Memoir

In no particular order:

1. I am a candy addict. I will pretty much eat any sugar you give me
2. I am not afraid to cut my own bangs on a whim, but they always come out terrible because I hate having bangs
3. I am almost always cold. In the winter my hobbies include sitting in front of a space heater and roasting myself in ridiculous heat
4. I love to take baths
5. I have big feet (size 9) for being only 5′6″
6. I play several instruments, including but not limited to: piano, guitar, banjo, recorder, kazoo
7. I sing every day
8. I tire of spaghetti sauce quickly and Sean usually has to plead with me to make pasta
9. I rarely finish an entire can of soda in one sitting
10. I love to go skinny dipping
11. I carry a camera everywhere
12. I feed oranges to my fish for extra calcium
13. I don’t bite my fingernails
14. I will eat barbecue sauce on anything
15. I had severe Lyme Disease in college
16. I type fast
17. I can belch the alphabet
18. I taught a sign language class in high school
19. I like to read
20. I will always do karaoke
21. I love Vermont and Raffi the children’s singer
22. I like watching Dirty Jobs
23. Sean says I’m a swell looker
24. I love cats, especially stray cats
25. I listen to folk music
26. I don’t know how to downhill ski and have never tried it
27. I like to ice skate
28. I am afraid of starting fires
29. I enjoy camping
30. I can touch my nose with my tongue
31. I like the movie K-Pax and think that Kevin Spacey is HAWT
32. I met Sean at a biker bar
33. I can’t wait to be a mom
34. I’ve never been real-life duck hunting
35. I own less than a dozen pairs of shoes
36. I never wore underwear until I realized that they do in fact make a size 4, and they fit my bum
37. I can’t cook
38. I like to make videos and give them to people on their birthday
39. I don’t wear a watch
40. I get goosebumps when people talk about fate
41. My heaviest weight was 115lbs
42. I love to learn
43. I have a poor attention span unless it comes to photo editing, and then I can sit still for hours
44. I was the nonfiction editor of my college literary magazine
45. I earned the high school English award upon graduating–it was a simple red rope
46. I love shopping for things on sale
47. I showed a cow in a 4H show and got 4th place… out of four
48. I eat bacon whenever possible
49. The only bloggers I’ve met in real life were Binky and Andy
50. I am right handed
51. I am allergic to bees
52. I like my feet rubbed
53. Sometimes I read digital clocks backwards and upside down so the number spell out words. I.E. 11:38 spells out BELL
54. I root for the Red Sox
55. I love my Irish heritage but have never been to Ireland
56. I know Pig Latin
57. I was in eight choirs during my freshman year of college
58. I once hurt my back lifting a lawnmower onto a pickup truck by myself
59. I went to physical therapy for the back pain
60. I ended up dating my physical therapist and that pretty much relieved the pain
61. I love to eat raw cookie dough
62. My favorite band is Fleetwood Mac
63. I get intoxicated from one beer
64. I get very nervous waiting in lines for roller coasters, but love the actual ride
65. I take showers hot enough to burn my skin off
66. I was hard of hearing until age four
67. I have blue eyes
68. I wanted to be a storm chaser when I was a kid, actually I just wanted to be Helen Hunt
69. I am my mother’s youngest daughter
70. I take things literally
71. I’ve had stitches once, on my face after a dog bite
72. I hate seafood
73. I’m messy
74. I prefer extra firm pillows to soft
75. I’ve only owned two cars, a VW Jetta and a Honda CR-V
76. I rode 4,000 miles to Newfoundland on the back of a motorcycle
77. I didn’t get my licence until I was 19
78. I hate public speaking but can sing solos in front of thousands with ease
79. I was born September 02, 1983
80. I was born on a friday–which means I am loving and giving
81. I can only poop in public or at home, never at a friend’s house
82. I was a camp counselor at Laurel Music Camp
83. I know all of the words to Billy Joel’s song We didn’t start the fire
84. I can’t dance
85. I once wrote a song
86. The only poem I have memorized is “Stopping by woods on a snowy evening” by Robert Frost
87. I went on a cruise once and won the Karaoke competition. People asked me if the cruiseline hired me as a professional singer for the rest of the trip
88. My best friends sing too
89. I’ve never had a hernia
90. I can spell Mississippi backwards
91. I am madly in love with Sean
92. I can keep a secret
93. …Unless it involves giving someone a present. I have no patience when it comes to happiness
94. I prefer black and white photography
95. I am good at baseball and terrible at golf
96. I am certified to drive a mail truck
97. I remember all of my dreams
98. I love crafts: painting and drawing especially
99. I have big boobs
100. I can put my legs behind my head