit and watch CSI all day if I had to.
37. I watched Dirty Dancing every Saturday night for an entire summer.
38. Amazingly enough, I can still enjoy watching the movie.
39. I once memorized Arlo Guthrie’s Alice’s Restaurant Massacre. All of it.
40. I love a good argument, especially if it’s on the internet.
41. I especially like starting a good argument.
42. I don’t remember a time when I ever wanted children. Thankfully, my family supports my decision not to breed.
43. I got my wedding dress – an actual wedding gown, veil, etc – the night before my wedding.
44. I will frequently get an idea in my head, obsess about it for a week or two, and then forget about it.
45. I’ve been fired for something I posted on my website.
46. I still sleep with a stuffed animal.
47. I’ve read Stephen King’s It nearly every year since I was 12.
48. I will probably end up being one of those women you see on Animal Police, with 25 cats in a 3rd floor apartment.
49. I don’t like most vegetables – peas, corn, lima beans, and raw spinach are really the only ones I actually like to eat.
50. I have a small collection of gorilla stuffed animals, and an army of sock monkeys that I’ve made
51. Most people in my family know my favorite animal is the turtle, but my mother buys my gorillas just to annoy me.
52. I pee in the shower.
53. But not when Eddie is in there with me.
54. I don’t like being watched while I go to the bathroom.
55. I love little toys that blink and make noises.
56. I’ve considered myself pagan since my early 20’s, even though my boyfriend at the time told me it was sinful to believe that way.
57. You could call me a solitary eclectic wiccan, if you need to pin a label on me.
58. I love my little cell phone.
59. Sometimes I get all emo. Eddie deals with it in stride.
60. I am, without a doubt, a child of the 80’s.
61. I loves me some Taco Bell.
62. I love fruit and fruit juice.
63. If left alone with a gallon of OJ, it will be gone within a day.
64. I have no tolerance for stupid people.
65. Part of me regrets not finishing college, but another part firmly believes that if I had finished I would never have met Eddie.
66. I hate people who try to make their kids’ names unique by adding letters or using creative spellings.
67. I will listen to any kid of music that’s on at the time, as long as it’s got a catchy beat to it.
68. I love to buy purses, makeup, and shoes.
69. I have two very quirky phrases tattooed on me. In Latin.
70. I love to cook.
71. I rarely do so.
72. I firmly believe that if you move to another country where the national language is not your own, you should make an effort to speak it.
73. I live in my mother’s basement.
74. I love to sleep late.
75. It’s not very politically correct of me, but I refuse to learn another language because a person can’t be bothered to speak English in an English-speaking country.
76. I can speak and read a lot of French and some Spanish, and took some Japanese in college.
77. If I ever visit any of these countries, I’ll make an effort to use their language.
78. I hate crickets.
79. I once killed a kitten to put it out of its misery.
80. I hit a sparrow once with my car. I’ve also hit an owl, a rat, and a cat. I nearly hit a fox once.
81. Every Easter I vow to stock up on Cabury Cream Eggs, but almost every year forget about it (one year I bought 150 of them on clearance though!).
82. I love driving alone.
83. When I’m put on the spot I tend to get very flustered, very easily.
84. I love to sing.
85. I also love to dance.
86. I do both very badly.
87. I love White Cheddar Cheese-its
88. As of this very second, Pickle is digging all of her food out of her bowl in a misguided attempt to reach the prize at the bottom.
89. I’m afraid of dying alone and unloved.
90. Someday I’ll be a healthy weight.
91. I think if I tell myself that eventually it will come true.
92. I have issues.
93. I’m very unladylike.
94. This embarasses my husband.
95. I’m not very fond of children.
96. It’s probably a good thing that I’m childfree, otherwise I’d probably kill the kid(s).
97. I rarely finish projects that I start.
98. I hardly ever wear underwear.
99. But I got married wearing black panties that said “I Dorks” on the front.
100. My sister (of all people) is responsible for getting me and my father on speaking terms after 3 years.